monday, October 24, 1977
page 4
daily nebraskan
NU is developing a fairly consistent recipe for
conflict:
Have students schedule a liberal, anti-establishment
or somewhat controversial speaker (say,
Jane Fonda); support speaker with quantities of
student fees; sprinkle liberally (what else would
you call it) with helpings of publicity and add a
dash of overreaction from the NU Board of
Regents and others.
Unfortunately, this recipe should be outdated.
The last ingredient should no longer be available,
but apparently it is.
In Friday's Daily Nebraskan it was noted that
UNL administrators have received phone calls
questioning the purpose of Fonda's Tuesday
visit and if student fees were being spent to spon
sor it.
The questioning phone calls represent com
plaints. They also represent a challenge to the
freedom of expression and the students' right to
hear all sides of an issue.
It clearly was established several years ago that
the regents and the university cannot block the
spending of student fees for controversial
speakers.
The precedent was established in court in 1972
and 1973 when student-sponsored conferences
about the World Human Sexuality were chal
lenged. That conflict is outlined in a pamphlet,
"The Student Fee Controversy at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln." published in 1975.
The Student Handbook, put out by the univer
sity since, outlines the results of the court tests:
"Students should be allowed to invite and hear
any person of their own choosing. The institu
tional control of campus facilities should not be
used as a device of censorship."
For several years it appeared that the challenge
to the students' freedom had been quelled. But
we agree with Jay Yost, Union Program Council
Talks and Topics committee chairman, who sus
pects that requests for information about the
Fonda visit go further than simply wanting the
facts.
Suzanne Brown, assistant director for Programs
for the Nebraska Union, assures us that "there
was never any suggestion that the administration
would stop Fonda from coming" That probably is
n'nt iudcinz from past actions of some regents.
we would guess that the phone calls were not
simple information requests. We would guess the
calls were more like: How can you let those (fill
in the blank) students spend money on that (fill
in the tlank) Fonda woman?
In any case, the calls are disturbing. The
regents should know the answers to their own
questions or at least should be able to guess.
They may not know the exact cost, but they
should know that a program council event is paid
for, .at least in part, by student fees. They should
know that they cannot and should not stop the
free expression of opinion on campus.
It goes beyond mere disagreement with Fonda
or Bill Buckley who spoke here last month. The
nature of a university is to provide access to
several points of view so students may learn and
make their own, educated decisions.
Threats about pulling student fees from organi
zations which do not always please the regents or
the administration should not be veiled as com
plaints. Requests for information should not
carry the added burden of complaints.
Regents, students, faculty, staff and citizens
may disagree with what Fonda says-or with what
Buckley says. But there should be no disagree
ment; it is especially important that in a center of
learning, freedom of expression not be ques
tioned. With that, the freedom of students to
bring in any speaker should not be questioned.
Now, the ultimate in sex guides-ho w NOT to do it!
The author of The Sensuous Woman and no fewer than
three other books of erotic advice has renounced it all and
said she will henceforth write about golf courses instead.
"I don't think that I have one word further to write
about sex " Joan Terry Garrity told a reporter for People
magazine.
Garrity, whose chapter titles include such classics as
"What to Talk About in Bed and When to Laugh," unfor
tunately quit one book too soon. There was still one more
book about sex to be written. At long last, it has been.
Qfthur hoppe
innocent bystander
To be published next month, it is literally the sex book
to end all sex books. Its title: Turning Of f-Tlie Key to
Frigidity.
The author is that formerly -notorious sex pot, Candice
Kane. In her introduction, the ex-blonde bombshell says
that through frigidity, she "discovered a whole new me."
In the first week alone after she turned off, she says,
the time she saved by avoiding sexual activities enabled
her to ponstruct a six-foot-high replica of the Brooklyn
Bridge out of plastic toothpicks.
The new energy conserved by turning off, she claims,
put new spring in her slp and glint in her eye. Best of all,
her new-found frigidity has relieved her of a thousand
anxieties.
"Performance-shmerformance," she writes with a
literary shrug. "Who cares?"
Miss Kane admits that turning off in our sex-oriented
society requires concentration and practice. In her first
chapter, "Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Sounder,"
she notes encouragingly that you can abstain virtually
anywhere.
But it is best, she writes, to practice with a partner.
A wife, she suggests, should surprise her husband at the
door each evening wearing a different costume-that, say,
of an automobile mechanic, a weight lifter. And should
he mention abstention, she should cry eagerly, "How
about tonight? I've got a headache."
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JiS GOT TO DO fM CDWW HERE AM I (
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Nor does she turn up her nose at employing mechanical
aids like baseball bats. "There is nothing like the sight of
frigid female armed with a baseball bat to turn a man
off," she says, probably rightly.
In her conclusion, Miss 'Kane maintains that "every
male and female has the ability and the right to be fully
frigid."
"Once they have achieved their potential,'' she says
glowingly, "they can look forward to having the time, the
energy, the interest and the concentration to seek out and
enjoy true happiness."
the publishers of The Key to Frigidity are confident
this is the sex book America has been waiting for and have
paid Miss Kane a $100,000 advance,
Eat your heart out, Joan Terry Garrity. .
Copyright 1977, Chronicle Publishing Co.
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letters
o 1q editor
This is in reference to the decision to combine the
Student Activity and Union Program Offices (Daily
Nebraskan, Oct., 19). What disturbs me is not the de
cision to combine the offices, but rather the apparent
way in which this reorganization is taking place.
Yes, duplication of efforts should be eliminated. It
is, however, beyond my wildest comprehension how
the clarion call of consolidation to provide better and
more efficient services to students," can be realized
when apparently Richard Armstrong, vice chancellor
for Student Affairs, does not even know what will
happen to some staff members involved in the merger.
More importantly, various student organizations
directly affected by the reorganization have not been
given adequate time to analyze its implications. (Two
weeks is hardly sufficient time to adequately, plan a
reorganization of this nature.)
Because I have been a concerned fee-paying student
at this institution for eight years, I feel it is my respon
sibility to offer the following suggestions for
administrative consideration:
1) Slow down the process-the extra time it takes to
plan adequately may avert the tendency toward "crisis
management" situations once the reorganization effort
is implemented, : ;
2) Seek student and staff input about implementa
tion of the reorganization for they are the ones whose
organizations and lives are affected by the decision,
and they also are the individuals closest to the
problems. As such, they can provide valuable insight
into smoothing the transition process.
3) Take adequate time to clarify staff and line re
sponsibilities before the reorganization is enacted. I
have witnessed many reorganization efforts which
ended in chaos simply because management did not
take time to clarify new relationships, thus inducing
a kind of dysfunctional tension which stems from un
certainty and lack of directions.
In general, I have applauded the (Nebraska) Union's
responsiveness to student needs in the past and that is
why I would hate to see its effectiveness curtailed by
poor managerial planning and decision-making.
Supporter for Professionalism in
Student Activities Management
Editor's note: Nebraska Union Director Al Bennett has
called for a 90-day study of the student activities office
and the service which overlap with services in other
programs. According to Bennett, no changes are antici
pated until second semester. See the story in today's
Daily Nebraskan, page 1 .
About fhe. . .
It was very disappointing and discouraging to me to
read the Oct. 20 article in the Daily Nebraskan head
lined "Candidate Juelfs appearance at ASUN sparks
disapproval from some senators."
Comments such as those of Sen. Fejfar, who stated
that she thoughts the whole thing was a waste of time,
were inappropriate and uncalled for.
After all, the ASUN executive committee invited
the gubernatorial candidates to address the Senate.
After the first candidate's appearance, the Senate de
cided to shove the addresses of future candidates to the
end of the agenda so the Senate can deliberate their
important business without interruption.
I believe that when a gubernatorial candidate, re
gardless of beliefs or party affiliation, shows enough
interest in students to address students, they ought to
show enough interest in our political process to at least
treat the candidate with consideration and respect.
I think the Senate should display a little better
example than that displayed Wednesday. '
No wonder apathy runs rampant among students.
Roger Fleury
. President, UNL Young Republicans
. . ; Juelfs coverage
I was very disappointed with your article about
Stan Juelfs appearance at the ASUN Senate meeting
last Wednesday.
While it quoted some of the senators present, it
failed to report anything Mr. Juelfs had to say. You
also failed to mention that Mr. Juelfs did not make a
lengthy speech but instead answered questions for the
students.
The article did not inform the students about the
policies of a gubernatorial candidate but instead caused
many readers to wonder how its author got his job. .
Marl Lane
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