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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1973)
ed Kev issue - Dormitory security has become somewhat of an issue with the Board of Regents and University administrators during the last few years. Guards nightly check the floors in each residence hall, students are urged to lock their doors even w" ; they step out of their rooms to make a phone call, and the regents have defeated several coed visitation proposals. All this has been done in the name of security. The University now is faced with one of the most potentially dangerous breeches of residence hall security in recent years. But Housing Office officials are dilly-dallying around, unsure what to do about recent discoveries of illicit master keys in Burr Residence Hall. The Housing Office nov hs admitted that the keys open every lock in the complex. But nothing has been done to protect persons who live there. The Housing Office has said it is making a cost study of which method to use in changing the locks. Knowing how the Universitv ooerates. reside-"; of Burr Hal! might have to wait qi.rc The Housing Office . ' much it is going to take t while. '. , knows hew : the change. in !: have said It but when one ;:.,il shape the ""'..' Of loW'T is no wonder Sources in the Housin could cost as much as S considers what sort of Housing office is m dormitory occupancy t. they are holding up on long something to solve the security problem bie office isn't in a monetary green pasture. Just the same, the Umv ny rs.mnot afford to stall any longer. Fve fh. fi o' assault committed in the Bu'f HsiH complex potentially could be blamed on the Housing Offices' inaction. For an office which has ben long worried nb.-ut security, the administrator's seem an ;i,nng lax in this situation. Creative idea A breath of fresh ai: f.rially has been blown into the UNL student academic scene. The announcement of the planned publication of the Whole NU Catalog ref ects a spark of creativity which recently has been missing from the campus. I he catalog, if published, is to contain descriptions of courses students have found to be worthwhile and interesting. The descriptions will be written by student volunteers. The group planning to publish the booklet has said it hopes to make 10,000 copies available. It is significant that such an idea came from a group of persons working independently of all established student groups. ASUN, once active in educational reform, has done little or nothing in recent semesters which could be called creative. By cooperating with members of these organizations, but working outside the groups themselves, the group that plans to publish the catalog has proven something: it doesn't take an established organization to get things done. That is a lesson which should be heeded by all campus politicians and student leaders. .Michael (O.J.) Nelson rw vv - Cr'i W" 1 - Vf:: o I . K U I ' ' Senator's exodus follows revelation vhs din ohn ! ifuriii'iief Whilf! South Diikotans will havi; tu t r (j k to the polls next November to lid th.'in:.f,'lv(;s and the nation of Son. Gcortjc McGovern, Iowa citizens won't havi; to do a thin?) to purrjo thoir Matt' of an equally K'tnicious Mcaclir.T of piaiin; )0)Uli':,ni. It will raiso a ?jar?jantuan si?)h of ii.'Mcf from many sheepish lowans who voted for him in the first place, for Sen. Haiold Hurjhes announced recently thai he would not seek je-election. Ostensibly retitin?) to devote the ie l of his life to ieli?)ious lay woik, the m,iin impetus to his announcement was not a call from heaven but a clamor from the folks back home. Aftnr serving six lackluster years as flovernor, Hughes came to the Senate in 1968 in what was for that year the closest senatorial contest in the nation. By a bare 6,415 votes out of more than 1,140,000 cast, the Democrat managed to beat a weak and clumsy Republican opK)iient, David Stanley, who has since gone on to obscurity. Once in the Senate, Huijhes of feruled the moderate sensibilities of most lowans by ( ompiliiKj one of the most i -r In I votinij lecords in that aiKjust institution His favoiable rating by the ultiahh i..l Americans for Democratic Afti'm constantly hovers at 90 pel cent or a tow, ,md the conservative Ameiie.ius foi Constitutional Action never give' Inm ,,! ii iv ,i 10 (wr ( eot f K)uie on then it1 Hi I .. i m; nit hi il i (ui hiii i in deep tioul.il' . v - . j t (ii two a?jo, when he hlithi I iel.it! d that he had tried an occa e i'm! !m,im)u.iii.i jomt and found it not ! ; .! j. t.tiun.tbli; (or at least not moie ol .!'.! oo.ible than was the liquor th;it ri.il-' li.m a '.lave to .ilcoholism a Ioiki timi' indue) As if lie's we're not enou-i'i, :l r itoi also s.nd he believed in (jho' i , ,iiid ( out. if Is with tin; spritual wi it lo ; i :i m ii t . . j t K i s .ii id 1 1 u; like. The II. it. ltd Hii'jhes tragedy wntinued furtd .'I'i'ii he made ..n abof tive try for the 1 , Democratic )residt;ntial iKiiniM non, only to diop out when he re.ilii .1 in. one ehc seemed to Ciire. L . .' : . . 'il's ! H n,tt'' vote' on the ifw ie ei -ii of Heiay K issil iget ,is Vn-t i. i ! y .f biati.' i)i vi. -s as 'jood an ii m i :(..! h. : i as any why H ughes will not l; iius eii ..inn ne leavs Washington. The seinoi s- 1 1, i!ii hum Iowa (in tow with his ideiilM.il tvin, Mcf'njvein) was one of only si v'i'ii out of 100 to say "no." As !.: possible replacements to the Sen !: .' ai u .uipi'd by Hughes, Gov. Bob Hay, progiessive modeiate of i in p ! I e a b I e honesty and keen ad. i i it . . I i v- know how, towers fat j , i 'In' e e i , ; si'i ions r,t isis ' i ' 1 vi ft ye, us ago, 'la. (j,nn!ia may well be' the i r di-i to i to tin' way (jf 1 1 i,( if: lion piopii; is 'ii n st and dissatisfaction. Troops are on constant alert in many areas as food riots, arson, and grain looting take place. In Tumkur, students protesting rising prices and food shortages burned two buses before the pol ice could disperse them with teat gas. India is suffering from a wheat shortage, a staple in the northern part of the country, despite exceptionally good rains. The problem was caused not by bad weather as it is in most countries, but by, in the words of the New York Times, "mainly. ..mismanagement by official agencies responsible for the distribution of the grain." Bread is hard to come by in Bombay, and biscuit factories are closing up. In the 29 months since she was massively reelected on a pledge to eliminate poverty, unemployment has jumx;d to more than 35 per cent from the usual 20 per cent. According to official figures, almost eight million educated Indians cannot find jobs inside their homeland. Food prices have skyrocketed 20 to 100 per cent since January. Almost 40 per cent of the population lives below the poverty level, earning less than $5 a month, a figure little changed in Gandhi's years. Now India has announced steps to settle the $3 billion debt she owes the United States tor money we have given for agriculture and developmental programs. Could it be thai this conciliatory gesture on her pait ismeiely a pieludc to still another tequest foi Amci u.an dollat s? page 4 V 1 ' ' 1 1 wednesd.ry, September ?fi, 1()3