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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Monday, April 12, 1982
Vol. 109 No. 60
Lincoln, Nebraska
Copyright 1982 Daily Nebraskan
Economic adviser says recession coming to end
By Pat Higgins
Unemployment and interest rates will
decline by the end of the year if Congress
passes Ronald Reagan's budget plan, said
Jerry Jordan, a member of the President's
Council on Economic Advisers. The reces
sion has been more severe and lasted longer
than anticipated, but is coming to an end,
Jordan said.
"Last fall, President Reagan was walking
to his helicopter and he told reporters that
we were in a recession," Jordan said. "He
said that before any data indicated that we
were in a recession. Usually an administra
tion will deny that they are in a recession
as long as they can."
Jordan was sponsored by the Dr. Scholl
Foundation Forum on the Future of Pri
vate Enterprise. He spoke Friday at the
Sheldon Auditorium. He said high interest
rates should be blamed on the Federal Re
serve System's monetary policy and be
cause Congress passed a 5 percent tax cut
instead of the president's 10 percent cut.
Administrators knew as soon as they
took office that a recession was coming be
cause former President Jimmy Carter had
"overheated" the economy, Jordan said.
Simultaneous cuts in spending and taxes
are the long-term solution to economic
problems, he said.
Broad-based approach
"Our approach is a broad-based cutting
back on federal government intervention in
the economy," Jordan said. He said a gen-,
eral reduction must be made in order to
prevent special interests from making
political deals to save their programs. The
U.S. Constitution prohibits granting special
privileges that give special interests ad
vantages, he said.
"President Reagan's ideas go back to the
Constitution and what it says about
government activity in the economy,"
Jordan said .
be imposed for the right to pollute instead
of regulating technology as in the auto
industry.
There has not been a wholesale dis
mantling of programs under the Reagan ad
ministration, Jordan said. He said that the
real effect has been on eligibility and the
level of benefits. The administration is try
ing to get more direct benefits to the poor
instead of spending money on the bureau
cracies that administer the programs.
Jordan said.
The federal government in the past has
shown a bias against long-term policy.
Jordan said. He said that programs with
short-term benefits win out because of
special interests.
"There is a political and economic cycle
where programs are approved right before
elections," Jordan said.
State and local government should be
relied on instead of the federal govern
ment, he said. He said each state should
determine the requirements of transfer
payments and welfare.
"The process would work better if the
states would handle these programs instead
of the federal government. Pennsylvania
has already come up with some innovative
approaches," Jordan said.
Direct government regulation of
business puts the federal government in an
adversary relationship with industry which
generates problems, Jordan said. When
regulations are created, government doesn't
function perfectly, Jordan said. He said it
would be better to rely on market devices.
Government fine
"In the area of safety regulation, the
only sanction by the government is a fine
which leads to cheating by firms. But if the
firms were using insurance they would save
money by being safer," Jordan said. There
is scope for the federal government to
intervene in the environment but such inter
vention should be done on a cost-benefit
basis, Jordan said. He said a charge should
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Photo by D. Eric Kirchei
William St. Cyr of Winnebago, Neb., waits for the grand entry procession to start Sunday, the final day of the
Nebraska Native American Student Congress that took place in the UNL Coliseum.
Dance ends Native American week
For 15 hours Saturday and Sunday, there was a
somewhat uncommon display of athletic skill in the
Coliseum.
Instead of college-age students clad in T-shirts and
sweats practicing lay-ups, the floor of the Coliseum was
filled with Native Americans of all ages, dressed in
traditional Indian costumes. They participated in a
series of competitive and recreational dances.
The powwow ended the Nebraska Native American
Student Congress, a week of Native American oriented
events including the first state conference of NNASC.
"Only Nebraskans have been involved in this so
far," said Jana Ashley as dancing competiton began
Saturday evening.
"This is the part of the conference where others
come and join us in our celebration."
Ashley, a research analyst with the State Indian
commission, along with Lloyd Ware, a counselor with
UNL Multi-Cultural Affairs, were technical advisers for
the NNASC, an organization of Native American
college and high school students.
Four hundred people attended the Saturday session
of the powwow. Forty-five dancers competed in eight
divisions. The dancers, Ware said, were judged on danc
ing skill, timing and costumes, some of which cost at
least $5,000. First -place cash awards were $100.
Second place and third place were $75 and $50, respectively.
Doctor says herpes effects long-range
By Vicki Ruhga
Eighteen cases of herpes were treated at the University
Health Center in the last four months, said University
Health Center Medical Director Dr. Gerald Fleischli. In
1981 , 36 cases were reported for the entire year.
However, cases of herpes are not as frequent as public
awareness reflects, Fleischli said.
Most sexually transmitted diseases can be treated, but
they can have serious long-range consequences, he said.
Herpes may cause joint pains (arthritis), heart trouble
andor sterility.
Fleischli explained that there are several forms of sex
ually transmitted venereal diseases. At one time, syphillis,
caused by the spirochete germ, which enters the blood
stream and infects the whole body, was the most dreaded
disease. However, it is now treatable by penicillin.
"Gonorrhea, caused by gonococcus bacteria, then be
came most dreaded because it is more resistant to penicil
lin treatment than syphillis," Fleischli said. "Now herpes
is the most dreaded veneral disease because we don't have
an effective treatment."
Fleischli said the virus which causes herpes is in the
same category as the virus which causes chicken pox.
"It is caused by mucus membrane contact, basically
whenever there is an open lesion," he said.
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Candidate favors free
state universities, new
image for agribusiness
By Michiela Thuman
A 1st District congressional candidate said he favors a
system of tuition-free education at all levels.
Marlin Pals, 41, said state universities would be
supported by a tax fund established by taxpayers.
"That's the government's function - to educate peo
ple," he said.
Pals also said many of the problems the United States
faces today are caused by Republicans-Communists.
He said one of the foundations of his platform as an
independent Democratic candidate is to eliminate
Republicans.
"Communism was established in 1840 as the Red
Republicans," he said.
"They're (Republicans) the ones who are fostering
communism."
Pals, who received his bachelors degree in general
science at Iowa State University, moved to Lincoln in
1967 and works as a clerk at Save-Mart. He filed for candi
dacy two weeks ago, after the completion of his first
book.
"Filing as a pauper is a way of getting people interest
ed in getting involved in politics without having to spend a
lot of money," he said. "It's a trend among politicians to
spend a lot to get elected. I am running against that
trend."
Pals, who said he comes "from a fundamentalist back
ground," began research for his book, Reflections of the
Sun-Son, in 1964 and began writing it in 1979. He said he
worked on rough drafts of the book at Wesley House, on
City Campus, with the help of Mel H. Luetchens, campus
minister at Wesley House, to whom the book is dedicated.
"The book covers a subject of lifetime interest to me,"'
Pals said. "It is about the evolutionary aspect of the
development of religion and tries to answer to fundament
alist charges against evolution."
If elected as a Nebraska representative in Congress, Pals
said he would change the negative attitude toward farmers
as "the inefficient ."
"Nebraska has a farm economy that needs represen
tation. Agriculture people are often considered worthless
peasants. Farming needs to be seen as a business, an in
dustry," he said.
Pals said a strong U.S. defense is necessary, but more
money should be spent on space development.
"Reagan imagines his favorite battleships will win the
war like they did in his movies. If we are as far behind
. Russia as Reagan says we are, we'd be under Russia's
control," Pals said. "There are no military objectives in
volved to fight against communism. It is economic and
social."
He also said the grading curve often used by teachers
is unfair and should be eliminated.
"Many educators are using their responsibilities as
educators like madmen with machine guns, saying 'some
one has to die.' "
"I've got a long way to go," he said. "But the future
belongs to men with vision. I'm quite fond of Robert
Kennedy's saying: 'Some men dream things that are and
ask why; I dream things that never were, and ask why
not?' "
Pals is unmarried and has a foster son, Craig, 15.
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