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Bob Troyer, manager of Food Bank of Lincoln, in
front of boxes of food donated by manufacturer.
W alesa vows legal fight
to keep his shipyard job
SOKOLOW PODLASKI, Poland (AP) -Lech
Walesa refused on Wednesday to end
his unauthorized vacation and vowed to
fight in court to keep his job.
"If they really fire me, I'll go to court,"
the head of the outlawed Solidarity labor
federation said as he climbed into hfs white
minibus with his wife, Danuta, and three
young daughters.
"I am absolutely sure I will win, " he
added as the family left for a drive to a lake
near this vacation site outside Warsaw. "I
will never lose my job because of this
simply because I'm right."
Walesa ignored a 2 p.m. deadline (8 a.m.
KDT) for returning to work, saying he
would not go back unless "taken by force."
The officials at the Lenin Shipyards in
Gdansk, the Baltic seaport where Solidarity
was launched as the Soviet bloc's first inde
pendent trade federation amid August 1980
strikes, have not decided on Walesa's case.
Polish law stipulates that failure to return
from an unauthorized leave within three
days constitutes grounds for dismissal.
Continued failure to go to work could
classify Walesa as a "social parasite" under
a new law on work shirkers, and lead to his
assignment to a strictly controlled work
camp.
Nebraskans spending less than others to drive cars
OMAHA (AP) - Nebraska drivers are
spending about $136 a year less than the na
tional average to own and operate medium
sized 1983 American-made cars, according
to the Cornhusker AAA Motor Club.
Here are the comparative per-mile cost
figures for three 1983 Chevrolet models test
ed: Chevette, 19.6 cents; Malibu, 24 cents;
Impala, 25.1 cents. The figures are based on
the assumption that the cars are driven
15,000 miles a year. The costs would go down
as mileage goes up, the club said.
Both fixed and variable costs were used
in computing the figures, Motor Club
spokesman Bare Wade said.
"Fixed costs are those expenses that are
present even as the car sits in the garage
insurance, licensing fees, depreciation and
finance charges," Wade said. "Variable
costs include gasoline, oil, maintenance and
tires, which are related to miles driven."
BY M FILING LIU
The Food Bank, food pantries and wel
fare agencies are joining to feed an increas
ing number of hungry persons in Lincoln, ac
cording to Mayor Koland Luedlke.
Although Lincoln has a low unemploy
ment rate in comparison with other cities,
the local hunger problem, a result of last
year's economic recession, is growing big
ger. Luodtke said.
According to Steve Kvans, executive sec
retary for the Lincoln Fellowship of
Churches, 2,73!) individuals, including 830
families, were served by food pantries from
January through May. This represents a 81.(
percent increase for individuals and an 87
percent increase for families over the first
five months of last year, he said.
The Lincoln Fellowship of Churches runs
the food pantry project in an effort to meet
people's short-term emergency needs,
Kvans said. When a referral agency gives a
pantry names of those who call in for help,
the pantry packs food in boxes for the re
ferral agency to pick up and deliver, he said.
The nine church-based pantries are
Bethany Christian, Second Presbyterian,
Kastridge Presbyterian, Southeast Presby
terian, Lincoln Lutheran Metro Parish, East
Lincoln Christian, St. Paul United Methodist,
St. Mark's on the Campus and Friendship
Home. Fifty to 60 churches in Lincoln sup
port these pantries, he said.
According to Evans, 13 human service
agencies, including the People's City Mis
sion, Lincoln Action Program, and Lincoln
Indian Center, counsel with families who
ask for help. In this way, the chances of
abusing aid requests are less likely to occur,
he said.
The city also has the Food and Nutrition
Task Force, which is part of the "crisis re
sponse team" created last December, said
Bob Clark, city-county human services coor
dinator. The other three parts of the Task
Force are Housing and Shelter, Utility, and
Crisis Intervention.
These Task Force groups offer leader
ship to alleviate local problems, Clark said.
The Food and Nutrition Task Force identi
fies wmch agencies are able to respond to
food needs, what resources of food are avail
able, and what the basic food and nutrition
needs of low-income people are, he said.
The food pantries coordinate food in bulk
from the Lincoln Food Bank, which is the
base of the Food and Nut rition Task Force,
The Chairman for the Food and Nutrition
Task Force and general manager of Lincoln
Food Bank, Bob Trover, said that society
has to fill up people's stomal lies first, then
let them walk out to face the world and look
for jobs.
"Hunger is by far Lincoln's number one
problem," he said.
Since the Food Bank started last August,
he saul, 300,000 pounds of food has been dis
tributed. "We could do better," Troyer said,
"if food companies cooperated more
strongly with the Food Bank." So far, the
Food Bank has 45 sources including IGA
stores, restaurants, wholesalers, manufac
turers and individual stores. All donations
are tax deductible.
Every year about $31 billion is wasted in
the U.S. because of food production errors,
Troyer said, of which, $8.7 billion is lost at
wholesale and retail levels. The waste can
be used in a better way, he said, and that is
to feed the great numbers of hungry per
sons. The Food Bank needs at least 500,000
pounds of food a year, he said. A better com
munity organization and more savings on
food are the factors for achieving that goal,
he said.
At this point, he said, the Food Bank
serves as a supplement to the 48 non-profit
organizations which buy food at low prices
from the Food Bank. But persent supplies
are not meeting the demands from the 48 or
ganizations, he said.
Added pressures will come with the new
food stamp system which is called "retro
spective accounting," Troyer said. Stamp re
cipients have to show a need for two months
before they can receive food stamps and, as
a result, the hunger problem will be worse,
he said.
Former Californian is
new Union College dean
The Associated Press
Marilyn Carr, formerly of Modesto,
Calif., is the new dean of women at Union
College in Lincoln.
She was assistant dean of women at
Pacific Union College in California and has
taught music at Rio Lindo Academy in Cali
fornia and at Southwestern Adventist Col
lege in Texas.
Visitor says U.S. college students working harder
BY LARRY SPARKS
College students in the United States are
working harder at getting an education than
they did 10 years ago, according to a visiting
computer science professor from Germany.
Herbert Fischer, instructor at the Tech
nical University of Munich, said that despite
recent criticism, the American education
system seems to be working well.
"The system here is a good one," Fischer
said. "I don't think it's gone downhill."
Fischer last visited the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
during the 196970 aca
demic year. Since then, he said he has seen
a renewed dedication among college stu
dents in the United States and Germany.
This apparently can be credited to a world
wide shortage of jobs, he said.
"Students know that they have to get
good grades now to get a job after they
graduate," Fischer said.
"Ten years ago, the students went to the
university and just thought of it as a nice
time," he said. "They didn't think much
about jobs."
Fischer said universities around the
world share the problem of having too many
students. Class ranks need to be thinned out,
he said, to make colleges effective learning
centers.
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standards would be unfair, he said, because
not all secondary schools have the same
grading system. He said the standards for
lower-level college courses should be raised
. to help weed out some of the in-coming stu
dents. "Let them all have a try at it," Fischer
said. "If they can get along in the course,
fine, but if they find out it's too difficult, they
should leave and try something else."
While the education systems of Germany
and the United States are similar in many
ways, there are differences, Fischer said.
In Germany, students attend high school
until they are at least 19, Fischer said. This
allows German students to learn some
things in high school that Americans aren't
taught until the first two years of college. As
a result, German high school graduates tend
to be better prepared for college than their
A American counterparts, he said.
One advantage American students have,
Fischer said, is that schools in the United
States offer a bachelor degree program.
Universities in Germany don't offer such a
degree, he said.
"In Germany," he said, "we only have
your equivalent of a master degree. Nobody
gets out in less than four years and many
have to stay for five or six."
Fischer said another strength of post-secondary
institutions in the United States is
that students are able to leave school for
several years if they want and return later
to finish their education. That is not possible
in Germany, he said.
"In Germany, you are not allowed to
leave for a short time," he said. "If you
leave, it is almost impossible to get back in."
American students, however, do have at
least one major weakness, according to
Fischer.
"The students do not think as much as
they should," he said. "They learn, but they
should think more on their own. Whatever I
say, they just believe it. If I would say some
thing wrong, they would believe it."
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