Wednesday, October 14, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 7
Sadat's death affected all, even
students-
editor
By Steve Miller
The assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
Oct. 6 presented an important decision before the news
desk.
National and international news rarely finds its wav
into the pages of the Daily Nebraskan. There are a number
of reasons why. The foremost is that the Daily Nebraskan
is a student newspaper sponsored to some degree by the
university and supported in part by student fees.
We have a definite obligation to commit ourselves
to covering campus news first. We are also obligated
to cover city and state news since students are clearly
affected.
The second reason is clearly obvious. The Daily Nebras
kan is an extremely small operation. We have no Middle
East Bureau and no Washington bureau. We have no wire
services.
Labor activist to talk
to student association
Labor activist Ray Rogers will deliver the keynote
address at the Ninth Annual National State Student
Association Conference this weekend at UNL.
Rogers' speech, entitled Confronting Power with
Power" will focus on how student advocates can use
Rogers' labor organizing techniques in protecting student
rights against encroachment by universities and state
governments.
Rogers will address student advocates from across the
nation in the Harvest Room of the Nebraska Union at
8:30pjn. Saturday.
As the director of Corporate Campaign, Inc., Rogers
gained national prominence in 1980 when he orchestrated
the "Corporate Campaign" for the Amalgamated Clothing
and Textile Workers Union against the JP. Stevens
Company. Rogers tactics helped the union win a 17-year
fight with J P. Stevens to organize Stevens' non-union
employees.
Rogers is directing the efforts of the Airline Pilots
Association to unionize New York Air, a non-union East
Coast carrier and a subsidiary of Texas Air Corporation.
The conference is an assembly of volunteer and profes
sional student advocates representing state student
associations in more than 30 states. These state student
associations, many of which are chartered as nonprofit
corporations, lobby in state legislatures and give infor
mation of interest to students. The conference is sponsor
ed by the United States Student Association and ASUN.
Conference participants will attend workshops
designed to help them improve their organization skills,
including fund-raising techniques, public relations
methods and management practices.
Also, when a newspaper presents breaking news to its
readers it should have the responsibility to provide follow
up reports. Continuous coverage of national and inter
national events is clearly beyond our capabilities.
We cannot sacrifice coverage of campus issues but there
are larger issues we cannot avoid. Unfortunately it 'seems
these larger issues usually entail some tragic event. Last
semester the Daily Nebraskan devoted space to the as
sassination of John Lennon and the attempted assassin
ation of President Ronald Reagan.
We try to limit our stories to issues and events that
affect the lives of UNL students. It was clear that the
assassination of Sadat would make our pages. Sadat rep
resented peace in the Middle East-an issue of interest
to many students.
There are many UNL students from the Middle East.
We have an obligation to them as well.
While we have no foreign bureaus, we do have a faculty
of experts to consult. We were also able to contact spokes
men for Nebraska-Sen. J. James Exon and Rep. Douglas
Bereuter. It should be of interest to us all what some of
our faculty members and elected officials know and have
to say about such issues.
The morning of Oct. 6 students were flocking around
television sets, listening to radios and buying copies of
local newspapers.
Campus news did not suffer from our coverage of the
assassination. We moved many local stories back in the
paper but we provided what local coverage we could.
We cannot present much in the way of follow-up
reports. I think we can be excused from that obligation.
Well leave that up to the rest of the media.
The important thing is that we were able to cover the
death of Sadat, reasonably well I thought. We will contin
ue to give space to such events no matter how far removed
from our vicinity when we think that students lives and
thoughts will be affected.
Red Cross
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ELECTRICAL CHEMICAL
MECHANICAL NUCLEAR
Interviewing Weds., Oct. 21
Omaha Public Power District
. . . operators of one of the
world's most efficient nuclear
power stations.
OPPD representatives will be on
campus interviewing college
engineers at the Placement
Center.
Shift Technical Advisors
New opportunity as a part of the
safety team at the Fort Calhoun
Station. Get valuable nuclear
training in all aspects of power
plant operation, maintenance,
and modification.
Power Generation
Design, testing, maintenance,
and operation opportunities at
nuclear and fossil fuel generating
stations.
Transmission and
Distribution engineering
Openings in the analysis and
design of substations,
transmission and distribution
lines, and distribution services.
System Protection
Documentation, coding,
maintenance, and operation of
computer programs associated
with the Energy Management
System.
Employment Department
Omaha Public Power District
1623 Harney Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68102
An equal opportunity employer
mala female
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Sat. 8-3
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at
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o One trade-in is allowed per each new pair of
jeans, but no limit on total number of trade-ins
accepted. (Four trade-ins will get you $12.00 off
of four new pairs of jeans.)
o All trade-ins will be donated to charity.
So, gather up all those old, scrappy jeans that you
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