1 Opinion And the winner is... New government holds promise of change forASUN Wow. One of the most intriguing elections we’ve seen has ended. Two parties started the process last semester. Two others jumped in this spring. The four of them took us on a ride we’d never imagined in December. We predicted it would be the same ol’-same ol’ come March 1. Now we can look forward to change. The A-Team and Duff threw the two parties who were called traditional for a loop with their aggressive advertising tactics and strong remarks. And those efforts swayed enough students to get A-Team into the run-off election - something most, including A-Team, thought was going to involve Impact and Empower. And the A-Team reallv. reallv threw With the A- Empower for a loop. f _ With the A-Team’s win Wednesday TeCOTl S wifi night, things will change in student JJ/ si si government. Wednesday Fresh ideas will be taken into nicrht thincrv account. New people will grace the rl Lgrll, LrlL rig,> floor of the ASUN office. will change The Impact and Empower senators & will be working with a president with in Student no P^or loyalties. Even if there are bad feelings, senators must learn to work government. with Joel Schafer and Riley Peterson. It’ll be a learning experience for everyone. That’s what college is all about, after all. The voters picked the A-Team - a pair of men with no expe rience. As we’ve said before, this will be an asset to the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska. But even more, this election, with each party boasting a dif ferent face, sparked a fire on this campus. It gave people some thing to talk about. The A-Team contributed with its out-of-the-ordinary adver tising. Duff added its push for a wet campus - something that most parties wouldn’t even start to tackle. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say we’ve heard more, and even talked more, about student government this spring than since we started college. What’s more, the presence of two underdog parties and the fact one of them actually won, may encourage more students to run next year. We need more than two parties running for ASUN, and we need new ideas in ASUN. The A-Team proved that the non-traditional parties served more purpose than to be a sounding box for those who challenge the establishment. Editorial Board Josh Funk (editor) • J.J. Harder • Cliff Hicks • Samuel McKewon • Dane Stickney • Kimberly Sweet • Lindsay Young Letter Policy The Daily Nebraskan welcomes brief letters to the editor and guest columns, but docs not guarantee their publication. The Daily Nebraskan retains the right to edit or reject any submis sions.Submitted material becomes property of the Daily Nebraskan and cannot be returned. Anonymous material will not be published. Those who submit letters must identify them selves by name, year in school, major and/or group affiliation, if any. Submit material to: Daily Nebraskan, 20 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Lincoln. Neb. 68588-0448 or e-mail to: letters^unl.cdu Editorial Policy Unsigned editorials are the opinions of the spring 2000 Daily Nebraskan. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, its employees, its student body or the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. A col umn is solely the opinion of its author. The Board of Regents acts as publisher of the Daily Nebraskan; policy is set by the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. The7UNL Publications Board, established by the regents, supervises the publication of the paper. According to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of its student employees. The Daily Nebraskan strives to print fair and accurate coverage; any corrections or clarifica tions will be printed on page three. Obermeyer’s VIEW i-_-1 Quat'Zooo Letters to the EDITOR Ethics, not pessimism David Baker, your pessimism annoys me. I am offended by your generalizations about CBA students (March 7, DN). You say we are not concerned about “humanity or human rights.” Granted, big business often creates