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.
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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.
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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,
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