thiirsday, mcrch 17, 1977 psga4 daily nebrsskan Arthur Hso Carter on sex, diapers highlight tonight's news "Good evening. This is the six o'clock Nightly News 1 with Barbara Chancellor in New York and Harry Cronkite Studsnts work ams each other in Washington. Barbara?" ag "Good President Carter took an rises for evening. interesting Calling ASUN a government almost seems to be elections and crippled this year's Senate stand on sex today. For that story, here is Richard C. a misnomer. The tangled web of student govern- an encore. Levine at the U.S. Bureau of Mines." to ment, Student Court, appointed boards and coun- It is impossible for any student government "Thank you, Barbara. In a session in the each cils has entangled its spiders leaving them power- work when students constantly work against cafeteria here today, the President told more than 500 less and inactive. The student government system other. Bureau employees that if they were over 45, they should is a travesty of the democracy it purports to be. Student Court is pitted against ASUN. Greeks engage in sex no more than once a week and only with as well as themselves. their spouses. He warned that middle-age- d males were Student Court waits until the before work against other Greeks, night the ASUN elections will cost about six times more prone to heart attacks when having ASUN elections to rule on alleged illegal actions Delaying with women than if $900 in new ballots, new signs and new adver--, amorous .dalliances younger they have the Senate all semester. I 'safe at home' with their wives. that plagued Then, This be the time to ask if it's all were - and quote - "when court decide tising. might the justices get together they it. Harry?" not to decide. need more time to worth "Thank Richard. Earlier today, the President They ungarble Student Court is to be criticized for not taking you, "the mess," as justice Don Wesely described it. spent 30 minutes answering the switchboard at 1600 swifter action on the suit to abolish ASUN. Any For that let's Instead of following the court's action, or in- Pennsylvania Avenue. story, go to Irving R. momentum that the campaign had gained in the at the White House. ASUN President Bill Mueller tries to pro- Mudd Irving?" action, few weeks will be lost the time spring ceed elections. held in past by with the Being contempt break is over. the with the of court, by proceeding elections, It is such of low morale that does not bother him. - during periods powerful groups sweep in to gain control. Maybe However, his whims were blocked. Election Spring Break will offer students the breath of commissioners were meeting at 2 a.m. There were fresh air they need for the final round. innocent bystander rumors of the Council on Student Life meeting But maybe fresh air is the whole problem. at 4 a.m. After all, who can think of classes, government And behind it all the mysterious Greek slate and politics when everyone is playing tennis and "Thank you, Harry. In his continuing effort to keep in operates. The machine that controlled last year's riding bikes? touch with the people, Mr. Carter donned a headset, plugged into a caller and said, White House, Jimmy Carter speaking.' Unfortunately, the caller refused to believe he Marx disguises. was talking to the President and after half an hour the two Greek If the SECRET and Independent organizations , men wound up shouting at each other. Barbara?" , we can think they can play Spy Games, so do we. Only Caller doing well them better because we have a better lead -- letters play Gary "Thank you Irving. That caller, by the way, has now Abel's infamous remark, "Wow! Sixteen? Whoops." been identified as Milton N. Haberdash of Heasantville, So have information on these SECRET if you any Illinois. Doctors at the Samaritan Hospital there say he is it to Groucho organizations, please slip any trenchcoated, doing very well after suffering what they described as a Trenchcoat potties Marx'd woman who is around slinking campus looking rnild heart attack.' Harry?" recent-SECRE- on illus- under TNE'd MECA'd cam- In view of happenings this every , Raction'd, or rock on "Thank you, Barbara. The President also found time the esteemed ASUN trious campus concerning elections, pus. today to deliver his economic message to Congress. He we have form SECRET We are bored with the all in- decided to our own organization manipulative antics of made the walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to Capitol Hill the WSOICOSOCIMOSPIBGI. "The Women's volved. Next let's an election based the issues, record-breakin- two-tent- - Or, year, try on and back in a 42 minutes, 12 and hs Secret Organization to Investigate Certain Others Secret without the games. Or we may pull a Woodward and seconds. After that, he set another historic first. Certain Illustrious Bernstein Trick and Organizations on Campus Involving Expose the Spies. Catherine Hottelet has that story." Student Members of Our Student Population Including Very Secretly Yours, Changing diapers Both Greeks and Independents". We will be SECRETLY Matahari Joan Bond '"""" "Thank you, Harry. Mr. Carter today became the first is mid -- between 99 Drew ;: meeting every Tuesday night (which way Agent Nancy President to change a baby's in the Lincoln and at Wonder Woman Bionic Woman diaper Monday Wednesday hint, hint.), Horsefeathers, Bedroom on television. The subject was his new grandson, under the in dark and Maxine Smart Charlie's tables, trenchcoats, glasses Groao Angels James Earl Carter IV. The President said he "really enjoyed' the experience. Barbara?" . "Thank you, Cassie. But Jimmy Carter wasn't the only one in the news today. Amy Carter received a B-pl- us in ms rm STvmcH her social studies class and Billy Carter had an important r mi announcement. Here's Bernard Kuralt in Plains." i ' mm m?mm (mm "Thank Barbara. Billy Carter disclosed m TT"" ""1 Y you, through his agent today that he will star as a simple, homespun, I' " gas station attendant in a Broadway musical he is financing called, T Never Promised You a Beer Garden.' Harry?" "Thank you, Bernie. And lastly, here's a comment from David Severeid. David?" "Thank you, Harry. I think we must all realize that the President bean an awesome responsibility and only time will tell. Barbara?" "Thank you, David. This has been the Nightly News A Villi A from around the world. Thank you for watching." M (Copyright Chronek Co. H W PubsiiJiircg 1277) Not'all freshmen, freshwomen are - freshpersons It seems but a from a these uses Begimers. unbelievable, clipping Undoubtedly colloquial of myself originate middle of the 18th Century, according to the big Oxford student sent this Marion in a about when university newspaper way by timidity it is proper to use and when it dictionary. The school is quite wide- C. Friedman is to use me.- - The of Philadelphia speaks twice, quite seriously, proper self words are best used for two spread, but how and why it came into being is a mystery. of first-yea-r students as freshpersons. "Not all freshmen or purposes: for emphasis, as in, "The A " guests enjoyed my freshwomen are freshpersons, she writes. "Some of them cooking and I must say I enjoyed it myself" and for Word oddities. Skillful in the use of both hands is reflexive are very courteous young people." Bet they can't wait to purposes: "She dressed Arodquickly." called ambidextrous. But what is the word for skillful in become at that sophomores university. the use of both feet? That is what Phillip Brick of Marion, Crazy word. "It may be, a recent article said, "that Curent cent A relatively new piece of jargon has drivers will be going bonkers when they realize that it will Ark., was searching for. caught on in the fashion industry: It is the word knockoff, take two more years to complete rebuilding of a mile of He was working on a paper on soccer and needed such a which means a copy or reproduction of a design or this highway." The word bonkers, meaning mad, crazy, word. He tried dictionaries, professors and a podiatrist and material displayed by an expensive fashion house. The was originally British naval slang dating back to the 1920s, got nowhere. So he decided to check his Latin roots and invent . but it crossed the Atlantic to this side and came into fairly a word. What he came up with is enbipeddi-trous- wide use early in this decade. It is almost always used in which he says he has checked out in accordance the phrase go bonkers. Nope, no connection with with Latin. I can't quite see a sports writer using that Yonkers. word in reporting a soccer game, but what else is there? Something like 'bipedaUty perhaps. Cut I would vote bernstein on words Diction-cry- . A reader, John J. Harris of Kenner, Ix, for Mr. Brick's word in such a contest. asls me to "go to work cn the misuse of the word ICJ t377 Theodora ti. Esrisgtsia diction. " "It is widely misused, he goes on, "in that it is is to nuke the idea, of course, money by selling pilfered generty called upon to suggest excellence of speech, far lower than that the fehioa at a price charged by particulate m such areas as enunciation, pronunciation originator. Ha jargon word is a coon, which' might be and accent. A person's diction is his effectiveness or ' - - sale Store s used this way: "The scarves on at the Big ineffectiveness in selecting words to express his thou-t- rr J " - are a knockoff. either in writing or speaking. I'm afraid I shall hare to ir :;:. trg off going to work on the job outlined by Mr. Harris. r i i.. ... , ..... J Myself. The use of tnysdf for or me is without The employment of diction to mean manner cf utter- question broader than it should be, but I am not sure it ing words, pronunciation, enunciation is not a misuse of is becoming more and more common, as June Gosjlan of the word. Diction has two meanings. The first one is the she Aurora, Iowa, sys it is in a letter sent this way. Cut manner cf expression or effective selection of words. The is correct in dcrlcrir? such phrases as "on behalf of my second one his to do with elocution or " enunciation and it staff ar.J rtys2f and "between Gladys and myself. is not a new meaning; it has been in existence since the