nonday, april 0, 1979
dally nebraskan
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G setoff
As an ex-presidential candidate for
ASUN, I, Denny Wurtz, rise to support
Joe Nigra for ASUN president. Having
been personally exposed to both the candi
dates and their respective credentials and
philosophies, I feel Joe Nigra "soars" to
the top of. the list as far as qualifications
for this demanding position .
Joe Nigro has experience with student
government and university problems. His
list of qualifications seems endless. He serv
ed as a hall president, has been an effective
senator passing legislation, served on the
executive committee, as well as being chair
man for the community affairs committee.
A position like ASUN president needs
someone familiar with how the structure
works, and how to effectively carry out
programs, Bud Cuca's claim that he has
experience with people is valid, but Joe
Nigro's experience with ASUN people,
UNL administrators, as well as with the
regents puts Joe in a class by himself.
The party Joe ran under, SOAR, is a
good example of his drive to serve all the
students at UNL Soar party elected repre
sentatives from the "Widest area of the uni
versity, not favoring one faction over
another.
1 join Ken Marienau in posing the quest
ion whether a candidate who has never
been involved with ASUN could come in
and immediately assume a leadership role.
Bud Cuca would probably spend too much
time "getting his feet wet" in the mere
understanding of the responsibilities of the
ASUN president. Bud asserts that his
experience with people is more important
than one's working within the ASUN
structure. Having no experience in ASUN,
what else could he argue?
I urge everyone to vote, but to vote
responsibly. This would mean a vote for
Joe Nigro, a person who will be an effect
ive president from the first day elected.
Denny Wurtz
Iranian women
A Daily Nebraskan editoralist has been
smartly rebuked for the "presumption " of
calling Kate Millet naive. It is not. I gather,
presumptuous on Millet to call the
Ayatollah a male chauvinist. She did not,
after all, call him a "pig" as well, which
shows her commendable restraint and con
siderable sophistication.
I agree that "naive" is an inappropriate
description of her remark "Trite" or
"banal" might be better terms, but I
suspect "fatuous" is the best, The word
means "smugly stupid."
R. D. Stock
Reply to Prokop
Regarding Dr. Prokop's letter:
I would like to dispute a few of the
claims in that letter. . .
First, one of the reasons the NU Board
of Regents seems to spend so much time
on non-football matters is that they
accomplish little, in just two meetings,
dealing with such matters. Little, if any
thing, has been done on such serious
matters as overenrollment in business and
engineering, educational quality and en
trance requirements. Only stop-gap and
buck passing seems to be accomplished
But something with high priority like dis
cussing the football stadium captures the
full attention of the regents.
Next, I wonder how most students can
attend a meeting that is in Lincoln, when
school is not in session. Geographically,
one can assume that not all students live in
Lincoln. Most of the university's students
come from outstate Nebraska and the logic
of traveling back and forth for just a few
hours stay is unsound.
Also, we students receive very little
notice as to the meeting dates. No one
seems to know for sure, not even the Daily
Nebraskan publishes the dates shown in
the Friday March 23 edition, page 15,
(note no mention of the date).
As to -the problem of a student regent,
your hypocrisy cannot be outdone. At the
mere suggestion of the student regent
having an opinion in the interest of
students representation, the regents
quickly rejected the matter. Again, your
logic is unsound and unstable.
I think that rather thanaiienating the
student from the university matters, more
student representation (perhaps a voting
student regent, not necessarily the ASUN
president) would greatly benefit the univer
sity and the people of this state who
support it.
A parting shot, if a bond can be so
easily raised for a football stadium expan
sion, why can one not be so easily raised
for things such as the renovation of the
Temple Building or a Vet College? Perhaps
the regents should look into this.
Paul Lear
Freshman, Agronomy
P.S. If Dr. Prokop wishes to reply,
would welcome a chance to meet personally-
Stadium expansion
In Regent Robert J. Prokop. letter pf
April 5, Prokop goes on record as saying he
opposed the Memorial Stadium expansion
on the grounds that a new stadium would
have made more sense, economically. This
is an admirable position to take, but he has
taken this position for the wrong reasons.
Prokop criticizes the Residence Hall Assoc
iation for their statements that the regents
spend too much time on football, saying
the regents spend only five percent of their
time discussing football. Perhaps it would
be better stated to say the regents spend
too much money on football and not
enough on academics.
The overcrowded engineering college,
the low instructors' salaries, the partially
condemned Temple Building, and the need
for building space in the College of Archi
tecture seem to point to the fact that funds
could be better used. How the economic
feasibility of a new stadium costing over
five and a half million dollars makes more
sense than the present structure III never
understand.
Another of Prokop's points is that the
students were well represented and that
there was adequate student input into the
. decision. I was under the impression that
with the RHA's campaign, letters in the
Daily Nebraskan, and the general student
reaction, the regents would catch the hint
that the students were against the expan
sion. Prokop mentions that the regents
represent all Nebraska voters and not just
the student body. Unfortunately, most
residents of Nebraska (not students) come
to the university to watch football games.
Only the students come here mainly for a
quality education, not to Watch football
games.
Prokop also, asks why students cannot
attend meetings when , school is not in
session, citing that it should be easier to
attend when school is not in session than
when it is. His question can be answered by
saying thai it probably is easier-for stu
dents who reside in or near Lincoln. For
those students who live a ways away it
would be difficult to attend.
Prokop also questioned why the stu
dents should not pay surcharges when the
general public is fleeced with them. I quest
ion why anybody should be fleeced, let
alone the students. Is not the football pro
gram self-sufficient and providing a large
income?
Prokop additionally mentions that stu
dents should be forced to accept seats in
the ,new addition. To restate the students'
desires, we merely want to sit in the same
sections; we do not want to be forced to sit
in a new addition that we didn't want in
the first place.
Prokop says that "neglecting basic edu
cational needs is a matter of faculty and
appropriations utilization." A large number
of students feel that this is true, and that
the regents are neglecting the students by
spending money on an unneeded facility
when there are many ways the money
could be used to help the students receive a
quality education.
Scott Thomas
Sophomore
College of Architecture
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