Monday, September 20, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Page 5
Wedekind defends
ASUN resolution
One might expect a response from ASUN to the
criticism expressed in a guest opinion in the Daily Nebras
kan on Sept. 10. However, after rereading the guest
opinion, I decided that perhaps a clarification would be
more appropriate and an adequate response.
The clarification I am speaking of is one of what
ASUN is (and I believe should be) concerned with at
this time. I believe this can be done by reiterating state
ments consistent with those that I made throughout
my campaign: ASUN should strive to impact areas that
affect UNL students as students.
I believe the ASUN Senate's priorities this year can
be broken down into three major categories which, in
Guest Opinion
no particular order, are: 1) the quality of education
at UNL; 2) the cost of education at UNL; and 3) the
ability of students to pay for their education.
ASUN has been and is dealing with issues in all three
of these areas and I commend the student senators for
their work thus far. But because the criticism was center
centered on the third area, specifically federal financial
aid, I'll address that area alone.
At a recent ASUN Senate meeting, a resolution was
passed expressing senate support for "efforts underway"
to override President Reagan's veto of the recent supple
mentary spending bill.
The bill included $140 million of Pell Grant money
and $77 billion for the Supplemental Educational
Opportunity Grant program. It thus could have affected
up to 1 million Pell Grant recipients and as many as
128,000 students from the SEOG program if the veto
had been sustained or the bill revised in those areas.
This made the bill a concern not only to individuals
receiving financial aid and to those who believe all citi
zens should have access to higher education, but it also
made it a concern to both private and public institutions
of higher education, including this university.
Potential cuts in federal financial aid have been an
issue for more than half a year and are not only a concern
for philosophical reasons, but also from an institutional
viewpoint - the potential for reduced enrollment could
obviously affect the institution in a number of ways.
With this possibility, ASUN began to approach the
problem early last spring. Our efforts involved students,
faculty, administrators and the NU Board of Regents.
We contacted Congress members to offer information
and visited their Washington and local offices.
We invited Congress members, state senators and other
elected representatives to the campus for open forums
or small group discussions, invited staff members of the
offices of the aforementioned people to the campus,
participated in a forum in Omaha with other Nebraska
institutions of higher education and testified at legislative
hearings on financial aid.
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Maybe it's especially hard for women, raised to put
relationships above games. As accomplished a victor as
Pam Shriver had to say, "I have mixed emotions. I'm
thrilled for myself, but I'm sad for Martina."
Politics are much more subtle than racket sports,
but no less intense. In the Senate, Packwood and Helms
are disagreeing about something more fundamental
than who has the stronger serve. They disagree about
human values.
There are times when it may seem inappropriate for
senators to disagree so politely about such heated sub
jects. Most of us at one time or another have wondered
whether coolness was really a lack of caring. Most of us
have questioned people who are able to separate their
emotions from their behavior.
Looking again at my mental photograph of the op
posing senators walking the floor together, I also wonder:
Is this sane or phony? Are they behaving as gentlemen or
old boys, civilized or clubby? Or just pragmatic?
By now, I vote for pragmatism. Packwood and Helms,
Navratilova and Shriver, after all, have something in
common. They travel in the same circuit. They are op
ponents one day and partners another. There is more
than the usual reason to keep the competition focused
on making points rather than enemies. More than the
usual reason to take it impersonally.
Eventually, I think most of us have to learn this
skill. In my own profession, people who wildly and
publicly disagree with each other's point of view in
print ask about each other's children in private.
Even in that most personal arena, family, we may
vote for different people and still break bread together.
Most of us struggle to make our differences reconcilable.
This lesson does have its emotional costs. It takes
self-control to drain our confrontations of their personal
venom. It also takes some understanding and some
perspective to live with differences, even competition,
without feeling personal conflict. I guess it takes a pro.
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