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.
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Douglas Bennet, president of National Public Radio, speaks
at the University Club on Tuesday morning.
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creek teleconference
By Rainbow Rowell
Staff Reporter
About 40 representatives from
University of Nebraska-Lincoln fra
ternities and sororities attended a two
hour teleconference on the greek
system Tuesday.
The teleconference, tilled “The
Greek System: An Institutional Asset
or Liability?” was broadcast live from
Oklahoma State University. Five
panelists from around the country
discussed the ideal, reality and future
of greek organizations.
The program opened with a dis
cussion of the ideal greek letter or
ganization. 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.”
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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.
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gender equity adopted by the univer
sity.
In 1990, only 16 percent of UNL
faculty members were women, Baird
said. Under the current budget reduc
tion proposals, 48 percent of the posi
tions that would be eliminated arc
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“In the current proposals, the budg
etary impact falls squarely on the
shoulders of a disproportionate num
ber of women faculty who are already
underrepresented” at UNL, Baird said.
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.
