Weather: Looks like rain. Maybe
anyway. There's a 30 percent chance of
rain. That could even turn to snow. (But
only if it gets a little colder). It's sup
posed to get up to 48 today and the low
should be around 40. It might be time to
break out that winter sweater. Have a
nice weekend.
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November 7, 1986
Former U.S. secretary of Health
Schweiker spoke at the eighth
series Wednesday.
Rec board
found free
of violation
By Jody Beem
Staff Reporter
The ASUN Judicial Board
Thursday night found the Cam
pus Recreation Student Advisory
Board not guilty of violating
ASUN's non-discrimination clause
because the recreation board
was not found to be a recognized
student organization.
Doug Weems, ASUN Arts and
Sciences senator, brought a peti
tion before the Judicial Board
that said the recreation broad
discriminated when it had ASUN
appoint three of its members,
one from a residence hall, one
from off campus and one from a
fraternity or sorority.
Weems said that the recrea
tion board fell under ASUN juris
diction because ASUN appoints
three members of the nine
member board and because the
board submitted a constitution
for review. He said that he thought
that any organization that sub
mitted a constitution is consi-
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annual E.J. Faulkner lecture
NOW president
speaks at events
By Jeanne Bourne
Night News Editor
When the United States cuts funding
for international family-planning re
search, "it is cutting of a source of
survival" for many people in the Third
World, said Eleanor Smeal, president of
the Natonal Organization for Women
Thursday.
The United States provided two
thirds of the family-planning research
for the entire world up until last year,
she said at the annual YWCA Tribute to
Women luncheon at the Cornhusker
Hotel.
The funding was cut last year "in the
name of life," she said, because less
than one percent of the money might
have gone to abortion services.
Smeal said she does not think family
planning is a controversial issue, but a
small minority is making it an issue.
She linked family planning to star
vation in Third-World countries.
In 1985, she said, 9 million people
starved to death and 2 billion still have
too little to eat. The average age of
those who starved to death was four
years, she said. She asked, what is the
purpose of "birth only to die" after a
few years of life?
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
21st century will be
Expert: Health c&ire
By Linda Renken
Staff Reporter
Three mayor problems face today's
society that need immediate attention
in order for the future generation to
remain financially stable, a national
insurance official said.
A growing demand for public and
private retirement benefits, the in
creasing cost of health care and the
mushrooming federal deficit are prob
lems that need action, said Richard
Schweiker, president of the American
Council of Life Insurance. Schweiker
spoke as part of the eighth annual
Faulkner series Wednesday morning.
He is a former U.S. senator and Secretary
of Health and Human Resources.
These problems, if not faced now,
will become increasingly worse in the
future, he said. Looking into the future,
he said, can be a frightening experience
because there always is the chance
that what the future holds is not
encouraging.
The 21st century, he said, will
consist of an aging society. Today, more
than 28 million Americans are 65 years
old or older. This number is expected
to grow to 35 million by the year 2000
and 65 million by the year 2030. In 2010,
one in five Americans are expected to
be 65 years old or older as compared to
one in 10 today.
The ramifications of this process are
enormous, Schweiker said. To the elderly
population, this means one-fourth of
their lives will be spent in retirement.
By the year 2000, the average women at
age 65 will have 25 percent of her life
ahead of her. The average man will have
Smeal said the countries with the
highest starvation rates are the coun
tries that are populating at the fastest
rates. The sub-Saharan region of Africa
will double its population in 16 to 17
years, she said.
"We should not be cutting back on
family-planning research but expanding
on it," Smeal said.
What we do in the United States
affects the whole world, she said. If the
United States advances in this area,
the rest of the world will follow, Smeal
said.
About 800 people attended the sixth
annual luncheon. The YWCA presented
awards to outstanding women from the
Lincoln area Recipients of the 1986
Tribute awards were Margrethe Al
schwede, Ann Bleed, Alice Dittman,
Pearl Goldenstein, Alice Bigpond Roach,
Ina May Rouse and Nancy Stara.
Smeal will speak on "The Status of
the Women's Movement Today" at the
Nebraska Wesleyan Forum at 10 a.m.
today in the McDonald Theatre, Elder
Memorial Speech and Theatre Center,
51st and Huntington streets.
The forum is open to the public at no
cost. It will be broadcast at noon
Monday on KIOS 91.5 FM and at 6:30
p.m. Wednesday on KUCV7FM 91.
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aging society
20 percent of his life ahead of him.
The increased longevity lends itself
to financial problems not thought of
before, he said. Social Security, designed
to be a supplemental income program,
actually provides half of the yearly
income for two-thirds of elderly house
holds. As the elderly population
increases, the number of Social-Security
recipients also increase. The problem
is that the number of workers are
decreasing. In 1950, there were 16
workers for every social security
recipient. Today there are 3.4 workers
for every recipient. By the year 2000,
this is expected to drop to 1.5 workers
for every recipient.
The social-security program probably
won't be able to keep up with the
increasing elderly population, he said.
As a result, changes in the program
need to be made, none of which will be
popular or painless.
One solution would be to raise taxes,
he said. Others include lowering worker
benefits or raising the eligibility age
for Social Security, he said.
Although Social Security is not the
only source of income for retirees, the
problem remains that not everyone has
private pensions, he said. Women and
minorities frequently don't have a
pension plan because they work only
part-time or are in the labor force
intermittently. Schweiker said that a
mobile pension plan needs to be adopted
to provide a financial base for women
and minorities.
As the elderly population continues
to increase, health-care benefits and
costs also are likely to increase, he
said. Health care in the aging society
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to change
creates an enormous challenge, he
said.
The key to success in health care is
to encourage efficiency rather than
waste, he said. The health system has
been programmed so that it doesn't get
paid unless people are sick, he said.
The system must be geared to keeping
a person well rather than sick, he said.
By providing incentives to do this, the
amount of money spent on health care
will then decrease, he said.
However, health care is only one
small portion of the federal deficit that
needs to be decreased, he said. In 1960
the federal budget was less than $100
billion. Today, the figure is $1 trillion,
he said. From 1960 to 1986 there has
been a 10-fold increase in the federal
deficit. The interest paid on that debt
is more than the federal budget was in
1961, he said. This is a critical problem
for the United States, he said, because
over the past four years the federal
deficit has averaged $200 billion yearly,
he said.
To begin correcting the problem, the
government must further cut into federal
spending and growth that has built up
over the years. The government also
must increase tax revenues by increasing
taxes or paying more of the bills from
the receipts.
"These are not popular ideas," he
said, "because it means that we must
spend less on ourselves. But we must
face the choice of suffering that pain or
inflicting possibly greater pain on the
next generation." None of the solutions
will be painless, he said, and each will
require sacrifices.
Linda StoryDally Nebraskan
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