Aliens Continued from Page 1 vices. He said researchers ai Massachu setts Institute of Technology were study ing such implants, but their find ings had not been released. ; . •: Kasher said further evidchcc in support of the abduction claims in clude strange scar tissues found on victim’s bodies. Kasher said an Omaha woman had an example of such scar tissue. When the woman’s doctor examined her,he found scar tissue on her uterus which indicated very precise cuts, similar to surgery. When the doctor asked the woman about the cuts, she said she had never had surgery. Kasher said he believed most of the people who claimed they had been abducted. “When I meet so many people who have had the same experience, I can’t imagine that they would all be men tally imbalanced,” he said. There is a support group in Omaha for people who have been abducted by extraterrestrials, Kasher said. The group, which has 47 members, meets regularly to talk about the members’ experiences. Kasher said more people probably had experienced or witnessed UFO related incidents but were afraid to speak out. He said the U.S. government had documented proof that aliens and UFOs exist, but is hiding the informa tion. He said an example of a govern mental cover-up happened in 1947 in Roswell, N.M. Kasher said the Army Air Force investigated a crash sight and found an alien spacecraft and four bodies. Officials issued a press release but later said they had made a mistake, he said. When I meet so many people who have had the same experience, I can’t imagine that they would all be mentally imbalanced. —Kasher UNO physics professor -9t - Kasher said the major who investi gated the crash sight came forward 37 years later and revealed that the Army Air Force didn’t know what they had found, but it was not a weather bal loon, as they had asserted. The government does not want to release UFO-related information be cause it fears a public panic, Kasher said. He said the government doesn’t want the public to know that if the aliens posed a threat, the military might not be able to protect them. Victim testimonials and theories of govemmcntcover-ups aside, many people ttill doubt the existence of UNL physics professor Edgar Regents Continued from Page 1. This year UNL has the seventh lowest price, and next year UNL will have the lowest room and board rate in the Big Eight, Zatechka said. These low rates don’t reflect poor quality, he said. UNL has an 88 percent occupancy rate, Zatechka said, and the residence halls are striving to meet students’ needs and requests. Zatechka said he was listening to students and in the next couple of years he would be adding conve niences and would be improving liv ing conditions to help retain upper classmen. Some proposed improvements in clude adding more single rooms, get ting more computers, improving food and extending food hours, Zatechka said. Zatechka also presented part of a student life report, prepared to help the regents belter understand students ’ concerns. One representative from each of the four campuses — UNL, the Uni versity of Nebraska at Omaha, the University of Nebraska at Kearney and the University of Nebraska Medi cal Center — made comments con cerning one of the following topics: financial aid, student services, stu dent housing and encouragement of healthy lifestyles. After the reports, Regent Nancy Hoch of Nebraska City said, “I wish I were going to school again.” She said she was impressed with all of the changes taking place, espe cially in the student housing. In other action, the board passed three resolutions pertaining to UNL. They included: • approving a design for a $2.8 million Biological Sciences Green house, which will be built onto the Beadle Center, now under construc tion; • allowing the city of Lincoln to construct a new road along 9th street from T to V streets, which crosses a comer of university-owned land. The new road is in connection with the 10th street reconstruction project; • authorizing the city of Lincoln to demolish the southwest comer of the 501 Building to construct the new road for the 10th street reconstruction project. The destruction will require the Academic Senate to move to an in terim location, the Instruction Media Center to move to a new location at 1820 R St. and some Environmental Health personnel to move to new quar ters at 1700 Y St. Also at Saturday’s meeting, the board adopted its minority affairs re port as official university policy. The report outlined six university goals for improving minority rela tions. The goals are: • Commitment to the value of diversity, which would require uni versity leaders such as chancellors, deans and faculty to set good ex amples in dealing with diversity. •Each campus is required to make an annual report on the progress of diversity at its school. . • Establishing ways to achieve diversity among faculty, staff, stu dents and administration. This includes sincere efforts to make minorities feel welcome, to develop mentor program s and to find out why a minority might turn down a job at the university. • Making sure the university is conducive to the success of minori ties. This includes making sure there are places like a culture center and grocery stores that sell cultural foods. • Encouraging a curriculum that includes minority issues whenever possible. • Encouraging awareness and sen sitivity to minority issues by having workshops, seminars, speakers, fo rums and festivals to improve minor ity sensitivity. Budget Continued from Page 8 because of the cuts that occurred dur ing the agricultural recession of the 1980s. 'Other schools like California and New York are facing 10 percent bud get cuts, Massengale said, but Ne braska can't be compared to those schools. “We have always had to do more with less," he said. Massengale said he realized that Gov. Ben Nelson and the Nebraska Legislature had a lough job ahead of them, but the 5 percent cut would be too much for the univer sity to handle. “I think we all understand the state’s budget situation,"he said. “But we should not have to carry propor tionaiely more than any other sector.” Cuts would have to come from academic offering, student services, administration, research and the al ready dilapidating infrastructure, Masscngale said, and may even pro long students’ educations. Masscngale said Nebraskans have always been careful investors and have always looked for ways to build the future. But he said the cuts would cause “real and visible damage” to the uni versity, which is “a key place for building our future opportunities.” Jennifer Newhouse, the student regent for the University of Nebraska at Omaha, also addressed the budget cut at Saturday’s meeting. She said 10 to 15 students a day visited her office with worries about the cuts. * , . Pearlstein is among the skeptical. He is not convinced by Kashcr’s claims. Pearlstein heard Kashcr speak sev eral years ago and was unimpressed with the lack of scientific documenta- * lion to back up the abduction claims, he said. “Dr. Kashcr is a respectable physi cist,” Pearlstein said, “but he is gull ible in this subject.” Donald Taylorra UNL astronomy professor, said he had read books on the subject, but he doubted the exist ence of extraterrestrials. Taylor said he thought Kashcr’s claims could be truthful, but he had never seen convincing evidence. Most UFO and alien evidence was hearsay, he said. Taylor is the acting director of UNL’s Behlen Observatory in Mead. He said he wasn’t aware of anyone who had spotted a UFO from the facility. But Kasher said when he first be gan to research alien activity, he also was skeptical. However, he said that he approached the topic scientifically and with an open mind. Research and discussion changed Kashcr’s views on the subject. Kasher said people who doubted the exist ence of extraterrestrials were unaware of current evidence. The professor said he knew his claims were shocking, but he wanted people to keep an open mind. He said if they studied the evidence, they would be likely to believe it. “This is not something off the wall,” he said. Board makes initial move in quest for new president Regents address need for harmony By Kristine Long Staff Reporter The NU Board of Rcgeifts took the first step in the search for the next NU president at the meeting Saturday, andChairman John Payne assured the board that all mem bers would be in cluded in the pro cess. Payne said the Regent’s Gover nance Committee would meet and review the NU president’s job de scription, taking into account com ments from the four campus chancel lors and from all other regents, Payne said. The Governance Committee in cludes Regents Charles Wilson of Lincoln, Don Blank of McCook, Nancy Hoch of Nebraska City, and Pamela Kohlmeier, student regent from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Regent Robea Allen of Hastings, who last week wrote an eight-page letter accusing board members of be ing secretive about this issue, said all board members should have input on the job description. “Considering the subject that would be discussed, we should all be in volved,” Allen said. Payne assured Allen that input from all regents would be considered. Later in the meeting, Kohlmcier addressed the problem of regents criti cizing other regents. “When we make accusations against each other, it hurts the whole board,” Kohlmeier said. She said the public looked at the board as a whole rather than “who did what.” —Kohlmeier urged the group to put past problems behind them and to pull together as a team to work for the university. The board did not discuss the issue of whether NU President Martin Masscngalc’s contract should be ex tended for one more semester at Saturday’s meeting. 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