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n. monday, aprll 2, 1979 llncoln, nebraska vol. 102 no. 103 n an SOAR candidate hopes party sweep will help in run-off By Shelley Smith Although the ASUN presidency still is undecided, the Students Advocating Active Representation party appar ently will dominate the senate for another year. With the final vote tallied March 23, the SOAR party had elected 24 senators and the first and second vice presi dents to the 35 seat senate. Last year 34 senators and all three executives were from the SOAR party. However, the presidency still is in question because of a NU Board of Regents rule which requires that ASUN executive candidates win by a majority of the students voting. After the final tally, SOAR presidential candidate Joe Nigro led Bud Cuca, presidential candidate with the Stu dents for the University of Nebraska party 1,382 to 1,150. Nigro did not have a clear majority vote according to Electoral Commission Director Susan Ugai. About 3,000 students voted , she said. The SOAR party swept the Teachers College, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business Administration, College of Engineering and Technology and the Commit tee on Fees Allocation, Nigro said he was pleased with the senate election results and attributed the outcome to good campaigning. "We got the candidates out to the people and they saw that we offered the best," he said. Because the senate will be dominated by the SOAR party, winning the presidency is "a real good possibility for ire "Nigro said. If another party president was to win, Nigro said, that president could be placed in a difficult rule. "Not working together, would he diffirnU," he said However ..Cuca said he could work with the people elected to the senate, and he added that any party predominance in the senate could hinder its effectiveness. 'That's why we only had 15 senatorial candidates,' Cuca said. Nigro said he couldn't project whether the SOAR sena tors would be bitter if Cuca was elected, but Cuca said if they were, they didn't belong in the senate. "Hopefully, they were concerned enough about the students and the University of Nebraska to run," he said. Four independent senators were elected, three from SUN, two from SAIL and two from OSL Senate results not available last week are: Teachers College-Bob Knuth, Dale Wojtasek, Susan Johnson, Dan Tharp, AnrrGourlay Nursing -Holly Miller Architecture-John T. Kelly Professional-Todd Adams Graduate-Vemon Daniels, Doug Brenner, Phyllis Al brecht, Dave Long, Bob Schmidt, Mike Vaughn Agriculture-Jane Svitak, Dave Von felt, Don Von Seggern '4 IT Photo by Mark Billings! A UNL student enjoys a pensive moment thinking about die spring that might have been. ROTCcadets use break tofi nd way over hill over dale By Gordon Johnson The woods were calm, a perfect spring day with only an occasional breeze disturb ing the peace of the trees. The peace and tranquillity of the woods is soon to be broken by the sounds of war. In the distance, the noise of brush being broken resounds through the stillness. The defensive patrol knows that the at tack is soon to come and digs in, ready to fight. The offensive patrol knows the strength and location of the opposing force, but has the disadvantage of being in the open and exposed. ; Suddenly shots reverberate through the woods as a five minute fire fight breaks out. But luckily for these soldiers, the bullets being shot are blanks and die incoming ar tillery is only imaginary. Performing this and an assortment of other military exercises is how UNL Army . ROTC cadets spent five days of their spring '' break. . . , .. , . .s, ; On March 23, 14 senior cadets and 14 junior cadets along with three underclass men left for Fort Riley Kan. to meet up with 32 Kearney State College cadets for their annual spring field training exercises, FTX. Colonel Bob Bachmann, professor of military science at UNL, said the purpose of the exercises is to prepare the junior cadets for a six week summer camp at Fort Lewis, Wash. Many of the cadets, Bachmann said, . have never trained with anyone besides the Lincoln cadets. Training with Kearney's cadets offers them more of the experience they will need this summer because it will force them to work with someone they do not know.' The training is set up and controlled by the seniors for the benefit of the juniors. The regular Army cadre are only there to evaluate the seniors and the training, Badw mann said. Not mandatory Attending die FTX during spring break is not mandatory, Bachmann said but it is a big help for students when they get to summer camp to hare some of this exper -ience behind them. Senior cadet Tim Lamb agrees that the training is valuable. "You are going to learn more in four days here than I did in the nine months leading up to it," Lamb said. Pne of the ways it helps to train the juniors is that it helps them become more serious about their training, Lamb said. "It seems that when you get on a mili tary post the military attitude is not as hard to maintain , he said. The training day starts at 5 ajn. and , many times does not end until 11 pin. or . 12 p m. Cadets are given 15 minutes to get ready for their wake up exercises. The ex ercises last about 45 minutes. Messhaa After a quick half hour for cleaning themselves and the barracks, the cadets are loaded on buses and moved to the mess hall for chow which normally consists of chipped beef on toast, eggs, coffee, milk, juice and perhaps a wafile or French, toast.' . - The cadets rated the mess hall food somewhere between dormitory food and mom's cooking. The only complaint heard about the food was that there wasn't much time to cat it before they were again loaded on buses and taken to the woods for classes. The students are sent on a six-mile orienteering course which tests their map reading skills. Each student is given a mimeographed map with 10 points indicated by a dot. The cadets must find all 10 locations which are marked with a red and White striped marker one and a half feet square and located on a course six miles long. Continued on Pass 8 OGQ mm The race is on: Seven candidates hope to cross the finish line in mayor race . . .... .page 10 Ffehtfcg hard: The former flying nun portrays a southern woman battl- t in the inhumane treatment of -V factory- workers in the movie Norma Rae . ..page 12 Ray bafl: Sportswnter gives his - analysis of the upcoming baseball season. a... page 14 n i: w 1 i: r. r 4 r, 4 . - 4 r V . , '' , M. ' it , i 4 ' -t