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Dan Ladely, Sheldon Film Theater curator, relaxes in the theater at 12th and R streets.
Sheldon makes room for improvement
By Carissa Moffat
Staff Reporter
An addition to the Sheldon
Film Theater will allow an
increase in the types and
times of film showings, make film
information more readily available
to students and increase classroom
space for UNL, the theater’s film
curator said.
Dan Ladely said the new build
ing will be named the Mary Ricmpa
Ross Film Theaters in honor of the
benefactor, who set up an irrevo
cable trust of $3.5 million.
The facility probably will house
two theaters, Ladely said.
He said the larger theater will
seat about 400 people and run al
ternative films.
“They will be films not ordinar
ily shown,” Ladely said. He said
most of the films are esoteric, avant
garde or experimental in nature.
The second theater will be
smaller with about 100 seats. Ladely
said the small theater will be used
for University of Nebraska-Lincoln
film studies classes and for the
University Program Council’s inter
national and American movie show
ings.
He said UPC films currently are
shown in the Nebraska Union and
offered only a few times every two
weeks.
“We hope to offer them a more
permanent space and more days,”
he said.
Ladely said the theaters are
needed to better serve Sheldon
patrons.
“We just don’t have the access
to Sheldon we would like,” he said.
“We want to enhance and enlarge
our program to cover a broader
public.”
The theaters also will double as
classrooms for large lecture classes,
and the building will provide ex
panded office and research library
space.
Currently, all film research in
formation is kept in the basement
of Sheldon and isn’t accessible
without an appointment, Ladely
said. The expansion will allow
students to use the information more
easily.
“This building is very benefi
cial for the educational process here
at UNL,” Ladely said. “There will
be wider programming to appeal to
more students. It will also allow
film students to do their own pro
grams.”
Ladely said it is not certain when
the trust will be available and con
struction can begin. The theaters
will be built north of Sheldon where
there currently is a parking lot.
Students out in cold
as Schramm fire bums
By Cindy Wostrei
Senior Editor
fire raged in freshman Jen
nifer King’s Schramm Resi
dence Hall room Sunday
night while she worked at the Smith
Residence Hall desk.
Sgt. Bill Manning of the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln Police
Department estimated that the fire
caused $15,000-520,000 in damage
to the carpet, room fixtures and walls.
University insurance does not cover
any of King’s belongings, Manning
said.
Steve Schneider, deputy state fire
marshal, said there were no injuries
and that the cause of the fire was
unknown. Bill Vobejda, senior stu
dent assistant, said the fire may have
originated in stereo equipment.
The fire was limited to Room 507,
but smoke damaged other rooms,
Schneider said, especially rooms in
which doors had been left open.
The fire was under control in about
10 minutes, he said.
The room’s window cracked from
heat, he said, because the source of
the fire was near the window.
Kristine Kell, fifth floor student
assistant, found the fire at about 10:15
p.m. and reported it to Vobejda.
Vobejda tried to extinguish the fire,
but pulled the alarm when the fire got
out of hand.
“I started extinguishing it and it
went poof all over,” he said.
Schramm’s 500 residents were
evacuated from the hall, Vobejda said,
and told they could return in about an
hour when smoke was cleared from
the building.
Despite reports saying that the
residents would have to be housed
elsewhere for the night, he said, all
residents would be allowed to return
to their rooms that night except King.
Instructors say peace
protests also patriotic
By Tabitha Miner
Senior Reporter
Critics of war protesters should
realize that patriotism is not
limited to soldiers, some Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln instruc
tors said.
Stacy James, an advertising in
structor who was active in protests
against the Vietnam War, said jour
nalist Walter Cronkite summed up
her feelings when he said:
“It’s really important that we as
Americans remember that nobody has
a cornerstone on patriotism.”
Robert Benford, an assistant soci
ology professor who has studied peace
movements, agreed.
“One thing you frequently hear
about protesters is that they lack
courage compared to the people figh t
ing over there,” he said.
Benford said demonstrators are
acting very courageously because it
takes “as much courage to stand up
for your beliefs as it does to get on the
bandwagon for war.”
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Allied POWs shown on Iraqi TV
IN SAUDI ARABIA (AP) - In a
replay from another time, an
other war, grim-faced men de
scribed as downed American and al
lied pilots were put on display Sun
day, while hundreds of their com
rades pressed on with round-the-clock
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*>n Dhahran, a key allied military site,
lind Riyadh, the capital.
The incoming missiles were be
slicved intercepted by U.S. Patriot anti
missile batteries. But the explosions
' high over the desert kingdom were a
Nbooming reminder that Saddam
Hussein’s dug-in military, though
down, is far from out.
The air war stepped up Sunday,
'with the biggest mission yet from
Operation Desert Storm’s new north
ern base in Turkey.
The allied pounding of Baghdad
was unrelenting. Bombs fell ail through
the early morning darkness Sunday,
Cable News Network correspondent
Peter Arnett reported from the Iraqi
capital.
Arnett reported seeing one U.S.
cruise missile shot down near his
Baghdad hotel, and another roar by
about 100 yards from his 10th-floor
window.
Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s defiant
president, went on radio to rally the
beleaguered Iraqi people, telling them:
“The tyrant’s missiles and aircraft are
being destroyed.”
Allied air losses mounted. A total
of 15 warplanes have been reported
lost, including nine American air
craft, in the 4-day-old military cam
paign to drive Iraq out of occupied
Kuwait.
The television show in Baghdad
recalled similar public displays of
American prisoners of war by Hanoi
during the Vietnam War.
First, on Saturday night, Iraqi TV
showed two blindfolded men, identi
fied as American prisoners of war,
being paraded through Baghdad streets,
the news agency in neighboring Iran
said. On Sunday, the TV broadcast
interviews with men said to be downed
pilots.
CNN, which monitored the broad
cast, said the POWs identified them
selves as three Americans, two Brit
ons, one Italian and one Kuwaiti. They
were subdued, one had a bandaged
hand, and two had bruised faces, the
report said.
The three Americans identified
themselves as Marine Lt. Col. Cliff
Acree, Navy Lt. Jeffrey Norton Zaun,
and Marine Chief Warrant Officer
Guy Hunter Jr. — three previously
listed as missing by the U.S. military.
In English, the men were asked
questions by an interviewer and an
swered, mostly in a stilled style sug
gesting they were reading from state
ments prepared for them.
Zaun sent greetings to his parents
and sister at home, called on them to
pray for peace, and said slowly, “I
think our leaders and our people have
wrongly attacked the peaceful people
of Iraq.”
The Geneva Convention on treat
ment of POWs, to which Iraq was a
signatory, says prisoners “must at all
times be protcctal particularly against
acts of violence or intimidation and
against insults and public curiosity.”
War Casualties
As of Sunday, Jan. 20
One dead. Twelve crewmen
missing.
Five deaths while using gas
masks. Twenty-nine injured in
Iraqi bombing. ^
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Seventy deaths. Sixty-six
wounded in U.S. bombing.<£
^Kerrey: Persian Gulf
won’t be a repeat
of the Vietnam War
By Tabitha Hiner
'Senior Reporter
T S. Sen. Bob Kerrey is determined that
I the Persian Gulf war will not become
• another Vietnam.
' At a press conference in the Nebraska Union
On Saturday, the Nebraska Democrat said
Memories of Vietnam have driven the Joint
Chiefs of Staff to create a more solid battle
-plan.
Kerrey, a Vietnam veteran, said one mcm
pfery he doesn’t want to relive is Lhat of quitting.
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Sports 9
A&E 13
Classifieds 15
CORRECTION
In a story published Friday about par
ents' reactions to war protests, Jason
Fredenburg was misidentified as Gary.
The Daily Nebraskan regrets the error.
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A/L/ official in race
ISU searches for president
by wenay Navratu
Staff Reporter
University of Nebraska Executive Vice
President Lee Jones has been named a
finalist for Iowa State University presi
dent.
Jones said Sunday his
nomination wasn’t a total
surprise because he has
been nominated for other,
similar positions in the
past.
According to The
Omaha World-Herald,
David Holger, ISU search --*
committee chairman, said the final seven can
didates for the position will be traveling to the
Ames, Iowa, campus within the next few weeks
for public meetings with various groups.
The NU Board of Regents did not hold
public meetings between campus groups and
candidates during last year’s NU presidential
search.
“All universities do (searches) differently,
based on local issues, customs,’’ Jones said,
adding that compar isons between universities’
presidential search procedures may not be valid.
Jones said he would have further discus
sions with ISU’s presidential search commit
tee, but no date has been scheduled for him to
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