Interns needed to help refugees
By Doug Isakson
Stall Reporter
Students committed to helping
victims of human rights violations
can act on their convictions, if they
don’t mind a little substandard living
and no pay.
Judy Hatcher, a spokeswoman of
the midwestem offices of Amnesty
International, said the organization is
seeking interns to help political refu
gees in Texas.
Many of the refugees had to leave
countries such as El Salvador and
Guatemala because they have spoken
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tive candidates.
Those TODAY candidates who did
lose in the senate race won ’ t be g i ving
up the campaign for the executive
race Wednesday, she said.
“The people with TODAY aren’t
McArthur
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regents needs, a variety in opinion,”
McArthur said.
McArthur will be running against
Earl Scudder, Dick Powell and Char
les Wilson.
Scudder, president of Scudder Law
Firm, said he can’t predict McArthur ’s
chances but welcomes him as a can
didate.
“Iam pleased he is focusing the
need for more students in the elec
toral process,” Scudder said. “If his
participation helps the need for more
student voting, I applaud him.”
out against the governments and have
been threatened with death or impris
onment.
The program, called “Asylum
Summer,” is to help refugees in the
lower Rio Grande Valley around
Brownsville, Texas.
Interns will investigate human rights
violations and do research on the legal
language of agreements between
countries.
Interns should know Spanish, al
though it is not mandatory, Hatcher
said. They also must become mem
bers of Amnesty International and be
at least 18 years old.
in it for themselves,” she said.
She added that if the TODAY
executive candidates win the runoff
election, they will work to ensure that
ASUN won’t be affected by a split
between the executive members and
the VISION senators.
Whether the two factions could
work together depends on how “per
sonal or petty people are,” she said.
Scudder, former president of the
UNL Parents’ Association, said stu
dents should support elected, not
appointed, regents.
“If we have individual boards of
trustees at each state institution, I
would have more confidence in a
member elected by the student body
than I would the caliber of a member
appointed by an elected official,”
Scuddcr said.
A resolution in the Nebraska Leg
islature proposes replacing the cur
rent regents and the state college board
of trustees with a statewide board of
regents and boards of trustees for each
of seven higher education institutions.
Trustees would be appointed and
Although interns must buy their
own food and their own transporta
tion to Texas, Hatcher said, she urged
applicants to request financial assis
tance from local Amnesty chapters.
Once interns arrive in the area,
transportation around the valley will
be provided. Accommodations, which
Hatcher described as “very simple,”
also will be provided.
“Interns may have to share space
or stay on a campground, as the refu
gees do,’ ’ Hatcher said. ‘ ‘ It would be
very much a Third World experi
ence.”
Gosch also said it is important for
the executives and the senate to work
together regardless of parly factions.
According to unofficial results,
write-in candidates picked up four
senate scats. One student running as
an independent also won a scat.
Results will become official as
soon as the AS UN office verifies that
write-ins meet the requirements to be
in the senate.
elected. Currently, all the regents are
elected.
McArthur said he doesn’t plan to
attack other candidates, but instead
plans to show vo 'rs that what he has
to offer is different from other candi
dates and regents.
“I have the insight of a different
socioeconomic outlook through being
a student,” he said.
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Dorcas Cavett
Robert L. Clark
Geraldine E. Cotter
Janet Connell Ehlers
Karen Kamprath F-ritts
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James H. Smith
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and Reception
Sunday, March IS
7:00 P.M.
St. Mark's
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Speaker:
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and
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By fall, the system will inform
users if books are checked out or
being bound. The computer never
will show the name of a person
who has checked out a book, she
said.
Anita Cook, project director of
the computer system, said that even
tually the IRIS (Innovative Research
Information System) will allow stu
dents to access information from
the libraries at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha and the Uni
versity of Nebraska Medical Cen
ter.
“Easier access is our major ob
jective,” Cook said. “People will
be able to retrieve information with
less effort.”
Once the card catalog is compu
terized, users will be able to access
information by dialing in from any
computer, Cook said. That means
students can search for informa
tion from their dorm rooms or
apartments, she said.
Initially, about 70 terminals will
be available for public use in the
main and branch libraries at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she
said. At least 16 of those will be in
the reference area at Love. Others
will be located in different areas of
the library.
When IRIS debuts in April, it
will contain information from 1976
to the present, Cook said. Older in
formation, dating from 1869, gradu
ally will be added to the system.
Cook said it will take two to
three years to put all the records in
the computer. Until that time, stu
dents should check both the com
puter and card catalogues for infor
mation, she said.
The Love Library staff has been
working on computerizing thccard
catalogue for three years, Cook
said. The library is following a
national trend of computerization.
“Everyone is going this way,”
Cook said. “Other libraries say it’s
an easy system to use.”
IRIS is financed by the stale and
the University Foundation, Cook
said. It will be free and open to the
public.
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