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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
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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:
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and
created
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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
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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
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