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Wednesday, november8, 1978
daily nebraskan
opinioneclitorial
Students must pay the high price of ASUN's mistake
The best laid plans of mice and men. .
ASUN made a horrendous mistake when it set
up a booth in the union to take requests for
absentee voter registrations.
ASUN failed to get Lancaster County Election
Commissioner Bill Davidson to set up a voter
registration booth. So ASUN set up a booth to
take absentee requests.
Davidson refused to take the absentee requests
forms used by ASUN because they were not au
thorized by his office.
ASUN admits its mistake and will end up
taking a lot of heat for its error.
And the cold hard facts remain; about 150 to
200 students were not able to vote. This is un
forgiveable and the penance is a badly damaged
reputation.
Davidson said he must deputize all workers
who register voters.
ASUN has contacted students by phone or
letter to tell them they must request absentee
ballots from their home counties.
Yet, this was a futile effort. Most of the letters
reached the students too late. ASUN should not
have taken the absentee requests to the com
missioner's office an hour before the deadline
on Oct. 27. ASUN should have thoroughly re
searched its project before it got started.
Yet in all fairness, ASUN did ask the League
of Women Voters if it would take registrations if
Davidson deputized them. The League said it
would.
Davidson said, however, that ASUN was too
late in its request and that his office did not have
enough people to work in an ASUN booth.
He also said the League was not qualified to
take the registrations or administer the oath.
What does it take to be qualified? And how
hard is it to take someone's name, address,
party affiliation and give an oath?
Our feelings are- that Davidson made it as hard
as possible for ASUN to get students registered.
Why should an election commissioner do this?
What else has he got to do?
It is our opinion that Davidson should have
worked with ASUN, there was no reason not to.
ASUN intentions were good but it's lucky for
the group that it was not prosecuted.
afc $ r if.
Beta Sigma Psi Fraternity's Miss Legs and Mr.
Knobby-Knees contest is one of those fun things
students do to raise money for AUF. But it is
blatantly exploitive of the human body. Students
vote with money for their favorite pair of legs or
knees. Only the legs and knees show.
If the contest really wants to rake in money,
they ought to just have a Mr. and Ms. nude UNL
contest.
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Drunken evening's rules:
beware of morning after
By Pete Mason
Last weekend, while attending a party, 1
had ample opportunity to observe the
drinking habits of the average university
student. From my observations I can only
conclude that there are lessons which beg
to be taught. It may be that I was just not
exposed to a truly representative sample of
Nebraska college youth, but it seemed to
me that very few of them really knew how
to do it well.
A BUCK FIFTY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS .
humor
letters
I want to thank all the students who
participated in the RHA 100,000 Penny
Drive and the Harper-RHA Trivia Bowl,
both those who participated and those who
reorganized the projects. The 100,000
Penny Drive coordinators Margaret John
son and Karen Schrader deserve special rec
recognition. Over 400 people participated
in the Trivia Bowl in some way and more
than the equivalent of 49,000 pennies were
collected in one week for AUF. I hope the
residence hall students continue to stay as
involved in their campus as they were on
these two projects.
Bill Skoneki
RHA President
'Illustrious ASUN
In an effort to make it as easy as
possible for students to register and to
vote, our "illustrious" ASUN provided stu
dents with absentee voter registration
forms. These forms are valid only if mailed
from outside of the county in which the
voter is trying to register in, according to
state law. ASUN negligently forgot to see if
they were doing things legally. As a result
approximately 300 students could not vote
in the election. Three hundred votes can
influence whether a candidate wins or
loses, and ASUN will have to face the fact
that they are responsible for this.
Craig "Rink" Drenkow
Junior Business Administration Major
Enjoyed film
Ms. Sheldrick apparently overlooked the
many points of Woody Allen's experiemen
tal departure from comedy, Interiors.
If noting else the realistic and instruc
tional mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
sequence was a noteworthy item,
commenting in a roundabout way on
Allen's morbid preoccupation with death.
All too often self-appointed critics seem
to hide behind panning a movie they fail to
appreciate or understand.
If you can't say something nice about
something, don't say anything at all.
(cliche.)
I liked the film and I may see it again
Peg.
Peggy Christensen
Sr. Psychology Major
It has long been known that veterans of
the armed forces, because of their constant
exposure to alcoholic potables of all types
and tastes, count themselves among the
great drinkers of the world. In particular,
navy veterans, of which I am one, seem to
be the most knowledgable when it comes
to imbibing. The theory is that a navy man,
particularly a ship4ased sailor, visits the
more exotic ports and is forced to drink
the native brews for lack of anything else.
Therefore, he comes to know the limits by
which he can assault his body and has
learned a variety of methods to ensure
avoidance of the may ills which can befall
him on a boozy evening .
Do's and don'ts of drinking
For the benefit of the neophyte drinker,
I have compiled a list of do's and don'ts
which, if followed religiously, will practi
cally guarantee the greatest consumption
with the least hazard to life and limb.
1. Do not start drinking at 8 am., espec
ially when the party to which you've been
most graciously invited doesn't start until 8
p.m. It will only result in acute embarrass
ment and bad feelings, particularly if the
party was in your honor.
2. Eat a full meal before you begin
bending the elbow. This effectively post
pones the urge to hang from the chande
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3. Wear warm clothing. When you find
it necessary to sleep in alleyways, ditches
or front lawns, it helps to be wearing suit
able garments to fend off the night air,
especially during the winter months.
4. Never lie down on a crowded dance
floor. Not only are you a bother to other
guests but you risk serious injury to your
tongue. It usually takes from three to six
weeks for the imprint of platform shoes to
disappear from that particular orean
5. Never make romantic advances if you
have had more than eight drinks. It simply
doesn't work and may do irreparable dam
age to your ego.
6. Do not mix! This is the most often
abused rule of drinking. Stick with one
beverage. Some of the more dangerous
mixes are White Russians and beer; Brandy
Alexanders and Zombies; and Harvey Wall
bangers and Ripple (This particular mix
ture has been known to cause people to
turn inside-out, necessitating the services of
a skilled surgeon or a plumber).
7. Do not drive while or after drinking.
Also do not attempt skydiving, diamond
cutting or defusing a bomb.
8. This final rule is for mornings after
only. It is broken down into six parts.
a. Upon awakening, do not panic.
ARE NOT DEAD!
b. Move your muscles, slowly and delib
erately, one at a time, beginning with your
eyelids and ending with your toes. DO
NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT TRY TO GET
OUT OF BED! Of course if you find you
are not in bed, use your common sense. If
you find yourself in the middle of Com
husker Highway it will be imperitive to roll
out of the way of oncoming morning
traffic.
c. Try speaking. You may find this diffi
cult at first because of the peculiar growth
on your tongue but with practice it will
become easier. Be patient.
d. Slowly get out of bed. The accent is
on "slowly." Abrupt movements have been
known to result in blindness or uncontroll
able weeping.
e. Take two aspirins with a large glass
of milk. Avoid all exotic "cures"; there are
none.
f. Go back to bed. Avoid making rash
promises. In three or four days you'll
undoubtedly feel like doing it again.
