friday, march 7, 1980
page 7
daily nebraskan
Student court ruling leads to write-in eandidmy
By Rich Jurgens
A fifth candidate announced Thursday
at a press conference that he will run as a
write-in candidate for ASUN president.
As a result of ASUN's student court
decision that the Josh McDowell speech
was in direct violation of the NU Board
of Regents' policy on religion, Lynn
Rogers, a senior business major from Ar
lington, said he will be a candidate for
ASUN president. Rogers said ASUN cur
rently isn't protecting students' freedom of
speech; '
"There is censorship on who can speak
and what can be spoken," Rogers said.
Freedom of speech is an important
issue, Rogers said. Students are not given a
choice in freedom of speech and ASUN is
forgetting the basic principles of free
speech, he said.
Rogers, who said he has been active in
several state campaigns, said he would
work with UNL administration and the re
gents to rewrite the policy on religion if
elected. -''."' - .
Bud Cuca, ASUN president, agreed that
the regents' policy on religion needs to be
revised. He said he couldn't understand
why Rogers hadn't discussed the religion
policy with the ASUN senate before.
As a Christian and a student, Rogers
said he would approach Issues in a new,
more effective way.
"Student government should get be
yond politics and serve fellow students and
not just a select group' Rogers said.
Cuca said ASUN does serve the entire
student body, citing the examples of
maintaining library hours and the Kruger
rand issue. Cuca said it appears that Rogers
is running for ASUN president out of
vindictiveness because of the student court
decision concerning Josh McDowell.
Rogers said his campaign would operate
through word of mouth and that his main
objective now was to inform students how
to vote. lie said a ballot would not be valid
if students didn't vote for a second and
third choice for president along with their
first choice.
Rogers, who will be running as an inde
pendent candidate, said he would be able
to work with any new ASUN staff mem
bers. '
Long-term economic planning needed professor
By Suzanne Sayed
An economics professor from California
State University in Sacramento promoted
economic planning to a group of UNL
economics professors and - students
Thursday afternoon.
Marc R. Tool, who is known as a holis.
tic institutional economist, believes that
strictly implemented economic planning is '
the best solution to the increasing inflation
rate, unemployment and the majority of
serious economic problems in the country.
A holistic economist is concerned with all
aspects of social progression, notjust the
economy.
Tool discussed the Humphrey Javits bill
which supports economic planning and said
that it is this type of implementation that
we must have in order v to cope with
problems the American economic society
is currently facing.
However, he explained that when the
bill was first proposed, it was badly
distorted and violently criticized in many
editorial columns,
"People are fearful of . economic .
planning," he said. "They are apprehensive
and don't realize that in actuality, short
term economic planning is already in
effect." .. . ,
The problem is that short-term planning
programs have bVfr ithiri;:;1(fistituv
tions and many people do not realize they
have been implemented until "after-the-fact."..
Tool said that since the beginning of,
WWI, short-term planning and attempts
at planning have been in effect,
"We had to have an economic society
to generate war goods," he explained,. "We
had to implement and allocate instruments
and begin programs."
loot classified the attempt as a
qualified success, and described several
other historical forms of planning.
; He included such programs as the New
Deal and WWII. WWII was one of the only '
relatively successful planning programs, he
said. 1
He mentioned the WWII application of
. price administration, rationing, wageprice
controls and the labor board. , ,
Tool said there has been no completely
successful single model of economic
planning in the historical 'resume,
"Although what people don't' realize is
: that we have been evolving and experienc.
ing several types of economic planning "
he said, v v
He, emphasized that the United States
needs a serious, responsive program of
long-term economic planning.
'"Carter has washed his hands of any
attempt "made at accomplishing just that,"
'he said, "All that is left is an aborted effort
of a necessary implementation,"
Tool said that although he understands
the apprehension surrounding the
Humphrey -Javits bill, he also realizes the
need for it and that it has been shot down
only by ideological arguments.
"We still have 8 unemployment and
13 inflation which will undoubtedly
rise," he said. "What would you propose to
do?"
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