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September 25,1989 __ University of Nebraska-Lincoln _ Vol. 89 No. 20
Shaun Sartin/Dally Nebraskan
We« Steffins plays during a peace demonstration at the State Capitol Saturday.
Speakers spread message
March promotes peace awareness
By Emily Rosenbaum
Suff Reporter
Heartland Peace* Trek ’89
brought together members
of the Lincoln Baha’i
Community, Amnesty Interna
tional and the United Nations As
sociation Saturday to promote a
global peace beyond the absence
of war.
The Lincoln Baha’i Commu
nity sponsored the march as part of
a six-week project designed to
raise peace awareness in the com
munity.
The trek started at Broyhill
Fountain on the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus
and ended on the north steps of the
S ite Capitol where music and
speakers spread the message of
peace.
* * We wan t peace to be on every
one’s lips,” said Dawn Vincent, a
UNL horticulture major and treas
urer of the Baha’i Association, a
UNL student organization.
Larry Schneider, a UNL gradu
ate student and member of the
Baha’i Association, said the Ba
ha’i Faith is committed to bringing
peace and showing the oneness of
God, religion and humankind.
“Peace is more than just not
having war,’’ Schneider said.
‘We want peace
to be on every
one's lips.’
—Vincent
The elimination of all forms of
prejudice, a harmony of science
and religion and a unity of all
people is needed for peace, said
Doug Boyd, a follower of the
Baha’i Faith.
“We need to keep people from
forgetting that we need peace,” he
said.
“Often we’re too concerned
about national pride instead of
preserving the world,” Boyd said.
Wendy Pearlman, a sophomore
at Lincoln Southeast High School
and the group coordinator for the
Lincoln chapter of Amnesty Inter
national, said the goals of the or
ganization are tied to the concept
of peace.
“We work on the conviction
that no one can take away human
rights,” Pearlman said.
Pearlman said Amnesty Inter
national works for the release of
those who have been imprisoned
because of their beliefs, color,
ethnic origin, sex, language or reli
gion, provided they have not used
or advocated violence.
Those who are free must help
those who aren’t, she told the
group.
Susan Nesje, Baha’i Associa
tion secretary and a UNL political
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Cost merits action
Officer hopes to reduce waste
By Kimberly Schwartze
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln en
vironmental health and safety officer is
working this year to reduce the amount
of hazardous wastes and chemicals generated
at the university.
Del Weed said he wants to bring the amount
of hazardous waste produced at UNL from the
current 3,000 pounds a month to 2,200 pounds
or less.
Economics is the main reason for the reduc
tion, Weed said.
UNL generated about 36,000 pounds of
hazardous waste last year at a disposal cost of
$350 per drum.
Wastes generated on campus arc stored at
the East Campus Waste Accumulation Build
ing, and about 40 drums arc picked up by a
waste disposal company about every 90 days.
Weed said he and an assistant will encour
age UNL departments, faculty and staff mem
bers who generate hazardous chemicals and
wastes to consider some options for dealing
with wastes.
Weed said there are several ways to handle
materials and chemicals that would not require
them to be classified as a waste. The methods
include:
•Reluming to manufacturers unused por
lions of potentially toxic pesticides and replac
ing them with biodegradable, less-toxic ones.
• Getting rid of some solvents and diluted
corrosives by pouring them down the drain, as
is legal with small quantities.
• Having UNL maintenance workers switch
from oil-base to latex paints, so potentially
toxic solvents won’t have to be used to clean
painting tools.
•Recycling materials that are capable, after
initial use, of being recycled.
• Substituting materials when possible, such
as a biodegradable product for a non-biode
gradable one.
• Distilling some substances, Such as ace
tone and ether, so they can be reused.
• Altering chemicals in a laboratory so they
are no longer hazardous.
• When possible, burning hazardous materi
als.
Weed and an assistant will train those who
work with hazardous materials on how to use
some of these methods to deal with the sub
stances they generate, he said.
Weed has requested two more staff mem- ^
beis to help with training and other duties.
UNL, now designated as a large-quantity
generalo.' of waste, would become a small
quantity generator if the amount of waste pro
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UNL Rodeo Club members to
perform at Japan World’s Fair
By Eve Nations
Stiff Reporter
Fourteen forme* and current mem
bers of the UNL Rodeo Club are
scheduled to pack up their saddles in
October and travel to Japan to participate in
the World’s Fair.
George Pfeiffer, the club’s adviser, said
the club received an invitation from the city
of Shizuoka, the sponsors of the fair, to
travel to Japan to participate.
“Shizuoka is a sister city to Omaha,*’
said Pfeiffer, associate professor of agricul
tural economics at the University of Ne
bra&ka-Lincotn.
“They had people in Omaha before and
they were interested in the rodeos,’ ’ he said.
“The fair is actually a trade fair so we
received an invitation to perform.”
Club members are scheduled to leave for
Japan Oct. 1 and return Oct. 16. The club
wiU spend most of its time perform ing at the
fair. , •
“We will be putting on two rodeo shows
for 10 days,” Pfeiffer said, “We’ll be able
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to do some sightseeing and go to some
banquets, but we will be foiriy busy with the
rodeo performances,”
Pfeiffer said it will be an “eye-opening
experience” for the members because it
will be the first time any of them have been
to the Orient.
‘ ‘This will be a chance to see new things
and make new friends.”
It also will be a new experience for most
Japanese, Pfeiffer said.
“I don’t think many people from Japan
have ever seen a rodeo before,” he said.
The fair is sponsoring the entire trip for
the rodeo club, PTeiffer said. In addition to
providing transportation for the rodeo
members, horses, bulls and broncos will
have to be shipped to Japan.
Pfeiffer said the animals will be shipped
from California and left in Japan because
shipping expenses are more than the ani
mals’ value.
After the fair, the animals will be sent to
a Japanese equestrian center and used for
riding, he said.
Change lowers response
Students react poorly
to work-study policies
By Kendra Gill
Sltff Reporter
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln will not change its
new work-study policies de
spitedisappointing student participa
tion in the program, said John Bea
con, director of the Office of Scholar
ships and Financial Aid.
Previously, Beacon said, his of
fice matched work-study students to
campus jobs. Now students who re
ceive work-study as part of their fi
nancial aid must find jobs them
selves, probably through want ads on
the part-time job board in the Ne
braska Union, he said.
Beacon said student response has
been low and unearned work-study
money fro'hi this semester will be
offered to second-semester award
recipients.
Priority students, those who ap
plied for aid prior to March 1, will
receive work-study first.
Jennifer Campbell, coordinator
for Student Part-Time Employment,
confirmed the poor response. As of
last Monday, 526 of the 1,800 stu
dents who accepted work study have
chosen a job and are on the program’s
payroll, she said.
She estimated that 200 offices still
need work-study students to fill jobs.
Tighter budgets have encouraged
more offices to seek work-study stu
dents, she said.
Campbell said one reason few
work-study recipients have taken
jobs is that the new procedures con
fuse or intimidate them.
Freshmen and other students unfa
miliar with the university system may
not know how to find jobs on campus,
she said.
Beacon said he expected that
some departments would suffer from
the new procedures. But the root of
the problem lies with department
expectations, not student confusion,
he said.
Campus departments fail to fill
jobs because they prefer to save
money by hiring work-study stu
dents, who usually cam less than
regular employees, he said. Thus,
students aren’t attracted to those jobs,
he said.
Departments pay 20 percent of a
student’s wages in the work-studv
program while the federal govern
ment pays the remaining 80 percent.
Beacon said most work-study stu
dents make S3.35 an hour.
Since a work-study student typi
cally works about 15 hours a week,
the student grosses an average of
$50.05 a week.
Fewer students interested in the
work-study program may force de
partments that offer less-popular jobs
to raise their wages to compete with
more popular departments, Beacon
said.
“While the Recreation Center has
no problem attracting interested stu
dents even for minimum-wage jobs,
Love Library struggles to fill their
positions and may have to raise
wages,” Beacon said.
Campbell agreed that regardless
of wages, offices on East Campus and
in Love Library have more difficulty
attracting students than the Univer
sity Child Care Center and the Uni
versity Health Center.
Beacon said departments must be
creative to lure students and make the
most attractive offer possible. That
includes wage raises in all depart
ments.
“For 20 years, UNL departments
have gotten by paying only minimum
wage and benefitting from program
policies that stipulate they pay only
20 percent,” Beacon said
now they must compete, with
more attractive offers made by places
like Wendy’s.”
Beacon said UNL can learn from
other colleges.
Colorado State University has a
successful work-study program, Bea
con said. Its offices raised wages to
reduce the attraction of off-campus,
non-work-study jobs. He said UNL
should use that tactic.
Not all department coordinators
agree.
Jack Dunn, coordinator of Mueller
Planetarium, said that although the
planetarium lacks manpower, it can
not afford to raise work-study wages
or hire non-work-study students
“Our budget depends on ticket
sales and can’t be stretched further,”
Dunn said. “We have to make do
“We’re so short-handed now that
sometimes it’s just me running the
administrative and technical end of
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