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wccmeajay, September 1, VJU r ' Inside J C-m IV'" V..., UtfVvi( 4V Students have been living in nooks sndenmnirs .p. 10 .-vol. ICO no. 3 vcdncsky, icptcmber 1, 1973 University of Ncbradka Preddeci D. D. Varner. By Anita Stork When the new NU president takes office next Jan. 1 , he won't be getting advice from current President D.B. Vamer. "I certainly won't be telling the new president what to do," Varner said. The last thing in the world he will want is a long dissertation from me on how to fulfill his duties. - , :; A committee of 16 NU administrators, faculty, stu dents and alumni is expected to narrow the field of candi dates for Vomer's post to seven or less by October, according to James Moylan, NU Board of Regents chair man from Omaha. Varner resigned unexpectedly June 26 to , become chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the NU Foundation , effective Jan 1 , 1 977. Declining to list accomplishments as NU president, Vamer said that "should be left up to someone else. "It's not for me to critique my contribution to the NU system," he said. Vulnerable to criticism , . A system president is especially vulnerable to criticism if he does his work honestly and courageously, Varner said, but he reaffirmed in an interview this week that he did not resign as a result of antagonism or frustration. "Positions such as mine are short term no matter where they are," Varner said. "Seven or eight years is about the maximum. . The president has a large constituency of factions to work with," Varner laid. He listed them as students, faculty, the regents and the citizens of the state. Praising the current system's balance. Vamer said he did not favor more centralization. I "The present structure is about as good as you can come up with. Of course, some will always criticize and favor more or less centralization, but I'm happy with the balance." , New positha Vamer said he was looking forward to his new position at the NU Foundation "with great enthusiasm." "We wi3 try to expand the Foundation's area of in volvement with alumni and friends around the state and country," he said. "We would like additional resources for the Foundation." The Foundation post was offered to him after he had made the decision to resign, Vamer said, adding that he was offered some other positions which he was 4hot at liberty to name." ' Vamer sail he had no qualms about leaving the presi dency. '. .'.'.; '. "It's not as if I'm packing up and going to another state," he said. "I will still be with the university. "I'm not eager to leave, but anxious to get to my new assignments." aifdooasksre The Coalition for University Reform has filed a motion with the Student Court asking for a new trial andor a re hearing of last year's attempt to have all powers, functions and duties transferee! from ASUN to the coalition. "We feel the student body at large is entitled to vote for a new student governmemt," said Britt Miller, coalition program director. y "t The coalition last March attempted to take over the rfchts. rowers and duties of ASUN throuzh an Organic w ' j - u Act. The act was ruled "an unlawful delegation of power" by the student court. "We feel the court was biased by the testimony of Paul Byerly (ASUN adviser and plaintiff) who presented his hsar no on ASU r n m POW0H own case contrary to the defense," Miller said. The student court has not yet set a date to decide on the motion. " , The coalition presented ASUN an initiative petition signed by 764 students March 29 as part of the Organic Act. The initiative was defeated by a margin of three votes on March 1. ' The coalition returned with another petition contain ing 1378 signatures in another attempt to call a student vote. But the petition was contested in the student court by Richard Hunk Avery Loschen, ASUN President Eill Mueller and Joseph Stavas. The coalition is contesting this case, the motion states, because, "ASUN was named defendant, but members of the ASUN, specifically the petitioners and signators of the petition were not allowed to testify or have counsel to present their case . . . That Dr. Paul Byerly did not indi cate to counsel that he disagreed with their proposed defense and that the (Student) Court allowed him to testify after the plaintiffs and defendant's case had been presented. "The Court did not alow a rebuttal from other defend ants, other members of ASUN who wished to speak, or from defendant's counsel . . . That the Court did not allow a fair hearing of the case and the Court was adver ' sely affected by said unfair hearing." - You plan it all out you didn't go through the lottery last spring, so you have to fight the football ticket lines. The alarm goes off at 6 a.m.-plenty of time to go to the Coliseum and be one of the first in line. The ride to campus wakes you up funny how you managed to get up that early all summer for work. Finally, you get to the Coliseum at 7 a jn., and, surprise 150 people already are sitting on the steps even though the doors won't open until 9 a jn. So you find the end of the line and sit down. With only a stack of new notebooks in your hand, you decide to answer that letter a friend wrote you two years ago. A Campus Police car rolls up, and an officer gets out and directs the crowd to form a new line, curving to the west instead of the east. You meet old friends, some you haven't seen since you were sophomores in high school. - Somebody goes for doughnuts and offers you one. You wish they'd have brought some extra coffee. Your legs are tired- Everyone in the line-you in cludedhas been standing for an hour and a half since the officer moved the line. Finally, the doors open; not the ones in front of the line, but directly west of it. Two lines quickly form as bodies jockey for position. You're swept into the Coliseum with the crowd. The doors close and lock behind you. InsMe, you are crushed against the bodies all around you. There's barely enough room to breathe. You can see the guy at the head of the line plop down 12 IDs and checks. You look at your watch after working your hand free from where it is pressed to your side. 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