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Tuesday, April 30, 1985
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The NU Board of Regents' decision to rename Regents Hall,
3835 Holdrege St., after NU Foundation chairman D.B.
"Woody" Varner and his wife, Paula, honors a worthy couple.
Regent John W. Payne of Kearney, chairman of the board,
announced t he decision at a special NU Foundation dinner honor
ing university donors Saturday night.
The Varners have served the University of Nebraska since 1970,
when Varner served as chancellor and later as NU president.
Regents Hall was built in 1973, during Varner's presidency, to
house administrative offices andjhe foundation. Varner resigned
from the presidency in 1977 to beeJme chairman cf the foundation.
Varner, 69, said in a December 1884 Daily Nebraskan article,
tJat he tries to "find sources of funding from the private sector to
1 '3 the university achieve its goals.
- Despite a tight economy, the farm crisis ar
TCa, Varner has succeeded ' . . ; v": ; ',-.,., 1 '
helped Cs:d private financial suppcrtfor psgrup such as
the Center for the Study cf .the- Great PJiMfi tM pAmeriia Arts
AlSance and irrigation development andM-lefrcsssreh:. -: ,:
( Varner's 'latest project is the. Lied Center forthaTeVfomihg
,hs. The foiindstion is Hearing the halfwcy'pkt it itst3miClon
cjapaign to' cc.I$t9 funf&3 for tat $2$ tiTpt project, to be
tdlt on the scathwest ccrnet of 12th and B.stti ' ,: r ;
;"The late Ernst Lied, ev Omaha car. d?-,kr,d Us Vega,
businessman,' UX a $10 minion estate for &Vc,cr.teflr wltich must
be 'matched 'bytheunheRity'. ,,":-::.X-:-: 'V ' y.y
Earlier this week,, WIisms' Companies rod&fen of Tulsa,
Okla., announced a gift of $50,000 to the: tied Center. It's no
coincidence that Varner has been a member of the Tulsa com
pany's board of directors for the past 10 years. Varner always finds
private support for the university, and that support is needed now
more than ever with the state Appropriations Committee's 1.6
percent NU budget increase recommendation.
"Despite Vamer's bypass operation in June and prostate surgery
in August, he still serves half time at the foundation and attracts
many private donors.
Varner and his wife are an asset to NU and they deserve
permanent recognition. All NU students, faculty and alumni are
grateful for Varner's leadership, hard work and success.
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saivesoran refugees illegally la the United
States) alms and objectives. Much of the
time I sense that the movement has little
concern for the refugees beyond their pro
paganda value in criticizing the Reagan
administration's Central American policy.
Jim
Rogers
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At the same time the Reagan adminis
tration's reaction to Salvadoran refugees
smacks of an equal, if not greater, uncon
cern for the immigrants. The Reagan
administration rushes to allay the belief
that true and continuing political unrest
still exists in El Salvador. Because of both
sides' ideological commitments, I doubt
we are getting a clear picture of the events
in El Salvador. Nonetheless we must face
the facts that political or economic refu
gees is tentative I am always quite
I admit that the conclusion I make
regarding the aiding of Salvadoran refu
gees is temtative I am always quite
equivocal whenever actions I forward would
violate government policy (especially when
few of my fellow conservatives admit to the
same conclusion). Yet in affirming the fol
lowing three propositions, I find myself in
accord with the goal of the Sanctuary
Movement to the extent of aiding Salvado
ran refugees, although certainly and
emphatically not the broader ideological
Second, Christians are morally oM!sted
to show serious hospitality to tamisnts.
Third, Christians may morally violate civil
law when obedience to it would cause a
violation of the law of God as contained in
the Old and New Testaments of the Chris
tian Church. "
The. question of conscience revolves
around the claim that the nexus between
the first and the second proposition affirm
ed above is of sufficient clarity that one is
excepted from obeying the federal govern
ment's immigration policy. It is to the
establishment of this nexus that we now
attend.
Libertarian author David Friedman
caustically, correctly, observes that given
the immigration policy of the United
States over the past 70 years or so, the
inscription on the Statue of Liberty ought
to be changed from:
Give the your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning
to be free,
The wretched refuse of your
teeming shore.
Send those, the homeless, tempest-tost
to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden
door.
To more appropriate inscription,
namely:
America, America
The closed preserve,
The dirty foreigners,
Don't deserve.
Immigration restrictions find no foot
hold in the claims of justice. Use of force
by the government is only justified if injury
is ' threatened hi a recorrihle person.
Each, person 8?ess2d iiinsf by the
state must have ..comnlitsatne' wrong for
the state's response tats just Yet immi
grants' do rict?sss cr.:tu3 simply by
the act or attempted act c immigration; :
and'thus it is unjust" to foke&bly restrain
immigrants from pursuing their desired
end.
Since immigrants are not to be halted
by state coercion, those professing a belief
in Christ must hold open the door of hospi
tality to those refugees willing to be aided
by the covenant household. Biblical hospi
tality is by-and-large lost in modern cul
ture, yet it was regarded as an important
witness of God's grace by the covenant
community. As. the law of God declares in
Leviticus 19.33-34: "When a stranger re
sides with you in your land, you shall do
him no wrong. The stranger who resides
with you shall be as the native among you,
and you shall love him as yourself; for you
were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the
LORD your God." Additionally, on a na
tional basis it is quite inhospitable to
pursue a closed-door policy.
Thus it seems difficult to justify obeying
the federal government's law ordering us
not to extend hospitality to those in need.
Ultimately as the apostle Peter pointed
out when faced with government order
violative of the law of God, "we must obey
God rather than men."
Although there are a host of policy prob
lems on macro level respecting Central
American immigration (such as what enti
tlements, if any, immigrants may or ought
to be able to legally claim), on a personal
level it appears that we cannot morally
wait for the resolution of such questions,
we must act now and aid the aliens among
us.
Letters
Search procedures
frustrate depositor's
Do you trust the state of Nebraska to
respect your rights and treat you as a
citizen of this country should be? If you do,
you are living with an illusion!
This is about Commonwealth deposi
tors and how they are being mistreated. At
public gatherings, depositors have been
subjected to search procedures. The most
recent incidence occurred at the City
County Building on April 22. Security
guards opened women's purses and one
man had a clipboard pulled away from him
before entering the court room. Who order
ed these searches? Why are depositors,
most of them elderly folks, being sub
jected to this? When the president of the
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United States appears publicly, they don't
search the crowd, so why is this being
done in Nebraska?
If public officials have received threats,
it could be that they are trying to provoke
an incident with depositors. On April 17 at
a gathering of depositors, banking direc
tor Roger Beverage called one irate depos
itor, "you loud-mouthed old man" a
totally unappropriate response from a
public official who claims to be represent
ing the interests of depositors. Beverage
was protected by two plain clothes body
guards at this meeting. One must realize
that Beverage's department is not funded
by taxpayers. It is a state agency, but
sponsored by the very people they regu
late, the bankers. Nebraska is not working
toward deregulation... it has un-regulation
in banking.
These search procedures are an over
reaction on the part of the state. All the
Commonwealth depositors have sought is
justice and proper treatment in a state
that doesn't know the meaning of either.
Howard Vosika
Lincoln
