The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, October 23, 1972, Page PAGE 4, Image 4

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    editorial
Regents race
Enfranchisement brings, for the first time,
an opportunity for students to help temper
the ideological steel of the Board of Regents.
Two of the eight board members are
attempting to hold onto their seats for six
more years.
Board chairman ; Ed Schwartzkopf of
Lincoln is both deserving and assured of
re-election in November. He is unopposed.
But in Omaha, fellow incumbent Kermit
Hansen faces the perverbial rocky election
path. Hansen is wrangling over the second
district regent seat with former state senator
and arch conservative Clifton Batchelder.
Throughout the campaign, Batchelder has
promised to mold the University into exactly
what it shouldn't be. He has promised that it
will no longer serve as a place where
distasteful or unpopular t ideas can be
discussed. Batchelder opposed last fall's Time
Out Conference on Human Sexuality because
homosexuals participated. He took a similar
stand on the spring World in Revolution
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Conference on Justice in America. Noting the
program included what he called "known
revolutionaries," Batchelder neglected the
fact that it had been judged as balanced by an
arbitration board established by the regents.
"I do not think the taxpayers of this state
want this kind of influence on campus,"
Batchelder said, typically unmindful of First
Amendment guarantees to free speech.
Batchelder also sided with those who
contended a booklet on birth control
shouldn't have been distributed on campus
last spring.
And if he had his way, the University
would become little more than a high-level
vocational school with a goal of producing
only components for the employment roles of
the nation's industries.
While Hansen's record isn't unblemished,
his stands reflect a more moderate and
sensitive approach to governing a university.
Although he engineered the $2 million cut
in the University's budget request for next
year, he generally has supported efforts to
upgrade educational quality at th
institution.
Hansen stood with five other board
members when dormitory coed visitation
rules were loosened last year.
Hansen always has backed efforts to make
the University of Nebraska at Omaha an equal
partner in the University system.
Students registered in Omaha's second
regent district should not hesitate to vote for
him.
Randy Beam
reheart peeks at politics
Editor's note: Tom Bamett is a student at the
Saint Paul School of Theology (Methodist) in Kansas
City, Mo. The following article is reprinted from The
Epistle, a student publication at the school.
by Tom Bamett
Note: Everyone knows this is an election year in
Nebraska. Coach Bob Devinely of the Nebraska
Committers is retiring at the end of the current
season, and a new commander-in-chief must be
chosen. The two leading candidates for the post,
George McCoach and Richard Penthouse Trickson,
offer dramatically different approaches to coaching.
That keen journalist, Pastor Peter Pureheart, has
interviewed the two candidates. A brief comparison
of the positions of the two on the most pressing
issues before the Nebraska public is presented below.
The war in the Big Eight
Trickson: "If we unilaterally withdraw from the
Big Eight, those Oklahoma Reds will run roughshod
over the rest of the teams in the conference, and
Nebraska can never allow that kind of bloodbath to
take place.
"Coach Devinely finally ended the 'no win' policy
at Nebraska, and we must not go back on his
commitment to victory. I will not be the first
Nebraska coach in history to permit a losing seasonl"
McCoach: Trickson wants to continue Devinely's
policy of bombing teams like Army and Northwest
Idaho A & B (that is, Northwest Idaho State College
of Agriculture and Bible) into oblivion. Nebraska is
creating the biggest bloodbath in the Big Eight's
history, and look at the high price Nebraskans are
having to pay: young men with fractured bones, torn
ligaments, separated shoulders-all because big
business wants to test-market products like Astroturf
and Gatorade. Most young men who are drafted
spend four-year hitches of their lives in the jungles of
Nebraska and can't even get a job in professional
football when they get out.
"I beiieve with the prophet Isaiah that we must
beat our goal posts into hay racks and our sports
Offense and defense
Trickson: "McCoach wants to reduce the number
of athletic scholarships, the number of players on the
team, the number of plays in the playbook and on
and on. In short, if McCoach is elected, he would cut
the heart out of the offensive and defensive
capabilities of Nebraska.
"Let me make this one thing perfectly clear:
Nebraska will never initiate any aggressive football so
long as I am the coach. Even if we win the toss of the
coin, we will let the other team have the football. But
we cannot let Nebraska become a second-rated
football team. We must negotiate from a position of
strength and not weakness. That's the only kind of
negotiation Oklahoma understands.
"We're number one I We're dumber one! We're
number onel We're number onel"
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opinion
McCoach: I will never allow Nebraska to lose its
No. 1 rating, but that is not the issue in cutting back
the waste in the Athletic Department. On the
Nebraska roster there are 50 players, and every
schoolperson (Eleanor broke me of saying
'schoolboy') knows that only 11 can play at one
time. And for those 50 players, Nebraska has 86
helmets, 112 jockstraps, tons and tons of weights,
438 cleats and more.
On the offensive team alone, Nebraska has 12
blockers blocking, 11 guards a-guarding, 10 sprinters
sprinting, 9 punters punting, 8 centers centering, 7
passers passing, 6 ends a-catching, 5 pulling guards,
four running backs, three split ends, 2 personal fouls
and a 1 5 yard penalty.
"And that's not all. Nebraska has 17 team
physicians, 23 water boys, 32 press agents and
countless cheerleaders spread out all over America. A
poor guy or gal (as the case may be) goes to some
remote place like Kansas City with the hope that he
won't have to hear about Nebraska, and he runs into
one of those thousands of loudmouth Cornshuckers.
It just is not fair. I say, 'Come home, Nebraska, come
home.' "
Welfare
Trickson: "I believe that everyone who wants to
play for Nebraska should be given an opportunity to
do so. I believe in the American dream. A player who
is 5'9" tall and weighs 140 pounds can play for
Nebraska if he will just try hard enough. I am
completely opposed to that inflationary idea of
McCoach's to give full scholarships to every member
of the student body regardless of whether they make
the team or not. That is simply un-Nebraskanl"
McCoach: "How many Chinese Americans play for
Nebraska? How many women play for Nebraska?
How many people over 65 play for Nebraska? I
believe the coaches have to provide jobs for those
who can't make the team-in concession stands and
ticket booths-whatever must be done to see that no
one has to go through life without ever having been a
Cornsilkeer."
Summary statements
Trickson: "Nebraska may make a few fumbles;
they may get a few off-sides penalties; they may miss
an extra point now and then. But I have seen a lot of
football teams in my life, and there is none better
anywhere than the Cornsuckers of Nebraska. It's high
time we stopped talking about what's wrong with
Nebraska and started talking about what's right with
Nebraska."
McCoach: "We have been behind in the polls
before. The UPI had my team rated 63rd when we
upset Edmund Musty Tech and Humpty Dumpty U. I
believe the people of Nebraska will realize that I
stand in the great tradition of democratic
coaches-like Bud Wilkinson, Knute Rockne, Vince
Lombardi, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So remember
those immortal words of Grantlin Rice: 'It's not how
you play the game, but whether you win or lose.'
lome home, Nebraska!" J
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daily nebraskan
monday, October 23, 1972
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