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friday, October 30, 1981
lincoln, nebraskavol. 107 no. 48
Copyright Daily Nebraskan 1981
Moslem student groups find conflict on campus
By Mary Louise Knapp
Differing opinions of Moslem student groups concern
ing Iran's political situation are causing tension at UNL,
Moslem students said.
Nader Mardomi Gandevani, president of the Moselm
Student Society, said that another Moslem group is threat
ening to report the actions of the MSS to the Iranian
government.
The MMS is affiliated with the People's Mojahedin
Organization of Iran, a revolutionary group which
supports ousted Iranian president Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.
Most members of the groups are Iranian students, but
many members are from other Moslem countries,
Gandevani said.
Gandevani said the Muslim Student AssociationPersian
Speaking Group, an organization which supports the
Ayatollah. Khomeini, has told the MSS on several different
occasions that its activities were being watched and that
the MSS would be reported to supporters of Khomeini in
Iran.
"We are not scared of them," Gandevani said. "They
seem to have a lot of power, but actually they have none.
They can't do anything to us because we are the
majority."
The MSS publishes a newsletter based on information
sent to it from the Mojahedin group in Iran. Gandevani
said that the MSAPSG warned the MSS not to publish
the newsletter and advised the MSS that it would publish,
its own newsletter in. reply
Gandevani said the MSAPSG is receiving financial
support from Khomeini supporters in Iran and Europe,, .
but added that the group has no real power because
Khomeini is losing popularity in Iran.
Khomeini will fall
"Khomeini is going to topple," he said.
The Mojahedin organization is working toward a
"towhidi" or classless society, and believes that the
Khomeini regime encourages, the oppression of workers,
women and others in Iran.
The Mojahedin organization, under the leadership of
Mas'ud Rajavi, has formed a government called the Nat
ional Rsistance Council, based in Paris.
Mohammad Bolorizadeh, a spokesman for the MSA
PSG, called the statements of the MSS that the MSAPSG
has threatened to report their activities to Iran "ridicul
ous" and "propaganda."
"We are not reporting them. There is no reason to
report them," he said. "Their actions do not affect the
peple in Iran."
. Bolorizadeh said the MSS is trying to act as if it was
being oppressed by the MSAPSG in order to get pub
licity. Bolorizadeh said the MSAPSG is not receiving any
financial support from supporters of Khomeini, in spite of
claims to the contrary by members of the MSS.
"In fact, three or four of our members are receiving no
type of financial aid from home (Iran) at all," he said.
The popularity of Khomeini has not diminished in
Iran he said.
Bolorizadeh said Bani-Sadr rose to power because he
appeared to support Khomeini.
"Bani-Sadr was popular because he gave the indication
that he would support Khomeini, but when he showed
otherwise, he was removed," he said.
Bolorizadeh said the supporters of Khomeini are act
ing in the true interest of oppressed groups and the
Mojahedin organization is oppressing workers and
minority groups.
Distorted facts
Nasser Ghadimy, another member of the MSAPSG,
said the Mojahedin organization distorts facts about what
is really happening in Iran for its own benefit.
'The Mojahedin organization claims that the support
ers of Khomeini have killed nine-year-old girls. That is an
exaggeration. No one under the age of 16 has been execut
ed in Iran," he said.
An article published in the Oct. 1 issue of the MSS
bulletin, the newsletter published at UNL by members of.
the Mojahedin organization, said that the Khomeini
regime had sent groups of girls aged 9-18 to execution
squads without establishing their identities.
. "It then put out their pictures in newspapers so that
their parents may recognize them and consequently re
claim their bodies from the government," the article said.
Ghadimy said the girls spoken of in the article were
arrested, but not executed, and the government had sent
word to their parents to identify' their children to get
them out of jail.
Ghadimy added that the news media in the United
States frequently distorts the facts and does not give
balanced reports about the Iranian political situation.
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Mockler: Budget cuts have
serious implications for UNL
Photo by Mark Biltingsity
Halloween is upon us. Things will go bump in the night,, ghosts and goblins will
roam the streets and pranksters will reach deep into their bag of tricks. But that's
little reason to lose your head,, for the safety of November will come with Sunday's
first light.
GLC discusses student wheel tax
By Jeff Goodwin
Gov. Charles Thone's proposed budget
cuts could have a serious effect on the uni
versity,, according to Rick Mockler, ASUN
Senate president.
"It's obvious that our business college
and engineering college are just strapped
right now," Mockler said. "All of the
colleges have been strapped over the last
couple of years. I don't think any college
can afford a cut right now."
Mockler said faculty salaries are already
lower, at UNL than at comparable in
stitutions. "For the average faculty member to
have his salary cut would be devastating,"
Mockler said.
Mockler said many members of the Ne
braska Legislature are up for election next
year.
"I think there is a tendency for legis
lators, in election years, to not account for
inflation," Mockler said. "I don't see them
voting for a tax increase next year."
In a statement NU President Ronald
Roskens released by Jim Raglin, NU dir
ector of public affairs,. Roskens said the
cuts would be difficult for the university to
absorb.
"If the university is required to reduce
by some $4 to $4.5 million its 1981-82
budget, it will be both difficult and pain
ful. We cannot at this time isolate areas
where such cuts will be made.
"For example, we have bids out for
essential equipment and we already have
expended funds to obtain other equip
ment and services essential for our
campuses.
"Now we must inventory funds still
available and carefully consider where re
ductions can be made with the least
adverse impact upon the university. "
Sen. David Landis of Lincoln said one
option to explore was the selective cutting
of certain departments while leaving others
relatively intact.
"We should be able to distinguish
priority items from nonpriority items,"
Landis said.
He said he considered the university to
be a priority item.
Landis said politics would probably
dictate the outcome of the budget battle.
"There are 32 Republicans down here ,"
he said. "Gov. Thone should be able to get
through'what he wants."
Sen. Don Wesely said most members of
the Legislature were suffering from a lack
of information about what the effect of
the budget cuts would be.
"We need to get that information and
get it quickly," Wesely said. "It places us in
a very difficult position."
Wesely said the proposed cuts and their
effect on the university had left him con
cerned. 'The outlook is really bleak," he said.
The university will be really hurt by the
cuts. It will only make their budget
problems worse."
Wesely said there was little chance of a
tax increase in lieu of a budget cut.
"The mood of the public is to cut," he
said. 'They just don't want taxes increas
ed." Wesely said a possible solution was to
increase the tax rates and then reduce the.
budget in the next regular session.
"But I doubt there's any chance that
that will be pursued," he said.
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By Eric Peterson
A Lincoln city lobbyist outlined a proposal at an
ASUN Government Liaison Committee meeting to in
crease the city wheel tax and to extend the tax to Lincoln
university students who drive to work.
The wheel tax is assessed on each vehicle when it is
registered.
"Is. has become increasingly obvious that the city does
not have enough money to do all the repairs that could or
should be done said Deb Thomas. She said the tax was
started in 1963,, and has been set at $8 for more than a
decade. The new proposal would increase the tax to $12
and increase the tax again to $18 on Jan. l 1984.
The purpose of including students who drive to work,
if they are not lepal residents of Lincoln, is to make them
pay a fair share ot the city's street repair Thomas said.
The purpose is not so much the number of dollars
but the equity question she said.
Thomas said th? wheel tax could bring in uthe ideal
sum of $150,000," but that only a fraction of the ap
proximately 3,500 txxable students probably would pav
it.
lfs, just the question of fairness she said. She said
Lincoln residents said they dont mind paying their fair
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