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Thursday, February 27, 1986 Daily Nebraskan Page 5 1 ; i . , ' 1 1 , ; , ( i ' . . ; j . '. i i Ml .' I1! ! I i I I I ! j ! 1 LJ i( ;i ... ; j J : :j - ntftvi'i.,. ........ .. -.,. r . - 1-1HW: ,; ' , 1 -, ,,, V. ,, . Ml ill' I Mill -71 7sr N... m ' nr ,MjM(iMtMMtJ,,M;.. , ' . ar" """""i - --n, , .V - ""'s' -' "'"" .... . ? ... 'Peace Pals' program promotes cultural contact Digest By James M. Lillis Staff Reporter One-to-one contact through letters between people in different countries is the purpose of a new Lincoln-based organization, "Peace Pals." Founder Doug Kasparek is sejtting up a staff and promoting the nine-day-old correspondence corps. Although this is not a new idea, Kasparak said he hopes to go beyond typical pen pals programs. "We want this to be for all people of all ages," Kasparek said. "We want everyone to have contact through letters, phone calls, travel or other cul tural exchange." A voluntary $5 monthly fee per member will be t he main source of funding, Kasparek said. How ever, all members will be treated equally whether they contribute or not. "The money we receive will go towards print ing materials, promotion, contacting members and matching them for correspondence and later, hopefully, a newsletter and salaries for the staff," Kasparek said. More than 300 potential members have been contacted worldwide, Kasparek said. He said he wasn't sure how large the organization could become, but no matter how big it gets, the human contact will be worthwhile. "We hope to expand through exposure to local "and eventually national media coverage," Kas parek said. "Without mediait will be hard to let people know what we're doing." Kasparek said starting the organization was easy, but keeping it going will be a challenge until it is firmly established. "I suppose one of the major problems I am having right now is just trying to keep my rent paid and my refrigerator full," Kasparek said. Either way, he will follow through with the , organization because he believes it will work, he said. "Peace Pals is an easy way to bring people together," Kasparek said, "It takes very little time and it has enormous potential to change the way we view the world." Anyone interested in or having further ques tions about Peace Pals can phone Kasparek at 475-2176. Exam rescheduling Friday is the last day students can notify instructors concerning three or more final exam inations in a single day. The policy, passed by the UNL Faculty Senate last year, gives students the following options: O Take all examinations as scheduled. O Consult with instructors andor depart 1 ments giving the examinations to determine if " any make-up examination is or can be scheduled , within the final exam week. ' 0 If no make-up examination is available, the students must give notice to the instruc tors) or department(s) of the third and subse quent final exams, scheduled within a single day. Such notification must be made before the end of the seventh week of classes. The instructor of the third and subse quent examination are then obligated to provide an alternate examination period within the exam week. - r O ;, Mini-courses should continued to be ex amined on the last meeting day of the course. Fame is the name of the game COHEN from Page 4 When the former published a special sec tion on airports, Liddy was just one of the famous it turned to: OJ. Simpson loathes O'Hare. Ann Landers likes it because it means she's home. That's the way Nancy Kis singer feels about New York's John F. Kennedy. And Dr. Benjamin Spock has a soft spot in what Liddy would say is his bleeding heart for the airport in Kansas City. Each and every one of these people is given a title: sportscaster, columnist, pediatrician, "wife of Henry Kissinger,", and, for Liddy, author. VeSj author. -- i Long ago someone observed that U.S. life is jtqrnjrtg into a, paofly.of ajelerisjqn tlk show ;)TTa cifcajj wiUi a nuclear physicist,, an, actress,. , a volunteer at a hospice and a Nazi war crimi nal. Each gets a mug of coffee and each gets to call one another by his or her first name "What a nice suit, Fritz." They are all equally famous and fame, after all, is what counts. It hardly matters anymore how you got there. Gordon Liddy is the personification of that ethic a barometer of the nation's hypoc risy. Mothers rail against obscenity in rock lyrics, but don't even think about Liddy appearing on "Miami Vice." The president's guardian of morality, Edwin Meese, deputizes a posse to investigate the effects of porno graphy on everything from children to green plants, but doesn't ask the same kids what lesson they draw from the life and times of Gordon Liddy. (The only thing sillier than Meese's mission is the press asking a presi dent who once played opposite a monkey what he thinks of his son appearing on televi sion in his underwear.) If Liddy had stolen cash he would never have been heard of again. We do not forgive crimes against property. But crimes against the U.S. Constitution are a different matter. That is politics and politics, we obviously think, is some sort of joke. The real joke, though, is that Liddy himself knew better. For his politics, he was willing to steal, to bur . glarize, to plant recording devices and, according to witnesses, to kill or be killed " although that may have been nothing but talk. At any rate, Liddy's politics was to rob -youf yours-r- - A nation needs it's scoundrels if only to , , remind , it, . that , it , stands, , for spn)et jiijg, , .j Scoundrels' personify a apqety Valvps.'m i what is permissible, what is not and what line cannot be crossed. Liddy, who crossed many of them, would be the perfect scoundrel the lawyer with contempt for the law, the public official who betrays the public trust, the man who, in his own little way, made the world worse for being in it. But the demand for celebrities trivializes both the good and the bad the baby doctor and the crook from Watergate. OJ. Simpson hates O'Hare and Tony Randall says he can't tell one airport from another. Singer Dionne Warwick thinks "New Edition" may win a Grammy, Author Gordon Liddy has two crime books to recommend and Idi Amin, we may presume, has an unlisted number. He could be an author, too. 1986, Washington Post Writers Group Cohen writes an editorial column for the Washington Post. 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