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monday, november 12, 1979
lincolri, nebraska vol. 103 no. 54
Coordinator questions Iranian deportation
By Alice Hrnicek
An order issued Saturday by President Carter for the
deportation of Iranian students in violation of their entry
visas has been questioned by the UNL coordinator of
International Educational Services.
Peter Levitov called it "unusual" that the president was
singling out one foreign group for strict enforcement of
regulations that apply to all foreign students.
Iranian students in the United States are not the ones
holding hostages at the American embassy in Iran, he said.
"I would not want to see an Iranian student who is
going about his business as a student seen as a kidnapper
of inerican hostages," Levitov added.
A group of Iranian students took American diplomats
in Iran as hostages last Sunday, threatening to kill them if
the United States did not return the ousted Shah
Mohammed Reza Pehlavi. Pehlavi is now being treated in a
New York hospital, following surgery for cancer of the
colon.
Since Immigration and Naturalization Service regula
tions apply to all foreign students, the service makes care,
ful checks regularly, according to Linda Becker, interna
tional student advisor.
"If they pick out one group, it's confusing to me," she
said.
Sunday it was reported that White House press secre
tary Jody Powell said 50,000 Iranian students are in the
United States, and there is evidence many may not be
complying with their visas.
ITie most common violation likely to be found include
not taking a full class load and working off-campus with
out written permission from the Immigration and Natural
ization Service, according to news reports.
Levitov said there may be a few in "technical" viola
tion of not taking enough classes. Full time requires 12
hours by undergraduates and nine hours by graduates.
Even fewer than expected are working without permis
sion, be added, because of previous permission earlier in
the year when Iranian parents were not able to send funds
to their students in the United States.
Levitov said the 193 Iranian students at UNL probably
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Photo by Mlkf Swwney
Lincolnite Norman Dority doesn't let his blindness get in the way of his work as a piano tuner.
Makes living by listening
Blind man focuses on proving self
By Patti Gallagher
"Listening to the patterns of sounds" is the way
Norman Dority lives his life and makes his living. Dority, a
south Lincoln resident, is a blind man who tunes pianos
for a living. ; '
Dority calls his blindness "an incidental detail and
focuses his life on proving himself before God and his
fellowman. -
Dority, 43, said he had a small amount of sight until
about the eighth grade. He said up to that time he could
see large print, and one of the last things he remembers
seeing. is a newspaper headline on the Korean War.
Dority attended a school for the blind in Nebraska City
until college, where he received a B.A. in music, at Ne
braska Wesleyan University. He then attended a ministry
school in Illinois where he received a Bachelor of Divinity,
in pursuit of his childhood dream, being a pastor.
Dority said that he did not continue in the ministry
because he had a "crummy attitude."
He said his blindness had nothing to do with this atti
tude, and that he "just had a chip on his shoulder." Each
Kerson has things they have to deal with in their lives and
e is "nothing different," he said.
"I'M ME and you're you," Dority said. "We're both
human and both sinners." '
Dority stressed the fact that he doesn't want to be
labeled because of his blindness. "Because I'm blind, I
shouldn't be treated special," he said.
Dority's life and attitudes exemplify the fact that he is
a man no different than others, and his theory that "a guy
ought to earn his way."
Dority entered the profession of piano tuning, which
he calls something "like tuning a 232 string guitar," 17
years ago. He enjoys his job, he said, because he is "doing
an honorable piece of work, and doing it competently."
With today's quota systems, and anti-discrimination
laws, Dority said, the accepted way to attain something
. you want is to fight, to demonstrate, to use one's handi
cap as an excuse. He said his technique is to earn his way
through life, and that if he can'i prove his marketable skill
to an employer, then "maybe I dont deserve it."
DORITY SAID that his belief in God has been the
leading influence in his life, and he must prove to both
man and God his worth by his earthly accomplishments.
Dority sits down to about 1 ,000 keyboards each year,
tuning both household pianos and those sold by local
music stores. With his green cord of felt entwined in the
piano strings, he goes up and down 232 pins, listening for
the correct pitch. A complete tuning takes about two
hours, he said. ,
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are not breaking the law.
"I assume all are in compliance with regulations," he
said.
However, Richard Fleming, assistant to the chancellor
and director of university information, said it's hard to
tell how many are in compliance. '
"We have not seen the specific gi 'Wines, he said,
"Given the whole situation over the e an J here, I can
understand the government's action.'
. A survey of a philosophy of social science class taken
Friday indicates" they believe the problem of the hostages
is a concern for the entire nation, and the United States
should take specific steps to ensure their safety.
Although most did not favor the United States declar
ing war if the hostages were not released, the majority said
the United States should stop shipment of certain items.
But the class overwhelmingly vetoed punishing peace
ful Iranian visitors or students.
Board to consider
cut in union hours
By Kent Warneke
Because the Nebraska Legislature did not finance utili
ties for the Nebraska Unions and Health Center for 1979
1980, both the Nebraska Union and the East Union may
cut the hours the buildings are open for student use, Daryl
Swanson, director of Nebraska Unions, said.
Swanson said that there are a number of alternatives
that he and the Union Board will discuss at their meeting
Wednesday at the East Union, all of which would help
make up the deficit of the non-funded utilities cost.
John Kreuscher, Union Board president, said that the
options include closing the City Union at 10:30 p.m. in
stead of 11 j3.m. on Sunday through Thursday, closing at
11:30 p.m, instead of midnight on Friday and Saturday
and opening at 2'pjn, instead of 1 p.m. on Sundays.
The possible cut in hours for the East Union would in
clude closing at 2 pan. instead of 11 p,m, on Sundays,
, closing at 10:30 pan. or 10 p.m, instead of 11 p.m, Sun
day through Thursday or close at 1 1 p,m, instead of mid-
night on Friday and Saturday, Kreuscher said, t
"The biggest savings would come from the 2 p.m.
closing on Sunday at the East Union; a savings of
JJ.5UU, Mireuscner saw.
Kreuscher said that there are several possibilities of
hours which could be cut, and that a maximum savings
of $3 ,000 could result. N
The need to consider cutting Union hours results from
$244,000 that the Nebraska Unions and the Health Cen
ter must make up for in their utility costs, Swanson said.
The Health Center has raised its share-$24,Q0Q-from
charging for specialty clinics. Extra income of $18,000
has come from the utilities from the book store and
$163,000 has come from unexpended UPFF money
Swanson said,
According to Swanson, that still leaves $40,000 unpaid
of which $30,000 already has been found,
"Twenty thousand dollars will come from money in
areas that were overbudge ted -which is really a small
amount when you realize it is less than 1 percent of the
Union's total budget. Six thousand of the $20,000 comes
from the savings of salary of the director's position not
being filled for two months and eight days," Swanson
said.
Swanson said that another $10,000 will come from
personnel and staff reductions, but that $10,000 is still
needed and that is where possible cuts in hours of the Ne
braska Unions will be needed,
Other alternatives that the Union Board will discuss in
clude staff travel, student organization travel and funds
for a Big Eight recreational tournament, Kreuscher said,
Another alternative would be not starting the crafts pro
gram at the East Union which has been budgeted for, he
added.
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