Show firJtiAr ' tt a November 10 1972 Peso 3 Nixon victory suggests new trend David Griffith Senior Writer Is it possible that Nixon’s “sweeping” victory will in some y way jeopardize the To answer it would be system? to the election necessary analyze Nixon gives the impression of a man who used a sledgehammer (or rather had others he trusted use it) to smash a gnat The election of 72 was the greatest landslide for any President in recent hisotry Although FDR’s electoral landslide in 1936 was Nixon set more complete records for percentage of popular two-part- vote However subtract the Man from the election and you may conclude that the Republican party fared much less pressively Few changes imoc- curred in the Congress Nixon boasted of a New American Majority as the base of hiS support: one which is composed of people who crossed party lines to adhere to issues dear to them and who embraced the Man over the Party Such behavior by so vast a number of Americans is a phenomenon worthy of note Senator Bob Doel who is the Republican National Chairman lamented the lack of success by the Republican Party recent history Although FDR’s despite Nixon’s triumph There were no “Republican” banners in the Nixon campaign headquarters he said (R-Kans- The Man-over-the-Par- steadily reforming and expanding Democratic party Dole’s uneasiness may well be justified With no strong Party loyalties to hold them the American electorate may again cross Party “picket” lines to latch onto issues they cherish An of old political favors may have helped the Party get Mr Nixon his landslide this year but the On December 50 I 1972 a million dollar budget proposed cutback in the Bureau of Indian Affairs severely affecting the lives of all Indian people will take effect- This budget cutback was ordered by President Nixon to offset the one billion dollar increase in the National Budget caused by the new Social Security Act The Department of the Interior was ordered to cut its budget by 100 million dollars It is inconceivable that the only agency within the Department of the Interior charged with the “In terms of domestic power responsibility of human lives and influence” Hoover said “his was ordered to absorb half of the time is limited in pretty much the budget cutback same way it is internationally Of the existing 37 separate BIA The second-terpresident is not programs 25 will have less funds in a strong position when next year The single largest cut everyone is looking to the new will be made in education for 225 one” million dollars The cutback will Child eliminate the Another former president 42265 serving Program Dwight Eisenhower suffered children Tribal Summer Emgreat domestic problems as his ployment Programs for 22000 second and final term wound to a Indian teenagers and the Sioux close Hoover pointed out Junior College Program his in “Eisenhower presidential years 1857 and ’58 had the power and support to get many of his programs acted on” Hoover said “but in ’59 and especially in ’60 when he was due to leave office he was virtually Instructor forecasts Nixon power loss t - Allan Walker Staff reporter President Nixon has a strong political hold right now but his power will slowly evaporate as his final term wears on Bob Hoover instructor of political science said Wednesday “A second-terpresident to usually has three years of power wielding and influecne before he feels the pressure of the fact that he will not be back in office” said Hoover Internationally other countires know that they will have to deal with a new man” Hoover said “and because they are uncertain of the quality of the new they are leery of president serious negotiations with the old m two-and-a-h- one” To emphasize this point Hoover cited former President Lyndon Johnson’s last few months in office After Johnson announced that he would not seek Hoover noted his on international influence espeically in the Vietnam took a sharp negotiations decline m Pre-Scho- stumps in 76 it may face a "What - have - you - done - for me” attitude other Republican candidates carried less punch precisely because the President had so little campaign voltage to spare -- Mr Nixon spent millions on his an action perhaps prompted by his fear of own last minute election lapses However the campaigns of many When the Man is gone the New Majority that elected him will look for a new face and shift in the dirction the owner of that face describes And when a majority of that size shifts no party can stand in its way ol Also reduced will be all special programs regarding special reading home coordination counseling and the like through public schools and aid for Navajo Community College Terminated will be contracts with the University of New Mexico Indian Law Program and Masters Degree Programs with Dartmouth University together with the Universities in Georgia Arizona and North Dakota Four large and yet unspecified boarding schools and several small institutions will be closed and no Alaskan Native children will be sent away to school in Wildwood Alaska In an Indian Nation of 850000 these cutbacks affecting the education of Indian students is intolerable The new budget makes no provision for any improvements to Indian programs other than roads In a nation that speaks of exploration of other planets universe with an administration in-th- e that advocates Indian on the Native People cannot accept these cutbacks in an agency charged with their well-bein- g We ask all Native People of this Nation and all American citizens to endorse the following petition demanding that the President restore the 50 million dollars to the Bureau of Indian Affairs budget before the December 1st deadline Petition The Indian students will have a table in the basement of the UC Monday with the following petition — We the concerned Native people of this land and our supporters stand in protest of the 100 million dollar of the Department of the of which 50 million will proposed cutback Interior be taken directly form the budget of the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the direct order of the President of the United States Effective December 1 1972 District 12 anaiyzation powerless” In regards to Nixon’s second term landslide victory Hoover warned that the President doesn’t have as much time as he may think to exercise his influence “Nixon looks awfully powerful right now” Hoover said “but come 1975 and 76 he may find himself being slighted both internationally and domestically” ‘FRANKLY SPEAKING” not clearly visible in the House and Senate When the Party fudenSs petition ty philosophy of the New American Majority apparently makes 76 look a little shakey to Senator Dole The Man will be ineligible so the question is how well the Republican party can perform in a contest with the Man from the accumulation returns on the Party’s efforts are by Phil frank Linda Harmon Senior writer into the issues and exercise their Strike-23- 6 franchise” Dunn-38- 1 Rampton-49Miller-30- Romney-45- 6 The breakdown for campus The 1972 elections are over and student vote in District (district 12) votes is as follows: 12 has been totaled Voter turnout Nixon — 560 McGovern — 194 was good with 76 percent of the Schmitz — 19 McKay-33- 3 voters registered in the campus Wolthius 354 the at polls district showing up This means that 750 out of the 988 people registered actually voted Peter Cook UTAH VOTE the-US- -- director says "I thank very much those people on campus that helped us register voters It was a great year for the youth vote as was demonstrated in the Owens race and I was very much impressed with the young Monson-42- 2 Olsen-39- 5 Karren-37- 7 Baker-24- 3 Lambourne-35- 8 Bullen-42- Waddingham-24- 7 9 0 0 Duncan-31- 6 Jensen-22- 0 Parkinson-24- 5 Thomas-26- 2 cont’d Letters Americans” "We still have a long way to go to get 100 percent voter turn-ou- t in District 12” says Peters “Students should learn from this Transcripts index of a person’s ability and motivation in each area he has studied If a person cannot “cut it” in a particular course he has year’s elections and take more to in the is reference the option to drop it with USU’s This letter interest in country politics get resolution passed (unanimously) liberal drop system If this resolution is adopted at by the Academic (?) Senate one of the removal USU it is only reasonable to concerning one’s work from of full quarter suggest the entire grading and 8 November transcript system be abolished transcript (SL 1972 page 5) for incomplete documents are not Admittedly most persons have valid records by BUI Davis In lieu of a transcript and grades on their college tranenvironmental editor to would which prefer they diploma USU could initiate a script inherent also are system whereby after a specified forget There Thanks to all the people who in the weaknesses present period of time spent at this inentered the “Guess This student-teache- r such as: stitution (studying miscellaneous grading system Mess” contest Other persons conflicts trivia) a student would be issued personality who correctly identified the on the and a certificate allowing him to use cheating plagiarism of a picture were Ivan Palmblad the student’s the initials BS (not to be ability part David Hawkins John Workon with Bachelor of the to and test teach misconstrued professor Christie Anderson man the and his name covered after material Science) Glenn C Doster Gary L course of the realtive difficulty Devries and Roger Sunada material Jay N Shearer Due to the interest shown by these fact The inadequacies Graduate Student Student Life readers prizes not does exist justify the removal will be awarded to all conof grades from a transcript A testants correctly identifying transcript is a record of a per- Wm Calvin James the next “GuesaJEhis Mess” son’s performance at an inGraduate Student contest stitution and itshould alsobe an ItMMm Editor Student Life: More winners 58i-S4-- e: |