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thursday, march 12, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 7
Run-off elections . .
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;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 . . .
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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.
Johnson said the ad, which told students ASUN
"worked for them," was slanted in favor of candidates
who supported ASUN. He said his party, the Feminist
Socialist, was one of several parties in the last election
that didn't believe ASUN was effective.
However, the appropriation passed by a vote of 184-1.
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