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PCS3 4 thurtday march 8,1979 dally ncbroskon DDQD0D nni n n (o IIM i I Marienau, the Innocents Society and are running were given to the the Dally Nebraskan, by friends of reporter by the electoral commission Nlgro currently serving In ASUN. director. Because of a story, in Friday's Daily Nebraskan in which the names of SINK candidates Kelly Krutz and Robert E. Lee were reversed in the order of the positions for which they were running, the Daily Nebraskan Was accused of deliberately and libel ously attempting to discredit the SINK Party. tn point of fact, the document from which the Dally Nebraskan reporter got the names and the re spective positions for which they ar One of the reasons students have been turned off by politics in the past few years is because of the du bious ethics shown by national poli ticians. It is quite possible that the general apathy among young potential voters can be directly attributed to the questionable practices among many politicians in this country. When the name-calling, smoke-screens and dirty tricks come to the forefront of a campaign, issues ultimately are lost in the fray and voters turn their backs. If a few candidates in this campus election wish to emulate some of their counterparts in state and na tional politics, that Is their decision. But they should be forewarned that they are treading on thin Ice. If stu dents on thiscampus search for issues and hear nothing above the din of 'down and dirty politics' they are going to go back to their Frisbees and Foosball and to hell with the election. If that happens and the voter turnout is minuscule, will those elected be truly representative of the students at this university? ASUNIectioncreate voter apathy by dirty tricks The ASUN election campaign has barely gotten underway and already there are signs the weeks ahead may get downright dirty. Denny Wurt, ASUN presidential candidate for the OSI Party, alleged ly has received threatening phone calls warning him to pull out of the race. SOAR Party candidate Joe Nigro has charged that his campaign posters are being torn down. Charges also have been made that Nigro was given answers prior to a quiz, given jointly by ASUN President Ken Desert winds blow hyacinth hair away to uncover stranger h there anything that time can t do? -Al Stewart The kit time I taw Rochelle was in the fall of 76. She was Bogarting Virginia Slims cut of t crumpled package end trying painfully to write in a small black ledger-pain fully because her hands were cracked and raw from over exposure. I had heard she was doing work in the desert and was experimenting with carving stone, but was not prepared for the changes it had brought to her. She had hacked off her hair at the base of her neck, by the looks of it with a carving knife. The delicate movements I remembered to well had been replaced by a series of nervous ticks and a compulsive energy that kept her chain smoking. She was shrouded in loose, flannel and baggy painter1 pants, and for all practical purposes looked to be a woman of 37, : She was 20. I sat down beside her and took dictation for awhile, making all the proper marks in the proper columns in her book. All her possessions had been signed away, All that she had left was in her monogrammed back-pack-a rag tag thing with the most beautiful embroidered script IM ever seen, and one canvas bag. It didnt seem to be much. Chance meeting I had run into her by chance She was sitting in one of her old spots and I had" walked by. I did a double take on the backpack and the rest seemed to fall pretty well in place We exchanged small talk and theJusual concerns over coffee, and I ended up taking her to her bus and then going home to do the dishes, I see her now the way she was. Her hair falling loosely to the middle of her back-not that it is really important, only that it seemed to sum up something of the natural flow that she seemed to generate. things are generally pretty honey colored. 1 do not remember too many negative things up until the time that age old oppressive depression drove her into solitude end me into some old habits. When she left for the desert t had not seen her for months. I assume that was some sort of mutual decision. throwing changes tn the intervening eijht months we had not seen each other, we were both busy throwing changes around like some crazy and open jam session. Both of us managed to get Into some areas that we had hot riitty intended to go into. tn her case the only thing t could recognize from my previous encounter was a back-pack and a certain fierce independence that I st2J envy. . Some things had happened to both of us. In a lot of ways we were two newpeople,but there was really no time to explore it tt was like we had never ran into each other, In college of this size, the amount of people that can enter and leave your life with mixed intensity is Starring. There ire people you wO run into ten years from how ho W0 remain pretty much the same. Thatir ftself is worth talking about ?? - Yht rales me wonder even tnore, thoui are thost people who we catch fust as they are cruising around the corner.. These Ire the people yoU know but never quite know. You can desperately tote someone in flux, tad also the person they wH become, there is also the mixed blessing of being in love with the someone they were. For RocheSe and I at this turn, coHee was short. There wssal much to be sail. Two pecjpli we had loved dearly had died.- v - -. ; 'v - - - 4 I ; . .. . " . -c 5V - . '.y.'' !"!. -,"', " v' ' ' 1 - V 1- , r f 1 4 t -V - t..' ,., :: -r : .1 1.. .-; ........ fetes G GGog GciQG!? We are very disturbed by the reactions of some of Iranian and Arab students on campus concerning the guest speakers the university presents. It seems as though every time a speaker is on campus they find some way to dis grace their nationality. Constantly, the issue of freedom of speech is put forth. These students say that they merely practice their ritfit to freedom of speech. Well, Pm sorry to say that there is such t tiling as the misuse of one's rights. The Iranian and Arab situation in the United States ts analogous to i guest in one's home. When we -have guests in our homes we expect them to treat our other friends and uestswith respect However, not only do some of -these people not respect our guests, they don't respect their host, the United States. These students' frequent outbursts of verbal hostility towards the United States are unforgivable. If a guest in our houses were to slander us the way some Iranians and Arabs slander the United States, their immediate de parture Would be requested. This brings us to the meat of the letter. The way some Iranian and Arab students treat the United States is unforgivable, and the result is that there is little, if any, respect left for these students on this campus. After all, this is our university and we don't need our guests hampering our activities. Thus, it is our belief, as wt3 its others, we're sure, that If some Iranian and Arab students dont respect the United States and her guests, and if some Iranian and Arab students don't wish to show acceptable behavior on: campus, fee students, should: ' with a2 haste, pack tsp and vacate fee premises. For we dont believe that We should welcome such teteitefid 1 people Into our society. Unless these students shape tm post haste, we cannot see any future for them as respected students at this eiivtrsity. Michael S.Coffrey Larry Gawell George Cobelens Robert Kehn Jeffrey tee Bayer Alan Beer r John Smith Michael Lawrence Mitch Goldberg LoU Salenovich tobReinig i Conrad Kdsca David liaH DanWalker Protests reach summit It has come to my attention that i few "students" were outraged by the actions of one particular fraternity during Mr. Rabin's press conference last Thursday. As usual, the arrogant Arabian and Iranian students staged yet another one of their "protests in front of the student union, this time while I was trying to digest my evening meal, t feel the -effectiveness of these "protests" has reached its summit. ; - . Since my freshman year, t have watched these "stu dents" use our universities and our. country as a means of accomplishing something their countries cannot offer them, free speech and the riit to demonstrate peace fully. The time has come for a counter-protest i am exhaust ed of hearing the problems and bitches of these guests, and their actions nauseate me. They have more than worn out their Welcome, and their conduct before t.Ir. Rabin's press conference needed more than stiSisg. 4 $J . -' tf feey cannot respect fee limits of others, and Specially the ryit f interested stuicsts wthbg to hear Mr. Rabin's remarks, they had rid riit attending. There are better way! to express one's views than to stand up and insdt an' invited cuist' These sicnts should re evaluate themselves before fc&irc4 their riits in th citizenry here at UNI .4 -: ; - . Rkk Kewcomef ' ' " : ; , Scphcsnore . Artsar.4 Sciences CcnUJcar5