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friday, may 5, 1978 lincoln, nebraska vol. 101 no. 111
Landis disputes Maxey's means of obtaining air time
Dave Landis is objecting to tactics used by State Sena
tor Jo Ann Maxey to request free air time o. KFMQ
radio. Landis, who hosts a Sunday night jazz program, is
Maxey's opponent for the 46th Legislative District seat.
Landis said that Maxey acted improperly in represent
ing herslef as a senator instead of a candidate in her re
quest for air time. He said a letter to Steve Agnew, presi
dent of KFMQ Inc. dated April 14th came from her state
office staff.
Agnew verified that Maxey's letter came on state sta
tionery but refused to comment as to whether he thought
that was ethical.
Maxey said drafting the letter on state stationery "was
a mistake. I should have handwritten the letter."
She said due to the pressures at the end of the legisla
tive session she asked a member of the staff to stay and
type the letter after work. It was inadvertently put on
state stationery, Maxey said.
Landis voiced another objection regarding the intent of
Maxey's request. "Ideally, she would like to have me
taken off the air," he said.
Landis criticized such an intent as "an intrusion of
(my) employment relationship."
Agnew said that the letter he received only asked for
equal "time. "She pointed out that other stations in the
state have taken political candidates off the air," Agnew
said, adding she had not suggested that Landis be removed
from the program.
Maxey said she had no intention of trying to get Landis
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Parentsgiven
special weekend
A Parents' Weekend is being planned for April 27
and 28 according to A! Papik, director of admissions
and coordinator for the program.
Papik said the objectives of Parents' Weekend are
to get parents involved and familiarize them with
the activities of the university.
Parents of all undergraduate students will be
invited. Included Jso weill be the parents of
students in the Colleges of Law and Dentistry.
Individual committees have been formed to de
velop presentations in seven areas for the weekend.
Academic affairs, iiadentalumni affairs, living
units, socialcultural, the athletic department, publi
city, a total student committee and a group to co
ordinate activities with the Lincoln Chamber of
Commerce, will be subjects.
According to Papik, each committee will be
asked to cover its own expense although minimal
expense is anticipated. The chancellor's office will
pay the costs of informing parents of the weekend.
"The success of the program depends on
students enthusiasm," he added.
Spending restraint
is sought for YAF
ASUN is seeking a restraining order on all UNL Young
Americans for Freedom expenditures and is requesting
that UNL YAF President Jeff Chizek be held in contempt
of court.
ASUN President Ken Marienau filed the petition early
Thursday afternoon in response to a continuance granted
to YAF in the case Wednesday night.
The document asks that all collecting and spending of
money by the chapter be curtailed until the court reaches
a final decision in the case next fall. It also asks that
Chizek be held in contempt of court for not filing an
answer to ASUN's original petition within the time re
quired by the student court's judicial code.
Marienau also filed a subpoena Thursday asking for the
complete minutes of all YAF meetings in 1978-79. ASUN
had requested the minutes of YAF and the Nebraska Uni
versity Public Interest Research group through senate ac
tion, but YAF never complied.
The subpoena also asks for the UNL YAF membership
list, including nonstudents, a list of names and addresses
of officers, a list of new 1977-78 members, financial
records since August 28, 1978, and financial records of
the State YAF Chapter regarding funds spent to the cam
pus chapter's benefit.
A hearing on these motions will be heard by the court
Tuesday night.
off the air, but said she was aware that other radio
stations in Lincoln had offered free time to candidates
running against radio personalities and was informed by
the Federal Communications Commission in Washington
that she was also entitled to free time.
Stations which had taken persons off the air were
ones where "other senators have a radio spot," keeping
their constitutents abreast of the session, she said. They
were discontinued when they filed for office, Maxey said.
Landis' final objection dealt with the timing of
Maxey's request for equal time. Her letter arrived about
three weeks before the election, Landis said, while he
declared himself a candidate in February. "To do that
now exploits the issue for political purposes," Landis said.
Maxey said she became aware of the situation about a
month before she wrote KFMQ, when she was contacted
by various members of the community.
"I happened to be in legislative session all that time,"
she said, referring to her delay in contacting the station,
but admitted she was using "the time to the best ad
vantage to me. . . He's had free advertising from February
6 to April."
Landis said he informed the station in December that
he was considering filing for the seat. "I had been cau
tioned not to say anything political," Landis said.
"The law has declared what is equal and I approach it
from what is fair," Landis said. "It is ironic that she
(Maxey) can take her air time any way she wants. . .1
didn't comment on the day's headlines," he said saying his
program consists of comments on jazz music, weather
forecasts and public service announcements.
Maxey said although Landis did not make political
comments, "the thing is name recognition." The Landis
program also was promoted at various times during the
day and week, adding to name exposure, she said.
By bringing his complaints to the public, Landis is
exploiting the issue further for his own purposes, accord
ing to Maxey. Other personalities have voluntarily taken
themselves off the air avoiding the problem. "He had that
option," she said.
Maxey is presently receiving short political spots on
KFMQ to total 68 minutes of air time.
Students construct
Brace sundial
If you want to know the time, date, or month walk to
307 Brace Hall and look at the ceiling.
There you will find multi-colored lines criss-crossing
the ceiling in what looks like a modem art painting. But
the designers of this montage, Bill Welker and Joe Saint
Lucas, call it a sundial.
The lines across the ceiling each represent months or
time of day, explained Saint-Lucas, a graduate assistant in
physics. The lines showing months and approximate dates
run west to east on the ceiling, he said. Red and blue
curved lines drawn north and south indicate the time of
day.
The core of the sundial is a small mirror embedded in
the frame of the room's window. The sun reflects off the
mirror to the ceiling and the reflection falls on a spot
showing the exact month and time, said Walker, a physics
teaching assistant.
Saint-Lucas said they got the idea for the sundial
from a magazine article. Using the pattern, the two men
re-calculated where to place the lines and mirror with
respect to the size of the room, he said. After those cal
culations, it took three weeks to paint the sundail, Welker
said.
"We did the dial mostly out of personal interest,"
Saint-Lucas said. "We've both been interested in astrono
my since we were real small."
The two graduate students of physics and astronomy
say their sundail is rare in this area, though they have
heard of one in Denver.
The sundial occasionally works at night also. Welker
said the moon's reflection can be folldwed on the wall
three days before and after the full moon each month.
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