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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, december9, 1981
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Cough up cash;, strike up the hand
livery problem has a solution and UNL student
Regent Rick Mockler has devised a plan that
would allow the UNL Marching Band to fly to
Miami for the Orange Bowl.
Mockler is taking $210 out of his $350 allot
ment for food and incidental expenses, along with
$250 he'll save by carpooling to Miami, instead of
flying, and give it to the band. Mockler presented
the band with a $460 check Tuesday morning.
Mockler has also volunteered to stay in a less
expensive hotel in Miami. This would save an
additional $366 and will be forwarded to the
band through the proper channels.
All in all, the band received a commitment of
$826 to help them to get to Miami.
As good as Mockler's plan is though, we must
now ask the rather obvious question: Will the
members of the official administrative party do
the same?
Mockler says that if members of the admini
strative party followed his lead, enough money
could be raised to fly the band, thus avoiding a
long 36-hour bus trip.
The actual numbers cannot be determined be
cause the final list of who is going has yet to be
approved by UNL Chancellor Martin Massengale.
Massengale is expected to be back in town on
Thursday and will probably complete the job
then.
It's really too bad a detailed list of the admini
strative party hasn't already been published. But
the chancellor is busy and out of town, so once
again, student interests come last.
But that shouldn't be any surprise. A simple
look at the per person allocations of both band
members and administrators is telling.
Larlier reports indicated that 20 to 25 people
would comprise the administrative group. With a
total allocation of $53,241, that would allot
approximately $2,129 for each member of the
administrative party.
The band, however, with an allocation of
$90,510 for 291 members will only be able to
spend approximately $31 1 per person.
Now seriously folks, just because the upper
echelon of the university thinks it's worth seven
times more than the band, that doesn't mean we
have to believe them.
Of course, the excuses that will be offered
about why Mockler's plan won't work will only
be attempts to cover the pocketbooks of
members of the administrative party. If the uni
versity is serious when it says it would like all
representatives from UNL to travel by air, then
they now have the chance to do something about
it.
Most of the governing boards of universities
across the nation would love to have the oppor
tunity to truly help out students on a issue like
this but not the NU Board of Regents.
And most administration members should be
willing to forfeit some of their money to help the
entire university but not the UNL administrat
ion. And most universities would bend over back
wards trying to find an equitable solution to this
problem, but not UNL.
A university that becomes of the administrat
ion, by the administration and for the admini
stration, ceases to serve its most important con
stituency the students.
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Students, State Law requires me to enlighten you about Scientific Crcationism . . .
all turn to Genesis 1:1!
New label, but still socialism
A wag once, remarked that the ultimate
Reader's Digest article would bear the title
"New Hope for the Dead." Sen. Paul
Tsongas has approached that pinnacle of
optimism with a book offering new hope
for liberals.
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Tsongas is the personable, articulate
junior Democrat from Massachusetts, and
his book is called "The Road From Here:
Liberalism and Realities in the 1980s."
"Victor Hugo was correct," he announces:
"Nothing is more powerful than an idea
whose time has come." Are you ready for
the idea that is to sweep over us like a great
tidal wave of history? Compassionate Re
alism. Tsongas regards this phrase as something
of an intellectual breakthrough: "The mes
sage of this book is the blending of
and compassion in a manner that does not
disrupt society." He is also quite taken
with his own subtlety, by contrast with the
"simplistic" approach of conservatives: "I
can offer no nice, neat, snappy phrases that
are adaptable for easy bumper sticker read
ing. I view my approach as compassionate
realism. Can you imagine a bumper-sticker
with those words on it?"
Again and again we hear the familiar lei
tmotif. Government should have "an over
lay of compassion." Liberalism is "the ve
hicle that carries generosity and compas
sion into the public arena." The tree mar
ket must be "softened by compassion."
The Reagan administration threatens to
impose "a system in which compassion is
minimized."
Now when politicians talk about "com
passion" wc should count the silverware.
Government operates by force, not persua
sion. "Government and industry must be in
harness," Sen. Tsongas tells us. What he
doesn't tell us is who will crack the whip.
It won't be industry.
He does acknowledge that the welfare
state must be "capitalist -based, and that
raw socialism doesn't work. For a liberal,
this is a refreshing admission. It is also
hard to take seriously.
Liberals never deny the need for econ
omy, the need to cut taxes, the need to
fight inflation. But Sen. Tsongas is all too
typical: His "ten sound steps" for attack
ing inflation don't include the one sound
step, namely, a halt to the printing of fun
ny money.
And so, led by young "realists" like
Tsongas, the liberals will continue to take
compsulsive incremental steps toward soc
ialism without actually embracing socialist
doctrine.
Conservatives, meanwhile, will have to
fight liberlism more bluntly. This means
eliminating entire liberal programs, not me
rely trying to make them "work". They
don't work, and unless the administration
completely disowns them, it will bear the
burden of blame for their failure.
The compassionate realists will see to
that.
(c) Los Angeles Times Syndicate
'Bored of Regents' album
hot new Christmas release
The Regents arc back, with a hot new
release just in time for the Christmas rush.
America's hottest "Old Wave" band has
bounced back from last year's disappoint
ing Newspaper I'endcfta IP in fine fashion
with a special double album set called
Bored o f Regents.
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The big difference in The Regents this
year, the difference that makes the new
album so interesting, is former band memb
er "Bebop Bob" Prokop's rejoining the
group as lead vocalist. His vocals, which
have been wasted on a series of solo efforts
(New Football Stadium I, Xew Football
Stadium II and A'cu Football Stadium ),
brings to the band that outrageous flavor
that first put them on the map years ago
with the classic Harvard of the Plains
album.
Side one kicks off with a spirited numb
er about "Rockin' Rick" Mockler and
ASUN, a rival band with whom The
Regents have had an ongoing war of words
for years. Prokop's vocals are as good as
ever and the words practically slither out
of his mouth when he says:
"See them argue,
see them fuss.
Why don 7 they give
their fees to us?"
Side two features a re-release of the
"Faculty Salaries" single from the Kruger
rand, My Krugcrrand album of two years
ago. Here the percussion section drives
home the slow, but steady beat as the
vocals and lead guitar keep getting lower
and lower, representing the professor's
declining pay scale.
The highlight of the entire album is an
experimental piece called "Student Input."
It consists of three minutes of total silence.
The talk from the record label insiders is
that this cut will be released as a solo in the
near future.
All of Side Three consists of just one
song, 'Tuition Increase." The Regents can
be criticized here for dredging up old
themes and pet phrases, but this remains
the most ambitious composition of this
type they have tried yet. "Tuition In
crease" is a haunting, trance-inducing piece
consisting for the most part of polyrhy
thmic percussion interspersed at regular in
tervals with the chant, "Tuition will in
crease this semester." At first, audiences
may be inclined to skip this piece, but by
the time one sits through the whole things,
the driving, constant repetition of the same
chant has a way of making it seem nmiv
acceptable.
The best thing on Side Four is a parody
of the Paul McCartney and Wings hit.
"Band on tfic Run." This one, called
"Band on the Bus," tells the story of a big
controversy surrounding a trip to Miami by
the UNL Marching Band. It draws a
metaphor for the modern class struggle by
comparing the marching band's bus trip to
Miami with a plane ride to the same city
taken by a cadre of bureaucrats presum
ably The Regents themselves. This, for true
afficionados, is the very essence of "Old
Wave" and shouldn't be missed.
Hie album notes contend "Band On the
Bus" is based on a true story, but this re
viewer doesn't believe a word of it.
The Regents are not quite up to the
heights they attained with the Harvard of
the Plains effort, but don't count them out
yet. The group has just embarked on a
short tour of the Southern states, but
members indicate they will be back in the
studio in January to begin another album.
In the meantime, Bored of Regents has
the potential to be a holiday season hit.
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