monday, february 9, 1976
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daily nebraskan
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YOU CDULONT HURT A FLEA.
Mention a labor union and the native
Nebraskan probably will think of a steelworker or
construction laborer in a city somewhere.
The hardhat image doesn't set well with what
they think a university faculty member, an
austere academic type, should be.
It is significant that opposition to collective
bargaining has coalesced in the agricultural sectors
of the university.
Let there be no misconception: agricultural
training and outstate services are an important
part of the university. UNL's land grant status
confirms that. -
But they are not the only part of the university.
Given the strong concern for agriculture
education evident in Nebraska, most recently
born out in the creation of a vice-chancellor for
agriculture and natural resources post, it is no
surprise that resistance to collective bargaining is
strong on East Campus.
Guarded by everyone from the farmers to the
Nebraska Legislature, the agricultural faculty may
just think that they are doing tine right now,
thank'you, and they don't want to upset the
system.
Yet UNL is a unit, a whole and in some sectors
the same kind of concern is not evident. The -liberal
arts and sciences concerns grow more
depleted each year. The inequities between de
partments and colleges grow wider and wider.
Yet all students attending UNL axe here to
receive the best education the state is prepared to
give. Many cross departmental lines to get the
best combinations of studies they need.
They are entitled to quality, whatever they
seek in the university. -
And in the end, that may be the advantage of
collective bargaining, the great equalizer.
Faculty members would emerge more unified
'and their collective voice would have the
immediacy of the law to back it up.
Administrator, faculty member and student all
could only benefit from the clear and forthright
discussion of issues that would be brought to light
because of their effect iri the bargaining process.
Collective bargaining, negotiation in a legally
binding and formalized setting, is fearful to some
observers of the university.
That law need not impede progress; it would be
well to remember that the purpose of legal agree
ments is to protect and clarify all of the interests
involved. Among men and women of intellect and
sensitivity, there should be nothing to fear.
With the adequate protection of student
interests, as noted in Friday's editorial, the
coming of the collective bargaining bandwagon to
UNL should proceed.
Vince Boucher
'oner-mi i v
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rarefied Cavanaugh's volume control
alt I disrupts legislative process
letters to
I would like to know what male athletes have sacrificed
that women haven't.
A group of women and I are active in the sport of
racquetbali. What is there available to women? 1) A
supposedly "coed" fieldhouse where any woman can go
(after 6:30 pjn.) and see men "athletes" showering,
undressing, etc. There is no way to avoid it since the'
courts run aloag the men's Jocker rooms. 2) the YMCA, if
she is willing to pay $2 a night or can afford the $75
annual membership. 3) The YWCA with no facilities for
racquetbali and few other sports. (Membership, $5.)
4) The Air Park Recreation Center where she can reserve
a court for one hour a week because of the increasing
popularity of the sport.
Now I've heard the racquetbali courts have been
cut out of the budget for the new fieldhouse. Mr. Johnson
said men have wnrtaH !ons and hard Slid hzvt n"'"" n
) show for it, Maybe they should step aside and "give "women
a chance Iff win.
Lanette Cramer
By Dick Piersol
There are times in the Nebraska Legislature which defy
conventional news coverage. Occasionally, an incident
occurs, spurred by monotony, frayed nerves or pettiness,
which causes the wheels of government to slide. The result
is often much funnier than any of the participants
intended. " ., .
Lincoln Sen. Harold Simpson was presiding, both Lt.
Gov. Gerald Whelan and Speaker Jules Burbach being
absent. Ornaha Sen. John Savage, chairman of the Com
mittee on Committees is next in line to preside, followed
by fellow Omahan Sen. Eugene Mahoncy, chairman of the
Legislative Council, but the presiding officer may name
any senator to preside, and Simpson is acknowledged as a
very capable presiding officer.
Sen. John Cavanaugh of Omaha was arguing, quite
well, against a bill which would have allowed those most
interested in mobile home legislation, the manufacturers,
to regulate themselves in the form of a state board.
Cavanaugh spoke from the public interest point of
view: can the public be protected from misused power by
those who hold that power?
"Sell it to somebody else," he said.
He was'momentarily interrupted.
Sen. Shirley Marsh of Lincoln rose to a point of order.
She requested the chair to lower the volume on the
senators' public address system.
Simpson replied that it was as low as he could get It.
"Then," Marsh said, "would Sen. Cavanaugh please
lower his voice or back away from his microphone?",
Simpson directed Cavanaugh to do so, but Cavanaugh
protested mightily. ,
Om ui Ciirtii wjuul concerns
the volume of mv voice." he said.
Marsh told Cavanaugh to speak "so it will fill the
chamber-no more."
Again, Simpson told Cavanaugh to lower his voice and
continue. .
Cavanaugh protested again, and threatened to appeal
the ruling to a vote of his peers. He couldn't continue,
his train of thought had mutinously disappeared, to the
delight of his colleagues.
Mahoney and Sen. Ernest Chambers of Omaha jumped
up, the former to Cavanaugh's defense, the latter for
mischief which was to remain sadly unknown.
Mahoney was recognized.
"I had my light on first," Chambers protested.
Mahoney asked Chambers' indulgence. "Please, allow
me," he said.
"Well, since you put it that way," Chambers replied,
and he retired to his seat-smiling all the way.
By this time, the senators were aware they were seeing
a rare breakdown of the legislative process. They savored
it, punctuating the order of business with hoots and cat
calls more often heard at a boilermakers' convention or on
All-Star Wrestling.
'
Mahoney orated brilliantly in Cavanaugh's defense, but
the battle was lost.
"Obviously, the opponents are bereft of substantive
issues, so they object to the volume of my voice," he said.
Simpson then benignly changed his order to a request
that Cavanaugh lower his voice.
Sen. George Syas of Omaha strolled up to a group of
reporters and said, "Now you see why this chamber is
called the cave of the windsf"
Friday, the Legislature committed a serious violation
of the public trust. They defeated, 14-13, Big Springs
Sen. Jack Mills proposal to name the Studebaker, the real
people's cu, the official Nebraska Bicentennial auto.
innocent
N.H
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By Arthur Hoppe
In just two weeks, New Hampshire voters will go to the
polls to choose our next President for us, which is very
kind of them,
As usual, mere is plenty of snow, plenty of reporters,
plenty of candidates and not nearly enough voters to go
around.
While mis is as good a way to choose a President as
any, it is very hard on both the candidates and the voters.
Typical of the complaints being voiced is that of
Milton Haberdash, one of the better-known Democratic
candidates in the race.
"I'm out in ha hustings every day before dawn,'
he says. "The best time to catch a voter around hero is
early in th morning or in the evening when they're, trying
to ft to and from their homes. ' " ' -
'TenGwdiy, 1 like to hunt from a blind. My campaign
manager. Gears? Fendcast, puts on a plaid mackinaw and
tiooi and sits w a rootsr, wnumg. m manes a
rendan
gered species
decoy. Then when a voter stops to chat with Ceoree-powf-Igothim."
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Haberdash says, however, he's gone as long as three
days without seeing so much as the track of a voter And
when he does luck across one, he often has to wait as long
as 45 minutes in line to shake his hand. .
."I fed most strongly," says Haberdash, "that a daily
bag limit of no more than two voters per candidate
should be established. They are clearly becoming an
endangered species."
The problems of the candidates pale when compared to
those of tltf besieged little band of New Hampshire voters.
Speaking from the storm cellar of his home 16 miles
northeast of Goshen, Nil., cranberry' farmer Ben
Hanshaw said ha only hoped his wife, Kate, their two
children and he had enough food to hold out until the
polls closed, February 24. -
' vlhe . Iknshftws retired to the cellar 1 January 14
"Couldn t get nothing done anyway," he said. "The kids
were looking kind of sickly what with being handled and
petted by strangers too much. And the missus came down
with what the doc said was tennis elbow from having her
hand shook all day long."
Hanshaw said he wasn't going to vote al all. "I'm right
sick and tired of picking the next President every four
years, he said. "Let somebody elsa take the blame for
once. .
Considering the seriousness of the voter shortage in
New Hampshire, it's no surprise thst both Ralph Nader
and Common Cause have urged tending in emergency
shipments of voters from other states.
One proposal is to round up the 1,537 scientifically
selected representative voters who nuke up Use Gallup
roil, ny them to Concord, N.H., and let tficm choose the
next President.
' But that, of course, is not the American way.
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