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Centers to aim at ag affairs
Regents to vote on projects May 6, Omtvedt hopes for success
By Lisa Donovan
Staff Reporter _
Two new centers may be inte
grated into the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln curriculum, combin
ing the knowledge of several col
leges, said IrvOmtvedt, vice chancel
lor of the Institute of Agriculture and
Natural Resources.
“It’s not a curriculum change,” he
said. “It’s providing students with
technical assistance, marketing assis
tance and business assistance to busi
nesses, producers and entrepre
neurs.”
One center, the Nebraska Product
and Market Development Center,
will deal directly with the Institute of
Agriculture and Natural Resources
combined with the College of Busi
ness Administration and the College
of Engineering and Technology.
He said the center will focus on
non-food uses of agricultural com
modities.
“We’re going to be looking at
value-added products such as fuels,”
he said.
The center also would integrate
into university courses the possibility
of creating biodegradable plastics out
of com, Omtvedt said.
“This is an effort to di versify our
economic base in the state, and we’ve
worked with several community
groups to devise the center,” Omtvedt
said.
The other center, the Center for
International Policy and Research in
Agribusiness, Economics and Law,
draws on resources from IANR and
the business and law colleges,
Omtvedt said.
The focus of the center will be a
multidisciplinary approach to eco
nomic and legal issues. The center
will deal with problems that result in
the changing conditions in world
agriculture and related trade,
Omtvedt said.
Omtvedt said he has worked on the
project since August 1987 with sev
eral deans.
Omtvedt said he hopes the Board
of Regents will approve it May 6.
“Then we can begin putting it to
gether,” he said.
The Center for International Pol
icy and Research will be activated in
1988 or 1989, Omtvedt said.
“The extent of the program will
depend on the availability of re
sources,” Omtvedt said.
State money is not being requested
for the two centers, Omtvedt said, but
donations from federal, private and
foundation sources are sought.
“The Nebraska Com Develop
ment, Marketing and Utilization
Board allocated $60,000 for the pol
icy and research program,” Omtvedt
said.
Omtvedt said they will make a
proposal to the Nebraska Ethanol
Authority to launch the Nebraska
Agricultural Product Market Center.
“We’d like to use the money for an
ethanol pilot research plant,” he said.
If the regents approve the centers,
a director will be appointed to design
the program.
Student to study and live in Africa
By Shawn Schuldies
Staff Reporter
Fred Ewald not only wants to study
less-developed nations, he wants to
live in one.
Ewald, the first University of
Nebraska-Lincoln undergraduate
student accepted to study at an Afri
can university, said he hopes to learn
to see things from a less-developed
country’s perspective by studying
there.
Ewald, an international relations
student, will begin studying in June at
the University of Dar es Salaam in
Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanza
nia.
Ewald said he chose the university
because it is located in a less-devel
oped country and it offers classes
taught in English.
By studying in Tanzania, Ewald
said, he hopes to better understand
how the country views the current
balance of world power, Tanzania’s
role in the international scene and the
country’s goals for development.
Ewald said he wants to enroll in
classes that emphasize African eco
nomic development and geography.
He also wants to study a foreign
language.
One class Ewald wants to take
deals with Tanzanian development.
Ewald said he will see firsthand how
a country tries to solve its problems
and plan its development by taking
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this class, Ewald said.
Ewald said he thinks many people
overlook less-developed countries
because the more developed capital
ist and communist countries still
dominate the international scene.
Ewald said he thinks less-devel
oped countries have problems, such
as overpopulation and being depend
ent on a small number of exports. The
less-developed countries’ future
looks exciting, Ewald said, and he
hopes to be involved with it.
The Tanzanian university is mod
eled after the British system, Ewald
said. Students pick about six classes
that last for an entire year. Students
get four breaks a year, he said.
“At least you don’t have to worry
about registration after each break,”
Ewald said.
Ewald said he became interested
in foreign service while living in
Barbados, where his wife works as a
budget officer for the U.S. Embassy.
He said he also became interested
in less-developed countries while
attending a political-science class,
Politics of the Non-Western World, at
UNL.
“1 could relate the experiences I
had living in Barbados to the theories
and ideas I was learning in class,”
Ewald said.
Currently Ewald studies at UNL
because members of his family are
considered Nebraska residents by the
military.
Because he’s leaving in June,
Ewald said, he has little time to get
ready. Many details like immuniza
tions, organizing finances and arrang
ing for school credits to be transferred
need to be taken care of, he said.
Living in another country could
also cause culture shock—even after
living in Barbados, he said.
He said it doesn’t matter how
many times a person has traveled—a
traveler doesn’t know how he’s going
to react to a foreign culture until he
gets there.
By Brandon Loomis
Staff Reporter
An unexpected announcement
that the U.S. trade deficit is increasing
sparked a plunge in the Dow Jones
industrial average Thursday.
The average fell 101.46 points to
2,005.63 after theCommcrce Depart
ment reported that the trade deficit
increased from $12.44 billion to
$13.83 billion in February.
David Rosenbaum, assistant pro
fessor of economics at the University
ofNebraska-Lincoln.said two factors
may have triggered the panic after the
announcement
Rosenbaum said foreign investors
may have sold their U.S. stocks be
cause they fear a devaluation of the
dollar. Devaluation of the dollar is a
common policy response by the U.S.
government when the trade deficit
increases, he said.
Devaluation of the dollar also
means devaluation of U.S. slocks, he
said, which is why foreign investors
will want to sell out before the dollar
drops.
Rosenbaum said the increasing
trade deficit also shows U.S. goods
are not competing well on the world
market. The inability of U.S. goods to
compete causes shareholders in U.S.
companies to sell their stocks, he said.
The 101.46-point drop was the
second three-digit loss in the Dow
Jones industrial average this year.
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Just a little longer.. .
Lynn Alexander of Lincoln consoles his daughter,
Jessica, 4, while she poses for UNL art professor Dave
Routon.
Dow Jones average takes plunge
Love Hall may be excluded from RHA
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
Love Memorial Hall could be kicked out of
the Residence Hall Association under a bill
passed at Thursday night's RHA meeting, but
RH A President Larry Koubsky said some ques
tions need to be answered befoie he will sign the
bill.
The bill, called a “Definition of Member
ship Residents," says that a member residence
hall is defined “as a University of Nebraska
Lincoln living unit in which the residents of that
community contribute to the general fund of the
association."
Koubsky said Love Memorial Hall does not
contribute student fees to RHA, so would not be
a voting member of RHA if the bill was enacted.
Love Hall currently has two voting members of
RHA.
“It’s been a concern for a number of years
with the Executive Board about the situation at
Love Memorial Hall,*’ Koubsky said.
Koubsky said he won't sign the bill until he
talks to Love representatives to try to work
something out. There is also a question of
constitutionality about the bill, he said.
RHA Election Commissioner Christopher
Ixhan, one sponsor of the bill, said the intent of
the bill was not to exclude Love, but would
require RHA executives to work out an agree
ment with Love.
The bill was passed at the RHA meeting
without any discussion, and Koubsky ques
tioned whether most senators knew what the
bill would do.
“I’m actually kind of disappointed the Sen
ate passed it without questioning what it does,”
he said.
Koubsky said he will probably sign the bill
if it is constitutional, but said it’s not really fair
to Love Memorial Hall.
Cindy Dowding, president of Love Memo
rial Hail, said she wasn’t really upset about the
passage of the bill because it doesn’t really
matter whether Love has a voice.
“A lot of it (RHA business) doesn't have to
deal with us,” she said. RHA decisions are also
usually unanimous or have a large majority, so
members input doesn’t matter that much, sht?
said.
Paula Moss, Love’s RHA senator, said she *
didn’t think it would be fair to exclude Love
from the RHA. Moss said she had no prior
knowledge the RHA was considering such a
bill.
Doug Zatechka, director of housing, said he
doesn’t think Love contributes money to RHA.
‘‘Love Hall should be a member of the
Residence Hall Association,” though, he said.
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