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By Cindy Wostre!
Staff Reporter
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Animal rights activists, a member
of the Nebraska Cattlemen’s Asso
ciation and a professor of animal sci
ence responded to questions by about
60 UNL students Wednesday eve
ning.
Alpha Zeta, an agriculture honor
ary, sponsored the panel discussion at
the East Union that focused on the
treatment of animals being raised for
consumption and the use of animals
as entertainment.
Panelist Chuck Ball, executive vice
president of the Nebraska Cattlemen’s
Association, said cattle owners don’t
abuse animals. They have about $500
to $1,000 invested in the animals, he
said.
“It is in our own best interest to
treat these animals well,” he said.
David Dier, panelist and board
member of the Greater Nebraska
Animal Welfare Society, said most of
the problems with caitle are in factory
farms located mainly in the eastern
United States.
But Dier said in some Nebraska
poultry farms, four to five chickens
are placed in one 6-inch cage.
Dier and Ball disagreed on whether
European countries were limiting their
use of low-level antibiotics in ani
mals over extended periods of time.
Dier said the European commu
nity wouldn ’t have made the changes,
“if there wasn ’t such a concern for the
public’s health” because of possible
side effects.
But, Ball said, the problem was an
economic one.
“Worldwide, the various govern
ments ... cannot support agriculture
to the degree that they have,” he said.
European governments have sub
sidized agriculture and now have
enormous reserves of beef, he said.
They limit the use of antibiotics and
hormones to limit the amount of beef
produced, he said.
Panelist Steve Hubert, a clinical
psychologist and a member of
GNAWS, said the use of animals should
be limited in animal research.
“It will be some time before we
can halt all animal use,” Hubert said.
And animal research projects should
be questioned, he said.
Only about 6 percent of informa
tion gathered from animal research is
usable, he said. The rest results in
journal citations or continuance of
grant funding.
Researchers should be restricted
to developing vaccines with comput
ers, cell cultures and clone cell lines
instead with animals, Hubert said.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if it could
be done.”
The training of doctors could be
done by having them observe surger
ies rather than by dissecting animals,
he said.
“England has totally stopped the
use of animals for training,” he said.
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lion in student aid during 1989-90.
Availability of financial aid often
takes a back seat to entrance re
quirements when national publica
tions rank schools. That is a mis
take, Liberty said.
Publications like Barron’s and
U.S. News & World Report, he
said, assume that “you somehow
create an environment more con
ducive to learning” by creating stiff
competition among prospective
students.
“Certainly there’s some truth to
that,” he said, “but as a state uni
versity, you can’t become elitist.”
Thk’s especially true in the small
University of Nebraska system, he
said. Many of the peer institutions
are in states with larger educa
tional systems, he added.
“In Nebraska, a low-population
state, sometimes you have only
one college for a particular pro
gram,” Liberty said.
Setting admissions standards too
high would deny some Nebraskans
a chance for an in-statc education,
he said.
Despite some low national rank
ings — like Barron’s rating of “non
competitive”— UNL is doing well
in attracting both faculty members
and students, Liberty said.
“UNL wins very' frequently in
the recruiting competition,” he said,
even compared to institutions in
the peer group. In fact, many of
UNL’s faculty members come from
those schools, he said.
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But, he said, this is only the second
year of the system, and it is “slowly
improving.”
UNL probably will keep some kind
of reserved parking system, but the
structure of the system might change
depending on the results of the final
consultants report, Brandle said.
Brandlc said he thinks the current
reserve system is fair because in the
past, those who did have privileged
parking, mostly faculty and state
vehicles, didn’t have to pay for it.
Now, everyone who has a reserved
spot must pay, he said.
Raising prices is one way to curb
parking demand, Kenney said, while
increasing the supply of parking spaces
also would increase the demand.
Brandlc said that no matter how
large demand gels, UNL will have
only a certain amount of parking space.
“No one is going to get everything
they want,” he said, because there is
not enough space. “We have some
land limitations, and we just have to
live with those,” he said.
Brandle said he does not favor
raising parking rates to curb demand.
He said he likes low rates for pe
rimeter parking, but the shuttle sys
tem needs to be examined. Rates for
these lots may have to be increased in
improving the shuttles, he said.
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