thursday, april 27, 1978
page 4
daily nebraskan
Control over student fees
gives ASUN more power
The NU Board of Regents last
Saturday unanimously approved
moving student fee allocation
powers from the Fees Allocation
Board to an ASUN committee.
It was a quiet topic on the re
gent's agenda, and it passed with
the comment, "It's moving the
power from one student group to
another."
True. According to Ken Marin
eau, ASUN president, the new
ASUN Committee for Fees Alloca
tion - the new name for the new
group - will include 5 ASUN sen
ators elected by the senate and
six members at large. The six
members at large will come from
residence halls, fraternities or
sororities, and off campus. Each
type of living unit or area will get
two representatives.
The six at large members will be
elected during the ASUN elections
in the spring, in the meantime,
they will be appointive positions,
Marienau said.
Giving the student senate the
power in the bastion of the buck
is a good move. It gives the gov
ernment a credibility and a right
to allocate the money students are
taxed.
With effective leadership and
members, the committee should
do as well as the Fees Allocation
Board.
The best fact is that student
government now directly controls
the purse strings.
Plumbing problem in Bereuter s office is no Watergate
Expect your television screen to be
filled with commercials teliing you why
you should vote for all sorts of candidates
for all sorts of offices May 9.
Given the record spending in the Re
publican gubernatorial primary and the
competition in the First Congressional
District, the airwaves will be filled to their
legal maximum with political ads.
Most campaigns have purchased all of
their television and radio time by this point
in the campaign, a fact which explains the
apparent discrepancy between the large
amounts spent and the apparent lack of
success of some of the campaigns.
A plumbing problem currently is
plaguing the Bereuter for Congress cam
paign. It is not that the plumbing in the Ne
braska State Education Association build
ing where they are located does not work.
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I. Kent.
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Rather, it works too well.
It seems that the attorney general's
office has rented the space currently oc
cupied by the Bereuter campaign and, in
order to properly assign space, they are
checking out all possible problems.
Chief among the problems is the fact
that one of the offices is located next to
the restroom. So, in order to ascertain the
disturbances caused by noise from the
restroom, members of the attorney gen
eral's staff have been visiting the Bereuter
offices in twos.
One person stands in the office in ques
tion and the other goes next door and
flushes the toilet.
This event had occurred at least eight
times as of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, according
to Ted McConnell, the Bereuter aide who
currently occupies the office being tested.
On May 3 the UNL Student Court has
scheduled its hearing on the suit brought
by ASUN against YAF.
It also has conveniently scheduled it for
the same time as the ASUN meeting that
same evening. A problem but not uncon
querable. But the student court meets on east
campus at the Law School and ASUN is
scheduled to meet in the Nebraska Union
downtown, making life difficult for Ken
Marienau and any ASUN senators who
might have to be in two places at the same
time.
But bureaucracy marches on one every
level , so the two meetings will take place
at the same time to the detriment of both.
In their brief submitted to the student
court, ASUN lias recommended the follow
ing action be taken against Y AF :
1 . That YAF's constitution be suspend
ed for one year;
2. That YAF make an accounting of
money collected and spent in 1977-78.
3. That YAF be fined for their actions;
4. That Jeff Chizek, UNL YAF presi
dent, be placed on academic probation for
his actions.
It will be very interesting to see what ac
tion, if any, the student court takes in this
matter and then compare the action with
ASUN's original requests.
Speaking from experience, the quality
of food and friendliness of the personnel at
the "downtown" food service is far below
the standard of east campus. This is a
fact our food service manager did not deny
at a resident complex government meeting,
stating that Cather-Pound-Neihardt has a
"captive audience" whereas east campus
has to "market" its food. Why should we
have to eat bad food when east campus
gets its food from the same companies as
city campus, " but can make the food
marketable.
The East Union is a beautiful building.
But the building alone doe oring people
to that food service. Cit ampus students
are tired of being served literally lousy
food by personnel that could care less
about quality or friendliness.
We are frustrated that our efforts to
change this have been futile. Finally, Hous
ing is confronted with a problem to which
they have to find a solution. Unfortunately
their solution doesn't seem to help the real
problem - poor food at city campus.
I invite all of you at Burr-Fedde to eat a
meal with us at C-P-N. Overload their lunch
room for a BIG change!
Charla Maxwell
Junior, Architecture major
Misrepresentation?
On Monday, April 17, a Daily Nebras
kan article by Rex Henderson quoted Ju
lian Bond as stating that the Allan Bakke
reverse discrimination case was "an exam
ple of the privileged and powerful to main
tain their share of the good life they en
joy" What Bond really said was that the Bak
ke case was "an example of the privileged
and powerful to maintain their DISPRO
PORTIONATE share of the good life they
enjoy."
On April 20, an article by Kris Hansen
about an ASUN meeting stated that a
spokesman from the Afro-American Colle
giate Society presented the results of a
study of black students on campus, and,
"According to the report, one out of three
or four students drop out before
graduation."
I was that spokeman from A ACS. and
what I really said was that one out of every
three or four black students make it to
their senior year. The AACS report docu
ments this.
In both cases, the callous misrepresenta
tion radically changes the meaning of the
statements. Both of them indicate an insid
ious lack of concern on the part of both re
porters for the subject matter that they
were covering.
I noticed that the rest of Kris Hansen's
article was quite accurate. That leads me to
wonder about one thing: Would these
reporters have been more careful with their
statements if the subject matter had noth
ing to do with black people?
Hubert Brown
Sophomore, broadcasting
Art for art's sake
It is a pleasure to read an article such as
the one on Barbara Linkevitch by J. Marc
Muslikin (Ad Lib, April 20). But even more
admirable than the momentary enjoyment
it affords is the respect and sensitivity with
which Mushkin has treated his subject. It is
reassuring to see a writer take art simply
for what it is, without demanding that it
conform to his personal tastes.
Brian Wollery
Freshman, undeclared
Joni Martineau Day says that the rea
sons the Women's Resource Center banned
the Linzoln Gazette are three in number.
1 . "The donations to the Gazette, col
lected in a jar placed in WRC, were being
ripped off." Another publication called
Growing Season, which was being distri
buted in the WRC, had a comparable dona
tion bottle. Growing Season was closer in
line with the dominant politics of the
WRC. It was not banned. Also the Gazette
was never offered the opportunity to dis
tribute papers for free or to install a more
secure coin box.
2. "A shortage of space in WRC." After
the Gazette had been distributed at the
Women's Resource Center for well over a
year, the women who run the Center dis
covered that there was not enough room
for the Gazette. At the same time the cen
ter found room for a new publication
called Growing Season, produced in large
to the editor
part by women who held a "pro-choice"
abortion stand.
3. "and the bylaws of WRC state that
only material specifically related to
women's issues shall be distributed in the
center.
Was it mere coincidence that after ten
sion mounted on the abortion issue and a
free speech issue that the Gazette was re
moved from the Center? Growing Season,
which took a "pro choice" position on the
abortion issue (which is the WRC position)
was not removed. Growing Season did not
focus solely on specific women's issues. It
had a braoder focus such as the Gazette's.
A few of the WRC members accused me
of being a fascist because I do not favor
abortion on demand. I feel compelled to
clearly indicate my position on abortion.
Abortion is a moral issue. It is wrong
to use abortion as a mere birth control
measure.
A mother has a right to defend her life
through an abortion if that is necessary. A
mother does not have a moral right to have
a capricious or arbitrary abortion. For
example, it would be wrong for a mother
to have an abortion because having a child
would be an inconvenience.
Moral decisions by definition are social
in nature and canot take place in a vacuum.
We must deal with the question as to what
is a moral abortion and what is an immoral
abortion. We do not have the right to
choose immoral action.
On the other hand the "Right to Life"
advocates are so obsessed with developing
fetuses that they make alliances with re
actionary rightist politicians like Carl
Curtis and Ronald Reagan who, while they
speak caringly of fetuses, support the op
pression of former fetuses (grown-ups) like
you and t.
I call on the women who run the Wo
men's Resource Center to facilitate a dis
cussion of this issue rather than deceptively
rationalizing their attempts to suppress it.
Avoiding a pressing moral issue does not
make that issue go away It works to dis
credit those who are being irresponsible.
Ron Kurtenbach, associate editor
The Lincoln Gazette
No enthusiasm
Michael Nikunen's suggestion (Monday,
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