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'i'i thursday, march 12, 1981 daily nebraskan page 7 Run-off elections . . Continued from Page I ;ible judgment considering the tact that Rick Mocklcr and Dan Wedekind have already been elected." McMahon, though, said he would support the outcome of the court decision. "If they do decide in Rick and Dan's favor, they have my support," he said. Mocklcr said that despite the fact that Student Court was twice called to consider charges of dirty politics, he thought the campaign was a clean one. "Complaints arc usually fairly visible," he said. "They're going to get a lot of press." Dan Wedekind, who ran with the SURf. Party, was elected first vice president of the ASUN senate, receiving 'X)5 votes. He defeated VOTI! Party candidate Wendy Wiseman, who received 497 votes. "I feel that it's been a long, hard campaign and never at any time was I sure that we had the election in hand," Wedekind said. "I'm very happy with the results." He said he was encouraged by the wide support shown for the SURK platform and said lie "feels good" about the oilier senators he will be working with . "ASUN has a real problem with credibility," Wedekind said. "Year after year the dirty politics tome up. We were a victim of them this year and I resent that." Credibility can be restored, he said, by acting respon sibly and producing things for students such as a student services foundation, course description improvements, improving the ASUN Book Exchange and requiring teach ing assistants to have better teaching and communication skills. "I feel SSA (the proposed State Student Association) will become a reality," he said. "We have to make sure SSA funding . . . Continued from Page 1 McMahon's motion, amended by Hcineman, failed 9.14-1. Approval for the ASUN allocation came with a vote of 21-3-1. The CI A allotment for University Program Council, totaling $81,813 passed, as did the entire Fund B appropriation of $3.222,50 1 . Fund consists of money for the UNL debt service, the University Health Center, the student unions, recre ation department and recreation facilities. Following this, the senate killed an act, which would have prohibited the Nebraska SSA from joining the United States Student Association. Questions as to the legality of putting the organic act on the agenda were raised. In other action, a new chief justice and six new mem bers of the Student Court were sworn into office. Joe Niiiro, UNL Law School freshman, was sworn in as chief justice. Karen Montee. Marty Kushner, Howard Dickerson, Dec Divis, Miehele Borg and Tom Huston were sworn in as associate justices. The final piece of debate came at the end of the meet ing when Senator Fric Johnson objected to the advertising cost of $193.20 in an appropriation bill for ASUN. Speaker praises farm productivity It is to the United States' advantage to keep its grain production high, as well as to bolster the economies of developing countries, said the senior auriculturist for the World Bank. Warren Fairchikl spoke Wednesday at the annual Ne braska Water Conference at the Nebraska Center for Con tinuing Fducation. With less land available for agriculture, a larger world population, increased farming costs and an increased de mand for meat and grain in developing countries. Fair child said there is an increase in the ability of the United States to become a larger grain exporter. "We have the ability to produce food far greater in abundance of what we can consume," he said. "For every 10 percent you raise the economy of a developing country, you create a 10 percent increase in the demand for imports," he said, citing World Bank Figures. In countries already developing, he said, as the stan dard of living goes up, so does the demand for meat. In developing countries the shift from rice to wheat is important, he said. The World Bank, formed by the Allies after World War II, lent about $12 billion last year to developing countries to improve agriculture, he said. The World Bank gets its money by donations from member countries. The United States is the major con tributor and owns 21 percent of the bank's stock. "The U.S. is a very important part of World Bank," Fairchild said. He said it is important for the United States to main tain an efficient agricultural economy and to increase its potential for gram tiade. Fairchild. a native Nebraskan. said he favors the North Loup and O'Neill projects as means of increasing irriga tion and grain production. He said he has found that because of the free enter prise system, American farmers are the most "innovative and imaginative" in the world. He said the World Bank is using the principle that "increased incentive equals increased production" to aid developing countries. that it is put together responsibly and is made responsible to the students." Wiseman said she wants to wish the new executives and new senate the best of luck. "I expect something substantial to come out of ASUN this year," Wiseman said. "I'm talking about tangible benefits and services to students." She added she was not referring to the SSA. The CURF and VOTL senators who were elected will hold their own among the large numbers of SURF senators elected to the new senate, she predicted. "However, I worry about the versatility of thinking in ASUN," she said. "Nothing has disappointed me more than this election. It's been a rough road." Wiseman said she was referring to dirty politics and suits on improper campaign conduct that detracted from the election itself. Making the ASUN Book Fxchange very visible, publi cizing ASUN meetings and encouraging public relations work by the executives are some of the things Wiseman said she hopes will happen in the next year to restore credibility. "It's really sad that people hear about ASUN three weeks before the election, but hear nothing for the rest of the year," she said. Total votes in the presidential race were 1 ,454 as com pared with 1 ,459 in the vice presidential race. Those totals arc less than half as high as the 2,703 students who voted in the initial election March 4. Both Wedekind and Wiseman said they were disappointed with the low turnout. In the run-off election for journalism senator, Greg Median defeated Mike Klusaw by a vote of 31 to 17. Johnson was referring to an ad appearing in the March 3 Daily Nebraskan which encouraged students to vote in the ASUN election March 4. 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