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Inside today Hie Party's Over: After the game, work begins for those who must clean up ..... .p. 6 dbJlu nebfoskan monday, november 8, 1976 vol.100 no. 33 lincoln, ncbrsska Bygloosi elterSlkelveiF wriffien ? womyouYiri By Deb Bockhahn After recapping the bizarre highlights of the activities of mass murderer Charles Man son, former Los Angeles County Pro secutor Vincent Bugliosi Sunday said the fact that Man son was not psychologically evaluated during his long prison career "is an indictment of the prison system." Bugliosi, in Lincoln for the Union Pro gram Council's Talks and Topics series, spoke to an- overflow crowd in the Centennial room of the Nebraska Union. Prosecuting attorney of the LaEianca Tate trials, Bugliosi, said that if Man son . v v - i X V "Vfoceat Bslosi, die: Helter Skelter. I fteto by Ksa B !sy x cf essi czsxCmx CLz&zs tlzzzza aad aether of , had had the psychological evaluation, "Maybe the - turmoil that developed would 've been detected and 35 people wouldn't have been killed. According to Bugliosi, Man son had not been analyzed prior to his release from Terminal Island prison, after, serving 17 years in prisons and reformatory schools. Speaking of the interest in the Manson case, during a Daily Nebraskan interview, Bugliosi said, "It is the absurdity of this case that has caused the interest and not the number of people killed, since the murders are probably the most bizarre that have occurred. Author of Helter Skelter, Bugliosi said, his reason for writing the book on the La-Bianca-Tate murders was "to convey to. young people what can happen when they join these groups." Bugliosi said he has received letters from parents who have made their children read the book because "it alerts them to the effects of dropping out and the dangers of the slow evolutionary process that happened with the 'Family' and could easily rise out of other hippie subcultures. "There were so many superficial detect ive and trial books on the stands after trial, I decided to write a book based on the facts," he said. "I didn't anticipate it be coming a bestseller." Although Bugliosi said there is ao chance" for Man son's parole in 1978, "I can't exclude the fact that he could be paroled 20 to 25 years from now. "Manson should spend the rest of his life behind bars for his horrorendous crimes, even if he is capable of rehabilita tion " Bugliosi said. "It doesnt justify his release." Bugliosi said although the dominating powers of Manson were evident, even in his courtroom appearance, "His real power came from the weakness of his followers." According to Bugliosi, Manson "preach ed" his philosophy to thousands of youths, and only those who "wanted to retaliate against the establishment" became .his followers. They ranged in age from 13 to 27 years, he said. "There was something about him that attracted those young persons who were in search of something," Bugliosi said. "Most wouldn't seem to be killers, especially the women, that's why it's so absurd." Manson had the power to dominate the persons who made themselves vulnerable to him and according to Bugliosi, Manson had a lot of control through the use of LSD. He said Manson gave LSD to his followers to make them susceptible to his suggestions. Murder was one of these , suggestions, Bugliosi said. "That point also proves the uniqueness of this case, Bugliosi said, "because most mass murderers the Boston Strangler and Charles Whitman as most killers were the skid row type. V "They were flipped out and committed the murders by themselves, he said. "But Manson got other people to murder for him at his command. Yet all those sentenced had a deep seeded hostility with in them," Bugliosi added "and were cap able of murder, but Manson was the catalyst and it wouldn't have taken place if not forhim." Bugliosi also said he wanted the files of the Robert Kennedy assassination reopen ed. During the Kennedy trial Bugliosi represented Paul Schrade, one of the per sons shot. Bugliosi said he received state ments from persons who said there were more than the eight bullets from Sirhan Sirhan's gun fired. Although he -is not directly involved with reopening the files, Bugliosi said they will probably be opened in the near future. BelcayedNU president search back In full gear By George T.IHIer ' The search for a replacement for NU President D. B. Vamer wiO be getting back Into full swing after being suspended pending the re-election of four members of the NU Board of Regents. However, the delay may. prevent a new president from being selected before Varner leaves his position Jan. 1 to become chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the NU Foundation. - Regents chairman James Moylan of Omaha said some of the six persons under consideration for NU president have bee contacted and that the regents are awaiting replies. ; However, he said some of the candidates had indicated they preferred to wait until after the elections to see who would be on the board. Regents Moylan, Robert Koefoot of Grand Island, Kennit Wagner of Schuyler and Robert Prokop of Omaha were up for re-election in last Tuesday's voting. All four won re-election. Best to delay Moylan said that after the regents had made some con tacts and discussed it among themselves, they concluded that "it was best" to delay the selection process until after the elections. He said there was a possibility the regents might decide on Varaer's replacement by their Nov. 20 meeting, but added that he "couldn't say for sure. Lincoln Regent Edward Schwartzkopf agreed it was "time for full steam ahead" on selection of a new president. lie said the selection process was delayed after l least one candidate told the regents they wanted to faiow the composition of the board before accepting the job at Nebraska. . ' Schwartzkopf said that because the Ford administra tion would be leaving office in January, '"there may be ether candidates we could consider " However, he said he thought the regents had an obliga tion to ocse among the six candidates selected this fall by a 16-meisher search corrjnittee. "The search committee did their work in good faith, Schwartzkopf said. One in Ford sdmlaistrstloa : ' - One of the six candidates currently is in the Ford administration- He is Clayton Yeutter, 45; currently U.S. special trade representative in Washington D. C. and ambassador to the 1976 World Food Conference. Other persons said to be under consideration are: -Charles E. Ciop, 55", preddent of the University cf Arkansas. -John C. Calhoun Jr 59, vice president fpr academic affairs at Texas ASJ.1 University. Howard Neville, 50, president of the University of ' Maine at Orono and a former NU vice president Harold F. "Cotton" Robinson, 57, president of Western Carolina University at CuHowhee, N. C James C. Olson, 59, interim president of the Univer sity of Missouri and a former NU vice chancellor. However, the University of Missouri student news paper, the Columbia Missourian, reported last month that Olson had been offered the NU position but that he turned it down. Schwartzkopf said he doubted a selection could be made by the Nov. 20 meeting date. He said that if a selec tion is not made by Jan. 1 , an interim president may have to be found until a selection is made. Omaha Regent Hermit Hansen said he doubted mat a selection would be made by the end of the year, but Wagner said he felt a selection would be made by that time, although not in time for the Nov. 20 meeting. AS of the regents contacted said there were no plans to meet before the Nov. 20 meeting to discuss the candidates. Workload study action 'pending By Paula Dittrick Action on the recently reported NU workload study will not come until the next legislative session, which begins Jan. 5, 1977. - , Ned Hedges, assistant vice" chancellor for academic affairs, said his personal conclusion of the report is that it "shows faculty members work hard and give the p'jhlic their money's worth . The Legislature hasn't tad an opportunity to respond to the report it just received, Hedges said. He added that he didn't know what effect the report mighi have. Known as" the Faculty Activity Survey, the report, which attempted to measure an average faculty work week during the 1975 fall semester, was requested by the . 1975-76 Legislature's university budget bill. ; Aliriiftisftrsf ton covered sts ' . . Hedges said ths Legislature .wanted to know how the university monitored its present workload before respond ing to future university funding requests. . . . . ' Ih said NUs central administration paid for the study's costs of material reproduction and computer sxpessei. ILdcs directed the UNL portion of the study, which lists the average fccaa employes work per week according to faculty rank, campus and co2egs. UNL listed an averz-e wpxk week of 5532 hours while the University of Nebraska st Omaha (UNO) listed 59.49 hours a week and the University of Nebraska Medical Cen ter listed 56j03 hours. ' UNO rrpcrted 4255 hours fpent on instruction while UNL listed 33.27 and the medical center listed 3456 m r.trr devotes 13.01 hours to public service and extension wcrk while UNL showed 9 J 1 hours and UNO listed 6X3 hours, the report sail. . UNL leads cn hours spent for creative, scholarly and research activity. It reported 13.49 hours while UNO re ported 9.66 hours and the medical center 8.46 hours. - Some call it misleading Some UNL Faculty Senate members had charged that the faculty activity survey could be misleading or lead to misuse of the data. Calling faculty members attitudes responsive. Hedges said "most of the negativism had to do with the difficulty of the process. Faculty members found it difficult to determine when they were working for the university and when they were rnot, he said. l!ost faculty members dont view their job in that way. They don't think of their job in hours," said Hedges. He added that often an instructor's job is also his hobby. Hedges, an associate professor of English, said he imght read some literature during the evening at home, but he asked whether this was for himself or for the university. Categorizing difficult He said faculty members also found it difficult to dis criminate between the study's categories. . The completed report records the time spent for activities categorized as instruction, public service gnd N extension, and creative, scholarly and research activities. Hedges said most faculty members don't differ ra tiate their activities into what he called such "discrete ' packages. ViA knows cf no plans to repeat or update ths study. He said some kind of similar study is frequently being dose. He said UNO has previously made such reports. Some federal reports require sa account cf workload distribution. Agriculture and natural resources depart ments are accustomed to making such reports, He '-as