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Education committee
argues ‘wormy’ issue
of language fluency
By Lisa Donovan
Senior Reporter
The Legislature’s Education
Committee was locked Tues
day between “opening a can
of worms” and killing a bill requiring
English fluency of postsecondary
education instructors.
The committee took no action on
LB214, spon
sored by state
Sen. Rex Haber
man of Imperial.
After Sen.
Jerome Warner
of Waverly pro
posed killing the _
bill, Sen. Arlene
Nelson of Grand Island said she didn’t
think LB214 should advance.
Nelson said that if the bill was
advanced out of committee and de
bated on the floor at this time, it
would cause the university a lot of
problems. The university would have
to find additional funding to hire
professors to take the place of instruc
tors who no longer would qualify, she
said.
“I think we’re opening up a big can
of worms,” Nelson said.
Sen. Ed Schrock of Elm Creek
countered that it was a big problem
that should be dealt with immedi
ately.
After speaking with his son, a UNL
student, arid members of his son’s
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Islamic beliefs differ
Experts say gulf crisis
not a religious conflict
By Cindy Kimbrough
Staff Reporter
Nebraska expens on religion and
the Middle East disagree on
whether the United States’
attack on Iraq has turned the war in
the Persian Gulf into a holy war.
The dean of International Studies
and Programs at the University of
Nebraska at
Omaha and the
NU Medical
Center said he
thought the gulf
war was not a
religious war.
“Religion is a
major emotional
element in the gulf war, but it is
neither the cause of die war, nor the
standard upon which the war can be
advanced,” Thomas Gouttierre said.
But Richard Freund, an associate
professor of philosophy and religion
at UNO, said that by the simplest
definition, the war in the gulf can be
called a holy war, or jihad.
He said there are three separate
concepts referring to the term jihad,
which means competition. The first is
a competition within oneself, the
second is for the correct interpreta
tion of Islam and the third is a struggle
against external forces.
A holy war is waged against exter
nal forces when any Muslim country
is attacked by a non-Muslim country,
he said, such as when the United
States invaded Iraq. The invasion is
considered an attack on the religion,
he said, and there is no clear separa
tion between a war against a non
Muslim country and a holy war to the
Muslims.
So, technically, Freund said, this
is a holy war.
Gouttierre said that because Sad
dam Hussein is not seen as a devoted
Muslim and the invasion of Kuwait
isn’t sufficient justification, the leader
probably won’t be able to convince
other Muslims that this conflict is a
holy war.
He said the party Saddam heads is
a secularistic party, while his oppo
nents are fundamentalist Muslims. This
gives Saddam no authority to label
this a holy war, he said.
Robert Oberst, a Nebraska
Wesleyan professor specializing in
the Middle East, agreed that the war
in the gulf should not be considered a
holy war.
Saddam is trying to turn the war
into a religious conflict, he said, but
his call for a holy war is falling on
deaf ears because it is difficult for a
secular leader to call for a religious
war.
Ironically, Gouttierre said, the
individual who does have the credi
bility to call for a holy war is an
Iranian, the leading Shiah Ayatollah,
who currently is living in Iraq. But
there is no real justification for a holy
war at this time, he said.
Since there were no takers to the
call for a holy war, he said, Saddam
now is trying to appeal to Arab na
tionalism. Americans sometimes
confuse the issues of appealing for a
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Oliver Froehling, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior geographv major, dumps his
recyclable materials Tuesday at the recycling center, 1340 N. 17th St.
New recycling center opens at UNL
By Jean Lass
Staff Reporter _
University of Nebraska-Lin
coln students can give their
garbage new life with the
addition of a recycling center at
UNL.
The center opened Saturday at
1340 N. 17th St. and is available
for use by Lincoln residents and
UNL students, said Wilbur Dasen
brock, director of UNL Landscape
Services.
Dasenbrock said there is increas
ing interest in recycling at UNL,
and the center will encourage people
to recycle newspaper, glass and
plastic instead of throwing such
items away.
“People realize more and more
the potential for recycling,” Dasen
brock said.
The recycling center accepts
newspaper, plastic milk jugs, 2
liter plastic pop containers, alumi
num pop cans and three colors of
glass for recycling: clear, green
and brown.
Users should not bring maga
zines, aluminum foil, glass
cookware, phone books or card
board products to the site, Dasen
brock said.
Newspaper should be bundled
with string or placed in a paper
grocery sack; plastic milk jugs and
2-liter pop containers should be
rinsed, flattened and have the caps
removed; aluminum cans should
be flattened; and glass containers
should be rinsed and the metal caps
and neck rings should be removed.
Glass should not be broken, Dasen
brock said.
“The instructions are very im
portant,” he said. “If people create
a lot of litter at the site, we’ll have
to shut it down.”
The city of Lincoln will subsi
dize the newspaper recycling for
$15 a ton until May 1, and Dennis
Paper will provide the containers
for recycling and haul the newspa
per away.
After May 1, the city will hire
people to haul the containers and
materials away for recycling, Dasen
brock said.
He said he expects the recycling
center to be used frequently be
cause of its convenience.
“People in the neighborhood of
the center or people who work in
an office at UNL can bring their
recyclables by on their lunch hours,”
Dasenbrock said.
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IASUN proposes total divestment bill
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
A bill in the Nebraska Legislature calling
for the total divestment of all Nebraska
institutions from companies that do
business in South Africa may have the support
of ASUN after tonight’s meeting.
LB395, proposed by Omaha Sen. Emie
Chambers, would require all Nebraska institu
tions to withdraw investments from any com
panies doing business in South Africa.
Sen. Chris Potter of the College of Arts and
Sciences proposed an Association of Students
of the University of Nebraska bill that supports
LB395 and ca’ls for the university to withdraw
all South African investments. The bill may be
discussed on emergency status at tonight’s
meeting.
Potter said Tuesday that he agreed with anti
apartheid leader Nelson Mandela’s statement
that the people of South Africa have only two
weapons against their government: economic
sanctions and violence.
He said that if there are no economic sanc
tions, “the only tool (South Africans) have is
violence.”
James Van Horn, NU associate vice presi
dent of administration, said that he thought
it would take the university about six months to
totally divest.
Potter said LB395 gives the university 1 1/
2 years to divest. He said it would be up to the
administration to decide when to begin divest
ment if LB395 passes.
NU began efforts last fall to divest, he said.
The University of Nebraska Foundation par
tially divested, Potter said, and NU President
Martin Massengalc formed the Special Com
mittee on South Africa.
But, Potter said, little has been done since.
The special committee made a report in
November suggesting that NU establish a link
with a South African university and strengthen
its African studies program.
In January, ASUN passed a bill urging the
administration to act on the committee’s sug
gestions.
“The time has come to step up the pressure
on the administration to do something,” Potter
said.
The war in the Persian Gulf has taken South
Africa’s problems from the spotlight, he said,
but most students still support divestment.
“Deep in their hearts, students know that
apartheid is evil and they’ll do anything they
can to dismantle it,” Potter said.
