monday, march 9, 1981
lincoln, nebraska, vol. 106, no. 41
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SURE sweeps Senate spots in ASUN race
By Tom Prentiss
The Students United for Responsible
Education Party swept the ASUN Senate
races held last Wednesday and landed many
candidates for various advisory boards.
Rick Mockler's SURE Party captured
26 of 32 senate seats. SURE ran candidates
in 29 races and three graduate college seats
went unfilled.
Kim Weiland, ASUN Electoral Commis
sion chairperson, released the election
results Saturday at 4 p.m., some 92 hours
after the polls had closed on Wednesday.
Weiland said 2,703 students voted.
Daily Nebraskan files show this turnout to
be lower than in past years. In 1980, 3,880
students voted and 2,950 voted in 1979.
Weiland said results of the State Student
Association survey, Fund B allocations and
the Recreation center questions will begin
being tabulated today. She could give no
estimate for when they would be done.
Counted by hand
She said it was evident the computer
was not reading some of the cards in the
program. Ballots for each race were then
separated and counted by hand, Weiland
said.
The Electoral Commission had ordered
a thicker, higher quality card to be used in
the election but received a thin, lower
quality card instead, she said. Not enough
time remained to go back and get a special
card designed for the election, according
to Weiland.
With continuous runs through the com
puter, Weiland said, the cards had a ten
dency to become weaker and warp, which
caused problems in running the cards
through the computer.
For the run-off election, Weiland said
ASUN has some better quality cards on
hand. But they don't have enough so some
cards that caused the counting problems
may also be used.
SSA is issue
Mockler faces Steve McMahon of the
Viable Opportunity for Total Efficiency
Party (VOTE) in a run-off election this
Wednesday. A debate between the two
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Photo by John Natvig
In a scene reminiscent of Raging Bull, Jim Havens of the Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity looks for the good shot on Terry O'Neil of the Delta Tau Delta,
fraternity at the 1981 All Greek Fight Night last Friday. Havens lost the
bout after three rounds. Proceeds were donated to the Cedars Home for
Children in Lincoln.
candidates will be Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.
in the Nebraska Union.
McMahon said he thinks the proposed
State Student Association will be the issu
that distinguishes Mockler from himself.
McMahon said Mockler is a supporter of
an SSA but that he has reservations about
it. He said it would cost too much money
and that there are too many unanswered
questions about it.
Senior Willie Waters, McMahons cam
paign manager, said the run-off is an "en
tirely different election." He said there has
never been such a clear choice of the candi
dates. Waters, who managed past ASUN Presi
dent Bud Cuca's campaign in 1979, said he
planned to "pull another Cuca" by getting
McMahon elected.
SURE's Dan Wedekind received 1,257
votes for first vice president and will face
VOTE'S Wendy Wiseman in the runoff.
Doran Matzke of the SURE Party won
the second vice presidential spot outright,
receiving 1 ,308 votes.
One senatorial run-off will occur be
tween two VOTE Party candidates. Mike
Klusaw and Greg Meehan are in the run
ning for one seat in the UNL School of
Journalism. Each received 30 votes. Karie
Keown of the SURE Party was first with
45 votes.
Seven SURE candidates were elected
as Arts and Sciences College senators. They
were Kathy Roth, Bridget Corrigan,
Fran Grabowski, Tim Chandler, Becky
Stingley, Dave Mumgaard and Marcie
Hagerty.
SURE won all four spots in the
Teacher's College. Debi King, Nadine Heiss,
Joel lleim and Cheryl Ann Hoelting were
elected.
All three Agriculture College senators
came from the SURE Party. Jim Emanuel,
Dan Wickman and David Bracht were
elected.
Independent Sharon Kriewald was also
elected to the board.
Elected to the Arts and Sciences Advis
ory Board were SURE's Julie Kunce,
Julie Jordan, Tim Davis, Jeff Lonowski
and Carol Cook Geu. Elected from the
VOTE party, were Tim Howard, Kathy
Janowski, Suzette Suilter and Jeffrey
Weak.
Joel Johnson was elected as an indepen
dent. Home Economics Advisory Board
members will be Gwen Knoebel, Lorie
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Candidate for run-off labels
opponent's group as elitist
By Ward W. Triplett III
Although he finished with 629 votes
fewer than received in last week's election,
ASUN presidential candidate
Steve McMAhon said Sunday he is hoping
to "pull a Bud Cuca" in this Wednesday's
run-off election.
"Two years ago, Bud Cuca found him
self in the same position as we (McMahon
and vice presidential candidate Wendy
Wisemann) do now. Wednesday, we feel
that we are going to pull a Cuca."
Cuca won the run-off election.
McMahon said there never has been a
clearer choice than there is between him
self and Mockler.
Mockler, the SURE Party candidate,
has taken special care to surround himself
with an "elite" group of students,
McMahon said.
"Rick would essentially be ruled by this
power elite, and anything that came out of
ASUN would be to their favor."
McMahon added that Mockler's experi
ence in ASUN has been with administrative
detail, but McMahon said he has been with
students.
He also said Mockler is from the same
group that elected current ASUN President
Renee Wessels.
"I don't think the students were happy
with Wessels, and Mockler is the elites
person this year. If he wins, the power elite
will have been successful in keeping
student government in their hands for
another year."
McMahon said he is representative of
the rank and file students, people who have
gotten nothing out of student government.
He announced endorsements of the VOTE
Party by UNL students Michelle Loseke,
Dave Jonson and Jodi Courtney.
"These people have no fancy titles, and
claim no ability to speak for others. But
they are the backbone of this campus, and
they represent the kind of students that I
will represent."
McMahon emphasized the lack of
support his stands have from the power
elite by holding his press conference in a
room that he said contained all the elites
who supported him: an empty phone
booth.
"Rick is supported by those who are
willing to put political games before the
desires of the rank and file students,
McMahon said. An example is SSA. The
SURE Party is behind it lock, stock and
barrel. But there are too many questions
surrounding it for me to feel that we can
jump into it this soon.
"Since the (ASUN) Senate is controlled
by SURE, I think it is important to have
the most important positions controlled by
Wendy and myself to have another opinion
in ASUN and to make sure the SSA isn't
iust ramrodded through."
Professors question U.S. actions in El Salvador
By Beth Hcadrick
While analyzing the situation in El Salvador, a ITL
associate professor of history and philosophy ot education
compared the land in that country with its current
economic ills.
San Salvador, a city of 500,000 and the capital of El
Salvador, is in a valley next to an active volcano, Edward
Nemeth said.
"The peasants in the city arc poor and the lower you
go geographically, the poorer the people are. But like a
graph of social levels, the higher you go on die volcano,
the nicer the houses get. and the further removed people
are from what's going on below."
Between 1968 and 1970. Nemeth traveled to El Sal
vador working for the Organization of Central American
States, consulting on a textbook project.
"El Salvador has a long problematic history," he said,
"and I have a problem with whom the U.S. is aligning
with."
Nemeth is referring to the civilian-military junta, a
moderate-centrist force between the right wing (the
former ruling power in El Salvador) and the left wing
(peasant fighters made up of Jesuits, Christian Democrats,
Marxists and Socialists).
Until 1979, El Salvador was ruled by 14 families, a
strong militia and one man. Gen. Carlos Humberto
Romero. Jose Napoleon Duarte was elected in 1972, the
only democratic election that country held in this cen
tury. The army didn't allow Duarte to take office and he was
exiled. After the 1979 coup, Cuarte became president of
the junta.
Former President Jimmy Carter supported the junta as
a moderate force, mostly giving economic aid, in the
hopes of precipitating land reforms. The Reagan adminis
tration has increased aid, mostly in the form of non
combat advisers and military aid.
Professor David Forsythe, political science, said this aid
is badly timed. He said sending military assistance looks
like the United States is supporting the military there, not
the junta, which barely has the army under its control,
he said.
It may encourage the army to take things into their
own hands, Forsythe said.
It'd be much wiser to have all four factions, the army,
the rightists, the leftists and the junta, to sit down with
the United States and find political solutions for the prob
lems, he said.
Forsythe said he agreed with Nemeth that the prob
lems in El Salvador go beyond those of Soviet and Cuban
intervention in the form of military aid to die leftist
guerillas.
Few people in the United States knew or cared about
El Salvador until this crisis came up, he said. The major
weakness in the Reagan administration is a misinformed
idea of international communist aggression as being the
problem, he said, but it's the local conditions there that
are the cause of the killing.
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