Friday, November 1, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
Page 3
Panel' discussion
organized to protest
CIA recruiting at UML
By Martha Miller
Staff Reporter
Recruitment of prospective em
ployees by the CIA should not be
allowed on the UNL campus, a UNL
English professor said Thursday in the
Nebraska Union.
Bruce Erlich, associate professor
of English and modern languages and
literatures spoke during the "Realities
of the CIA Today," a panel discussion of
three UNL professors sponsored by the
Latin American Solidarity Committee.
The panel was organized to protest
the presence of CIA recruiters on cam
pus this week. Erlich argued that the
CIA should not be allowed to recruit
students on campus like a business or
corporation. He said he is opposed to
the fact that the CIA went through
UNL's Career Planning and Placement
office.
"We don't want them snarfing up our
students," he said.
Erlich said he questioned the
methods and objectives of the CIA. He
said the CIA took part in the assassina
tions of foreign leaders and in attempts
to overthrow foreign governments. He
also suggested that the CIA was
involved in international drug traffick
ing. Erlich based his remarks on docu
mented testimonies of former CIA em
ployees who worked under the leader
ship of former CIA directors Richard
Helms and William Colby.
David Forsythe, a UNL professor of
political science and panelist, said he
thinks the CIA should not be con
demned as an institution. Instead, the
criticism should be directed toward
the leadership of the agency, he said.
"The evidence is not convincing
enough to make the CIA a rogue ele
phant," he said.
Forsythe said the United States
needs an intelligence agency for secur
ity purposes. However, he criticized the
CIA's recent involvement in Nicaragua.
Attempts to overthrow the Sandinista
government will fail because the CIA
cannot identify who the Contras are or
exactly who it is they're attacking, he
said.
"I'm opposed to the use of the CIA to
overthrow the Sandinista government
because the people will never rally
behind them," he said.
Forsythe said U.S. presidents also
are responsible for the covert actions of
the CIA because they are included in
every CIA decision. He agreed with
Erlich's proposal that the relationship
between the CIA and the president is
an example of "plausible denial." He
said this allowed for a flexible rela
tionship that makes it nearly impossi
ble to pin down who is responsible for
reprehensive action.
The third panelist, Gregory Pedlow,
UNL associate professor of history,
recently was hired by the CIA and will
leave the university at the end of the
year. Although Pedlow would not dis
cuss his reasons for leaving, he said he
was hired as a historian and will assist
in the analysis of foreign intelligence
material. Pedlow said covert opera
tions are only a small fraction of things
done by the CIA.
Resolution 13
opposes budget cuts
By Jen Deselms
Staff Reporter
ASUN Senate passed two resolutions
Wednesday supporting the Nebraska
State Student Association's resolutions
on budget cuts and student input on
construction of bond funded facilities.
Resolution 13 recognizes and sup
ports an NSSA resolution that opposes
the proposed state budget cuts as a
solution to the current economic crisis.
The NSSA resolution asks Nebraskans
to join NSSA "in choosing success, not
merely survival."
An investment in higher education
"will provide the state with the founda
tion for future excellence, and not con
tinued turmoil," the resolution states.
"We've seen some movement up at
the capitol," said Deb Chapelle, execu
tive director of NSSA. "At this point
last week we were looking at a 5.65
(percent) cut. Today, we're looking at a
3 percent cut, and some movement to
pull that down even lower."
Chappelle said students are the only
people who can tell senators what it's
like to have their college programs
endangered by budget cuts.
Another ASUN resolution that sup
ports NSSA says NSSA chapters and
campus administrators should seek
student input on construction and ren
ovation of bond-funded buildings for
student use. Such buildings could in
clude student unions, residence halls,
health centers and recreation center.
In other business, ASUN Sen. Todd
Duffack reported in the proposed UNL
Commuter Center. Duffack said he
visited the University of Oklahoma to
study its commuter center, which sets
the example for UNL's center. Duffack
said many students use Oklahoma's
center. It has roommate listings, job
openings, entertainment information
and test files.
The proposed UNL center would
have a $15,000 budget. ASUN President
Gerard Keating said the money would
come from student fee increase of
about 13 cents.
Coach: Sports increase revenue
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"I've already seen problems with
academic cuts when we don't have the
programs the recruits want," Dirksen
said.
The cross country budget has been
cut the last two years because the uni
versity failed to raise the budget enough
to keep up with the rising costs of
scholarships, he said.
UNL women's sports are national
leaders, Dirksen said, and it would be
unfortunate to hurt the program with
budget cuts. He said athletics generate
name recognition for the university and
bring in donations.
Dirksen said the president of
Pennsylvania State University claimed
that the number of grants the univer
sity received were proportional to how
well the football team played.
Cutting the athletic budget could
cut a source of revenue for UNL, he
said.
Shorts
Hyde Memorial Observatory, located November from 7 to 10 p.m. The obser
on the south road of Holmes Park, will vatory is open to the public free of
be open each Saturday night during charge.
Setting it Straight
Because of a typographical error, a
story in Thursday's Daily Nebraskan
incorrectly stated that Suzanne Brown,
UNL assistant to the Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs, resigned to accept
a position as Assistant Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs with Pennsylvania's
State System of Higher Education.
Brown accepted a position as Assistant
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
there.
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