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Council may pull plug
on public access channel
‘Race and Reason’
spawns controversy
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
incoln resident Stan Holsesays
he hasn’t slept since he read
the newspaper Tuesday morn
ing.
Instead, driven by his “opposition
to censorship,” he has been organiz
ing a petition drive in support of Lincoln
Cablevision’s public access channel.
The channel came under fire Tues
day for broadcasting “Race and Rea
son,” a Film produced by white su
premacists. Complaints from citizens
about that program and another pro
gram about homosexuals have moti
vated members of the City Council to
examine canceling the channel.
Holse said that would be the wrong
move.
He said it is a “complete miscon
ception” that television programs
increase racial tensions. Racism is
created by ignorance, not television,
he said.
He compared pulling the plug on
public access to “pouring gas on the
flames of ignorance.”
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Pretending racism doesn’t exist
won’t make it go away, he said.
“Public access is a reflection of the
Lincoln community,” he said. “Not
looking at the reflection docsn ’ t solve
the problem.”
So far, Holse said he has had little
luck in getting UNL students to see
that reflection.
Holse said the students he had
approached with his petition were
‘TOO percent apathetic.”
Holse said he attempted to speak
to students Tuesday in the Nebraska
Union, but they largely ignored him.
“No wonder these people arc los
ing their civil liberties,” he said.
He criticized students for not being
aware of the events that are shaping
their fives.
“Do these students read?” he asked.
“Do they read the newspaper?”
He said he had more success with
“people who work for a living” out
side the university.
He said about 95 percent of these
people, who “know about public access
and want to keep it,” had agreed to
sign his petition.
Holse said he hopes to get about
2,OCX) signatures on his petition.
See CABLE on 6
Military stays aaamant;
homosexual ban remains
By Roger price
Staff Reporter
The military’s ban on homo
sexuals in the services, includ
ing Reserve Officer Training
Corps, remains unchanged despite
campus protests, faculty censure and,
more recently, legal action.
Last spring, the University of
Nebraska Academic Senate passed a
resolution in opposition to the ban
and followed with a letter from then
president James McShanc to the
Department of Defense. _
George Tuck, current president of
the Academic Senate, said that after
the senate passed a resolution recom
mending that academic credit be
phased out for ROTC programs if
they do not admit homosexuals by
Jan. 1,1993, McShane wrote a letter
to the Department of Defense outlin
ing the senate’s concerns.
“They sent us a nice, polite letter
saying thank you for writing, but we
like our policy the way it is,” Tuck
said.
Last April at UNL, 35 people par
ticipated in a kiss-in rally in front of
the Military and Naval Science build
mg, protesting tne ku i c policy.
Doug Overficld, a senior English
major who participated in the protest,
said he would like the programs to
stay on campus but added that if they
continue to discriminate against
homosexuals, ROTC should be dis
continued at UNL.
“I’m sorry it will hurt a lot of
people (with ROTC scholarships), but
their policy hurts a lot of people who
can’t be open about their feelings
because of the policy,” Overficld said.
Tuck said the resolution passed
last spring by the Academic Senate
would not kick the programs off
campus, but just eliminate their aca
demic credit. “It would be just like an
extracurricular activity,” he said.
Because the ROTC programs have
a “long and valued history” at UNL,
Tuck said the senate did not want to
eliminate the programs entirely.
ROTC scholarships also help many
students pay for college who other
wise would not be able to, he said.
Although the military is showing
no flexibility in its stance on homo
sexuals, legal action in California may
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David Boye (left) and Charlie Burton of Charlie Burton and the Hiccups perform
Wednesday at Broyhill Plaza.
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i^narne Burton ana tne Hiccups
spit out rock by Broyhill fountain
Michael Hannon
Staff Reporter
The Lincoln-based Charlie
Burton and the Hiccups rock
V rolled UNL students at a
welcome-back concert Wednesday
at the Broyhill plaza.
The concert was sponsored by
University Programs Council and
drew about 175 people.
The band, consisting of Charlie
Burton, Phil Shoemaker, Dave Boyc
and Dave Robel, played its own
brand of music, which Burton, lead
singer and rhythm guitarist, dc
scribed as semi-soft, “like camcm
bert cheese."
The music ranged from rock to
country to the blues, and even en
compassed a unique takeoff of a
Beethoven classic “You’re Not
Playing Fair, Elisc.”
The bands also played a song in
honor of UNL Interim Chancellor
Jack Goebel’s birthday.
“I don’t think Beethoven has
anything to worry about,” said Kelly
Myers, a freshman international
business and foreign language
major, who said she thought the
band was interesting.
And Travis Saunders, a sopho
more advertising major, said,
“Charlie Burton is where it’s at.”
“What the people think, that’s
all that matters,” said Dave Rabe,
chairman of University Program
Council’s Concert and Disco
Committee.
Rabe said UPC was fortunate to
book Charlie Burton and the Hic
cups because the band is nationally
renowned and because the group is
breaking up in November.
The concert was cosponsored
by IBM and Julio’s Restaurant and
Bar.
Financial aid dispensed earlier, othcial says
IFINANCIAL AID COMPARISONS
A look at what shapes students financial aid. s
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# of STUDENTS AMOUNT
7941 $3,440,141
3 $5,040,202
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By Lori Huff
Staff Reporter
Cniversily.of Nebraska-Lincoln
students are being awarded
financial aid earlier than ever
before, a UNL official said.
John Beacon, UNL director of
scholarships and financial aid, said
7.2 times as many students were
awarded financial aid by May 15 of
this year than last year. In 1990, only
545 students had been awarded finan
cial aid by May 15. This year, 3,931
students received aid by that dale.
Beacon, also said that the actual
disbursement of financial aid to stu
dents increased from last year. A total
of 10,613 students received $5,040,202
in aid as of August 15,1991. By that
lime last year, 7,941 students had
>1 received $3,440,141 in aid.
Although disbursement of finan
cial aid has improved, Beacon said
the increase has been slight.
Beacon said the State Scholarship
Award Program (SSAP), which con
sists of federal funds and a general
state fund, has risen slightly from last
year. UNL received about 14.9 per
cent of the $1,340,882 SS AP fund in
the 1991-92 school year. This per
centage remained constant from the
1990-91 school year.
The Scholarship Assistance Pro
gram, a separate state fund that can.
only be awarded to Nebraska resi
dents, also remained about the same,
Beacon said.
The percentage that UNL received
of the SAP fund dropped from an
estimated 20.8 percent, or $183,919,
last year to 19.4 percent, or $171,544
for the 1991-92 school year.
Wisdom teeth woes. Page 6.
Summer regrets. Page 11.
Dedicated football player.
Page 19.
Golf course up to par. Page
24.
Correction: In a story in the Aug 28
issue of the Daily Nebraskan, the power
of the Union Board was incorrectly re
ported. The board is an advisory group
to Daryl Swanson, director of the Ne
braska Union.
INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Diversions 11
Sports 19
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