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Salaries would give incentive
or work in ASUN pos
The three major ASUN committee chair
manships are volunteer positions. Two of
them also are vacant positions.
Perhaps there is a correlation between the
two facts. Most students don't have much
time to give away these days. Many of them
have to earn at least part of their colleqe
expenses. Even if they don't, a students
time is valuable of itself..
If the three major chairmanships were paid
positions, perhaps ASUN could attract
top-quality students to them and then could
retain those students in the posts.
The chairmanships of the Education and
the Student Services Committees have been
vacant for at least two weeks. No pay was
part of the reason the chairmen gave for
resigning.
The jobs are time consuming. Chairmen
usually devote about 10 to 15 hours a week to
their ASUN duties, according to ASUN First
Vice President Sharon Johnson. In that time,
they have organized worthwhile programs for
students, including the Nebraska Free
University, legal seminars and the book
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At its meeting tonight, the ASUN Senate
should approve Government Bill No. 53,
which would provide $100-a-semester salar
ies for the two chairmen, as well as for the
chairman of the Student Rights Committee.
Part of the salaries $200 would come out
of funds alloted ASUN for the liaison
program (now part of the communications
program). The remaining $600 would come
from part of the salaries for an ASUN press
secretary and for an administrative assistant.
Although the committee chairmen's salar
ies would be much less than a student could
earn doing some other type of job, they at
least might provide an incentive for persons
to apply for the positions.
You can't get much for nothing these
days and that includes leadership in
student government.
Jane Owens
Dear Editor,
This is to comment on Amy Struthers
column about changing the term housewife to
homemaker (''Broad -Side," Daily Nebrask
kan, Nov. 1). While the article had good
intentions, the writer really fouled up about
Social Security.
In writing about giving Social Security
benefits to homemakers, the author suggest
ed the homemakers wouldn't be paying
anything Into the program. Where did she
ever get the idea that the government gives
anyone anything for nothing? Homemakers
would pay into Social Security on a yearly
basis and, thus, be able to receive retirement
benefits. This is the plan before Congress.
As for paying income tax, has the author
ever heard of couples filing income tax forms
together? It's too bad an article with good
intentions was ruined by a lack of research.
A Concerned Woman
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Rocky makes loans to poor credit risk- his wife
Personally, I feel these attacks on Mr.
Rockefeller are not only scurrilous but
downright illogical. After all, he's the only
politician in the country who's on the give.
I'm confident he will explain fully to
Congress how he gave or loaned a couple or
three million (who counts?) to friends,
employes, neighbors, cousins and offspring.
But I can't see how he's going to explain
loaning $15,000 to his wife, Happy.
I suppose it could happen in any typical
American home. It's a difficult scene to
envision, however.
Scene: Rocky is seated behind his desk In
his study. Happy enters, shopping bag In
hand.
Happy: I have to go to the store, dear.
Could I borrow $15,000?
Rocky: Always glad to help out a wife,
fella. And at the prime rate, too. Just make
yourself comfortable in that chair there while
I fill out your loan application.
Happy (testily): Why do I have to fill out a
form? I saw that list of your debtors in the
paper. Just give me one good reason why you
loaned that pretty Joan Braden $10,283 last
New Year's Eve.
Rocky: It was all I had on me, fella. Now
then, occupation?
Happy: Homemaker, as you well know.
Rocky: Unemployed, eh? And you women
wonder why you have trouble getting loans.
Answer the phone, will you.
Happy (hands over the receiver): It's your
son; Rodman. He wants to know if he can
borrow the family car and $27,000.
Rocky: Tell him I'm not using either. Glad
to hear he's got a date. Let's see here. Do you
own your own home, the one you say you're
making?
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Happy: You know very well it's your home,
dear.
Rocky: Unemployed, homeless.,
there's the phone again.
Happy (answering): It's your cousin,
Winthrop Aldrich. You know, the one who
used to be chairman of The Chase Manhattan
Bank. He wants to borrow your lawnmower
and $12,000.
Rocky: Anything for a cousin. And remind
me to close my account there before the word
gets out. Where we re .we? Oh, yes. Number
of years at present address?
Happy: But we just moved out of the
Governor's Mansion, dear.
Rocky: Unemployed, homeless, no perma
nent address. ...What about name of last
employer as credit reference?
Happy: It was you, dear. Remember? I
worked as your secretary when you were first
elected Governor in 1958.
Rocky (writing): Previous employer out of
business. Now, any history of (check one)
insanity, lewd conduct, bankruptcy
Doesn't that phone ever stop?
FfalfpyahSw6ring):'Tt's your son, Steve."
He wants to borrow one of the other family
cars and $12,600.,
Rocky: Okay, but why can't that kid date a
better class of girl like his brother? Last
question: Husband's occupation?
Happy: But dear, you're currently unem
ployed. Rocky (tearing up the form): Well, fella,
there goes your credit rating.
Perhaps it didn't happen like this. But if
not, how can Mr. Rockefeller justify to
Congress his ambition to be vice president
and economic trouble-shooter when he goes
around making loans to poor credit risks like
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daily nebraskan
tuesday, november 6, 1974
