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Margie Winn (left), senior advertising major, Christine Rosser, sophomore English
major, and Sharon O’Neil, graduate student in classics, protest silently against violence
at Broyhill Plaza Tuesday. See story on page 3.
Beadle appropriation
nearer to approval
By Lisa Donovan
Senior Reporter
Lawmakers moved closer Tues
day to granting cigarette tax
revenues for the Beadle Center
project.
The Nebraska Legislature’s Ap
propriations Committee unanimously
voted 9-0 to gut LB760, a bill that
would have placed the cigarette tax
monies into the genual fund.
Five million of the S6.5 million
appropriation proposed by the com
mittee for the George W. Beadle Center
for Genetics and Biomatcrials Re
search project would be financed by
cigarette tax revenues and the re
maining S1.5 million would come
from the state’s general fund.
The project needs $6 million in
matching funds to match $17.7 mil
lion in federal grants. NU had made
the Beadle Center its top priority for
capital construction. The total cost of
the project is expected to be $37
million.
The $6.5 million the committee is
endorsing would go toward the center
and toward a chiller NU needs in
upcoming years to air condition the
UNL campus. NU still needs $3 mil
lion to match the federal grants and
get the chiller.
The university had endorsed ear
marking 4 cents of Nebraska’s 27
cent cigarette tax for all capital con
struction projects at NU. However,
See BUDGET on 6
Principal says schools need
strong discipline to survive
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Staff Reporter
American education is “brain
dead” and only can be saved
by strengthening discipline and
freeing education from the manacles
of government bureaucracy, the high
school administrator featured in the
film “Lean on Me” said.
Joe Clark, the megaphone and bat
carrying principal of New Jersey’s
Eastside High School, said during a
phone interview Tuesday from his
home in South Orange, N.J., that he
thinks strong discipline is needed to
improve America’s schools.
“Education is in dire straits, espe
cially in the inner cities,” he said.
“The problem is not students chew
ing bubble gum, but (using) Uzis and
AK-47V’
Clark said school administrators
must establish order in the confines of
their schools like he did at Eastside
High.
Clark
He was aided in this task by his
celebrated megaphone and bat.
“They were my tools of motiva
tion, inspiration and stimulation that
served to take wayward and down
See CLARK on 6
Student representation on the
strengthened coordinating com
mission is on ASUN’s agenda to
night. Page 3.
The Husker baseball team wins
a long one. Page 7.
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INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 7
A&E 9
Classifieds 10
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Nationwide debate on ‘PCism’ avoids UNL
By Alan Phelps
Staff Reporter___ _
The wave of controversy surrounding the
trend of politically correct thinking in
the world of academia has not swept the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, officials say.
“It just hasn’t been an issue on this campus.
I don’t think we will see it,” said James Grie
sen, UNL vice chancellor for student affairs.
Robert Slock, vice chair of the UNL English
department, agreed.
“I personally have felt the atmosphere here
has been quite good. I have never sensed that
kind of intolerance at UNL. I don’t feel the
intolerance and bigotry that has surfaced in
other places has surfaced here,” Stock said.
Politically correct thinking has been the
subject of debate at campuses across the na
tion. Calling for an end to what they call the
“Eurocentrism” of college courses, PC move
ment leaders have advocated changing college
requirements to focus more on women and
minorities, hiring only minority professors to
teach minority topics and working against racism
through so-called fighting words policies.
Griesen said he doesnvt think tne proposed
fighting words policy at UNL has anything to
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/ don’t feel the intolerance and bigotry that has surfaced in
other places has surfaced here. _ ,
Stock
UNL English dept.
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do with the PC controversy.
“Wc still have never really wrestled with
that one to the extent we should have. You can
make a fair case for a limited interpretation of
a fighting words policy,” he said, adding, “It
needs to be tightly written.”
Steve Thomlison, Association of Students
of the University of Nebraska senator from the
Teachers College, agreed that the PC trend has
not had much of an effect at Nebraska, but
argued that the proposed fighting words policy
is a manifestation of political correctness.
“That’s a direct link to fighting words pol
icy. .. . There’s a direct correlation right
there,” he said. “I think if the fighting words
policy is implemented it (political correctness)
will become an issue here.”
Josh Mitnick, managing editor of the Michi
gan Daily, said a fighting words policy at the
University of Michigan has made the PC con
iroversy an issue on his campus. The original
policy, struck down by the courts in 1989, has
been replaced with an interim policy designed
to go along with the judge’s ruling, he said.
“A lot of student groups are opposed to it for
First Amendment reasons,” Mitnick said. “They
also don’t feel the university has a place for
punishing non-academic things with academic
sanctions."
The first policy, Mitnick said, was brought
to court by a graduate student who alleged his
right to enter into some types of classroom
discussions had been compromised.
Doug Smalley, editor in chief of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin Badger-Herald, said the
American Civil Liberties Union is involved in
a case in district court to determine the consti
tutionality of a UW Fighting words policy.
“There’s been a lot of debate around cam
pus,” Smalley said. “It isn’t solidly set out in
uic policy wnai icnns cxacuy vioiaic uic reso
lution. It sets up an atmosphere that ends up
restricting free speech.”
PC has affected the two campuses in other
ways. Mitnick said another policy in the works
at Michigan concerns sexism. A committee is
at work there trying to set up guidelines to
prevent professors from using gender-exclu
sive language, he said.
Smalley said requirements for English ma
jors recently have been revamped at UW, plac
ing more emphasis on subjects like women’s
fiction rather than pre-1800s literature.
Incoming freshmen are required to take an
ethnic studies course, he added.
“It has taken effeci here definitely,” he said.
Stock said the UNL English department has
been attempting to expand its curriculum to
make it more inclusive. Some new courses
have been added to the curriculum such as a
class on black women writers, he said.
He said he thinks the basic core classes
should remain the same.
“The so-called canon of established classics
remains a very important part of our culture
and should remain central,” he said. “The main
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