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in the pursuit of purely intellectual ir.tcrr.-tior.il concern. Studsr.ts need
growth, to give rather than grab selfishly, he
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That night istter ir.eodcra Hes- v h . . "What is competence worth if we
nidi, president cf Notre Dcr.ie sir.ee If. eve.?US don't hiva collision?" he Bsii.
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Vietnam war. nesDUFgn aiso lesntea . , "7 .-v
that students planned a rally for the vadoran elections for President Ronald
next day. Thus, he could plan his words Kea'
and actions for that night and the fol- He received the nation's highest civ
lowing dsy. ilian honor, the Medd cf Freedom, in
"Instead cf being run out of town in 1SS4. His 100 honorary degrees have
the 60s, I was leading the revolution," placed hin in the "Guineas Book of
Hesburgh said. World Records."
The ROTC building was not burned He has been a friend and teacher cf
down, as had been predicted. Hesburgh world leaders.
now is n rus m year at Notre Darae ,But my world is almost over. It.8
to the yoiiig people now," he said. ? i
lege president. In Ms three d Notw 0
"Young people will do what they're Hesburgh has noticed three genera- i
challenged to do," he said at a pres3 tions of students: the serious, post-war P
conference on the UNL campus Thurs- students; the protesting students of O
day. "If you expect them to bum down the 1980s; and the present college stu-
a building, they will." dents, who are not materialistic or apa-
Hesburgh was in Lincoln as the fea- etJc to social issues, as most people
tured speaker of "Profiles of Excel- believe.
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lence, a earner mai nonorea oa uni- me young are no less idealistic than y c
versity Endowed and Regents prcfessora in the past, but they're being pressured i n$ &t,?
from UNL, UNO, and the NU-Medical to succeed under conservative indict- n Wr. ) -t!
Center in Omaha. ment, Hesburgh said.
"Excellence does not come easy. If The Vietnam draft threat and the
you want good educators, you have to issues of the war were real to the col- I
pay them," Hesburgh said in his speech, lege students of the late 1060s snd
anaawea proiessors aiirsci goca scno- early itfYUs, ne said. But because the
lars, he said. nuclear threat is "too overwhelming
NU President Ronald Roskens intro- soinetiincs" students now have dis-
duced Hesburgh at the banquet as "a taRced emsehes more, ha said,
champion cf human virtues." Hesburgh challenged students and
However. Kesburfh said, university teachers to achieve an ftxcpllence in
systems sometimes forget moral growth academics that can be transmitted to
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