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
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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.
Individuals, by healing themselves
first, can prevent family problems
from perpetuating into the next gen
eration, Keelor said.
“We can only take care of our
selves because you’re the only one
you have control over.”
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