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Perkins Loan
checks available
The spring semester distri
bution of Perkins Loan checks
will be Feb. 10-11.
Hours of distribution arc 8:30
to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m.
Checks not picked up during
these two days will be cancelled.
Students must bring student IDs
to receive their checks.
Full year paid
to study abroad
The University of Ncbraska
Lincoln is offering one year’s
full tuition for a graduate or
undergraduate UNL student to
study at the University of Han
nover in Germany.
Applicants should have
command of the German lan
guage.
The scholarship provides free
tuition and a monthly stipend to
cover all normal expenses.
Residence hall accommodation
can be arranged.
The deadline for nominations
is Feb. 21.
UNL plans for economics exchange
Professors trek
to Thai college
By Mindy L. Leiter
Staff Reporter
Two UNL professors acted as
“marriage brokers” on a seven-day
excursion to Thailand as they attempted
to forge a union between the econom
ics departments of Thammasat Uni
versity and UNL.
Maurice Baker, a professor of
agricultural economics, and Roger
Rieflcr, an economics professor, are
working to secure an exchange pro
gram between Thammasat Univer
sity in Bangkok and the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln — a “marriage”
they said they hoped would benefit
both colleges.
“We arc about 50 percent of the
way there,” Rieflcr said. “The rest
depends on faculty interest and how
hard they arc willing to work their
end of the exchange.”
Baker and Rieflcr traveled to
Thailand Jan. 19 and returned Jan. 26.
If the exchange is successful, Rieflcr
said, economics professors at Tham
masat and UNL will begin team-teach
ing economics courses in 1992.
Under the team-teaching approach,
a UNL professor would travel to
Thammasal University and introduce
students to general principles of an
economic problem. A counterpart from
Thailand would show UNL students
how those principles related to South
east Asia. The UNL professor then
would return to Lincoln and conclude
the course.
“This is a major part of an ongoing
effort to internationalize the curricu
lum (at UNL),” Ricfler said.
Jean Aigncr, executive dean of
international affairs, said the UNL
economics department became inter
ested in the project because the uni
versity had few exchanges with de
veloping nations such as Thailand.
Ricfler, who lived in Bangkok 20
years ago as a U.S. government
employee, said the city had grown
considerably since he left.
Thailand is undergoing rapid in
dustrialization and change, which
makes the country an attractive sub
ject of economic study, he said.
Thammasal also is the only uni
versity in Southeast Asia to offer
doctoral programs in English, Ricfler
said, which solves the problem of a
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It’s busy and bustling
when classes are chang
ing at UNL. But at Tham
masat, you think classes
are always changing.
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language barrier.
Both Riefler and Baker said they
hoped the exchange would enrich the
UNL economics program and give
graduate students opportunities to study
abroad.
Riefler and Baker-traveled to
Thammasat with resumes of inter
ested UNL faculty and gathered names
of Thammasat faculty.
Riefler said he brought home about
12 resumes and an exchange applica
tion from a Thai graduate student.
The two professors will submit an
application for a grant to the U.S.
Information Office by Feb. 14. The
grant would be used to cover travel
and living expenses for professors.
Ricfler said he hoped the faculty
of both colleges would begin coop
erative research, which would further
integrate the faculty. Joint research
between faculty makes it easier to
coordinate teaching agendas, he said.
Both Baker and Ricfler said they
learned much from their trip.
“I found it very enjoyable,” Baker
said. Southeast Asia appeared to be a
“very gentle culture” as opposed to
the United States, he said.
“I observed that in the heavy traf
fic, there were no horns blowing,” he
said. “The only horns I really heard
were of taxis seeing if you wanted a
ride. It was a nice change.”
Baker said he also noticed the
“compactness” of the Thammasat
campus,
“I think I saw two-thirds of the
campus,” he said. “It’s like New York
City.”
“It’s busy and bustling when classes
arc changing at UNL,” Ricfler said.
“BulatThammasat, you thinkclasscs
arc always changing.”
Ricfler said he hoped the exchange
would run smoothly, but added that
the details were still shaky.
“Like any marriage, the couples
willdctcrminchow well itwill work,”
he said.
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Resolution
to protect
U.S.flag
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter
vThc Nebraska Legislature’s Judi
ciary Committee will hear public
testimony Thursday on a resolution
that would protect the U.S. flag from
desecration.
The resolution, LR222, calls for
the Legislature to
petition the U.S.
Congress to
amend the
Constitution and
prohibit harming
the flag. Sen. George Coordsen of 1
Hebron introduced LR222 early in 1
the session.
The resolution would not change
the law, Coordsen said, but it would
encourage Congress to change the
Constitution.
The idea for the resolution was
brought to Coordsen’s attention by
members of the American Legion, he
said, as part of the group’s national
effort to change a 1990 Supreme Court
ruling that declared the prohibition of
desecrating the flag unconstitutional.
Coordsen said that he, with 23 co
sponsors, introduced the resolution
because “this is something very im
portant to my constituents and many
Nebraskans, as well.”
A similar resolution was introduced
last year, he said, but it failed to
advance past the committee because
of a lie vote.
If legislators adopt the resolution
and it survives another judicial hear
ing, he said, Nebraska will join about
22 stales that have enacted similar
legislation.
Coordsen said that docs not ensure
Congress will vote either way.
“You still cannot force Congress
to do anything,” he said.
But the final decision on the fate of
the resolution still should lie with
Congress, Coordsen said.
Congress should decide “if the flag
is just something flying on lop of a
staff, or if it is a symbol (of democ
racy),” he said.
CBA work causing few complaints
Measures taken
to combat noise
By Mike Lewis
Staff Reporter__
Although some business pro
fessors have relocated, construc
tion of the CB A addition has caused
few inconveniences, a UNL offi
cial said.
Nancy Stara, interim associate
dean of the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln College of Business
Administration, said three profes
sors had moved 10 different offices
and three more were moving to
avoid noise from the construction.
The CBA computer laboratory
also moved into the old Kinko’s
building on the 1200 block of R
Street, Stara said.
Although no professors were
asked to move, she said, they were
given the option of moving and
were provided with moving serv
ices.
Bob Carpenter, UNL campus
architect and manager, said crews
were working on the foundation
for the addition, which should be
completed by July 1993.
After the addition is finished, he
said, work will begin on the exist
ing CBA building. Thai work is
scheduled to be completed by
August 1994, he said.
Carpenter said the project was
financed by more than $7.25 mil
lion appropriated by the Nebraska
Legislature in 1989.
Stara said memos detailing the
construction and possible incon
venience were sent to all CBA
faculty members. CBA students
received similar letters before the
spring semester, she said.
The noise level has not created
major problems, Stara said.
“Our main concern is with the
auditorium,” she said.
The auditorium is on the cast
side of the CBA building, next to
ihc lhrcc-slory,45,(XX)-square-foot
addition. Two classrooms on this
side have been pul out of service,
she said.
If the noise level disrupts a class,
she said, the construction contract
will require crews to slop working
until the class is over.
So far, however, no one has
complained, Stara said.
“I haven’t heard anything'from ___
faculty.”
Michael Shaub, an assistant
professor of accounting, said he
had heard some thumping while
leaching class, but it had not dis
rupted him.
“Everybody’scxcitcd about the
renovation,” he added.
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