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Friday, February 27, 1987 -Daily Nebraskan Candidates: changes could improve ASUN ASUN from Page 1 Candidat es from the HUGE and TREK parties came out against a vote because st udents don't have the time to research the issues, they said. In their closing statements, candi dates urged students to vote and high lighted their issues. Burke said NUdeal will use new approaches to solve existing problems. Students should remember to vote for quality, which FROG has, Jensen said. Students should not turn the election into a popularity contest, he said. Pollock said Unite candidates have had previous government experience and "won't be stepping in cold." Uni te's goals are high, Pollock said, but realistic, Dynek said AIM candidates are qual ified and know student needs. AIM represents all the students, not to gen erate support or votes, "but because it is right," Dynek said. Showalter whipped out an American flag and said, "we have a dream," along with other cliches to show that HUGE is the American dream. "A vote for HUGE is a vote for fun, freedom and surfing," he said. Porter closed with an impromptu statement because, he said, prepared statements are "1)0 percent show and 10 percent honesty." Some of TREK's ideas for campaigning may be strange, but they're serious about the univer sity, Porter said. Porter then said goodbye to the crowd with the Vulcan hand greeting. Letter DN coverage shows blacks in negative light I do not usually feel the need to comment on the productivity of the Daily Nebraskan, but over the last cou ple of weeks, I have been quite infur iated by a few of the articles printed. I find that in these cases the DN is mak ing a grand effort to effect ively humil iate and discriminate against black people. You have done this by not only printing certain articles, but also by highlighting particular articles. I understand that you want to bring as much news as possible to the read ers. I failed to see the necessity in printing the article on Doug DuBose's being arrested in the privacy of his own home (DN, Jan. 22). . I am very appalled that the DN approved the printing of the story of former Nebraska football player Johnny Rodgers (DN, Jan. 30). Did you think anyone at NU really worries about the football players of yesterday? Better yet, did you stop to wonder how his son, Terry Rodgers, is reacting to this arti cle along with adjusting to the com ments made about his father? You disappointed me greatly by printing an article last semester on Martin Luther, a person who lacked religious tolerance, and failed to clar ify the difference between Martin Luther and Martin Luther King, Jr. Another case in point is the DN's coverage of Paul Stewart, a former UNO professor, and his alleged criminal past. Each DN article about Stewart made reference to his wife. Reference to Ruth Witherspoon is irrelevant to the charges alleged against Stewart. When the DN reported on Tom Osborne and possible NCAA violations no refer ence was made to his wife, Nancy Osborne. When the Daily Nebraskan reports on blacks the story is usually related to sports or wrongdoings. Excellent arti cles could be printed about black peo ple and black events but either are not covered at all or not covered effec tively. For instance, the DN could write an article on Black History Month or some events that take place on campus during the month. This unnecessary lack of efficient productivity will no longer be tolerated. In the future, I would appreciate the Daily Nebraskan's considering the consequences of printing stories that may unnecessarily cause damage to the personal standing of any individual and making an effort to effectively print the many positive facts about blacks and other minorities. Traci M. 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That may be why the president's enemies are hanging on for dear life to the "discrepancy" between the recol lection of former NSC director Robert McFarlane that Reagan orally approved Isreal's initial sale of anit-tank mis siles to Iran in August 1985, and the recollection of practically everybody else in the White House that Reagan only gave the go-ahead for such sales in January 1986. Unfortunately for his critics, nothing much (from the president's standpoint) seems to hinge on whether he gave his approval in August or January. From McFarlane's standpoint, there is a dif ference, since if there was no presiden tial approval in August, McFarlane was apparently countenancing a technically illegal Israeli sale. But the basic instinct of the Ameri can people in this entire affair is sound. We are being treated to yet another Watergate-style extravaganza, with the significant difference that this time there was no high-level crim inal conspiracy and no presidential cover-up. 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