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Fear of violence reason
Iran debate canceled
By Julie Bird
A proposed debate at UNL about the
Iranian, takeover of the American
embassy in Tehran was cancelled by the
Union Program Council Talks and
Topics committee this week because
committee members, UPC members and
administration officials feared violence
would erupt.
Although no date had been set for
the debate, UNL political science pro
fessor Ivan Volgyes said he had been
contacted about participating, and a
tentative date of Wed., Nov. 2. was
discussed. Volgyes was not told until
Tuesday evening Wednesday would not '
be the date, and he wrote a letter to the
Daily Nebraskan stating he felt the
debate was "cancelled by the adminis
tration because they feared violence.'
Kathy Sjulin, a junior from Shenan
doah, Iowa, who had been arranging the
debate, said Volgyes was correct in
thinking that Nov. 28 would have been
the correct date. She said miscommuni
cation among. members of the Talks
and Topics committee caused some con
fusion. Sjulin said she had not been able to
reach Volgyes. However she did contact
Volgyes' wife and told her the debate
was being postponed for three reasons.
Most Talks and Topics members were
against the debate forum, she said, the
Iranian situation itself was too emotion
al and the administration had not been
supportive of the idea.
Sjulin had contacted Peter Levitov,
coordinator of UNL International Educ
ational Services, about possible candi
dates for the debate, according to Talks
and Topics chairman Rocky Yapp.
Levitov then contacted Dean of
Students Daivd DeCoster, who express
ed some concern that such a debate
would cause adverse reactions.
SJULIN S PROPOSED candidates
for the debate, Volgyes and a person
chosen by the Iranian Muslim Associat
ion, were deemed too far apart on the
political spectrum by Talks and Topics
and UPC, Yapp said.
In the Talks and Topics meeting
Thursday, UPC chairwoman Pam Fritz
said UPC did not want to be responsible
for getting someone hurt.
DeCoster was at the meeting and said
a debate would not be a very good idea.
"From what I know.it appears to me
it would be unwise or terribly risky to
do this," he said.
Yapp said that administration
officials never forbade the meeting, but
did discourage it.
LEVITOV TOLD committee mem
bers Thursday they were "sitting on a
powder keg."
Sara Boatman, associate director of
the Nebraska Union and former Talks
and Topics adviser, said the committee
was forgetting that there was only one
week left for the debate since there are
no programs allowed during dead week
or finals week.
The committee then decided against
a debate, but was in favor of a discus
sion forum on Iran. A proposal by mem
ber Mary Tait to have a symposium on
the Middle East next semester was
accepted, leaving the possibility of a
specific discussion on Iran.
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Chambers: NU's bubble broken
By The Associated Press
Despite the fact that blacks play foot
ball for the UNL Corrihuskers, racism is
still strong at NU, State Sen. Ernest
Chambers told University of Oklahoma
tailback Billy Sims in a letter last week.
"Oklahoma can and will beat Nebraska
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"I shall be able to convert the terrible
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Chambers, of Omaha, is the only' black
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