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.Sfr'-'V''V''' '"'"V , V ' ' I Ql L (jlj iViv Li lj vSJ tTli . Wednesday, October 23,1974 S - - - iincoSn, nwuraska vol 98 no. 34 i n 5 - s enovation of Union price tag $ 1 60,440 M George McGovern whlfa dmp!;!ng 'for tha presidency in 1S72. Senate campaign trail lonely , cGovern regaining supporters (Editor's Note: In 1972, Ivy Harper, who wrote the following story, worked for. presidential candidate George McGcv ern, following him through six states. Recently, she returned. to South Dakota as a reporter to bring the McGovern story up to date. Her story was written as an assignment in the UNL School of Journalism depth reporting clgss. The author is a senior from Lincoln and a Daily Nebraskan reporter.) ' By Ivy Harper : ' Rapid City, S.D. A smile softens George McGovern's face. The Hot Springs, S.D., Elks Club organist recognizes him the balding, slender candidate for re-election to the U.S. Senate and strikes up McGovern's theme, "This Land Is Your Land." - People at the bar turn In their chairs and stare, but no one moves. McGovern approaches his fellow South Dakotans one by one and puts out his hand. a "That time of year again, George, man yells. McGovern laughs, and for a moment, the sound of laughter blending with the theme song recalls a night more than two years before, July 12, 1972, was a night of triumph, of victory at the Democratic convention, of national attention and hundreds of cheering wnrk&ri jngjng tho tuns new p!ayi." J In a tiny SouthDakota bar. McGovern moves through the crowd. A birthday group starts a hip-hip-hooray-far-McGovern chant, and the chant spreads. Join us' One of the persons at the table shouts, "Join us, George." ' "No," replies McGovern, "you're having enough fun without me." in 1972, such a friendly scene would have been unlikely. On Nov. 7 of that year McGovern learned that even the voters of his native state had rejected him in his defeat by Richard Nixon, v "Losing my own state was the mcst difficult thing for mo to accept in 1972," McGovern says today. "I have always felt that I understand the people in this part of the country, and it was painful not to have them understand me." T day. few reporters trail him. Yfi campaign trips are a3 likely to fca by if as by jet. There is no massive campaign staff , no TV crews. Initially, McGovern says, he missed . the national attention, but that has long since gone."' ';'.''.' ; "I don't miss the television cameras they always got in the way so that I couldn't talk to the people on a one-to-one basis," he says. "I have ; enjoyed this campaign." Senate campaign tiring And although a senate campaign in South Dakota is tiring, the pace is considerably slower than a presidential ,' race . " ' . "I like a relaxed campaign," McGov ern Says. It is good he does because that's the way it is. No big advertising campaigns, no advance men (South Dakota would resent planned events, McGovern says), no moviestars ("We've managed to keep Shirley MacLalne out so far," one aide said.). It's just McGovern casually walking down the main streets, dropping in at grocery stores, the bowling alleys, the American Legion halls, trying to con vince the voters to return him to Washington and to reject his Republican opponent, ex-Vietnam prisoner of war Leo Tborsness. McGovern is expected to win. The polls show him leading by several points,' but his staff is confident the margin will be wider by Nov. 5, election day. McGovern today is tho same man who stumped the nation in 1972. His hair is shorter, he Is less tanned end a little thinner. But he says his positions on the issues are the same. He livens his sometimes-boring speeches with a joke about a change in image: "When Sen. Walter Mondale of Minnesota campaigned for me several weeks ego, he landed at the airport in Sioux Falls and while driving into tow with a local taxi driver, he struck up a cortvercatlcn. Mondale said, 'I hope ycu're supporting my friend, George McGovern, for the United State3 Senate.' continued on pg. 10 By Lynn Silhasek A $160,440 facelift for the first floor, southwest corner of the Nebraska Union that would include space for two retail businesses has been drawn up by the Physical Plant, according to Al Bennett, union director. The remodeling plans are tentative, . Bennett said, and first need the approval of the Union Board (a student advisory group to the union director), then ihe approval of Ken Bader, vice chancellor for student affairs, and finally the Central Planning Committee's okay. . The proposed remodeling would update Union structures built in 1938, according to Bennett. Structures that would be affected if the piano approved are the men's and women's bathrooms, t he women's lounge, the Union Program Office, 'the Women's Resource Center (WRC) and adjoining sivr y lounge and the Union south desk and magazine j.-v.'--, according to the plans. The south desk and magazine rack would r.f j relocated left of the Union s R Street entrance, ins'd of straight ahead of it, where the desk is now. l ha bathrooms would be located west of tho elevator and the area that now includes the WRC and the study lounge would be converted into one lounge, according to the plans. Space that is now the women's lounge and the Union Program Office would be sold to businesses, Dennoir said. Programs' now operating in the areas rcrked 'proposed for remodeling would be relocated, according to Bennett. He suggested that the WRC ancd f.H csy lounge area might be changed into "People's Rccou Center" and include other campus services available n students. If the plans are approved, work on the area wcuk' n m begin until July 1975, Bennett said. Accompanying these plans are additional propolis for remodeling the Union's R Street entrance, Benr ;? said. These plans would be .completed with unlvomty funds he estimated at $30,000, The pi opened remodeling would help provide, ou Uido " naf et y ?.rourvj the building, he said. The proposals include resetting the steps to tm: entrance, installing handrails on the steps, proi;."g additional lighting for the area and re-pouring ;v .5 redesigning the sidewalk extending from the boitcrr. t;' the step to R Street, Bennett said. The remodeling proposals will be presented to U;f Union Board at its next meeting, Bennett said. Future remodeling plans also are being considered, Bennett said. A multi-level parking structure ndja.-wt to the union is' one of the most' crucial r&id. ior students and for other persons in the building, he ;w:o The structure, funded by a bond issue that would br repaid by the income from parking, also could vet vice Love Library and the Administration Building, said Bennett said he would like to see work start on sujh a structure within the next year. Other future plans might include remodeling of bo'n the North and South Crib eating areas and remodeling of the main lounge area to Increase accessibility to h3 Crib from the lounge, Bennett said. If approved, remodeling would begin in October, 1975, he srA-J. New courses addec With the Nov. 1. deadline for second Drerecistration rast aoDroacnina. stuacnts ioo" i something different have a variety of nw tourc: I choose from. In the Adult Education Dnt. two haw .roiirjut rc offered; Program Development and Evaluation una Teaching English as a Second Language. Topics of Prehistory is a new course offered - in r Anthropology Dept. The History Dept. Is offering four now one-he : courses: History of Sports, History of Agricuih.. . History of Biological Science and Black History. Tho Geology Dept. will offer mini-courses ;.. a semester on Rocks and the Environment, The Encrny Outlook, Spreading Oceans and Evolving Confmont-'j, Extinction and Evolution, Geology and Exploration Routes In the New World and Geology anri Mountaineering. Introduction to Meta-physics, Philosophy in Litera ture and Philosophy of the Mind are three new course-.) offered in the Philosophy Dept. next semester. A three-hour course, Topics of American Govern rrcit, a new one in the Political Science Dept. In the School of L:v.a!ism, "Legislative Reporting" is being offered. , The Psychology Dept. has four now course offering; next semester: Introduction to Cognitive D "-cesses, p' Psychology of Women, Motivation , . .Aion and .? .senior seminar in Perso ""'