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Clinton
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she said. “We’ll organize a special
detail with the Secret Service just to
assist them.”
LPD has worked with the Secret
Service many times before, she said,
and this job won’t be loo difficult.
Compared to other national politi
cians who have been to Lincoln,
Hccrmann said, this assignment is
easy.
“I don’t think she requires a lot of
security,” she said.
Ken Cauble, chief of UNL police,
agreed that Clinton’s visit wasn’t a
big problem.
“We’ve done several of these,” he
said. “The Secret Service is unbeliev
ably good to work with.”
This is the first time a national
political figure has been at the Lied
Center, Caublc said, which is making
the jobdifferent. In the past, presiden
tial speakers have appeared at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
“Because of the physical structure,
it has a few areas of concern that
Devaney doesn’t have,” he said.
UNL Police appreciate it when
they gel an opportunity to work with
the Secret Service, Cauble said.
“I think (the officers) always enjoy
it,” he said. “Police work is one of
those things if you were in Washing
ton, D.C. this wouldn’t be a big deal,
but in Lincoln, Nebraska, it is.”
Pagel
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He stuck with the program,
eventually graduating with what he
now describes as a mediocre
journalism education.
“By the time you finish this
course,” he tells beginning journal
ism students, “you will have written
more stories than I did while I was
in college.”
Because of the inadequacy of his
training, employment was a shock
for Pagel. His first editor helped
him make the transition from pupil
to reporter.
“He was a very highly skilled
and patient man. He taught me to
survive.”
Pagel did survive, and he
continued to take risks.
“Life is an adventure. If you
don’t take any risks, you don’t get
in on the adventure. I quit one of
the best jobs of my life to go spend
a year in Ireland. I quit a job at the
Omaha World-Herald to come
here.”
Now Pagel teaches others to
survive in journalism.
“There are certain things that
make good reporters: an insatiable
curiosity, an interest in people.
“You have to be dogged and
think, ‘I’m going to get this
information no matter what.’”
Good reporters are good writers,
Pagel says. Good writing is under
standable and accurate, as well as
risky.
“You anger people whenever
you write because people read with
their own biases.
“I got marched on. I was a
medical reporter at the World
Herald when the arts critic got sick,
so I was sent out to review a ballet.”
A professional company from
Des Moines gave a presentation that
was interspersed with dancing by a
local company. To Pagel, it was a
shame to have professionals and | say^
amateurs performing together Despite the competition among
because it made the local dancers journalists, the chairman is adamant
look lousy. about his department's ability to
“Every mother with a child in *We,^re stu“®l\ts‘ - • •
that ballet called me to tell me what ^ y°u graduate trom this
a crud I was.” department, we guarantee that we
can find you a job.
A story about a bingo conces* That guarantee has plenty to do
sions owner who was cheating with a student's academic contribu
sponsors and taxpayers brought the tion Sludents musl have a 2 5 grade
man to Pagel s office. point average to be accepted into
“He came to me the next day, in the journalism college, and they
tears, and said that he hoped that I must maintain it until graduation.
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news-editoral department chairman
wouldn’t do the story because it
would ruin him and his family.”
The story was published.
“Many of his friends called to
tell me what a slob 1 was.”
But Pagel is accurate as well as
antagonistic.
“One of my biggest sources of
pride: I have never had to make a
retraction. I didn’t misinform.”
He leaves the impression that he
has loved his work.
“This business throws you into
every aspect of life. You don’t have
a choice. You go out with the
movers and shakers and you come
back after you’ve learned some
thing. People call you and give you
warm fuzzies. You work with the
best people in the world.
“To be a reporter, you can’t be
disinterested in anything. We’re the
last of the great generalists. We
know a little about everything.”
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“It’s harder to find a job for a C
student,” Pagel says, although he
doesn’t find it easy to exclude
anyone.
“The thing I don’t like is that it’s
pretty elitist Sometimes when we
recognize that people don’t belong
in this field, we have to pull them
aside and tell them. Some don’t
listen to us. I counseled one young
woman twice. She told me to stick
it in my ear.”
That woman went on to have a
fine career, adding to Pagel’s list of
errors in judgment.
“I kicked a guy out of the Miami
Herald office with a story he took to
Life magazine.
“He won a Pulitzer for it.”
Making judgments can be risky,
but the chairman in the fisherman’s
hat can handle it. There are trade
offs in life, he says.
“If you take some risks, there
will be some sort of price, but you
will have savored a lot more of life
than if you set all curled up in your
apartment in front of the TV.”
One last bit of advice from
Pagel:
Today s reporters may be the last
of the last. The major newspapers
want people who are more special
ized. In 1963, when he first worked
j for the World-Herald, almost half of
the staff hadn’t gone to college.
Now, many have Ph.D.s, Pagel
munities are not forgotten,”
V-'UlUv;* tllvv Prochaska-Cue said.
Continued from Page 1 Frederick said Clinton’s plan pro
dwindling of health insurance cover- posed that every American would carry
age, the growing number of elderly a ^cal^ security card, which would
people in rural areas and the high guarantee'each person the same basic
costs of health care. setof medical benefits. ^
“Our economy cannot continue to . Some Pj^^S0 s
afford the health care system we have mclude coverage for mental health
now if it continues to rise like it has care an(f prescription drugs, he said,
been doing in the last few years,” “Il’sprobablv more expensive than
Prochaska-Cue said. “We’re going to we can afford, Frederick said, but
have to see some reforms.” d’s fairly rich in benefits.
Both Allen and Prochaska-Cue said “If they can find a way to keep the
they hoped these reforms would be costs down, it will be a wonderful
addressed in President Bill Clinton’s system because the system we have
national health care proposal. now cannot continue,” he said.
“The national health care package If Clinton’s plan is approved by
that is being proposed by Clinton has Congress, Frederick said, it will take
some real merit and possibility, but I three to four years for the plan to be
want to make sure that the rural com- implemented.
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Don l let bitterness creep into
your heart,” he says as he saunters (
outside to have a cigarette. “It just
might find a home there.”
-Police Report
Beginning midnight Monday
1:49 a.m.—Attempted theft of
banner, Nebraska Union, four
persons arrested.
3:00 a.m. — Fence lit on fire,
Farmhouse Fraternity, 3601
A St.
1 a.m. — Accident, park
ing lot at Abel Hall, $600.
11:52 a.m. — Accident, park
ing lot at South Stadium, >700.
4:29 p.m. — Ring stolen,
Oldfather Hall, $30.
4:47 p.m. — Bike stolen, Ne
braska Hall, $370.
8:35 p.m. — Bike seat stolen,
Richards Hall, $20.
8:47 p.m. — Keys lost, Dental
College.
Beginning midnight Tuesday
3:09 a.m. — Man assaulted,
person arrested and released,
Neihardt Hall.
9:50 a.m.—Fire alarm tripped,
Agricultural Communications
Building.
9:50 a.m. — Bike stolen, Ne
braska Hall, $260.
10:05 a.m.—Purse stolen, Ne
braska Union, $29.
10:47 a.m. — Accident, me
tered parking lot at 14th and W
streets, $700.
12:39 p.m. — Supplies stolen,
Love Library, $59.
3:57 p.m.— Hit-and-run acci
dent, parking lot at 10th and V
streets, $1,200.
Beginning midnight Wednes
day
12:25 p.m. — Bike stolen,
Westbrook Music Building,
$180.
12:48 p.m. — Camera stolen,
parking lot at 19th between R
and Vine streets, $50.
1:58 p.m.—Fire alarm, Morrill
Hall.