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Omaha baseball player
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Partly cloudy today. Highs
In lower 80s.
Sports, page 7
June 24, 1986
Linda StoryDaily Nebraskan
Valerie Miller, Omaha, and Brenda Butts, Lincoln, teamed up to create a dual expression
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Intellectuals
By Steve Thomas
Staff Reporter
Enter Myron Thinkelman, high
school honor student. Turn ons:
Mozart, qualitative analysis, 18th
century literature. The perfect eve
ning: good excuse to, stay home,
good book, good thick glasses, good
night.
But then the Nebraska Scholars
Institute (NSI) took offense: the
stereotype of the honor student has
haunted intellectuals for eons. The
assumptions were false; it was time
for the honor students to see them
selves in the right light as bright,
gifted, complete people vdth limit
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Jan Deeds, director of counseling
for NSI, said NSI, a two-week summer
enrichment program aimed at gifted
high school seniors, might be the
best experience a young person can
have.
"Society has stereotypes about
gifted people, and they aren't neces
sary," Deeds said, "Our purpose is
to help these young people feel good
about being scholars and excep
tionally bright people."
Deeds said the program started
four years ago because people had
noticed a lack of support within
school systems for the gifted, .
'These people are lovers of learn
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these young scholars can say, lI am
good and I do need support,"' Deeds
said.
Support is crucial, according to
Deeds. No young person no mat
ter how gifted and self-confident he
may be can maximize his poten
tial without it, Deeds says.
"We stress the idea of multipo
tentiality at NSI," Deeds said. "If a
young person is multi-talented and
can do 30 things well, he has some
choices to make and needs some
help. We feel like we can help with
their career planning, and that is
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oslcens: University
must promote change
By James M. Lillis
Senior Reporter
NU President Ronald Roskens spoke
about current conditions in Nebraska
and how they will affect the role and
future of the University of Nebraska to
the NU Board of Regents, Saturday.
Roskens said NU once was regarded
as one of the nation's pre-eminent aca
demic institutions, and it is appropriate
to try to regain that stature. The task
may seem difficult at first, he said, but
the objective is attainable.
"Complex organizations like ours
must adjust continuously if they are to
lead and prosper," Roskens said, "but
change should be more than a response
to the exigencies of the moment."
He said despite the stresses of budget
cutbacks and continuous external
pressures for reduction and reform, the
university has done a "remarkable
job."
However, Roskens said, elected
leaders and citizens have allowed a
"pall of negativism to descend over
us." He said the university searches for
the "quick fix," and reacts rather than
leads.
"I believe that it is incumbent upon
the University of Nebraska to become a
Republicans seek support
for Orr during convention
By Geoff Goodwin
Staff Reporter
Traditionally, political conventions
are supposed to be decided in smoke
filled rooms by fat men with big Hava
nas sticking out of their mouths.
There was little of that Saturday as
the Republicans held their state con
vention at the Cornhusker Hotel. There
were a few cigars in evidence and a few
fat people too, but the convention was
largely devoted to a single theme: Let's
win back the governor's mansion.
Speaker after speaker extolled the
qualifications of Kay Orr, the GOP's
gubernatorial candidate, and her fel
low candidates for state office.
Unity was stressed repeatedly as the
delegates were urged to devote them
selves to helping elect Republicans in
November.
Congressman HakDaub of Omaha
noted the recent success of fundamen
talist Christian groups at county con
ventions in Lincoln and Omaha. He
said some Republican leaders are con
cerned about the growing influence of
fundamentalists within the GOP and
urged the delegates to open up the
party.
"We are a diverse group and that's
healthy," Daub said. "We have blacks,
Native Americans, Hispanics. And all of
this was done without using quotas. We
can't be concerned about Pat Robert
son (television evangelist and likely
Republican presidential candidate in
1988) taking over the Republican par
ty." Daub said the Republicans are more
in tune with the flunking of the Ameri
can people.
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powerful agent for change within this
state," Roskens said. "In the months
and years ahead, the university should
be a catalytic force around which
Nebraskans fashion productive lives
and vibrant communities, limited if
at all only by their capacities to
dream."
Roskens stated four principles that
"must inform our actions and objec
tives": First, NU is united, not the univer
sity in opposition to the bureaucracy.
Second, NU should continue to im
prove its status as a major research
university.
Third, NU must foster a sense of
community and a dedication to service.
Fourth, it must be stressed continu
ously that change is necessary to
improve.
Roskens said NU must strengthen its
strategic planning efforts, alter its
budget process, sophisticate its salary
initiatives, be willing and able to attract
the best students in the state and
region, and concentrate more on stu
dent quality than quantity. He also said
that NU must view itself as one seg
ment of the larger -postsecondary edu
cation community within the state and
substantially increase external fund
ing for research.
"Look at the Democratic candidates
Mario Cuomo, Gary Hart, Joe Biden
they're all liberals from the McGo-vern-Mondale
wing of the party," he
said.
Daub credited President Reagan with
reversing the slide he said the country
had taken under President Carter.
"This country is on the road to a fine
future for our kids and grandkids," he
said. "And we have Ronald Reagan to
thank for that."
Lynn Nofziger, who has held a variety
of positions under Reagan dating back
to his days as governor of California,
gave the keynote address to the con
vention. He urged the Republicans not to be
complacent about the fall election.
"As I travel around the country I'm
fearful that people will just say Ronald
Reagan is wonderful which he is
and just sit on their hands," he said.
Nofziger said he thought the GOP
could retain control of the Senate.
"We've got some states, like Okla
homa and North Carolina, where we're
going to have trouble holding onto
those seats, but overall I think we have
an excellent chance to keep control of
the Senate, he said.
Nofziger devoted most of his address
to giving the delegates a personal view
of Ronald Reagan.
Nofziger said the president remains
much the same man he was before he
entered politics.
"I've never seen a man in my life as
uncorrupted by power as this man," he
said. "You can still talk with him, you
can still joke with him just like you
could 20 years ago."