Friday, November 12, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Letters
State can 't afford to cut NU's budget
'Let the reader decide9
For weeks now the Daily Nebraskan has carried letters
about whether Mormonism can be considered a Christian
faith. Will you please permit one more?
An acquaintance of mine, Gene Fadness, has addressed
this question several times to many groups. I will just
quote from him:
"Here is what the Mormons believe and we'll let the
reader decide if these doctrines are in accordinace with
Christian teaching.
"The Mormons believe in God, in Jesus Christ, in
the Bible. They use the same terms Christians use. The
reason there has been such a controversy on this question
is that no one has ventured to ask the Mormons: You
say you believe in God, but who is He? What think ye
of Christ? What is your interpreation of the Bible?
"This is the Mormon god. He is one of many gods who
was once a mortal man and progressed by his good works
to achieve godhood. All Mormon men have the potential
of becoming gods and will receive their own worlds to
create and govern. Many of them will have more than one
wife and the future gods will eternally procreate their
worlds through sexual relations with their wives. That's
how Jesus was born - through sexual relations between
God and Mary. No Mormon will truthfully deny that this
is Mormon doctrine.
"The Mormon Christ is the firstborn of God's many
spirit children. He is our elder brother and also the
brother of Satan.
"Salvation in Mormonism is attained by faith and good
works. Those who go to the highest of several graded
Mormon heavens are those who have been through the
Mormon temples, have learned secret handgrips and
sworn that they would not reveal these handgrips and
if so would receive a penalty of certain death. How they
will die, whether it will be by getting their head cut off,
their heart cut out or their bowels and loins removed
was also demonstrated in the temple.
"The Bible is true as far as it is translated correctly.
The Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price and
their modern book of revelation called the Doctrine
and Covenants are perfect translations where the Bible
is not.
"Are these the teachings of the one, universal Christian
church? Are the Mormons (even though they have
adopted Christian ethics, morals and terminology) part
of the universal Christian church? You decide."
Larry Philippi
graduate, educational psychology
How can one judge the worth of an education? How
can one judge the importance of being taught by the
"best" with the "best" materials and the "best" facilities?
How can one determine the relative importance of our
university in society today?
It's not easy. But that's just what our state senators
have to do this week. They are facing reality, and reality
is: Our state doesn't take in as much in taxes as it spends.
And the biggest recipient of these tax dollars is the
Guest Opinion
University of Nebraska. Do the senators then have an obli
gation to cut spending at the university? Do they have
any other choice?
Yes, they do. And the decision they must come to,
exempting the university from major budget cuts -sounds
unreal at first. Everyone should sacrifice, it's been
said, and everyone should see their budgets cut in order
to balance the books. But this thinking forgets what role
in Nebraskan society the University of Nebraska has
played. It forgets how past budget decisions have affected
the university. It also forgets the reality of economics
in the world today. If one wants the best, one must pay
for it.
The university is not some huge, bureaucratic, faceless
institution gulping massive amounts of tax dollars. It is
the producer of thinkers, of doers, of builders, of leaders,
of people with a purpose. And that purpose is to better
society, to have each graduate take his hard-earned edu
cation and use it to make lasting contributions to society.
The university is the state's focal point of intellectual
challenge, which provides great steps forward for
Nebraska and the rest of society.
We all know mediocrity is nothing to be proud of.
Thus, a commitment was made by our past state leaders
to build and maintain a quality institution of higher
education. That commitment meant the spending of tax
dollars and the determination to hire the "best" faculty
members to have the "best" equipment and to have
functional, yet inspiring, facilities.
As hard quality is to gauge, if one's definition of a
quality education means the production of a new way of
selling more farm commodities or a discovery about the
formation of the basic molecules of life, then quality
exists. Yet continued quality can easily disappear, and
would take many years to rebuild. This is the very probl
problem that our state senators are facing this week:
In terms of hiring quality faculty, our university is
becoming uncompetitive. Faculty members are the very
life and blood of any university. They teach, students
learn, and society gains in wisdom. Yet, they also are
human beings, with human understanding of the market
place. It's not that the faculty members are greedy; it's
simply that they know when they are appreciated. And
when extension offices at the county level are closed, as
has happened, the entire state feels the pain of constricted
knowledge. When scholastic programs are discontinued,
as has happened, the entire state feels the pain of lost
education and opportunity.
It is no longer a case of cutting the arm off to save the
leg. The university is, in certain senses, being bled to
death, wth mediocrity being the only result if any more
cuts are made. The university is not a luxury our state
cannot afford; it is an imperative our state must foster,
develop and be proud of.
We must join in the fight to save our university. Call
you state senator today. You will, and you must, make
a difference. The time is upon us, as the decisions are
being made today, to determine this university's
tomorrow.
The Innocents Society
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