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REC CENTER from Page 1
Griesen said current recreational facil
ities are obviously inadequate, and
about 40 percent of UNL students par
ticipated in intramural sports last year.
Only one student spoke in opposition.
Cynthia Halpin, a UNL senior psy
chology major, said the project sets a
bad precedent by showing the universi
ty's priorities are recreation and ath-
a concern in center pnans? regent says
lctics, not academics.
Halpin said she would like to see the
$5 surcharge on athletic tickets used
to help the English department.
"I realize the money isn't coming
from taxes," Ualpin said, but the unin
formed will think while the university
is taking budget cuts and faculty are
leaving, we're building a rec center.
Regent Nancy Hoch of Nebraska City
said she was concerned about building
the campus recreation center and indoor
practice field when the university is
taking a $3.1 million budget cut.
ASUN President Scudder disagreed
with Hoch's suggestion to build the
project in phases because it is not
funded with tax dollars.
"It's not the board's choice to absorb
cuts," Scudder said. "Here's an oppor
tunity for the board to do something for
the students," Scudder said as other
Talking equals negotiating
KRAUTHAMMER from Page 4
safety, perhaps the life, of someone
else. But it is a hard case to make
because the identity of the "someone
else" is never known in advance. Well,
now we know. The names are Steen,
Turner, Polhill, Singh and Waite.
Amal leader Nabih Berri says Waite
has been "arrested, but not kidnapped."
An interesting distinction: Wfaite is
charged, I suppose, with humanitarian
ism. The Archbishop of Canterbury has
asked for Iran's help, thus cranking up
once again the protection racket. In
this country, there are already calls for
ransoming Waite. And the official
American line remains that we will talk
to terrorists but not negotiate.
But with terrorists there is no such
thing as talking as distinct from nego
tiating. Once you agree to talk you have
already established the principle of
giving in to blackmail. You are only
haggling over the price. The reason
that the distinction between talking
and negotiating continues to be made
is the confusion of foreign with domes
tic kidnapping.
When police have a kidnappers'
house surrounded, it is possible to talk
without negotiating. The purpose of
talk is to prolong the ordeal on the
theory (usually correct) that time works
against the beleaguered kidnapper.
That is not true of well protected ter
rorists holding hostages God knows
where in the Bekaa Valley.
Another purpose of talk is to calm an
often edgy, overwrought kidnapper and
keep him from doing something stupid.
The Lebanese variety are not desperate
amateurs but notoriously self-assured
professionals. Edginess is not their
problem.
Moreover, when talk with the domes
tic kidnapper does spill over into nego
tiation, the sole agenda item is a gua
rantee of personal safety to the kid
napper, a guarantee which can be
revoked the instant the hostage is
released, since the authorities control
the terrain. In Lebanon, it is the terror
ists who control the terrain. They have
no need to negotiate their own per
sonal safety. Even if caught later, they
can secure immunity with the simple
expedient, now being demonstrated by
the Hamadeis in Germany, of a new
kidnapping.
Terrorists have loftier demands. They
are interested in one of four things:
murderers, money, arms and immunity.
And the kind of immunity they seek is
immunity for whole countries, like
Iran, their sponsor in the terror busi
ness. The holding of American hos
tages, and now Waite, ensures that the
American naval task force now off the
coast of Lebanon and in the Persian
Gulf remains pacific.
What to do? Twenty years of increas
ingly stiff and successful Western res
istance to terrorism have been demol
ished by the Iran arms scandal. Every
one German, French, American is
looking for an excuse to deal. It is very -late
and very difficult to start again.
But there can be only one response to
the terrorists' latest and most impres
sive shopping list: no deal, no negotia
tion, no talk.
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Krauthammer is a senior editor with the
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Jack Goebel, UNL vice chancellor for
business and finance, said the whole
project would have to be re-examined
and that would change the time table
for construction, if Hoch's suggestion
were adopted.
Although Hoch's suggestion didn't
seem to have much support, the regents
agreed that there is still time to modify
the construction plans,
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Plans call for the campus recrea
tionathletic center to house basket
ball, volleyball and badminton courts.
It also will have 14 raquetball courts, a
weight room, swimming pool, a public
lounge, offices for the campus recrea
tion staff and two enclosed tracks for
jogging. In addition, the football prac
tice field will be available for recrea
tional and fitness programming at least
75 hours a week, according to plans.
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JOURNALISM from Page 1
1, the college changed some of its
requirements and increased the min
imum grade point average for admission
and retention in the college to 2.5.
The minimum GPA was raised to
increase standards in the college, Goff
said, although it will have a short-term
effect of decreasing enrollment. At
about the same time, the college
released a statement signed by all full
time faculty members saying they would
not let financial restraints effect the
quality of their teaching.
"We're not whining," Alloway said.
"A lot of colleges are in worse spots.
It's becoming more of a challenge each
year to maintain the status quo, but
we'll do our damndest."
The College of Journalism has typ
ically maintained standards well above
the average.
"Since they began ranking colleges
around 1970," Copple said, "we've
normally been in the top 10 in any
effort to rank journalism schools."
In November 1985, the college was
re-accredited by the Accrediting Coun-
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cil on Education in Journalism and
Mass Communications. It received an
overall "excellent" evaluation. Copple
said that rating isn't given very often.
The college was praised for the camer
aderie among the staff and students.
Alloway, a new faculty member, said a
high personal commitment has helped
them rise above their problems.
"People are really important here,"
Pagel said. "The high access between
students and faculty makes it fun to
teach." Pagel calls his students "the
brightest, hardest working, toughest
students on campus."
Generally, the students feel the same
way about their professors. Miklos said
professors give students "really indi
vidualized attention" without pamper
ing them.
"The advertising program is rigor
ous," she said. "You can't just slide
by."
Shirley Roenfeldt, a news-editorial
junior, said the professors are "very
approachable." Many are willing to
make an extra effort despite low pay.
Alloway has a healthy attitude about
the college.
"You can look at things in two ways,"
he said. "You can see things in terms of
the students, teaching and research, or
you can see things in terms of the
politics, budgets, and benefits and
salaries. If you keep your head with the
student aspect, you'll be OK. It's bad if
you become consumed by the politics."
Politics, however, did enter the
picture in 1975 when the College of
Journalism left the College of Arts and
Sciences. Copple said the Journalism
College split because it needed a
better identity with the media and the
faculty "just didn't fit in."
"We're a professional faculty," Copple
said. "The people have to have a lot of
field experience along with academic
experience to teach here. It was hard
to reward them on the traditional
system."
This professional experience stregth
ens the college, said Lowell Erickson, a
journalism instructor and copy desk
chief at the Lincoln Journal-Star.
"The professors have been in the
real world," Erickson said, "not just
the academic one."
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For Fall '87-Spring '88
DESCRIPTION: Suspects are male and female black, white,
yellow and red fat and thin tall and short
TERRITORY:
ARMED:
Suspects can be found in Residence Halls sororities
fraternities co -ops on City Campus on East
Campus
The suspects are armed with love, patience,
concern and a desire to help others . . . and should
be considered extremely valuable!
IF YOU FIT THIS DESCRIPTION,
TURN YOURSELF IN BETWEEN 8:00 & 5:00 AT:
Community Health Department
University Health Center
City Campus
472-7440