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Jacques West Fynbu ARF throws hat into ring; promises to dissolve ASUN By Anne Mohri Senior Reporter Anarchist Relief Front candi dates prom ised Friday that if elected to the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, they will dissolve the body. ♦ ARF candidates include Tim Jacques, president; David West, first vice president; and Jerry Fynbu, second vice president They announced their write-in candidacy Friday in the Selleck television room. Jacques said the party represents people that resent ASUN or want to see it changed. Fynbu said the first step to re structure an organization is to break it apart. “We want to get people aware of what ASUN is doing,” Fynbu said. Jacques said a lot of students see ASUN as a rubber stamp for mem bers. He said they think ASUN members are using it as a resume filler. Jacques originated ARF as a joke party last year. He said he talked about the party idea to his friends and found people supported him. He said ARF supporters arc like presi dential candidate Pat Robertson’s silent army. Jacques said there is a silent majority of people on campus that do not support ASUN. “The trick is getting them to vote,” he said. Fynbu said if ARF is not elected, he hopes other platforms will adopt their ideas. During the last four years, Jac ques said, ASUN members made a few speeches and passed a few reso lutions, but accomplished little. He said that the NU Regents get what they want, no matter what ASUN says. ARF candidates said they do not think ASUN supports students as it should. West said that when the College of Engineering proposed a tuition surcharge last semester, ASUN did nothing to help students. Jacques asked where ASUN was when the nursing and dental col leges were threatened with budget cuts. “The colleges had to campaign on their own to save themselves,” he said. Also, Jacques said ASUN has taken no stand on Greek/residence hall relations. “They (ASUN) act like moms and wave a finger at them,” he said. Letters praising lobbyists urged By Jerry Guenther Staff Reporter Members of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Government Liaison Committee are urging stu dents to write their state senators and commend UNL student lobbyists as part of National Student Lobbyist Day today. Jeff Petersen,GLC chairman, said he hopes students also will write support letters for LB 1041, the fac ulty salary bill. Petersen said the celebration is important because more UNL stu dents need to become involved with education issues that may affect them. “We want to make people more aware of what’s going on and give recognition to the people already lobbying,” Petersen said. Besides appointed student lobby ist, Shawn Ilg, UNL has about 150 GLC members actively lobbying, Petersen said. He said the organiza tion has grown. Petersen said student lobbyists put a lot of time and effort into lobbying but are not paid. GLC lobbyists examine every education bill to see how it affects the university, Petersen said. The group’s priority this year was in creasing faculty salaries, he said. “We feel that it carries such mag nitude that if we spread ourselves in other areas we might lose that inten tion,” Petersen said. Petersen said the student lobbyists have made senators, the NU Board of Regents and other Nebraskans more aware of the faculty salary issue. GLC members’ effort may be rewarded with LB 1041, which will come out of committee soon, Pe tersen said. “No matter what happens with that bill, we will be able to claim victory because of the heightened awareness,” he said. Black education low, speaker says EDWARDS from Page 1 Edwards said. The black community needs to emphasize education more than ath letics, Edwards said. He said 65 to 75 percent of black athletes never graduate from the schools they repre sent. Black athletes improve the image of the black society, Edwards said. The black athlete is the only con sistent, positive role model children sec on television, Edwards said. Television often portrays black people as a clown or a criminal, he said. Edwards said that Bill Cosby was an example of a clown. “Most of the time he’s not laugh ing with us but at us,” he said. Young black people realize when it comes down to respect, it’s the black athlete who gets it, Edwards said. Edwards also spoke against pay ing athletes a salary at universities. ‘‘If they arc being paid they arc no longer students, they are employ ees,” he said. Senior gift votes to be counted today University of Nebraska-Lincoln seniors will have their votes for a senior class gift counted today. The results of the mail survey to determine a gift from the Class of 1988 will be announced later this week. Possible senior gifts include a Career Planning Center endowment fund, a fund for a new computer lab on campus and a fund for the pur chases of telefacsimile and compu terized compact disc database sys tems for Love Library on City Cam pus and C.Y. Thompson Library on East Campus. Voting for a senior gift is one of the first stages of the senior gift proc ess, a tradition the Student Founda tion revived in 1985. Class members will be called March 7-17 by other students solicit ing pledges for the gift. Callers will suggest students pledge a small amount such as $10 for the first year and larger amounts such as $30 in the next three years for a four-year total of $ 100. But pledges are not required. $10,000 raised at UNL auction AUCTION from Page 1 cheap, Ficke said. Surplus at Saturday’s auction in cluded chairs, mirrors, typewriters, copy machines, vacuums, tape re corders and outdated contraptions for specialized work in departments. 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