UNL students rally for Kerrey
KERREY from Pago 1
the chancellor, he said, is because
the NU was49th in the nation in per
studentexpenditures and 4th or 5th
highest in per capita taxpayer ex
penditures. '
Kerrey said Karnes, his oppo
nent in the senate race, is inconsis
tent when he claims to be conserva
tive. Karnes says he doesn’t want to
raise taxes, says he wants to cut the
budget, Kerrey said. Then, Kerrey
said, Karnes criticizes “every
single budget reduction that is
done, during extremely difficult
budget times.”
The rest of the campaign, Ker
rey said, will become more issue
oriented, but the media, both writ
ten and electronic, “makes it diffi
cult to carry the issues.”
“I’ve got lengthy statements on
all Sorts of specific things,” he said.
“Pick one.”
'The desire to
simply acquire
material goods
and to hold on
to material
goods Is a path
way to slavery.'
— Kerrey
on transportation? I've got four
years of working in transportation
development... it's not a subject
that translates very well into a
speech.
‘The fact is that very often
what’s required is not just to state
your position on a specific issue,
but to try to engage the audience in
the task of saying ‘We’ve got a lot
of work to do if we are going to
make our schools better. ”r
"It isn’t just electing Karnes or
Kerrey to the United States Sen
ate.” Kerrey said. “It’s how much
are you willing to get involved in
the task of making the environment
so good in the classroom that the
best of our people want to become
teachers.”
> Kerrey said he spent his birthday
with five black children in Omaha.
He said he was trying to convince
people they needed help.
“Now before you ever decide,
‘Should we spend more on AJFDC
or should we spend more on food
stamps, should we spend more on
Medicaid? Before you get into all
that nonsense, the question is, ‘Do
you want to help ‘em?M*
Students for Kerrey had about
150 members, chairman David
Wintroub said. He said attendance
at the rally was “stronger than we
had hoped.”
Members will pass out Kerrey
stickers at UNI- football games,
and will run a voter registration
drive in the Nebraska Union Sept.
19 to 24.
Lincoln Mayor Bill Harris intro
duced Kerrey at the rally, and said
Kerrey made tough decisions dur
ing the “critical times” when he was
governor. After the speech Harris
said Kerrey had a strong image with
students.
UNL still behind peer institutions |
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very positively to help us hold some
of the younger faculty members who
arc very mobile,” he said. “It’s a
positive tool to show prospective
people that there has been progress
here. Some states remain steady or are
declining,” he said.
But Hartung said there is concern
that the salary increase is only a short
term answer to a long-term problem.
That’s why the university must
make the second year of the three
year plan its No. 1 priority, he said. In
order to combat apathy, he said, there
must be a unified effort to contact
state senators and the governor.
“I think a consistent message to the
senators and the governor is the key to
this,” he said.
Stanley Liberty, dean of the Col
lege of Engineering and Technology,
agreed that the work is not finished,
but said he thinks the faculty is opti
mistic about the future.
“The altitude is one of hope that
the three-year plan of salary increases
is going to be carried out,” he said.
But, he added, bringing UNL in line
with salaries at peer institutions will
require an extended effort.
Liberty said the work done so far
has been a positive sign that should
help stabilize faculty movement and
strengthen the university as a whole.
“I think that it’s going to be a
stabilizing factor,” he said. “The new
faculty arc aware of the commit
ment.”
Lewis attributed part of the in
creased commitment by the stale to
the efforts of Jack Moors, who lob
bied the Legislature on behalf of the
faculty.
Lewis said he was glad to have had
a lobbyist working on the faculty’s
behalf. Lobbying will continue to be
a part of their game plan, Lewis said,
but other factors come into play.
“1 attribute this success to an idea
whose lime had come,” he said.
Lewis said the increases were a
result of a group effort between the
faculty, alumni, the Legislature and
the governor.
Minorities say input needed
ASUN from Page 1
Petersen pointed out that the hill does deal
with that issue.
The bill statesthat ASUNshould bccommil
ted “toward integration by setting a goal of
having its highest percentage of minorities
appointed to ASUN positions during the 1988
89 academic year.”
The percentage would be based on the
number of minorities on ASUN in the past five
years, he said.
Sen. Geoff McDonald, another graduate
student, said minorities could fill many of the
eight open spaces on the senate. Petersen said
he has sent letters to minority groups urging
members to apply for the senate.
Petersen said he would attend the APU
meeting on Monday. However, Petersen said,
senators must hear the opinions of all minority
groups on campus, not just one. Goods said he
could arrange to have all minority groups rep
resented at the meeting.
At the end of the meeting, Petersen urged all
senators to check with their constituents before
writing legislation.
Alter the meeting he said many problems in
the original minority legislation result from
poor research by it’s author, former ASUN Sen.
Brian Svoboda.
ASUN should thoroughly research a bill of
this magnitude, he said, and students shouldn’t
degrade ASUN for taking time to adopt legis
lation.
“I think ASUN deserves a little credit for
bringing up the issue at all,” he said.
No bill will cure all the problems, he said.
Senators, students and UNL administrators will
have to constantly work on implementing any
minority bill to make ilcffective, Petersen said.
The original bill w as sent back to committee
last week to be rewritten afterGriesen objected
to parts of it. That bill dealt with both minority
faculty recruitment and minority conditions.
That bill implied that all UNL students are
racists, Petersen said. As a result, he took that
language out of it.
The bill was rewritten and brought up again
this week, but was sent back to ASU N’s Special
Topics Committee. The committee will rewrite
it again after gelling minority input and
strengthening it.
VDT health problems minimal
By Brandon Loomis
Staff Reporter
Despile recent reports suggesting that com
puter display terminals may be hazardous to the
health of users, a University of Nebraska-Lin
coln expert said any problems associated with
computers arc minimal and only temporary.
A study reported in Time Magazine recently
pointed to possible links between the screen
glare and radiation emissions of video display
terminals and eye-damage, headaches or even
miscarriages.
But Ramaralnam Bishu, a UNL assistant
professor of industrial and management sys
tems engineering, said computers have not
introduced any problems that were not around
when typewriters were used frequently.
Bishu said any health problems present arc
not brought about by glare or radiation, but by
the stress of silting in an uncomfortable chair
and performing the same tasks for long periods
of lime.
No direct links to eye problems have been
published, he said. Any eye strain that may
occur is not due to excessive glare, he said, but
to reading for long periods of lime.
“I don’t think there is any more strain on the
eye of a computer-user than on that of a person
reading text for the same amount of lime,” he
said.
msnu also saia strain, ratner inan rauiaiiun,
is the probable cause for the apparent high
number of miscarriages among computer-us
ers. Most studies have concluded that the low
voltage radiation emitted by VDTs is harmless,
he said.
Silting puls more strain on back muscles
than standing, Bishu said. He said silting could
cause postural problems.
Bill Martin, a UNL office technology spe
cialist who oversees distribution of computer
hardware to UNL’s various departments, said
whether or not health problems can be linked to
VDTs, none of the departments have voiced
any concern to him.
Martin said no anti-glare screens have ever
been requested.
“Most of the computers we distribute come
without anti-glare screens,” he said.
Mar tin said departments have the option to
look elsewhere if they do not like what they sec
in VDTs.
Jordan Braschof the department of business
technology, takes requisitions for computer
hardware. He said no one seems to be con
cerned about the adverse effects of VDTs.
“1 don’t sec a rash of requisitions for anti
glare screens crossing my desk,” he said.
Brasch said he thinks the headaches are
more in the mind than from the screen.
“It’s the frustration of a new user more than
the glare,” he said.
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