Thursday, March 20, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
Page 3
etitioners fight for better groundwater quality
By Linda Hartmann
Staff Reporter
The issues of groundwater quality
will not be put on the back burner, at
least not if supporters of the Clean
Water Campaign have their way.
Since October of 1985, more than
12,000 Nebraskans have signed a petition
being circulated statewide. The cam
paign's organizers hope to gather enough
signatures by July 1 to put a ground
water protection amendment to the
state constitution on the November
election ballot. More than 55,000 more
signatures are needed.
Bill Wise, campaign organizer, said
the petition was filed because many
Conflict, peace
programs today
By Julie Jordan Hendricks
Staff Reporter
Peace and conflict studies programs
are among the fastest growing pro
grams in the country, said Mark Ran
dall, a campus minister at Cornerstone,
United Ministries in Higher Education,
640 N. 16th St.
Today through Saturday, educators,
administrators and clergy from 1 1 states
w ill attend a conference at UNL about
"Peace and Conflict Studies in the
Curriculum."
The conference includes workshops,
resource-sharing sessions and guest
speakers. There is a fee for the confer
ence but, Randall said, some featured
events are free to the public.
The keynote speaker, Peter Dale
Scott, is co-founder of the Peace Stu
dies program and professor of English
at the University of California-Berkeley.
He will speak about the role of the
humanities in peace and conflict stu
dies, today at 7:30 p.m. in the Nebraska
Union.
Gene Sharp from the Center for
International Affairs at Harvard Uni
versity and UNL philosophy professors
Nelson Potter and Edward Becker will
speak Thursday at St. Mark's on the Cam
pus. A conflict studies program such as
those being discussed at the confer
ence has been developed for UNL, said
Leo Sartori, chairman of the UNL Com
mittee on Societal Conflict and Con
flict Resolution and professor of phys
ics and political science.
Pending NU Board of Regents appro
val, UNL students can receive a major
or minor in "Societal Conflict and Con
flict Resolution," Sartori said. The inter
disciplinary program includes existing
courses in history, political science,
psychology, physics, philosophy, anthro
pology, English and life sciences. A
core course and senior seminar also is
included.
Professors from a variety of depart
ments will help development and teach
the core course and seminar. Sartori
said the core course is expected to be
offered in the spring of 1987.
For more information about the
"Peace and Conflict Studies in the
Curriculum" conference contact Mark
Randall at 472-3214.
Contras receive
amnesty policy
VARGAS from Page 1
The government also is providing
an amnesty policy for the Contras.
This states that any Contra who
surrenders hisi Weapons! will be
-Nicaragua-'caMhote.Mabeled a
communist or a socialist state, Vargas
said, because 60 percent of its
production is owned by the private
sector. Only 18 percent is government
controlled, he said.
Vargas went on to say the 17
cases of human rights abuses that
civil rights groups say still exist
have been resolved and the officers
involved are serving 30 years, the
maximum sentence for their crimes.
"That pales in front of the daily
atrocities, rapes and tortures com
mitted by the Contras," he said.
In Somoza's regime, which the
U.S. supported, no civil rights groups
were allowed in Nicaragua until the
very last part of the regime reign,
Vargas said.
Nebraskans feel the Legislature is
dragging its feet in dealing with nitrates
and in situ uranium mining, which
could lead to problems in Nebraska's
underground water supplies.
The petition would prevent certain
kinds of uranium mining and allow the
Department of Environmental Control
to set and enforce regulatory standards
for water control.
The Sierra Club, Wildlife Federation,
Nebraska Water Conservation Council
and other groups are supporting and
carrying out the campaign. Wise said
registered voters in several Nebraska
counties also are circulating the peti
tion and educating others on ground
water problems.
The problems are many. But Clean
Water Campaign has narrowed its focus
to a few. For example, campaigners are
concerned that inadequate regulation
of nitrate and pesticide use is hurting
many underground wells, Wise said. -
They also are worried about prob
lems that certain types of uranium
mining could cause. When mining for
uranium with the in situ method, min
ers inject chemicals into the ground to
"free up" the uranium and pump it out.
The problem with this, Wise said, is
that the chemicals and other contami
nants freed up with the uranium can
pollute the underground water supp
lies (aquifer) around the site.
Another problem with restoration,
Wise said, is that mining companies
can negotiate with the Department of
Environmental Control on the level of
quality they need to bring water back
to after mining. Under this policy, he
said, the water may never be restored
to its original quality.
The mining issue is becoming more
important in Nebraska, Wise said,
because a portion of land near Craw
ford, Neb., has been exempted from
drinking water use so that the Wyom
ing Fuel Co. can mine uranium in
northwest Nebraska.
Some state senators oppose the
amendment because it strips them of
power to regulate water quality in the
state.
Sen. Tom Vickers of Farnam is among
the opponents.
Vickers said the amendment, if en
acted, could be interpreted to include
more water issues than the campaign
originally intended.
Vickers is co-sponsor of LB894, a bill
to provide for control of contaminants
in groundwater. Vickers said he hopes
passage of the bill would eliminate the
need for the constitutional amendment.
Wise said he likes the intent of the
bill, but hopes it can be amended to
give the DEC more power and make the
legislation more protective of ground
water. Until then, he said, they will
continue their campaign.
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