SUMMER EDITION
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 83 No. 166
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By Jeff Goodwin
Not all Nebraskans realize that
Lincoln's Nebraska ETV Network
has one of the most highly respected
videodisc programs in the country.
NETVs program-officially the Ne
braska Videodisc Design Production
Group has produced videodiscs
since 1975, Martha Florence, a unit
director with the Nebraska Video
disc Group, said.
Florence said the NVG has a good
reputation around the country.
"We operate strictly by clients,"
she said. "Our reputation is such
that people come to us and ask us to
work up a program for them."
Florence said the NVG usually
makes four or five videodiscs a year.
The average videodisc takes about
six months to complete. But, she
said, some videodiscs may take more
than a year to complete.
Making a videodisc is a complicat
ed process, Florence said. First the
videodisc designer, after learning
what the client wants in the disc,
forms a plan for the disc.
Then a scriptwriter develops a
script which is approved by the
director and producer. The disc is
taped, edited and finally transform
ed from video tape onto the video
disc. All of this tends to make video
discs expensive, Florence said. No
standard cost exists for making a
videodisc since each disc varies in
format, she said. But, she said, they
can be as expensive as $2,000 a
minute.
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Martha Florence, unit director of. University Television, at the
Nebraska ETV Network.
Most of the actors used in video
discs come from Omaha or Lincoln,
Florence said.
"We also use a lot of university
talent," she said.
The organizations using the video
discs vary, Florence s:id, but many
of them are used as educational
tools for their employees.
"One of the advantages of video
discs is that they can be applied to
any field," Florence said. "It's not a
technology that can be geared to
only one type of activity. There's
really nothing you can't do with
them."
Two types of videodiscs exist: opti
cal and capacitance. Optical discs
use a laser beam to read information
off the disc. Capacitance discs oper
ate much like a record player, using
a needle.
Although many of the videodiscs
produced by the NVG are educa
tional, most videodiscs don't find
their way into schools.
"As far as elementary education
goes," Florence said, "it's just too
expensive at the moment for most
schools to afford."
A videotape player and a monitor
can cost upwards of $1,200, Florence
said. When a computer is added to
that system it becomes much more
expensive.
The NVG also puts on four work
shops a year, at which participants
learn the basics of making a video
disc. The NVG also sponsors a sym
posium each year. This year's will be
in August. They feature presenta
tions by leading videodisc designers
and producers from across the
country.
Videodiscs eventually will be avail
able for home use, once the price
comes down, Florence said.
She also said the videodisc field
will expand in the future.
"It's going to complement the
growth in computers," she said. "It
will be the next technological ad
vance as far as knowledge is concerned."
Professor: Anti-Semitism
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By Judi Nygren
Forty years after the Holocaust, the same anti
Semitic feelings that led to Nazi labor camps in
Germany during World War II are resurfacing,
according to an internationally recognized Holo
caust scholar.
Speaking at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Monday, Erich Goldhagen said several Congress
man recently expressed concern about the rising
anti-Semitic feelings in America. Catholic church
officials throughout the world also are concerned
about the anti-Semitic feelings he said.
Goldhagen said Marseille's cardinal recently stated
"I'm not sure we will have a second Auschwitz, but
before the war, who would have thought Auschwitz
possible?"
Althought Jews are concerned about today's anti
Semitic feelings, Goldhagen said, "they need not be
alarmed. The Jews have powerful ally forces."
Post-World War II anti-Semitic feelings are some
what new he said. After the Holocaust, many Chris
tians telt guilty for allowing the incident to happen
and they repented, he said. Christian attitudes
greatly decreased Jewish anxiety, Goldhagen said.
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The German elite also felt the need to bury anti
Semitic feelings, he said, and Jewish friends became
fashionable among that class.
Not all Germans shared the elites' idea of fashion,
Goldhagen said. A small group of Germans minim
ized the Holocaust by brushing it off as another
crime committed by the world, he said, and a larger
group denied the Holocaust ever existed. When The
Holocaust," a U.S. film, aired in Germany in the
1970s, those people finally admitted the Holocaust
happened, he said.
The Germans could close their eyes to the Holo
cause partly because few history books dealing with
the event exist in Germany, Goldhagen said. And the
books that do exist are difficult to read, he said.
The Germans are not the only people with limited
information concerning the Holocaust. Russia's his
tory, while it mentions Hitler's mass murders, does
not include the word "Jew" in connection with the
Holocaust, Goldhagen said. By omitting the word
"Jew" from history, he said Soviet officials hope to
prevent Jewish history and create Jewish assimilat
ion. A minority of Soviet historians admit the Jews
were killed in the Holocaust, he said, but they claim
Zionists committed the murders. A few historians
claim that the Jews killed themselves in order to get
world sympathy, he said.
Immediately following the war, Goldhagen said,
the Jews themselves ignored their Holocaust his
tory. The Jews did not deny the event, he said;
rather, they turned their attention toward creating
a Jewish state, Israel.
Even though the Jews turned their attention
elsewhere, their post-war lives were affected. For
example, Goldhagen said, Hitler killed most of the
poor Jews. This meant that the post-war Jewish
population was made up mostly of the wealthy and
well-educated, he said.
Goldhagen was at UNL to lead a teachers' work
shop on the history and psychological legacy of the
Holocaust. The workshop began June 18 and will
last through June 29.
Goldhagen is a professor at Harvard University
and a member of Harvard's Russian Research Cen
ter.