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thursday, november 8, 1979
lincotn, nebraska vol. 103 no. 52
In quest for better society
Ginww USSR slights rights
By Mike Sweeney
By attempting to build a better society through
violence, the Soviet Union has denied its citizens basic
human rights, exiled Soviet dissident Alexander Ginzburg
said Wednesday night, '
There are no human rights in the Soviet Union,"
Ginzburg said !o a Nebraska Union crowd of about 900,
1f the theme (of his address) is going to be on human
rights in the Soviet Union, this would be the shortest
lecture ever given at this university,'
Ginzburg was arrested four, times by the KGB, the
Soviet secret police, for his human rights work as a journa.
list and for his work as one of the founding members of
the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, The watch group is a
citizen's group organized to monitor the Soviet Union's
compliance with the Helsinki human rights accords of
.1975.
He was released in April with four otherjailed Soviet
dissidents in exchange for two convicted Soviet spies in
American prisons,
GINZBURG APPEARED thin and stooped from his
years in Soviet labor camps. When he smiled, broken
appeared at the edges of his mouth,
Speaking through independent Washington D.C,
interpreter Harris Coulture, Ginzburg sa'id the Soviet
Union spreads the idea that human rights are something
individual humans don't need.
The Communist party line says only large groups, such
as the government, need rights at all Ginzburg said,
Although the Soviet Union officially guarantees
rights, the government doesn't fulfill on its promises, he
said.
For example, Ginzburg said, the government
guarantees the freedom of conscience,
"The freedom of conscience means the right of every"
individual to profess a religious belief or not to profess a
religious belief," Ginzburg said, 'The only right left to us
is not to profess a religion," ,
Laws deprive churches the right to give religious
education to child ten, hold religious ceremonies outside
the church, and discourage performing religious rites such
as extreme unctio i and burial services, In addition, a
member of the Soviet intelligentsia the intellectuals in
government and sconce-may lose their jobs if they have
their children baptized,
Ginzburg, arms folded and body hunched behind a
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Alexander Ginzburg
microphone, painted a picture of his homeland where
peaceful political protesters receive automatic prison
sentences, workers earn the equivalent of $100 a month,
and the government monitors all publications-an easy
task because it owns all the legal printing presses,
At a press conference earlier in the day, Ginzburg
reiterated his distrust of the Soviet government and its
promises,
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Cigarette sales are down at UNL,
but an alarming' amount still sold
By Rich Jurgens
Students beward; Cigarette smoking does have sexual
consequences, y
Even though cigarette smoking is decreasing by UNL
students and employees, last year's cigarette sales at UNL
are still at an alarming high,
Gene Meerkatz, UNL vending systems manager, said
that students and employees purchased 107,000 packs of
cigarettes from the various vending machines on both
campuses last year,
. The University Book Store sold 10,400 packs of
cigarettes according to Cindy Grashorn, University Book
Store supply manager,
Betty L. Vodehnal, assistant to operations manager at
both Nebraska Unions, reported that 41,900 packs were
sold at the Nebraska Union last year and 17,800 packs
were sold at the East Union, The two unions are the only
ones reporting an increase in cigarette sales from the prive
previous year. ,
' Nellie Hosic, administrative assistant to food services,
said about 24J0OO packs were sold in the eight dorm units,
She said this was about a 10 percent decrease from the
previous year,
Dr, Garland 0, Barf, chief of staff at the University
Health Center said a 21 -year-old person who smokes one
pack or more a day can expect to have 14 years less life,
A FEMALE SMOKER will have a faster aging process
and menopause will start five years sooner than average,
Bare said,
A male, he said, will experience sexual impotency 10
to 15 years sooner than the non-smoker, or in other
sexual impotency in males will occur between the ages of
35 and 40 with the usual sexual impotency in males
occurring about age 50,
Garland said smoking among women is increasingly
rapidly, Lung cancer is now the leading cause of death
among women, followed by breast cancer,
There are 8,000. prenatal infant deaths each year
because the mother smoked, he said, The reason for the
infants' deaths is because the nicotine goes directly into
the fetus, causing heart failure, He said babies born to
women smokers go through nicotine withdrawal and are
usually irritable and don't feed well, For this reason,
babies born to smokers usually have a lower weight at
birth,
GARLAND BARE SAID cigarettes contain many other
poisons besides nicotine, The tars in cigarettes cause lung
cancer, respiratory diseases and bladder cancer, The
carbon monoxide in cigarettes affects the central nervous
For every dollar spent on cigarettes, Bare said, the
smoker can expect to spend about $2 on medical and
dental bills.
Bare said the reasons for starting smoking vary from
person' to person.
Bare, who quit smoking 30 years ago, said he started in
grade school,
"It's (cigarettes) a good ego prop for emotional
security," Bare said, '1 was cool; I was big; I was a man."
For most people, Bare said. "It's a readily available
pacifier for playpen graduates who still need something to
suck on,
Bare said about the only benefit of tobacco was that it
kills insects and worm. He said farmers in Missouri fed
tobacco to their animals to rid them of worms. He said for
humans there were no benefits.
No fewer than 218,000 and as many as 500,000 people
will die next year because of tobacco-related illnesses,
Bare said,
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Love Library
to remain open
By Barb Richardson
Love Library will not close on Saturdays or an
h&ur earlier on weekdays, President Bud Cuca told
the ASUN senate during their meeting Wednesday
night.
Administrators planned to close the library dur
ing those times to makeup for the Library's budget
problems.
"I had a meeting with Ned Hedges this afternoon
and what he had to say was hey, you kids have got a
point, we're not going to close the library," Cuca
said.
Cuca said that Hedges, vice chancellor for
academic affairs, told him that he did not know
where the money would come from to keep the
library open, but he would find some,
Sen. Brad Belt told the senate that Hedges men
tioned cutting student hours and scheduling salaried
employees to cover some of their hours. Re-scheduling
would make-up for the money lost during the
weekdays, Belt said,
Cuca said later that Hedges did not know how
keeping the library open on Saturdays would be
financed.
Sen, Karen Miller said a rumor that there was
going to be a sit-in in the library Tuesday night
caused Assistant Dean of Libraries Dean Waddel to
leave special instructions for the library staff Tues
day night,
"He issued a notice that if there were any people
in the library after hours and they were destructive,
, Campus police should be called " Miller said.
He left a list of numbers, Waddel's included, to
call if anything happened Tuesday night, she said,
Cuca said Hedges told him he changed his mind
not to close the library because of input he received
from students and the inconvenience closing would
cause students,
"Don't Stop now," Sen, Dale Wojtasek told the
senate, vLet's push for more hours,"
"Don't get too complacent. We still have a lot to
do," Belt added,
, "It's something we can grab onto, it's something
we've accomplished," Cuca said,
The Senate passed a bill directing Cuca to move
at the regents' December meeting that the regents
meet once a month on the Lincoln City campus and
once on the University of Nebraska-Qmaha cam
pus while classes are in session during the year,
"This is a positive bill to further educate faculty
and students about what the regents do," said Sen.
Vernon Daniels, co-sponsor of the bill.
He added that hiving the regents' meetings on
east .campus cause problems for students who want
to go to the meetings but cannot get to east campus.
It's not unreasonable to ask the regents to move
two of their meetings, Daniels said. He added that
regents' meetings' are moved at other universities.
Cuca said, "I think it would be very hard for
them (regents) to say no, politically,"
political speakers, student fees and teaching
assistant training programs will be discussed at the
regents November meeting, according to Cuca.
He said students will ask the regents to allow
student fee money to finance political speakers.
"Administrators are in support of financing polit
ical speakers, but not enough to go before the
regents and say so," Cuca said.
. Later, he said Alexander Ginzburg's appearance,
financed by student money, is an example of how
vague and arbitrary the present speaker guidelines
are.
'Currently, political and ideological speakers can
not be financed by student fee money.
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Different perspective: Three "nontraditionai" students
talk about their experiences at UNL ......... ftgt 8
Marathon: KZUM takes to the airwaves 24 hours a day to
raise funds to pay the bills. ........ f .... ' Pae 10
Fourth time charm?: Former Nebraska coach to face
tuskers from other side of the fence again .... ftt 12