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Mary Cannon, Nebraska Union Board president, is a junior
majoring in history and prelaw.
by Mary Cannon
It is one of my pet peeves that, although every student pays
$18-plus for his membership in the Nebraska Union every
semester, less than 300 students ever really have any say in its
government. In fact, the whole policy control of the Union rests
in the hands of a 13-member Union Board, which is picked bya
committee consisting of ASUN representatives and the previous
year's Union Board members.
Thus while ASUN elections, (an organization with much less
potential student impact,) are at least open, above board and
rather well publicized, the Union selects its officers in some
meeting room on a Sunday afternoon. They rely solely on the
thoughtfulness of its haphazard designees to insure that there is
any breadth of viewpoints represented on the Union Board at all.
Sometimes it works; sometimes it really doesn't.
I'm not sure I want to recommend that the Union start
holding ASUN-style elections of officers. ASUN hasn't been
notably successful at that. Even though Union procedure
wouldn't encourage elections, they do have one useful result for
ASUN. Elections force the Senate to publicize its doings, which
means that it has to have a coherent, weil-defined reason for
anything it does-or else. This doesn't always happen in the
Union because board members know that their representation of
the student population is tenuous, at best. So they decide things
on the basis of what always has been, and try to stir up as little
controversy as possible. Things stay just about the way they've
always been which isn't always quite what they should be.
The furor over check cashing fees is a good example. The
Union Board established the fees because otherwise the
program budget, or some other area of the budget, would have
been cut. That would have turned the whole balance among
Union activities topsy turvy, and we would have been all month
trying to straighten them out again. Pretty poor reason?
It's not actually all that bad. If you, like most of the board,
believe that our present set of priorities is what it should be, then
the decision not to disrupt it was logical. But the board, as I said,
can get way out of touch with what students really want.
Because we are a group of student activist types, our perspective
sometimes gets distorted. To most of us, it makes sense to value
strong programming, with wide opportunities for speakers,
activities and cultural events. And, also offer free meeting and
organizational office space for student groups, a relatively
low-cost and convenient food service and low-cost games and
bowling facilities. We could charge admission to more programs
or for office and meeting space. We could hike prices on food
and games. These are alternatives we could accept, if we found
that you, the people, who we are supposed to serve, prefer it that
way.
I, for one, am very tired of Union government from back
rooms. The Union makes no sense at all unless it fulfills student
needs. It doesn't exist to make money, to keep A Bennett
employed or even to give me nice credentials for a job
application. It exists only to serve as many students as it can
reach, in whatever ways they want to be served.
The Union is your possession. Its services are your right. There
is a suggestion box in the main lounge, but it is usually empty.
Can you fill it? The Union Board meets most Thursdays at 5:30
p.m. in the Union. You are welcome to speak or listen. Help-Line
has my phone number-sometimes I'm even home. So are other
board members.
The Union can't work in a vacuum. If we hear from you,
maybe we can make it work for you!
As you may have noticed, Lincoln
has a new hi-fi shop. LINCOLN
AUDIO is the name. We're a hi-fi shop
in the truest sense of the words high
fidelity.
You don't need $5,000 to walk
into our store. All you need is a desire
to see the very best in sound value in
every price range. Now, we wouldn't
say that unless we had researched all
available audio components from the
lowest end to the ultimate in sound
and price.
To put it flatly, we offer the best
system prices for name brand
equipment in Lincoln. One for
instance is our sound system made up
of a Sherwood receiver, a
BenjaminLenco turntable, a ADC
cartridge and EPI speakers for only
$300. That's about $100 less than list
price.
And we service what we sell. Parts
and labor are provided free of charge
for at least three years. This goes for
all the equipment that leaves our
shop, cartridges and turntables
included.
We'll promise you this you
won't be pushed around or hard sold
at Lincoln Audio. If you want them,
you'll get the facts, and only the facts,
from our technical staff.
So if your mind isn't quite made up
about what hi-fi shops are like, come
in, sit down in our comfortable sound
rooms and evaluate our components.
Even if you don't buy anything you're
going to have a funky time.
SOPHOMORES!
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plus $1000 per school year for your Junior and
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7:00, 9:30
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FRIDAY & SATURDAY
thursday, april 19, 1973
duily nebraskan
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