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CORRECTION A story about voter registration (DN, Oct. 3) I isted incorrect dates Deadline tor mail-in legistration to vote in the general election is Oct. 8, not Oct. 9. Deadline for walk-in registration is Oct. 28, not Oct. 29. Wednesday, mostly sunny, high in the mid 50s, News Digest.2 winds SE 5-10 mph Wednesday night, not as .* 03 Id. low in the mid 30s Thursday, partly doudy, Arts?Ente'rWnment7.7. .7.9 high around 60. Classified.11 October 5,1988_ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 27 Cronauer to speak Union Board announces celebration events By David Holloway Senior Reporter □he University of Nebraska Lincoln Union Board plans to co-sponsor guest speaker Adrian Cronauer as part of the 50th anniversary of the Nebraska Union Oct. 24-27. Cronauer, who worked as a disc jockey during the Vietnam War, was the subject of the movie ‘Good Morn ing Vietnam.” Cronauer will discuss the war and other subjects in the Nebrasakn Union Oct. 26. Pat Wyatt, Union Board president said the concert is being co-sponsored with University Program Council. Wyatt outlined the union anniver sary week during Tuesday’s board meeting. Wyatt said the week will begin Oct. 24 with a birthday party in the union for some faculty and admini stration. A “Win, Lose or Draw” game will be held Oct. 25, Wyatt said. Among the prizes are two front row tickets to the Rod Stewart concert on Oct. 29. Applications for three-member teams are avaialable in 320 Nebraska Un ion, Wyatt said. Wyatt said “small concerts” will be held in ihc Nebraska Union’s Crib Oct. 27. The board also approved space in both campus unions for a permanent picture display of the annual UNL Distinguished Professors for the Teaching Council. Elizabeth Petrakis, chairman of the council, requested the space in both unions. “The outstanding teachers should be honored in a place where every body can see them,” Petrakis said. “We feel the unions are the appropri ate place for the picture display be cause the faculty members serve an important role in the lives of all UNL students.” Petrakis said the support would help encourage quality instruction at UNL by displaying the outstanding faculty of the year in the unions. The display would be updated every year, she said. Petrakis said the council will build the display case and pay for the pho tographs of the annual award recipi ents. Recipients arc chosen on a yearly basis by a board from the council, Petrakis said. The chancellor’s office will be responsible for keeping the information current. Homecoming events conflict with ESPN game schedule By David Holloway Senior Reporter The University of Ncbraska Lincoln Homecoming game against Oklahoma State Oct. 15 will not be televised on ESPN due to scheduled Celebrate Nebraska Celcbratc UNL activities that day, said Bob Bruce, director of Univer sity Information. Bruce said ESPN, which televised the Nebraska-Arizona State game two weeks ago, had proposed to cover the game if UNL delayed the kickoff. ,tESPN asked if we would be will ing to change the kickoff time from 1:30 to 6 p.m. so they could work it into their schedule,” Bruce said. “We feel that we cannot make that accom modation without severely disrupting the plans of thousands of fans and alumni throughout the state.” Bruce said hundreds of faculty and staff members and students have been planning displays and other ac tivities for Homecoming since April, making it impossible to reschedule the game. Don Bryant, assistant director of the athletic department, said the ath letic department supports Chancellor Martin Masscngale’s decision. “The chancellor made the call, and the athletic department goes along with the decision,” Bryant said. “It’s not up to me to say.” Bruce said no one else has offered to cover the game, “but it is possible that another television station could pick it up.” Nebraska received almost $120,000 for the telecast of the Ari zona State game and would have received almost $ 120,000 for the tele cast of the Oklahoma State game. Intoxicated man arrested for alleged exposure rrom sun Kepotu A man was arrested Monday night for alleged indecent exposure on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. SgL Mylo Bushing or the UNL Police Department said Michael Corona, 24, was arrested near the College of Business Administration after police received a report of a man “exposing his penis” in front of the Nebraska Union at 7:08 p.m. Bushing said the man was arrested w ithout a strugg le at 8:07 p.m. He said Corona was too intoxicated to give any explanations of his actions. Bustling said Corona gave the city mission as his address. Corona’s court hearing is today. '^7 Ehrlich: Earth s future,fragile By Jerry Gunther •Staff Rc-pone. Human existence and the current condition of the world could be in ‘‘deep, deep trouble' as a result of envi ronmental pollution, according to a professor of population studies at Stanford University. Paul Ehrlich, an imernation dly-known American biologist and spokesman on global environ ment and demographic issues, spoke to about 1.2Q0 people, at a forum in the Nebraska Union Tues day afternoon. He was the first speaker in a series of international discussions sponsored by the Coo pcr-UNL Forum on World Issues. Ehrlich said that while many people ire concerned about the world's future and whether it will end in a “bang" as some theories predict, he sees the world ss ending “Roughly, a hundred nations are now dependent to one degree or another on food imports from the center of the North American con tinent for their food security,** Ehriich said. Because of this summer’s drought, Ehrlich said, the carry over supply and average per capita production of grains (hopped tack down to the level it was in 1968. A succession of droughts in the future could cause some grave problems because “a hungry, un stable world is not going to be a safe world,** Ehrlich said. in addition, Ehrlich said, the food system right now is at best, “marginal.** Ehrlich said those who say equal food distribution would solve world hunger, are only par tially correct. He said a recent study indicates that 6 billion people could be fed if in more of a whimper.” uIf we should, as a species. corporately continue on the course that we’re on today,” Ehrlich said, “sometime withi n the next four or five decades the world will have been reduced to the kind of state one would expect after a large scale nuclear war. “We’ll just die gradually rather than in a short time,” he said. “That will be the whimper.** Ehrlich said it is not clear whether this summer's drought and fierce hurricane were a result of ihe oncoming “greenhouse ef fect” as some have predicted. However, he said, such conditions are signs cf a general global warm ing. Such a deterioration of the envi ronment is a threat to all nations, Ehrlich said, because every nation is interdependent on each other for agricultural products. See EHRLICH on 3 UNL to host mental measurement, testing symposium By William Lauer Staff Reporter o celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mental Measurements Yearbook, the annual Buros-Nebraska Symposium on Measurement and Testing will be Oct. 6-7 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The institute began publishing the yearbook in cooperation with UNL’s Department of Educational Psychology in 1979, when it moved from Highland Park, N.J. The yearbook is a compilation of reviews and evaluations of tests has been published by the Buros Institute. The yearbook is a review of tests used by various institutions throughout the United States. The theme of the symposium is “Curricu lum Based Assessment: Examinmg Old Prob lems, Examining New Solutions.” Stanley Deno from the University of Minne sota at St. Paul will speak at 7:15 p.m., Thurs day, on “Curriculum Based Measurement: The Emerging Alternative." Friday's speakers arc George Tindal, Uni versity of Oregon; Ed Lentz, University of Cincinnati; Paul LeMahieu of Pittsburgh Pub lic Schools and Ed Shapiro of Lehigh Univer sity. Luella Buros, co-founder of the institute, will also appear during the symposium at the Nebraska Union. The institute’s Mental Measurements Year book is considered by many in the education and psychology community to be “the bible of the testing industry," said BarbaraPlake, direc tor of the institute. The yearbook is designed to be a consumer report of ail tests written in the English lan guage, Plakc said. It contains more than 1,400 evaluations, including reviews of scholastic aptitude, mili tary, vocational and psychological tests. “People think testing is done with mirrors,” ^ Flake said. To review a test, the non-profit institute requests a complimentary copy from the devel oper, said Linda Murphy, chief editorial asso ciate for the institute. “Most are delighted to reply,” Murphy said. “Being listed in the yearbook is to a test developer’s best advantage. They look at it as giving them legitimacy.” The tests are sent to experts for evaluation, See BUROS on 6