DN, ASUN
offer budgets
By Rainbow Roweii
Staff Reporter
The Daily Nebraskan and the
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska presented their
1992-93 budgets to ASUN’s Com
mittee for Fees Allocations Tuesday
evening.
DN General Manger Dan Shattil,
Advertising Man
ager Todd Sears and
Editor Jana Ped
ersen presented the
DN’s student fee
request and re-—
viewed the 1991-92
budget with the committee. The DN
requested the same amount of money*
from student fees as it received this
year.
Because of the sinking national
economy and the decline of busi
nesses in downtown Lincoln, Shattil
and Sears said DN advertising reve
nues had experienced a serious de
cline. This loss was offset by budget
cuts and an increase in advertising
prices, Shattil said.
ASUN President Andy Massey
stressed the importance of the ASUN
support staff in its 1992-93 budget.
Massey said this budget included cuts
in anticipated operational costs, so
more dollars could be allocated for
staff salaries.
CFA subcommittees will review
the two budgets and present propos
als to the entire committee Thursday
at 6 p.m., when CFA will vote on
these proposals. The DN and ASUN
may appeal the CFA decision Feb. 6.
Ruth Thone, a peace activist, reminds those attending Tuesday’s video presentation in the
Nebraska Union that the atrocities of the Gulf War have not ended.
Activist asks for persistence
From Staff Reports
A veteran peace activist and wife
of former Gov. Charles Thone im
plored fellow activists to “fight
back” against the “depression and
despair” that the peace movement
experienced as a result of the Per
sian Gulf war.
In a half-hour speech in the Re
gency Suite of the Nebraska Un
ion, Ruth Thone urged about 30
people to “hunker down together
for the long haul” and to fight to
convince “even ordinary neighbors
that war is no longer a viable in
strument of foreign policy.”
This has been “profound year”
filled with lessons for peace activ
ists, Thone said.
“We learned that we have been
lied to before the war and since,”
she said. “We have learned that
many of our fellow U.S citizens
still hold that killing others and de
stroying land and property is how
you win arguments.”
Thone said that many people in
the United States were ignorant of
the issues surrounding the Gulf war.
“How can anyone read the news
without becoming sick, depressed
or crazy?” she asked.
Thone’s speech was sponsored
by Early Warning!, Ecology Now,
the University of Nebraska Envi
ronmental Resource Center and the
Lincoln chapter of Nebraskans for
Peace.
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and setting up a network to work on
those goals, he said.
“There are lots of opinions on how
a cultural diversity curriculum should
be implemented,” Dietz said.
This curriculum could be imple
mented as a self-contained course or
phased into present curriculum, he
said.
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Regarding diversity issues at UNL,
: Dietzsaid “we have a problem.”
Much of the problem, Dietz said,
can be attributed to the small minor
ity population in Nebraska and the
difficulty in attracting out-of-state
minority faculty and students to UNL.
Other universities allocate thou
sands of dollars to cultural diversity
programs, Dietz said. In light of the
recent budget cuts, he said, funding
such programs at UNL is question
able.
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of Bucharest’s English department
and the Department of English at UNL.
Currently there is an exchange
program between the history depart
ment at Iasi, a university in Romania,
and the political science department
at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Programs such as this have shown
that people are interested in Roma
nia, and what it has to offer, Teo
dorescu said.
UNL does not offer Romanian
language classes, but Teodorescu said
she remained optimistic about the
future.
“It would be great to offer Roma
nian at UNL, and I would be happy to
make known Romanian literature,”
she said.
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hibits its citizens from doing — kill.
Marj Manglitz, past president of
the Nebraska division or the United
Nations, said the basic issue interna
tionally was that “state-sponsored
violence including non-random kill
ing provides license for individuals to
do the same.”
The United Slates, she said, is the
only member of the Western Euro
pean and Others group that practices
the death penalty.
Chris Eskridge, a criminal justice
professor at the University of Ne
braska at Omaha, agreed that the death
penalty was faulty because innocent
people could be executed. Errors in
evitably will be made, he said, and an
innocent person may be found guilty
and sentenced to death.
“The tragic irony in this whole
scenario is that in killing an innocent
person, the state is guilty of doing
exactly that for which it is punish
ing,” he said.
Eskridge argued that inc dcatn
penalty also was often administered
in an “arbitrary and capricious” fash
ion, which made it inequitable, both
racially and economically.
- Bill Schatz, executive director of
the Nebraska Civil Liberties Union,
said the death penalty was biased
against the poor and minorities.
According to a 1969 study by the
Bureau of Prisons, he said, of 3,859
people executed in the United States,
54.6 percent were minorities.
Schatz said that according to the
study, of the 455 people executed for
rape, 89 percent were minorities.
Bob Crosby, former governor of
Nebraska, said he believed that the
death penalty was wrong when he
entered the Nebraska Legislature 50
years ago, before he became gover
nor in 1953.-—--.-_
He said his decision wasn’t made
because of a measure of what his
constituents wanted.
“Some decisions depend on moral
convictions rather than what the
majority of constituents want,” he
said.
In spile of five senators dropping
from the list of those sponsoring the
bill last week, Chambei$said he was
optimistic about it passing.
“I know it looks bleak, but I know
deep down that it will pass,” he said.
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