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ASUN-CvSL
At its Wednesday evening meeting, the
ASUN Senate passed a resolution calling for
the establishment of a joint ASUN-Council on
Student Lite (CSL) committee to study the
relationship between those two UNL
governing bodies. The findings and
recommendations of that committee could be
the most important input student government
has received in some time.
At their July, 1969, meeting, the NU Board
of Regents approved a constitution which
gave CSL "general policy-making power over
student social and out-of classroom activities,
subject to approval by the Board of Regents."
In the nearly four years since its
establishment, CSL has been instrumental in
policy changes affecting several
"out-of -classroom activities."
CSL action was one of the primary causes
behind the administrative decision to end
"womei.'s hours" in the Lincoln campuses
living units. !n the spring of 1970, CSL look a
critical look at discriminatory practice? in
campus living uniij, with the focus primarily
on Greek houses The rtculting "Robinson
Report" is still a subject of campus
consideration. That same ;oring, CSL resolved
in favor of the student strike to pretest the
war in Indochina and the American invasion
of Cambodia.
During the last four years, CSL clearly has
been the most important student governing
body on the UNL campus. The Council's
emergence as the seat of power probably is
the result of its direct link with the regents
and of the fact that its membership also
includes faculty and staff.
Also during the last four years, the ASUN
senate, which is the only representative
student governing body at UNL, has seemed
about as important as a high school student
council. In an editorial statement published
Sept. 18, 1969, the Daily Nebraskan made an
observation which now seems a bit prophetic:
"The Council will mean a changed role for the
ASUN and student senate. Some people have
gone as far as to say both groups will die."
ASUN has not quite died, but no one seems
to care much if it did.
When ASUN consented to the
establishment of CSL, it may have voted itself
out of a job. When the regents approved a
constitution which made CSL an official arm
of the Board of Regents, ASUN found inself
permanently relegated to only an advisory of
recommending position in the scheme of
student govet nment.
Students quickly learned that it made no
sense bothering with ASUN when CSL had all
the policy-making power. ASUN still has
money to dole out, but very few of the basic
appropriations change from year to year.
Only the lodger headings change to protect
the guilty.
Something needs to be changed so that
ASUN can become more than a distributor of
student organizations' allowances. The move
into student services is not enough. ASUN
must have some of the policy-making power
that governments are supposed to be able to
wield. Perhaps the proposed ASUN-CSL
committee will be able to devise a system in
which both groups can function with validity.
Last take
This is the last editorial of the semester. In
the past it has been the practice of out-going
Daily Nebraskan editors to offer their
omniscient reviews of the just-concluded
semester with predictions for the term to
come.
Well, I never have been too long on
omniscience. And I couldn't :ven say for sure
what time I will get out of bed in the
morning, so the predictions are out too.
I hope that one or two of the editorials
appearing in these columns have cleared up
something that might have needed
clarification, or have made people think about
something that may have needed thought.
In case you're confused by two editorials
with only one editorial signature, I wrote the
one above, too.
Tom Lansworth
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Joh" Mitch'.-;". f;.!;t;f) It mi i, ?, ,i :n. on ifjht '-'iM juni:.
"I just thought you'd like to know, sir," s.nii Mitchell,
"that sonic Cuban patriots wen; caught breaking into the
wrong apartment at Watergate which happened to be the
headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and I
know absolutely nothmg about it became I never talked to
anybody beforehand except to tell them don't blame me if
you get caught"
"John," said Nixon, "I'm giad you (.ailed U'CuU'.e I've
always I en de' ply m km est' 1 i -i I at n Ameru.an afi.nrs, .nd
let me say that I'm delighted you don't know anything about
nothing bei.riuse that's the kind of men I want aiound me
Could I say hello to Mat tha'"
"I'm of raid she's tied up t igh I no ,v, sa "
"Well, give tier my regards uid..,E"xcuse me, Jon. Then;
goes Maijf K.e. Part'on me, Manor, e, wha' have you got m that
tinge laundiy bag uvvj your shonnlei"
"Oh, it's nothing, sir. Just $10 or $15 million in $100 bills
sent in by grateful Americans who wish to remain anonymous.
I'm delivering it to a little Mexican laundry because I realize
how you want us to use only clean money m your campaign,
which I don't know anything about"
"M.iunce, I i t'i'I tell you ho.v gl.ni I am that you're
handling the t iti.itu.es, vl"i h you li'.r.'t I- nov anytinfr; about,
fur rr) r arn!..etj'i, Inch you don't know ,t thing ahout.
Tfiat's tfie kind of men I want around me."
"Thank you, sir. You can always count on my ignorance."
Well, months passed. And while the newspapers were filled
vvith l.ttlc vl'jj but Watergate, Nixon, as is well known, never
lead the newspapers. Actually, it was Pat Nixon who brought
the matter to hei husband's attention,
"Dear," she said one morning at breakfast, "f3ob Haldeman
told me yesterday what time it was."
"Good heavens1" cued Nixon. "If my staff knows what
tune it is, there's no telling where this might end."
So he called in John Dean III, "John," he said, "I want you
to conduct a thorough, impartial investigation of yourself to
see if you know anything about anything." And Nixon was
elated, of course, to receive a 32-page report from Dean
proving conclusively he knew nothing about nothing.
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All might have gone well, had not Haldeman and
t. hi hchmuri fined one lawyer between them (there lieirig a
cnt'Cdl shortage of lawyers in Washington these days.)
"If they know enough to hire a lawyer," said Nixon angrily,
"they must know something about something, whatever it
may be."
And that's when Nixon decided to fire his entire White
Houv; staff and replace them with 1G8 Australian aborigines,
all of them deaf mutes.
"This should lestore the confidence of the American people
in my leadership," said Nixon triumphantly. "For if I Ivvj
made one' thing perfectly clear, it's that I and the men aiound
me know absolutely nothing about anything."
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friday, may 4, 1973