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There should be no question about
it. UNL's primary responsibility b the
education of its 24,764 students. Any
other role the university b perceived
to play should be secondary to that.
. But, apparently, Gov. Kerrey and at
least one state businessman think
differently.
Wire service reports indicate Kerrey
was angry last week when James
George, plant manager for the Decton
Dickinson syringe plant in Columbus,
said he had gone to UNL for research
assistance and was told to see a pro
fessor who would do it for a fee.
No one can question that as a state
educational institution, UNL has an
obligation to be of assistance when
possible. It docs not, however, have an
obligation to go out of its way to do
research for a business at the time and
expense of its own academic program.
The Lincoln Journal quoted John
Strong, vice chancellor for academic
affairs, as saying the university is
neither financed or equipped well
enough to answer all the requests it
gets for assistance.
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The world was thrown for two loops.
First, when the Soviets shot down
that passenger jet.
Second, when our president res
ponded with something less than nuc
lear war.
After the shock wore of the most
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Harvey
aggressive right-wingers were reas
sured and the left-wingers were
respectful
President Reagan's anti-communist
credentials date way back.
So vigorous, so "militant" was he in
the two decades preceding his election
that some scribblers 'predicted we'd
have a hip-shooting cowboy in the
White House.
At least one of those same critics
now protests that the president's res
ponse to the Soviet murder of 289
people aboard that Korean jetliner
"was not tough enough."
President Reagan's response to the
airliner thing, while firm, was mea
sured, deliberate and responsible.
Given the foct that the United States
and the Soviet Union are going to have
to live side-by-side on this planet, our
inescapable objective must be to in
duce the Soviets to modify their bellig
erent and deceitful behavior.
The liars of Moscow who overtly dis
torted the airliner atrocity are the
same people with whom we are seek
ing to negotiate arms control. ' "
We know we cant trust them.
The most naive Kremlin apologist in
Congress has to know now that we
cannot expect meaningful treaties
with them. .
Our president could never have con
vinced some of them but now the
Soviets have done that job for him.
With minimal rhetoric our president
let the Soviets unmask th
Our coram
in-chief had two
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As a former graduate teaching assistant and a
former assistant instructor as well as a ferc!x
obvious options: t'ake war or say "I
told you so."
Ke did neither.
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the atrocity to stand on its own
atroeiousness. ' -...
As I say, the president's intervention
in Latin America where he says the
Soviets mi'ht move in and in the
Middle East where he- says the
Soviets might move in was encoun
tering much diaecnt in Congress.
- Less now, thanks to the &
Indeed, , the recent event
strates that they are the irre:
hip-shooters, net he. - -
.And however, inadvertently, it may
-.well have re-elected him. ' .
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Kerrey was right when he said MJ
usually stresses its rcle of assistance to
farmers and businesses when it
requests funding from the Legislature.
But he must remember that NU rarely
gets all the money it asla3 far. -
The university's fLcal pl'.;;!;t b well
known by now. Many of its classes are
overcrowded, its faculty members are
among the lowest paid in the country
and some services have been reduced
.or eliminated.
In fact, it is ironic that this incident
. should happen at the same time UNL
and the reel of the NU system b plan
ning to eliminate or reduce some pro-
grams just to maintain the remainder
of its programs at a reasonable level.
The list of evidence could go on, but
it is clear that UNL is so underfunded
it can barely offer an academic pro
gram, much less free research as
sistance. "
The university's research and tech
nology should be used for the better
ment cf the state's economy, bat busi
nesses that wish to take advantage cf
it should expect to pay a fair price.
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I wa3 pleased vith Dill Allen's '
column titled "Vertem Kebrasl:a
heart of 'the sinipla iif . H (Daily
IZtjra;':c;i, Oct 17). I tlur.': 1.2 h i.v;.t '
abcat tl;2 ieni:cr;:i i:.:nne. t.i he
cal!s it, cf out-cf-etats tcurrts.
Allen, I am proud to tz rcn llzz::.::2.
Lilie him, I fcnc?v?ryLttI: tbczl f.;xm-
ing or r.Tiei:!ture, jxt I reecgr.l:2 its ;
extreme importance to lv'ctr:!;.a and
- to the United Ctates. As he suxts,
what such tourists Siai'2 accepted b a
national ideclcy v.tieh states that
"what's happening" b only cn the
" ccsts, certainly npt in I-JctTr.-i.'.ca. Even
seme I.ebraskans have aeceptsd this '
. I would correct Allen cn cne paint,
hsweicr, where he s t3 that il
there b a nuclear war" Cl".1er o b more
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." to b2 "hit rztn than IfaxwelL Let
'' o not f-:;l curatives. The impetus to
p!.2ee the lUl extern in the sparsely
'' per-u!::t?i VTcctcrn states went hand
Li trr.d x.iih tl:e r.etisn cf a "limited
; nuclear war" ir.treiuecd under the
: Carter crdr.i;tratiaa. The motivation
' behind prttiitg a substantial land-
: Western stales b to lurs Kccian mis
siles away from metrcpciltm areas: let
the Hus-ians l amb the heartland, not
the densely pepulated ccits. The im
petus to place the Mil nlzzlz3 b West
ern Netrr.:.:;a and 7ye;::.!n b one
nanL'estation cf the pr".:r.:;;4 chauv
inism Allen confronted this past
Sam Umland
; instructor
English
eign;;tceacJaing
experience with them) do not only demonstrate a
significant pen-ercien cf the English langaa in
"eLeeting their rerpensibilitics as assistants, tut rlro
. succeed Li tsnbarding students with factual Lr.ac-
student from Sierra Leone, I am appalled by the
rather one-sided assessment made cn ferertn rradu-
ate teaching assistants in UNL classrooms. Tl.e gen
eralizations made are as ill-founded as'the sel itierjj
proposed and they only reflect a myopic vi:. v cf a
serious problem at UNL. If students are to r..'r;:
the problem in its totality, we must endeavcr.to.
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c.::::trr.t3 1, unL-.telle Ergh. EquO to,
net a!l Ar.-::l:::i eiudents at UNL can underr.tr.rd
In the same way, subjecting all fcrcin teaching
r::tr.r.t3 to specific lan!ua-2 "ccmratencv tests is :
net cr.ly r.rga tively discriminatory, and prejudicial,
but b c-jgrstive cf elements cf ethnaeentricity
which pen-ade3 the intcrtctive prccc-es cn cam-
aj isrms ci i:. -:e Enh. For come stud
aerating to t;.e accent cf a forel-n sneaks? b ei
Ltrursiountails ata:k as passing a course in r - its cf
it. In eueh a c::-, the foreign instructor bvarial'y
teec-r.3 r-e::,-: as the barrier to the rtud:r.tv3
pre-eri i.:3r;: : :.ir.y net even te tr.2vcriar.ee
4 there b cdvcys a sir:- answer to a
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t.e ctr.er hand, rsay I su'-eat that criteria far the
stleeticn cf graduate teaehb.-! crri:tar.t3 be fully
assistants in general, as reflected in their p-zfrr-
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