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2 '4 I - JO "1 . 1, "V r monday, September 291975 volume 99 number 20 lincoln, nebraska K i doily (DfesDgSfD if"'' ! : ' r Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) Photo by Kvin H5gSy non&arciainin d fdffwomonfhs By Theresa Foreman Judge Benjamin Wall said Friday it will be about two months before the three judge panel of the State Court of. Industrial Relations will decide whether the collective bargaining unit for university faculty members should be system-wide or limited to the UNL campus. Although Wail presided at Friday's hearing, he and the court's two other judges will decide the scope of the bar gaining unit after reviewing the attorneys' briefs, which are due Nov, 3. . After the bargaining unit is decided , the court can approve faculty election for a bargaining representative. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is seeking recognition as the bargaining agent. About 200 UNL faculty members are AAUP members. At Friday's hearing, Bruce Wright, attorney for the NU Board of Regents, which is seeking a system-wide bargaining unit, mtettloned Steven Sample. NU vice president of academic affairs, abouf the academic organizational structure of the system, Sample testified that ultimate authority for academic affairs for the three NU campuses belongs tothe regents. No department, school or college can be created or deleted without the board's approval, he said, and all faculty appoint ments and dismissals must be made by the regents. y Sample said vacation and leave or absence policies ase uniform on all three campuses. He said NlTs central admin istration is preparing a uniform academic calendar for the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and UNL. Faculty fringe benefit vary according to campus, Sample said. - v It the bargaining unit is limited to UNL. Sample said, some people who work and tesch in Omaha would be represented by the Lincoln campus because several schools operated on more than pm campus are under the administration of only one. He cited the Engineering Dept., which offers classes on IJNL and UNL campuses, but is administered in Lincoln, Sample also noted there are several intercampus faculty and administrative committees. othua$ on p.9 inside 1 1 NU Foundation: Varner reports on the state of the university system's composition ....... p.S UNO splitoff: The pros and cons of Sen. Murphy's suggestion that UNO separate itself from ths NU system; ............ p.5 Architecture exchanges UNL and Mexican University exchange students..... , ,..p. 12 Aba find: - ' , Editorials. .,,.,.,,,..... p.4 ' Arts and Entertainment.'. ..... P8 Sports p.10 Crossword ....... p,12 Short Stuff p.2 Weather v Monday: Sunny, with southerly winds ranging from 5-15 m.pii. Iligha in the low to mid-70s. Moudsy niht: Clear with temperatures in the low 40s. Tttfaisy: Increasing cloudiness. Temper atures in the low 70s. . 'i oyh folk hints at presi denfiol campaign By DickPiersol Although Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) has not officially announced his candidacy for the presidency, his speech to 200 Demo crats in Fremont Sunday indicated that he already may be campaigning. At a press conference before his speech to the Congressional First District Demo cratic Caucus, Bayh said that he wants to run and will decide within the next several days whether or not to make his campaign official. He said he came to Nebraska to see if there was enough support to warrant his candidacy in the state primary next May. Bayh conceded that competition will be stiff for the nomination and said that is one of the Democratic Party's strengths. "We have several good candidates," he said, "and Democrats welcome compete tion." The Republicans are a lot more exclusive. If I decide to run for president, 111 talk about my qualifications, I won't take cheap shots at other Democrats." ' Criticizes Ford In his speech, Bayh told the Democrats that President Gerald Ford's Administra tion has mishandled the economy, energy situation, and agricultural policy. He said that the administration has been content to try to keep the economy from worsening, but has failed to exert strong enough leadership in economic recovery. "The Ford Administration is making a lot of excuses. They say . the worst is behind us; that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and the economy has bottomed out "The facts are that eight million people are unemployed, another two million underemployed and about one million so frustrated they are not even looking for work." Direct result He said what he called the poor state of the economy is a direct result of the eco nomic policies of Ford and former Presi dent Richard Nixon. He said their belief was that ahigh level of unemployment was necessary to stop the kind of inflation characterized by too much money chasing too few goods. In reality, Bayh said inflation in Amer ica is based almost entirely on energy and food price increases and that Ford and Nixon contributed more to those problems than they solved. "With our industrial capacity operating at 65 per cent, we needn't worry about in flation caused by overemployment. We need a president who will reverse (Federal Reserve Board Chairman) Arthur Burn's, and (Treasury Secretary) William Simons' tight money and high interest rate policy," Bayh said. , - Bayh said the top priority for the next president should be to establish a policy of providing a job for every American who wflnts to work Bayh said the $70 billion federal budget deficit is related to Ford's . policies although he said the President blames runa way spending on Congress. He said the deficit is partially caused by unemploy ment, and blames Ford. , Bayh called Ford's statements faulting Congress for the lack of an energy policy a "phony indictment," in the wake of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil price increases. Continued on p.9 'We have no wise men' Several hundred UNL students sat on the floor of the Nebraska Union Ball room Sunday afternoon. Some, slept. Some watched the people around them. But most listened while Ram Dass, the former Dr. Richard Alpert, spoke on "The Process of Spiritual Awakening," the concluding lecture of the Wisdom of the East Symposium. Dass discussed what hfr called "the different planes of reality. 1 "lH tell you what reality is, and I've got the credentials, so you better listen to me, Dass said. "When you're in one of the planes, the others all seem unreal." Dass earned a Hi.L. in psycnoiogy from Stanford" University in 1957, He taught at Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Uni versity until 1963. Between 1961 and 1964, Dass and his associate, Timothy Leary, researched the effects of consciousness-altering drugs tuch as LSD, and later published The Psychedelic Experience. By 1967, 1 had become sophistica ted in charting the different realities I discovered from my studies," Dass said. "But I was being forced to say publicly that I was no longer a scientist," Dass said behaviorism has replaced the intro spection he was studying, He received most of his training from guru in the Indian Himalayas, he said, "lis was in a much higher state of consciousness,' Dass said. "Because of the etpcitncjs of the 'training he gave me, I can now reach several levels of consciousness simultaneously," ' Dm explained that many of the problems or society, such as alcoholism, are brought about because human beings are too materialistic. "There is alcoholism because people aren't fulfilled by the current value system," he said. "A materialist is really dead when he is dead," Dass said. "He functions under the reasoning that more is better, when actually his desire for more is never enough. Tve nave no tuinument. no ' contentment, with material things, Dass said. We have knowledgeable men, but no wise.men." "Become a statement of what you are about and those who will hear, let them hear." Fhoio By Tswl Kit - it if A. ff "t If . 'Ji V " 4 i .