Family joins Brother Jed
By Jan Calinger
Staff Reporter
Preacher George Edward “Brother Jed”
Smock returned to UNL Thursday for his annu
al round of preaching near Broyhill fountain
outside of the Nebraska Union.
This year he added
a special feature to his
preaching—his fam
ily.
Smock’s wife, “Sis
ter Cindy,” and his
four daughters accom
panied him to UNL,
where Cindy Smock
also preached, and
the children even re
cited Psalms for the
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Jed Smock Smock, 50, said he
has been coming to the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln since the late
1970s.
Smock is known for his blunt style of orato
ry, which he uses to criticize behaviors he says
are practiced by most UNL students. Smock
lectures against drinking, fornication and ho
mosexuality.
“I use generalizations,” he said. “But when
you use generalizations, you imply exceptions.
There may be a few decent people on this
campus.
“Admittedly, I haven’t met any yet.”
Smock encountered criticism and insults
during his sermon, but he said he expected
them.
“Paul (the apostle) said, ‘The preaching of
the cross is, to them that perish, foolish,’” he
The man is made to be the
leader. The woman Is made
to bear children.
— Cindy Smock
preacher
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said. “Jesus and his apostles were often ridi
culed.”
Cindy Smock said she has preached “ofT
and-on” at UNL since the late 1970s. Her
preaching generally centers on women’s role as
homemakers and mothers.
“God ordained the family,” she said. ‘There’s
a role for the man, and a role for the women. The
man is made to be the leader. The woman is
made to bear children.”
Cindv Smock said she also anticipated that
her preaching would be criticized.
“I expect students to act,” she said. “Stu
dents don’t like when someone says that what
they do is wrong.”
Smock’s oldest daughter, Evangeline, 9,
said she liked talking to students.
“I like to tell them about the Bible,” she said.
Evangeline said she wanted to become a
preacher when she became old enough.
Smock said his preaching would affect stu
dents in the long term.
“We just planted a seed,” he said. “Mavbe
people won ’ t think about this for years, but then
will one day start seeking God.”
Smock will preach this afternoon at the
Union and this evening at the Victory Fellow
ship Church near 35th Street and Comhusker
Highway.
Travis Heying/DN
Cindy Smock of Campus Ministry USA tries to get the attention of passing
students. She and her husband, Jed Smock, preached near Broyhiil Fountain
Thursday.
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Apollo
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not out of mind, said Ron Synowicki,
a member of Nebraskans for the Ad
vancement of Space Development.
“It’s like they were trying to put it
away so people would forget about
it,” said Synowicki, a research engi
neer at UNL. “They can take it off
display, but people aren’t going to
forget about it.”
Synowicki and other members of
NASD are continuing their campaign
to urge NU regents to restore the
capsule.
“If it’s sitting there in a shed it's
not doing anyone any good,"
Synowicki said. “It’s still corroding.”
Bud Dasenbrock, UNL director of
landscape services, said the capsule
was being protected from weather
damage in the storage shed.
“I looked at it a couple weeks ago.
It looks fine,” Dasenbrock said. “It’s
in a place now where it’s protected
from the weather. I didn’t see any
deterioration that bothered me at all."
Experts at the nation’s top muse
ums and space centers said the Apollo
009 deserved better treatment.
• Rob Navias, NASA spokesman
at Johnson Space Center in Houston,
said the Apollo 009 was valuable.
“All recoverable space hardware
has some historical significance,” he
said.
• Lisa Malone, news chief at
Kennedy Space Center in Florida,
said capsules such as the Apollo 009
were few. Because of their rarity,
Malone said, museums across the
world often trade the capsules.
• Lillian Kozlowski, specialist on
the space collection at the
Smithsonian’s Air and Space Muse
um in Washington, D.C., said test
flight capsules were loaned to muse
ums when manned- flight ones weren’t
available. Both types have equal his
toric value, she said.
• Jack Schmid, exhibits manager
at National Aeronautics and Space
Administration headquarters in Wash
ington, D.C., said any space artifacts
from the Apollo mission were pre
cious.
“Even if it didn’t go to the moon,
it’s a pretty important thing,” Schmid
said ’‘It's very valuable if it’s in de
cent condition.”
The restoration of the capsule is
not on the regents’ capital construc
tion list, said Herb Howe, UNL asso
ciate to the chancellor.
And, Howe said, the regents prob
ably will not discuss restoration plans
this fall.
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Money is not available for the uni
versity to pay the restoration price,'
Howe said
Officials at the Kansas
Cosmosphere in Hutchinson estimat
ed restoration could cost up to
$400,000.
The Kansas Cosmosphere twice
has offered to restore the craft. Both
offers would have required UNL to
give up the capsule.
The regents voted to turn down the
two offers. Regents had hoped to find
money to fund restoration so UNL
could keep the capsule.
NU Regent Charles Wilson said
money still was not available to re
store the craft.
“Unless some donor has miracu
lously appeared, I don’t think we have
any funds to do that,” he said.
Wilson said he supported a trade
presented by the Cosmosphere last
year that offered UNL valuable space
artifacts in exchange for the capsule.
“I felt we didn’t have the funds to,
restore it, and to just hold it and store
it in a warehouse didn’t make much
sense to me,” he said.
Wilson said if officials couldn’t
find funding in the future, he would
support giving the capsule—for noth
ing in return—to someone who could
restore it.
“Why keep it stuffed away in some
dark room just to say it’s ours?” Wil
son said. “In the long run I think it
would be a shame to just let it rust
away.”
Kopplin
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somebody has learned something
about weather," he said. “On Channel
10, hopefully it’s the same, as I’m
informing the public. 1 hope that I’ve
taught Nebraska something by being
on TV."
Both lifestyles have their good
points.
Kopplin said one of the advantages
to his duties at UNL was being able to
have personal contact with the people
he taught.
Kopplin’s students might be sur
prised to learn their introductory ge
ography or cultural geography pro
fessor is the same person they see on
television everyday, but Kopplin said
his local celebrity status didn’t affect
his teaching.
“I donrt think they’re over
whelmed,** Kopplin said. “Hopefully,
they like the class not because of that,
but because of my teaching.”
And if he had to choose just one
part of his double life as part-time
professor and weatherman, Kopplin
said it would be an all-or-nothing
proposition.
‘lIf I just had one or the other, I
probably wouldn’t do either one,” he
said.
