Students air opposing war views
By Lori Stones
Staff Reporter
Driving Iraq from Kuwait is praise
worthy, a UNL sophomore National
Guard member said at an open forum
on the Persian Gulf war Wednesday,
but a junior student and peace activist
argued that the war is ludicrous.
“I firmly believe that it is a just and
admirable cause ... to restore Ku
wait,” Steve Thomiison said at the
forum in the Nebraska Union.
Junior Nell Eckersley, a member
of Early Warning!, responded that
the U.S. reasons for entering the war
were unsound.
Americans believe the United States
is involved in the Persian Gulf war,
she said, for three reasons: oil, self
determination and stopping Saddam
Hussein and the spread of nuclear
weapons.
But the oil from Kuwait isn’t
needed, she said, because other sources
of energy are available.
And Americans’ idea that the war
is to stop the spread of nuclear weap
ons stems from the Cold War mind
set, she said.
As for the concept of stopping
Saddam, Eckersley said, “Saddam
Hussein isn’t a Hitler. We need to
know his reasons and realize that”
Saddam wasn’t justified in invad
ing Kuwait, she said, but some his
tory of the area should be considered
when evaluating the situation.
In 1921, Great Britain drew a line
separating Iraq from Kuwait to make
Iraq’s access to the Persian Gulf more
difficult. This hurt Iraq economically,
Eckersley said.
During the Iran-Iraq War, Kuwait
had signal a treaty with the Organi
zation of Petroleum Exporting Coun
tries to sell only a specified amount of
oil, but violated that quota, also hurt
ing Iraq economically, Eckersley said.
Thomlison argued that no amount
of understanding of the situation would
have made the war avoidable.
“Every avenue of peace has been
tried, and we are at a dead end with
Saddam Hussein,” Thomlison said.
“Theball still remains with Saddam.”
Everybody speaks about the im
portance of sanctions, he said, but the
military action has taken care of in
one month what could have taken
months for the sanctions to accom
plish.
Protesters accomplish little, he said.
“I believe in peace and freedom
and the right to disagree. There is a
better means and time to protest. This
drags down the morale when the troops
need our support,” Thomlison said.
The servicemen and women in the
gulf are brave and “the majority of
them are proud when called on,” he
said.
Thomlison encouraged protesters
to use their energies for developing
solutions, not dragging down the
American effort.
Bills would hurt students
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska Legislature is pun
ishing students for poor governance
by University of Nebraska adminis
trators, an AS UN senator said.
College of Arts and Sciences Sen.
Chris Potter said the firing of Ronald
Roskens as NU president in 1989 and
the controversy surrounding Martin
Massengale’sappointmenttothepost
last fJ' were fiascocs that led state
senators to consider legislation that
would harm students.
The Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska passed a bill
Wednesday that urges the Legisla
ture to separate students from admin
istrative actions.
General Studies Sen. Andrew Si
gerson agreed with Potter.
“Students are going to hurt the
most from what the Legislature does
and the budget that Gov. Ben Nelson
proposes,” he said.
The LegisL.ure is considering bills
that would eliminate central admini
stration, provide for gubernatorial
appointment of the NU Board of
Regents and empower the Nebraska
Coordinating Commission for
Postsccondary Education. The Legis
lature also will decide the NU budget,
which, as proposed by Nelson, would
freeze the Nebraska Research Initia
tive at S12 million and increase fac
ulty salaries by about only 4 percent
per year.
All the legislation was designed to
get back at the regents, Potter said,
but students will be the ones hurt.
“There is a legitimate dissatisfac
tion among the citizens of Nebraska,”
he said, but it is important for the
Legislature to separate the students
from their governors.
In other action, the senate passed a
bill that will change references to he
or him in the ASUN constitution to
he/she and him/her.
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books help (JlA to blurt
By wenay Mott
Staff Reporter
The Central Intelligence Agency
may be bluffing its way through some
subjects.
According to a CIA mail room
library order form, last-minute pro
crastinators and comer-cutting Eng
lish students aren’t the only people
patronizing the Lincoln-based com
pany Cliff’s Notes.
The form shows that the CIA or
dered three books — “Bluff Your
Way in the Occult,” “Bluff Your Way
in Computers" and “Bluff Your Way
in Public Speaking” — from Centen
nial Press, a division of Cliff’s Notes.
CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield
said he did not know why the books
were ordered.
“We certainly read a lot of stuff,”
Mansfield said. “It’s hard to say who
ordered them or for what reason.”
Barbara Buzzell, spokeswoman for
Bluffer’s Guides, said the company
found the CIA order amusing. The
books arc written to “poke a little fun
at a subject’s devotees.”
Although they are written satiri
cally and “tongue-in-cheek,” Buzzell
said, the bluff books provide humor
ous and truthful information on their
subjects. The books average 80 pages,
and the series includes 25 titles.
Mansfield, though unsure about
who ordered the books or why, said,
“I’m sure whoever ordered it had a
good reason."
Official says crime bill I
won’t affect UNL police 1
By Carissa Moffat
Staff Reporter
A new provision in Congress’
campus-crime bill would strengthen
campus security and expand rape
programs, but UNL’s police chief
said the legislation would have little
effect on sexual assault policies at
the university.
Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of
the Senate Judiciary Committee, is
reintroducing the Violence Against
Women bill. A section of the bill
would close a loophole in the exist
ing campus crime reporting law by
requiring campuses to report not
only rape but also any form of
sexual assault.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Police Department Chief Ken
Cauble said the department already
reports incidents of rape and as
sault. The reports are filed in the
Uniform Crime Report and sent to
the FBI, he said.
Only about 10 percent of U.S.
colleges file the report, and UNL
has done so for at least nine years,
Cauble said.
The bill also would require col
leges receiving grants to list sexual
assault as a violation of the student
disciplinary codes. Colleges still
would be required to disclose to
rape victims the outcome of disci
plinary proceedings against their
attackers.
Another provision would grant
$20million for collcgerape educa
tion programs.
Kathryn Hindmand, one of the
founders of the Violence Against
Women Awareness Project at UNL,
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ken and isn't re
ported is unable to be
enforced.
Cauble
UNL Police Department chief
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said the funding tor rape preven
tion and education programs is a
good idea.
“Despite what people think, rape
does exist at UNL,” she said.
Hindmand said many cases of
rape are occurring despite the re
ports. Rapes aren’t reported either
because women are too embarrassed
or humiliated to say something or
because they are being discour
aged from doing so, she said.
“A lot of women that are raped
do not consider it rape,” she said,
“like in cases of date rape.”
Cauble said the majority ot sexual
assaults are date rape, and those
cases are hard to prevent except
through education.
“Any law that is broken and
isn’t reported is unable to be en
forced,” Cauble said. “The statis
tics can only go by what is re
ported.”
The bill also would authorize
$300 million for law enforcement
efforts to combat sex crimes.
Cauble said UNL police offi
cers go through a 14-week certifi
cation program and are trained
continually, part of which updates
their skills on combatting sexual
assault.
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•Would require colleges receiving grants to
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•Would grant $20 million for college rape
education programs.
•Would authorize $300 million for law
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Hiss to speak
Tony Hiss, a reporter for The
New Yorker magazine, will de
liver the first spring Hyde Lec
ture today at 4 p.m.
Hiss’ lecture, titled “The Ex
perience of Place,” is derived
from years of research and writ
ing that produced a book by the
same name.
The book explores the social
and psychological effects that
urban and rural environments
have on people.
Hiss will speak in the audito
rium of UNL’s Sheldon Memo
rial Art Gallery.