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HMnHBSHHi r —— — — — — — “ —-i I I I I I I I I I I j 475-6363 • 50* off ; Any Pizza * Name_ ! Address_ l Limited delivery area ■ Expires June 15. 1990 _ Chinese Movie Show 1990 i f i-n Tues. Nov. 20 at City Union A 1. Dull Ice Flower 2. Let's Go Sat. Dec. 8 at City Union 1. Banana Paradise 2. Honour thy Father pq / Time: 6.30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. All films with English subtitle TO "’• * Ticket Sales $1.00 for 2 Movies a day Nov. 14-Nov. 16 Nov. 19-Nov. 20 ,_3:00-4:00 p.m. 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. rp* Selleck 5114 City Union 1st Floor rrSr Harry Huang (6-0514) Free China Association HHH Hast Park Pla/.a \l»n-Sat 10-9 -- *»n M-J,_ Official: Tax law repeal to help donations By Mark Georgeff Staff Reporter_ The reversal of a 1986 federal lax provision will help increase dona tions to the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, an official said. Daphne Deals, curator and assis tant director of Sheldon, said Con gress’ provision disallowing many tax benefits on donations of artworks diminished the level of gifts to muse ums. Congress recently overturned the law, an action that will give back lax breaks of donations \o non-profit in stitutions of artworks that increase in value over lime. Deeds said the 1686 tax law needed to be changed. “It is very gratifying to know they (Congress) realize the 1986 tax law was terrible and detrimental,” Deeds said. “The law affected the cultural wealth here and of an entire nation.” Deeds said the old law may have decreased donations of art works close to 60 percent nationally. She did not know how much it had decreased donations at Sheldon. Congress’ action only is in effect for 1991, however. Deeds said she is hoping Congress will make the law permanent. The benefits of donating artworks arc twofold, Deeds said. Donators make a contribution to America’s cultural heritage while increasing their financial stability, she said. “If a donor doesn’t benefit, he or she may find other ways to work on, say, their tax situation,” Deeds said, by giving to other causes. Search Continued from Page 1 natcd in 1982,20 had been reinstated by UNC or had retired by the end of 1983. A report by an outside hearing officer “concluded that the admini stration ... had proven the existence of a ‘program exigency' and that its decisions in the individual eases were ‘reasonable.’” I But the AAUP ruling stated that “the administration did not demon straic that the university was in a condition of financial difficulty that could not be alleviated by means less drastic than abrogating tenure.” Faculty involvement in the termi nation process was lacking, the report stated. Faculty members were allowed to give input during two public meet ings and through the Joint Retrench ment Committee, composed of four administrators and lour faculty members. Al ter these meetings, however, the president and academic vice presi dent met in executive session and the faculty was notified of the decisions that had been reached. And, the report suites, “from what the investigating committee was able to learn during its visit to the univer sity, many of the faculty were reluc tant to participate in the termination decisions.” Bergstrom also cited a 1985 ease in which a UNC journalism professor from India was terminated after he said his visa needed to be renewed. Someone in Dickcson’s administra tion allegedly told the professor that UNC was not interested in having the visa renewed. After the professor said he was staying in the United States by marry ing an American woman, he report edly was fired anyway, Bergstrom said. Dickcson said the professor was not fired, but was deported by the Immigration and Naturalization Serv ice. Achal Mehra was the professor in question, according to A AUP reports. In an A A UP supplementary report appearing in the Novcmbcr/Dcccm ber 1985 issue of Academe, the A A UP reported that it saw no reason why Mehra’s appointment was not renewed. However, the A AUP said its decision was based largely on information from Mehra. A statement from NU Board ol Regents Chairman Don Blank said the AAUP censure of UNC under President Dickcson has come to the attention of the board. The Ixrard is concerned, Blank said in the statement, and is disappointed that this was not reported to the Presi dential Search Committee or the board before. The information is relevant to the board when it is deliberating to select the NU president. Blank said . In an interv iew, Blank said he could not comment on statements by Dick cson until they become available to the board. Student Regent Phil Gosch said the censure information should have been forwarded by the search con sultants. “It’s very unfortunate the search committee was not made aware of it," Gosch said. “It narrows the list, I guess. “I don’t think our faculty would welcome an individual that displayed some of the leadership decisions that seem to be apparent at UNC,” Gosch said. Dickcson said he regrets that the UNLand UNO chapters ollhe AAUP look a stand without consulting him. [Senate urges quick police chier choice From Staff Reports _ The University of Ncbraska-Lin coln Academic Senate Tucsday urged the UNL Police Department to give priority to the selection of a new police chief. Senate President James McShanc said that the selection process, now in its second year, should be concluded as soon as possible. “It’s true that the issue of safety on campus is of primary interest to the university and our students,” he said. The UNL Police Department is seeking a replacement for Chief Gail Gade who retired in August 1989. Lt. Ken Cauble has been serving as in terim police chief. Fran/. Blaha, representing the University Campus Police Commit tee to the senate, said he did not know when the search would be concluded. He said that the department is undergoing reorganization of person nel and that finding a replacement will he difficult until the restructur ing is finished. He said that despite this difficult) the selection process should be mov ing faster. “I do sense that there is some sense ol stagnation while this is being worked out,” he said. Nesbitt Continued from Page 1 “We live in an era where racism is coming in new ways,” he said, speak ing to about 2(X) people at Nebraska Wesleyan University as part of a sym posium on race relations. “Today’s racism is more of an acknowledgement of natural differ ences that says it is natural for human beings to slick to their own kind,” he said. Nesbitt called this type of racism “institutionalized” racism. “This comes from much more struc tural rootsNesbitt said. “Racism is more than a personal attitude; it is the institutionalized form ol that attitude. “None of us arc free of racism. None of us do not come from an atmosphere of racism,” he said. Nesbitt said it was his firm belief that “racial problems in South Africa will be solved belore the racial prob lems in the United States” because of the different nature of the problems. “There has been a new growth of racism in the U.S.,” he said, calling the problem worse now than it was in the '60s. “There is an attitude today that the only real Americans arc whites and all others are only hyphenated Ameri cans," Nesbitt said. “I am afraid wc have political leaders in this country who don't stand up to this,” he said. As part of the effort to solve the problem, Nesbitt urged college stu dents not onl> to become non-racist but also to become anti-racist. “This means being willing to con front peers or parents and to take on families about their attitudes,” he said. “Too often our liberalism leaves us at the edge of campus.” Nesbitt said he thinks the task ol ridding the United Slates of racism is difficult, but jx)ssible. “All of us in the world want to sec a situation where wc can all be to gether as the one racial group that docs have validity — the human race,' he said. Consider College ♦ Independent ^ Study i i College Independent Study credit is UNL credit Credit that can keep you on your academic timetable. 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