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ASUN-led protest
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Today is the day to protest paying more for less at the Univer
sity of Nebraska.
We again urge students to take the time to attend the
ASUN-sponsored protest rally at the state Capitol to protest the
Appropriations Committee recommended budget for NU. Protes
ters should meet at 12:45 p.m. on the south steps of the Nebraska
dnion to march on the Capitol.
Today's protest might make a difference. But it should be made
clear that the "talk" of a 30 percent tuition hike is just that
"talk." ASUN officials will not say who their sources are. Last
week, ASUN President Gerard Keating said that by his calcula
tions, it would take a 30-percent tuition increase to make up for
the budget shortfall and it was possible that a 30-percent increase
would become reality. Administration officials, including NU
President Ronald Roskens said the talk was "rumor" later in the
week.
However, it is fact that Regent Kermit Hansen considered, but
did not submit, a proposal to the regents to increase tuition 20
percent. He decided to wait until the Legislature finalizes the NU
oudget in May to decide whether to submit the proposal.
The regents already have approved a 10-percent tuition hike.
With the budget we face, they have little choice.
Gov. Bob Kerrey, at last week's press conference, said the idea
of a protest rally was a good one, but students should be picketing
the regents instead of the Legislature. He may be right, depending
on what the regents' next move is.
It is rare for the Legislature to make any substantial changes in
Appropriations Committee recommendations. The committee has
heard testimony and done research. The fall Legislature does not
have the detailed information the committee has.
If the budget is passed as it stands, the regents will have some
tough decisions to make. As Kerrey aptly pointed out, the regents
need to do more than "cosmetic reallocation." Whole programs
must be cut to preserve the core of the university at average levels.
Students should protest the regents' decision to go ahead with
the regional vet school, which will incure capital funds of about
$14 million not to mention the operating costs of such a new
program.
Instead of making big cuts to preserve the basics, the regents
have tended to reallocate and cut from every budget, running
down the total institution. A good example is the $30,000 cut from
the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery budget.
We have one of the top art museums in the nation. It has one of
the top film programs in the nation. That $30,000 cut, small in
light of the overall budget, will cost the university one of its most
culturally enriching aspects of the community and decrease the
overall quality of the Sheldon. WTiy not keep our top programs at
the top and eliminate our average and below-average programs?
The Sheldon cut also illustrates what NU students will be doing
next year: paying more for less.
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President Reagan fails to unify Americans
The newspapers sometimes said that
President Reagan's decision to visit
the German military cemetery at Bit
burg had upset Jews and American vete
rans' organizations. Sometimes they empha
sized Jews, sometimes veterans, and some
times the veterans were forgotten al
together. In the land of special interests,
we all have our assignments. For Jews and
veterans, theirs is now moral outrage.
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Richard
Cohen
In this issue, veterans organizations
have been assigned the job of protecting
the memory of dead servicemen. Their
obligation is to appear in their campaign
hats on morning television and remind a
nation with carpools on its mind that the
men buried at Bitburg killed Americans.
Jewish organizations have their special
plea, also. They have tried very hard to tell
the viewing audience that the Holocaust
was not a uniquely Jewish event, but mass
murder people killing people. Everyone
should be concerned. That most of the
victims were Jews is besides the point,
although for many Jews and non-Jews
alike that's precisely the point. For some,
the Holocaust has become an exclusively
Jewish affair.
Commentators say Ronald Reagan has
stumbled badly on this issue. Certainly.
But Reagan's public-relations pratfall
appears limited to questions about public
relations competence not to revulsion
at his decisions. It seems that veterans are
concerned with the military dead, Jews
with the civilian dead, and the rest of
America is content to watch. What has all
of this to do with them?
Probably the worst part of the controv
ersy about Reagan's trip to Germany is his
failure to answer that question. In fact, it
was his tendency to see the issue as a
controversy in the first place that has cost
him, and us, so dearly. From the very
beginning, he has taken the odd view that
it was not possible in the same trip to
address the memory of the Holocaust and
to re-affirm German-American friendship.
It is as if one precluded the other when, in
fact, one is built upon the other. Wre could
not be friends with a Germany that treated
the Holocaust like a first marriage that's
not to be mentioned.
It was this willingness to put German
sensitivities on one side of the scale and
(mostly) Jewish sensitivities on the other
that was, in the end, so distasteful. The
issue became not one of justice or moral
ity, of remembering history and learning
from it, of honoring the survivors and their
constant pain, but of numbers and allian
ces NATO and Star Wars and Pershing
Missiles. In a way, the issue echoes the
very mentality associated with the Holo
caust itself a hierarchy of priorities
where always there was something more
important than the murder of Jews, some
thing, that is, more important than moral
ity itself.
That is the message coming now from
the White House. That is the unstated
theme this deference to exaggerated
German sensibilities, this determination
to treat injured Jews and outraged vete
rans as special-interest groups seeking a
permit for a parade. It is as if they are
lobbying for some special advantage and
not for what's right.
It is the obligation of a president to
unify. In this case, it is the obligation of
the president to tell the nation why the
concerns of Jews and veterans are the
concerns of all Americans, His obligation
is to empathize, to understand not to
divide by taking pain and making it look
like the stuff of special-interest politics.
The outrage he is hearing is an expression
of who we are as a people, what we cherish,
why American soldiers died during World
War II and why the only thing that could
possibly diminish human beings more
than the Holocaust itself, is the failure to
honor it.
Now that statement of American con
victions is hopelessly muddled and Rea
gan will go to Germany as a president
representing something less than all his
people. It is still not too late to change
matters, to cancel the trip to Bitburg and
substitute something else. The president
could honor the German anti-Natzi move
ment. He could toast the Germany of Hegel
and Beethoven, of Einstein and Weill
the towering culture of the past and the
promise of the future. To salute such a
nation a president must first unify his
own. This is now Ronald Reagan's obliga
tion. We all have our assignments.
1985, The Washington Post Writers Group
Letters
Reader condemns
training-table policy
Would or could UNL have accepted the
large gifts for the athletic studycafeteria
had they had strings attached to discrimi
nate racially instead of sexually?
Would Ursula Walsh be so proud and
pleased of this new facility if it were only
for the use of white men athletes? I am
outraged and saddened to think that a
woman of her position can deny her own
sex by allowing the exclusion of women
althetes the use of this facility. .
Men and women high school athletes
throughout the state take physical educa
tion classes together, ride team buses
together, cheer for each other, are in the
same letter club together and have for the
psst 10 years grown up believing they are
equal Then a few "old men" at our
beloved UNL strike it all down in one fell
swoop with a blatant act of discrimina
tion. We are thankful for the financial sup
port given to womens' athletics by the
football program; but, there are other
mens' teams supported by the football
program too. It should be remembered,
that football has not always been self
supporting and perhaps when the womens'
teams have been on campus for 80 or 90
years they can support themselves too.
This whole episode is a slap at every
woman in the state. Once again we are all
being told that we are not worthy of equal
treatment unless by chance we are born
men.
Women and men are all sick to death of :
this struggle for equality, but I can assure
you we will not give up until those in
power realize that discrimination breeds.
hatred and discontent. Sooner or later the
"old discriminators" will either expire or
retire and will be replaced by a younger
generation who believes in and is dedi
cated to equality.
I ask every concerned woman and I ask
all men whose life includes a woman
they love and respect mother, daugh
ter, wife, girlfriend, teacher, etc., to come
to the aid of women athletes at UNL.
Please write or call: Bob Devaney, NU Pres
ident Ronald Roskens, UNL Chancellor
Martin Massengale, Tom Osborne, the
Omaha World-Herald, the Lincoln Journal
Star and the Daily Nebraskan. Let them
know that Nebraska is a leader in athlet
ics for men and women and that this kind
of discriminatory treatment against our
women athletes csnnot be tolerated.
Elizabeth Young
Sidney
