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page 4 daily nebraskan tuesday, September 18, 1979 pSchdol separation step to higher quality education Despite a disappointing vote by the NU Board of Regents Friday to increase tuition, UL stu5 dents should applaud the action taken to separate the School of Journalism from the College of Art and Sciences. .. i, - The move which will make the School of Jour nalism "a free standing administrative unit" Oct. 1 is one step toward raising educational quality at UNL. To support the separation it is necessary to look at why the present system has been less than adequate. Now, when the College of Arts and Sciences is allotted money from the budget, administrators there must decide how to divide the money among its various departments. Each department v submits a budget and requests a portion of those funds. Many persons believe that the School of Jour nalism was given less than its fair share of that budget for operating expenses and salaries. Journa lism is a practical field that does not easily lend itself to research-the basis on which tenure and salaries are oftenbased. By separating the college and the school, journalism faculty salaries will be determined on criteria relevant to the field. This can onlv helo the School of Journalism provide a higher quality education with quality professors-something students have been de manding for a long time. Many people opposed to the change were con cerned that creating a new college would mean adding more administrators, increasing UNL bureaucracy and adding to costs at a time when money is scarce for all departments. However, no administrative personnel will be added and the school already handles its own ad vising, records and budgets, so the costs will be minimal. Most of the expense, estimated at $5,000 a year will be for a new bulletin. Considering the benefits of the separation, the cost is small indeed. Pieter Schipper: A Dutchman with a finger in the dike Quonochontaug, R.I.-When the citizens of this sea coast village wanted someone to protect the fragile beach front from the forces of nature, they turned to Pieter Schipper. He seemed to be a natural. A longtime resident, he was born in Holland-and don't Dutchmen and their dikes know about controlling the ocean? That they do, but they know the seas too well to try to completely impose man's will on it especially the will of property owners who can be menacingly ignorant about the coastal character. Twenty years ago, a riprap-a piling of boulders along the shoreline-was installed off Quono chontaug's shore. Sand was heaped onto it to protect, of all things, a community parking lot. But the new barrier had the opposite effect: It increased the erosion of sand to such a degree that a beachless beach was created. With Pieter Schipper currently in command, the riprap has been taken out. "We're hoping now," he says, "that the beach will renew itself. We've planted dune grass to capture the drifting sand. Best of all, we've learned that you can't interfere with nature. We can only cooperate. If we're intelligent, we'll all learn how to mind the shore." THIS INTELLIGENCE, as gratifying as it is in this idyllic section of the Rhode Island coast, is not common in other parts of America's 84,000 miles of shoreline. In the 1970s, the 75 percent of the nation's population that lives in states bordering the oceans and the Great Lakes has been acting as if the carrying capacity of the coastline is limitless. Beachfront homes, ocean condominiums, luxury hotels, marinas, docks, dune buggies, drilling operation-all of these symbolize the reckless attitude of going down to the sea at $2,000 a front foot. That is the precious cost of the shoreline in some places, at least when the winds are calm. When they aren't, in the hurricane season when a David, Agnes or Camille crashes into a coast head-on, the other costs are seen. Hurricane David, coming at the end of the development-happy decade, was a fitting reminder that in the 1970s Americans were wild gamblers in messing with the coastline. We played a loser's game: PRAGMATISTS COMFORT themselves by pointing to the political protections found in the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 or the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1968. But those laws, which were weak and compro mised even before enactment, have done more to illustrate the problem than solve it: We are short-term beings inter acting with a long-term planet. This security is needed in the hot pursuit of economic goals. The return on investments can be realized in "the foreseeable future," which rarely even reaches the life of RHA president reports violation reward The appearance of the story about false fire alarms in the Sept. 7 edition of the Daily Nebraskan is unfortunate ly, an annual occurrence. Each year we read the same facts, the same laws, and the same penalties. This year, however, the story did not include all of the facts. The Residence Hall Association and the Division of University Housing of UNL are offering a reward of $50 to the first student who provides information leading to the identification of anyone found guilty (by the Univer. sity Judicial System andor a court of law) of one or more of the following safety violations: 1 . Setting off false fire alarms; 2. Intentionally setting a fire in a trash chute or else where in the Residence Halts; 3. Theft, destruction or abuse of fire safety equip ment; 4. Bomb threats. . Anyone with information should contact a Residence Director, Complex Program Director, or the Housing office. The person who provides this information may not be able to remain anonymous. The reward is subject to the following restrictions: 1. University staff and personnel are not eligible for this reward; 2. Only one reward for each incident; 3. If two or more students report an incident .at the same time, or if two or more students come forward as a group, and if they meet the above criteria, the reward will be divided equally among them; 4. This offer will continue no longer than one year, at which time renewal of the offer will be discussed. This reward is being offered in an attempt to stop potential violators of safety laws by use of peer pressure. After being put out into the cold water at 2 am. practical ly anyone would be willing to turn in an offender, and the extra $50 provides an added incentive to act.' Jay Curtiss RHA President Students susceptible I feel the Daily Nebraskan has made an error in print ing a one-sided story on the Unification Church. I think it should have been written that the Unification Church members are better known to us as moonies, which is a religious cult that is a threat to students everywhere. The Unification Church founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon is set up only fii college campus towns. The major ity of the cult members are above average students, stu dents who may be looking for a religious group to join or students who may simply be looking-for a group of friends. Students ate more susceptible to these groups because they're oh their own, away from their family, and trying to adjust to this new life, which for some may include loneliness. Continued to Page 5 ?3 ll) ; 111 TUITION TIMS... the mortgage. As for the fiiture that can't be seen-50, 100 or 1,UUU years away-wno cares; n wc tan i sec u, why strain to look fot it? Legislation can't change the destructiveness of this thinking. Just as no federal Leave the Shoreline Alone Act is about to be passed, no sudden illumination about the natural functions of the seacoast and our relationship with it will soon overtake us. It is enough to hope that a few more citizens like Pieter Schipper emerge. In nearly every barrier Island I've visited in the past 15 years-on both coasts, from Fire Island's 31 miles of beach to the tinyandspits of Southern Califdr-nia-someone like him has been there. (c) 1979, The Washington Post Company Quiz helps define victims of malaise You say there's inflation, recession, pollution, nuclear accidents, hurricanes and New Conserva tism? Do you long for the good old days when all anyone expected of you was drooling, gurgling and sucking your thumb? Do you think hope is a four letter word? jerry fairbanEts My friend Guru Emeretis Abba Wanna Doobie handed me the following self-help quiz scribbled on the back of a Baby Ruth wrapper. 1. Do you find yourself on your knees before the -television, begging, "No, Walter, no! Don't say any more, please, don't say anymore!" 2. How many times per week do you find your self in the fetal position? 3. Do you worry about the return of Attila the Hun? ' . 4. When you're watching Saturday Night Live, do you identify with Mr. Bill? If the answers to these questions are yes, more than ten, yes, yes, you have the not uncommon dis order of the era-malaise. The word malaise fmuh laze) comes from the French word, malaise (muh laze) and means a feeling of something about to go wrong, or of discomfort. Things just ain't what they're s'posed to be. The causes of malaise are legion. The people in the government and in the corporations who get to gether in the back room of Kelly's Bar in Washing ton to figure out how to run the nation's economy 'are having their little jokes with the rest of us. What was once under the earth is in the air and what was once in the air is in the earth and we're in the middle. The happiest people I know are the ones who can jdeal with malaise. They live pleasant lives with the aid of recreational chemicals, fantasy and. pre frontal lobotomies. Not long ago, Sam charged into the storefront headquarters of The Most Sacred and Unified Church of Christ, Bhudda, Mohammed, Loa Tze, Confucious, and A Couple of Cuys You've Never Heard Of, Reformed, Midwest Franchise, and screamed, Take it! Take my miftd, my body, all my money! Have it all, just give me peace of mind!' I was right on his heels. As I battered him about the head and shoulders with a cam shaft, 1 screamed, "Free will! Free choice! Freedom! Free lunch! Free the Chicago 8! Free and easy!" I dragged him out of there, forthwith. When he regained consciousness, he looked up to me and said, "Thanks, Old Boy. Don't know what came over me back there." -Malaise,- I said. Twas malaise, and nothing more.
