tuesday, march 3, 1981
lincoln, nebraska vol. 106, no. 37
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Candidates' speak of responsibility, disobedience
By Patty Pry or
Residence Hall Association candidates
and their parties met in an open forum
Monday night at Abel Hall.
Candidates for each position were al
lowed to speak for one minute, with presi
dential candidates speaking for three min-
Russ Snygg, presidential candidate with
the CARE (Concerned Adult Residents
for Excellence) Party, said his party
intends to prove to the regents that stu
dents are adults, and are capable of hand
ling responsibility.
RHA needs to operate responsibly
through the proper channels, he said, to
accomplish what residents want done.
Snygg also wants to reduce "turmoil"
among RHA members, which, he said,
is caused by futile attempts to follow
complicated parliamentary procedure.
If elected, he plans to introduce a simp
lified version of Roberts' Rules to RHA,
which will provide a more relaxed atmos
phere during meetings.
Ane Jensen, presidential candidate with
the CLASS (Campus Leaders and Student
Support) Party, said her previous RHA ex
perience will help her serve as an effective
president.
During her one and a half years in RHA,
Jensen served as FINK chairman; a member
of ASUN's ad hoc committee on the pro
posed radial highway; and chairman of
both the RHA Programming Committee
and the RHA Judicial Board Committee.
Student leaders need to reach out and
listen to student concerns in order to be
effective, she said.
Robin Lynch, independent presidential
candidate, said a lack of communication
between students and RHA needs to be
remedied.
RHA representatives should attend floor
meetings to directly hear students' con
cerns, she said.
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Residents should also be more involved
in RHA committees, she said, and these
committees should deal with more special
ized areas of concern.
Lynch would also like to close the com
munication gap between hall residents and
Greek house members by working more
closely with the Panhellenic and the Inter
Fraternity Council offices.
Bill Flack, presidential candidate with
the X Party, said his is the only party
with a real philosophy, and called the other
candidates "interchangeable parts."
The X Party, he said, is prepared to use
other methods to gain improvements in
residence halls, after conventional attempts
at change have failed.
Previous ways of dealing with adminis
trators have proven ineffective, Flack said,
and his party is willing to try a new ap
proach, which includes possible lawsuits
and massive disobedience. The X Party is
running tour representatives on its ticket,
Flack said. Representatives are usually
appointed by individual hall governments.
Alcoholism awamess
essential for treatment
By Patty Pryor
Alcoholism costs the United States $43
billion annually, ranking it with heart dis
ease and cancer as a major health problem,
according to John Doyle, National Council
on Alcoholism board chairman.
Doyle spoke in the Nebraska Union
Sunday night as a part of "Alcohol Aware
ness Week," sponsored by the Student Y.
Awareness of an alcohol problem is the
first step in any treatment, Doyle said.
"Until you know you have something
wrong with you, you're not going to do
anything about it," he said.
Calling alcoholism a "disease of denial,"
Doyle said alcoholics are "prone to blame
anything else they can think of for their
problems.
"They need someone to call the prob
lem to their attention, to tell them they're
not using alcohol socially, like most
people do," he said.
However, alcoholics and those around
them are reluctant to admit they have a
problem because of the "terrible stereo
types" associated with the disease, Doyle
said.
An alcoholic often will be literally
"protected to death" by friends and
family members too afraid to acknowledge
the disease.
Increased social acceptance of alcohol
ism as a treatable disease is necessary,
Doyle said, and this is being achieved
through local councils, which number more
t ian 200 across the country.
NCA's role, he said, is to create pub
lic awareness of the problem so the stigma
can be erased and so alcoholics can be
helped.
According to Doyle, 3.3 million Ameri
can teenagers are alcoholics. Introducing
alcohol education at an early age would be
a good preventive step, he said.
Because so much is spent on liquor ad
vertising, he said, young people are expos
ed to alcohol in a glamorous and appealing
manner.
"When you have alcohol weaved
through the social fabric, as it is in college,
alcoholism awareness is especially difficult
to teach, he said.
"It just seems a shame," he said, "that
you can't get the message of alcoholism
education across."
Violations alleged in campaign
By Mary Louise Knapp
Two complaints were filed Monday
with the ASUN Electoral Commission
charging that a member of the VOTIi
(Viable Opportunity for Total Efficiency)
Party violated Electoral Commission rules.
Mike Kratville, the VOTE party s
candidate for second vice-president, against
whom the complaints were filed, denied
any wrongdoing.
Kratville added he has filed counter
complaints against the SURE (Students
United for Responsible Education)
Party, charging that the SURE party violat
ed election rules.
Dan Renn, press secretary for the SURE
party, said he filed a complaint against
Mike Kratville, the VOTE party's candidate
for second vice president, "concerning a
violation 1 witnessed." Renn did not com
ment on the nature of the violation.
Sue Jepsen, a deskworker at Neihardt
Residential Center and a campaign worker
for the SURE party, said that she also
filed a complaint against Kratville. Jepsen
said she witnessed Kratville removing post
ers on a Neihardt bulletin board that were
covering VOTE party posters, and placing
them over SURE party posters.
"I'm not admitting anything," Krat
ville said in response to the complaints.
Kratville said he removed SURE posters
which were illegally placed and had taken
them to the ASUN office.
Kim Weiland, director of the Electoral
Commission, said the commission will hold
a hearing on the complaints today. The
Electoral Commission has the power to
request in Student Court that persons ac
cused of certain complaints can be prohib
ited from holding office for the remainder
of that calendar year.
independent announces bid for RHA presidency
Independent candidate Robin Lynch announced her
bid Monday for Residence Hall Association president.
More active and involved participation by RHA mem
bers would help make the organization more effective,
she said.
"RHA has the potential to do a lot more than Uiey
have been," she said.
If elected, Lynch said she would have executives at
tend floor meetings because that is where the residents'
ideas are usually heard.
RHA representatives also should be more active,
she said, because too much apathy currently exists with
in the council.
Representatives from each of the halls should be in
vited to executive meetings, she said, to help strengthen
each member's involvement in RHA.
By heightening representative participation, residents
will be more easily encouraged to join in RHA's efforts,
Lynch said.
"In dormies' minds. RHA doesn't do a lot," she said.
"But it's just that they (residents) are not informed
(about what is done)."
Lynch said she would like to restructure the committee
system within RHA to include more residents. The com
mittees now are just one-man operations, she said, and
more resident involvement would change this.
Closer communication also needs to be established
with ASUN and the NU Board of Regents, Lynch said.
Regents should eat with residents in the hall cafeter
ias more often. In addition, writing letters to the regents
is a "terriffic way to get something done," she said.
Lynch said she is running to provide a choice between
the X and CLASS parties, the first two parties to an
nounce candidates for RHA.
Apathy is difficult to overcome, she said, but any
attempt must be made through accepted methods.
Lynch, a sophomore secondary math education major,
has served as Schramm RHA representative and Schramm
Hall treasurer for the last two semesters.
