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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
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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