Wednesday, January 16, 1985
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Dear Gov. Kerrey and state legislators:
Take a stroll through campus.
Snow covered mounds, bare trees and withered flowers
dot UNL. In spite of winter, the sleek, modern buildings mingled
with the old buildings and the crowds of students give the campus
an imposing yet down-home air.
These are familiar sights to all of you, but how long has it been
since you walked inside the buildings? Two weeks, six months,
one year, five years? Looking at the proposed 1985-86 NU budget, it
has to be a long time. Otherwise, you would know the libraries
need books and equipment, you would see the hoards of students
waiting in line for an hour on outdated computers and business
students groveling outside professors' doors in hopes of being
admitted into one of the understaffed, overcrowded classes.
These problems will not be remedied with a mere 4
percent budget increase, half of which would come from cam
puses' reallocation under Kerrey's recommendation.
One of your colleagues, Sen. Tom Vickers of Farnam, said
Tuesday that Kerrey's proposal is "realistic" in these hard eco
nomic times. But is it realistic to cut a 12.7 percent request to 4
percent when the regents' request fell $77 million short of even
keeping up with inflation? Is it realistic for Kerrey to push for
economic growth while squelching one important source of that
growth?
For years, professors have been promised pay increases. Last
year they saw slight increases, but not enough. Now you are telling
them, in the midst of a five-year plan you suggested, to wait awhile
longer. When there is a house to pay off, family to feed and kids to
educate, it is hard to be patient. Private industry and other
schools look enticing to good professors in financial binds.
Losing quality professors once concerned you. In April 1982, an
election year, you said in a Lincoln Star article that a mediocre
university was one of your maior concerns. NU administrators
should be "more concerned about providing excellence in educa
tion, keeping Nebraska competitive with other institutions and
keeping education accessible to Nebraskans." Haunting words,
when your budget would accelerate NU's fall to mediocracy and
help make tuition beyond reach of students living in this strug
gling state.
A mediocre university does not create a strong economy. In
Tuesday's Daily Nebraskan, Regent Kermit Hansen said the
budget proposal, if passed, would mean cuts in laboratory equip
ment and research trips, employment freezes and loss of
programs.
The cuts probably will not be decided until the budget
passes. But Big Red fans can rest assured that programs will be
academic and not athletic.
Manufacturers do not want a football team, they want a univer
sity they can turn to for research, educated employees and sup
port. If you force the university to cut research, you will have only
yourselves to blame when the next manufacturer decides to build
its new plant in another, better equipped state.
Gov. Kerrey, you new budget proposal leaves the state in the
same bind. Postponing the Lied Center for the Performing Arts,
however, is a commendable idea. Why should the legislature
appropriate $7 million for a new project that is a luxury item when
programs and salaries are being cut?
We hope you and the state senators reconsider your proposed
budget and come up with a more generous plan that will better
accomodate the needs of the university, the state and the stu
dents in the long run.
Nebraska's future does not lie with the young, it lies with your
decisions.
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gress were persuaded to intervene to
stop the deportation of a former Nazi
concentration camp official who lied about
his past to gain admission to the United
States after World War II.
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and Spear
The members are keeping some curious
company. The accused war criminal's most
vehement defender is Dr. Max Rubel, an
Estonian immigrant and a director of the
Captive Nations Committee. A letter he
wrote to Secretary of State George Shultz
fairly reeks of anti-Semitism, accusing the
Justice Department investigators of doing
the bidding of "Jewish Zionists" and col
laborating with the Soviet KGB when they
go hunting ex-Nazis hiding in this country.
The lawmakers recruited by Ruble and
other Eastern European emigre activists
wrote letters to Shultz (more moderate in
tone) or otherwise showed sympathy for
the accused war criminal. They include
Rep. Dante t'ascell, D-Fla., chairman of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee; Sen.
Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y.; Sen. Pete Dome
nici, R-N.M.; Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D
Ariz.; Rep. Don Ritter, R-Pa., and, before he
left the Senate, Foreign Relations Com
mittee Chairman Charles Percy, R-Ill.
D'Amato, apparently fearing the wrath
of New York's Jewish voters if he runs for
re-election in 1986, later repudiated his
original letter protesting the deportation.
An aide to D'Amato asked our associate
Lucette Lagnado not to report either the
senators initial support or his subsequent
repudiation.
The center of the furor is Karl Linnas, a
65-year-old, Estonian-born resident of Long
Island, N.Y. Evidence gathered by the Jus
tice Department's Office of Special Inves
tigations revealed that Linnas had been an
official in a concentration camp in Nazi
occupied Estonia, and had ordered and
participated in mass executions of Jews
and other prisoners.
Linnas was stripped of his U.S. citizen
ship by a federal court for failing to men
tion his dark past on his immigration pap
ers. He now faces deportation to the
Soviet Union, of which Estonia is a de facto
constituent republic.
Linnas bases his appeal on the techni
cal grounds that the U.S. government
doesn't officially recognize the 1940 Soviet
takeover of Estonia. Though he would be
willing to be deported to his homeland, he
says, the government can't send him back
to a country that doesn't exist in U.S. eyes.
State Department lawyers rejected this
argument.
Rubel's letter to Shultz perpetuates
some of the more outrageous "historical"
blatherings of deep-dyed anti-Semites. He
described the Soviet Union in World War II
as "exclusively ruled by Marxist Zionist
Jews as the ruling class." In fact, Jewish
Soviet leaders were systematically exter
minated by Stalin in the purges of the
1930s.
Rubel also distorts the desperate hero
ism of the few Baltic Jews who managed to
escape the Nazi death squads and join
local partisan groups behind the lines. He
describes them as "leaders of extermina
tion battalions, killing innocent people
and burning their abodes."
1985, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
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Letters
'Pro-choice 1 student
emphasizes quality
As a 21-year-old member of the "liberal
sect" who is pro-choice, I'm tired of being
portrayed as a little Hitler who would kill
someone as casually as I might swat a
mosquito.
The truth is, I do not have a "lack of
respect for life in general" as Todd Knobel
(Daily Nebraskan, Jan. 14) so insultingly
put it. I have as much respect for life as
Knobel does. The difference is, while Knobel
is concerned about the presence of a life,
I'm concerned about the quality of a life.
To me, this is a more humane way of
thinking not only for the parents of an
unwanted child, but for the child as well.
If we force a family or a single mother to
accept an unwanted child, it is only
reasonable to expect life to be unhappy for
all concerned. A study of Swedish children
born to women who were refused abortions
found that these unwanted children, as
they grew up, were more likely to be
picked up for drunkenness, antisocial or
criminal behavior, receive less education
and need more psychiatric care. (My
information comes from the book "Stalking
the Wild Taboo," by Garrett Hardin, pages
34 and 35.) v h
Adoption is given by some as the answer
to this dilemma. Unfortunately, this idea
has other problems. For one thing, I don't
know how anyone could expect a woman
who is forced to carry an unwanted baby to
full term to care about proper pre-natal
care. This puts the baby at risk to be born
with any one of a list of problems, which
range from low birth weight to neurological
and physical disorders. While some would
argue that giving birth to a handicapped
child is better than abortion, the baby
could have been handicapped because a
woman was forced to carry a child she
didn't want to have in the first place. (By
the way, one could argue that forcing a
woman to carry a child to full term is
similar to slavery which Knobel boldly
came out against.)
Adoption also might cause problems for
the biological parents. For example, if I
were not willing to take on the burden of
raising a severely handicapped child, I
don't know if I'd be able to shift that
burden onto someone else no matter how
much that person wanted to adopt the
child.
I'd like to close by responding to a
question I've seen on signs at pro-life
demonstrations: "Where would you be if
your mother had had an abortion?" To be
honest, I don't know. I would not, however,
be in a home where I wasn't loved and
wanted. .
Steven Campbell
senior
psychology