Nebraska may be 5th state to join education compact By Sara Bauder Schott Senior Reporter Backers of a Midwest compact for higher education are pushing to make Nebraska the fifth state to join. Proponents gathered in the State Capitol on Thursday to share infor mation with lobbyists, who they hope wiii heip steer the compact proposal through the Nebraska Legislature. Bill Sederburg, a state senator from Lansing, Mich., and chairman of the committee working on the compact, said he thinks either Nebraska or Ohio a* could be the fifth state to approve the compact. It must be approved by five states by 1995, he said. Four states — Michigan, Minne sota, Kansas and Missouri —- already have approved the compact, Seder burg said. Phillip Sirotkin, a senior adviser at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, said the com pact probably would do many of the same things compacts in other re gions of the country do now. Com pacts exist in New England, the South and the West, he said. The existing compacts work on student exchange programs among states, Sirotkin said, making it pos sible for students to attend public, private and community colleges in another state at a lower cost than they normally would pay. One of the exchange programs set up in the Western compact is for professional students, Sirotkin said. Not all stales can support medical, veterinary or law schools, he said. Under the Western compact, the stu dent’s home state supports part of the professional education, so the student only pays resident tuition rates to go to a professional school in another state, he said. The compact also would provide neutral information to legislatures and schools on key issues such as tuition, capital facilities and minority educa tion, Sirotkin said. The compact would be governed by five commissioners from each state, Sirotkin said. How the commission ers are chosen would be up to the state legislature, he said. Sirotkin emphasized that the compact would have no enforcement authority, and stales and institutions could participate in whatever pro grams they wanted to, he said. The compact would get about one third of its funding from the state dues, which would be $58,000 for each state each year, Sirotkin said. The rest of the funding would come from grants, contracts and other small income producers such as publica tions, he said. Perceptions of Carter contradicted by study By Tabitha Miner Staff Reporter Economic figures for the Carter years do not support the idea that his presidency was a lime of poor eco nomic policy, an economics profes sor said. Ann May, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Ne braska-Lincoln, said perceptions of Carter’s economic performance are low', but those perceptions arc based mostly on 1980 when he was facing an oil shortage and the Iran hostage crisis. May will deliver her paper, titled “Jimmy Carter: Keeping the Faith,” this weekend at the eighth annual Hofstra University Presidential Con ference in Hempstead, N.Y. She said that she used “broad” economic figures including gross national product and employment to create an index which ranked post war Presidents Carter, Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan on a 10-point scale, 10 being the most successful. The overall economic performance index places Carter in the middle, with Johnson, Kennedy and Eisen hower ranking higher. Carter received a 5.3. “You don’t normally think of the Carter years as a time of business expansion,” May said. “Corporate profits and capital spending were extremely strong.” Carter ranks at 6.56 for capital investment, a figure rivaled only by Johnson’s 7.65. Capital investment figures arc the amount that businesses spend on things such as equipment and property. As for his economic policies, May said, Carter engaged in a mild expan sional fiscal policy at the beginning of his term. For example, May said, he didn ’ t call for a huge tax reduction. Carter engaged in an economic contractional policy when inflation started to increase, May said. An example of this was his delay of tax cuts. These policies contradict those that many presidents use, May said. Theo ries state that presidents tend to pump up the economy before their re-elec tion and incumbents do the same for their party nominees, she said. “If you believe the theory, you would say that they arc looking out for their own self interests,” she said. “Carter in the end was a tragedy be cause he was trying more to help the general welfare.” May’s study will be part of the book she is writing, “Macroeconomic Policy and Presidential Elections in the Post-War Era.” Addictions must be cured in the home, expert says I By Adeana Leftin Staff Reporter Drug, alcohol and sex addictions can’t be cured medically, a health expert said Thursday. Instead, those problems need to be addressed at home, said Dr. Richard Keelor, chief executive officer of Health Designs International and lecturer for UNL’s Steinhart Series. “The family system is where you learn who you arc,” he said. Keelor said children are pro grammed to think that it’s “not what you arc, it’s what you do that counts.” Children are taught that if they don’t work hard, they ’ II never amount to anything. When they gettooeaughi up in hard work, he said, they become unable to express their emotions. Criticism, humiliation and unrea sonable expectations have a similar effect, he said. “You couldn’t inject them with a more harmful virus than that,” Keelor said. Children arc taught not to cry by traditional sayings such as, “big boys don’t cry,” Keelor said. “Well I’ve got newsfor you — big boys do cry,” he said. When children throw tantrums, he said, they often arc persuaded to calm down with candy. Besides leading to food addiction, that leaches children to mask their emotions. That can lead to more serious problems, such as drug, alcohol and sex addiction later on, he said. A healthy family begins by ex pressing its feelings, he said. Chil dren should be allowed their own boundaries and opinions, even if they differ from those of the parents, he said. To have intimacy in the family, Keclor said, “first you have to have intimacy with yourself. How can I share when I don’t even know what I feel?” The healing process also begins with the individual, he said. “Health is a spiritual relationship — I’m not talking religion — that acknowledges that you and me are special, precious and unique crea tions of God and gives us permission to put me first,” he said. “You’ve got to dig it out of your self and your own family system,” he said. 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