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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Thursday, March 4. 1982
Vol. 109 No. 39
Lincoln, Nebraska
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"We're out for a walk on a beautiful winter day," Vince Murphy (right) said. He and Tami Stowmtimmv'
along the 12th Street fire lane by Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
NOW Party wins RHA;
other results still out
shortly after midnight
Only results from the Residence Hall Association were
available from Wednesday's student government elections
shortly after midnight Thursday.
Tom Mockler and Cliff DeLong of the NOW Party are
the new RHA president and vice president, respectively.
Mockler had 214 votes and Steve Mackie of the Opposit
ion Party had 139 votes. DeLong had 205 votes and
Terrance Brown of the Opposition Party had 1 38 votes.
Other NOW candidates winning were Linda Keifer,
secretary, and George Phillips, treasurer. Keifer and
Phillips ran uncontested.
An ASUN spokesman said at 11:45 p.m. Wednesday
that results from ASUN positions and other items on the
ballot would not be processed for at least two hours.
Although ASUN members and others involved with the
elections said earlier that ballots would be sorted and pro
cessed in computers at Nebraska Hall between midnight
and 2 a.m. Thursday, nothing was known shortly after
midnight. The polls closed at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
The spokesman said that ballots being fed into the
computers were being "eaten up."
He said if the computer problem was cleared up im
mediately, the results would be ready in two or three
hours. If the computer continued "eating" the ballots,
however, it would be four or five hours before the results
were known, he said.
Those cards that were rejected by the computer were
collected and counted by hand, said Jennifer Fager,
Electoral Commission chairman.
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CFA reinstates most recreation budget requests
By Vicki Ruhga
The Committee for Fees Allocation reinstated most of
the Recreation Department's original budget requests
after hearing appeals.
The committee recommended that the Recreation
Department receive $6.20 per student per semester in
1982-83. Currently, the Recreation Department receives
$5.63 per student per semester.
The Recreation Department originally requested
$334,229, or $7.35 per student per semester in student
fees. CFA's initial recommendation reduced the total to
less than $5 per student. After the appeal Tuesday night,
CFA recommended that the Recreation Department re
ceive $281,955 in 1982-83.
CFA reinstated student recreation supervision of build
ings, which amounted to $33,974.
"Student recreation supervisors are very necessary to
the function of all facilities," said Jim Frohman, CFA
chairman. "They can be justified because they make sure
people that pay for the facilities get to use them."
Petition helped
A petition was circulated by the Recreation Depart
ment and concerned students to appeal the recommended
CFA budget cuts. In the four days before the appeal,
approximately 5,000 signatures were obtained, according
to committee member Frances Aube. Although the
petition was not necessary for the appeal, it did show
CFA that there really was a need to reinstate the funds
cut from the budget, Aube said.
Intramural trophies and T-shirts also were reinstated in
the recreation budget. The T-shirts are a promotion for
intranurals, Frohman said. Funds to replace equipment
such as canoes, sleeping bags and tents also were reinstat
ed. However, CFA did not reinstate requests for a 35mm
camera or for intramural supervisors' jackets.
The original request for the Recreation Department's
maintenance budget was not fully reinstated either. The
committee said requests for a water fountain, remodeling
a meeting room and lighting for fields on East Campus
were not necessary now.
In other business, CFA approved allocating 10 cents
per student per semester to keep Love Library open until
1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday during 1982-83. This
would be on an experimental basis to continue to deter
mine library use at night.
CFA approved rounding the final recommendation fee
figure for each student up to the nearest 25- or 50-cent
figure, depending on the last two digits of the figure.
McHenry: U.S. too focused on Soviets
By Lori Siewert
The United States' inability to handle problems in
Third World countries may result in the country "backing
into" a conflict with the Soviet Union, a former U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday.
Donald McHenry, U.S. representative to the United
Nations from September 1979 to January 1981, gave the
keynote address tor the Nebraska Model United Nations.
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viet Union, McHenry said. U.S. politicians are likely to
, believe problems in developing countries are caused by
the Soviet Union or Cuba, even when they are not,
he said.
Thus, the United States tends to identify itself with the
government in control in a developing nation, even if that
government is oppressive, he said.
"When change inevitably takes place, the U.S. finds
itself hated by the new people in power," McHenry said.
The Soviet Union, on the other hand, identifies itself
: with the forces of change.
"The Soviets find themselves in a position where the
new government is forever grateful to them and suspicious
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U.S. policy on El Salvador is an example of this,
McHenry said. U.S. officials believe the conflict in El Sal
vador is communist -inspired, instead of being caused by
the Salvadorans' desire to throw off the rule of a small
group of families, he said.
"If the U.S. is to live up to the ideals of the United
Nation's charter and our own constitution, we need to be
a little less carried away with communism," McHenry
said.
Americans must also learn to look at Third-World
problems in a new way, he said.
Americans want to find simple solutions, but world
problems such as hunger, lack of education and lack of
housing have no simple solutions, he said.
Americans also are extraordinarily impatient, he said.
"We want a resolution to the problem, and we want it
yesterday," McHenry said.
Americans know too little about other people and
about our own history and background, he said.
"Because we don't know ourselves and what we have
done, we are totally incapable of coming up with solu
tions to their (other countries') problems," he said.
The United States does have some advantages in the
"inevitable tug between Western society and the Soviet
Union," McHenry said.
The U.S. is a country of ideals, and those ideals are re
spected around the world, he said. But Americans must
look at the problems of the Third World without looking
through "the lens of conflict with the U.S.S.R.," he said.
Frohman said this would be done because it is easier for
the university to deal with fees that end in those figures.
Passed round figures
CFA decided to use as much as $6,000 collected by
rounding the fee figure up to keep the library open longer
during weekends. The rest of the money collected by
rounding the figure up will be left to the discretion of
Richard Armstrong, vice chancellor of student affairs.
Campus Activities and Programs requested funds for a
management auditprogram review. CFA did not allocate
funds for this in the CAP budget. It instead recommended
that the ASUN Senate set up a task force to explore CAP.
CFA approved the University Program Council's re
allocation of some funds within its budget to sponsor the
Big Eight Conference on Black Student Government,
which will be at UNL next year. CFA also approved re
allocating funds from CAP to UPC for a UPC secretary
receptionist.
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Photo by Dave Benu
Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,
Donald McHenry, speaks Wednesday night in the
Nebraska Union. McHenry's speech kicked off
UNL Model United Nations Week, which goes
through Saturday.