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Campaign 76, marked by a imidslinging campaign on
the part of the incumbent, is rapidly coming to a close.
Perhaps this is finally indicative of the true nature of the
Republican ticket. 1 think it is time for a change for this
state and this country. We can have change.
Ve can have a government which is open and accessible
to the people, a government which is once again honest
and responsible, a government which once again believes
grownups
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in the values which our socitv is based upon and will
practice them in our foreign policy.
Gerald Ford has been campaigning on the maintained
of the status quo, that things are getting better. He has
requested a mandate from the American people to say
"You've done a good job Jerry, keep on doing it." But has
he?
Government by stalemate and veto are not indicative
of a coherent and forceful policy. Government by
reaction in all areas does not indicate success in directing
this nation. I am sure that some people are satisfied with
the performance of the past eight years, but I am not.
In Nebraska we finally have a choice, a choice of open
ness and honesty as opposed to a continuation of the past,
a representation characterized by Columnist Jack
Anderson as consistently the worst in trie VS. Senate.
Roman Hruska has annointed John Y. McCoIlister as
his heir apparent to the Senate seat he is finally vacating.
McCoIlister is attempting to buy this election, spending
an outrageous $350,000. His campaign has been filled
with inconsistencies, stating that he is for openness in
government . but failing to release his tax returns on
request. He says he doesn't solicit endorsements but he
brings in the hachet man from Kansas to speak for him.
He has promised nothing more than a continuation of
the current representation in the Senate-a representation
based on elitism and lack of concern for Nebraska.
Ed Zorinsky provides a change for Nebraska, a change
to open, honest government. Zorinsky has campaigned on
his open-door policy -a policy of listening to the people,
a policy of learning from the people, a policy which
represents the people. Zorinsky has shown himself to be
a capable and strong leader.
Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford have offered us a
definite choice in the race for the presidency. We have on
one hand the articulate spokesman for liberalism, Walter
Mondale. Cut from the Hubert Humphrey mold, Mondale
has consistently spoken out for the people of the United
States, the people who cannot help themselves and
need help from the government. Mondale was chosen as
vice presidential nominee for his qualifications for the
presidency-a job he could readilly fill.
. Ford is offering us a man whose political career has
been based on attack and innuendo. The Republican
National Chairman under Richard Nixon, Dole's record is
of the party hack who jumps when the powers that be say
jump. His campaigning has been solely attacks on Carter
and Mondale and he has shown little grasp of the issues
confronting the nation today. Dole's record as a senator is
lackluster to say the least which makes his qualifications
for the presidency dubious.
It has been made clear that I favor a change in
American government today and that change can come in
1976. Gerald Ford has had 2 years to show his leadership
and his vision for America. He has not done so. His record
in the areas of social legislation, environmental protection
and control of foreign policy is indefensible. . .
, We need a change.
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: Another Presidential election campaign is earning down
to the wire. And once z$k it is perfectly clear to any
innocent
bustano'ar
intelligent observer that the whole system is hopelessly
topsyturvy.
A ytzi 2jo, if you can remember that far back, one of
the candidates was good oT dependable Jerry Ford.
The other was the freshest new entry into the national
scene, dynamic, exciting Jimmy Carter. Gosh, they were
tz-o great candidates!
Yea may or may cot have agreed with Mr. Ford's
tmi ca the teats, but you couldn't help likir.3 him.
llzzz was a decent, honest, regular guy who toasted
letters
Playboy, purity, and peanuts ,
I wCJ not permit disruptions in our cities and on our
college campuses. . . I would order the National
Guard to take whatever action is neccessary to pro
tect innocent lives, including shoot-tokl orders.
So spoke the man who Kent Wolgamott proclaims as
a -positive alternative to the record of the past 'James
E. Carter.
I don't understand.
Is Carter an "alternative to the record of the past"
because he describes himself as "basically a redneck'?
Is he an alternative because he lauds Lester Maddox as
the essence of the Democratic Party," and Richard Daley
as a Sniracle man?
Is he a change from the past because during his
- gubernatorial campaign he received contributions from 1 1
men he later named to state positions and a US. Senate
seat?
Or is he positive because, come January, he will wave
the magic peanut of rehashed New Dealism and
miraculously cut inflation, race employment, erase
poverty, end pollution, and give every American a tax
break and a Nebraska season football ticket?
Then again, Carter may well be an alternative-to
himself. In 1970, he favored the death penalty; a year
later, he opposed it. Carter once supported right-to-work
laws, but now, with a little reeducation by George Meany,
he would abolish them. He condemns abortion, yet in
1972 he wrote an approving forward to a pro-abortion
book entitled "Women in Need. Last year he planned to
cut the defense budget by $15 billion, but when President
Ford unearthed it for the debates, Carter denied making
the quote, despite what the New York Time and Chicago
Tribune had printed. In any case, Carter now says that he
plans to strengthen our defense forces-and cut defense
spending by five billion dollars. How? He won't tell us.
How would he reorganize the executive branch? He
won't say.
How would he revise the Tax Code? "I don't really
have. . .the inclination at this point to elaborate or
describe the specifics."
Is this what he means by "open government"? Or is
this merely a camoflauge for his waffling and waggling,
his 180 degree turnabouts on abortion, capital punish
ment, right-to-work, Humphrey-Hawkins, civil rights,
tax policies, grain embargoes, busing, Clarence Kelley,
defense, detente, "ethnic purity, ad nauseum?
America, listen: before you ever heard of peanuts,
playboy, and purity, someone asked James Carter if he
would quit if the press produced evidence that he had
lied. Carter replied, "I think I would, because I haven't
. told a lie.
He has. He should.
Michael T. Givson
806 Harper Hall
472-9765
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I seldom miss an issue of the DaSy Nebrcs&m. Some
columns I always read, others only occasionally. The daily
cartoon has always been a must. This year, due to the
graduation of its creator, Ralph has been replaced by
Orion. In my opinion Ralph was very well done and I
enjoyed it Obviously many others shared my opinion.
Last year, Ralph Crabtree was elected homecoming king.
I realized that the cartoon which would succeed our
beloved Ralph would have some big shoes to fill. I vowed
to give the successor a chance to prove itself. Now, with
the semester half over, I am losing patience. I can recall
managing an inaudible smirk once or twice, but have
otherwise found Orion to be neither amusing nor enter
taining. Talking to others, I find I am not alone in my
view of the cartoon.
How was the choice of the cartoon for this year made?
Was Orion chosen over other applicants, or were there any
other applicants?
I don't pretend to have the artistic talents needed to
create a cartoon strip. Surely, however, someone possesses
these talents and shares these views of the current
cartoon. Hopefully, they will compete with Orion for the
cartoon spot in the DaSy Nebraskan next semester.
- C. lluetson
Editor's note: There were, and still are, ether applicants.
Bogus VD tips
The people responsible for distributing the bogus
health tips on VD should be condemned. The flyers warn
of an epidemic of a new strain of venereal disease and are
tacked up on campus bulletin boards. The list of
symptoms and remedies is vulgar, tasteless, and offensive.
Hopefully, no more of these flyers will be distributed.
Ron Ahrens
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his own English, muffins-steady as a rock, sound as a
dollar, not a mean bocs in his body nor a devious thought
in his head.
Aid Jimmy Carter, Wow! Here was perhaps the ideal
man for the times. To a cation disillusioned by Vietnam
and Yatergsie, ks promised a government "as good and
decent and full of love as the American people. Xtt
were wonderful, he was wonderful and the whole country
would be wonderful ria.
So the choice was between stability and adventure,
between comfortable security and a chaEsnging voyage
j&to a brave cew world. Either way, we couiint lose.
Of course, that was a year to. since then, the two
candidates have spent mors thaa $75 minion and traveled
countkss miles to confines us of their outstanding excell
ence. -
Thanks to their efforts, most of us wd
drag ourselves to the .pels next week to choose between
a eras, bumbling, devious politician who tosses around
sub siiies and forest aid wiy-nOy to get votes and makes
mean, vicious attacks on his opponent and a cannivicg
Etths con artist who his cleverly constructed ta meet
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phoney image in political history to satisfy his vicious
lust for power.
Either way we cant win. What kind of a choice is
that?
dearly, the tranrncrlfka of the cmdilitts from
towerirg p2srs of virtue into dirty rats is dus soJdy to
te election campaa. dearly, our system of cbctbn
campaas must be radically refomed if we doat wish to
vote for dirty rats. Cfcarfy, the cn!y ssha is to turn
tngs angad. dearly, we must have the cbctba first
and the cast afterward.
Py J523 to cast our bzZsti in pride
and confidence for a kiawa towerirs r"r of virtue.
And should h. foSQwi his ebctbn, be revd as a
cirty rat, take heart. X,'t survived Dick Kixoa, diiat we?
Beaawh2e, to the polls, ye sons of freedom! Remsm
wtX feeder to whom you pre your precious vote
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waind he certainly couliat be as bzi as you think his
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