friday, march 11, 1977
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daily nebrasken
letters
opinion
Few choices in ASUN election
Election day should be a time when voters can
exercise their freedom of choice. However, in
several places on this year's ASUN election ballot,
there is no choice because no one is running.
The section for Graduate College senators
reads: Vote for six, One name is listed. The
section for Teachers College senators instructs the
voters to vote for five. Five names are listed. Nine
other sections on the ballot have similar situations
in which the voter is asked to vote for one
candidate and one candidate is listed, or vote for
two candidates and two candidates are listed.
Seven Senate and advisory board positions are
printed on the ballot with no candidate listed
below them.
Two parties vie in this year's election among
a sea of independent candidates. Of the two
parties, Students for University Need (SUN)
and The High People's Coalition (THC), one
offers candidates beyond the executive branch.
Parties represent an organized effort. The small
number of parties represents the amount of time
students took to prepare for this election.
The vacancies on the ballot for Senate and
advisory board positions show students couldn't
even take time to file for the position.
The blame for such student apathy should fall .
directly on this year's ASUN. At the meeting in
which ASUN was supposed to approve election
guidelines, the Senate did not have a quorum and
a decision had to be delayed until the next
week.
Because ASUN has not demonstrated this year
the voice it would be on campus, the interest
students have in it naturally is minimal. Because
ASUN arid its executives have not exhibited
campus leadership, students do not realize the
influence they could have on the university and
its students.
.Student government leaders conceivably could,
be leaders of the communitybut those leadership
qualities are not coming out at UNL.
Voter turn-outs for ASUN elections .
traditionally have been low. Judging by the
number of students who bothered to file this
year, voter turn-out could be a record low.
The position of a student representing UNL on
the NU Board of Regents warrants strong campus
support. We hope students realize the seriousness
of this position and voter turn-out will reflect the
seriousness it deserves.
ASUN Executive candidates voice their
opinions in today's ASUN election special.
Students who have felt disenfranchised and dis
interested with ASUN should take this
opportunity to review the executive candidates
and their positions.
Although a student's vote is only one out of
20,000, that vote really is worth more than this
considering that only about 10 per cent of the
student body usually votes. This means your vote
is 10 times more important than you think it
might be.
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Immaturo musicians?
I am not displeased with the review of the record
Animals per se, but with comments about the band and
their maturity.
Is Dark Side of the Moon a record done by immature
musicians? The review almost seems to say "Here is
Pink Floyd's debut album, Dark Side of the Moon."
Are we to forget the eight or nine earlier records of
Floyd? It seemed to have the A.M. radio mystic to it, a
lack of musical knowledge. It is true that Dark Side of the
Moon was Floyd's first album to totally break through
the confines of the British underground music scene and
attract the whole spectrum of rock and roll listeners.
Dark Side of the Moon also produced Floyd's first hit
single Money, which AM. stations got their hands on and
played to death. Like they do with so many other
excellent songs.
Concentrating on Dark Side' of the Moon for just a
moment, where is all of the electronic wizardry which is
used to cover up the immature musicianship? Looking at
the songs that do contain electronics we find: "Speak to
Me" which is all tape effects, there is no music going on to
cover up. "On the Run" is also soley done with tape
effects and electronic wizardry, and it has the ability to
stand by itself as a song. It is just a bit of the bizzareness
associated with Floyd. But again it is not covering up any
other musicianship by any member of the band. It just
demonstrates Rodger Water's expertise at manipulating
such electronic machinery.
Concerning David Gilmore's guitar work, he has been
constantly excelling with his guitar work. From the
technical acoustical riffs on 'The Narrow Why," on the
record Ummagumma, to the highly penetrating solo on
Time. - .
In regards to the identification by the band of a
gimmick as something to help their record sales, "if it
(the voice box) works for Frampton on "Do You Feel
Like We Do" it should work for them. One is doing a
great unjustice to Floyd to compare Gilmore's use of the
voice box (or talk box) to Frampton. The closest you
could probably get, within reason, is Joe Walsh. But Pink
Floyd is clearly in a class of the avant garde that cannot
.be easily compared with.
Jim Fuerholzer
Efforts appreciated
I would like to thank the Daily Nebraskan and its staff
for the publicity given to our dance marathon. I would
also like to thank the Union for its complete co-operation
and helpfulness. Most importantly, I would like to
thank everyone who participated and helped us raise the
$16,680. Your efforts will not be forgotten by Muscular
Dystrophy or their patients.
David R. Voelte
ChiPhi-KLMS
Dance Marathon Coordinator
Mary McGrory
Carter sets precedent by
answering own phone
When House Speaker Tip O'Neill first
heard that Jimmy Carter would go direct
to the people, he warned that it was the
worst mistake the President could make.
, Well, Jimmy Carter went direct and live
for two hours Saturday on history's first
White House radio call-in show and it was
a terrible mistake-for Congress.
Let any congressman come to the White
House now and try to tell him what is on
America's mind. Carter has his own
evidence.
Washington winds
Worse still, congressmen and senators
may have to answer their own telephones.
Who ever heard of such a thing? Your law
maker is protected by layers of aides and
secretaries who tell the constituent that
the great man is too busy to talk. How can
he say he hasn't got the time, if Jimmy
Carter does?
Carter did everything he could have
wanted to do and without expense to the
taxpayer. CBS picked up the tab and threw
in . Walter Cronkite as a kind of
intermediary-bouncer. . The President
redeemed a campaign promise, which
sounded preposterous at the time, to "stay
dose to the people."
He called ordinary citizens by their first
names, rapped with them about drugs,
pardons and Indian claims. He brought
them into the White House, and gave them
inside dope. He had been talking to Giscard
of France on the phone about the
Concorde just the day before, Oh, yes,
West Germany had been helpful and so had
several other countries in the peaceful
resolution of the Idi Amin crisis. None of
that "If -you-knew-what-I-knew" stuff we
used to get from Nixon.
Nothing, however, revealed the political
uses of the call-in quite like the question
from Gerald Anderson of Denver, who
asked about the Congressional pay raise.
"Why didn't you stop it?" Anderson
said.
Carter threw an arm around the new
rich of Capitol Hill, heaped coals of fire on
them. They have "enormous expenses"
have to keep two homes, one in the
district, one in Washington A federal judge
in Denver, who also got an increase,
doesn't have that burden, Carter kindly
explained.
It was a brilliant performance, Congress
is now beholden to him for defending them,
in their hour of need. When defending
themselves, as they are being called upon
to do, they will throw themselves, on his
coattails. -
The show was a smash, and the
President knew it. So much more satisfy
ing, he hinted, than a press conference,
"questions that reporters, would never
raise." He can, obviously, go to the people
any time he likes, and appear folksy,
serene, approachable, human, at home in
the job, but still with the common touch.
Congress will eat its heart out. It cannot
compete. Let "Jimmy," as one brash 1 1-year-old
addressed him, take to the
airwaves when there's a difference between
him and Capitol H21, and he will drive
them into the hills.
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