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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA VOL 95, NO. 6
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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