Monday, April 15,1935
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pn ake a lock at seme facts collected by ths ASUN Government
I Liaison Ccr.r.ktee:
i 0 Over the last five years, tuition revenue has increased
43 percent at UML while statfl aid ha3 increased cr.ly 23 percent.
O UNL students fund more cf their education through tuition
than any other Big Eight School except the University cf Colorado.
Now take a lock at what the NU Board cf Regents was up to this
weekend.
Regent Kermlt Hansen said he may introduce a proposal that
would increase tuition 20 percent.
Regent Robert Koefoot said he may introduce a proposal freez
ing faculty salaries. Both declined to introduce the measures
Saturday because they didn't want to "intimidate the Le$sla
ture" by threatening dire consequences, according to the Sunday
Lincoln Journal and Star.
However, Hansen, Koefaot and four other regents voted to
approve a new plan for a regional College cf Veterinary Medicine
in cooperation with either Xansaa State or Mississippi State
universities. The plan the regents OXed will create $14.3 million -to
SI 7.8 million worth of new buildings on East Campus, the Meat
nimal Research Center at Clay Center and possibly some student
lousing in North Platte.
The university is faced with the lowest budget Increase in its
liistcry but that has not stopped the regents from approving
mother costiy program.
When drastic measures, such as a 20 percent tuition increase
and no increase for faculty salaries are being considered, it seems
stupid to spend more on new presets.
About half the cost cf the programs would come firem federal
monies the rest would come from state tax dollars and private
donations. '
But the capital costs are cn?y the tedr.g. Salaries and
maintenance are long-terra expenses UiSt wM! come .from the
general budget allotment Those expenses will diminish the
whol 3 university. Yes, it would be wonderful to have a vet school,
bit we can't atferd one now. We can't tSbrd tar pay our feculty
decent salaries now either.
Shining new buildings are pretty, but without adequately paid
faculty they are empty, neardnglcss shells.
. ' Eight new, the university is facing "dire consequences" if the
1.6 percent budget increase is passed by the Nebraska Legisla
ture. The Regents should consider which programs tfcfy want to
cut net widen new ones they want to tend. It doesn't nirita
that the vet school has been an issue for years, 11 2 need for new
veterinarians dees not outweigh the need cf the university to
preserve its core programs at average levels.
Across the board cuts and rcaliecaiicr.3 will add to the univer
sity's overall mediocrity and will make farther cuts attractive
to next year's Legislature. By axhg whole programs, the cere cf
the university can be preserved, and the Legislature will clearly
see the damage it is causing the university and the future of the
state.
Students are caught in the middle and they probably will pay at '
least 10 percent more in tuition next year. There's a good chance
the increase will be greater than that. Between cut3 in federal aid
and tuition increases, students are going to be pinched. It's likely
the university will be too a lot of students will not be able to
afford school.
The GLC is trying to do something about tlus mess we're in.
. For the next four days the GLC will have a booth imlde the
north entrance of the Nebraska Union from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.
The committee is starting a letter-writing campaign. The first two
days are dedicated to getting letters of protest sent to the Legisla
ture in hopes cf a bigger' budget allocation. Wednesday and
Thursday will be devoted to generating letters to cur representa
tives in WisMrcten, D.CL The GLC will provide Interested studssts
with a packet ccatdning stationary aad hints oa hew to writ
.each a letter. Then thejrll mail the letter free.
This service cegstes many excuses you my have for net taking
the time to write. Do something aicut your fctare and the
fctsra cf this state. Write cowl
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Falwetl nealeas omer reiimons
vr. id the Eev. Jerry Falwell watch the
I i Academy Awards? And if he did, did
ILJ he see Dr. Haing S. Ngor, a C-l year
eld Cambodian refugee, gleefully accept
his Ocar? "1 thank God Buddha
that I am here tonight," Ngor exulted.
Falwell must have slapped his forehead in
stemation: Thank who?
t" Eicliard
Granted there's not an cverahehning
number of Americans who call the diety
Buddha, but there are still about 4 million
cf them and the numbers are growing.
l!r ether Americans are Muhsmmadsi or
Hindu and there are many others who pray
to no one and nothing at all, having
rejected relien for whatever reason suits
them.
I tho'cU cf Ngor because Falweli, who
envisiens America as a vast private club,
has opened his membership rolls to Jews.
In the last several months, he's been
appearing before Jewish groups, telling
them that he repudiates the doctrine that
America is a Christian nation. "Now we say
Judso-Chrisiian republic," Falwell has
announced. Wonderful. But where does
that leave Ngor?
One cf the beneSts of Falwell's celebrity
is that he has spawned a cottage industry
devoted to keeping an eye on him. These
FsiweH-watchers are in some disagreement
about why he's now granting Ml citizen
ship to Jews. It might be, as he has
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claimed, that he got tolerance or it just
might be, as some suspect, that he looked
"at the results cf the last election and
decided he had to clean up his act. It was
Falwell, after all, who is given almost
universal credit for. keeping American
Jews overwhelmingly in the Democratic
column. Some 70 percent cf them voted fcr
Waiter Mondale.
Thai was the outcome despite Ronald
Reagan's strong support for Israel, his
antipathy to quotas and the fact th:t
American Jews, overwhelmingly aMuent,
benefited fccm both Eeagsn's tax-reductien
program and the economic boom the
president claimed as his own. And what
Eesgan had not dar.e cn his own, It seemed
Jesse Jickson would do for Mm. Between
Jackson and his traveling companion, the
Rev, Louis Farrakshn, Jews had seemed
certain to vote Republican.
Then along came Ealw ell At the Republi
can Convention in Dallas, he and his
cohorts in the Christian right seemed
ubiquitous. Over and over, they described
America as a "Christian nation," words
the president finally uttered himself. That
did it. The movement of Jews toward the
COP stalled and then went into reverse. By
election day, they were back in the Demo
cratic Party and everyone, was pointing a
finger at Falwell. Moi? he drawled.
But the finger should not be relaxed. It
hardly matters for what reason Falwell has
now changed his rhetoric and whether Ms
words reflect what he really thinks What
matters is that Falwell continues to en
vision America is a qetsi-religlous state.
Where once it was j?ist Christian, now it is
both Christian and Jewish. The result is
the same. By any name, such a state
excludes. It withholds 100 percent citizen
ship from these who are neither Christian
aorJews and suasts th&t their rights are
dispensed by the Ecriiy rather than
being to mz the vz:d empb'ed in the
Declaration cf Ind?ptndne3 unalien
able. History alSrins that the American ethic
is largely a CLrhtl c:-:o. Thst's evidenced
in everythirtg fzzL ttie obnoxious to the
lofty, from bke i,;3 to ths vary laws of the
land. But a part of that ethic, too, is
secularism th conviction that religion
is essentially a personal matter and its
public role ought to be limited. Falwell,
for instance, is entitled to Ms strong and,
' to my mind, repugnant, views on homo
sexuality. Bat if they were translated into
law, they wedd btcense cksr violations of
civil liberties. '
The best you can trj is thst Falwell's
heading in the right direction. But his new
position is Rctarepa;ii3 cf his Christian
Nation doctrine, but a modification of it
an expansicn not cf his tolerance, but
of the limited welcome he extends. Now
he includes Jews in his community of true
Americans.
But the invitation h net Ms to offer and
in no way changes the ts&m cf America.
It-is a Ratten in w!'3eh ocrity of the
people are Osristteri crises, and not, as
Falwell stys, & Js-CMstiaHi nation.
That's ' a distiaetka t!at makes a dif
fersrxe. Ar.cric2r.3 Ki3 Dr. Ngor thank
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myT ce Fraternity is a rich daddy's boy
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wao ess cease sown iq scnoci to piay.
v ' He helps haze those pledss because,
wsll, thqr need it. Jca is a campus
EII.O.C and he and his Greek friends
. isa.7 kept their plee to purge the system
cf these unworthy donnies. '
Ja.ne Sorority is a stupid little sorority
girl who has come to ached to get her
"ME3" decree. Like Joe, Jaaejust doesn't
speak to those nsn-scrority girls because,
well, It just isn't proper. Yes, Joe and Jane
tsd their Greek menss are the lucky ones.
well off, but to tiate that tMs is the norm
nther than the exception is Mse.
Another fallacy is that the tsenga
fetterrity man's msla college goal is to t-a
pcrpetuaay laebrlatei This stereotype Is
acceuieu oy saca mCTies as "Anlstsl
He-use" tzi "Fii.terr.ity Vacation." Thm
can be no douM that Creeh, Eke t'J
ce. Mast cstsrii'css rre cospesssd cf
volastssy nss&srJ;? tr.d welcome all
BtWKsrsbcrs. If ccivGrt;! cscss Rot to
psrUdpte, ess cca hssSJjr criticise these
Tt$ mm chctlaa w cpea to all
csiferdtf stuicr3. K3 ens denies rest
dschsll c? c-c:rr itisnts the
coiegestadenta, liketosodslhe. Oowmr, - Ai tovata crro f:r cZ:3. They simply
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It has been my eiparkn-:- that, for ths
m&i part, iiree&s hndla ilcehcl m
spcasibly and place its fatpcrtar.ee in Ufa
in proper perspective.
A prominent delusion of Greek ills is
hat associated with h&dng. Without -a ..
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did Ect ehcrsr o csch Interest in the
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aou&t, tasmg his been a part cf rsci
ummm' pasts. However, hazfe hi
CrtaRate!y, many non-Greek students that
and faculty think that J03 and hm
rsprcssat the average ftstendty erssrerity
raster. The? could net be mere wrens.
If Greeks axe ao wealthy, why do so
cf my Greek Mends have psrt-tirae
j:b: tska est ttudeat lxsa and work
drkj tha susr.er? If Greek livfa2 is so
expensiys, ra are so marr? fetp.rr.?tv
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a cylM a sliw. but ztzsJv
he early lgJCs. Whila i cannot t-t
hat ell fcstemitf plel-es hsva hA a
simuar exesritsea ta cr!a 1'
sal c""-f T-v T-i t
electisn. Tiui Critks rrprsssst a larger
fisi by thdr rr.b
To cdsp3 esrerity wissca as dumb
id3 wheaa sa!3 rurpxea la college is to
Rcth-3 thsirr-r e::723 belittle women
ia gr.:rsl d:3 est evsa deaa a
respcKss. Ths b t!S3 cf the belief
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organizations and the student cawm-
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