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Iranian students, UNL professors and students marching through campus Thursday shouting anti-shah chants and slogans.
Tarotsaid to unlock mind, foretell future
By Joe Starita
Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein
studied it to uncover hidden secrets of the
human mind. Aldous Huxley was a great
believer in its powers. Vincent Price thinks
world problems can be overcome by apply
ing its wisdom.
For a deck of 78 cards decorated with
strange-looking pictures those are some
heavyweight claims.
But the Tarot is more than just a pack
of funny-looking cards. It has been called
the oldest book known to man. It may
have predated the Bible.
The writings of Ezekif 1 and Daniel show
that these biblical prophets had some know
ledge of the Tarot. The Book of Revelation
closely parallels the Tarot. bach of the 22
chapters of John's Revelation deals with
the same prophetic symbols as the Tarot.
A thorough study of Tarot cards reveals
that they also are linked with many teach
ings of the Hebrew Cabala. Additionally,
Tarot symbols have turned up in Egyptian
and Babylonian mythology, as well as in
ancient Hindu philosophy.
Regardless of their origins, the fact re
mains that Tarots were the first known
cards in Europe.
Credit the Crusaders with turning
Europe's medieval capitals into gin rummy
joints. Among the many novelties these
rampaging warriors brought back to
Europe from the East were cards with
brilliantly colored symbols on them.
Credit the gypsy caravans marauding
across medieval Europe with introducing
another way of interpreting the Tarot 's
symbols. Gypsies believed the Tarot had a
nobler purpose than winning the Saturday
night poker pot at the local castle. They
brought to Europe the art of using Tarot
symbols to foretell the future.
Credit King Charles VI of France with
laying the foundation for Tarot 's future. In
1393 Charles began to feel the first signs of
approaching madness. A Tarot pack was
elegantly designed to cheer the good king
up. Although Chuck continued to reign
without a full deck, his madness inspired
the earliest known set of Tarot cards in
Europe.
lifter, some of the great kings of
France, as well as philosophers, mathe
maticians and scientists began to uze the
Tarot to explore the mysteries of life and
to .'uide their people.
Empress Josephine, live in lad t
Napoleon Bonaparte, frequently v'onsuli.-t'
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the reigning high priestess of Tarot readings
for her time.
In more recent times. William Butler
Yeats belonged to a secret brotherhood
that believed in the occult traditions of the
Tarot. Many followers of psychoanalyst
C.B. Jung consider certain symbols in the
Tarot to be blueprints of the unconscious
mind.
The conscious mind looks at a Tarot
deck arid counts 78 cards. The cards are
divided into a Major and Minor Arcana.
The first 22 cards fall into the Major
Arcana, while the remaining 56 comprise
the Minor and are divided into four suits of
14 cards each.
A Tarot reader chooses one of nine
different layouts (called spreads) to predict
meaning that is unique not only to the card
itself, but also to the position of that card
in the layout.
The cards, and their arrangement, in
dicate only general trends, traits and in
fluences. A good interpretation of the
spread depends upon the reader's mastery
of the symbolic meanings.
If nothing else, a good Tarot reading
will always shore up sagging spirits.
An estimated 75 masked demonstrators
circled UNL's Broyhill Fountain at noon
Thursday, shouting anti-shah and U.S.
slogans.
The marchers, a mixture of Iranian
Student Association members and UNL
professors and students, were led in chants
such as "The shah is a U.S. puppet, down
with the shah," "The shah is a fascist
butcher, down with the shah," "Long live
Palestine, down with the shall."
A masked Iranian student said his
organization supports the Palestinian Liber
ation Organization because it is opposed
to American imperialism. The PLO also
has shown support for anti-shah forces,
he said.
A UNL sophomore, who did not want
her name used, said she became interested
in the resistance movement when she
began dating an Iranian.
"My boyfriend is an Iranian," she said.
"He made me aware of what is going on."
Political oppression is occurring in
Iran, she said, and students involved in
similar demonstrations there are killed.
President Carter's human rights stand
is two-faced, she said, because he continues
to support the shah of Iran.
Another masked spokesman said the
UNL demonstration was one of many
expected to take place Thursday in the
United States, Europe and Asia. More
than 100,000 students were expected to
take part in the demonstrations, he said.
After marchers from other schools
arrived, he said, the procession was sche
duled to march through downtown
Lincoln.
'Learning is main motivation'
for students graduating early
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By Kris Hansen
Although most students prefer to take
four years (or longer) to get their college
degrees, some can do the job in two or
three years.
Diane Snyder, a 19-year-old senior is an
example. Snyder completed French and
German majors in two years and has
minors in chemistry and history. She is
only eight hours short of a life sciences
major.
"There wasn't anything else to do, and
this was the path of least resistance," Sny
der explained. "My parents figured I could
do it and helped me figure it out. They
don't want me to kill myself, but since I'm
doing well, it's fine."
Snyder, who began taking college cour
ses as a high school junior in McCook, es
timated that most students would take
four years to complete what she has done.
However, she said she had one problem.
"I was the first student they (the uni
versity) had who was in the same relative
position in two different languages, and
they had lots of courses scheduled in the
same time slots." she said. "I had to skip
some and take more advanced courses. I've
been fighting that for two years now."
Most of Snyder's grades are A's and B's,
she said, although "chemistry brings me
down a little." She averaged 1 6 to 17 hours
a semester.
"I do get a lot of good out of my
courses," she said. "Since I made it into
graduate courses as a sophomore, I knew I
understood the material."
Snyder works as a campus security
guard, tutors and was involved in residence
hall student government. She also takes pri
vate Russian lessons.
Snyder will attend school in West Ger
many next year and plans to earn a
master's degree in I rench and German.
Mike Brogan. a business senior from
Norfolk, is taking three years to complete
his degree before going to law sJiool.
"Life is short. I'd like to absorb as nruch
knowledge as possible now so I ean appl it
to the real world." he said "1 like to use
time efficiently."
Brogan said "you have to like school"
to graduate early. "Learning is my prime
motivation, and the grades follow from
that. My emphasis is on the knowledge."
Brogan is completing his last semester
with 14 credit hours, but said he averages
15 to 16, and has taken as many as 18. He
attended summer school every year.
"I caution people who take classes in
the summer because it should be a time to
relax," he said. "In the summer- when you
have so little time to accommodate the
work load you don't have much time to
relax. Save the easiest classes for summer."
Brogan is an ASUN senator, member of
the judicial board and is in several business
clubs.
Lynn Paustian, formerly of Bloomfield,
will finish her business major when she
takes her Certified Public Accountant test
in May. She said she plans to work for an
accounting firm after graduation.
"I thought it was more practical to get
done and earn money instead of just spend
it," she said. "Summer jobs are scarce at
home, and I would have had to go away for
a job anyway. So that led me to get it over
with now. Continued on page 1 1
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students get their thrills with drills
on student patients page 6
Don't ask Abby, try the Love Library
search team: light library' staff
members use computers for those
research answers that cannot be
found in the stacks page 7
It's a hell of a deal: UNL's wonder
basketball team stirs imaginations
of columnists Jim Kay and Mike
McCarthy page 10