Reservists called up,
set to ‘play’ in Kansas
By Alan Phelps
Staff Reporter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
students in the 1012th General
Supply Unit of the Army Reserves
are poised to move out to Fort
Riley, Kan., Sunday. Their unit
was called to duty Tuesday.
“I’m ready to go. I really am,”
said Brian Terry, a junior business
major and reservist. “We’ve been
practicing and practicing like a
football team and now we get to
play.”
Terry is one of 15 to 20 UNL
students assigned to the 1012th.
Reservists in the Fremont-based
unit were ordered to report at 7:30
a.m. Thursday. After loading their
equipment on trucks, the troops
will leave for Fort Riley for re
training and further orders, which
could include a trip to Saudi Ara
bia.
“We’ll be active for a minimum
of 90 days. Nobody can really say
what the maximum lime might be.
We’ 11 get our orders at Riley,” said
Gary Tichota, a sophomore crimi
nal justice major.
“1 have mixed feelings,” Tichota
said. “If I had a choice I’d rather
stay. It’s a big change in life.”
“I’m proud. I want to do some
thing,” Terry said. “Everybody knew
when they signed their contracts
that there was the possibility of
war. The unit’s taking it pretty
well.
“Putting off school a year is a
drawback, but the school and
employers have been really gener
ous,” he said.
Terry and Tichota said UNL
students called to active duty would
receive a full tuition refund and a
partial housing refund. They didn’t
know if they would receive credit
for classes from which they had to
withdraw. However, neither of them
expressed regrets for becoming
involved in the Reserves.
“I don’t think I’d be in school at
all without the Reserves,” Terry
said.
Tower
Continued from Page 1
Jim Putnam, Daub’s campaign
manager, said Thursday night that
Daub was bothered that Tower’s
comments had distracted media at
tention from the issues of the race.
Daub brought Tower to Nebraska to
“shatter the myth about Exon’s image
as Mr. Defense,” Putnam said.
While Tower was in office he was
chairman of the Armed Services
Committee, of which Exon was a
member.
“Tower basically said that Exon
was not taken seriously on that com
mittee,” Putnam said.
Putnam said he did not know
whether Daub ever had heard rumors
that Exon had a drinking problem, but
said that he wouldn’t have paid any
attention to them if he did.
“Hal does not use personal attacks
in his campaigns. He never has,”
Putnam said.
Putnam said that rumors are part
of every political campaign and that
“you have to accept them and live
with them.”
But Putnam said rumors and innu
endo surrounding Tower’s nomina
lion were “a political conspiracy to
deny a guy secretary of defense.”
Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., said in a
press release that Tower’s “behavior
was larval.”
“Coming into Nebraska to cam
paign for a man who the Republican
Party describes as a ‘pit bull,’ he
doesn’t even rise to the status of this
vicious mammal.
“His worm-like lies about one of
our best citizens should leave little
doubt why the Senate — reluctantly
and with far more respect than was
warranted — did not trust him with
America’s defenses.”
During a speech to a crowd of
about 100 Thursday at UNL’s Col
lege of Law, Tower kept his com
ments to the Persian Gulf crisis.
Referring to President Bush’s
military buildup in the gulf, Tower
said, “He has acted decisively in a
time of crisis and has the support of
virtually the entire world.”
In light of Bush’s worldwide sup
port, Tower said, it is important for
Americans to support the president
and show patience during the Iraq
Kuwait crisis.
“Otherwise, we undermine his lead
ership position,” he said.
A U.S. military presence in the
Persian Gulf helps “deter a military
venture by Saddam (Hussein), while
at the same time allows time for the
sanctions to work,” he said.
Tower said he sees three options
for Saddam right now. Either the Iraqi
leader will pull out of Kuwait and
reduce the size of the Iraqi military,
fail to admit his error and “go out in a
blaze of glory ... taking Israel with
him,” or be brought down by a coup
within his own country, he said.
Either way, Tower encouraged
Americans to be patient in waiting for
results. Especially because “in condi
tions of foreign policy you’re up against
powers that will wait you out,” he
said.
The United States most likely will
have to maintain some kind of small
military presence in the Middle East
if and when Iraq pulls out of Kuwait,
he said. Tower acknowledged that
keeping forces in the Middle East,
now and in the future, is expensive,
but warned against totaling the bill in
terms of military spending.
“Don’t think in terms of military
cost; think in terms of economic costs
to our country,” he said. Losing Kuwait
to “hostile hands” could be economi
cally expensive to the United States,
he said.
Academic
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would do them the most good, Bea
con said.
James Griesen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said he feared the
proposal might be a first step toward
limiting the amount of aid a school
awarded.
ment program, meaning a school can
award as many Pell Grants or guaran
teed student loans as it has needy
students to give them to, Gricsen said.
If financial aid were dependent on
academic records, he said, the gov
ernment could use prior achievement
as a way to cap financial aid by shut
ting off students who are at the bot
tom of the academic ladder.
The proposal could deny some
students the opportunity for a college
education, Griescn said.
“Sooftcn you sec a situation where
a student does outperform the expec
tations based on prior record,” he
said. “A good case can be made that
students with a poor academic record
can turn around — if we can give
them the kind of assistance and sup
port they need.”
Beacon said students already are
required to make progress toward a
degree in order to receive financial
aid. Students are given six years to
complete an undergraduate degree and
cannot receive aid if they have a his
tory of withdrawing from or failing
classes, he said.
Beacon said UNL’s academic stan
dards remove from the university
students who are doing badly in classes.
Griescn said that another part of
Cavazos’ proposal could mean a
general lowering of academic stan
dards.
The proposal would link financial
aid with the retention rate of each
institution. The retention rate is the
number of freshman who stay at a
college to become sophomores, Gric
sen said.
it me total amount ot nnanciai am
a university could award depended
on its retention rate, institutions might
be encouraged to lower their stan
dards so more students could stay in
school, Griesen said.
The fact that different schools serve
different purposes and different popu
lations makes retention rate an arbi
trary comparison, Griesen said. State
schools have less selective admission
standards so that more stale residents
have the chance for a college educa
tion, he said.
Conversely, many prestigious pri
vate schools have highly selective
admission standards, and therefore a
higher rate of retention, Griesen said.
Retention rate also would work
against schools that try to serve mi
nority students, Griesen said. Tradi
tionally, those schools have lower
retention rates, but Griesen said they
should not be punished financially
for that.
Cavazos said the department would
not separate financial aid programs
for vocational and four-year colleges.
Beacon said many four-year insti
tutions want a distinction because
vocational schools typically have a
much higher default rate on student
loans.
To lower the default rate, the de
partment has attached strict regula
tions, such as entrance counseling for
borrowers, to federal loan programs.
Beacon said UNL docs not need the
extra regulations.
“We take care of our own busi
ness,” he said. “If you’re having prob
lems with one section of higher edu
cation, why regulate the others?”
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