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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Party calls ASUN 'moronic'
SCUM
starts race in restroom
By Eric Gregory
Staff Reporter
The SCUM party officially announced
its candidacy for ASUN Thursday in the
men's restroom on the main floor of the
Nebraska Union.
Presidential candidate Jon Johnston
said SCUM stands for "Student council
is useless and moronic."
Johnson, a sixth-year art major, said
the "prime mission" of SCUM is to
"provide frustrated egocentrics a
chance to feel important while ac
complishing nothing worthwhile for
students."
Kurt Klanderud, a sixth-year archi
tecture major, said ASUN operates like
any U.S. high school student council.
Klanderud said the student regent
"simply serves as a token, powerless
representative on the NU Board of
Regents."
Because of this, party members said,
the SCUM party will not campaign for
ASUN president, vice president and
second vice president, but for Student
Council president and vice president.
The candidates also will not acknowl
edge the acronym ASUN during their
campaign, Klanderud said.
"The SCUM party feels that ASUN
should be treated like the student
council it is," Klanderud said.
Geoff McMurty, a junior broadcast
ing major, said he feels the combined
experience of SCUM party candidates
offers an edge over the other candidates.
Between them, the candidates are
experienced in the dealings of the bur
sar's office, intimately acquainted with
police procedure and able to find the
best parties on any day of the week,
McMurty said.
If elected, the SCUM party proposes
the following:
A merger with the University of
Kansas.
"UNL students will have a respecta
ble institution to attend and Kansans
will have a respectable football team,"
SCUM members said.
The transfer of Morrill Hall's dino
saur skeletons to the Lied Center for
the Performing Arts.
"That way they'll be taken care of,"
SCUM said.
Scholarships for UNL cheerlead
ers. Flagrant disregard for UNL's
alcohol policy.
"The policy won't be changed by
administrators, so why bother?" SCUM
said.
O The return of Texas to Mexico.
But SCUM may have problems enact
ing their proposals. SCUM has been
removed from the ASUN general elec
tion ballot because the party did not
attend a mandatory meeting for ASUN
candidates on Feb. 12, Johnson said.
The party has met all the other
requirements to be on the ballot, John
son said, and they have asked the ASUN
Electoral Commission to reverse the
decision.
With the sound of a toilet flushing
behind him, Johnson said the decision
to announce the SCUM party candidacy
in the men's restroom was not a sym
bolic gesture.
"They wouldn't give us a room,"
McMurty said.
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By Diana Johnson
Senior Reporter
Gov. Bob Kerrey said comments made
by NU officials attacked "the wrong
body for the university's problems."
Kerrey referred to statements made
by members of the NU Board of Regents
and some administrators that he said
blamed the Legislature for budget woes.
The comments, made during the Legis
lative Appropriation Committee hear
ing Wednesday, were poorly timed,
Kerrey said.
"I hope it doesn't come back to
haunt them, but it may," Kerrey said in
a press conference Thursday.
Kerrey said regents and administra
tors told state legislators they were to
blame for the university's deterioration.
Kerrey suggested that administra
tors, regents and legislators "show
some constraint" in making accusations.
"Let's not start shooting back and
forth," Kerrey said. "The problems of
the university are not attributable to
the men and women of the Legislature."
Rather, Kerrey said, the state's
troubled economy and an increasing
student enrollment caused the univer
sity's budgetary problems.
State and private colleges and tech
nical schools are not exempt from
problems similar to NU, he said.
But, Kerrey said, the negative aspects
of NU are overplayed.
"We should focus on the things we're
doing well," he said. "We should feel
good about the things we are doing
right."
Kerrey cited personnel at UNMC as
an example.
"We've got the best physicians in the
world . . .somedaywewillbeasgoodas
Harvard (medical school)," Kerrey said.
"Let's focus on people that are out
standing at the university.
"We should have pride instead of
feeling blue."
Amendment to appoint
NU regents rejected
By Todd von Kampen
Senior Reporter
Thursday's death of a constitutional
amendment that would give the gover
nor power to appoint NU regents prob
ably ended chances for student regents
to gain a vote this year, ASUN President
Gerard Keating said.
Senators failed on a 22-22 vote to
advance LR32CA, which first was intro
duced last year, to the final stage of
floor consideration. Bills and constitu
tional amendments that fail to advance
from the second stage effectively are
killed. The amendment needed 25 votes
to advance.
As debate began, supporters of a
plan to give one student regent a full
vote on the NU Board of Regents
decided not to offer the plan as an
amendment to LR32CA. Neligh Sen.
John DeCamp began to speak in favor
of the amendment, but decided in mid
speech to withdraw it because he felt
he lacked the votes for passage.
. "I saw it was a loser," DeCamp said
afterward. "I don't take a shot at things
I don't have a reasonable chance of
winning."
Keating said student leaders agreed
to drop the amendment because they
did not have enough time to circulate it
among all senators. DeCamp was plan
ning to offer the amendment later
before the Legislature failed to advance
LR32CA, he said.
The amendment originally was drawn
up to answer legal objections to
LR308CA, which would have given the
three student regents one combined
vote.
Although supporters would like to
offer their revised plan as an amend
ment to LR306CA, Keating said, the
original amendment is unlikely to be
debated this session because of a lack
of time.
"Practically, it's through for this
year unless the session is lengthened,"
he said. The Legislature is scheduled
to adjourn April 1 5 unless 40 of the 49
senators or Gov. Bob Kerrey move to
lengthen the session.
During debate on LR32CA, suppor
ters argued that appointment of regents
would represent the first step toward
making government more efficient.
Omaha Sen. Vard Johnson said such a
move would benefit the state's econ
omy because it would save tax money.
"You and I have committed over the
long pull to 3,600 different local
governments," Johnson said. As long as
Nebraskans refuse to give up the power
to elect regents and similar bodies, he
said, "we continue to remain in the
1950s and the 1960s and the 1970s."
Opponents said they heard little
support from constituents for changing
the present election system. Scotts
bluff Sen. William Nichol, speaker of
the Legislature, left the podium to tell
senators an appointed board would be
less responsible to the people.
"Any governor of this state could
stack the board of regents just as any
board he appoints members to could be
stacked," Nichol said.
Student leaders plan to research the
student regent amendment and pre
pare to introduce it again in the next
Legislature, Keating said. Although his
term will expire before the next ses
sion, he said, he feels the way has been
paved for a student vote.
"People know about it," Keating
said. "The issue's raised, and I'm con
fident the support is there. Time is on
our side."