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Alumnus
says UNL
changed
ByJManSharp
Senior Reporter
Thomas Morrow remembers a dif
ferent UNL.
It was another era when he was
here, Morrow said. It was a time of
protest, radical behavior and the Viet
nam War.
But 25 years have passed since he
graduated from the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln with a bachelor’s
degree in economics. Things have
changed.
Now, Morrow is back in Lincoln,
participating in Masters Week. It’s a
program that invites distinguished
alumni to return to campus and in
teract with today's students. Morrow
is now president of Time Warner
Communications, the second-largest
cable company in the country.
Walking around campus, Morrow
has noticed many superficial
changes. And he’s not just talking
about the landscape.
In the 1960s, anyone who was
clean-cut, well-dressed and wore a tie
marked themselves at the far end of
the political spectrum, he said. And
it was the wrong end.
For UNL students it was long hair,
drugs and alcohol.
Morrow described himself as a
long-haired (or, at least, as long as
he could wear it and still get a job),
average student who was making fair
grades and doing what it took to get
by. He took part in what few demon
strations and marches there were.
“It was a fun time to be hcre,M he
said. “(Students) had an issue to rally
around. It was easy and obvious ”
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UNI alumni
to reunite,
give thanks
By Jeff Randall _
Staff Reporter
Going to college is something
many students may take for granted,
but for one group of returning alumni,
college was a hard-sought and well
remembered experience.
This Friday, 41 Japancsc-Amcri
can students who attended the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln in the
1940s will return to their alma mater.
The students came to UNL because
it was one of few universities that al
lowed Japanese-American students to
attend classes during World War II.
In 1942, President Franklin
Roosevelt signed Executive Order
9066, forcing 120,000 Japanese
Amcncans into wartime internment
camps. Of this group, 75,000 were
Nisei, second-generation American
citizens of Japanese ancestry.
Several Nisei were pulled from
their educational endeavors because
of the internment camps, but univer
sities across the United States, includ
ing UNL, allowed these students to
continue their studies.
Thcn-UNL Chancellor Chauncey
Boucher and registrar George
Rosenlof were instrumental in admit
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Dennis Smith, loft, was swam In Thursday as the University ef Nebraska’s fifth president In an Inauguration ceremony
at Kimball Hall. Smith, who started Ms Job In March, talked to tho audience about moving the university Into tho 21st
Smith sworn in as NU president
University head
says NU will
face hard times
By Wlto_
Senior Reporter
No sooner than the medallion
of office had been draped over his
head, NU president Dennis Smith
told an audience Thursday that
tough times and tight belts lay
ahead.
Smith, who started his job in
March, was inaugurated as the
fifth president of the University of
Nebraska system.
Before an audience of more
than 500 people, including profes
sors and administrators from
across Nebraska and the United
States, he told a story of a man who
went to a fortuneteller.
The fortuneteller told the man
he would be poor and miserable for
the next five years. The man then
asked what would happen after five
years.
“You’ll get used to it,” Smith
said. NU also would have to get
used to tight budgets. Smith said.
Words like downsizing and re
organizing were words common in
higher education, Smith said. He
said universities across the nation
were feeling the effects of a rap
idly changing society and rapidly
increasing demands.
Smith said when a university
changed its goals to meet the needs
of the people in the state, govern
ment was tempted to regulate.
“Trust in people, the antithesis
of regulation, is rarely misplaced,”
he said. Smith said trust would cre
ate a better institution than regu
lation.
Parts of the university need fix
ing, Smith said, but government
needs to leave alone the things that
aren’t broken. He said the situa
tion in higher education did not
need a major overhaul.
Smith said the university must
not lose sight of its main goal: the
production of tomorrow’s scholars.
The refocusing on undergraduate
education, expansion of research
opportunities and the greater use
of technology in the classroom will
move the university into the 21st
century.
After Smith’s address, nothing
but kudos were passed around for
the new president from members
of the university, politicians and
faculty.
Slate Sen. Don Wesely of Lin
coln said Smith's presence cleared
the air over the presidency, which
has been involved in controversy
since former NU president Ronald
Roskens was fired in 1989. Wesely
said Smith would add stability to
NU when it came to budget time
in the Legislature.
“He did a nice job laying out the
expectation and the reality,”
Wesely said. “He knows the situa
tion. He's not going to make prom
ises beyond what he can deliver.”
Wesely said the prospects of NU
taking a budget cut were getting
better, because of increased rev
enue shrinking a predicted budget
shortfall. He said, however, that
there never was enough money to
go around.
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Reinsch ‘pretty sure’ Sen. Landis will win
ByJulUftobczyfc
Staff Reporter
Charles Reinsch said he did not
expect to win the race against State
Sen. David Landis for the
Legislature’s 46th District seat.
“Landis is doing a good job,”
Reinsch said. “I’m pretty sure Landis
will win. I’m just running to make
Nebraskans aware of my projects.”
One project Reinsch would initiate
if elected is building an expressway
around Lincoln to increase property
values and attract new businesses to
Lincoln.
Reinsch said he also would like the
Legislature to get the federal govern
ment to build a small army base near
Lincoln.
“I want to build a small army base
for helicopters near Lincoln,” he said.
“It’s hard for Nebraskans to get into
the military. There are a lot of Ne
braskans on bases on the West Coast.
A base would be a good thing if they
wanted to relocate to Nebraska ”
Another important issue to
Reinsch is building a domed football
stadium near Omaha
“It’s not absolutely necessary, but
it would be good for Omaha and for
the athletes of Nebraska,” Reinsch
said. “It would be good if they wanted
to be part of the NFL someday.”
At the same time, Reinsch said he
wanted to hold down state spending
and prevent tax increases.
“I don’t want to raise taxes,” he
said. “I want to trim each budget so
Nebraska won’t have to raise taxes
and still have some money left over.”
Keeping state spending down
would mean making it harder for pro
grams 10 gei more money, tveinscn
said. Programs would have to prove
they needed the money before they
would get it, he said.
While Reinsch had several
projects, Landis said he had his own
approach to the issues.
“The most pressing issue is a $15
million dollar shortage of revenue,”
Landis said. “We won’t have all the
money to do what we’ve been doing.”
The Nebraska Legislature prob
ably will face a shortfall in tax rev
enue as it makes its next biennium
budget next year.
The revenue system will not gen
erate as much money because of the
Erowth of the Medicaid program,
andis said. Medicaid is the govern
ment-run health care program for the
poor.
Landis said raising taxes would
hoi soivc me suite s ouugciary proo
lems.
“Raising taxes will be the last re
sort,” he said. “Instead we will look
to cutting government programs and
deferring expenditure.”
He said he did not know which
programs, if any, would be cut.
Landis said he didn’t think the
University of Nebraska was over-bud
geted, but budget cuts were possible.
Landis said the university needed
to make more room in the budget to
pay professors.
“I think we have to keep up with
the national scale of faculty salaries,”
he said.
“If we have adequate compensa
tion, we will have first-rate teachers.
If we have first-rate teachers, then we
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