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April 27, 1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 89 No. 143
Speaker: Gorbachev not keeping all promises
By Sara Bauder
Staff Reporter
Many things in the Soviet Union
have changed under Mikhail
Gorbachev, but the Soviet
president has not kept all his promises
for change, said Hedrick Smith, Pul
itzer Prize-winning journalist.
Smith, speaking to a nearly full
house in the Lied Cetner for Perform
ing Arts on Thursday, said Gorbachev’s
changes have not included freedom
of the press, although it has been
promised for three years, Smith said.
He also said there has not been a
loosening up of the market economy.
Factories still have to produce what
The slate wants, or they won’t get
supplies, Smith said. Wages and
housing still are determined by the
government.
People outside the Soviet Union
have a tendency to focus on Gor
bachev instead of the changes, Smith
said.
“By focusing on Gorbachev, we
miss the incredible sweep of history
occurring in the Soviet Union now,”
he said. “It’s a process so sweeping,
so profound, that it won’t take less
than a generation.”
He said Gorbachev can accom
plish many things because there was
social preparation for his changes.
That preparation began with Ni
kita Kruschcv’s period of reforms in
the ’50sand ’60s, Smith said. He said
the perestroika movement began with
a speech Kruschev made denouncing
the harsh policies of Joseph Stalin.
The speech was read to everyone in
the Communist Party in 1956, includ
ing Gorbachev.
Smith said the speech was “like
an earthquake” and shattered the
Soviets’ belief in Stalin. The speech
began a “ferment” of social unrest in
the Soviet Union, he said.
For a while last year, Smith said it
seemed change was happening eve
rywhere but the Soviet Union. The
Berlin Wall came down and govern
ment changes occurred in Commu
nist-ruled Czechoslovakia and Hun
gary.
This winter, the Soviet Commu
nist Party gave up its monopoly on
power, Smith said. In March 1990,
non-communists won elections in
Moscow and other cities and began
setting up their own governments, he
said.
One great change in the Soviet
Union is its citizens have become less
fearful of the government, Smith said.
He said when he first went there, he
tried to report about Kruschev’s death.
When he tried to talk to people on the
street, they ran away after hearing
Kruschev’s name.
But when Smith arrived in the
Soviet Union in 1988, people gath
ered in front of his camera. There
were police in the street, but the people
spoke out and told him they were
worried about the economy and the
lack of decent health care, Smith said.
“No one was arrested, and it was
astonishing to hear what people were
willing to say and see what they would
do openly in a group of people,”
Smith said.
Since Gorbachev took power, the
Soviet Union has canceled a high
school history exam because the old
textbook was full of lies, Smith said.
He said more than 2,000 churches
have been opened, and an ecology
movement has stopped the construc
tion of four nuclear power plants.
Smith’s speech was sponsored by
the Coopcr-UNL Forum on World
Issues.
Businessmen:
Alcohol-label
bill pointless
By Matt Herek
Staff Reporter
Cocal businessmen said they think pro
posed federal legislation to place warn
ings in alcohol advertisements will have
no effect on the industry.
The legislation would require prominent
health and safety warnings in all advertise
ments for alcoholic beverages.
Warnings have been on alcohol containers
for a long time, and there have been no changes
said Reynold McMeen, owner of Duffy’s Tavern,
1412 0 St.
Those who drink arc aware of the responsi
bilities and risks involved with alcoholic bev
erages, he said. It is common, public knowl
edge, he said.
Ben Sand, owner of The Watering Hole,
1321 O St., said he didn’t think the legislation
would have much effect on his business.
‘‘I don’t read the labels when I drink,” he
said.
Rich Claussen, account executive at the
Lincoln advertising firm Bailey Lewis & Asso
ciates Inc., said he doesn’t believe in warnings
on advertisements.
An issue that has to be dealt with, he said, is
on whom responsible drinking falls - the
manufacturer or the consumer.
Alcohol ads are targeted to adults who can
make responsible decisions, Claussen said.
Beer manufacturer Anheuser-Busch has
advertised the dangers of abusing alcohol, he
said, especially when driving.
Brewing companies arc trying to do as much
as they can to advertise responsible drinking,
he said.
Companies should promote drinking in
moderation, he said, but warnings would be
stupid from the advertiser’s perspective.
The ads would be trying to sell a product and
then say mg not to buy it because of the dangers
it could cause. That would be counterproduc
tive for advertisers, Claussen said.
He said the advertising and alcohol indus
tries will fight the bill, and he doesn’t think it
will pass.
“It will be a big mess,” he said.
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Wired up for Comstock
Freshman Tom Brinkman wires up a fence Thursday afternoon on East Campus in preparation for Comstock XX.
Committee omits ‘fighting words’ clause
By Pat Dinslage
Staff Reporter
n‘‘fighting words” clause will not be in
cluded among the recommended revi
sions to the University of Nebraska
Lincoln Student Code of Conduct, the Student
Code Review Committee decided Thursday.
Several committee members said the com
mittee has spent a lot of lime discussing the
fighting words provision, but said they thought
the addition of the provision to the Student
Code needed further study.
Phil Gosch, Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska president, said there
was not enough time left in the semester to
exam ine and address concerns of the provision.
Gosch said Dick Wood, UNL vice president
and general counsel, currently is rewriting the
proposed fighting words provision to include
some legal concerns that have been made.
Committee members, however, said that
even if the changes developed by Wood an
swered some constitutional infringcmcntqucs
tions, they didn’t have time to decide whether
to include the provision.
Gosch said the Committee’s recommended
revisions will make the Student Code clearer to
the students. The revisions will clarify, for
example, restraints on the students and the
process students must go through when brought
before the student judicial system.
Committee members and ASUN senators
Chrisli Ebcltoft, Megan Kim Joann Mountford
and Chris Potter will sponsor an ASUN bill
containing the Review Committee’s recom
mendations at the ASUN Executive Commit
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Court hears testimony over
student’s bid for ASUN seat
By Robin Trimarc hi
Staff Reporter
he Student Court of the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln
Iteard testimony Thursday
on allowing a part-time student to
keep her position as a senator for
the Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska.
Sarah Haughron was elected in
March to serve as student senator
for the Division of Continuing
Studies for the 1990-91 school year.
She currently is taking six credit
hours.
According to the ASUN
Constitution, students must be
registered for at bast 12 credit hours
to serve as ASUN senators and
must be “regularly enrolled’’
members of the colleges they rep
resent
Of the 795 students in the DCS
program - which recently gained a
senate seat for the first time - only
seven students are registered full
time. But DCS students will have
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New plan created to improve teaching
By Jannette Bush
Staff Reporter
Two University of Ncbraska
Lincoln colleges have imple
mented new evaluation tech
niques to improve teaching.
Levcme Barrett, associate profes
sor of agriculture education, said
faculty members from the College of
Arts & Sciences and the College of
Agriculture submitted ?. proposal for
a grant three years ago after they
decided more than jusf student evalu
ations were needed to improve teach
ing.
After receiving the $ 150,000 grant
from the U.S. Department of Educa
lion, faculty members from the de
partments of English, psychology,
agronomy and agriculture decided to
draft different evaluation plans to fit
the needs of their departments.
Barrett said that because most
people view UNL as a research insti
tution, teaching is not emphasized
enough. By focusing on teaching,
“hopefully that will change,” he said.
Barrett said criteria to evaluate
teachers vary from college to college.
Under the new plan, the English
department is evaluating teaching
competence by examining the teacher’s
personal course plan, the course out
line and student evaluations.
Frederick Link, professor and
chairman of the English department,
said the evaluations will help teach
ers become better instructors. He said
people assume that scholars are great
teachers, but “that’s not true, ’ he
said.
“Teachers aren’t trained to teach,”
he said.
The psychology department is using
formal evaluations, observers, teach
ing circles and student evaluations to
look at leaching. Observers from the
teacher’s area of expertise not only
will examine class material, but stu
dent picscntalions and tests as well.
Daniel Bernstein, associate pro
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