Monday, March 9, 1987
Pago 4
Daily Nebraskan
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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
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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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.
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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-"
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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
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