Anti-Semitic acts go unreported
them, Schatz said, while other victims of
anti-Semitism may feel intimidated and are
reluctant to report incidents.
Bruce Erlich, an associate professor of
English and modern languages, said the acts
go unreported because Jews have learned
that UNL’s internal processes are ineffec
tual.
Erlich said anti-Semitism is not only a
problem at UNL, but that it also is “institu
tionalized at UNL, as are other forms of
racism.”
He said he has personally faced anti
Semitism and it has been reported to him by
other faculty members and students.
All three officials agreed that courses in
cultural differences and prejudice would
help stem the spread of anti-Semitism in
Lincoln.
Erlich said recognition of the Jewish
experience, similar to the recognition other
minorities receive, is necessary, even if it is
token.
By Wendy Mott
Staff Reportw
Incidents of anti-Semitism are rising at
college campuses across the country, but
Lincoln officials say they have not recorded
the same increase.
Brad Munn, Affirmative Action officer
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said
he had no forma! or informal reports of anti
Semitism in 1990.
The Feb. 13 Chronicle of Higher Educa
tion reported a dramatic increase in reports
of anti-Semitism in 1990 from 1989. Most
of the acts involved hate mail, vandalism or
verbal harassment, according to the report.
Nebraska Civil Liberties Union Execu
tive Director Bill Schatz said his office also
has received no direct reports.
Both officials said they are sure some
anti-Semitic actions take place, but the
community simply isn’t reporting them.
Many of the actions are minor and Jews
who are harassed often choose to ignore
ASUN to consider closure
of Union’s Colonial Room
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter __
The Association of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska will consider joining
two campus organizations pushing for cnanges
to the Nebraska Union’s Colonial Room.
Andrew Sigerson, CFA chair, will intro
duce a bill tonight asking ASUN to support
CFA’s recommendations concerning the Colo
nial Dining Room.
In a letter written to the Union Board, CFA
suggested the Colonial Room “change its serv
ices to more accurately reflect the needs ot the
student population here at UNL.”
The letter cited that the Colonial Room had
lost money in past years, charged high prices
and was only open for two hours a day.
“For so long, students have complained
through CFA and ASUN about the lack of
student use in the Colonial Room,” Sigerson
said.
catering more toward students by providing
a wider variety of food and possibly lowering
prices were changes Sigerson suggested.
He said next year CFA could cut the amount
of money the Union Board has to finance the
room. The union currently receives $27,149
for the operation of the Colonial Room.
Shannon Bradley, Campus Activities and
Programs advisory board chair for the Union
Board, said that at Tuesday’s Union Board
meeting a motion was raised to close the Colo
nial Room.
She said the motion was tabled until March
12. At that time, supporters and opponents of
the closing can speak in an open forum.
“We’re taking some steps as to what we’re
doing with that room,” Bradley said.
Alisa Miller, CAP co-chair for the Union
Board, said the board’s action was a result of a
survey conducted by the board on the use of the
room, not an effect of “punitive” actions sug
gested by the Committee for Fees Allocation.
Professor blames oil policy for Persian Gulf war
By Matt Seaman
Staff Reporter
The war in the Persian Gulf “is
certainly more about oil than it is
about Kuwait,” a University of Ne
braska-Lincoln political science pro
fessor said Tuesday in the Nebraska
Union.
“Think about what would have
happened if (Iraqi President) Saddam
Hussein would have moved into Saudi
Arabia. He would have had 45 per
cent of the world’s oil,” Bill Avery
told about 17 people at a speech spon
sored by Ecology Now.
Arab nations will use oil to achieve
their goals, he said.
The “truth of the matter is they
(the Arab nations) have a common
enemy in Israel and a common pur
pose of a Palestinian homeland” and
will use oil to back up their demands,
he said.
Avery said three factors that make
oil such a potent global political
weapon are its scarcity, its unequal
distribution throughout the world and
its essentiality to the world economy.
“It helps us to understand if we
compare it to other resources,” he
said, like bananas.
“The longer you leave oil in the
ground,” he said, “the more valuable
it becomes. If you leave bananas on
the dock, they spoil.”
Avery said he has observed a “very
strong relationship between oil con
sumption and economic growth” and
he expects to sec a leveling off of oil
consumption and economic growth
in industrialized nations like the United
States.
“Right now, if we were to continue
to consume and produce oil at the
current rates ... we would be totally
out of oil by 2050,” he said.
President Bush’s oil policy, Avery
said, is the same as former President
Reagan’s policy, “which is not much
policy at all.”
“The president is going to empha
size oil production. What does that
mean? Drain America first? That’s
what it sounds like to me.”
said, but historically, replacement
stocks usually yield higher returns.
Investor Loyal Park echoed
Johnson’s comments and said an
investor can cam high returns, even if
he or she is a socially conscious in
vestor.
“Many brokers complain to their
socially conscious investors, ‘You tie
one hand behind my back if you so
limit your portfolio,’” Johnson said.
“For many of us, that simply is not
so. Equal or better returns are enjoyed
by many of us in social investing.”
Erwin Goldenstein, president of
the Clyde Malone Community Cen
ter in Lincoln, said he endorses LB394
because he disagrees with the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln’s stance
on South African investment.
Goldenstein, a former UNL pro
fessor, said the university should have
a moral commitment to take a stand
against apartheid in South Africa.
“As a retired UNI. professor, I
have been disturbed by an apparent
unwillingness of the university to go
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hands to advancing troops. More than
30,000 Iraqis now have been taken
prisoner, the U.S. command said.
And among Kuwaitis, the word
was “freedom.”
“Our joy is overflowing, thanks be
to God,” their exile radio declared.
“The enemy is turning tail.”
Flashing V-for-victory signs, jubi
lant Kuwaitis emerged from their
homes Tuesday to greet the First out
siders to venture into their burned,
looted city.
People ran up to hug and kiss tri
umphant American soldiers who
punched 50 miles north from Saudi
Arabia in a three-day ground cam
paign, Associated Press photographer
Laurent Rcbours reported from the
city’s outskirts.
There were no new reports Tues
day on U.S. and allied dead and
wounded. There has been little infor
mation about Iraqi casualties.
The Soviet Union urged the United
Nations to call an immediate cease
fire in view of the Iraqi withdrawal
announced Tuesday by Baghdad ra
dio and later by Saddam.
“Saddam is not interested in peace,
but only to regroup and fight another
day,” Bush said in a tough statement
to the press in the White House Rose
Garden.
Bush also pointed out Saddam made
no formal commitment to renounce
Iraq’s historic claim to Kuwait, or to
accept responsibility for war repara
tions.
Iraqis who lay down their arms
will not be attacked as they retreat,
Bush said. Otherwise, they were fair
game for the Desert Storm forces.
CBS reporter Bob McKeown said
Iraqi military vehicles littered Ku
wait City streets. A Pentagon official
said Iraqis were leaving behind sup
plies and heavy equipment, and
commandeering civilian vehicles to
flee.
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mibia, which was a part of South
Africa until 1990, said he knew the
“pain of being a servant” as a black
man in that society.
The South African blacks decided
many years ago to “wage a fight”
against the white minority that rules
South Africa, Hatutala said, and now
Nebraska, like the rest of the United
States, should help with that battle
against oppression.
“This bill is the best way to solve
the problem without (further) blood
shed,” he said.
Robert Johnson, a professor in the
Department of Economics and Fi
nance at Creighton University, said
that from an academic point of view,
divesting of South Africa would not
cause the financial losses many fi
nancial analysts have anticipated.
Divestment will bring investors
lower returns on their stocks, Johnson
beyond a strict interpretation of Ne
braska law,” Goldcnstein said.
Joseph Akpan, a graduate student
at UNL and president of the Nigerian
Student Association, explained that
the white minority that rules South
Africa and migrant workers would be
most affected by the passage of LB395.
“Less than 2 percent of blacks arc
employed in American industry (in
South Africa) because they are high
tech jobs,” Akpan said after the hear
ing.
One of the two opponents of the
bill, Jack Ncllson, said the stale could
suffer considerable loss if LB 395 was
passed.
Nellson, director of the Nebraska
Public Employees Retirement Sys
tems, said the state investment officer
told him LB395 could have a nega
tive effect on school, judges and pa
trol retirement plans.
“Should they be the ones who suffer
for the social conscience of Nebraska?”
Ncllson said of the people who fall
under those retirement plans.
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der, creed, handicap, sexual orienta
tion or place of residence.”
He also said the bylaws are in
violation of University of Nebraska
Lincoln and NU Board of Regents’
policies that prohibit discrimination.
“These committees are in them
selves very good things,” he said.
“The fact that there are quotas is what
is wrong.”
Gosch argued in favor of ue by
laws, saying, “There is a substantial
difference between making sure ev
eryone is heard and excluding people.”
He said ASUN was justified in
setting the ‘‘representation require
ments” for the committees under
powers granted by the regents to regu
late student organizations.
ASUN had exempted the commit
tecs from parts of the non-discrim ina
tory clause because “there was a
substantial public interest to do so,”
he said.
Gosch mentioned that ASUN had
acted similarly with the Residence
Hall Association, the Committee for
Fees Allocation, ROTC and religious
groups.
He said the appointments in ques
tion were solely advisory positions
with no technical power.
“They are here to provide a per
spective that is not represented well,
and they have the ability to do a lot of
good,” he said.
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Student jobs secure, official says
By Kristie Coda
Staff Reporter
Economic changes in Nebraska
probably will not send University of
Nebraska-Lincoln students to the
unemployment lines, an official said.
“The employment situation in
Nebraska looks pretty good,” said
John Austin, a research associate with
the UNL Bureau of Business Research.
Students’ jobs probably will not
suffer, he said, because part-time jobs
are expected to grow, and service
jobs usually are not affected by reces
sion.
Austin said 1991 may not be a
“particularly good year” for students
who rely on farm income for finan
cial support because a bureau study
projected a downturn in farming in
come, especially in grains.
Projections from the study said a
short, shallow recession should not
affect Nebraska much and that Ne
braska’s economy is expected to grow.
Austin said there arc two disparate
cycles affecting the Nebraska econ
omy that usually do not coincide.
The impact of a national recession
and a downward trend in the agricul
tural cycle are occurring at the same
time, he said. The current agricultural
cycle will mean a decrease in net
farm income, he said, which will have
more of an impact on Nebraska than
the national recession.
Austin said that although the war
did not directly cause the recession,
“the war had everything to do with
the timing of the recession.”
The United States was coming to
ihe end of ihe longest peacetime
expansion in history, and the war was
the final straw that sent it into the
recession, he said.
Indexes show that “consumer
confidence plummeted in August,”
Austin said. Since then, he said, retail
sales have been down and people
haven’t been buying big-ticket items
such as cars and houses.
“I think (consumers) are saving,”
Austin said. “I suspect it’s going in
the piggy bank.”
But because Nebraskans arc sav
ing, “we re not going to be as bad oft
as we thought, he said. Nebraska
might be in a better position to re
bound after the recession because
savings are a “good jumping-of!
ground,” he said.
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resident, agreed with Obcrst and May,
saying war fever has been skillfully
manipulated by President Bush through
the media.
Dahab said that as an Arab, the
crisis is painful for him.
Arab countries share a common
history, language and destiny, he said.
The boundaries that now define them
were draw n by outsiders to divide and
conquer, he said.
With this conglomeration of states,
he said, there was a common rule that
no Arab state would invade another
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s
invasion of Kuwait, however, made a
mockery of the alliance, he said.
The only real beneficiaries of the
war will be the Israelis, he said, be
cause the allies have eliminated the
Muslim threat and Israel can freely
rule the occupied Palestinian territo
ries.
The U.S. military also will bene
fit, Dahab said, as the United States
will restock and invest in better bombs.
Oil companies will benefit from raised
prices, he said