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rroiessors:
ground war
improbable
Bombings should
bring compliance
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Despite continuing military ac
tion by the United Stales and
its allies against Iraq, at least
two UNL professors doubt the chances
of a second full-scale Persian Gulf
war.
However, both agree the conflict
probably will intensify before it ends.
Bill Avery, professor of political
science at the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln, said he believed the air and
missile strikes against Iraq would in
crease, but that renewed ground war
fare was unlikely.
“Right now, the air strikes are prob
ably enough,” Avery said. “Only mini
mal force is needed to make (Iraqi
President Saddam) Hussein comply
with the United Nations resolutions.”
Less than two years after the U.S.
• led Persian Gulf war against Iraq,
U.S. forces renewed attacks on the
Arab country Jan. 13, in what Presi
dent Bush called “proportionate”
rocket attacks on air-defense com
plexes and missiles in the no-fly zone
of southern Iraq.
The attacks were in retaliation for
continuous Iraqi violations of U.N.
resolutions that ended hostilities in
the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
On Sunday night, U.S. Tomahawk
cruise missiles struck what American
officials said was a nuclear weapons
facility near Baghdad, and U.S., Brit
ish and French planes bombed air
defense targets in northern and south
ern Iraq on Monday.
Iraqi officials said two civilians
were killed in Baghdad’s al-Rashid
Hotel in Sunday’s attack, and 21
people were killed in Monday’s raids.
The Associated Press reported
Tuesday that civilian casualties suf
fered by Iraq in the last week have
brought concern from other Arab
countries and from Russia.
Raphael Zariski, professor of po
litical scicnceat UNL, said he thought
the world’s support or opposition to
Allied action against Iraq would de
pend on the newly appointed Clinton
administration’s stance on the issue.
“I can see some serious problems
arising if we continue to take action
against Iraq, but let the Serbs do what- 1
ever they want in Bosnia,” Zariski
said. “It would cast serious doubt on 1
our world leadership.”
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5° uScot?1 Moncrjef, producers of College Today magazine, woftoon the Midwest distribution list in
Hienardson s home. The two will begin distributing the magazine Regionally in September.
UNL students expand local magazine
College Today
goes regional
By Angie Brunkow
Staff Reporter
he “fun and games” of produc
ing a magazine is about to be
come bigger than ever for twe
UNL students, who will begin distrib
uting their Lincoln-based magazine
iround the Midwest.
Robert Richardson, a senior broad
casting and English major at the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln, said the
nagazine would be distributed at
najor college campuses in North
Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska,
Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri
and Minnesota when it comes out
next September.
Richardson said he and co-pro
duccr Scott Moncrief, a psychology
graduate student, first produced the
semester-old magazine, College To
day — Fun and Games in Lincoln, to
appeal to all local college students,
not just those at UNL. No other Lin
coln publication filled that role, he
said.
The first three issues of College
Today, which contained restaurant
and bar reviews, political commen
tary and columns, was distributed at
UNL, SoutheastCommunity College,
Union College and Nebraska
Wesleyan University.
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It will be more of a
challenge, but we
understand those
challenges.
— Richardson
senior broadcasting and
English major
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Richardson said with the support
of advertisers and the magazine’s lo
cal success and the producers’ under
standing production process, the time
was ripe for a move to a larger market.
The magazine’s two secured ad
vertisers were willing to go along
with the rate increases needed to fi
nance the larger project, he said.
College Today’s circulation will
jump from its local circulation of
20,000 copies to 400,000 copies for
the regional effort.
“It will be more of a challenge, but
we understand those challenges,”
Richardson said.
Moncrief said the publication
would have to have a wider scope to
appeal to all college students.
That means publishing writers from
all areas, rather than only writers with
lies to Lincoln, as in previous issues,
he said.
Richardson said he intended to deal
with the problems of pulling out a
regional magazine as they come up.
“It’s kind of like starting over,” he
See COLLEGE on 6
Chambers again pushes bill for paying players
Senator battling
to grant stipends
to football team
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Reporter ___
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha
would like lo see University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln football
players paid, and again introduced a
legislative bill to approve it.
LB4S6, introduced T uesday, would
give football players a stipend for
their performances and services to the
university.
Chambers has been introducing
similar legislation since 1980 to no
avail, but he said the issue needed lo
be kept public.
“It spoke of compensation (last
time),” he said. “It changes the termi
nology: This time it says in the final
section that the athletes shall be granted
a stipend.
“I’m trying to
get away from
terms for people to
hide behind the is
sue.”
The bill passed
under Gov. Kay
Orr’s administra
i lion, but she later
vetoed it after be
Chambers ing pressured by
Tom Osborne, Chambers said.
“I was oflcndcd that the governor
paid more attention to the coach than
a senator,” he said.
The bill is written differently this
year, Chambers said, and focuses on
the problems footbal I players encoun
J ter.
“Many players arc recruited from
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Many players are recruited from impoverished
families. NCAA rules prohibit reasonable finan
cial assistance.
-Chambers
state senator
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impoverished families. NCAA rules
prohibit reasonable financial assis
tance,” Chambers wrote in the bill.
‘‘A fair rale of financial assistance
would give players a choice when
offered illicit inducements or assis
tance.”
If the bill passes, it wouldn’t take
effect until four other Big Eight states
passed similar legislation. In the past
year, similar bills were introduced in
Colorado and Iowa, Chambers said.
Many more coaches favor the plan
now than when he began bringing up
the issue. Chambers said.
Chambers said he planned to dis
cuss the proposal with UNL Athletic
Director Bill Byrne.
“He is progressive enough and re
alistic enough to realize that (football
players) need some type of assistance,”
Chambers said.
The senator said he also would
speak with Chancellor Graham
Spanier aboul the proposal. Former
UNL Chancellor, now NU President,
Marlin Masscngaic supported the plan,
Chambers said.
Spanier said that he was not famil
iar with the proposed legislation, but
planned to look into the proposal.
Byrne could not be reached for
comment Tuesday.
Chambers said football players
were entitled to some revenue pro
duced through football games.
“Players give so much of their lime
and risk injury,” he said. “W ilh every
body else benefiting, the players arc
entitled to something.
“Because a sound academic pro
gram for football players may be dif
ficult due to demands of the sport,”
the bill stales, “football players are
entitled to some tangible returns for
strenuous work and revenue they gen
erate.”
