Repercussions may change president’s view
Professors predict disorder after gulf war.
By Kara Morrison
Staff Reporter
After the war in the Persian Gulf
ends, there may be “more mess, not
world order,” a UNL history profes
sor predicted Monday.
Lloyd Ambrosius, acting chair of
the history department, said during a
forum in Burnett Hall on the post
Desert Storm Arab world that reper
cussions of the war may change Presi
dent Bush’s expectation of a New
World Order.
“Bush has, at best, a murky vision
of what New World Order might be,”
he said.
Ambrosius said he had “profound
doubts” that a New World Order could
occur, especially because America’s
view of the war, which seems to be
one of a “total war against Iraq,”
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differs from the coalition’s view, which
is to remove Iraq from Kuwait.
Jessica Coope, assistant history
professor, said anti-West feelings in
the Arab world may “take a difficult
situation and create an even bigger
mess.”
Coope said the war is heightening
anti-West feelings.
The Islamic world sees the United
States as constantly interfering with
Arab countries, especially in the case
of the creation of Israel, she said.
Because he is at war with the West,
anti-West feelings may let Iraqi Presi
dent Saddam Hussein gain support as
a leader of Islam, Coope said.
The differences in rhetoric and its
effects also are a concern of the war,
she said.
“President Bush’s use of rhetoric
like ‘kicking ass’ has more of an
effect on the Islamic world than Bush
understands,” Coope said.
But history Professor Peter Mas
lowski agreed with one of Bush’s
statements — that the war “will not
be another Vietnam.”
This war is different, he said, be
cause the United States has improved
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Anthropology Professor Robert ,
Hitchcock said the economic, envi- t
ronmental, political and social costs j
of the war must be considered. I
“We should recalculate these costs ** 1
and see what it is actually doing to i
this country,” he said. |
Hitchcock, who was bom in Saudi £
Arabia, said the war would have |
worldwide effects, including rising 2
commodities prices, and will hurt the
poor. Also, he said, technical assis
lance programs in the area will no “\
longer have funding available, so they ^
will be halted. '
Maslowski said that perhaps the j
forum would be repeated. *
“One thing we need to Keep in
mind is that the war isn’t over yet. We .
may be here again next year,” he said. J
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Library closed by bomb threat
from staff Reports
A bomb threat prompted the clo
sure of Love Library between 2:30
and 3:30 Monday afternoon.
A note was found in the library late
Sunday stating that an explosive device
in the basement was set to go off at 3
p.m. Monday, according to Ken
.Cauble, chief of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department.
A library employee found the note
in Love South behind a sign, Cauble
said.
Dean of Libraries Kent Hendrickson
said that although he had not seen the
note, he thought it indicated the bomb
was to have been located in the ceil
ing of the basement. The area speci
fied in the note was searched, but no
bomb was found.
Library officials and the UNL police
decided to close the library between
2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. to take extra
precautions.
Hendrickson said, “We did what
was needed to protect users of the
library.”
Cauble said no one had taken credit
for the bomb threat. The police do not
have suspects, he said, but are at
tempting to discover who left the note.
“I think this is all a joke,” he said,
after a search of the pinpointed area
did not uncover a bomb.
Cauble said if a bomb was located,
the Lincoln Fire Department’s bomb
squad would have been called in to
defuse it.
Commanders: ROIC not hurt by cuts
By Matt Seaman
Staff Reporter
Post Cold War cuts in the number
ofROTC scholarships will have little
effect on the ROTC program at the
University of Nebraska Lincoln,
according to two UNL ROTC com
manders.
Col. Michael Carr, commander of
the UNI, Air Force ROTC, said he
was “disappointed to see scholarships
reduced,” but because the UNL pro
gram does not rely largely on scholar
ship money, it won’t be hurt as much
as larger schools that depend more
heavily on ROTC scholarships.
"Approximately 50 percent of our
students are not on scholarship,” Carr
said, so the UNL ROTC program will
not see any significant changes.
Nationwide, the number of Air
Force ROTC scholarships will be
scaled down from 2,100 to 1,900 for
academic year 1991-1992.
Col. Daniel McKnight, NSvy ROTC
commander, said he didn’t think the
Navy ROTC program would be af
fected very much, either.
1 he Navy has 66 host units across
the country and only five will be cut
completely, he said. Those five units
will be phased out, so current partici
pants in the ROTC program will be
able to graduate, but no new cadets
will be taken.
The five programs being cut are at
Texas Tech University and the uni
versities of Minnesota, Missouri, New
Mexico and Utah.
McKnight said the only change in
the program at UNL will be the even
tual elimination of “cross-town con
nections,” meaning no new students
will be taken to participate in ROTC
at UNL from Nebraska Wesleyan
University.
Colonel Robert Jacobson, com
mander ol the Army’s division of
ROTC at UNL, was unavailable for
comment.
Officials hope for research funds
By Kristie Coda
Staff Reporter___
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
officials arc cautiously optimistic about
President Bush’s proposed increases
in research funds for the 1992 budget.
Darrell Nelson, dean and director
of the Agricultural Research Divi
sion, said caution is necessary at this
point, as the increases arc only rec
ommendations that have not yet been
appropriated.
But, he added, “we’re pleased to
see a national program like this.”
The plan proposes a $25 million
program to renovate facilities for
agricultural research and another $50
million program at thft National Sci
ence Foundation to help colleges
develop and obtain state-of-the-art
research equipment.
A national program such as the
one proposed “could be very impor
tant to us as we try to upgrade (our
facilities),” Nelson said.
Possible uses for the funds at UNL
include finishing greenhouse renova
tions and refurbishing some of the
East Campus lab facilities that “have
got some drastic needs for renova
tion,” Nelson said. The money also
could help establish a program in
aquaculture, he said.
According to an article in the
Chronicle of Higher Education, the
Bush pro(X)sal has worried some higher
education officials, who are concerned
that non-agricultural research might
not receive needed funding.
The concern stems from the fail
ure of the Bush administration to
propose any money for the NSF’s
two-year-old program for renovating
academic research facilities in all areas.
That program received S20 million
this year.
Nelson said that although Bush is
not proposing money for overall aca
demic facility improvement, thcagri
cullural research department has not
had a budget increase for facilities
and lab equipment renovation in years.
“I can’t rationalize why the presi
dent is suggesting this now,” he said,
but, “it’s time that we have a national
program.”
Bill Splinter, interim vice chan
cellor for research, said he thought
other areas would not be neglected
under Bush’s proposal and that most
agencies, with the exception of the
Department of Defense, were pro
jecting increased funding.
“The president’s program is a little
broader than just the ag side of things,"
he said.
Nelson added that $75 million foi
agricultural research was a consider
able amount of funding, but divided
among 57 land-grant universities, it
would be a small amount.
Splinter expressed a concern that,
even though there might be an in
crease in available federal grants, UNL
might not be able to compete as effec
tively for them because of Gov. Ben
Nelson’s strict budget proposal.
Nelson has proposed freezing re
search funds.
Splinter said many sources of funds
won’t consider awarding grants with
out matching state funds.
“Almost always the feds require
some match by the state,” Splinter
said. “Nebraska is going the wrong
direction at the wrong time. It couldn’t
be more inappropriate.”
Darrell Nelson agreed.
“The key thing is that we will have
a much-decreased source of funding
to match the grants we put in for,” he
said. “We have very limited funds
from the state for renovation.”
“If we were successful in compet
ing for these funds, it could really
help our program out,” he said.
“There’s going to be a lot of compe
tition out there.”
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pretend we don’t exist,” she said.
The protesters were met by jeers
from some of the people entering the
Lied Center and from people driving
by.
Loof'c said racist and homophobic
people should “watch out.”
“We believe in self-defense,” she
said. “If someone bashes us, we will
bash back.”
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