Speaker says diversity works for public radio By Adeana Leftin Senior Reporter The diversity and difference of public radio compared to commercial radio is what makes it work, a speaker said Tuesday. Douglas Bennet, president of Na tional Public Radio, told about 150 people that public radio stations can push program limits because their listeners are interested. “You abuse (listeners) by giving them wallpaper, not diversity,” he said. “Diversity will work on the radio.” Tuesday was the dedication of the nine Nebraska public radio stations that make up the Nebraska Public Radio Network, which was formed in September. Bennet addressed the Lincoln Town and Gown Organiza tion on aspects of public radio. Bennet, former head of the U.S. Agency for International Develop ment and special assistant to the U.S. ambassador to India, called the Ne braska Network a “grass-roots suc cess.” “What you have here is a real symbol of what we’re trying to do,” he said. As society develops in the 1990s, Bennet said, people will have a greater need for information. He said televi sion is not the best media for trans mitting news. • Besides time restraints, television assaults the viewer with too many pictures that are difficult to absorb and understand, Bennet said. In radio, listeners envision for themselves what is happening, he said. Public radio stations have “suc ceeded to provide service that the rest of the broadcast networks are back ing away from,” he said. However, Bennet said it was a mistake for public radio stations to try to compete with commercial sta tions. He said stations would lose their uniqueness if they became main stream. “I think we’re as counter-cultural now as we were 20 years ago,” he said. But Bennet rejected the idea that only a small radio station was valid. He said public radio should try to reach as many people as possible. Reaching people inexpensively will make public radio an important part of the future, Bennet said. “Sometime soon there has got to be a reassertion of civil values,” he said, adding that diverse radio that speaks to people will be an operative part of that. 1 P? * m-' f, m g p | Kiley Timperley/DN Douglas Bennet, president of National Public Radio, speaks at the University Club on Tuesday morning. I-POLICE REPORT-—i Starting Monday October 7. 11:41a.m. — Bicycle stolen, San - doz Residence Hall, S257. 1:54 p.m. — Hit-and-run auto accident, 1820 R St., S75. 5:31 p.m. — Intoxicated woman, transported to detoxification cen ter, 721 K St. 6:29 p.m. — Bicycle stolen, San doz. 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Tom Goodale, vice presi dent of student affairs at Virginia Tech, stressed the importance of “a balance between personal and aca demic interests” within the greek organizations. “Academics are the real reason the person comes to college in the first place,” Goodale said. Panelists also examined positive and negative aspects of present greek letter organizations. Favorable aspects included leadership opportunities, positive peer pressure and involve ment on campus and in the commu nity. Robert Frackelton, president of the Interfratemity Council at University of Califomia-Los Angeles, said the greek system “integrates students into the scholarship program of the uni versity.” Stephanie Palmer, a sophomore English major at UNL and a member of the Chi Omega sorority, and Cory Borer, a senior pre-dentistry major and president of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, agreed that the teleconfer ence reinforced issues they were al ready aware of, but they said that greek stereotypes should have been further addressed. “People tend to overemphasize the individual problems rather than look ing at the system as a whole, and seeing what it’s really about,” Borer said. “There needs to be more involve men t between greek and non -greeks,” Palmer said. “There arc negative stere otypes on both side.” ASUN Continued from Page 1 to the chancellor. “We’ve been doing horizontal cuts for so long...” Massey said. “We’re restricting the quality of teaching.” Massey said he would prefer fewer quality programs for students instead of more mediocre programs. At AS UN’s meeting today, the senate will discuss a bill suggesting that the Academic Senate strike part of a resolution it passed. The resolu tion urges the UNL chancellor to re negotiate the contracts of the three branches of ROTC at UNL if they don’t eliminate homosexual restric tions from admission standards. The ASUN bill states that because ROTC students are not responsible for laws barring homosexuals from the armed forces, making ROTC a non-credit program would not be fair to them. The senate also will consider leg islation to support adding four posi tions to the UNL Research Council. Massey said the council, which studies research and potential areas for federal funding, needs to be more diverse. * The bill recommends that the committee be made up of three members each from biological sci ences, physical sciences, social sci ences and humanities. “If they add these fields... they’ll have a better knowledge of where research is going,” he said. Marines TbeFm. 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She urged those who would make the final budgetary decisions to ad here to the gender equity priorities that had been set by faculty, adminis trators and the NU Board of Regents. Representatives of AAUP next urged adoption of AAUP guidelines and requirements for faculty termina tion, despite NU general counsel Richard Wood’s opinion that UNL is not bound by AAUP rules. Linda Pratt, a member of AAUP, said the current recommendations to terminate faculty “do not safeguard the institution’s responsibilities to its faculty ..She urged the BRRC to “reject these recommendations and seek new ones that honor academic integrity and the meaning of tenure.’’ ‘The A AUP’s scrutiny and poten tial investigation of UNL will con tinue as long as tenure is held hostage to budget cuts,’’ Pratt said. Thomas Zorn, chairman of the BRRC, said the committee would follow its “best judgment” in decid ing which recommendations to for ward to the Academic Planning Committee in November.