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Monday, March 9, 1987 Pago 4 Daily Nebraskan NslSfean Jeff Korbelik, Editor, 472-1766 James Rogers, Editorial Page Editor Lise Olsen, Associate News Editor Mike Reilley, Night News Editor Joan Rezac, Copy Desk Chief HVA-Vp, WAV?1 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Trntmrn m tonaclfliy Increase must help education Tuition increases are always a touchy subject. There's little question that tuition increases, at the margin, cause some decrease in enrollment. Every demand curve, after all, is downward sloping, and the de mand curve of education is no different than that for any other good. Americans, Nebraskans, and students especially, are imbued with an egalitarian spirit. It always seems somehow unfair that the lack of money should stop some people from getting something so evidently good as education. Nonetheless, the current con troversy within the Nil adminis tration as to whether tuition should be increased does not exist in a vacuum. Rather, the dispute must be placed in the state's political context, which is not conducive to the funding of higher-education excellence in Nebraska. For better or worse, this is a fundamental economic fact for all persons concerned with NU, and for students as well. This year's Daily Nebraskan has consistently supported tui tion increases to make up for ASUN cute raids GLC to benefit from NSSA loss The ASUN Senate's decision to cut funds from the Ne braska State Student Assoc iation and divert them to UNL's Government Liaison Committee should be applauded. The senate voted 17-13, with one abstention, to eliminate student funding. UNL's $20,500 student-fee contribution makes up nearly half of NSSA's budget and UNL's withdrawal may mean the end of NSSA. Steve Linenberger, the newly appointed NSAA director, said NSAA's other members Chad ron, Peru, Wayne State and UNO might have to double their student-fee support of the organ ization for it to continue. NSSA's demise would be unfortunate for other schools, but UNL's move was essential and necessary. The Daily Nebraskan has said before and still stands by the statement that NSAA cannot effectively lobby for UNL inter ests. Of the approximately 40,000 students NSAA represented, UNL accounted for 24,000. The inter ests of an institution the size of UNL vary considerably with those of the smaller state colleges. ASUN's redistribution plan Editorial Policy Unsigned editorials represent official policy of the fall 1986 Daily Nebraskan. Policy is set by the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. Its mem bers are JeffKorbelik, editor, James Rogers, editorial page editor; Lise Olsen, associate news editor; Mike Reilley, night news editor and Joan Rezac, copy desk chief. The Daily Nebraskan's publishers cutbacks in funding. The DN continues to maintain this posi tion but with an added condi tion: Direct and obvious linkages between tuition increases and quality education must be seen. All tuition increases should be earmarked for professors or library resources. For example, say Gov. Kay Orr's proposal for a 3-percent hike in undergraduate tuition were implemented. That would be- about $46 for every student per year and would translate into a yearly total of about $914,400. This hike would be enough to give about 183 professors a raise of $5,000 or hire 30 new profes sors at a competitive salary of $30,000. Such contributions would be substantive and visible con tributions to UNL's quality. If it's students' money that the administration is going to play with, then a bit of straight forward accountability is war ranted. Students have the best argument: Their own money should be invested in areas di rectly improving their education which is why the university exists anyway. looks good on paper. The DN hopes ASUNGLC follows through. Their plan is to use the money for newsletters mailed to student's parents and alumni to increase general university support. ASUNGLC also plans to send their officials around the state to talk to clubs and business leaders. Gerard Keating, 1985-86 ASUN president, made great strides in this area. The current admini stration has kept it going, and an increase in funds will allow ASUNGLC more visits and more contacts. Other programs include: join ing the United States Student Association for access to federal information, programs and assis tance; hiring a GLC administra tive director; having more GLC conferences and funding projects such as Adopt-A-Senator. The only criticism could be the timing. In light of the recent budget cuts, a change now may weaken UNL's . lobbying efforts within the Legislature. But that could be overcome by hiring an effective and competent admin istrator who can implement ASUN's plan immediately. are the regents, who established the UNL Publications Board to super vise the daily production of the paper. According to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the edi torial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of its student editors. fa i IMk- w if Ip'g' i 11 WHAT i 7 VOV GOT WST Aty sroRies? gui i rr TSsm Tl Tl Tl Tl T Tl FBI 's relentless pursuit of justice tracks "Got to keep on moving . . . Blues falling down like hail And the days keep on remind ing me Tliere 's a hellhound on my trail Robert Johnson The story has its roots in tragecry, in the pseudo-political landscape of failed symbols and failed sym bolic gestures that made up the anti war protests of the late '60s and early 70s. But today it reads like historical parody. Silas and Judith Bissell are married graduate students living in Seattle. It's 1969 and Silas and Judith want so badly to join the Weather Underground, a disorganized lunatic fringe of the anti-war movement that changed mani festos weekly. The Underground killed, stole and vandalized for reasons as diverse as "bringing the capitalist pigs to their knees" and "getting some drug money." One of the initiation rituals for this week in 1969 was making married members geTa divorce and "postpone permanent relationships until alter the revolution" (The Guardian, March 4, 1987). If Silas and Judith didn't get a divorce, they would be expelled from the Weather Underground. Silas and Judith, very much in love and quite unwilling to postpone their love until after supper, no less after said "revolution," decided they had to prove themselves. Silas, quoted in The Guardian, said they wanted to show "they could be good revolutionaries and still stay mar ried." They planned a little conjugal terrorism. Two bombs, apparently one "his" and one "hers," were found under the steps of an ROTC building and linked to the Bissells. Silas dumped Judith, who was all too talkative in Letter Graduate remembers Professor JoAnn Dickerson JoAnn Dickerson, who died of cancer Feb. 9, is impossible to forget. She taught journalism at UNLfrom 1981 to 1984. She expected her students to be pro fessional journalists. She would not tolerate anything less. She once told her students, "I expect you to think when you're in my class." Yet she let her students who con ducted themselves as professionals have certain privileges one of which wa$ getting to know her as a friend.- Of YOUR IMSlO6-TH6UWeH0ve INfO ffioM &i kosto? me ffuN ywft sroRies " court and was a virtual fount of infor mation to the FBI who had members of the Weatherpeople up and down its Top 10 list. Judith spent three years in prison. Silas fled and established a new identity as Terry Jackson, a mild mannered physical therapist employed by a hospital in Eugene, Ore. Two months ago, the FBI found SilasJackson. He was arrested, his trial set for March 31. Jackson has been running amok, getting his master's degree in physical therapy and con structinga harmless facade as a healer for 15 years. Charles i Lieurance The FBI is unwilling to answer the question of how it found out Jackson was actually Bissell when four colleges worth of bureaucracy was unable to do so. My guess is that the "Conservative Hellhounds" are out again with a purge mentality that only conservatives suffer from. One could argue that the pursuit of Nazi war criminals is representative of a left-wing "Hellhound" mentality, but considering that most Nazi hunters are raving Zionists, that argument does n't hold much water. Seventeen years after the Bissells' aborted attempt at terrorism, after establishing deep and respectable roots in Eugene, Silas was arrested, put in jail and finally released on a bond exceeding $95,000. Likewise, Paul Stewart a respected UNL criminal-justice instructor, was taken into custody last semester for conspiracy charges more than a decade JoAnn Dickerson had a mind that was mature enough to look beyond my disability (I have cerebral palsy which has left me withut natural vocalization skills, reliable hand dexterity and walking skills. I communicate by pointing to a letter board on my lap tray with a stylus attached to my head with a band.) Most people fail to see that my limitations are only a part of me. I had to prove my ability to learn to most professors, but not to JoAnn..She didn't question my ability to-do the assign-" LKQiS9 iCOdD down wrong meji old. Stewart had been a member of the Black Panthers during the Vietnam War. It gives you a safe feeling deep down inside to know the FBI's unflagging pursuit of justice has resulted in the fairly masturbatory tracking down and punishing of men so dangerous: A criminal-justice professor and a physi cal therapist dedicated to helping the sick. When was the last time you saw a liberal (I should leave the question at that) presidency so bent on the pun ishment of crimes so decayed in impor tance over the years that they've become completely insignificant? But Reagan and the hellhounds of the FBI have taken to the common conservative entertainment of bugging, tracking and, in general, purging the left. With Nixon it was more important to stand like a slavering hyena with all the weight of his hoary haunches on the left wing, than to be president. The left are rarely so concerned with the activities of the the right, unless, of course, they're lynching black youth in Mobile, Ala. or skinning the legs of small boys on farms in Nebraska. Perhaps it's time the left had some hellhounds of its own who can run sna rling and nipping at the frightened heels of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, religious fanatics and survivalists. Because now we live in a country where it's more important to jail and shackle profes sors and physical therapists than to track down the ruthless, ignorant, nar-j row-minded well-armed bigots and loons of the far (but getting closer) right. As Dylan said, "You don't need a' weatherman to see which way the wind blows." All you need is a Republicar president and an FBI with no one tr answer to. Lieurance is an English, philosophy and art major and Daily Nebraskan senior reporter. ; ments. She welcomed me into her'clasr with open arms as well as with an open heart. . : : '-' I JoAnn wasn't just concerned with how a student did in her class. When she heard I was moving into my first apartment, she simply asked, "What can I do to help you?" Thanks you, Professor Dickerson, and goodbye, ;; . -1 William L, Rush i -. , , . . . .. . UNL graduate - v " ' - ' ' ' ' "; 'journalism 1 I