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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
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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
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Senator's
exodus
follows
revelation
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din
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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?
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