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MNL smokersjffumes. —Page 7 Gymnastics investigated. —Paged 'The Firm' hits Lincoln. —Page 10 THURSDAY JULY 8, 1993 VOL. 92 NO. 159 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN U.S. education system failing, Kerrey says By Brian Sharp Staff Reporter hen U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Ncb.) spoke auhe Uni versity of Ncbraska-Lin coln on Tuesday, he brought a mes sage from Washington about the state of education. And that message was the U.S. education system has been failing. “Things aren’t working,” Kerrey said. “We’re pushing people into the workforce out of high school that, very often, don’t have the skills to survive.” Kerrey, who was in Lincoln to speak to the Nebraska Economic Fel lows Institute for Secondary Teach ers, said the government has failed to teach the American public. Kerrey said the role of government was to provide people wufi mlnrma. TT35n they ncc*Tu) make decisions, and ^ by that definition they have failed, he said, by providing only for the elite researchers, not the average citizen. “We need to change the way we approach teaming as adult citizens,” Kerrey said. In order to provide people with the necessary information, he said, it is important to change the way it is delivered. Developing an electronic library is a possible option, he said. Insicatfol people waiting for infor mation, Kerrey said, it would be pos sible, with the aid of computers, for people to have their questions an swered in the classroom or in their own homes. Kerrey said although today ’sprob lems may seem overwhelming, there was just that much stronger ofa need to address them. The challenge, he said, is to find a remedy people will believe in and find cITcclivc. “There is nothing worse than do See KERREY on 3 College of Fine Pe$oflIflg[?Arts UNL's School of Music, department of theatre arts and dance and the department of art and art history merged into the College of Fine and Performing Arts on July 1. The college Includes: ■ v and created . HBSIkS! 600 majors $5 million budget 85% of budget is salaries 71 full-time faculty member: Scott Monroe/DN Damon Lee/D N Billy Christen of Lincoln, commander of the Sons of the Veterans Of Foreign Wars Post 923, assists In the lowering and folding of the flag at Holmes Lake during July 4th celebrations. Students donate time, energy to city’s homeless By Brian Sharp Staff Reporter hile millions of dollars went up in smoke during Fourth of July celebrations last weekend, one group of UNL stu dents were thinking about those less fortunate. Those without fireworks, without food and without a home. Some of those people were at The Gathering Place, where they were served soup, crackers, bread, dough nuts and drink on Independence Day at no cost. The Gathering Place, 1448 E St, has provided free meals every day for about six years. It opened in May 1982, thanks to the actions of various members of the Lincoln community, ving started last June, on the soup kitchen. According to the group, they arc taking direct action to make the world a better place, and eliminating hunger is high on their list. “(The goal is) to promote peace and justice and help promote better social understanding," said Lisa Schuctzlc, a UNL masters candidate in anthropology. The group, which meets monthly, was started last April by UNL Profes sor Rob Benford, and isaffiliated with the larger state organization of Ne braskans for Peace. Last spring, about 40 students became members, and the group is planning a major push for new members in the fall. Activities so far have included a booth at the Earth Day celebration last spring, and now the soup kitchen. They will be helping to sponsor Pas tor’s for Peace, July 19, in providing humanitarian aid to Cuba. “When school starts, we’re going See PEACE on 7 Fine, performing arts college bom By DeDra Janssen Staff Reporter new college was bom last week from the College of 4 Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The College of Fine and Perform ing Arts officially became a part of UNL oil July 1 under the leadership of Dean Larry Lusk with one goal in mind: to give more focus to the arts. The new college will reportedly include 71 full-time faculty members and about 600 majors. The college will have a budget of about $5 mil lion, of which 85 percent is made up of salaries. The new college, which is approx imately the size of the College of Business Administration, was able to be created because it did not involve any new money, Lusk said. The col lege was funded by money transferred from the College of Arts and Scienc es, he said. Lusk said the college would make the arts a more important part of cam pus life and help extend the arts into the state. “It was created to give more focus to the arts and bring closer coordina tion between all of the arts groups on campus,” Lusk said. The college includes the depart ment of an and art history, the School of Music, the department of theatre arts and dance and the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater. Affiliates with the college arc the Great Plains Art Collection, the Lied Center for the Performing Aits, the Lent/ Center for Asian Studies and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. In addition to closing the gaps be tween these groups, Lusk said he hoped the col lege would help get more grants for the arts and that it would bring more outside funds to the college. Lusk also said the new college would be beneficial to minorities,and there would be a new lecture series See ARTS on 3