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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Wednesday, February 24, 1982
Vol. 109 No. 32
Lincoln, Nebraska
Copyright 1982 Daily Nebraskan
Commission finds Real Party acted in good faith
By Betsy Miller
The ASUN Electoral Commission issued an opinion
Tuesday afternoon saying the Real Party acted in good
faith when they posted campaign signs before the date
specified in election rules.
The opinion reads: "And because the Real Party
Real Party Jan. 25 that janitors would not pull down
campaign sings between Feb. 10 and March 3.
Acting on this, the party posted signs before Feb. 10,
even though the rules state posters can be displayed only
between Feb. 10 and March 3.
The opinion reads: "And because the Real Party
acted in good faith and in accordance to an answer receiv
ed from this commission on Jan. 25, 1982, the Election
Commission cannot file reprimand sanctions against the
Disillusionment excuse
for part of perennial
turnover within ASUN
By Betsy Miller
What do Tom Copland, Bridget Corrigan, Debi King,
Tim Chandler, Tim Rinne, Dave Fricke, Nadine Heiss and
Marcie I lagerty have in common?
One year ago all eight were elected to the ASUN Sen
ate. Now, for a variety of different reasons, they are no
longer senators. Those eight composed about one-fourth
of the entire senate elected in 1981. But according to
some past and present senators, that number of senators
leaving the position is not unusual. The senate has 35 pos
sible positions.
Brian llaun, current senator from the College of Engin
eering and Technology and also the speaker of the senate,
said sonic senators who left their terms early did so be
cause of unavoidable circumstances. For example, Heiss is
now student teaching, Hagerty transferred to another
school and Corrigan graduated, he said.
Ilaun, as speaker of the senate, is a member of the sen
ate's Internal Affairs Committee and is in charge of ap
pointing the committee's nominees to fill vacant senate
seats.
Others who left the senate told him they didn't have
time to do the job adequately. He said they probably
made a wise move in resigning if they didn't have time for
the senate.
"I'd rather have senators quit, rather than not contri
bute," he said.
Haun said the total amount of time it takes to appoint
a new senator after the resignation of another runs about
three weeks.
The number of new senators stepping in to finish out
terms of those who resign may affect the senate, Haun
said.
"It detracts from our experience level," Haun said. "I
would say it takes close to a month before people get into
the swing."
Rick Mockler, current senate president and senate
speaker in 1980-81 , said senate turnover this year probab
ly equals that of last year.
But Mockler is not as concerned with a lack of continu
ity among new senators as he is with the total overhaul of
the senate which happens after every election.
"Virtually all senators are elected new each year," he
said. "When you have eight people in the course of a year,
the turnover is gradual and is not as big a problem. Every
year a new group is trying to reinvent the wheel."
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Real Party."
The Monday hearing was ordered by the UNL Student
Court, which heard a suit last Thursday brought by Mike
Frost, STUPID II presidential candidate, and Kathy Mach,
against the commission.
Mach and Frost charged the commission with unfair
and ambiguous practices, including the interpretation of
the sign rule. They claimed it was unfair of the commiss
ion to give the interpretation that signs could be posted
before the date given in election rules and not tell the
other parties.
However, Dan Wcdekind, Real Party presidential
candidate, said enough damage to his campaign has al
ready been done.
"I feel it's unfortunate that the truth was so long in
coming," he said.
He said press coverage of the suit and the fact that
reprimands could have been taken against the party has
reflected negatively on his campaign.
He said the commission should have clarified the issue
earlier, so that the suit and hearing would not have had
to take place.
Frost said he was pleased the commission made its
stand clear and the Real Party was found innocent of any
infraction.
However, he said he thinks the commission is contrad
icting what it told student court by conceding that it
did tell a Real Party member he could post signs before
Feb. 10.
Jennifer Fager, electoral commission director, said she
did not deny making the statement to the Real Party
member in front of the court.
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Photo by Michiela Thuman
Supporters of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran demonstrate in front of the Iranian Embassy building in
New York. For more about the demonstration, see Page 8.
Single-game football ticket prices to increase
The NU Board of Regents approved a last-minute
change in the price increase of single-game football tickets
Saturday in order to avoid having to make an additional
increase in two or three years, Regent Ed Schwartzkopf
said Tuesday.
The regents approved increasing regular single-game
ticket prices to $12 from $10.25, student tickets to $6
from $5.25 and staff tickets to $9 from $7.50. The in
crease will generate between $475,000 and $500,000 in
additional football ticket revenue, said Gary Fouraker,
business manager for the UNL Athletic Department.
Originally, John W. Goebel, interim vice chancellor for
business and finance, proposed increasing the regular
single-game ticket price to $11.50, student ticket price to
$5.75 and staff ticket price to $8.50. An additional
$320,000 would have been added to the $3.5 million an
nual ticket revenue.
"Rather than increasing prices two years down the
road, we (the regents) just rounded the figures off $6,
$9 and $12," Schwartzkopf said.
The price increase was proposed because of increas
ing athletic department expenses, he said.
The additional revenue will be used to improve athletic
department facilities, Athletic Director Bob Devaney said.
The improvements include building a women's softball
field, improving the visitors' dressing room in the stadium
and placing new Astroturf on the baseball field, he said.
Professors discuss sexism, complaint channels
By Chuck Jagoda
The university as a structure is medieval in its ori
gins and traditions, an assistant professor of education
al psychology said Tuesday. That gives it a distinctly mas
culinist attitude, which can lead to a sexist attitude, said
Barbara Kerr. ,
Kerr and Helen Moore, assistant professor of women s
studies and sociology spoke at a Women in Perspectives
lecture. The series meets at 12:30 pjn. in the Nebraska
Union. It's sponsored by the Student YWCA, the Wo
men's Resource Center and University Program Council.
Kerr and Moore spoke of sexism on campus.
Moore said anytime power inequality is coupled with
close physical proximity there is opportunity for sexual
harassment. Kerr identified the workplace as the most
common situation where students are harassed by faculty
members.
"We usually hear about it in situations where an indi
vidual works with a professor at night," Moore said.
"Anytime a student is alone with an adviser or supervisor
the counseling supervision situation is a good example
there is fertile ground for sexual harassment. If it is a
case of an older, respected male professor and a younger
female student, it can be hard for her to draw the line be
tween harassment and close working rapport."
The student handbook contains guidelines and proce
dures for complaints. Kerr suggested that a female who
has a sexual harassment complaint tell a female faculty
member, write a tetter to the department chairperson or
use the procedure available through UNL's Affirmative
Action Office.
In spite of measures to deal with incidents of sexual
harassment, Kerr said she knows of one professor who has
been reprimanded on the department level and requested
by students to discontinue his behavior, yet continues to
provoke complaints.
Moore distinguished flirting from harassment.
"The anthropologists define flirting as intimate teas
ing," Moore said. "It's reciprocal, however; that is, both
parties are sensitive to it and both want both of them to
enjoy it."
Kerr described some of the more subtle aspects of sex
ual harassment.
"Professors can be naive, not realize that they are act
ng on the basis of sexual harassment," Kerr said. "They
may see it as just attention when they introduce a woman
reading a paper to a class as a Vinsome lass.' They intro
duce all the men just by their name and then, unintention
ally, belittle the female student as someone who's only at
tractive and not a scholar. This is especially true in depart
ments like agriculture and engineering where there are so
few women that men aren't used to them and don't know
how to treat them."