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News Digest.2
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Classifieds.10
October 25,1989 University of Nebraska-Lincoln . Vol. 89 No. 42
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Sol Linowitz, former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States, speaks in
the Centennial Room of the Nebraska Union Tuesday.
Former ambassador says negotiation
answer to Latin American problems
By Amie DeFrain
Staff Reporter
Military intervention, cov
ert operations, U.S. poli
cies made solely in
Washington, D.C., and monetary
support of political candidates are
not solutions that will help Latin
American countries solve their
problems, said the former U.S.
Ambassador for the negotiation of
the Panama Canal Treaties.
Sol Linowitz, who also was the
U.S. Ambassador to the Organiza
tion of American States, said in a
speech Tuesday that the solution is
mutual negotiations between the
countries seeking democratic se
curity and strength.
“Solutions cannot be manufac
tured in Washington,” Linowitz
said. “(They) must be done
through joint negotiations ... only
in this way can we attain a sense of
trust.”
Speaking to an audience of
more than 200 people, Linowitz
said there currently is a “moment
of truth” in many democratic
Latin American countries.
Major transitions will take
place as the 10 Latin American
leaders move aside allowing the
new leaders to come to power, he
said.
Linowitz said the United States
must prepare its attitudes and poli
cies for these power transitions.
The United States should be con
cerned for those countries who are
striving to stabilize a democratic
government, he said.
The U.S. government should
work closely with new Latin de
mocracies and encourage them, he
said.
Besides power struggles during
political transitions, Linowitz
said, these countries have other
severe problems that affect the
United States.
Those include drug trafficking,
destruction of rain forests, high
unemployment and inflation rates,
and high national debts, he said.
“(Those problems) are reason
enough for the United Slates to be
concerned with Latin America,”
he said.
But, Linowilz said, the No. 1
problem is the national debts of the
'Latin American countries.
“Every country (that is prepar
ing to) accept an economic policy
should have its debt level sustained
(and controlled),” he said.
Other countries, particularly
the United States, should try to
help relieve these problems, but
not with new lending, he said.
A sustained economic growth is
the answer, he said. The Bush
Administration has discovered
many of these problems early and
is trying to solve them, Linowilz
said.
Overall, Linovvitz said, the
United Slates must exercise pa
tience and understanding when
dealing with these countries.
“There arc no quick fixes to
these problems,” he said.
UNL officials in favor
of disclosing athletes’
college graduation rates
By Jerry Guenther
Senior Reporter
Some University of Ncbraska
Lincoln officials said they
favor legislation requiring
colleges and universities to disclose
student-athlete graduation rates, al
though the criteria used to calculate
those rates could affect their support
of the proposal.
Both the NCAA and Congress are
considering such legislation.
Greg McCarthy, assistant press
secretary for U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley,
said the Senate Labor and Human
Resources Committee is expected to
issue a report on the Student Right to
Know Act within the next few days.
Bradley, D-N.J., is the sponsor of
the act, which requires universities
and colleges to report the graduation
rates of student athletes by sport, sex
and race.
The Secretary of Education then
would compile the graduation rales in
a report that would be available to
high school guidance counselors and
principals, McCarthy said.
High school seniors considering
athletic scholarships then could gel a
belter idea of how much concern a
particular college has for academics,
he said.
McCarthy said the legislation also
would require students to acknowl
[ edge that they’ve had an opportunity
to review and discuss the graduation
report with a high school guidance
counselor or principal before signing
a national letter of intent.
James O’Hanlon, dean of the
Teachers College and UNL represen
tative to the NCAA, said the NCAA
will be considering similar legisla
tion in January.
O’Hanlon said the NCAA is in a
better position than the federal gov
ernment to deal with graduation rates
because the association is closer to
the situation.
Universities and colleges also
would be more sincere in their efforts
to comply with the legislation if en
forcement is handled by the institu
tions themselves, O’Hanlon said.
O’Hanlon said some criteria that
must be considered to measure
graduation rates include:
• Whether only scholarship ath
letes are included in student-athlete
graduation rates.
• How long a student must partic i
pate in a sport before being counted
toward the student-athlete graduation
rate.
• How lo count athletes who quit
school to play professionally, then
later come back to earn their degree at
another college.
Nebraska Baseball Coach John —
Sanders said he has not decided
whether he would support such a
proposal.
Sanders said baseball student ath
letes face a unique situation because
they can be drafted and signed to
professional contracts before they
graduate.
Major League Baseball teams can
either draft college players when they
arc juniors in college or after they are
21 years old, he said.
If student-athletes who sign as
professionals before graduating arc
counted in the school’s graduation
report, Sanders said, he probably
would not support the proposal.
Every year three to six NU base
ball players quit school to play pro
fessionally, he said.
“The better job we do recruiting,
the more likelihood we’ll see the
educational process broken,” he
said.
Nebraska Women’s Swimming
Coach Ray Huppert said he is in favor
of having schools disclose athletes’
graduation rates.
Huppert said he thinks UNL
would have higher rales than compa
rable schools.
Jay Dirksen, Nebraska men’s and
women’s cross coun try coach, said he
favors such legislation because he
thinks colleges should promote edu
cation.
But, Dirksen said, disclosing stu
dent-athlete graduation rates could
hamper education if universities
graduate students just so they can
cam a good report.
Dirksen, who is in his seventh year
as a Nebraska coach, said he doesn’t
think he has ever had a student who
completed the cross country program
and failed to cam a degree.
“I don’t recruit dummies,”
Dirksen said. “There’s enough quali
fied students out there that I can re
cruit students who will graduate.”
Although Dirksen said he favors
the NCAA proposal to disclose ath
letes’ graduation rates, he docs not
support other current proposals to
shorten seasons or make freshmen
ineligible to play varsity sports.
Such restrictions would penalize
students who can compete both aca
demically and scholastically, he said.
Instructional tools needed
Hill to present equipment fund bill
By Jana Pedersen
Senior Reporter _ _
A SUN could breathe new life into last
year’s campaign for instructional
equipment funding at the University of
Nebraska, if senators pass a bill tonight calling
for NU Board of Regents’ support of the issue.
Bryan Hill, president of the Association of
Students of the University of Nebraska, said he
will introduce a bill that asks the board “to
make restoration of instructional equipment
funding a high priority in its mid year budget
request to the (Nebraska) Legislature.”
If regents support the idea, Hill said, NU
could be one step closer to receiving equip
ment funding that Gov. Kay Orr vetoed last
spring. . '
When the Legislature convenes in January,
Hill said, it will consider emergency appro
priations that were not included in the two-year
budget approved last spring.
The regents will submit requests for mid
session allocations at that time, he said.
Last year, regents named instructional
equipment as a top priority for funding, he said.
But because that money was vetoed, he said,
money for such equipment must receive prior
ity attention again this year.
If the Legislature grants the university
emergency funding for instructional equip
ment, several departments could use the
money to replace and upgrade equipment, Hill
said.
Although many departments need money
for equipment, the most immediate need is in
the engineering college, he said, which could
face accreditation problems if funding for in
structional equipment isn’t approved.
Stanley Liberty, dean of engineering and
technology at UNL, said the Accrediting Board
for Engineering and Technology will review
some of UNL’s engineering programs in the
fall of 1990.
Before a review, an engineering department
is required to submit a report to the board that
includes a plan for replacement and improve
ment of instructional equipment, Liberty said.
The UNL engineering college currently is
working on its report which must be submitted
to the board by Jan. 15, he said.
Liberty said the UNL plan calls for annual
upgrading and replacement of equipment,
depending on the lifetime of each type of
equipment.
The engineering college needs about
$800,000per year, $2,000 for each graduate, to
fulfill its plan, he said.
Currently, the college receives money from
federal, state and philanthropic sources, he
said, typically amounting to about half of what
the department needs.
To fulfill accreditation requirements, the
college will submit its plan even if the full
amount of institutional equipment funding
isn’t allocated, Liberty said.
If the money isn’t appropriated, he said, the
accreditation board could threaten to deny
accreditation for the college.
In that respect, Liberty said, the accredita
tion review may be helpful in convincing
Nebraska government officials that funding for
institutional equipment is necessary.
Sunday speed trap
part of crackdown
on ‘problem areas’
By Lisa Donovan
Senior [editor
S tudents applauding police Sunday
night for citing speeders on cam* %
pus witnessed efforts to crack'
down on motorists ignoring traffic laws
in problem areas.
Capt. John Becker of the Lincoln
Police Department said LPD started
watching areas on campus because citi
zens complained and officers frequently
observed violations in these areas.
On Sunday, police set up radar along
17th Street between R and Vine streets,
citing speeders as about 100 students
cheered and applauded.
He said 17th Street, has a lot of traffic
and few drivers follow die speed limit
“If you drive on campus and you