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By Jeif Browne
and Mona Z. Koppelman
Daily Nebraskan Senior Editors
KANSAS CITY - Kansas City's Great
Debate is over, but a larger debate may
be brewing among America's two major
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Walter Mondaie and President Rea- .
gan grappled in the second of their
celebrated debates Sunday night at the
music hall in Municipal Auditorium. The
winner still is a matter of perspective.
Mondaie campaign manager Tom
Beckel said there was no doubt in hi3 .
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"You heard it here first," Beckel said.
''We're two and 0. He beat Reagan every
where. I think Mondaie walked away
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Lee Atwater, an assistant press Secre
tary for the Reagan campaign, saw the
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debate with different eyes.
"I think Mondaie got rode hard and
put up wet " Atwater said.
Atwater said by Mondale's own omis
sion that the challenger had to win and
that he had to win big. He doesn't think
Mondaie woiran&r"T ' '" r.: T
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, in town to.,
lead an anti-Central America interven
tion demonstration, said Mondaie was
the better man. Jackson said Mondaie
obviously was more prepared and had
massed more information for the
debate.
No matter who the winner was,
Atwater said Mondaie has little chance
to win the election. He said Mondaie has"
no base and that the Democrat will not
even carry the Midwest.
Atwater challenged the press with a
$1,000 bet that Reagan will carry the
Midwest.
Beckel, obviously, had a different view
of the coming two weeks.
"Hubert Humphrey was about the
same percentage points behind Nixon in
'68," Beckel said. "The people of America
didn't have a chance then to see a very
sure-footed president. Tonight they saw
it. Mr. Mondaie made a very favorable
impression."
Beckel also said that the race is never
over. He said the media had buried
Mondaie twice before, once after Mon
dale's defeat in the New Hampshire
primary, and at the beginning of the
campaign. . .
Questioned members of the media - "
said they thought the debate was a
draw that will help Reagan's cam-
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paign. The general consensus among
them gave Reagan the victory because
he may not lose any more points in the
polls. ,
Reagan made only one gaffe during
the entire debate. In his closing state-
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Daily NebrasJD&n Senior Editor
Whether Vice President
George Bush praised the pres
ident's leadership or denounc
ed the Mondale-Ferraro pes
simism, the Council Bluffs
crovd of some 2,000 cheered
their miniature American flags
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waving more fervently with
each round of applause.
Bush told the crowd gathered
inside a Council Bluffs high
school Friday that Reagan's
leadership is the key to pro
sperity. In the last year, he
said, the U.S. economy has
grown faster than it has in 35
years, resulting iri 6 million
new jobs, increased productiv-.
ity and larger take-home pay
checks. The only thing that is down,"
Bush said, "is inflation and the
Mondale-Ferraro ticket"
If the country was under
Mondale's leadership, he said,
this kind of prosperity would
be impossible.
"Mondaie has a fear of suc
cess," Bush said. "America hes
a 'can-do' attitude and Man
date has a 'can't do' attitude."
Surrounded by cheering
students, ranging from deaf
students to boisterous pom
pon girls wearing Bush hats
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By Kevin Dssg&n
DsJJy Nebrsskan Staff Sepcrtar
Editor' note: This i the first
article in a five-part series ex
as&ining veriB3 current issues
on the quality of education in
Nebraska.
Where have all the teachers
gone?
Nebraska schools often are un
able to retain their best teachers,
at the expense of quality educa-
The Quality
of Education
tion, and many educators who do
remain often become dissatisfied
with the system.
Max Larsen, who boasts a his
tory of professional and volun
teer involvement in education in
Nebraska, said the quality of edu
cation in the state in grades kin
dergarten through 12 is good, but
could be improved.
"Unquestionably, the most im
portant ingredient in education
is good teachers, but we are los
ing quality teachers out of the
profession to other businesses,"
Larsen said.
Leonard Skov, dean of the
School of Education at Kearney
State College, spent about six
years tracking teacher mobility,
lie said teachers between the
ages of SO to 35 tend to disap
pear, either leaving the state or
leaving the profession. Unfortu
nately, this often 13 the point in
teachers' careers when they are
ready to make thsir most impor
tant contributions to education,
Skov said.
"We dont know if they have
gone to selling insurance, or gone
to teach in Wyoming," Skov said.
Allen Reese, who is the infor
mation systems manager with the
state Department of Education,
said there are no figures repres
enting the "migration of teachers
out of education."
However, George Dudley, who
has taught in the Omaha Public
School System for 14 years, said
he thinks about one-third of all
teachers leave the profession for
some other career.
-Dudley agreed with Skov that
many teachers quit when they
are on the verge of making their
best contributions. He said it takes
about five years for a teacher to
learn how to handle situations
and be most productive, to devel
op a style and classroom rapport.
But, Dudley said, it is here that
teachers begin looking toward
the future and they start "weigh
ing alternatives."
Mark Lee, a computer science
major at UNL, last year taught
math, computers and physics in
Davenport. He said money had a
lot to do with his returning to
college. His salary covered stu
dent loans, rent, bills and grocer
ies and left only $100 a month for
savings, he said,
Dudley teaches at Norris Junior-High
in Omaha, works as a
meat cutter on Saturdays and
attends night school at UNO. While
money may be a major reason for
the large percentage of teacher
fall-out, he said, "the biggest prob
lem today is dissatisfaction with
the educational system itself"
Dudley said aft er 25 or SO years
in the profession, educators may
actually be worse off than when
they started because they are
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