Legality
of quotas
considered
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Staff Reporter
n SUN’s Student Court heard
testimony Tuesday but failed
to rule on the constitutionality
of membership quotas for two Asso
ciation of Students of the University
of Nebraska committees.
The quotas, established by ASUN
in December for the Racial Affairs
and Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual commit
tees under Bylaws L and M, were
challenged by UNL law student Clark
Sackschewsky and defended by ASUN
President Phil Gosch and Second Vice
President Yolanda Scott at the hear
ing.
The Student Court deliberated the
case Tuesday night, but said it would
not release a decision until noon to
day because there was a dissenting
opinion that would not be prepared
until then.
Bylaw L states that the Racial
Affairs Committee will consistof one
Native American, one Caucasian
American, one African American, one
Asian American and one international
student as chosen by the ASUN
Appointments Board.
Bylaw‘M requires that the Gay/
Lcsbian/Bisexual Committee consist
of one heterosexual, one gay, one
lesbian and one bisexual.
Sackschewsky said he had decided
to challenge the provision after he
had been approached by some stu
dents who thought it was unfair.
“No matter what the good reason
is (behind quotas), there are better
ways of accomplishing things than
through discrimination,” he said.
Sackschewsky said Bylaws L and
M violated ASUN Bylaw 1, which
states “ASUN may not discriminate
in the selection of members or ap
pointments on the basis of a person’s
age, race, national origin, color, gen
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Lawmakers
consider
divestment
By Lisa Donovan
Senior Reporter
Che Nebraska Legislature’s
Banking Committee offered
amendments on Tuesday to a
Dill concerning divestment of South
Africa, differing from state Sen. Ernie
Chambers intention of total divest
ment.
The amendments as proposed by
Sen. Dave Landis of Lincoln set a
deadline of SepL 1, 1992, to halt
further acquisition of state-financed
stocks and bonds related directly or
indirectly to business in South Africa.
This changed Chambers’ original
bill, which set a deadline of Jan. 1,
1993, to halt investment in state-fi
nanced bonds in any financial institu
tion that directly or indirectly has
outstanding loans to the South Afri
can government or in the bonds of
any company doing business in or
with the country.
Also, the Omaha senator’s bill
initially set the same deadline to halt
state funds invested in the slocks of
any company or financial institution
doing business in or with South Af
rica.
Following the committee hearing,
Landis, chairman of the Banking
Committee, said that with the excep
tion of his amendments, the rest of
Chambers’ bill would remain the same.
The bill calls for striking the Sulli
van Principles, a set of guidelines that
set conditions for allowing compa
nies and financial institutions to in
vest in South Africa, from state law.
Current state law requires divestment
following the Sullivan Principles.
During Tuesday’s committee hear
ings, one South African native said
that from his experience, LB395 was
the only solution to end the ruling
white minority’s oppression of the
black majority.
Hafeni Hatutala, a nauve of Na
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. . . Sfaci McKee/Dai!y Nebraskan
Around the bend
Jackie Findley, a senior architecture major, takes a few laps around Ed Weir Track
Tuesday morning.
Professor:U.S. could win war, but lose peace
By Cindy Kimbrough
Staff Reporter
American war fever has led to a miscon
ception of the Middle East conflict and
U.S. involvement in it, two Nebraska
university professors said at a forum Tuesday.
More people arc viewing the war as a giant
video game or as a cleansing of the Vietnam
War complex, Robert Obcrst, a political sci
ence professor at Nebraska Wesleyan Univer
sity, said at St. Mark’s-on-the-Campus.
The biggest problem with war fever is that
Americans are losing touch with the reality of
this war and of any war, he said.
“You do not fight a war ju«« to defeat an
enemy. The main objective of a war is the
political objective,” Oberst said.
Ann Mari May, an assistant economics
professor at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln, said she also was not proud of the way the
United States is responding to the war.
She said the response can be attributed to
why Americans believe the U.S military is in
the Middle East. At first, the excuse for in
volvement was attributed to a lack of jobs if oil
prices increased and there was a shortage of
money, she said.
Then the reasons became moral ones, she
said — specifically the restoration of democ
racy, which is hard to justify because Kuwait is
a monarchy.
Lastly, Americans were told the war is to
fight naked aggression, she said, which worked
better in America because it personalized the
conflict.
May said she thought the real reason for
U.S. involvement was to restore the United
States as a military power.
Oberstsaid the series of blunders the United
States has been stumbling through, by some
lack of misunderstanding of the culture or
some ulterior motive, will allow the United
Stales to win the military war but lose the peace
in the area over lime.
The United States seems to “demonize” the
Arabs and use them as the epitome of evil,
which is absurd, he said.
If Americans do not overcome Arabs’ mis
trust, Oberst said, in six months to one year the
predominant military power in the area will be
Iran. If the United Slates does not install a
permanent military presence there, he said,
Iran will be the predominant power.
Also, Arabs will be much more suspicious
and hostile to the West because of excessive
bombing, hilling civilian targets and U.S. re
fusal to accept peace proposals, he said. Third,
U.S. exports will be hindered because of in
creased anti-American sentiment, he said.
Mohamcd Dahab, an associate professor of
civil engineering at UNL and a former Libyan
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Iraqi army withdraws
under U.S., allied fire
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP)
- As American and allied forces
continued their assault, Iraq’s
beaten army streamed north Tuesday
in a flight homeward, abandoning
KuwaitCity after a long, bloody night
of occupation and war.
“We’re going to . . . attack and
attack and attack,’’ a U.S. general
vowed as Marines tangled with Iraqis
fighting a rear-guard action at Kuwait
City airport. Point units of a vast
U.S.-British armored force collided
with Iraq’s Republican Guard some
where to the northwest.
“We have them checkmated,” a
senior Pentagon official said of the
tough Guard.
Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein
sought to label the withdrawal a
“victory.” President Bush called the
statement an “outrage” and said Sad
dam was trying to hold onto “the
remnants of power.”
“Salaam! Salaam!” — “Peace!
Peace!”— hundreds of surrendering
Iraqis shouted as they raised their
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Men's bas
ketball team
ready for
Husker-Cow
boy showdown.
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Americans skeptical of Sad
dam Hussein’s vow to withdraw.
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Classifieds 11
Human rights activist
to talk at Model U.N.
By Julie Naughton
Senior Editor
TV audiences may know him
best as B.J. Hunnicutt of the
long-running series
“M*A,',S*Hbut actor/director/pro
duccr has a role he considers much
more important — that of human rights
activist and speaker.
Farrell, who will speak tonight at
the University of Nebraska
Lincoln's 24th annual Nebraska
Model United Nations, said activ
ism has always played an important
part in his life.
‘‘I enjoy being involved in life,
being able to do the things I do and
see the things I see,” Farrell said.
The causes he’s been involved
with dale back to the ’60s, starting
with the Civil Rights Movement, he
said.
He also has been involved with
the American Indian Movement,
Amnesty International, the Special
Olympics, the United Farm Work
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