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MTV, Madonna fail to promote family values, speakers argue \\ ■ By Matthew Grant Staff Reporter MTV and Madonna arc not doing a good job of promoting family val ues, speakers said Friday at a debate between the Rutherford Institute and the Nebraska Civil Liberties Union at the UNL College of Law. Both sides of the debate agreed that family values were positive, but they disputed how the government should encourage them. The Rev. John Tyler of the Zion United Church of Christ, said that a commitment to family values should nol be simply sloganeering, but should be a serious attempt to construct a new society. “Family values has been tainted as a code word for far right values,” Tyler said. However, he said, having unat tainable goals could be dangerous. Psychologist Jane Close Conoley said words were not turning into ac - it Do you think MTV has done a good job of promoting family values? —Rick Duncan, UNL College of Law professor -** - lions with regards lo family values. “A value is only a belief state ment,” she said. “As a psychologist.. . I’m aware of the low correlation between what people say and what people do.” She also said that U.S. individual ism got in the way of ensuring the health of all children. “We value families; but we won’t protect jobs of parents, provide day care, provide health care,” Conoley said. Economic implications of family behavior also were concerns of the speakers. Rick Duncan,, professor of law, said the government should not subsi dize day care because that would be unfair to mothers who chose to slay at home with their children. All parents should receive the same • benefits,'which they could choose how to use, Duncan said. Duncan said that he was not criti cizing single-parent families, but he asked if they were the ideal. “Do you think MTV has done a good job of promoting family val ues?” he said. Third-year law student Kelly Rosati said single-parent families were five times as likely to live in poverty as two-parent families. Rosati also said the prevalence of sex and violence in the media is re sponsible for a drop in family values. The area representative for Con cerned Women, Rosati singled out ‘All My Children’ actor urges theater students to follow dreams By Sarah Scalet Staff Reporter A soap opera star Friday urged UNL student actors to be in touch with themselves and emphasized the importance of artists and soap operas on our society. James Kibcrd, who plays Trevor Dillon on the ABC soap opera “All My Children,” spoke to about 35 stu dents during Kevin Hofcditz’s The ater 223 intermediate acting class as part of UNL homecoming activities and a promotional ABC program at 12 university campuses. All students in the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln theater department were invited to hear Kibcrd speak. Kibcrd urged students to think about who they were and why they were acting. From this, he said, they could discover their cores. Kibcrd said his core was his huge appetite for everything. He said he did everything in his life too much—eating, working, making love and working out. Once he realized this, he worked with it and used it to his advantage in his career, Kibcrd said. “You’ve got to start with what you arc, then make friends with that,” he said. Kibcrd, who was a painter until he was 30, said he decided to start acting - M If you see something that you want, go for it. You’re the only one that’s going to get you there. —Kiberd, actor on ABC ’s "All My Children" -99 ~ when an acquaintance encouraged h im to audition for a part in a play. He got the part. From then on, he knew he had to act, he said. Kiberd told non-tradilional stu dents their age could help them suc ceed in acting, the same as it had helped him. When he started auditioning for parts at age 30, he was still excited. Other actors his age were grumbling, because they had auditioned so many times. Kiberd also encouraged older stu dents to draw on their life experiences for parts. However, he told all the students to use lime to their advantage instead of rushing their talents. Time i$ part of the process of act ing, Kiberd said, because it takes lime for acting to integrate through the body and resonate through life. Ai the same time, once people decide to be actors, acting must be their entire life, he said. Acting is not nine to five, Kiberd said, but five to nine—16 hours a day. He also emphasized the impor tance of arti sts i n our soc iety, and said he believed soap operas were the art form of our age. Kiberd said he believed soap op eras were the closest thing to a reper tory company in America today. In today’s society, there arc no longer beginnings, middles, and ends, Kiberd said. Society is based on disposability and convenience. Because of this, he said, the art form of today must be soap operas, which communicate with millions of people every day. For that reason, he said he loved working for “All My Children.” However, combatting the image of soap operas as “fluff’ is difficult, Kiberd said. He said he believed characters on soap operas were more challenging and interesting than other characters because of the changes they go through every day. But whether or not they end up in soap operas, Kiberd encouraged the student actors to follow their dreams. “If you sec something that you want, go for it,” he said. “You’re the only one that’s going to get you there.” WALT DISNEY WORLD COLLEGE PROGRAM Walt Disney World Co. representatives will present an information session on the Walt Disney World College Program on Monday, November 9, 7:00pm, in the Union. Attendance at this presentation is”required to interview for the SPRING '93 COLLEGE PROGRAM. Interviews will be held on Tuesday, November 10. The following majors are encouraged to attend: Business, Communication, Recreation, Theatre/Drama and Horticulture. Contact; Career Planning & Placement Phone; 472-1452 / World Co. C The Walt Disney Company FOR JUNIOR NURSING STUDENTS A NURSING EXPERIENCE AT MAYO FOUNDATION HOSPITALS - ROCHESTER, MN Here is your opportunity to work at Mayo Medical Center for the summer. Summer III is a paid, supervised hospital work experience at Saint Marys Hospital and Rochester Methodist Hospital, both part of Mayo Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota. You are eligible for Summer III after your junior year of a four year baccalaureate nursing program. It includes experience on medical and surgical nursing units or in operating rooms. Application Deadline: December 1, 1992. For more information contact: mavo Mayo Medical Center . J-—| Nursing Recruitment l N U J P.O. Box 6057 N/f Y*/ Rochester, Minnesota 55903 v 1-800-247-8590 Mayo Foundation is an affirmative action and equal opportunity educator and employer. A smoke-free institution. Wesleyan forum features professor From Staff Reports The Nebraska Wesleyan Univer sity Forum with William D’Antonio will be presented Friday at the First United Methodist Church, 5()lh Street and Saint Paul Avenue. The lecture, “Families and New Religious Movements,” will begin at 10 a.m. D’Anlonio is a professor emeritus of sociology at the Univer sity of Connecticut and former execu tive officer of the American Socio logical Association. AMERICAN bCANCER ? SOCIETY Get a checkup. Life is worth it. ' ON SCHOOLS 1 . ' • • ;-i?, i'aid for by the YES ON SCHOOUS Committee • An independent group of private cituenu concerned about Lincoln a futun. Ch«h» Pkllesen, Treamrer, 1900 FirsTfer Building Lincoln, NE 68508 • Co-Chain: Jo Kinsey, Bob Kerns, Joe Hampton, Coleen Seng 4