Speaker says U.S. must take global role
By Brian Sharp
Staff Reporter
America is in danger.
As the gap between our nation’s responsibil
ity and its willingness to get involved continues
to grow, said Gerald Seib, a Wall Street Journal
columnist and news editor, the United States is
in danger of missing out on opportunities to
shape a better world.
Seib
Seib.partot theb.N. Ih
ompson Forum on World Is
sues, spoke at the Lied Center
for Performing Arts Tuesday
about a growing sense of na
tional isolationism.
Seib probably is best re
membered from when he
spent Five days in 1987 in an
Iranian prison, charged with
espionage. He was on a press
tour at the time.
I n his speech, America: me Kciuciani w oria
Custodian,” Seib said the United States would
pay the price in the long run if the country didn’t
get involved. _
In the next five years, he said, major global
questions will develop and the United States
could play a key role in providing the answers.
Seib said the future of Russia and China, the
involvement of nuclear weapons there and in
Japan and Germany, the end to four decades of
war between Arabia and Israel and Africa’s
economic growth were issues to be dealt with.
“If America doesn’t tend to its duties now,
sometime down the road they may look back
and see that they’ve let this happy state of affairs
slip away,’’ he said.
But first, he said, someone has to take the
lead.
“It doesn’t happen automatically,” he said.
“It basically falls on a president to do that.”
Seib said President Bill Clinton had allowed
his foreign policy to be dictated by domestic
policy — and it had failed.
“If he doesn’t (assume leadership), others
will step in and do it for him,” he said. “And it’s
not going to be the kind of result that he would
1 ike or that the American publ ic will be satisfied
with.”
Clinton needs to take charge in the area of
national defense, he said. American defense
spending has declined so much over the past
decade that no action will result in no influence.
“There soon could be considerable doubt as
to whether American forces have the size and
strength to cany out an operation like Desert
Storm,” he said.
Losing that power for fear of the dollar cost
is dangerous, he said. But keeping that power
means responsibility and risk.
“Is there a danger of overextension? Abso
lutely,” Seib said. “Is there adanger of spending
too much of our money or our blood abroad?
Absolutely. If this is the way the world is going
to be, then let’s make sure it’s a safe place.”
Seib said, however, any intervention must be
thought out and a reason for it must be found.
“I think you have to make some decision as
to what are true crises, and what are problems
that will always be with us,” he said.
Answering questions about the situation in
Bosnia, Seib said a lack of leadership prevented
action by the United Nations.
The United States needs to decide if the
trouble in Bosnia is a priority and then decide
what to do about it, he said.
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If this is the way the world
is going to be, then let’s
make sure it’s a safe place.
—Seib
Wall Street Journal columnist
and news editor
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“The truth is, the U.N. only works when the
U.S. is leading the way,” he said. “Let’s get
serious about it. If you don’t want to assume that
kind of burden, then you have to consider what
role you’re willing to play as one of the pack.”
Seib said the United States didn’t need to
police the world. Being a custodian, he said,
meant staying involved on all fronts—pushing
some, engaging others and sometimes just watch
ing.
“The danger... is not paying attention,” he
said. “The real danger is if we just drop the ball.”
MASA
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Griescn said he accepted the rea
sons behind MASA’s actions.
“I understand the message they are
trying to deliver through this boy
cott,” he said. “It’s a message ivith
which 1 have sympathy.”
Maestas said the unequal represen
tation left some students out in the
cold.
“Students don’t feel comfortable
without being able to relate to some
one like them,” she said.
Griesen said he understood stu
dents would like to see more people of
similar races in faculty and staff posi
tions.
“It would, in fact, make our Chicano
students feel more like a part of the
university if more people looked like
them,” he said.
Griescn said Maestas was asked to
write down specific concerns so they
could get to the problems quickly. He
said he would be meeting with Latino
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This is a serious
matter.
—Maestas
MASA President
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and Chicano staff members to discuss
the problems.
Maestas said that in the meantime,
the boycott of the multicultural office
would continue.
“This is a serious matter,” she said.
However, Maestas said MASA was
coming together with other options
and offices to provide the same servic
esoffered by theOfficeof Multicultural
AtTairs.
Maestas said neither the Affirma
tive Action and Diversity Office nor
the Office of Multicultural AtTairs had
responded to the boycott.
Eric Jolly, director of the Affirma
tive Action and Diversity Office, did
not return calls to the Daily Nebras
kan Tuesday.
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Dennis Smith begins four-day Lincoln tour
From Staff Reports
Dennis Smith, who will become
the president of the University of
Nebraska on March 1, begins a
four-day Lincoln visit today.
During the visit, Smith will meet
with current NU President Martin
Massengale, members of the Ne
braska Legislature, the chancellors
of the four indi vidual NU campus
es, minority staff and faculty mem
bers, faculty and Academic Senate
chairs and Gov. Ben Nelson.
Thursday morning Smith will
have a press conference.
This is Smith’s fourth visit to
Nebraska. He will move to Lincoln
in late February.
Open forum on bike dismount zone tonight
From Staff Reports
Students wishing to voice their
opinions on the proposed bicycle
dismount zone have yet another
opportunity to speak today at 6:30
p.m. in open forum at the ASUN
meeting.
Keith Benes, president of the
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, encouraged
students to give their opinions about
the proposal.
“If students are still interested
about the changes, they should come
out and get their input in,” Benes
said.
He said an ASUN student repre
sentative to the Parking Advisory
Committee wouldbe at the forum to
field questions.
In other action, ASUN senators
plan to discuss a proposed resolu
tion dealing with the evaluation of
graduate assistants.
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