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March 9, 1983
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 82, No. 120
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By Terry Hyland
A bill that would change provisions
for the construction of a proposed college
of veterinary medicine in Nebraska was
presented to the Legislature's Education
Committee Monday. Supporters and
opponents of the college presented the
pros and cons of the veterinary school
issue.
LB533 would amend certain sections
of a bill passed in 1981 that outlined the
requirements for planning and building
the school. The new bill would allow the
state to accept a congressional intent to
appropriate funds as a commitment
for future funding of the college. The
1981 bill required an actual appropriation
of S13 million by the federal government
before the project could proceed.
The bill also would eliminate Dec. 3 1 ,
1983, as the last day for accepting federal
funds committed to the project.
Congress already has appropriated
$827,000 to cover half the planning and
pre-construction costs of the project.
The bill, sponsored by the Legislature's
Agriculture Committee, was presented
to the Education Committee by Sen. Rex
Haberman of Imperial. Habennan read a
letter written by U.S. Sen. J.James Lxon
to veterinary school coordinator Dr. R.
Gene White stating that the federal
government had made a commitment to
fund the school by appropriating the
planning money. He also read from last
October's Congressional Record, which
quotes the chairman of an agriculture
appropriation subcommittee as saying the
planning money does constitute a federal
funding commitment.
Haberman said the veterinary school is
important for the state's future.
"We must keep in mind that when we
build this college ... it will be one of
the best things we can do for agriculture
in the future," he said.
Sen. Martin Kahlc of Kearney said the
statements from the Congressional Record
were the strongest commitments that
Nebraska would get at this time. He said
the federal government's commitment has
given Nebraska an opportunity, and that
it would be foolish for the state to turn
down funding for the school.
Opposition to the veterinary college
was expressed by Sen. James Pappas of
bate
Hershey.
Pappas said hard economic times make
the veterinary school impractical and that
the state would benefit more if existing
animal science facilities were improved.
Pappas also said he foresees no shortage
of veterinarians, and that the vet school
is unnecessary.
Dr. Bob Perry, an Omaha veterinarian,
said the vet school would not be a wise
investment for the state.
lie said Nebraska veterinarians he lias
talked to have not given him a good
argument for the school.
Perry said the state should upgrade
its present programs in the livestock
diagnostic field to benefit the livestock
industry.
Aonti-freeze form
sparks h
eated debate
By Chris Burbach
A nuclear freeze is neither a viable
nor a moral course for the United States
to pursue, according to three speakers at
a "Cool the Freeze" forum Tuesday in
the Nebraska Union.
Jim Rogers, a senior philosophy
student, Dan Ostdiek, a junior political
science major and the Rev. Marlin Wismer,
a Presbyterian minister, spoke against the
freeze proposal.
The College Republicans sponsored
the event, which drew about 20 people.
Crowd questions inspired heated debate
after the speeches.
Rogers said the United States needs a
reasonable defense policy, "of which the
advocacy of a nuclear freeze has no
portion."
Rogers stressed four points, which he
said warrant a negative vote on the freeze
resolution: methodological problems with
the "freeze talk-about," the necessity for
more than handy slogans to justify a
change in defense policy, problems with
verification and "the politics of guilt
and pity."
Freeze proponents have made some
illogical assumptions, Rogers said.
"More than merely slogans are necessary
to justify a change (in U.S. Defense
policy)," Rogers said. Freeze proponents
must go beyond "pro-freeze rhetoric"
and guarantee the absence of Soviet
aggression in the future.
"Whether or not such can ever be
provided is questionable," he said.
A freeze is not verifiable, according to
Rogers, who said it would lead to the
development of weapons that cannot be
identified.
Ostdiek said, "By its very nature, the
freeze proposal affects U.S. foreign
policy."
"U.S. foreign policy is built on two
pillars, those being deterrence and
alliance," he said. "These two pillars
converge into the notion of extended
deterrence." That allows the United States
to use the threat of nuclear weapons to
deter challenges to nations other than our
own.
Current NATO strategic policy is
"flexible response," which is meant to
deter attack by the threat of a response
in kind and potential escalation of the
conflict to theater nuclear warfare by
NATO, Ostdiek said.
The freeze resolution would deny
NATO the resources to carry out flexible
response, he said.
"Yet the freeze advocates do not offer
a workable alternative to flexible
response.
Wismer said opposition to the freeze is
a morally justifiable position.
"Protection of the weak and defenseless
is the only moral behavior," he said.
Wismer said he is opposed to nuclear
war. However, he docs not agree with the
freeze as a means of avoiding such a war.
Problems with the freeze resolution
include Soviet aggressive expansionism
and the unverifiability of a freeze, Wismer
said. Because of the Soviets' history of
breaking treaties, any freeze treaty signed
would be useless.
The moral issue of the nuclear arms
question is the deterrence of attack against
the weak by aggressors, Wismer said, and
freeze proponents haven't addressed that
issue.
"Self-defcjise has never been immoral,"
he said.
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By Margaret Reist
She was called "Chicago's
iSweetheart," the "Ziegfeld Star"
and "The Happy Singer of Sad Songs."
It has been said that she ranks as
the Judy Garland or Barbara Streisand
of the 1920s and early '30s.
Born in David City, Ruth Etting
grew up to become one of the most
renowned popular singers and film
stars of the Depression era. She then
dropped out of the public eye after a
scandalous affair in 1938.
Etting was one of the most imitated
singers of all time, said John Moran,
voice professor at UNL and acting
assistant dean to the College of Arts
and Sciences.
"She not only changed with the
times, she changed the times," he said.
Today, five years after Etting's
death, her importance in history is being
reassessed for the influence she had
on the style and interpretation of
popular music.
The UNL School of Music library
in the Westbrook Music Building soon
will become the center of information
for anyone doing research about Etting.
John M. Alderman, Etting's stepson,
recently donated his personal collection
of memorabilia of the singer to the
library. It includes a scrapbook on her
career, a discography of all her
recordings and a collection of personal
photographs.
"Whenever the school gets a
collection like that, it is getting
something that is priceless," said .
Raymond Haggh, director of the music
school. The value of the collection is
not something a person can put a price
tag on, because it is irreplaceable, he
said.
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