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Bader answers CSL questions
on health center reorganization
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Bob Sather, a member of tho campus Christian group
tha Navigators, spoke in support of revising UNL's
current policy on religion at Thursday's CSL meeting.
By Mark Hoffman
The Council on Student Life (CSL)
Thursday heard varied opinions on the regents'
policy on religion, and Vice Chancellor of
Student Affairs Ken Bader talked about the
University Health Center (UHC) controversy. .
UHC has been reorganized into two
sections-UHC dealing primarily with medical
care of students, and the other, the Nebraska
Center of Health Education with research
departments.
Some physicians at UHC earlier had said
they saw the reorganization as a "personal
vendetta" directed at Samuel Fuenning, UHC
director.
They said Fuenning would be ousted after
the reorganization. Fuenning is to remain as
director of the new health education center,
but he is reported to have said he would leave
after a "transitional phase."
Two UHC staff members already have
resigned and 27 indicated they would "if the
recently imposed administrative policies are
continued."
This reorganization plan, prepared by
Chancellor James Zumberge, is the second
proposed administrative reorganization of UHC.
Bader tried last summer. But his plan was
cancelled by Zumberge, who assumed
responsibility of UHC Feb. 1.
Faced with a barrage of questions by CSL
student member Jane Owens, Bader said the
UHC director (Fuenning) was consulted about
the second reorganization.
Fuenning said in an earlier Daily Nebraskan
interview, he does not agree with the
administrative changes made by Zumberge. The
decision on the split "did not come from this
(Fuenning's) office. It has not been my
decision," Fuenning said.
Asked about the expertise of a task force
that evaluated UHC, Bader said it was
composed of faculty, students and
administration who would offer a wide variety
of interests, opinion and the necessary
expertise.
No medical staff members at UHC were on
the committee.
In answering a question about staff hirings
or firings, Bader denied a rumor that 18
co nsulting specialist doctors would be released
and replaced with five full-time doctors.
CSL also heard from Christians, a
"concerned" atheist and an agnostic about the
regents's policy on religion.
Danny Tillman, a UNL graduate student and
a member of UNL's Baptist Campus Ministry,
presented to CSL his recommendations for
changes in the current policy on religion.
One revision modified a section of the
regents' July 14, 1973, policy which states:
"University facilities will not be available for
any organized event or activity if one of its
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Scientist:
technical
education
Latin need
By Mary Shackeiton
Establishing academic centers devoted to studying Latin
American technological development would be one of the
best ways United States Universities could help Latin
American countries, according to Dr. William Sabel.
Sabel, a speaker at the symposium on 'The
Interrelation 'of., Culture, Technology and Development in
Latin America", is a professor in the Department of Science
at the Oxford Polytechnic Institute in Oxford, England.
In 1967, Sabel, who is in the Latin American studies
field with a concentration in science, assisted the
Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas in setting up
undergraduate and postgraduate courses and research in
industrial chemistry and technology.'
Setting up courses and research programs at U.S.
universities would enable Latin American students studying
outside their countries to bridge the gsp between pure and
applied science. The students then could better advise their
countries' governmental leaders, Sabel said.
The Latin American region is endowed with an abundant
supply of raw materials. With the proper applications of
these resources, continuing industrial revolution will take
place in Latin America, he said.
A strong movement towards urbanization and an
industrialized society would benefit Latin America, Sabel
said.
However, industrialization "is not by itself sufficient. An
overall increase in human satisfaction is necessary," he said.
Industrialization "merits integrate thinking" between
growth and what is desired culturally, Sabel said.
Latin Americans must decide what tha human objectives
are in Increasing technological growth and what the
monetary, human and cultural costs will be, he said.
An intellectual requirement is needed if growth Is to be
achieved, Sabel contended.
"Human resources provide the link between potential
wealth and its realization," he said.
United States universities abound in technological and
cultural specialists, but what is needed to aid I atirt Anwir
now are "interfacial gcneralists," who would intergrate the
areas of science, technology, economics and culture, ha
said.
"Technology is not a universal validity" that is the same
for each country. What is beneficial for one country, is not
necessarily beneficial to another country, ha said.
Many universities, Sabel said, subscribe to the belief that
pure science is superior to applied science.
He cited the example of young faculty teachers from
foreign countries who obtain Ph.D.s in pure science in the
United States. They face the "very serious problem of
cultural transfer" when they return to their countries not
prepared enough in applied science, ho said.
Potential areas for study by Latin American countries
include solar energy production and using the fermentation
process to produce alcohol ut elternatives to fossil fuels.
Some study on this has already been done Sn Latin
America, he said.
Gasoline laced with alcohol already has proved to be an
acceptable fuel. Tho high cost of producing alcohol could
be t educed by technological study, Sabel said.
See Latin America, Psga 3
Latin American calls
for Western unity
, By Pat Moynihan
The' world is movrng" frito' a new stage where man' must fro
longer try to organize into small states, but rather into continents
if he wishes to survive, according to German Arciniegas, author,
journalist, critic and former Colombian diplomat.
Arciniegas, a former candidate for the Nobel Prize In
Literature, served twice as Colombia's minister of education. His
works have been translated into seven languages.
Arciniegas spoke Thursday morning in the Nebraska Union
Ballroom at the Latin American Symposium on 'The
Interrelations of Culture, Technology and Development in Latin
America."
His speech, delivered to about 250 people, was on 'The U.S.,
and Latin America: Cultural Contrasts in Development."
When one mentions the Americas, there it a tendency to divide
it into four different cultures, Arciniegas said, - The Portuguese,
the English, the Anglo-French, and the Spanish. The most
common division, however, is between North and Latin America,
he added.
"If we are ever to part from the frustrating lack of unity in the
''two Americas" concept, we must try to understand the main
root of our differences," he said.
The answer lies in the path of the historical development of
the two areas, Arciniegas said.
"There are four divisions in the history of Latin America," he
said, "-discovery, conquest, colonization, and independence."
However, he said, the trend was reversed in North America.
For the Pilgrims and other early settlers, tha first step was
independence from the king and the church, ha said They then
entered a period of colonization, and this past century has been
one of rapid rnnont m Hjcov?r.
This inversion of Latin American development in North
America has created differences in the social organizations and
cultures of the two, he said.
However, this does not mean North and Latin America have
'nothing in common, he added.
"We invented here, in the Western Hemisphere, the democracy
and republic of modern times," he said. "We invented here
human rights and independence."
These key ideas, which changed European thought, were
contributed by all of the American people and all of the
American nations, he said.
ft is a fact cf life that some continents are poor and some
continents are rich, Arciniesas said. The theory has been that the
poor continents should make the rich continents richer, and the
rich continents should make tho pool continents poorer, he said.
Latin America is a potentially rich continent, Arciniegas said,
and the role of the new generation is to create this new continent
without depending on the United States or Russia.
Latin America could play a role which would change world
politics, he said, but first it must establish Itself on an equal level
with North America.
"In this way, perhaps we could solve some of the more
difficult world situations," he said.
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