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a Christmas decoration to a downtown light pole Friday afternoon.
By Martin Neary
A petition protesting unnecessary
violence by the Lincoln Police Department
is being circulated following an incident
between the police and a group .of party
goers Nov. 1 2.
Also, a picketing of the police station is
tentatively planned for Saturday, said Jim
Jones, member of the Lincoln new wave
band Pogrom that was involved in the
incident.
Pogrom and two other bands were
playing Nov. 12 at a building at Seventh
and P streets when police arrived and
allegedly ordered the crowd to leave, Jones
said.
"They (the police) didn't explain why
the party was being broken up, and people
became confused and reluctant to leave,"
he said.
Wendy Mager, a witness in at least one
lawsuit stemming from the incident, said
the police already had arrived and were
standing at the back of the crowd when she
arrived at about 9 p.m. The bands were
playing for free and there was no alcohol,
she said.
Confusion occurred
Only about half the crowd heard the
police officers' announcement, and
confusion occurred when police started
walking up to people and ordering them
to leave, she said.
The police started pushing and using
unnecessary force when people asked why,
she said.
Two letters to the editor about the in
cident that were printed in The Lincoln
Star and an open forum aired last Tuesday
on a local television station have generated
concern. Mager said.
"It is an all-around and classic case of
injustice," Mager said.
John Ewoldt, arrested and charged with
disturbing the peace, said that between
i two and four seconds after he was asked
to leave, he and two other people were
handcuffed and arrested. Ewoldt said he
saw one person hit with a billy club by a
policeman.
"I hope that the bands can play without
every concert getting raided," Ewoldt said.
"I think Lincoln police have a bad attitude
towards new wave music."
Petition signed
Jones said he plans to send the protest
petition to the Lincoln Police
Department's internal affairs division this
weekend after getting as many people to
sign it as possible. The petition, which is
at the Dirt Cheap reiord store, 217 N. 1 1th
St., already has been signed by more than
100 people, he said. Jones said he hopes it
will lead to something being done.
Police Chief Dean Leitner said there
is currently an investigation going on. The
officers were there as a result of a
complaint and after arriving, they found
several violations of state law and city
ordinances, he said. The state fire inspector
found unsafe conditions prior to the
officers' arrival, Leitner said.
A total of eight people were arrested,
a police spokeswoman said. Charges in
cluded: Four counts of minor in posses
sion, five counts of disturbing the peace
and one count of interfering with a police
officer.
Spring financial aid
deadline approaching
The deadline for completing applications and related
forms for spring semester financial aid is Dec. 1, said
Don Aripoli, UNL director of scholarships and financial
aids.
About $35,000 is available in grant money, $85,000
in student loans and $80,000 in work study, Aripoli
said. However, this is a smaller amount than last year,
he said.
Awards for aid are made in July, and the money not
collected by students in the fall goes for spring semester
financial aid, he said.
Also, some students had their aid revised or reduced
because of additional work study or income.
Students wishing to receive aid must fill out an appli
cation and related Forms, including a Financial Aid Form,
a Pell Grant form and a transfer financial aid form if
the student is a transfer student.
Future of building upkeep (grimy
More than 20 buildings on the UNL campus should
be demolished or remodeled, according to Robert
Pazderka, UNL director of facilities, management
and planning, ,
Although major deterioration , has occurred, "pro
bably nothing wOLbe done! Pazderka said. He said
that after the special' session of the Nebraska Legis
hturerthe future upkeep of these buildings could
look grim. "
"We can only maintain the buildings as best
'wecan,"he jsid. - ' , '
Rumors that Bessey Ibll has been condemned,
are not true, Pa2derka said, Uowcver, he added that
the LuiMinj needs extensive remodeling, as do Archi
tectural and Agricultural halls, , ;
Bancroft, Richard3, Mussehl, Former Law and
FUJey halls, along with the Men's P.E. Building, the
Livestock Judging Pavilion, the WOdlife Lab, Brace
Physics Lab, the Agricultural Communications Build
ing and the Natural Resource Lab all need 25 percent
to 50 percent remodeling, he said. .
The Culture Center, Hyde House, located west
of the Old UNL Police Station, the Implement Stor
age Shed, Orchard House on East Campus and the
Outstate Test Lab; all should be demolished because
they aren't worth renovating, Pazderka said. ,
More than $3 million dollars required for mainten
ance during 1982-83, and even more Income will
be needed for payment of utilities. The budget origin
nally called for $5.8 million, but only $13 million
, was allotted.
UNL professor: Chinese society somewhat elitist
By Jeff Goodwin
In some ways, China is becoming an elitist society,
said a UNL professor who recently spent seven months
there.
Edward Nemeth, associate professor of educational
psychology, taught in China from September 1982 to
April of this year. He spoke Monday at Sheldon Memorial
Art Gallery in conjunction with the gallery's presentation
of China Week.
Nemeth said the educational system in China contribu
tes to elitism. Universities in China are surrounded by
walls, he said. The professors live inside the university
grounds and send their children to schools within the
university grounds. Only the best instructors are hired
to teach the professors' children and that, in turn, leads
to higher scores for the children on university admission
tests.
Nemeth said politics dominates every aspect of Chinese
culture.
"Chinese culture is dominated by communist thought,
ideals and values," Nemeth said. The average Chinese
sees his purpose in life as contributing to the making of
communism on Earth.
"The party assumes the leading role," he said. "In
the same way, it tends to be protectionistic. There is an
idea that people can't be held responsible."
The government decides what the people should be
exposed to, Nemeth said.
"One of the problems in Chinese society is that the
ordinary person is working with very little information,"
Nemeth said. But it is necessary for the government to
reduce the flow of information to the populace, he said.
"If all of the things we have in the United States
flowed into China it would be havoc," he said. "Business
men would have a field day because they'd sell every
thing that had even a little glamour to it."
Nemeth said the Chinese are "an exceptionally docile
population. Their culture has responded to a strong man
rule in a very practical manner - that manner being sur
vival. Culture serves proliterian politics by not allowing
those politics to be explored."
Advancement in Chinese society is not based on
achievement, Nemeth said.
"Advancement comes through luck and who you
know, not through accomplishment," he said. "Many
times the most highly accomplished individuals are the
least rewarded"
Education is not a major vehicle for change in China,
Nemeth said.
"There is no evidence that education, as we know it
in the United States, will actually be a major force within
the society," he said.
