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By Pstia DiUiick
Republican vice presidential candidate Bob Dole said
his party is "counting on Nebraska and the llidwest to
offset what may be Carter victories elsewhere."
Kansas Sen. Dole spoke during an hour stop in Lincoln
at a rally for Republican Senate candidate John Y. McCbl-
liner. On his second campaign trip to Nebraska, Dole said
he had come to help his friend, UcCoHisier.
Asked about his congressional race, McCcZister said,
"I think it's very dose. Dole is here to add spice to the
ra2y."
Dole told listeners in the crowded Kamada Inn room
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that, If youll work six more days for President Ford and
i!cCc2ister, thcyll work for you-f.IcCoHistcr for six
years and Ford for four years."
Dole said Ford has appointed hint to work for in
creased farm exports. "I guess I will be a sort of inter
national salesman," Dole said.
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He added that the prosperity of rural programs lies
with the export market.
Dole said that despite problems, the two years of the
Ford administration have been good for agriculture.
The number of workable farm acres and exports have
increased during that time, Dole said.
Tor 40 some years the American fanners were
shackled with government control," ' but "the farmer
wants to produce and Republican policy is that they
should have the opportunity to do that," Dole said.
He said the Ford-Dole administration would want full
production, fair consumer prices and good farm prices.
Dole sail he thought it was strange that Sen. Robert
Byrd (D-W.Va.) came to support McCoIIister's opponent,
Edward Zorinsky.
Dole called Byrd "the father of imposed strict re
straints on exports of farm commodities" and suggested
that asking for that kind of support isn't to understand
"what it's like in Nebraska."
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"I think the embargo is a mistake. There will be no
embargo under the Ford-Dole administration unless there
is an emergency ," Dole said.
Dole said Ford has assigned him to work with the
families of men missing in action in Southeast Asia.
Dole called Carter's promise of a blanket pardon a
mistaken priority. "We should concern ourselves with the
forgotten Americans in Southeast Asia, not the draft
dodgers," he said.
Dole said the Ford administration was "on the road to
4 per cent unemployment."
" Voters have a "phHosophical choice" between what
Dele czHzd the i&ra-Lberal policies of Carter and lion
dale or the conservative and moder n policies of Ford and
Dole.
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The constitutionality of Nebraska's death penalty law
will be argued before the State Supreme Court Nov. 8.
The court will hear the cases of four men who have
been sentenced to die in the electric chair. A fifth case,
that of Wesley Peery of Lincoln, will not be heard until
several months later. .
Paul Snyder, state assistant attorney general who will
be representing the state, said every person sentenced to
death gets "an automatic appeal" to the State Supreme'
Court. ;" .
"The defendants also are challenging the constitution
ality of the law so our (the attorney general's) office
handles the case," Snyder said. .
Three of the defendants, John Rust, Richard Holton
and Rodney Stewart, are from Omaha. They will be. re
presented by Stan Kreiger of the Omaha public defend
ers' office. " '
Holton was convicted of shooting and kCir.3 a bar
tender. Stewart was convicted of shooting and killing
Thomas Evans and injuring Darnel Evans in a drug re
lated argument. Rust was convicted of shooting and '
killing Michael Kellogg, a civilian, during a gun battle
with police after a robbery.
The fourth case is mat . of Erwin Charles Simants.
It is being appealed from Lincoln County District Court.
Simants was convicted of killing six members of the
Henry iCellie family of Sutherland.
Kreiger said he believes the death penalty is cruel
and unusual punishment.
In 1972 the LIS. Supreme Court ruled that tie death
penalty was being fenposed in a freakish manner " Krefeer
said. "This decLion, in effect, eliminated every state's
death penalty.
- Since then, the state has rewritten its death penalty
law, Kreiger said. This is the law's first judldil test follow
ing its epproval by the Nebraska Lelatun b 1973.
Snyder believes the law will be upheld on the bads of
a July 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision uphclilrg sa
ir statutes in Florida, Georgia and Texas.
"Nebraska's law-very similar to Flori2as-estab!ished
guidelines for inposing the death penalty," Snyder said.
Those guidelines, Snyder said, are a list of aavating
and mitigating circumstances judges must consider before
sentencing.
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Snyder said aggravating circumstances, those which
make the crime more reprehensible, include:
-Offender previously was convicted of a - felony.
The murder was committed to conceal a crime.
The crime created danger to other people.
A law enforcement officer was murdered.
Mitigating circumstances, Snyder said, include:
No previous criminal record for the defendant.
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Accused acted under another person's domination.
Accused was the accomplice of another who. com
mitted the crime.
"This Nebraska death sentence procedure cannot, and -in
fact does not, eliminate discriminatory, arbitrary and.
capricious decisions by judges who, for one reason or
another, have their own view of what should be done,"
according to Kreiger's brief.
His arguments, Kreiger said, include that "even assum
ing the law's constitutionality, the particular judge did not
take the aggravating and mitigating circumstances into
account" when sentencing the defendants.
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By Anita Stork
Faculty members are underpaid in the opinion of five
of six UNL student government members informally
questioned.
Gregg Johnson, co-chairman of- ASUN's Government
Liaison Committee, said there is documented evidence
that faculty members are underpaid when compared
with instructors at other universities.
"Our university is losing a let of resources and federal
grants," Johnson said. "As soon as faculty become exper
ienced, they're hired away by another university." .
Five Dig 8 Conference schools are members of the
American Association of Universities (AAU). Based on
AAU 1975-76 figures, fua professors need a 93 per
cent salary increase" to bring them up to' the average
compensation level of other 8 AAU schools, Johnson
said.
Associate professors would ceed a 5.6 per cent increase
and assistant professors an increase of 3.6 cer cent, he
Karen Morgan, Council on Student Life member,
said professors are not paid enough.
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"I feel bad about the exodus of faculty members,"
Morgan said. "The morale of the faculty is down."
John Welch, co-chairman of the ASUN Government
Liaison Committee, said salaries are Mdefiniately too low.
"The Legislature's Appropriations Committee hasn't
established what kind of faculty they wanf. us to have,"
S7elch said. "Do they want the faculty to be in the top
half of the Big 8 or first? They need to set the goals and
roles for UNL."
Faculty members are cot paid enough, sail Tony
ViHams, ASUN first vice president.
"It's evident when you see the cumber cf faculty
leaving," V2IIams said. "If we want a good education
we're gomg to have to pay the price."
BI3 MIer, UNL student regent and ASUN president,
sail he thinks faculty members are underpaid and salaries
are not competitive with ether institutions ia the Big 8
and around the country. -
lts easy to look at their salaries and say they're
getting paid- a tot," Mueller said, "but to get top faculty
members we have to pay mere. We simply need more
support for faculty salaries..
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CHI Darnell, ASUN senator for Teachers CcTege,
said he trad no research handy to make a general state
ment." However, he sail "dollars arcnt a guarantee for
quality education." -
To increase faculty salaries, Williams said, he would
favor a possible tuition increaae.
1 think students would be wiUmg tor pay mere if the
university isat up to par," he said.
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