Ms Tl Daily University of Nebraska-Lincoln MLRU. Friday, April 9, 1982 Vol.109 No. 59 Lincoln, Nebraska Copyright 1982 Daily Nebraskan : f 4 f i' f 11 1 I P ','!' '' , '' , ' -',' ' '' -' ,W 4 ft",, '(, '( v, , , X;, -';,, ,! , I ,, ! i, , 4 yff f r iiiiil Photo by D. Eric Kircher Dawn Clark looks out from under her umbrella as the spring snow returns to Lincoln. Club decides against action in leaflet dispute The International Relations Club decided Wednesday not to take any action against Steve Grasz or the College Republicans for the alleged distribution of political liter ature during the European Tour Symposium March 30. "As it stands right now, I don't think we'll take any ac tion," John Sunnygard, president of the club, said. Sun nygard referred to his club as a non-partisan organization, and said it cannot take action that would indicate that it was not non-partisan. Sunnygard said the club was founded to expose inter nationally related issues and present information about every aspect of issues, so participants may make their own decisions. Sunnygard said the club decided the dis tribution of the materials was disruptive and inappropri ate. Steve Grasz, president of the College Republicans and alleged distributor of the leaflets, said he was glad the club decided not to take any action. "I consider it a trivial incident not worth the UNL Stu dent Court's time," Grasz said. "If the union decided it was not worth their time, obviously it was not that big of a deal." The Nebraska Union decided Monday not to pursue ac tion against Grasz for distributing leaflets inside the un ion, an action which violates a Nebraska Union rule. Grasz said it was unfortunate that the incident hap pened, and that it was not intentional. "I'll be more careful in the future to check out the rules," Grasz said. Native American says culture restricts success By Chris Hodges Indians meet with failure and poverty in America because they allow their culture to hold them back, said Ben Reifel, speaker for the Nebraska Native American Student Congress. Indian culture conflicts with values that allow white people to succeed, Reifel said. The concept of saving and working for the future had little importance to Indian tribes in the past, he said. "You aren't going to get anywhere un less you pay attention to time, work and savings," he told the audience of about 70 people, most of whom were Native Ameri cans, at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Thursday. Reifel's speech is part of a five-day state conference for the NNASC, said Sepa Carmona, vice president of the organizat ion. The group has several hundred members of Native American college and high school students. Some came to the conference by bus from state Indian reser vations. Reifel talked about what it takes for an Indian to succeed in America. He recount ed experiences of his own life, growing up on the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota. Reifel is the son of a Sioux Indian mother and a German father. He earned masters and doctorate degrees in public administration from Harvard University. He is a former U.S. Congressman, former Commissioner of Indian Affairs and former consultant for the U.S. Department of the Interior. The problem Indians have is they fail to plan for the future, Reifel said. Their cult ure is oriented to the present time. "We exalt in the now," he said. "We don't grow up, as a Plains people, to save for the future." The Indian languages cannot transalte common English expressions, such as "time is money" and "time is of the essence," Reifel said. The Indian concept of time is based on the seasons, the solar and lunar cycles, he said. In contrast, the Western European concept of time is based on the future, he said. Indians need to allow Western European concepts to show them the way to succeed in America, Reifel said. "We must preserve that culture which is good, but incorporate other things," he said. Young Native Americans should plan for future employment by going to high school, technical school or college, he said. Indian employees need to be conscienti ous, punctual and reliable in relation to their jobs, he said. Indian men sometimes have trouble keeping steady jobs because their culture never prepared them for regular work, Reifel said. "Our Indian men, historically, were hunters and warriors," he said. Their lives were characterized by freedom of move ment and change in daily routine. Indian women generally fare better than men in keeping steady jobs. Their historical role in Indian life include 1 tedious daily tasks, such as tanning hides, Reifel said. Reifel said Native Americans need to stop dwelling on the mistakes of the past. "We can't get caught up and lost in the atrocities that have been committed on our people," he said. "The people with whom we live today aren't reasponsible for all that. We're brothers and sisters together." U.S. government 'intent on provoking' Nicaragua f jr.-- mm Vi SHY- v 1 Photo by Dave Bentz Waiiam LeoGrande, director of Political Science at American University, spoke to UNL students Thursday about the situation in El Salvador. By Pat Higgins The Reagan administration is either ex tremely naive or it is lying about the re gime in Nicaragua, said William LeoGrande, director of Political Science at American University in Washington, D.C. LeoGrande, who was interviewed yesterday before his speech in the Nebraska Union, recently re turned from Nicaragua. "When the Reagan administration says that there is a totalitarian government in Nicaragua they don't know what they are talking about," LeoGrande said. LeoGrande said the revolution against the old Anastasio Somoza government uni ted the factions in Nicargua, but political conflit continues. The pragmatic elements of the Sandinista government currently have more power than the leftists, Leo Grande said. "The United States government should encourage and support the pragmatists in order to keep a mixed economy going and to prevent them from following a pro-Soviet foreign policy," LeoGrande said. Conservative elements control much of the economy in Nicaragua today, Leo Grande said. He said the Sandinistas con trol the apparatus of the state and the army. "The political conflict is not over, and each side is using its resources," LeoGrande said. 'They are having a raging political de bate now." LeoGrande said there are hard-line ele ments of the Sandinistas that are Marxist Leninist and want to follow the Cuban model. The U.S. foreign policy is encour aging these elements by making threats against Nicaragua. 'The Reagan administration's state ments are giving ammunition to the hardli ners. This administration seems intent on provoking them," LeoGrande said. The Sandinista government's official policy prohibits arms shipments to El Sal vador although there may be covert excep tions to that policy, LeoGrande said. U.S. arms shipments to Honduras raise some questions because they do not have an in ternal guerrilla threat, LeoGrande said. He said that a war could develop from the Pan ama Canal to the Mexican border. The San dinista government wants to avoid any war, but it has the military strength to defeat any Central American country, LeoGrande said. La Prensa, the opposition daily news paper, has been shut down several times by the Sandinistas since the revolution. Leo Grande said newspapers in Nicaragua have traditionally been partisan. "La Prensa gets a lot of good press in the United States but it is really close to the National Enquirer. While I was there they did a week of stories about the sweat ing statue of the Virgin Mary. She was sup posed to be sweating in anxiety about the Sandinistas,' LeoGrande said.