friday, march 14, 1975
lincoln, nebraska vol. 98 no. 98
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By Rex Seline and Lisa Brown
What started out as a joke
has turned into something
serious for members of the
would-be Pro-Apathy Party
(PAP).
"We started out to make
fun of a lot of the basic ways
ASUN candidates wage their
campaigns," PAP second vice
presidential candidate Rick
Horton said Wednesday. "The
electoral rules which favored
the United Student Effort
party (USE) and a number of
other things turned us into a
bunch of militants."
PAP has been stymied by
the new electoral rule which
requires 500 signatures to run
as a party. Only 270 signatures
were accepted by the Electoral
Commission and PAP joined
another would-be party, the
Amurica Party (AMP) in filing
an appeal before the Student
Court. The appeal went before
the Council on Student Life
Thursday night.
The PAP presidential
candidate is a computer, IBM
360. Senatorial candidate Brian
Thompson had been
incorrectly identified as IBM
360 by Electoral Commissioner
Gary Hall because Thompson
signed the computer's petition
in accordance with electoral
rules. The rules require a
student to sign the petition as a
candidate for each candidacy,
according to Horton.
"No one was really
interested in being head of our
ticket, but the rest of us were
interested in running
together," Horton said. Ray
Walden is the first vice
presidential candidate.
"We'd like to hire an
executive director for ASUN,"
Horton said. "He could
coordinate all activities, like
ASUN and RHA (Residence
Hall Association), so that
campus activities are not
fragmented."
The proposed executive
director would be full time and
"would be charged with
providing expertise for the
student regent," according to
Horton.
"He could negotiate for
student interests. We see him in
advocatory role
presenting student interests
and lobbying for student
issues," Horton said.
PAP supporters said that the
ASUN president doesn't have
the time that an executive
director could devote to
student interests.
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Eventually, PAP organizers
would support restructuring
ASUN, eliminating the
executives and charging a
council of about 15 members
with policy-making
responsibilities.
Horton said the executive
director would be "Ralph
Nader-type, basically
responsible to the restructured
ASUN."
PAP members proposed
holding ASUN Senate meetings
every other week instead of
weekly to eliminate problems
they say are involved in
"rounding-up" senators for
each meeting and duplicating
minutes of the meetings.
Senate committees would meet
on the off weeks, under the
proposal.
The Amurica Party (AMP) is
alos facing obstacles posed by
the new electoral rules. A party
spokesman said AMP collected
529 signatures, but only about
390 were accepted. Rules
require 500 valid signatures.
AMP presidential candidate
Dennis Snyder and first vice
presidential candidate Peggy
Olsen were unavailable for
further comment.
Independent ASUN
presidential candidate Charles
Rosvold is running because
"first of all, I think I can do a
better job than those in there
now.
"I'm new here and I wasn't
even aware the election filing
deadline was coming up until
something like three days
before," Rosvold said. "I
would have liked to have
formed a party but there was
the problem of a time
squeeze."
Rosvold said he's "not
taking a strong dogmatic view
on any one issue" but that he
will be "dogmatic enough" as
ASUN president and "will do
everything in my power to
accomplish what the students
want."
He said the present
administration has not been
forceful enough in presenting
student views.
"I'm sure a few screws can
be tightened somewhere,"
Rosvold said. "We need
someone there who is not
willing to back down."
He added that he felt ASUN
is simply a student lobbying
agent with no power. "It's a
toothless dog but it can bark,"
he said.
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From left to right, Rick Horton, PAP second vice-presidential candidate; IBM 360, PAP presidential candidate; Ray Walden, PAP first vice-presidential candidate; Vince
Powers and Charles Rosvold, independent candidates for president
Speaker warns farmers of 'economic hoax'
By Ron Wylie
American farmers should not be hoaxed by
speculations the country is headed toward a 1930s
economic disaster, economist Eliot Janeway said
Thursday.
This scare, he said, is scaring farmers who
remember times of no credit and no demand for
crops and causing them to plan limited plantings and
selling short on the market.
Janeway, speaking to a Symposium on the Future
audience in the Nebraska Union Centennial Room,
said fluctuation of current commodities is the result
of Soviet stock manipulation of the American wheat
market.
Russian cancellation of grain contracts frightens
U.S. farmers, Janeway said, but added there was no
danger.
"The Russians are just trying to drive down the
price so they can make a killing.
Kremlin needs grain
"There is no way anyone in the Kremlin can
operate without access to U.S. grain markets," he
said.
This particular gambit, Janeway said, .shows the
need for a U.S. agriculture protection policy.
"No other country in the world would allow their
produce to be used by other countries the way the
United States does.
Policy problems
"U.S. problems are problems of policy and
administration, not of economy and production," he
said, and added, "the depression for which we are
headed is still avoidable, but America needs to regain
its bargaining power."
The American system is the only buffer against
worldwide depression, Janeway said.
America is experiencing World War Three without
a shot being fired, a war of economic warfare, he said.
Super weapon
Viewing agriculture as a strategic commodity,
Janeway said America has a super weapon in any
international confrontation.
But, he continued, "there is an urgent, immediate
need for the U.S. economy to bring down the price of
oil, and pitting the oil of the world's stick-up artists
against the might of American agriculture would be,
as the lawyers say, 'No contest'.
See related story, pg. 9
"If the world knew that America had a good farm
policy the United States wouldn't need a foreign
policy," Janeway said.
Trade with generosity
The United States should be willing to trade with
generosity, he said, but "there should be no more
giveaways of agricultural or technological resources.
"We h?.ve run out of resources to waste abroad,"
Janeway said.
He said he wants to see a new combination of
American agriculture and American production to
provide "packaged products for the world."
Need not fear
Western nations needn't fear the oil-producing
states of the world, according to Janeway, because
"we don't need them as much as they need us. They
can't eat that oil, and they need our agriculture and
technology."
Janeway said oil producers are having trouble
finding storage space for their ever-increasing
surpluses, and there is an oil glut in the world now.
"So when the Arabs come to talk about food and
equipment and parts, let's talk about $6, $5,
$4-a-barrei oil, he said.
An alternative to appeasement and war, Janeway
said, is economic confrontation and the United States
has the agriculture and the tools to win.
But the United States never bargains with its
technological or agricultural power, Janeway said,
and blamed the appeasement foreign policy of
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger Depression
If a depression settles on America, Janeway
contended, it should rightfully be called "the
Kissinger Depression.
"What he deals with as purely political is really
financial in nature," Janeway said, accusing Kissinger
of naievete in economic policy.
"The oil problem won't be solved by shuttle
diplomacy," he said.
Janeway said, "Gerald Ford is every bit as decent
as he is dumb, and that covers a lot of area."
Janeway was joined in the Centennial Room talk
by his wife Elizabeth, author and lecturer on the role
of woman in American society.
She said women are a new economic force, which
can become integrated with the decision -making
processes of finance as women become more aware of
their value in the economic world.
Ms. Janeway spoke earlier in the day to a
Women's Speak forum.