Tuesday, October 28, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
Page 5
Letters
Clause ex tends ASUN control
The role of student government at t'NL is supposed!) to
represent and serve the students. Instead, the current
government appears to he trying to control them. The m ist
obvious case in point is ASt'N's enforcement of the non
discrimination act, which states:
"(An organization) may not discriminate in the select ion
of members or appointments when discrimination is
defined as denying individuals membership or appoint
ment on the basis of age. race, national origin, color,
gender, creed, handicap or place of residence."
The original intent of this legislation was simple: to make
ASl'N a more diverse and thus more representative body.
Today, the act has become another tool for ASl'N officials to
expand their power base. ASl'N is using this legislation to
test new ways of controlling student organizations such as
prohibiting event registration and blocking access to organ
izations' accounts. It is making no effort to ensure t hat the
act leads to a reduction in discriminatory practices. The
result is resentment of non-discrimination legislation by
student organization members who find themselves being
brought ever more tightly under ASUN's control. It is time to
re-evaluate the purpose and the enforcement of the non
discrimination act.
The importance of the act is not that it is the 12th
paragraph of every student organization's constitution,
which appears to be ASUN's position. The acts' significance
could come from changing the composition of organiza
tional membership. An organization which is designed to be
representative, but which is composed primarily of members
from one group, is discriminatory.
From this perspective, we have one question for ASUN:
Based upon your current membership, can you honestly say
that your organization is in compliance with the non
discrimination code?
Jay Mulligan, senior
integrated studies
Mary Marcy, senior
political science
speech communication
Lutheran tradition defended
In response to Cynthia Docrr's letter "Sexist Synod vs.
ASl'N, (UN, Oct. 1 (1), she evidently doesn't know the reason
why we members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
(LC-MS) don't have women in the offices of ordained minis
ters, congregational elders and congregational presidents,
none of which are "hierarchial position," as she put it. The
LC-MS s not a hierarchial body in that each congregation
decides on its own which minister it chooses to hire. All of
t he congregat ional offices are held by the members and are
voted on by their peers, men and women of the congregation.
The reason women cannot be ordained as pastors is a
matter of tradition and symbolism. The minister represents
God our loving Father, and the Church (worldwide) is his
family just as the local congregation is a family, to watch
over and protect. We do not say men are better and repres
ent God himself, but merely the relationship of father to
child, because all are created equal in God's sight. I don't
think anyone can deny that there is a special bond between
a father and his child, a sense of strength to draw on, and
our pastors help us tangibly to see that that is how God
loves us.
In 10 to 20 years we may see the LC-MS change its
position in this area due to pressures from other denomina
tions and maybe even Missouri Synod members themselves.
But in the end it is the members themselves who make this
chioce, and since we LC-MS students are part of this
national body of well over a million people, I don't think
they will decide to change an age-old rule just to please our
ASUN "leaders" and Cynthia Doerr.
If Doerr can't wait for us to change our system but likes
the way Martin Luther taught the Bible, there are at least
three other synods somewhat more liberal than the LC-MS.
They are the Lutheran Church in America, The American
Lutheran Church and the Association of Evangelical Luthe
ran Churches. So as you can see, we are not discriminative
because we Lutherans offer a number of alternatives here
on campus.
Perry T. Sukstorf
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helped our ally, Kohl, by ordaining a
position different from his own on this
delicate issue.
Meanwhile, the defense ministers of
the Atlantic alliance were meeting in
Scotland, and Britain's Defense Minister
George Younger, in the account of
reporter John Cushman, "repeatedly
warned that the elimination of strategic
ballistic missiles would not be wise
unless conventional arms, including
chemical weapons, were also controll
ed." Younger was entirely explicit. His
government "would be extremely con
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strategic ballistic missiles altogether
if there was not at the same time a very
effective and appropriate reduction in
conventional forces."
And the final rebuff: "Beyond the
issues, the almost visionary quality of
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many Western European arms experts,
who said they were not sure Reagan
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