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friday, november 14, 1975 volume 99 number 47 lincoln, nebraska
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ah is watching
By Randy Blauvelt
Many Iranian students at UNL say they
fear they are being watched by agents of
the Shah of Iran. Others say they think
they have been spied on in the past.
Iranian students across the country re
portedly fear that the Shah, Mohammed
Ruza Pahlavi, is watching. None of the
UNL . Iranians interviewed wanted their
names used and others refused to commen t
over , the telephone for fear of wiretaps.
-According to Rowena Boykin, foreign
student adviser, most of the 58 Iranian
students at UNL are afraid their activities
are being monitored by Sevak (the Persian
intelligence agency).
No agents
Boykin said she doesn't think there are
any Sevak agents, now operating at UNL,
but she said a student here about three
years ago "admitted to past associations"
with the group-.
The student, who was suspected and
described by other Iranian students as an
"irregular", has relatives in the Iranian
government, Boykin said.
One student claimed Sevak agents are
trained by the CIA, which helps with sur
veillance of Iranians.
'The students who go abroad. .re
alize they can talk freely or form political .
organizations, which they can't do at
home," he said. "But as soon as they do,
the Shah, with the help of the CIA, has
them watched."
Tried at home
The student said those who join anti
Shah associations or speak against the Iran
ian government often are charged and tried ,
. in Iran (in absentia) for treason. ,
"Many of the students are considered
dead back home," he said.
Another student said his letters to Iran
are censored and now "they don't even
bother to stick them back together again."
He said a student involved in any form
of anti-Shah activities in the United States
is arrested, questioned and tried as soon as
he arrives in Iran, unless sentence already
nas been passed.
"IVe heard of instances where their,
parents are tortured to make them (stu
dents) talk," he said, r ;
UNL too small
Another student said he thinks there are
Sevak agents at many American universities
with Iranian students, but doubted there
are any at UNL.
"The University of Nebraska is just too
small to have a Sevak agent," he said. "But
I think, we have had some in the. past."
The student cited a Persian newspaper
story that says a student who talks against
the government will get a two-year prison
term if he returns to Iran.
Students who join dissident groups can
expect a 10-year sentence and those whose
groups take action will be sentenced to the
firing squad, he said.
Boykin described the UNL contingent
of Iranian students as "quiet, with no po
litical organizations." She said the Univer
sity of Kansas has one pro-Shah and one
anti-Shah organization, because there are
more Iranian students there than in
Nebraska.
The University of Kansas has many
Sevak agents, one student said.
Protein shortage seen by nutritionists
By Ron Ruggless
A protein shortage is forseen in the.
years to come because of the energy -shortage,
a UNL professor of food science and
technology said Thursday evening.
Lowell Satterlee, on a four-member
panel discussing "Nutrition and the World
Today" at the East Campus Home Eco
nomics Auditorium, said the world must
turn to sources of protein other than meat..
, "We are not utilizing what wo have to
day," he said,' but We must learn how to
use it so we can exist in the future."
He suggested using such things as alf
alfa, a high nutritional plant protein, along
with wheat bran, damaged crops, milk
whey and deboned meat.
Also participating on the panel were
Raymond Borchers, UNL biochemistry
professor; Ernie Peo, animal science pro
fessor; and Ruth Leverton, who teaches
graduate nutrition at Howard University in
Washington, D.C.
Leverton said she would like to see a
program educating women in developing
countries.
"National government does not realize
that the woman does a lot of the food pro
ducing in these countries," she said, "and
their food situation could improve if they
knew proper agriculture techniques."
Speaking to about 90 people at the
Alpha Zeta agriculture honorary-sponsored
forum, Leverton said in the United States
there is a large degree of advertising which
makes the public always try something
new.
What is new, she said, isn't always the
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Vandals hit
new cement
Five hundred dollars worth of
property damage was done to a
newly-laid sidewalk south of the Uni
versity Health Center, according to
Capt. Market of Campus Police.
The Grounds Upkeep Dept. will
pay for the sidewalk, Markel said. It
will be completely torn out and re
done because students tracked
through the fresh cement.
"We've been getting a lot of this
lately," Markel said. "When new side
walks were put in by Love Library
and Burnett and Andrews Halls, we
had to post men there to keep people
from ruining the cement."
The sidewalk by the university
Conoco bulk plant, 17th and Y
streets also was vandalized, he said.
Although no one has bsen charged
with any of the vandalism, Markel
said, persons could be prosecuted for ,
willful destruction of property.
"We have a lot of top-notch kids
on this campus," he said. "We don't
have near the problems other schools
have had." But, Markel added, "I'm
just a little disappointed."
most nutritious.
'There is no government in the world,"
she said, "that can make the individu&T re
sponsible for his own food intake."
Saterlee said research in the nutrition
field is being aimed at foods humans can
use.
y .But due to customs and things people
are used to, many products which are nu-
l tritious and edible are not accepted by the
public, he said.
Leverton said many developing coun
tries have certain food producing pro
cessing that are correct, but changes, -nd
the attitude of researchers, overlook many
of these correct producing habits.
"We have to recognize these things they
are doing right,", she said, "instead of
changing all of their habits."
Satterlee added, "If we can't solve the
world food shortage and nutritional prob
lem, we hope we can gain the knowledge
so we can best use our resources in the
future."
inside
After 25 years: The 1950
Comhusker football team . . . p. 15
After 4 years: The Open Door
Health Center still is
open p.8
Aiso rind:
Editorials. p.4
Arts and Entertainment p. 12
Sports p.14
Crossword p. 10
Short Stuff. p.3
Weather
Friday: Sunny and warmer. High tem
peratures in the high to mid-50s. Southerly
winds ranging from 10-20 m.pji.
Friday night: Fair and cool. Tempera
tures in the high 20s to low 30s.
Saturday: Sunny and unseasonably
warm... Temperatures in the upper 50s to
low 60s.
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