daily nebraskan
thursday, novernber 12, 1981
page 4
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Stockholders of Nebraska
hear Student's Day report
In one of its many efforts to ed
ucate the citizens of Nebraska to
the needs of UNL, ASUN has de
signated this Saturday as Students'
Day.
Students Day began in 1978 as
an attempt to let Nebraskans
know how the students feel about
life here at UNL.
In its initial stages, the efforts
of Students Day were directed at
symbolism seeking to draw atten
tion to problems at the university.
Students were asked to wear
blue to the football games, buy
blue balloons and make parents
and others aware of the low facul
ty salaries and high tuition at
UNL.
This year, ASUN President Rick
Mockler is hoping to expand the
awareness of citizens to the condi
tion of the university.
Mockler says Students Day is a
"show of concern and support for
the quality of education" at UNL.
Mockler wants this year's Stu
dents Day to recognize the ac
complishments of the university,
but also expose problems facing
college students.
At UNL, some of the predomin
ant concerns are classroom over
crowding and the high cost of a
college education.
ASUN will have a booth in the
Nebraska Union and will present a
slide show on university concerns.
Representatives from ASUN and
the Government Liaison Commit
tee will be available to answer
questions.
Part of the goal of Students
Day is to garner media attention
to the cause of quality education,
Mockler said. Some may think a
Cornhusker home game is not the
Writer sentries
Dear Diary: Bad week last week.
Good-mo rninged Sunday by my wife,
Patricia, as I was sentrying under the bed.
"Looking for damn Russians, dear?" she
unqueried.
"No," I corrected her, "damn guer
rillas." Had been intelligenced that Jack Ander
son was plotting to run column Tuesday
saying president was out to get me. Inter
vened telephonically with Jack Anderson
immediatelywise. Advised him such disin
formation concerning dissension in admin
istration harmful to conduct of foreign
policy, treasonfully speaking.
"It's not president who is out to get
me," I explanationied to him. "It's some
damn guerrillla high up in the White
House."
For undefinitized reason, Anderson still
convinced dissension in administration, I
intervened telephonically with president.
Suggestioned he assure Anderson personal
lywise there was no dissension between
me and damn guerrilla high up in t' White
House who is out to get me.
President did so, assuring Anderson he
was not going to fire me or damn guerril
la. Anderson killed column. Instead,
Anderson ran column saying some damn
guerrilla high up in the White House was
out to get me. Who had informationed
him? Suck leakage damaging to conduct
of foreign policy, treasonfully speaking.
Damn guerrilla.
Must get damn guerrilla before he gets
time to fight for such an issue, but
when are there more members of
the media on campus?
The problem lies in trying to
get newspapers and television and
radio stations' attention away
from the Big Red. Granted, nearly
all the attention of this Saturday
will be on the athletic contest on
the field.
But ASUN is not trying to com
pete with the game, just use it as a
vehicle to further its cause - edu
cating citizens about life at UNL.
With the recent 3 percent bud
get cutback the NU system must
undertake, it is important that cit
izens remain committed to quality
education.
Mockler is aware of the need to
praise UNL where praise is due,
but believes it is the duty of a stu
dent to bring to the attention of
others weaknesses in the universi
ty. Only by active student involve
ment can the student body hope
to fight the problems of classroom
overcrowding, fewer funds for stu
dent aid and overall improvement
of the university.
Administrators may not like
some students exposing university
problems. Many would prefer em
phasizing the positive aspect of
UNL and the NU system.
But, Mockler does not believe it
is the job of a student to be a re
cruiter for the university. If stu
dents talked about only how
great the university is, they would
be participating in a charade.
Students' Day is really nothing
more than a report to the stock
holders of UNL. With the huge in
vestment citizens have in this uni
versity, it would be nice to know
their concern wasn't limited to the
confines of Memorial Stadium.
for Russians
me. Told staff limousining to White House
to hunt guerilla. Arrived there with large
net. Stockman person took it, saying he
was missing one.
Intervened with National Security Ad
visor Allen in his office high up in the
White House. Advisoried Allen I knew
he was not guerrilla high up in White
House and I was going to miss him:
Press conferenced to say I would not
fire Allen. President press-conferenced to
say he would not fire me or Allen. Said I
was best secretary of state he ever had.
Implied Allen was best guerrilla high up
in White House he ever had.
Allen press-conferenced to say he was
not guerilla and president and I knew he
was not guerrilla. Who had misinforma
ioned him? Such leakage damaging to
conduct of foreign policy, treasonfully
speaking. Damn guerrilla.
But if Allen not guerrilla, who high
up in the White House. . .High up . . .
High. . .Press-conferenced soonestwise
to say I would not fire Allen or president.
Implied Allen and president were best
guerrillas high up in the White House
I ever had who were out to get me.
Senator Jesse Helms press-conferenced
to say, "There may be a bit of paranoia
here and that ought to be corrected."
Who's paranoid? Such disinformation
concerning paranoia in this administrat
ion is damaging to the conduct of foreign
policy, treasonfully speaking. Who disin
formed Helms? Those who talk about
paranoia in this administration are out
to get me.
Damn guerrillas.
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Reagan's 'supply-side' ploy
Since taking office, President Reagan
has been commonly perceived as an honest,
forthright man, who seriously believes his
ideological pronouncements. Even if many
disagree with his politics, the polls showed
him to be a respected president.
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But now there is another, powerful wit
ness that Reagan and his administration
have no such redeeming qualities. The wit
ness is the Director of the Office of Man
agement and Budget, David Stockman, a
man who cannot be accused of a political
bias against the programs he helped insti
gate. In a recent interview with the Atlantic
Monthly Stockman conceded that he be
lieved the Reaganomics legislation of the
past year would not do as well as the ad
ministration said it would. He said that the
White House began doubting the worth of
supply-side economics even during the for
mation of the budget and tax-cut legisla
tion, yet continued to present it optimis
tically to the American public.
For Stockman and the other Reagan ec
onomic planners it was a case of superfici
ally attractive numbers on a piece of paper,
which got out of hand as soon as any co
hesive plan was attempted out of the num
bers. The results were the emasculation of
social benefits for needy Americans, and a
runaway defense budget, with all its omi
nous inplications.
It is incredible that a president who ap
peals to all that is common in our sense,
cannot see the contradictions in concur
rent tax cuts, balanced budgets and exor
bitant military programs.
What are we to think of Reagan after
this? Either he is maliciously lying to the
American public in order to enhance his
own power and the strength of the business
elite, or he is a puppet liable to the mach
inations of his advisors. Reagan's constitu
ents have the right to feel bitter about both
options.
Reagan was elected because the voters
wanted a change, and they got it. From an
inept leader who was genuinely concerned
about individual Americans, we went to a
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presidentadministration who is adept at
manipulating Congress and public emotion,
and unconcerned with everything except
the power of the State and those who pro
fit from it.
Stockman says in the interview that
Reaganomics, under the label of "supply
side" economics, is no different than the
traditional Republican approach of "trickle-down"
economics. The rich are to be
aided in every manner at the government's
disposal, in the vain hope that somehow
the benefits will become available to the
entire economy.
No doubt the hiring of an extra maid by
the duPonts will have a dramatic effect on
the unemployment figures. "Trickle-down"
economics is like asking John D. Rockefel
ler to pay union dues: it simply will not
happen.
In the meantime, middle-class families
scrape by to survive, the ghettos get larger,
and the schools get smaller. And all the
while Reagan exhorts us with the prospect
of the rosier future entailed in the econo
mic programs his own administration
doubts. Of course, we cannot forget that
Reagan also promises us eno igh missiles to
destroy the world and insure peace forever.
How can you argue with those values?
Perhaps there can be some argument?
Unless the American public is already too
apathetic to care what is done to it, or too
blind to see, emphatic changes are possible.
Our instruments of change range from let
ters to Congressman, to impeachment, to
revolt, etc. Some type of effective and ra
tional alternative to Reagan's lies must be
available within that spectrum.
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