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Tuesday, February 23, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Week'sactivitiesemphasizebetterunderstanding
By Mary Ellen Uehnc
If your friends arc different from you, you've already
found the pot of gold.
So say the many rainbowed posters announcing "A
Week to Explore Differences," five days of activities
designed to help UNL students, faculty members and em
ployees better understand people who are different from
them.
Activities for the week, which started Sunday and con
tinues through Thursday, include films, discussions and
workshops about people of different races, nationalities,
sexes, religions and sexual preferences. UNL Housing's
Office of Residential Education is sponsoring the week.
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one of the week's main goals is to help students living in
residence halls to become more tolerant of students who
have different characteristics than they. Improving tol
erance among students would improve the living enviro
nment on hall floors, he said.
"Problems in the residence halls usually stem from dif
ferences between students," McKinnon said, "such as
differences between roommates, gays and straights and
students of different races."
McKinnon said housing staff members and residence
hall directors are sponsoring the week's activities, most
of which are in UNL residence halls or the Nebraska
unions.
He emphasized, however, that the activities are open
to anyone at UNL. not just students living in the halls.
Films and discussions about people valuing themselves
and others were shown at Abel Hall Sunday. The staff of
Cather-Pound-Ncihardt sponsored Monday's activities
about disabled people, gays and lesbians, international
students and UNL students involved in religious groups.
Today, Residential Education staff members will
sponsor a film festival in the television room in Selleck
Quadrangle, in the main lounges of the Nebraska Union
and in Burr Hall on East Campus. The films will focus
on the experiences of blacks, Indians and Mexican
Americans. Wednesday's activities, sponsored by the Harper-Schramm-Smith
complex, are about men's issues. Films
will be shown in the main lounges of both unions, and a
program on male sexuality will be presented at 7 p.m. in
the main lounge of Harper Hall.
The last day of activities, Thursday, will be devoted
to women's issues. Program and residence hall directors
of Burn Fedde, Love and Selleck will show films includ
ing A Turning Point and An Unmarried Woman in the
East Union and the Selleck television lounge. A panel
discussion about women in the 1980s will be in the
union at 3:30 p.m.
The same topic will be addressed at 7:30 p.m. in the
Selleck dining room by Lynn Roper, a stockbroker at
Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc. and an active
member of the Nebraska and Lincoln chapters of the
Commission on the Status of Women.
AlF activities are free.
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While most UNL students and faculty will get a chance
to relax during spring break, about 15 judges from around
the world and UNL School of Journalism faculty mem
bers will be examining entries in an international broad
casting promotion competition.
Larry Walklin, chairman of the School of Journalism's
broadcasting department, said, however, the faculty mem
bers are happy to do it.
The 1982 Boradcastcrs Promotion AssociationUniver
sity of Nebraska International Cold Medallion Awards
competition will help to increase the regulation of the
School of Journalism, Walklin said.
More than 1,500 entries were received by the Feb. 15
deadline, Walklin said. Awards will be presented in 25 cat
egories, such as sales promotion and television and radio
announcements.
Walklin said UNL received many entries from the three
major television networks, as well as TV stations, radio
stations, cable TV networks and program distributors.
UNL does not participate in the contest because of its
role as co-sponsor, Walklin said.
Faculty members can show their classes the winning
entries, which can be an effective teaching tool, Walklin
said.
Both faculty members and students benefit by seeing
examples of work done by professionals from around the
world, Walklin said.
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By Melitula Nonris
An attempt to sell 500,000 metric tons of Nebraska
corn to the Taiwan government has been postponed and
not canceled, said Lt.Gov. Roland Luedtke.
Lucdtkc made the announcement Monday after a
story appearing in the Sunday Lincoln Journal-Star said
state officals "scrapped" the mission after only one Ne
braska corn dealer, Scoular-Bishop Grain Co. of Omaha,
placed a bid for the deal. Three bids were needed.
Because of the time frame and intricate details of the
contract, state officials decided to postpone the deal
until March 19 to provide more time for potential bidders
to estimate a price, Luedtke said.
Certain prerequisites in the contract disqualified most
of Nebraska's largest corn dealers from bidding, leaving
the 19 million bushel deal open to the smaller, incapable
dealers, a panel of state Agriculture Department offic
ials explained.
In addition, the contract itself is to be concluded in
Taiwan.
"Why should three companies spend $3,000 each to go
to Taiwan and not know if they will get a piece of the
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A dealer also may make more money by storing the
same corn rather than by selling it, he said.
According to Luedtke, other difficulties which have
stalled the deal include the cost and paperwork of using
large grain trader's storage bins, and collecting, loading
and shipping the grain.
Luedtke said the governor appointed him to head the
marketing mission because Gov. Charles Thone could not
leave the state during an election year and while the
Legislature is in session.
Luedtke said there was no disagreement between him
and Thone over the importance of the corn trade.
"There couldn't be any more pleased people than
Charlie Thone and Roland Luedtke if we would secure the
deal," he said.
According to a news release from Luedtke 's office,
the Taiwanese government contacted Thone about a pos
sible corn purchase Nov. 8, 1981. In January, Luedtke,
two Nebraska Agriculture Department officials and three
Nebraska grain dealers scheduled a meeting with the
Taiwanese government for Feb. 12 through 19. After
failing to meet the requirements of the Taiwanese con
tract, Thone and Luedtke agreed to postpone the meeting.
Senator seeks office
as lieutenant governor
Sen. Howard Lamb of Anselmo announced Monday
that he is leaving "one of the top positions in the Legis
lature" to vie for the office of lieutenant governor of the
State of Nebraska.
Lamb said he is pursuing the office because ""there is a
great untapped potential in the office of lieutenant gover
nor to be of greater service to the state."
If elected to the office, Lamb said he will concentrate
on improving the economic health of the state, working in
harmony with the governor and improving the working
relationship between the lieutenant governor and the
governor.
Lamb verbally attacked the incumbent Lt. Gov.
Roland Luedtke for demonstrating a lack of cooperation
in working with Gov. Charles Thone.
"In the nearly four years that Charlie Thone has been
governor, I have had easy access to his-office," Lamb said.
"Although we do not always agree on every detail, I am in
agreement with his conservative philosophy," he said.
Noting that all the present constitutional officers are
residents of Lincoln, the Anselmo rancher and farmer said
his election would "provide diversity of background
which would strengthen the Statehouse team."
Chairman of the Legislative Executive Board and a
member of the Education and Public Works committees,
Lamb was elected to the Legislature in 1976 and re-elected
in 1980.