UNL group to stage demonstration
Early Warning goal to gain support for South African peace
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Staff Reporter
An anti-apartheid demonstration
to gain support for peace efforts in
South Africa will take place at 4:30
p.m. Friday in front of the Federal
Building at 16th and O streets.
The demonstration is sponsored by
Youth For Global Awareness and
Early Warning. The rally is being
held in response to a South African
sanctions bill that the U.S. Senate
Foreign Relations Committee ap
proved last Wednesday, said Nell
Eckersley, Early Warning’s public
relations director. Early Warning is
an activist group made up of UNL
students.
“We want our representatives in
fluenced,” Eckersley said about U.S.
senators who will vote on the bill later
this year.
Dane Kennedy, University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln associate profes
sor of history and member of the
steering committee of Nebraskans
For Peace, will speak at the rally.
Because the rally will imitate a
funeral, demonstrators arc expected
to wear black. The funeral issymbolic
because it is the only time black South
Africans legally are allowed to be
together in public.
Eckersley said she thinks this
demonstration will better inform stu
denis about the lack of civil rights in
South Africa and might help to gel
more students involved.
“We want to educate people,”
Eckcrslcy said . . we want more
involvement from the university and
students.”
Youth for Global Awareness, a
political organization, began five
years ago. It’s made up of about 50
students from several Lincoln junior
hichs and hieh schools.
Susanne Williams/Dally Nebraskan
who are now UNL students, felt that is
was necessary to continue a similar
program at the university, Eckerslcy
said. Early Warning is the result of
that, she said.
In upcoming meetings, Early
Warning will discuss the nuclear
threat, Latin American politics, envi
ronmental crises and the cessation of
imperialism and colonialism in U.S.
foreign policy.
Early Warning meets each Tucs
Former members of the group, day in the Nebraska Union.
Professors study shows senator respect
By Jeff Beals
Staff Reporter
A study on respect for U.S. sena
tors by two University of Nebraska
Lincoln political scientists has re
cently received national attention
John Hibbing, associate political
science professor, and Sue Thomas, a
senior graduate student, presented the
results of the study in a report to the
American Political Science Associa
tion in Washington, D.C , at a confer
ence Sept. 1 through 3.
The study reported the results of a
survey given to the administrative
aides of 86 senators who have served
in the 99th and 100th Congresses,
Hibbing said.
“We asked them which senators
were perceived to be respected on
Capitol Hill,” Hibbing said.
Senators were ranked from most
respected to least respected.
Half of the aides responded to the
survey, he said.
The study has been a topic of dis
cussion in Washington D.C. and
around the country, Hibbing and
Thomas said.
“Wc’vc received calls from practi
cally every senator’s office and many
newspapers,” Hibbing said.
Stories about Hibbing’s and Tho
mas’ research have appeared in the
New York Times, the Omaha World
Herald and many other newspapers.
The study also was discussed on C
Span.
“Senators have been especially
interested in the rankings,” Hibbing
said.
According to the study, Sen.
Robert Dole, R-Kan., is the most re
spected senator and Chic Hccht, R
Nev., is least respected. Hibbing said
Nebraska Sen. J.J. Exon "finished
about in the middle.” Sen. Dave Kar
nes was not included in the survey
because he was not a member of
Congress for the entire period of the
study.
Although the results of the senator
survey have received the most atten
tion, Hibbing and Thomas said they
feel other parts of the study were more
important.
“The unfortunate thing about all
this is that everyone seems interested
only in the survey which we regarded
as the least academic and most shal
low part of the study,” Hibbing said.
He said they were more interested
in finding out what kinds of activities
respected senators were involved in.
“This study was not meant to be a
value judgement about whether a
senator is good or bad,” Thomas said.
“This research was about the be
havior” of respected senators, he said.
The authors said they found that
senators who were most respected
tended to focus on specific legislative
issues.
“Senators who weren’t overly
concerned with their constituencies
and spent time on the (Capitol) Hill
were more respected than others,”
Hibbing said.
Husker Hall now UNL property
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Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln purchased Husker Hall at 23 and
U streets Thursday morning for
$240,000, according to Doug Zat
cchka, director of university housing.
Zatcchka said the purchase of
Husker Hall has been discussed by
university officials for the past year.
Zatcchka said the transaction was
negotiated between the Husker Hall
Board of Directors, the university and
the United States Department of
Education.
Zatcchka said Husker Hall will
give UNL a facility that meets the
needs of more students, particularly
for graduate and international stu
dents.
"The hall will be open year round
unlike any other residence hall,"
Zatcchka said. “It will be more con
venient for graduate students and
international students whose distance
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“Hopefully a contract such as this
will meet the needs of students such as
graduates and student teachers who
finish a semester of work and leave,”
Zatechka said. “I have had several
complaints about this over the years.”
Zatechka said the hall also is being
considered lo house guest professors
who come and lecture at the univer
sity two or more weeks at a lime.
Zatechka said there will be no food
services at Husker Hall, but a kitchen
will be provided for the residents. He
said the university plans to install
several microwaves and refrigerators
in the kitchen.
Zatechka said the university has
not decided yet on the housing cost for
future residents of Husker Hall, but
guessed that the cost of a single room
will range from $130 to $140 and a
double room between $ 110 and $ 125.
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wasn’t talking about the percentage
of Nebraskans in chsscs, but the size
of the classes as a whole compared to
the population of the state.
Kerrey stressed the importance ol
having undergraduate students at the
university to keep high school stu
dents in the slate. He said il the stu
dents attend as undergraduates, tncy
will more likely get jobs in Nebraska
upon graduation.
Karnes said that saving the
university’s professional schools is
important. The state needs those
graduates because it is dillicull to
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