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Oh, what fun!
It's National Soup Month and the Campbell Kids,
Kevin Goldstein and Julie Meusberger, have beaten
the other Kewpie dolls to the punch by announcing
their candidacy for ASUN executive offices.
Under the moniker United Students, Goldstein,
Meusberger and Troy Hilliard have issued a solid,
but very ambitious platform.
Goldstein has outlined many ideas that seem fun
damental to university life, but never have bee'n
pursued by past student regents for various rea
sons. The idea of a typing center where typewriters
would be available for student use in ASUN offices
will become a reality, Goldstein said, if he is elected.
The US platform also calls for a renter's union
that would have listings of good and bad landlords.
Goldstein said Legal Services receives many com
plaints every year about landlords.
US proposes that 20 students be invited weekly to
substantial East Campus office and produce, in
addition to its newsletter every semester, a semi-
weekly "update sheet" that "will be an effective link
between ASUN and students."
Within ASUN itself, US has proposed seemingly
fundamental procedural changes. Standing com
mittees that, in the past, had small projects will be
replaced by ad hoc committees, a near necessity in
any well-run organization.
Truly amazing is Goldstein's proposal to institute
written committee reports. Written reports have
not been a feature in ASUN before.
The aforementioned are all fine and noble ideas,
but many points in the US platform don't seem feas
ible because of some strange logic by Goldstein and
the nature and past performance of ASUN senators.
Figure out this Catch-22 for yourself:
"The main way ASUN can be more responsive to
its constituency is through interaction with them.
This in turn, would lead to better viability (sic),
making the students more aware of issues and prob
lems; thereby leading to more credibility for ASUN
and a better attitude toward ASUN by students."
Goldstein somehow believes that students are
going to care about ASUN more in the next year
than they have in the past. He thinks that simply by
being more visible, ASUN will become more promi
nent in students' lives.
This paper has given ASUN activities and elec
tions enough press over the past three years that if
students aren't aware of the body's presence, they
may never be.
US proposes that 20 students by invited weekly to
the ASUN offices for an "open house." Who, consider
ing the lack of interest in ASUN in the past, will
attend these intimate gatherings?
To distribute its update sheets, US will have dorm
floor and fraternity and sorority representatives.
However, about two-thirds of UNL's students live off
campus. How might they get their information?
Simple, Goldstein says. It will be handed to them
at various sites all around campus. Presupposing
the entire student body cares about what will be in
those sheets, this pamphleteering will have to be
handled by ASUN senators.
Goldstein said today's college students are a very
career-oriented lot. It can be presumed, then, that
prospective ASUN senators aren't any different
from the rest of this university.
It must be Goldstein's quest, then, to find a very
dedicated group of senators and get them elected,
or carrying out his ambitious platform may become
next to impossible.
His hope for increased student knowledge about
the ASUN can be fulfilled only by the students of this
university.
JefT Crowns
Faculty union could fight apathy,
improve quality of UNL education
A faculty union could keep UNL education from
becoming more mediocre than it already is. Only
through a union will this university's faculty mem
bers have much of a chance for more pay or a
chance of attracting and keeping good people.
A signature campaign for UNL faculty represen-
tation by the American Association of University
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Peterson
Professors began Friday. When 30 percent of UNL
faculty members have signed the campaign cards,
the AAUP will make a request for representation' to
the NU Board of Regents; and when (when is really
more appropriate here than if) the Board of Regents
refuses, the state Commission of Industrial Rela
tions is authorized to hold an election on the ques
tion of collective bargaining for the UNL faculty.
Two such campaigns already have failed, the most
recent attempt in 1975 when professors voted down
a union 634-503. However, times are worse now
than they were then and UNL faculty members have
noticed, perhaps with envy, that UNO teachers, who
have a union, will get a 6.6 percent pay increase this
year. UNL teachers get nothing.
Because of the past several Legislature budgets,
UNL faculty salaries are about 15 percent less than
those of instructors at other land grant universities
in the country. And those surprisingly numerous
people who think university professors should be
selfless scholars, living on light and air and demand
ing no other recompense than the joy of learning,
might consider the fact that low pay isn't going to
attract intelligent and committed applicants to Old
father for hiring interviews. Many departments
speech communications, modern languages, life
sciences, among others already have seen some of
their best teaching faculty leave in the past several
years, in part because of low salaries.
Linda Pratt, an English professor and president of
UNL's AAUP chapter, and Jerry Petr, an associate
professor of economics and an AAUP member, are
among the UNL faculty members working in the
AAUP organizing campaign. Petr noted in a debate
in the Nebraska Union that UNL faculty members
have tired of waiting for other resources to turn up
more pay, in spite of continued promises from the
regents to make higher salaries their top priority.
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AlcoJiol abuse ignored
I would like to make some additions to James
Willett'3 letter (Daily Nebraskan, Jan. 23). ' ,
I would agree with Willett that it was unfair that
fraternity members and college freshmen were
singled out (without any presentation of facts) as
drinking more than any other collega students.
However, this injustice isn't what concerns me, but
rather that Wiilett's response ignores that alcohol
abuse is probably the number one problem facing
both college students and fraternities today. In view
of this, I find it ridiculous to squabble over who
really has a drinking problem when, we should
Instead be directing our efforts toward solving the
alcohol problems on campus. x
On Feb. 17 through 23, the Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity and the Delta Delta Delta sorority will be
participating in the fifth annual Week on the Wagon.
The purpose ofthis week of abstinence from alcohol
is to serve as a warning to heavy drinkers as well as
to educate the general public about the often
ignored serious problem of alcohol abuse. It is my
sincere hope that others will join us on the wagon. I
encourage any interested groups to please contact
members of the fore-mentioned houses about join
ing us on the wagon.
John Valdrighi
Social Service Chairman
Alpha Tau Omega
Mere letters cn Fags 5
Now, another big episode of Ed Meese
Edwin Meese's recent nomination as
attorney general has been hailed in
many circles. Meese was described in
an Associated Press story as a "law and
order man." One would have assumed
that this was a common denominator
with attorneys general, but evidently
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Meese's background in law enforce
ment and conservative causes distin
guishes him even further.
Meese's appointment comes at a
crucial time for the Reagan adminis
tration. With an election just around
the corner, the president's political
advisers are anxious to make him
more appealing to the general public
without alienating his hard-core con
servative support. ,
Meese will be the centerpiece ofthis
effort. Because of his reputation as a
law and order kinda' guy, the White
House has commissioned editorial car
toonist Dick Locher, whose cartoons
appear in this very paper, to create a
serial cartoon based on Meese's fights
to maintain law and order. Locher,
who currently draws Dick Tracy, has
made available some of the story lines
we can expect to see pursued in his
new strip, Ed Heme (pronounced Mee
see.) Lecher's first idea sounds intriguing.
"Meese has come face-to-face with his
arch-enemy Regnuh Leech. Regnuh has
been terrorizing Washington, D.C. (the
strip's locale) by fradulenthy cashing
welfare checks under the alias of Al
Hunger. 3fcu know as well as I that
Hunger doesnt exist,' the chief tells
Meese.
"So Meese calb in his loyal toady,
Mike Deaver, and says, 'Go find Regnuh
and arrest him. And bring me a sand
wich.'. "So, Sam captures Regnuh and brings
him back to Meese, who's enjoying a
scrumptious pastrami sandwich. Reg
nuh confesses everything. Meese turns,
him over to the chief and takes full
credit for the arrest Mike doesnt mind,
though, because once and for all,
theyVe proven that Hunger didn't really
exist."
Then Locher plans to have Meese
take a vacation. "We want the strip to
resemble the real-life day-to-day activ
ities at the White House as much as
possible." But even on vacation, Ed
Meese is still on the job.
"Ed and his family are relaxing in
sunny Florida when Ed gets word that
Lance Layabout, hi3 arch enemy, is in
the state as well. Layabout's been em
ployed since 1C31. Within the past few
months, he's been involved in a scam
where he takes his unemployment and
wejfare checks and invests them in an
underworld thumbtack operation.
"Meese gets wind of the operation.
He calls his loyal son, Junior, and says,
'Go find Layabout and brin? hi
me. And bring me a sandwich.'
"So, Junior captures Layabout and
brings him back to Meese who's enjoy
ing a scrumptious pastrami sandwich.
Layabout confesses everything. Meese
turns him over to the chief and takes
full credit for the arrest. Junior doesn't
mind, but he is disillusioned. 'I always
thought dad was in favor of unem
ployment tacks,' he mumbles."
Lecher's final installment of Ed Meese
also has a realistic tone to it. "Meese is
sitting in his office, when Loot E. Yenom
walks in. Yenom offers Meese a high
paying job with his multi-million dollar
corporation. Meese gladly accepts. The
chief goes on television and gives Meese
full credit far the great job he's done.
Deaver doesnt mind, though, because,
knowing the chief as well as ha does, he
knows my next comic strip will be
' entitled Hike Dcavtr, Attorney G. "
At long last, we have an attorney
general that not only the president can '
be proud cf, but Dick Tracy as well.