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wsm vV SBD FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1971 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA VOL 95, NO. 6 I J I I It pVS i 7 - I CI Peruvian journalist Edmunco Levano La Rosa stopped in Lincoln Thursday ...one stop of many in America to become more aware of one of the countries his magazine covers. Peru journalist visits Nebraska A Peruvian poet-journalist-author-activist, Edmundo Levano La Rosa, stopped at the University Thursday to talk about everything from Women's Liberation to fishing rights, and to see what he called the "center" of the U.S. Levano is one of four Peruvian journalists the United States Department of State brought to the country under its International Visitor Program. He was accompanied by Benjamin Sowell, a State Department escort-interpreter. The editor-in-chief of "Caretas" since 1968, Levano said he considers his magazine a "completely objective publication." "We criticize anything," the 44-year-old journalist said. "The present military regime has seized the magazine twice." "Caret as," which means "masks," was so named, Levano said, because it began during the Odrian dictatorship and sought, through the use of double cntendres and the like, to "provide a mask for statements that was hard to say openly." He described as a "serious issue" Peru's attempt to claim fishing rights 200 miles out from its coast. This claim has caused much friction between Peru and the U. S. over U. S. fishing boats impounded by Peru for violating the 200-mile territorial limits. The U. S. claims the limit is 1 2 miles. Levano explained a mountain range close to Peru's coast causes all the country's good top soil to be washed into the sea. "So," he said, "The wealth we can obtain from the sea is wealth robbed from the soil." He said Peruvians feel they deserve the sea's produce. The issue will be heard by the United Nations, Levano said, probably next year. But "Peru has vowed it will not accept any compromise." Levano said the Peruvian and United States governments no longer consider the oil company controversy "a live issue." The International Petroleum Co., part of the American owned Standard Oil Company, was taken over by the Peruvian government. The company, which he said most Peruvians feel the Odrian dictatorship allowed to "exploit workers," was bought by the Peruvian government but was forced to use the sale money to pay "unpaid taxes", which Levano said the Odrian regime had illegally exempted the company from. A "modern phenomenon" Levano said he is interested in is Women's Liberation. In Peru, he explained, the "biggest issue is equal pay for equal work," and tne "greatest need is for more educational opportunity." He called the traditional Peruvian attitude toward women, "feudal," and said he thought the lack of industry in Peru is preventing women from jetting jobs and equitable pay. He said there are no women activists "except perhaps in the student sector," although he has "written about the very bad situation of women for many years." With a circulation of about 45,000, Levano's magazine is about four times as large as Peru's second largest magazine, he said. Me compared it to "Life" magazine in that it has many pictures, but said its content is closer to that of "Time" magazine. Although he said he once considered himself a Marxist, Levano refused to affiliate himself with any political ideologies, and said he now considers himself "an independent writer free to express my own views and to seek for my people the path towards a greater democracy and progress." Charged with "political Turn to pegs 12. Work - study program cut by Vicki Pulos The job market is tight, and among its victims are up to 800 UNL student applicants who could not be accepted for work-study this year, according to Bruce Douthit, financial aids advisor, He theorized that the state of the job market was the reason for the increase in work-study applicants. 1 ,600 students applying for an optimum of 600-800 openings. There have been no cutbacks in federal funding of the program. In fact, said Douthit, funding has increased about 18 per cent in each of the last three years. Forty per cent of last year's renewal students didn't make it back to their work-study jobs this semester. Douthit explained that jobs were awarded solely on the basis of need this year, and experienced students were offered no priority over more needy students. "We've never had enough money to accomodate everyone we wanted to, "said Douthit, but proportionally just as many needy students are being helped now as in the past." Aside from direct help the financial aid office also provides communication between downtown employers and students. Douthit sited a "trend toward austerity" in national grants. He cited Pres. Nixon's support of work-study and student loan programs rather than scholarships as an example. He added that private foundation and Educational Opportunity grants have not increased in proportion to the number of needy students. At least "we haven't been stung badly yet" by Congress, Douthit said. But the summer work-study program may suffer a cutback. Last summer the program Pedalinx their wares...With "771 PF1 ' ' '-"vv:.-. 11 V; i" ' I f : " I i W"vi students are quickly finding a new form of transportation between campus destinations Turn to page 11. v employed 250 workers full-time as well as a number of part-time students. The part-timers (who were also attending classes) had no restrictions on the number of hours they could work, and they ended up working longer than expected. As a result the summer payroll exceeded its budget. In fact, the summer CSL reopens visitation question by Carol Strasser The Council on Student Life decided at its first meeting of the semester Thursday to negotiate with the University Board of Regents on the student guest rights proposal killed by the Regents in July. CSL member Ely Meyerson, interim Executive Dean of Student Affairs, suggested that the Council meet informally w ith the Regents to perhaps arrive at a compromise proposal or another approach to the question of coed visitation. A proposal which would have allowed coed visitation in on -cam pus living units for students with parental approval was turned down by the Regents at their July 12 meeting. The Regents gave no conditions for approval of such a proposal, said John Humlicek, CSL member and chairman of the committee which formulated the guest rights proposal. He backed Meyerson's suggestion for a meeting with the Regents. Student assistants in the dorms and the Residence Hall Association have been organizing to fight the Regents decision, Humlicek said. demand vrwAina mrmlv in program was stopped two weeks early to keep enough money available to put 100 more students on work-study this year. Douthit said only half of the 6,000 students who applied for financial assistance this year will be helped with money available now. Income from PACE will provide additional help. However, Meyerson said since CSL approved the guest rights proposal in April, the Council should take positive action rather than wait for other campus groups to act. In other action, the Council appointed members Roy Arnold and Ji Soochran to act as offical CSL representatives at the Regents Sept. 13 meeting. The Regents are expected to hear a proposal for the creation of an executive fraternity council which would remove fraternities from the control of CSL. John Robinson, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences last summer sent a letter to past UNL Pres. Joseph Soshnik indicating CSL's strong opposition to such a move, said Franklin E. Eldridge, CSL chairman. CSL holds the position that such a move would weaken the Council and "open the door to all groups to set themselves up autonomously," he said. CSL, created by executive order and approved by the Regents two years ago, is charged with responsibility for all non-academic aspects of student life. The question of CSL's strength has been brought up before, said Soochran, People have tried to Turn to pags II. i ;.Ain k: f a-, t t it n .: I ft