Lambda Nu Today T*-V%,u.K WiuiAltl VHIU THEUM 'V t!; ME Ho I Lambda Nu's Homecoming display. Lambda Nu's Purple Legionnaire Recognized Congratulations are in order for Pat Ash, the 1987 first runner-up for the Durrance Award for Bar Association's Governmental Practices Com mittee and has been active on various commit outstanding Purple Legionnaire. Ash, a 1967 graduate from UNL and Lambda Nu's Purple Legionnaire, won the coveted award Judges of the American Bar Association's Judicial Administration Division, including serv at the 1987 Fiji Academy held at Ohio State. ing as a faculty advisor and lecturer at the Na Ash has been Purple Legionnaire since 1985. During this time he has never missed a chapter tees of the Conference of Administrative Law tional Judicial College at the University of Nevada—Reno. meeting. As ex-officio chairman of the Board of The 1982 Coulter Cup nominee is not just an Chapter Advisors, he still attends all meetings of overseer but is also a friend and brother. He has the B.C.A. as well as the house corporation. He at tends all house retreats as well as every Pig Din as our liability. ner. He was present at the Ekklesia in 1986 and at the Academy in 1987. To say Ash is well liked is an understatement. At the 1987 house retreat, 99% of the chapter rated Along with all the time he spends helping Phi Pat Ash as an above-average Purple Legionnaire. Lambda Nu is.proud to call Pat Ash our Purple Gamma Delta, Ash is also very successful as an attorney. He has been chief administrative law judge of the Nebraska Appeal Tribunal for four teen years. He is a member of the Nebraska State always shown great concern for our safety as well Legionnaire. —Steve Luby \r\nPage 2 W Cabinet President Treasurer Joey Friedman Joe Petty Recording Secretary Corresponding Secretary Kevin O'Farrell Rob Abel Historian JimSchuele Board of Chapter Advisors Greg Sawyers Chairman Dick Garden Chapter Administration and Fraternity Law Chuck Clifford Graduate Relations NealWestphal Public Relations President's Message Hello brothers! As winter and the end of the semester approach, the studying by the brothers and the pledges is on the rise. With only a few days left in the semster, the active chapter is still shooting for above a 3.0 accumulative average. During the weekend of the Oklahoma game, 55 brother Fijis traveled fron Norman to spend the weekend with us. 1 can honestly say the weekend was enjoyed by all. The chapter also had a great for mal at the Red Lion Inn in Omaha on Friday, December 4. Curt McConnell Kevin Underwood Ken Hunter Rush Ritual Chapter Finances success. For those brothers in the Omaha and Lin Joe Grant Pledge Education coln area, the Omaha Graduate Chapter is sponsor Tim Wentz Pat Ash Scholarship Purple Legionnaire Ex-Officio Since our last newsletter, the Chapter held its an nual Pig Dinner on November 6, which was a great ing its annual Christmas Luncheon at the Regency Best Western in Omaha on December 28. For more information, contact either the chapter house or Lewis Leigh in Omaha. I know the undergraduates, as well as the graduates, would like to have a large House Corporation turnout. Walt Stephenson, Jr., Lynn Lightner Tom Fitchett, Jeff Freed Don Larson, Jerry Soloman Brothers, I hope you all have an enjoyable Christmas and New Year! Like I have said in the past, if you are going to be near the campus, please come on in and we will show you all of the past year's improvements around the house. Fraternally, StaH Joey Friedman Editor Assistant Editor Staff Bob Nelson Rob McGabe Steve Luby Dave Carl Dave Gunner The Lambda Nu Today is published four times dur ing the school year by the Lambda Nu chapter of Phi Gamma Delta for its graduate brothers, friends, and Fijis everywhere. Please send any news, information or comments to: Editor, Lambda Nu Today 1421 No. 26th Street Lincoln, NE 68508 w \r\nI Page 3 jPhi Gams faced with new challenge Intramural sports have always been a high priority to members of Phi Gamma Delta. In the last three years, Fijis have been tremendously successful in these extracurricular activities. This year is no dif ferent. However, this year a new rivalry other than the ATOs has developed. Sigma Phi Epsilon has emerged as the thorn in the Fiji's side. The Fiji's closely trail the Sig Eps in all university points. So far this year, the Phi Gams have gained all university wins in golf, inner-tube basketball, and Olympic weightlifting. Some events that the Fijis are also doing well in have not been finished yet. Intramural Chairman Jon Snare said he was op timistic that Phi Gamma Delta will do well in these Four Fijis hamming it up for the camera at an early season football game. final events and should be able to pass the Sig Eps m all university points. He said many of the Fijis' strongest events will come next semester. Fiji Spotlight on Bob Kerrey As Bob Kerrey sat in his Lincoln office in the Printon and Kaine suite at Gold's Galleria, he spoke like a seasoned politician. Eloquent yet down-to-earth; serious and dedicated but still flaunting a sense of humor. Whether you believe there is more to Bob Kerrey — what it takes to be a U.S. Senator — is up to you. But whether you're a republican or a democrat, you must admit, Kerrey is charismatic. Kerrey was raised in Lincoln. He went to the University of Nebraska and majored in Pharmacy. He was an undergraduate member of Phi Gamma Delta during the early 1960s. Kerrey was president of the Q: Why are you running for Senate? Kerrey: The ultimate decision for me was based on the belief that I could make a difference. I believe I'm reasonably good at politics. It just seems right for me. Q: What kept you from announcing earlier? Kerrey: Really it was a whole list of things. The private- side mainly. I didn't spend my whole life waiting for the opportunity to be governor. After graduation, Kerrey served in the Navy as a Q: Why didn't you run for a second term as governor? Kerrey: I've never been a professional politician. I demolitions officer in Vietnam. Kerrey came back to ran for governor on a promise that I would serve four house in 1965. Nebraska and started up in business. In 1982 he ran years and I did. Not on a promise to work eight years. as a democratic candidate for governor of Nebraska. Kerrey won the election and served four years as governor. After four years he decided not to run for a second term. Kerrey then returned to business and It may have been smart to declare I would serve for four years and that would be it. This would have kept everybody from laboring over why I didn't run again also taught political science on the high school and been hashed about and have begun to get a little college level. After months of speculatioq -and boring. There were a variety of reasons and all of them have delayed announcements, Kerrey said in November that he would run for the U.S. Senate. See Kerrey Interview continued on page 5 \r\nPage 4 The 1987 Pig Dinner Like usual, the 1987 Norris Pig Dinner was a big success. The guest speaker at this year's dinner was brother Dick McFarland, president of U.S. West. Photos from top: and three undergraduate Fijis enjoying their meal at the University Club. Brother received Middle: The banquet room of the University Club. The Pig Dinner paddle can be seen just left of center. Bottom: Brother who was the 1987 symposiarch? —Photos by Mitch Lewis \r\nPage 5 KorrGy IntGrVlGW(continued from page 3) Q; Was it tough for you to come out of business and Q: Why did you get into the restaurant business? go into a campaign? It seems in politics you have to Kerrey: My brother-in-law and I just decided to build be nice to everyone. one. It sounded like a good idea. That was Grand mother's up in Omaha. We built it in 1972. We built Kerrey: That's not true, I think that you do have to consider other people. At my best, my private stan dards — that is to say the golden rule — is a stan dard that I ought to be able to maintain in business or politics. I shouldn't have to take off the hat I wear in church and put on my business hat to come into my business life. It's the same for politics. I think in politics you do have to deal with a variety of people. In business, it's much different how you organize and accomplish something than it is in representative democracy. In democracy you're always working for 51%. You've got to convince some one who is not your employee. Editor's Note IP -V by Bob Nelson the first one in Lincoln in 1976. Then we built a bowl ing alley and a health and fitness place out west. Q: Were you asked to run for governor? Kerrey: No, I just decided to run. Nobody came to me first. I talked to some people and they encouraged me. It's the same thing I did for this race except in 1982 nobody really cared who 1 was. Q: You must have had a great campaign manager to get a political unknown into office. Kerrey: Not only campaign manager but a lot of other people as well. You know campaigns can be terrific fun if you don't take yourself too seriously. The cause is impor tant, the effort's important, but if you begin to take to live if the "real world" is actually worse than yourself too seriously you set yourself up to be really disappointed. You've got to understand that you put a name out there that is separate from your actual self. By that I mean Bob Kerrey — the name — is go ing to get trashed in this senatorial race. They're go ing to call me all sorts of things in order to make me finals week. look bad. You can't take it personally. All I ever hear from graduates is how much tougher the "real world" is compared to college. I'm writing this article on the first day of finals week. I admire each and every one of you that continues Finals week aside, I think I can safely say it's been a good semester for the members of Phi Gam ma Delta. Everything from grades to intramurals to parties have been at least at par with past years, if not better. I think Lambda Nu has gotten into a great trend of being able to have loads of fun and still do very well in academics and campus ac tivities. To me, this seems like the perfect college experience. I kind of got myself in a bind in the last newsletter by saying I'd do a Fiji Spotlight on ex-governor Bob Kerrey. He is an extremely busy man; especially now that he is organizing his campaign for the U.S. Senate race. I had three interview times with him that got canceled. It was not until a few days ago that I was able to interview him. I received one letter before I did the interview from a brother in Washington, D.C. He suggested that the next Fiji spotlight be on Hal Daub's brother who is also a Fiji. That's not a bad idea at all but I'm afraid our brother has the idea that the newsletter is now a political forum. I apologize if anyone feels that this issue's spotlight is some kind of unfair press for Kerrey. I am flattered, though, that someone believes the newsletter is that important. I guess everything's important during an election year. I think the interview with the ex-governor went pretty well. It lasted about forty minutes so-I had to cut out a lot of It to fit into this newsletter, f realize it kind of dominates — size-wise — the content of the newsletter, but what the heck. Q:So you looking for people to throw mud at you? Kerrey: No, but I fully expect it to happen. There's also other disappointments that in many ways are even greater. Friends who say they can't support you. They say they're going to support so meone else. Good friends. That really hurts. Q: To me, it seems like a political campaign would be a nightmare. Kerrey: It's not, it's a great collective effort. People volunteering to help. It's not quite like the civil war. but people are taking a stand with you. You've got to regard that with great respect. Q: How do you think your Vietnam record affects public opinion of you. Kerrey: It's overrated. I don't think people should say, "Oh, gee, he did all these wonderful things in Vietnam so he'll be a great senator." I don't think it follows at all. Q: What ifyou had run ten years ago? Kerrey: Ten years ago I probably would have run and not told anyone I had been in Vietnam. No, it's really not quite that bad, but I did have friends that left the fact that they were in Vietnam off their resumes. The fact that you were in Vietnam just sits differently with people today. See Kerrey Interview continued on page 5 \r\nKerr6y IntGrvieW (continued from page S) Q: You were teaching for awhile. How did you like Another substance that is of greater concern to that? me — in many ways — is alcohol. 1 think that the il Kerrey: Terrific. It was great fun. It's hard work, though. It was harder than I thought. Particularly ati the high school level. There it's a smaller class with greater intensity. 1 found myself doing four or five hours preparation for a one-hour class. It's a lot dif ferent than giving a political speech. When you teach, you actually have to deliver information. You don't have to say anything in a political speech if you don't want to. legal use of marijuana is infinitesimal to the illegal use of alcohol — both by our young people and on Q: How did your time as president of the Fiji house affect you later in life? Kerrey: It's not something 1 did with the idea of enter ing politics. Being house president undoubtedly helped. It's a democratic organization that we — as a group of students — control. Q:How did you decide tojoin the house? Kerrey: My brother was a Fiji. That was probably the reason 1 was considered in the first place. For me there was never really much doubt. the nation's highways. Q: Do you think we should hold political figures to higher standards? This question is mainly concern ing the recent attacks on politicians'morality. Kerrey: 1 do think we should hold our representatives to higher standards. 1 think anybody that's elected to a higher office realizes those standards m a hurry. This goes back to the changed values between the '60s and the '80s. In the '60s, it was almost a positive sanction in the Phi Gam house to see how drunk we could get. And we did. The drunker you could get the better. It required significant discipline to say "no" to excessive use. Q: We need to end this with something light, What do you think of Oklahoma? Kerrey: Good state. 0: The football team. 0: How do you feel about the bandwagoning the press has done on issues like marijuana? Kerrey: 1 know. I was as disappointed as anyone when we lost that game. I'm amused at how impor Kerrey: There is relevance to moral issues like that. tant the game became to me, compared to how unimportant it really is. How we can — as adults — sit up there and get disappointed enough to impair our health is beyond me. But 1 do. The context of the '80s is different than the context of the '60s. 1 think there are illegal substances like marijuana that get more attention than they should. 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