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By Sandy Mohr
The Nebraska Educational Television Commission
(NETC) has Tiled suit against the National Broadcast
ing Co. (NBC) over the use of its logos, but the
Nebraska Educational Television (NETV) general
manager said he hopes the matter can be settled out
of court.
NETV has been using its abstract, red letter N"
logo since June 8. On Jan. 1, NBC unveiled its similar
ly shaped red and bloe letter MN." NBC's ?N." de
signed to commemorate the station's 50th anniversa
ry, replaced the peacock as the network's logo.
NETC filed a request Feb. 17th for a permanent
injunction against NBC's use of the logo. Preliminary
hearing in U.S. District Court in the Lincoln Federal
Eldg.isset,forMarch26. v
The suit asks for NBC's discontinuation of the
logo:
Negotiations since January " r
Jack Mc Bride, NETV general manager, said nego
tiations between NETC, which runs NETV, and NBC
have produced no results. The two networks have
been negotiating in New York City, Washington D.C.,
Lincoln and Omaha since about the second week in
January, he said.
"We have been disappointed in the progress of ne
gotiations," McBride said. So, McBride said NETC's
legal counsel suggested the network proceed with the
suit.
"At the same time it is our hope that negotiations
with NBC can be continued," he said.
In New York, a NBC spokesman said the network
was "surprised and disappointed to read press reports
of a lawsuit filed by NETC."
He said the network met with NETC last Saturday
and "expected, to continue discussions leading toward
an amicable settlement."
Who used it first
McBride said he is not sure if negotiations current
ly are taking place.
The outcome of the hearing depends on several
factors, including who used the logo first, and how
similar or confusing the logos are, McBride said.
"We think very definitely that the two logos are
confusingly similar," McBride said.
Although NETV has use3 the logo since last June,
it was not registered in the Nebraska secretary of
state's office until Jan. 30, 1976. McBride said that
it is not necessary to register the logo, but NETC's
lawyers recommended It as a "precautionary step."
"The fact that we have used it state-wide and in
other states provides our claim to it," he said.
bernstein
on words
'Many' a plural is single
By Theodore M. Bernstein
A singular Plural. One would think that "many" would
always be followed by a plural verb. But not so. Look at
this sentence: "Many a citizen is studying the national
candidates these days." The fact is that "many" a, which
always is followed by a singular noun, invariably takes a
verb in the singular. The reason for this is what grammar
ians call attraction: the proximity of the verb to the singu
la noun csusc! the verb to b? ilr.Ass. A imilr situation
arises with the phrase more than one: "It appears that
more than one candidate is going to face financial
difficulties.
Light verse lives! Here is a second contribution-a
triolet-from Elaine H. Stallworth of Willow Grove, Pa.
The question is plaintive indeed?
Why is cur poetry blank?
Where is the light verse we need?
The question is plaintive indeed.
Formless and loose, the new creed.
As so lowly the rhyme must now rank.
The question is plaintive indeed?
Why is our poetry blank?
All too true: The poems that are blankety -blank ex
plain why our light verses sank.
Word Oddities. The dictionaries all tell you the
structure and rhyme scheme of the triolet and also tell
you that the word triolet is the French diminutive of
trio, but they don't bother to explain what trio (three)
has to do with it. Our guess-an pbvious one-is that the
first line of the stanza appears three times. Agreed?
(c) 1978 Theodora M. Bernstein
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friu'ay, february 20, 1976
Outreach offers
a helping hand
By Dana Green
Everyone has hard times, but sometimes it is difficult
to find someone to help.
Helping people is one of the purposes of UNL's Out
reach program, according to John, one of the student
coordinators. .
John, who refused to disclose his last name, said that
Outreach, the University Health Center's (UHC) student
coordinated crisis center, will start training recruits Feb.
28 to become short-term paraprofessional counselors. Ap
plications for counseling positions must be completed by
4:30 p.m. today and returned to the UHC 104.
Outreach currently staffs 24 students as counselors,
and is accepting only the first 40 applicants, he said. John,
a senior psychology and human development major from
Fremont, said Outreach has helped him with his own
problems and that friends often come to him for advice.
However, he said, it is not necessary that Outreach appli
cants major in a counseling-related subject.
'The only major requirement we have is that the
student has a genuine interest in helping others," he said.
After the initial meeting Feb. 28, a training program
will follow on the next five Wednesday evenings, he said.
Training includes problem solving and creative listening
techniques that are useful in assisting troubled students,
he said. Outreach offers students a nightly confidential
walk-in service at UHC 223 and a call-in service at 472
2200, from 6 to 7 p.m. to hel with personal problems,
give information or refer them to professional services.
The counselors, who must be at least sophomores and
attend UNL next fall, will work between seven and 10
hours weekly at the Outreach center answering calls and
helping walk-in students. The Outreach office is super
vised by UHC's Mental Health Clinic, John said.
Counselors are trained only in crisis intervention and
are not expected to carry out long-term counseling with
troubled students, John said. Usually, frequent callers are
referred to a professional member of the Mental Health
Clinic which helps them on a regular basis.
Carmen Grant, who designed the Outreach program, is
its coordinator and a clinical psychologist in the Mental
Health Clinic.
John said that a survey taken last fall by Outreach indi
cated that there was an 1 1 per cent increase in calls deal
ing with emotional problems but the number of suicidal
calls was down 25 per cent. In November 1975, Outreach
was used the most when 34 per cent of the semester's
contacts used the service, he said. ' '
Tax support urged
for five programs
A system-wide committee that is comparing student
fees will suggest to the NU Board of Regents next month
that five UNL and four University of Nebraska at Omaha
(UNO) student programs be financed with state taxes
rather than with student fees, Jim Say, UNL student
regent told Fees Allocation Board (FAB) Thursday night.
UNL student programs include orientation for new stu
dents, health education, career counseling, career planning
and placement and environmental health.
Say also said the committee was considering suggesting
that both campuses use the same criteria in allocating
funds for comparable programs.
Student fees money at both campuses is divided into
two funds: A funds and B funds.
Student-oriented groups at UNO are supported by A
funds and university-controlled groups are supported by B
funds.
UNL student- and some university-oriented groups are
supported by A funds. Other university-oriented groups
are supported by B funds.
The Umiiu warned against changing UN'L method tC
the one used at UNO.
"If we have a system that works here,' FAB Chairman
Don Wcscly said, "I see no justification in changing it just
to unify procedures."
. i,FAB faculty representative Jim Lewis advised Say to
tell the system-wide committee that "FAB and Vice
Chancellor (for Student Affairs. Ken) Bader work well to
gether aiid we don't want thinp messed up."
In other action, the board discussed budget procedures.
Wesely told the committee that "we are tight on money
this year."
"We'll be making sharp budget cuts, but they don't in- !
dicate a lack of board support for organizations," he said.
We just don't have the money."
The board will begin discussing results of fees allocs- j
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