Friday, March 23, 1934
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 83 No. 127
By Brnd Kulin
Five minutes before Wednesday
night's Students with Hart meeting, a
campaign worker taped a hand-lettered
sign on the front wall of the
upstairs suite at the Nebraska Union.
The sign, and another on the door,
were the only things resembling but
tons, banners and bumper stickers
normally identified with political cam
paigns. Students with Hart, the student wing
of the Gary Hart presidential cam
paign in Lincoln, had the meeting to
mobilize fund-raising and vote can
vassing efforts.
asked for creativity, but said it must be
"low-budget creativity."
The group has scheduled two fund
raising events. On March 29, it plans to
have a wine and cheese party at Com
monplace, 333 N. 14th St. It has re
served the Drumstick, 547 N. 48th St.,
for a benefit April 2, featuring three
bands. The bands will be announced as
soon as they can be confirmed.
Jason Becker, president of Lincoln
High School Young Democrats, said,
"at least Hart won't hurt the nation
any more than Reagan has."
Allan Busch, a UNL freshman and
former Republican, said he likes Hart
because, "I think he understands the
Students were encouraged to read problems of today.'
notes, articles and pamphlets placed
on the front table.
Deb Carlson, student coordinator
for the group, asked people not to take
literature.
"We don't even have materials to dis
tribute in our booth," she sfaid.
Chaunce MacLean, a member of the
Nebraska Water Conservation Council
and a UNL graduate, was more spec
ific. "Hart has a defense policy based on
usability," MacLean said. "Why should
we spend billions of dollars on wea-
Carlson turned the meeting over to pons we're not going to use?" he asked.
former state Sen. Steve Fowler, MacLean added that he liked Hart's
now director of Gov. Bob Kerrey's pol- environmental policy. He said Hart
icy research office. Fowler is one of wants to reconcile business interests
many local Democrats mobilizing the with environmental protection. He said
Hart campaign under state coordina- he thinks Hart will be able to stop what
tor John Cavanaugh. MacLean calls "$1 billion giveaways"
Fowler invited each of the 40 people like the Norden Dam project,
in the room to introduce themselves Joe Nigro, an attorney in Lincoln, is
and tell the others what he or she liked helping coordinate the . effort to con
about Hart, tact voters: Nigro, a graduate of the
About half the students said they UNL Law College, said what a lot of
did not want to vote for Reagan or students hinted at. - -
Scholars discuss pluralism
as approach to knowledge
UNL's Center for Continuing Ed
ucation is the site this weekend for
the first national conference on crit
ical pluralism.
Dr. James Ford, conference chair
man and assistant professor of Eng
lish at UNL, said critical pluralism is
an alternative way to approach know
ledge. ' This new method is a systematic
use of several approaches, all of
which are grounded in the nature of
the object and of the inquiring mind,
he said.
He defined the method as an "ap
proach to literary knowledge ground
ed in a philosophical stance."
The new field challenges the two
traditional schools of dogmatism
and relationism, which hold that
facts can be independent of the
observation process, and that opin
ion is dependent on individual ex
perience. Seventy-two teachers and stud
ents of the humanities have regis
tered for the conference, which start
ed Thursday and runs through Saturday.
Ten internationally-known scho
lars of philosophy, literature, his
tory and speech communications
will present training sessions on the
pluralist approach to the human
ities. Major presenters will include Ken
neth Burke, literary theorist and
author of more than 200 articles
and 20 books, and Andrew Reck, the
foremost American historian of phi
losophy. Richard McKeon, the
founder of one of the two main
streams of critical pluralism, also
will speak.
Ford, who organized the confer
ence, said the purpose of the event
is to bring pluralists and their critics
together to test the principles of the
method.
The conference is sponsored by a
grant from the Nebraska Commit
tee for the Humanities and the UNL
departments of English, philosophy,
and speech communications, and
the College of Arts and Sciences.
The journal Critical Inquiry is co
sponsoring the event and publish
ing conference papers.
Hopple named summer editor
Walter Mondale. Others spoke of bet
ter military policy, environmental con
cerns and a new idealism.
Fowler said the. group has a lot of
. talent, but not a lot of coordination. He
"There aren't any guarantees. But,
sooner or later, Americans are going to
have to decide it's time for a change. I
think Gary Hart is the man who will
make those changes."
The UNL Publications Board an
nounced Tuesday night that Lauri Hop
ple willbe editor-in-chief of the Daily
-Nebraskan for the summer session:: ' -"
Hopple, a sophomore news-editorial
major, is a graduate of Bellevue West
High School. Her mother and step
father, Col. Donald and LuAnn Harris,
live in Panama. Her father, Jim Hopple,
Nehraskans go south for peace vigil
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Like many others, UNL Spanish in
structor Suzy Prenger is heading south
during spring break. But instead of
relaxing in sun-splashed South Padre
Island, Texas, Prenger will journey
farther south to war-torn Nicarag
ua. Prenger, also a graduate student in
education, and 17 members of the
Nebraska Witness for Peace delegation
will spend a week distributing medical
and school supplies in Leon and Oco
tal, two Nicaraguan border towns.
In the process, Prenger said, they
hope to provide Nicaraguan citizens
with evidence of North American con
cern. The trip is part of a nationwide
coordinated effort sponsored by the
Ecumenical Development Agency, a
branch of Church World Service. The
first goodwill dispatch occurred last
year, Prenger said.
"A national Witness for Peace group
of 150 people went to the Nicaragua
Honduras border last July," she said.
"They conducted prayer vigils and
peace vigils and, for a while, the fight
ing subsided."
Since then, delegations from indi
vidual states have taken turns visiting
the area.
During the week, Prenger said, the
delegation will stay in schools and
churches. Private homes also have
been offered, she said. '
"Here are people who have very lit
tle, monetary-wise, offering us their
homes," Prenger said. "It's heartening
to know they treat us as individuals."
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Goodwill mission
NICARAGUA
Prenger said she does not deny the
possibility of danger, especially in light
of recent attacks on Ocotal by CIA
supported counter forces.
"We can't guarantee safety, but we
will be as cognizant of risk as we possi
bly can," she said.
No one from earlier delegations has
been hurt, Prenger said, although one
group saw a bus traveling in front of
them hit a land mine. Prenger called
the event "a very sobering experience"
and said the Nebraska team will not
travel on the same road.
Prenger said an increasing sense of
urgency for peaceful negotiations was
the group's motivation for making the
trip. .
"We would like to see a change in the
direction of U.S. policy," Prenger said,
"because the two countries have so
much in common and present U.S.
actions are misdirected."
If the United States doesn't attempt
to change policy, its relationship with
Nicaragua will further polarize, she
said. The Nicaraguan government now
has to divert money from educational
development and health care to fund
the fight against U.S.-backed troops,
she said.
Prenger said claims that the United
States is protecting Nicaragua from a
Communist threat are ill-founded and
ironic.
"In the first place, Nicaragua is a
sovereign nation and has the right to
develop as it desires," Prenger said.
'Secondly, if you look at the US. govern
ment's long history of aligning with
petty dictators who encourage unrest,
ou can see why the alternative be
comes attractive."
"I think if the U.S. government left
Nicaragua alone, the influence of com
munism would be very weak," Prenger
said. .
is a corporate lawyer in Columbus,
Ohio.
A member of Pi Beta Phi sorority,
'Hopple has' worked at' the Daily Ne-;
braskan for three semesters as a gen
eral assignment reporter, police re
porter and currently as associate news
editor.
She also was sports editor of her
high school newspaper, The West Wind,
and activities section of her high school
yearbook.
"The summer paper will be more
feature-oriented," Hopple said. It will
look more like a magazine with more
in-depth stories and photos."
In the summer session, - the Daily
Nebraskan is published twice a week:
Publication begins at pre-session and
ends after the second summer session.
Hiring will begin after spring break.
To be staff members, students must
have taken spring courses or be en
rolled in summer or fall sessions.
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Inside
LASCO members will march
Saturday along Centennial Mall
to protest the American presence
in Central America Pago 3
Republicans and Democrats
need to work together to reduce
federal deficits. Pago 4
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film features some home grown
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