Friday, November 19,1982
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 82, No. 66
.Henzlik auditorium to close for out-of -class use
By Vicki Ruhga
Student organizations and' groups other than UNL
classes will no longer be allowed to use Henzlik Hall
auditorium, said Ray Coffey, UNL business manager.
Coffey said it is general practice for student groups
to use classroom space for meetings, because the groups
are part of the educational process.
However, the Henzlik Hall auditorium is no longer a
general-use classroom. Coffey said he has worked with
the life sciences department to renovate the auditorium
into a specialty teaching area. For example, the slide
projection room has been modified to allow multi-image
slide shows and there is also a special public address
system, he said.
"We can't close off all of these things," Coffey said.
"Continually, after an organization has used the audito
rium, the P.A. system is maladjusted or there has been
damage to some of the other specialized equipment."
Coffey said he believes the primary purpose of the
university is to teach students. In order for an instructor
to do his best, he must have all additional aids working,
he said.
The decision to close Henzlik Hall auditoriums for
purposes other than classroom learning was made after
the Maranatha student group broke an undetermined
amount of equipment while using the auditorium Nov.
8.
However, Coffey said problems also have occurred
with other organizations. A faculty member filed a
complaint about the mess left in the auditorium after
Teachers College sponsored a football pre-game reception
there, he said.
Fran Grabowski, chairman of the ASUN Constitution
Committee, said the decision to close Henzlik Hall audito
rium to organizations was not what he wanted, but the
decision is final.
ASUN has the authority to prevent groups from
using UNL buildings, Grabowski said. He said he favored
talking with Maranatha, giving them a firm warning and
maybe putting them on suspension.
"The Maranatha group offered to pay for damages,"
he said. "It seemed like they have gone out of their way
to apologize."
Coffey said the Maranatha group is expected to pay
for all damages. The group will be allowed to use the
Love Library auditorium, which has about the same
seating capacity, he said.
Although Henzlik Hall auditorium will not be used,
Grabowski said there is still plenty of other space avail
able for campus organizations.
The new policy may be an inconvenience for some
campus groups, but Grabowski said it is equally inconven-
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Economist explains four theories
By Eric Peterson
UNL economics Professor Wallace C. Peterson looked
at why there is so much disagreement about the economy
in a Monday talk called "Contemporary Macroeconomics:
A House Divided.' The talk, part of the Regents Professor
Lecture Series, was in the Nebraska Union.
Peterson received his bachelor's, master's and doctor
ate degrees from UNL. "The Overloaded Economy"
is the latest of several books he has written; his "Money
in America" column, which runs in many Nebraska news
papers, won a national award for economics reporting.
Peterson said current theoretical disagreement about
macroeconomics - economics on a national, economy
wide scale - arises from alternative visions of what the
economy should be like.
Today's economic mainstream is derived from John
Maynard Keynes' book, "General Theory of Employment,
Interest, and Money ," Peterson said. This book, which
proposed government intervention in a nation's economy
to encourage spending, replaced the classical economic
idea that an economy works best "if unfettered by the
state or groups with monopoly power," he said.
Actually, Peterson said, unfettered competition has
never existed except in the minds of some economists.
"Nobody wants to exist in that kind of world (of un
restrained competition)," he explained to one questioner.
"It's too brutal."
Peterson said Kcynesian economics grew out of a
more real and less theoretical view of what economic
conditions were like.
"It is a point of view born out of the bitter exper
ience of the Great Depression in the 1930s," he said.
As a result, Peterson said, Keynes' theories became
the new economic orthodoxy; the new economic model
was "an extraordinary success story" of economic growth
without any threat of another terrible economic depres
sion. However, Keynesian theory as formulated by most
economists proved unable to deal with inflation start
ing in the 1970s, he said.
"Experience taught that Keynesian theory was asym
metrical," he said, explaining that Keynesian solutions
for unemployment worked fine but faltered for inflation.
In reaction to inflation, several forms of the discredited
classical economic theory raised their heads, Peterson
said.
"Instead of seeing a revolution, we now have a counter
revolution," he noted. The three new forms, in order
of their sophistication, are the new classical, monetarist
and supply-side economic theories, Peterson explained.
The new classical theory is "the most powerful of
the challenges to the Keynesian theory," Peterson said.
One of its major weaknesses is the argument that any
government policy action will be ineffective because
people will already have altered their activities around it,
Peterson said. He reduced this idea to its logical exten
sion: "Government policy will not work unless people
have wronguiformation."
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ient to make students wait for their Monday morning
class to begin because the auditorium is a mess.
Maranatha member Bob Fitzgerald said the Henzlik
Hall auditorium closing was an unfortunate situation.
"We had been contacted only one time before about
the auditorium, and that message did not explicitly
blame Maranatha," Fitzgerald said. "We were told that
we would be contacted in the future about the matter,
but that never happened."
Fitzgerald said the Maranatha group broke only the
lamp on an overhead projector. The rest of the broken
or damaged equipment was being attributed to Maran
atha, but life sciences people said they were not sure
who actually did the damage, he said.
"I'm sure we will definitely pay for the items we
broke," he said. "We want to do anything we can to
rectify the situation."
Fitzgerald said he would send a group from Maran
atha to talk to the administrators and those in the life
sciences department to discuss the damage which may
not have been done by Maranatha.
Rock music called
demonic, negative
By Leslie Forbes
Nick Pappis, Christian record producer and director
for Maranatha ministries in Gainesville, Fla.,has appeared
at UNL since Nov. 7 speaking on what he says are the
negative effects that rock V roll has on students' lives.
Subliminalism and symbolism, including backward
masking - recording a message backwards on a record -are
explored in a "Rock And Roll Seminar" that Pappis
has given around the world.
The music of today has drawn people away from
Christian morals to rebellion, sensuality and drugs, he
said.
Pappis said the effect music has is immense and many
times people are unaware of its purpose and effect.
During the seminar, Pappis played numerous examples
of what he says are garbled backward messages advocating
devil worship. Songs such as Queen's "Another One
Bites the Dust," played backward, Pappis said, can say
"Satan must have no limit."
Other groups Pappis used as examples of backward
masking are the Electric Light Orchestra, the Beatles,
Led Zeppelin, Black Oak Arkansas-and Rush.
Bob Rosel, music director at KFMQ radio station,
said he is surprised at the accusations and very skeptical
of their validity.
He said he doesn't believe the bands are doing it
intentionally and he doesn't find the songs blatantly
evil.
"Most artists seem to have a positive attitude toward
religion," Rosel said.
In playing the records backwards, Rosel said, "I
frankly could not understand it." He said that if you
"wanted to make anything out of it, you will."
Pappis also attacked album covers, pointing out ex
amples of occult symbols used in the designs. Pentagrams,
hexagrams, pyramids, the use of black gloves and occult
bibles were some examples found on the front of popular
albums.
Each of the symbols could be traced, in either past or
present use, to occult worship, Pappis claimed.
Rosel said bands usually don't design the covers them
selves. "Very often the band has little to say about album
covers. It's just hype," he said.
He said the album cover design has a lot to do with
how well it sells and that artists who create the covers are
only trying to appeal to the audience using eye-catching
symbols.
"These symbols most people wouldn't know what
these symbols are," Rosel said.
Pappis said members of the bands were involved in
the occult and are using rock music as a recruiting
medium by brainwashing its listeners subliminally.
"You are forced to accept it innocently," Pappis
said. "Everyone of you has a choice. What is this music
doing to you?"
Pappis advocates Christian rock instead of heavy
metal, punk or other forms of rock 'n' roll.
Rosel said music doesn't give people the urge to
follow the lyric's message.
"People have said 'go to hell' for a hundred years,
it doesn't mean the devil," he said.
Rosel said the appeal of the occult subject matter
in songs and on album covers is just the younger generat
ion questioning and testing society's norms.