Friday, October 17, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
Page 5
Letters
ASUN senator refutes Fricke's remarks on student vote
In the article about efforts to obtain
a student vote on the NU Board of Regents,
(Daily Nebraskan, Oct. 13) Regent
Donald Fricke of Lincoln raises a valu
able point. Fricke said, "It takes longer
to get experience on the issues than a
year. I don't know if they (students
regents) know enough to make respon
sible votes." If this is true, Fricke con
tradicts himself twice when opposing a
student regent vote.
First, he suggests to me that newly
elected regents should abstain from
voting for at least the first year to
become oriented with the university,
its structure and its issues. I wonder if
his constituents would appreciate los
ing one year of representation while
their regent "catches up" with the rest
of us?
Second, he grants that a duly elected
student regent would be more quali
fied to hold office than a non-student.
If experience on the issues is what
makes a good regent, then I can think
of no better way to experience this
university than to live andor work
here every-day. ASUN's constitution
requires that the ASUN president and
student regent have at least 24 hours of
credit on this campus during the last
two years and at least one semester of
residency immediately preceeding the
term of office. The ASUN president is
almost always a senior with three solid
years of experience at this university,
which is certainly more experience
than the general electorate expects of
its regents.
I would expect the Board of Regents
to say that the current system works
well and that working toward a student
regent vote includes many problems.
After all, on a campus this large and
diverse, we must face large and intri
cate problems. The comment that
bothered me the most from Fricke is,
"If the requirements were worked out,
I would approve (of a student regent
vote)"; however, he added, "I think
that will be extremely tough to do and I
don't think it will happen." Now that's
the spirit! Is that how to face those
large and intricate problems of UNL?
Luckily, our next governor has pledged
support toward this challenge and stu
dents will have meaningful input into
the quality of this institution within
the next few years with or without
the help of the Board of Regents.
Pete Castellano
junior
arts and sciences
ASUN senator
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Sennett misunderstands proposal to examine booze policy
The article written by columnist
James Sennett (Daily Nebraskan, Oct.
15) obviously is written with a basic
misunderstanding of what Senate Bill
No. 44 is all about.
Starting with point one, Sen. Burke
is correct to state that the current pol
icy is misleading. While the fallacy of
the dry campus persists, it is evident to
anyone that bothers to look at this
campus that is is not only wet, but the
dam is threatening to break. The rejec
tion of alcohol tasting better when
banned is also ludicrous. To want to
taste "forbidden fruit" is human nature,
Ramblin' Royko
transforms into
bumblin' Watson
ROYKO from Page 4
I concede that this isn't much to go
on. But Holmes solved many a mystery
with fewer clues. He did it with logic
and imagination.
He would have surely begun with the
strange question: "What is the fre
quency, Kenneth?"
Were they talking about a radio fre
quency? If so, who uses radio frequen
cies? Ahah! Spies, maybe, seeking the
secret frequency used by a double
agent named Kenneth?
Or could they have been talking
about some other kind of frequency
such as howfrequently somebody might
do something.
For example, how frequently one
might lavish romantic attentions on
someone else's sweetie. Such as the
girlfriend of an aging Mafioso.
Hmmm. Thugs hired lo discourage a
foolish loverboy named Kenneth, maybe?
These theories assume, of course,
that it was a case of mistaken identity.
But we don't really know that, do we?
We do know that the networks are in
a feverish rating battle, with corporate
fortunes in the balance.
Anyone who saw the true-to-life movie
"Network," in which the executives
had their anchor bumped off on camera
and in the studio, knows what net
works are capable of doing.
So is it not possible that when the
one man punched Rather and said:
"What is the frequency ..." he was
referring to supremacy in the ratings?
And when he said "... Kenneth," he
was talking to his accomplice, a thug
named Kenneth, and urging him to join
in the punches and kicks?
My efforts at solving this are feeble,
at best. I'm more of abumbling Watson
than a cerebral Holmes.
1986 by the Chicago Tribune, Dis
tributed by Tribune Media Services, Inc.
Royko is a Pulitzer prize-winning col
umnist for the Chicago Tribune.
just ask Adam and Eve. The "notion"
that the policy is not adequately en
forced rolls with a momentum all its
own. Prohibition demonstrated that
such rules were difficult, if not impos
sible, to enforce, and only an imposi
tion of a police state that disregarded
any civilized notions of restrictions on
searches and seizure could make the
idea of a dry campus a reality.
Sennett accuses Burke of inferring a
decrease of alcohol consumption be
cause of the lifting of the ban. There
are two problems here. 1) Burke never
infers such a thing, and 2) Burke only
wants to research the problem. There
are a number of other problems that
Sennett has with his article, but what I
find most troubling is his slap at ASUN
members.
ASUN members do not condone res
triction of religious freedom. One can
practice whatever religion one chooses.
However, to be a student organization,
there are rules and regulations that
have to be adhered to. Yet, Sennett
encourages defiance here.
Ed Miller
graduate student
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