Tuesday, September 23, 1986
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Daily Nebraskan
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peed or
Runza is the union's best bet
Burger King offered the most
money, Runza the least. But
if you look at the quality,
Runza really offers the most by
far as a replacement for the
Union Square restaurant.
Burger King, Taco del Sol,
Hardee's and Runza fast-food
chains submitted proposals in
response to a negotiating com
mittee's search for a replace
ment. The proposals included
negotiations for lease price, hours
of availability, modifications
needed and training that the
restaurant will offer students of
the International Center for
Franchise Studies of UNL.
Burger King offered to pay
$42,000 per year or 7 percent of
gross sales over $600,000. Runza
offered $17,725 per year with no
percentage of gross sales. Har
dee's and Taco del Sol fell some
where in between.
Daryl Swanson, Nebraska Union
director, said student satisfac
tion, service to the franchise
studies center and increasing
traffic to the Union will be major
considerations for the decision.
Student satisfaction is the
key.
Runza has varietv a mark
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against laco aei ooi oecause oi
the limited Mexican food format,
Burger King and Hardee's also
offer variety. Hardee's problem is
that people are not familiar with
the chain. Currently Lincoln does
not harbor a Hardee's restau
rant. The field is limited down to
two.
Homecoming marred
Small number apply for royalty election
Residence hall and off-campus
students may have got the
shaft in this year's selec
tion of Homecoming royalty.
Due to a probable miscom
munication within the home
coming committee, residence hall
and off-campus students were
not properly informed of royalty
deadlines. .
Bill Welsh, coordinator of Res
idence Hall Administration, said
a number of students complained
because of a lack of information
received about Homecoming.
Students complained of not
receiving the promotional letter
distributed by the committee
and limited information on resi
dence hall walls.
Off-campus students were
informed through the Daily Ne
braskan classified section. Only
two classifieds ran between Sept.
8 and the original Sept. 15 dead
line. No classifieds ran after the
deadline was extended. The two
classifieds did not have informa
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quality?
Runza carries hamburgers,
polish dogs, onion rings, brow
nies, soup, salad and, of course,
runzas. Burger King counters with
various sizes and kinds of ham
burgers, chicken, fish, salad and
a breakfast menu. No doubt both
have variety. The question is
quality.
Burger King seems to be more
centered on speed rather than
quality. A lot of the time the food
appears to be improperly pre
pared and unpleasing to the
appetite. Runza, on the other
hand, is quality. The franchise
originated in Nebraska and is
not on a national scale. With its
limited clientele Runza relies on
the quality of the food to keep its
customers coming back.
Also, university franchise stu
dents will be able to see how a
franchise such as Runza began
and how it works.
A seven-member committee
will narrow the proposals to one
and submit it within 45 days to
UNL administrators for final
approval. The committee could
recommend that the Union Square
remain unchanged. Swanson said
the Union Square had been
breaking even but doesn't attract
students to the union like a
national franchise could.
If the union is out to make a
fast buck, then Burger Kingseems
to have the most lucrative offer.
If the union is out to satisfy stu
dents, then Runza really pro
vides the better deal.
tion concerning the deadlines.
Kim Torres, royalty chairper
son, said the letters were mailed
but would not comment on the
lateness. Paul Rohlfing, home
coming chairperson, said the
committee is not responsible for
the low number of applications
before the deadline was changed.
Then, who is responsible?
Torres said the applications
doubled to over a hundred after
the deadline was changed and
seemed comfortable with the
number. With a campus of 24,000
students and a good number of
seniors eligible, 100 applications
is appalling. It either shows stu
dent apathy or that the students
were not properly informed.
There is not too much to be
done about the royalty situation
now because Homecoming is only
three weeks away. But in the
future, maybe a little promotion
and effective recruiting could
stir up student participation.
Kampen, editorial page assist
ant and Tammy Kaup, associate
news editor.
Editorials do not necessarily
reflect the views of the univer
sity, its employees, the students
or the NU Board of Regents.
Right-wing pressure tactic:
Think Rehnquist
So William Rehnquist is our new
chief justice and will remain so
until he retires or until (iod forces
him into retirement. The Democrats
took their best shot and they failed.
Nothing wrong with that.
However, the debate over Rehnquist
does bring up an interesting point. At
one point in the debate Senate Majority
Leader Robert Dole was quoted as say
ing, "What all of this amounts to is that
he (Rehnquist) is a conservative and
those attacking him are liberals."
That's an interesting statement, and
it's undoubtedly true. My reading of
that sentence is that he thinks there's
something wrong with senators voting
against a judicial nominee because
they don't share the same political
views. Does he find fault with that? Is
he saying that's something Republi
cans would never do?
I think he's too smart a guy to really
believe that the Republican party would
never vote against a judge because of
his or her political views. If he does
think that he's very mistaken because
the New Right and probably the Old
Right as well is currently trying to
put Rose Bird out of a job.
Rose Bird, if you don't already know,
is the chief justice of the California
Supreme Court. She's up for confirma
tion this year by the voters. (In Califor
nia, judges must go before voters every
seven years to be either rejected or
retained.)
Bird was appointed by Jerry Brown
when he was governor. The big gripe
from Bird's opponents seems to be that
she's too liberal. The California Supreme
Court has shown more foresight than
their brethern in Washington and turned
thumbs down on capital punishment.
That's made a lot of people angry at the
Militants don't threaten England,
they threaten the Western world
LONDON - The Labor Party in
Kngland has problems similar to
those of the Democratic Party in
America, though England's problems
are more desperate than our own be
cause the positions of its extremists
are extremer than our own.
When we think of extremism in
America we think of, oh, Bella Abzug
and John Kenneth Galbraith, and al
though it is prudent to assume that if
either became the chief of government
in America, the republic would last
about a fortnight after their inaugura
tion, it is also pretty safe to assume
that no such thing is likely to happen.
In Great Britain, the problem isn't with
socialist romantics, but rather with a
very hard-bitten set that doesn't have
control of the Labor Party, but which
leaves the Labor Party, in the absence
of their support, suspended in power
lessness. The Militant Tendency (we do not
joke that is what they call them
selves) are "Trotskyists," and although
Trotsky's works are given out to anyone
who comes close to their base of opera
tions, it is doubtful that if you stopped
at random one of the 8,000 members on
the street and asked him three ques
tions that reached into Trotsky's theor
ies you would come out learning much
about Trotsky. The Militants use Trotsky
in the way the Third World uses Marx.
W7e can butcher away as you like, if only
you float a banner above your party
with a label on it that once attracted
hard intellectual thought, and U.N.
types will say that you are in commun
ion with a great ideological movement.
Well, what would the Militants do?
Their projection of things to come is
roughly as follows. Margaret Thatcher's
Conservative Party will lose the next
election to a coalition of Labor and
Alliance (itself a coalition of Social
Democrats who split from Labor and
the old Liberal Party). The new Labor
Party will rule for a while, but will do
nothing to satisfy the cravings ef those
within the Labor Party (the Militants)
with fire in the belly about reform. The
new administration will not be able to
had, a rough time?
Court and at Bird in particular.
She especially seems to have raised
the ire of California's district attor
neys. They say she's soft on crime.
Sometimes it's difficult to be hard
on crime and still follow the Constitu
tion. Actually, it's not a judge's job to
be tough on crime. That's what you
have policemen and district attorneys
for. There shouldn't be too cozy of an
arrangement between a district attor
ney and a judge, or a defense attorney
and a judge, for that matter.
Like Rehnquist, Bird seems to have
few detractors when it comes to her
judicial qualificatons. Like Rehnquist
she gets high marks from the American
Geoff
Goodwin
Bar Association. Her opponents just
don't like her politics. And they're
spending a lot of money to get rid of
her. Some estimates say the various
committees opposed to Bird will spend
nearly $8 million in their effort to
defeat her.
Is Rose Bird really that much of a
t hreat to the criminal justice system of
California? I can't imagine how. I don't
think a lot of people in Fresno who have
been sticking up gas stations or liquor
stores suddenly are going to find new
avocations just because Rose Bird is no
longeron the California Supreme Court.
Thieves don't usually pay much atten
tion to politics anyway, except for the
ones who are in politics to begin with.
come up with 1 million new jobs (14
percent of British labor is unemployed),
and in the general chaos, fresh elec
tions will be called. The Conservatives
will win these elect ions (I am continu
ing as the narrator of the Militants'
scenario), and, face-to-face with a des
perate domestic situation, they will
institute a "Bonapartist" regime. By
that is meant that a strongman,
Napolean-style, will take over and begin
to run things. Ah, but that is the
moment for the Militants: They will
seize power and, with or without the
shedding of blood, undertake to imple
ment their program. Which is?
William F.
Just to begin with, they will abrogate
ties with NATO. They will nationalize
the banks and the insurance compan
ies and everything else that vaguely
interrupts their vision. (Oh, yes, they
will abolish the monarchy and the
House of Lords.)
It is in one sense Laugh-In time, if
we focus only on what it is the Militants
would like to accomplish and what it is
that they would bring on if they had
their way. But it is all a little less than
entirely ludicrous because the Mil
itants' hold on the Labor Party is a
little like the bloodstain's hold on Lady
Macbeth. For all that Neil Kinnock
parades his intention of excreting these
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Look at Rose Bird
I do think you'll see people being
executed in California if Bird and her
liberal colleagues are defeated. I'm not
sure if that's really an improvement in
the criminal justice system, but at
least it will help to satisfy some peo
ple's blood lust.
Of course, there's nothing really
wrong with anyone working to defeat
Bird. It's their right under the system,
and if the roles of Bird and Rehnquist
were reversed and I wish they were
I'd be all for a campaign to defeat
Rehnquist.
What bothers me is that these peo
ple have got Bird in their sights and she
doesn't have a chance. All the polls
taken so far show her losing by a big
margin. Really, given the size of the
campaign against her, it would be a
miracle if she were to be retained.
The overkill the anti-Bird forces are
using is the issue here. Instead of talk
ing about Bird's qualifications, they're
using fear as a tactic. But that's under
standable because she has all the qual
ifications you could want.
It's a little like shooting buffalo from
the side of the road it's legal, but it's
wrong.
But this is California. You have to
remember that. There was some other
news out of California last week. Michael
Jackson is buying some kind of oxygen
machine that pumps out pure oxygen.
His spokesman says he wants it to keep
him young. One report which Jack
son denied even said that he wants
to live to be 150 years old. Wow. I just
hope Rehnquist doesn't get one of
those machines.
Goodwin is an undeclared graduate
student and a Daily Nebraska night
news editor.
crazies, he cannot do this and still
hope to achieve power, because al
though the membership is not large,
the Militants' influence is organiza
tionally significant, much as Lenin's
was significant on the assembly domi
nated by Kerensky. The city of Liver
pool is ruled by Militants; they take in,
in revenue, about a quarter of the
money spent annually by Labor; an
estimated 30 members of the Parlia
ment are Militants.
Kinnock is given to periodic denun
ciations of the extremes in his party,
designed to reassure the majority of the
British that they are doing less than
committing suicide by voting Labor,
and to a certain extent he has suc
ceeded: The polls show that whereas a
few months ago Alliance voters were
divided as to which party they pre
ferred to lead a coalition government,
they are now inclined, by 11 points, to
make common cause with the Labor
Party.
All of this might be dismissed as a
very bad dream, except that it leaves
the observer wondering, wondering.
Great Britain, by most standards, is
deemed a civilized state, yet the prin
cipal opposition party is in favor of
what really amounts to unilateral sur
render to the Soviet Union (unilateral
nuclear disarmament equals the end of
NATO equals the end of the U.S.
umbrella equals the probable end of
the political independence of Western
Europe). If that much can happen to
the party of Bevin, Attlee and Gaitskell,
what is to stop it all from going further?
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