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lincoln, nebraska vol. 96, no. 89
UP leader
may contest
vote result
by Dennis Onnen
Official results of Wednesday's ASUN
election should be known by Monday or
Tuesday, accordinq to Bill Grundman, ASUN
election commissioner. Grundman and his team
of election workers will recount all of the
ballots in the meantime.
He explained that there might be a
possibility of human error in that total, since
about 200 of the computer card ballots were
incorrectly punched and had to be counted by
hand. The recounting could produce changes in
some of the races since a few were close.
The race for ASUN president is the closest in
the organization's history. Unofficial results
show Ann Henry, Get Off Your Apathy
(GOYA) candidate, winning by seven votes over
Bill Freudenburg, Unity and Progress (UP)
candidate. She had 1,058 votes, while he had
1,051 votes. Shaman Jack Mason, Surrealist
Light People's Party (SLPP) candidate, placed
third with 362 votes. If elected, Henry will be
the first female ASUN president.
Mark Hoeger, GOYA first vice presidential
candidate, also appears to have won. He had
1,120 votes compared to 945 votes for Karen
Richardson, UP candidate. SLPP candidate
Willie Wonka (John McCarty) ran third with
384 votes.
Sue Overing, UP second vice presidential
candidate, appeared to have beaten GOYA
candidate Todd McDaniel 1,178 to 1,086 votes.
"We'll have to wait and see what the official
results are before we make the next move,"
Freudenburg said. If the presidential vote is still
extremely close, he said he might ask for a
recount.
Due to close totals some senate races are still
in doubt.
Grundman said that if any recounts are
requested, he will probably use the same
procedures practiced in state and local
elections. Nebraska Secretary of State Allen
Beermann said that in these cases the candidate
asking for a recount must pay for the cost of
recounting if the results stand. If the results are
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Bill Freudenburg appears to have lost
the ASUN presidency by seven
votes.
reversed, then the governing body pays for the
cost of recounting.
GOYA had 22 of their senate candidates
elected, or 73 per cent of those they had
running. UP had 12 elected, or 55 per cent of
the total running. There was one Ag Party
candidate elected, and one independent
candidate elected.
Unofficial senate winners, listed in order of number
of votes received:
Arts and sciences: Melinda Fowler (GOYA), Mary
Voboril UP), Steve Shaneyfelt (GOYA), Dave Thurber
(UP), Karen Martinson (UP), Marguerite Boslaugh
(GOYA), Mary Jenkins (GOYA), Emilie Brown (UP),
John R. Higgins (UP), Todd Patterson (GOYA).
Agriculture: George Rhodes (AG), Arlen Gangwish
(GOYA), Steve Voigt (GOYA).
Business administration: Larry Hill (GOYA), Mark
Hunzeker (GOYA), Myron Molacek (GOYA), Steve
Guenzel (UP).
Engineerinq and architecture: Doug Johnson
(GOYA), Dennis Gerlach (UP), Behrooz Emam (UP),
Steve Eveans (GOYA) (tie).
Graduate and professional: Ron Frank (GOYA),
Karl F. Cochrane, Gail Watson (GOYA), Brian Waid
(UP), Paul A. Hansen (GOYA), Dennis Kime (UP),
Michael E. Schafer (UP).
Home economics: Sharon Johnson (UP), Sarah
Denker (GOYA).
Teachers colleoe: Rob Chnstof fersen (GOYA), Jane
E. Bunting (GOYA), Ruth Spencer (GOYA), Deb Coe
(GOYA), Jim Macomber (GOYA), Laurel Stiebler
(GOYA).
Nil medical students
seek Bach Mai funds
by Dave Madsen
On Christmas morning 1972, the Bach Mai hospital in Hanoi
was bombed by U.S. airplanes. The hospital was damaged
badly. Several students at the NU Medical Center in Omaha
now are trying to help people in that part of Indochina.
According to Joel Allen, an organizer of the informal group,
Bach Mai is the major hospital in North Vietnam. He said soon
after the bombing a group was formed in Cambridge, Mass. to
help replenish the hospital's supplies.
Students at the Medical Center learned of a
Massachusetts-based group, Medical Aid for Indochina, and
decided they wanted to work through it. Allen and another
medical student, Tom Novotny, have been spearheading a fund
drive on the Omaha campus.
Allen said the Omaha fund drive is a nonpolitical low-key
operation. Most donations have resulted from private contacts,
he said. Novotny said more general fund raising, such as bake
sales and students forfeiting their lunches probably will be
done, but not until the federal government determines the
kind of aid it will give to Vietnam.
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by Steve Arvanette
After becoming the second state to ratify
the proposed Equal Rights Amendment
(ERA) to the U.S. Constitution last year,
Nebraska senators voted 31-17 Thursday on
a resolution to repeal their earlier action.
The Unicameral's only female member,
Lincoln State Sen. Shirley Marsh, termed the
repeal null and void. She said her concern
was how Thursday's action might affect
states which have not ratified the
amendment.
The decision on Omaha State Sen.
Richard Proud's resolution aopears to put
Nebraska's position on the amendment in a
state of confusion.
Proponents of the amendment contend
the state can cancel its action since the
amendment has not been approved by a
sufficient number of states to become part
of the U.S. Constitution.
Proponents of the ERA say legal
precedent would prohibit repealing the
ratification. Marsh predicted if 37 other
states ratify the amendment, Nebraska will
be counted as the 38th by federal officials.
Three-fourths or 38 of the nation's 50
states must ratify an amendment before it
becomes part of the Constitution.
The controversial resolution has caused
more mail than any other issue this session,
according to many senators. A public
hearing drew about 1,000 individuals,
mostly women, to the Capitol to debate the
issue.
The Legislature voted Monday to pull the
resolution out of the evenly-divided
Government Committee for eventual floor
consideration. Proud moved to suspend the
rules and consider the resolution Thursday.
Proud told fellow senators the
amendment had been "sold to Congiess with
two words equal rights." It should have
been more accurately termed "equal
obligations," he said.
"All laws protecting women will be wiped
out," he said if ERA passes. He added that
the amendment would only add more
obligations for women.
"If you ask a woman what ERA will do
for her, she can't answer because it won't do
anything for her," Proud said.
A motion by Lincoln Sen. Harold
Simpson to kill the resolution was defeated
on an 18-29 vote.
"We need this (amendment) to teaffirm
that people are equal," Simpson said.
Although the measure has spaiked much
debate in the Unicameral, senators quickly
voted to close debate and decide the issue.
Prior to the actual roll call vote senators
took a 15-minute recess to assure
compliance with all rules.
Marsh said she thinks there were not
enough women senators in the Legislature to
"present a fair view" on the issue.
Thursday's vote will make Nebraska the
"laughing stock of the nation," she said.
The vote to approve t hi;
resolut ion was:
For-Burbach, Carpenter, C. Carsten, F. Cuistiins,
Clark, DeCamp, Dickinson, Epke, Goodiith,
Hasebroock, Johnson, Kennedy, Keyes, Kime,
Kremer, Mahoncy, Maiesh, Murphy, Note, Proud,
Rasmussen, Richendifer, Savage, Schmit, Skarda,
Snyder, Stromer, Slull, Syas, Whit ney, Wilt se. (31)
Against - Andei son, Barnett, Cavanaugh, Chambeis,
Duis, Fellrnan, Fowlei, Kelly, F. Lewis, Luedke,
Marsh, Marvel, Moylan, Simpson, Stahrner ,
Waldron, Warner. (17)
Absent- R. Lewis (1)
DeCamp initially voted aiimst the resolution
but changed his vote for purrjoses of
reconsiderat ion.