monday, february 23, 1978
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daily nebraskan
Unionism not dead just lying low
One week ago, faculty members turned out at
university polls to vote on collective bargaining.
The vote was dose, but representation through
the American Association of University Professors
was defeated.
Yet, AAUP has not given up. It has announced
that it intends to monitor the actions of the new
ly reshuffled representative Faculty Senate and to
move in and try again if it sees it faltering.
So the shoe is one the other foot. Faculty
members for whom unionism held no appeal, who
professed that the representative senate could
work, have now been given their chance.
It seems doubtful that the representative senate
will quell the discomfort of junior faculty mem
bers who face tenure decisions based on administration-prepared
guidelines or that the represen
tative senate will be able to move decisively in the
areaof upgrading faculty salaries.
It's just not in the scheme of political realities,
just as, for now, the union wasn't either.
It ought to be interesting to see if those
realities will change under the careful scrutiny of
AAUP backers.
The number of supporters of the proposed
AAUP collective bargaining, as reflected by the
letters toi
Bravo to Ms. Wanek's "Whose Fault is Fuzzy Flick?"
(Friday, Feb. 20- The local theatres have been ripping us
all off in a variety of ways. It's time someone pointed out
that the only, way theatre owners will begin to deliver
what they advertise is if they are financially pressured by
their biggest market: UNL students.
One thing is certain, however. And that is the assertion
concerning support of the projectionists. If the students
stay out until the projectionists return, the projectionists
won't be out much longer. The lockout, which raised
theatre profits by lowering operating costs, is an affront to
the movie viewing public. Film quality has been halved in
many cases-but the price has stayed the same.
I strongly urge fellow students to tell loyal theatres
who participate in the lockout to go suck eggs until they
either: a. Put the projectionist back into the booths, or b.
cut the prices in half and pay the parking lot ticket before
6 p.m. as well as after. ,
And to help owners make up their minds, let's all ear
mark March as "Miss the Movies Month."
Like it or not, every time you attend a show (except
for the Sheldon and Hollywood and Vine theatres) you
kick film quality in the groin, stab your fellow movie fans
in the back and help ruin the family budgets of the sorely
abused projectionists.,
Its time to stop scabbing for enterprises who treat us
with such obvious contempt.
Don Sutton
Lowd event
I must protest the Student YWCA "Body Awareness
Week. I am very surprised that a Young Women's Christ
ian Association would sponsor such a lewd event.
Human sexuality is a private matter which does not
really belong in any sort of public group discussion.
Reasonable young men and women should appreciate this
fact. People have hangups and cannot relate sexually be
cause everyone has made such a big deal out of sex. Leave
things alone and nature will follow a normal course.
Maxine J. Cunningham
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election, was impressive. .
The support should be interpreted as signin
cant of serious and continuing interest of the
faculty members. Collective bargaining is not just
the banner of a few malcontents-and there is no
doubt that it will be a question with UNL for
some time.
An often overlooked item is the approval of a
separate collective bargaining unit by the Law
College. .
That also should serve as a model of possible
future action-as it too will be observed closely
by other faculty members.
It's safe to say that if conditions within the
Law College improve rapidly-considering their
fairly decent current circumstances-that an
impetus will be provided for renewed action.
Vince Boucher
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innocent! Peek at answers reveals
!ctonc?3 ideal Presidential qualities
By Arthur Hoppe
Now that the Democrats have proved anyone can run
for President, you may want to take a crack at it yourself.
What the heck, why not?
To see if you've got what it takes, here is the Rate
Yourself as a Presidential Candidate Quiz.
Allow yourself one minute and 17 seconds to complete
the test. You will find the answers in the last two para
graphs. DO NOT LOOK AT THE ANSWERS under any
circumstances until you have completed all the questions.
A perfect score is 100 per cent. Ready? Co!
(1) The solution to the stagflation we suffer from is:
(a) regulating Big Labor; (b) regulating Big Business; (c)
regulating Big Government; (d) proper nutrition ;(e) none
of the above.
New dessert?
(2) Detente should be: (a) a one-way street; (b) a two
way street; (c) two-way street with a planted divider
down the middle; (d) the name of a meringue-topped,
snail-stuffed French pastry; (e) all of the above.
(3) My personal view on abortion is: (a) none of your
damn business; (b) there is much to be said on both sides;
(c) I would never have one myself no matter how much
my wife nagged me; (d) it is a matter to be decided be
tween each woman and her Pope; (e) U.S. Supreme Court
justices should not be allowed to perform them; (0 they
should be permitted in private between consenting adults;
(g) some of the-above; (h) I just wish to hell the issue
would go away.
(4) If nominated, I would accept a woman as Vice
President: (a) if I knew what was good for me; (b) if she
had a large bosom; (c) of the Green Bay Packers; (d) one
of the above.
(5) If elected, I promise to: (a) cut $90 billion from
the budget like my opponent; (b) add $90 billion to the
budget like my predecessor; (c) leave well enough alone;
(d) do away with the budget because they never work
anyway and it's always more fun to spend money as soon
as you get it before somebody bops you on the head and
takes it away from you; (e) probably a few of the above.
Horse vs. bus
(6) On education, I believe: (a) in busing'children to
their neighborhood schools; (b) busing their neighboihood
schools to the children; (c) horsing children to their
neighborhood schools to avoid busing; (d) every child
deserves a quality education and a side of french fries; (e)
reading rots the mind; (0 what was the above?
(7) No matter what, I shall always stand for standing
up: (a) to the Russians; (b) for elderly women on buses;
(c) after falling down; (d) above all of the issues above.
Good for you! You cheated, you foxy scamp, and
peeked at the answers before you finished the test. This
shows you aren't about to take on a bunch of questions
unless somebody else supplies you with the answers in
advance. With the help of a smart campaign manager and a
large research staff, you will make an ideal Presidential
candidate. -
If, by any wild chance, you tried to answer those
questions without sneaking a look, you could run as an
honest candidate. But who d believe you?
(Copyright Chronidt Publishing Co. 1976)
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N.H. primary makes noise
but Puerto Rico counts too
By Dick Piersol
Ask anyone remotely interested in the national politi
cal process what this week's important event is and there
can be only one answer. The New Hampshire presidential
primary on Tuesday, right?
If you are influenced by the candidates wheedling and
the exhaustive national media coverage, the New Hamp
shire primary is the correct answer.
But if you are counting delegates to the convention,
significant. The Puerto Rican Popular Democrats, an
ersatz version of the Democratic party, picked 17 dele
gates to the Democratic National Convention Sunday.
Those delegates will elect five more plus alternates. The
New Hampshire primary will choose 17 Democratic dele
gates and 21 Republicans. Although it isn't a state, 22
Puerto Rican delegates count.
Jackson odda-on favorite
The odds are good that Washington Sen. Henry Jack
son will pick up all of these delegates. Who said Jackson is
concentrating on the most populous states?
Jackson has the support of Puerto Rican Gov. Rafael
Hernandez-Colon because the senator has gone on record
supporting more governmental autonomy for Puerto Rico
no w a free commonwealth. Puerto Ricans have a commis
sioner in the U.S. Congress, with committee voting privil
eges only. The citizens may not vote for president unless
they move to the United States mainland.
MeanwSifl7.back in the frozen hinterlands of the
North, the rest of the political pack, candidates and journ
alists alike, are staging a quadrennial beauty contest.
The New Hampshire presidential primary ballot lists
the candidates, but voters also must ekct the defecates
directly. Since 1952. the primary's importance has stead
ily been magnified by national media exposure.
The state's size belies its political significance, ft ranks
41st in population; has only one commercial television
station and one daily newspaper with statewide circula
tion, the Manchester Union Leader.
Also since 1952, the New Hampshire primary has be
come a legendary political quagmire. Harry S. Truman's
1952 candidacy was barely begun when Tennessee Sen.
Estes Kefauver's strong showing made Truman retire from
the race. Republicans Nelson Rockefeller and George
Romney met dismal ends in New Hampshire in the 1960s.
In 1968, Sen. Eugene McCarthy's showing caused Presi
dent Lyndon Johnson to long, for the Pedernales and in
1972, Sen. Edmund Muskie broke down, politically and
emotionally.
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have displayed rather un-Republicaa enmity toward one
another in the campaign. They are running about even. Do
not discount the influence of Manchester Union Leader
publisher William Loeb, a conservative troglodyte. Ford
has predicted victory for his forces and it will be a major
set-back for hart if he is incorrect.
There are five Democrats" actively campaigning: Jimmy
Carter. Rep. Morris UdaU, Fred Harris, Sen. Birch Bayh
and Sargent Shriver.
Carter is the favorite, despite adverse media reports of
his campaign hype. UdaU is closa behind, and Bayh
expects to run third. Bayh't candidacy, and those of
Morris and Shriver, will be in trouble if they don't show
some strength in New Hampshire or in the Massachusetts
primary March 2.
George Wallace, that Democrat in th4 woodpil. i
saving his energy for Massachusetti, and the busing issua
will help him considerably there.'
Humphrey wre-ia cnrjrajja
Supporters of Hubert Humphrey have started a write-in
campaign la New Hampshire. The natives are treated to
his lilting voice on their radio, reminding them that he
would accept a draft st the convsation.
Jackson's name will not aprxar on the New Ikmpshiro
btnot, but he does hive a slate of debate candidates.
' If one is to believe the Gallup poll most of the Demo
cratic candidacies are exercises la futility. Humphrey stu
has nearly 30 per cent support among Democrats
nationally. Goorgs Wallace fallows cbsdy bctM witn
about 22 per cent.