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"m nr I l| M. M JL ®B| Weather: Friday, mostly sunny, high A&E: Last one out, shut ■ wM 7 Hj in the mid 40s. Friday night, clear, low off the lights —Page 6. I 1 B in the mid 20s. Saturday, mostly sunny, 1 1 M 'I B ^ B^^B high around 40. Sports: Beck ready to lMepiasKan i Dallas moved to New Mexico penitentiary By Victoria Ayotte Staff Reporter Claude Dallas, a former inmate at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, was transferred Thursday to the New Mexico State Penitentiary at Nebraska’s request, said Harold Clarke, warden of the Nebraska State Penitentiary. Clarke said Dallas was transferred to New Mexico because Nebraska’s penitentiary didn’t have enough space for him. Dallas was transferred i to Nebraska from the Idaho State Penitentiary in mid-September. The reason for Dallas’ transfer from Idaho was a cult-like following that caused problems for Idaho’s prison, said A1 Murphy, director of the Idaho Department of Corrections. It is believed that Laura Miller, who led the following, followed Dallas to Lincoln, said Randy Essex, Sunday editor of the Idaho States man. Miller recently applied for a graduate assistant position at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The department of theater arts and dance has not filled the position that Miller applied for. Miller couldn’t be reached for comment Thursday. However, Murphy said, the rea son for Dallas’ transfer to New Mexico had nothing to do with his followers moving to Lincoln. Murphy said he was not aware of any of Dallas’ followers moving to Lincoln, but said it was a possibility. “Claude certainly has a following wherever he goes,” he said. Dallas became a cult hero in Idaho after claiming he killed two game wardens in self-defense when one pulled agun on him for poaching. His followers believed Dallas had a right to live off the land. Two books and a movie have been made about Dallas. ‘‘He’s fairly notorious,” Murphy said. Dallas escaped from the Idaho prison in March 1986, eluded the FBI for a year and was placed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List. Dallas was acquitted by an Ada County jury on the escape charge. Murphy said New Mexico ac cepted Dallas as a favor, and Idaho accepted a prisoner from New Mex ico in return. Nebraska routinely accepts pris oners from other prisons as a favor, Clarke said. But Nebraska doesn’t have adequate maximum security, so prisoners are moved as quickly as possible, he said. Dave Haneen/Daily Nebraakan Piano man Dave Sullivan, senior marketing major, performs at the Crib In the Nebraska Union Thursday afternoon. Ag college widens requirements By London Bridge Staff Reporter University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agriculture officials are carrying out a plan to strengthen and define humanities and social science core requirements for its students, Dean T.E. Hartung said. The college began requiring additional general-education courses last fall, spurred by a major curriculum review almost two years ago, Hartung said. “We’re already a step into it,” he said. “W e’re implementing a better defined general education core.” Hartung said two new courses will be added to the general-studies requirement by spring 1989. One course would concentrate on the sci v enceof food technology, including production, marketing and processing, Hartung said. The other course would explore the issues of biotechnology use in food production to en hancc the nutritional value of food. Until these courses are offered, faculty members arc encouraging students to enroll in existing humanities and social-science courses. Hartung said agriculture students are choos ing c lasses from “course clusters.” The students are required to select a minimum number of credit hours from each discipline, such as physical sciences, math, biological sciences, social sciences and agricultural sciences. “Students can make their course choices, but balance is important,” Hartung said. “There is no prescriptive list of courses. “We rely on the student working with their adviser to help them with their individual goals.” Hartung said he doesn’t expect the type of person who majors in agriculture to change. But he said that because of the increased em phasis on a broad-based education, students will have a more complete view about issues that affect them professionally as well as affect society. Defensive invasion allowed Forsythe: Nicaraguan attack in Honduras justifiable By Anne Mohn Senior Reporter Nicaraguan military action into Honduras earlier this week was justified under interna tional law, said David Forsythe, political sci ence professor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. But, he said, Reagan’s reaction of sending troops to Honduras is a hysterical response. “One hopes that prudence and wisdom will prevail in Washington and that the troops will not be engaged in combat,” he said. Forsythe said a general principle of interna tional law says that if armed groups based in a neutral country launch attacks into another country, the attacked country has the right to eliminate the armed groups in the neutral coun try. “Nicaragua is being attacked from Hondu ras, there is no question about that,” he said. Nicaragua’s action is also justified under a peace plan signed by both countries. The plan states that if a.neutral country doesn’t close down rebel forces itself, the attacked country can do it. Forsythe said Honduras is not complying with the plan because Honduras has made no attempt to eliminate Contra bases. “If the facts show that they (Sandinistas) made a limited incursion into Honduras with the limited purpose of taking out Contra bases and the Contra fighters, that isentirely legal and entirely justifiable,” he said. He said the United States did the same thing during the Vietnam War. U.S. troops went into Cambodia to eliminate communist bases, he said. “But now, of course, the shoe is on the other foot,” he said. Forsythe said he doesn’t think the Sandinis tas are acting in hopes of taking over Honduras. According to tbe Associated Press, 3,200 U.S. troops were sent to Honduras Thursday morning. Forsythe said he thinks U.S. troops are positioned about 120 miles away from the Nicaraguan border. "I think it’s possible once you get that many soldiers down there, that we may end up in war.' —Dyer Wmusi ^ MiMji mum i i <. The troops have not been sent into direct combat with the Sandinistas, Forsythe said. The United States would be acting illegally if it sent military forces to fight the Sandinistas. Forsythe said U.S. troops probably won’t get involved in the fighting. Phil Dyer, another UNL professor of politi cal science, said U.S. troops may end up fight ing. “I think it’s possible once you gel that many soldiers down there, that we may end up in war,” Dyer said. Speaker: Bible demeans women Women expected to follow norms By Pattie Greene Staff Reporter Women are called deviants when they go against the norm of society, said Elaine Kruse, a history professor from Wesleyan University. They are either called visionaries, witches, or madwomen depending on the period in which they lived, Kruse said at the Brown Bag Lecture series Thursday at the Nebraska State Museum of History. Kruse said while seeing women as inferior began in Greek history it was carried on in Christian Jieory. “The church fathers kept the image of infe rior women,” Kruse said. Even the Bible de means women, she said. A problematic role for women was the Vir gin Mary, Kruse said. “She combined the two ideals for women: being a virgin and a chikl-bearer at the same lime,” Kruse said. “These women tended to withdraw into spiritual life. “Eventually they became empowered by it, receiving messages from God saying they were very good.” These women denied their bodies in order to be pure, Kruse said. Visionaries starved and flagellated themselves to an excess, she said, often becoming ill. In their suffering, they would concentrate on Christ’s suffering and their spiritual marriage to him, Kruse said. Kruse said their visions were of a loving God with bridegroom or erotic imagery of God, Christ’s suffering, drinking blood from Christ’s side or transforming Christ into a feminine image by suckling from his breasL “These women also drank the pus from the sores of the dying and the poor,” Kruse said. Joan of Arc was influenced by visionary women, but her actions were militaristic, Kruse said. Joan convinced the king to allow her to lead the French into battle. Eventually caught by the English, Joan was tried as a witch and burned at the stake. During the age of witch hunters, 70 to 90 percent of women were executed for being witches. These women were living alone on the fringes of society, Kruse said. “And they were poor,” Kruse said. “If a rich woman was brought to trial, it was dropped in a hurry.” Women were accused of causing sterility, deaths, and miscarriages. “If a cow would not give milk,” Kruse said, “it was because of a * witch.” In the Victorian Age of the 19th century, women went from being seen as sexual to asexual, Kruse said. “This is the age where mothers told their daughters that on their wedding night they were to lie in bed and think of England,” she said. . '