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WEATHER INDEX Monday, partly sunny and warmer, high in the Faitnnai & upper-40s, south wind 10-15 miles per hour Rrvvtc .* Monday night, partly cloudy, low in the low-20s. .'. . ,1'' ’ •.‘ l Tuesday, partly sunny and cooler. High in Jhe Arts & Entertainment.6 low-40s. Classifieds.6 February 26, 1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 89 No. 1 Q&lO. BB I_I Butch Ireland/Daily Nebraskan Bach by Mausbach ... Freshman music major Heidi Mausba ;h practices Bach’s Cantata No. 50 in the Westbrook Music Building on Sunday afternoon. Mausbach said she practices her cello four hours a day. ASUN candidate takes advantage of accident Omission allows campaigning at RHA By Pat Dinslage Staff Reporter An accidental omission of a "no campaigning” provision in Residence Hall Association bylaws allowed Phil Gosch, VISION party candidate, to campaign at the weekly RHA meeting Sunday night. When the RHA senate approved the bylaws in October 1989, mem bers didn’t notice that a provision had been omitted, said Paul Ludden, RHA vice-president. The omitted provision was similar to one included in the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska bylaws. The ASUN provision prohib its any campaigning by candidates for public office or wearing cam paign buttons in ASUN offices or at senate meetings, Ludden said. Senators asked if the other ASUN party candidates had been contacted to address the RHA. Ludden replied that it was not his responsibility to contact people to speak to the group. -4 4 Right nowf anyone can come in (to RHA) and can campaign for anything. Etven Gov. (Kay) Orrf if she was running for re election, could come in. Mohling RHA president -1 ♦ However, “all they have to do is call me,” he said. j Stacy Mohling, RHA president and VISION party- candidate, said she didn’t know Gosch was going to addres s Die group. ‘41 didn 't go to (VISION) and say ‘Hey, you can come in,’” Mohling said. “Right now, anyone can come in (to RH A) and can campaign for any thing. Even Gov. (Kay) Orr, if she was running for re-election, could come in,” she said. Mohling said she thinks the by laws should not be amended before or during the ASUN campaign and elec tions. “We made the mistake of passing this. Right now, it is totally unfair to put it back in so other parties couldn *t come in during the campaign,” Mohling said. # She said a suggestion should be made to next year’s RHA senate to put this issue first on the agenda and amend the bylaws to include the “no campaigning” provision. University officials say anti-Semitic attitudes not a problem at UNL By Emily Rosenbaum Senior Reporter College campuses across the country arc. reporting an in creasing amount of anti-Semitic incidents, but officials and a profes sor disagree on the issue of anti Semitism at the University of Ne braska-Lincoln. An article in the Feb. 7 Chronicle of Higher Education reported that the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’nth said 69 incidents of anti-Semi tism had been reported on a total of 51 campuses around the country last year. That figure is up from 1984 when only six campuses reported incidents, stated the league, which monitors bias incidents and provides information to help combat bigotry. Some of those reported incidents included catalogues advertising neo Nazi literature that were mailed to George Mason University students and swastikas and anti-Semitic slo gans that were spray-painted on a building that houses the Rutgers University chapter of a national or ganization of Jewish students, the Chronicle article reported. A story appearing in the Feb. 6 Minnesota Daily newspaper reported that vandals removed information from ajewish Studies Center bulletin board and posted a Christian flyer in its place. The director of the center was quoted as saying there had been an increase in anti-Semitic acts on the University of Minnesota campus in the past year. James Griesen, UNL vice chan cellor for student affairs, said he has not noticed any anti-Semitic incidents on campus. He said he docs not deny that there arc “white supremacists in Nebraska,” but the problem is limited to off campus. “It’s not a problem at all (at UNL),” he said. Brad Munn, affirmative action officer, said he has received no for mal complaints lately regarding anti Semitism on campus. He said part of the reason for that is because “Lincoln is a very caring community,” and that caring extends to campus. He said that since he has been at UNL he has received only three complaints of anti-Semitism on cam pus and the last one occurred about six or seven years ago. But Bruce Erlich, associate pro fessor of English and associate pro fessor of modem languages and lit eratures, said he has noticed a recent “liberal or progressive” opinion being expressed on campus regarding the Jewish religion. That opinion is a ‘ ‘refusal to think of Jews as an oppressed minority,” he said, and a regard of Jews as “part of the American power structure.” Because many people believe that Jews arc in power positions or arc wealthy, they become resentful or insist that Jews arc not oppressed, he said. Another opinion he said he has heard expressed by some feminists on campus is that Judaism is the source of patriarchy, or male domination in society. Erlich said pamphlets containing arguments which clr.im that the Holo caust never took place have appeared in Andrews Hall and other buildings on campus. The pamphlets, one of which was written by an associate professor of the University of Lyon, France, ar gued that the gas chambers never existed and Adolf Hitler never or dered the extermination of anyone because of race or religion. “I have never seen anything so blatant here,” he said. The pamphlets also have appeared in the literature distribution rack in the Nebraska Union. Daryl Swanson, Nebraska Union director, said that union policy re quires all material in the rack to be attributed to the person or group re sponsible for its distribution. The policy states that the rack is free and open to anyone, he said. The literature rack “addresses the free speech rights we have for this build ing,” he said. He said he’s received a complaint regarding the anti-Semitic nature of the pamphlets, but “for union man agement to remove it, in my opinion, See ANTI-SEMITIC on 3 Lack of agriculture majors results in unfilled positions By Mindy Mozer Staff Reporter If the University of Nebraska Lincoln College of Agriculture had three to five times the num ber of graduates it has now, it could find jobs for them with ease, the col lege’s dean said. Donald Edwards, dean of the Col lege of Agriculture, said enrollment in agriculture has decreased even though the business is booming. “It’s a supply-and-demand situ ation,” he said. “Enrollment is down and Nebraska students are in demand." Edwards said the college never has had to encourage companies to hire UNL graduates. In fact, there aren’t enough graduates at UNL to fill all the jobs recruiters want filled, he said. According to Edwards, in 1981 82, there were about i,800 under graduates in the Department of Agri culture. Today, there arc about 1,200 students. Edwards said he wants en rollment to climb to 1,500 students. Edwards attributes the drop in enrollment to a negative attitude toward agriculture in the ’80s. “People think of what we used to be and not of what we’re going to be,” he said. The media and public have em phasized the negative aspects of agri culture, he said, because of the farm crisis during the ’80s. But that out look is changing, he said. “We have regrouped and we are refocusing our views, ” Ed wards said. “The attitude is moving in the posi tive direction.” Opportunities in agriculture have increased in the past year, he said. The fields making up agriculture arc expanding. People don’t realize that agricul ture includes social science, the envi ronment and natural resources, Ed wards said. Opportunities in agricultural jour nalism, business and food processing also are growing in Nebraska, he said. “Anybody who wants a job in the agriculture or natural resources area has a selection of jobs,” Edwards said. “A lot of positions will go un See AGRICULTURE on 3 \ H Official: More computers needed Bill to request funding increase By Jennifer O’Cilka Staff Reporter The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska passed a bill last week to support * Computing Resources Censer requests for more micro computers. The bill says ASUN will peti tion University of Nebraska-Lin coln administrators to provide money for the microcomputers. ASUN Sen. Paul Poulosky of the College of Engineering and Technology said ASUN will put petitions in all public microcom puter labs on campus. Poulosky, who woks in the labs, said he sees many “disgruntled” students who leave labs rather than waiting at least an houi to use a computer. Gerald Kutish, associate direc tor of the Computing Resources Center, &id UNL has one micro computer for every 200 students, or about 110 “publicly available” computers. But Kutish said the university probably could double that number without remodeling or asking for more space. Kutish said other universities at UNL’s level have one computer for every 25 to 50 students. “At least 1 -to-30 is a pod ratio to accomplish the educational mission." he said. CRC will install about 36 more computers this summer, Kutish said, and there is room for about 40 more at existing sites. Bui CRC doesn’t have the money for that many computers now, he said. Kutish said the computer rooms arc comfortable and have high quality equipment, but more com puters are needed. “In general, the quality of computing at Nebraska is high," Kutish said. "What we lack is quantity." Pouiosky said CRC’s request to the administration includes 30 computers in 1991-92and 30 more in 1992-93. By including mainframe capa bilities and departmental comput ers, the computer to student ratio would become 47-1, he said. But Nebraska high schools, with a ratio of 29-1, still have fewer students per computer than UNL, he said. ASUN members support increas ing the number of microcomputer labs because they arc available to more students dun mainframes and departmental computers, he said. ASUN members will place pe titions in the public labs in Sandoz, Schramm and Sclleck residence halls, the Nebraska Union, Henzlik Hall, Andrews Hall and the Nolle Cochrane Woods Arts Building. Also, he said, ASUN will put “user logs” in each unstaffed lab to show which labs are used most If CRC receives more money, Poulosky said, those logs will tell officials where to put the new computers.