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University of Nebraska at Omaha The University of Nebraska at Omaha is an affirmative acticn/equat opportunity institution. Tanna Kinnaman/DN Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer talks to her audience before her lecture in Nebraska Union Wednesday night. Veteran fights for liberty, justice By Ted Taylor Staff Reporter Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer, a former Vietnam nurse and 23-year military veteran, wasn’t sure why she was speaking in front of a capacity crowd Wednesday night in the Ne braska Union. “I feel, knowing my medical back ground, I should be speaking on sleep apnea or something related,” she said. “It is highly inappropriate to be talk ing about sexual orientation.” University Program Council in conjunction with the Gay and Les bian Students Association sponsored Cammermeyer’s lecture to com memorate National Coming Out Day. Cammermeyer was the highest ranking officer to challenge the military’s anti-gay policy. She was discharged in 1992 after she told military officials that she was a les bian in an application for a head nurse position in 1989. Twenty-five months after her dis charge, she was reinstated, but the justice department appealed it. “They thought I would cause harm to the military as a whole,” she said as she showed a slide of one of the soldiers shaking her hand upon her return to the base. “Obviously that was not the case. “After the discharge I went to a ballgamc,” she said. “We said the pledge of allegiance ... and liberty and justice for all, and all that. I just couldn’t say the words. “There is not liberty and justice for all.” Her words were met with earnest applause. “The only way to have freedom and liberty for all of us is for us to continue to fight for it,” she said. Greene Continued from Page 1 Greene now calls Washington, D.C. his home. That’s where he holds the position of Summer Sports Direc tor at Special Olympics International. He started working with the Spe cial Olympics in 1989 after retiring from a 20-year military career. “My two years of R00TC at UNL turned into 20 in the service,” he said. Greene spoke enthusiastically about his position with the Special Olympics. “It’s a wonderful job — it’s all about sports,” Greene said. “And I’m a spOTtgpersoii. Working at SOI gives me a great deal of self-satisfaction and gratification every day.” Greene’s Olympic ties remain strong today. He has been asked to coach his former 400-meter relay team for the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta. “Oh, it’s a great thrill,” he said. “It’s unique to be asked to come back and coach the same team you were a part of so many years ago.” Greene plans to show his medals to UNL students who hear him speak Thursday. ' “Many people have seen them or talked about them,” he said. “But they’re worth nothing if people can’t appreciate them. It’s part of the shar ing process.” Greene said said he hoped to en courage the students he meets while he is here. “I want to send a message to them that they are at the right school at the right time, and ask them to under stand and appreciate the opportunity they have here,” he said. “I understand from my personal trial and error that the education here works.” Kemper Continued from Page 1 It was then that Kemper met his most challenging assignment. In the mid-80s, the media set its eyes on the rift between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, he said, where riots and hunger strikes occurred often. A group of Catholic prisoners once held a hunger strike, he said, and about 10 of them starved to death. The strikes also sparked riots. When chi ldren threw rocks from street comers, he said, about 40 reporters and photographers would flock to the scenes. Kemper said he wondered how much rioting was done just for the cameras. His concern prompted ethi cal questions about objective cover age, he said, and he had to carefully choose pictures that would show the real situation. Kemper transmitted the first photo for Reuters, Europe’s relatively new wire service, on Jan. 1, 1985, from Hong Kong. Kemper’s photographic and edi torial skills guided him through as signments with Reuters, UPI and the Associated Press. His assignments took him to Iraq for the Persian Gulf War, to Iran for the release of American hostages, to Eastern Europe for the fall of Com munism and to Tiananmen Square in China for student uprisings. A trip through Africa was his most enjoyable experience, he said, and it led him to a job as the UPl’s African expert in Brussels, Belgium. Through the years, Kemper learned that being able to work with people is a large part of what opens doors for journalists, he said. “Journalism is a business with a lot of egos,” he said. “The best people I have found throughout the years do not have those egos. “They’re very comfortable to work with and pleasant to be with. The people who think they know every thing don’t get the opportunities.” Perseverance and luck also fac tored into Kemper’s career, he said. “It takes an ability to see what opportunities lie ahead,” he said. “When things opened up I happened to be the right person in the right place at the right time.” Kemper’s assignment in Atlanta came about because of contacts he made at the Olympics in Hong Kong; Sarajevo,. Bosnia-Herzegovina; Barcelona, Spain; and Seoul, Korea. The 1996 Olympic games repre sent more countries than the United Nations. “I’ll be making sure these games are the best photographed of all the games,” he said. Lighting, coordination and logis tical work are being arranged to make the 1996 games visually exciting, he said. And after directing 900 photogra phers in Atlanta, Kemper said he planned to relax for a few months and watch over a relatively small opera tion — his children. Pilot program extends NRoll access hours By Kasey Kerber Staff Reporter The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska announced a pilot program Wednesday night that wi 11 make NRoll more available to stu dents next fall. The resolution, which ex plains the NRoll pilot program, passed unanimously at Wednesday’s meeting. It thanked the administration for extending NRoll hours from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on a tempo rary basis, beginning in fall 1996. “The main problem was that some students would want to drop or add a course and their current schedule would not al low them to do so by 6:3 0,” said Jon Scheve, ASUN academic committee chairman. The system turns off at 6:30 p.m. because the computers need time to save information that has been gathered, Scheve said. “We would like to have it become a 24-hour process,” he said, “but it is obvious the cur rent technology would not al low that to happen.” Also at Wednesday’s meet ing, senators shared their progress on tasks assigned to them by ASUN President Shawntell Hurtgen two weeks ago. Each senator was given a specific task or issue to investi gate such as making credits easier to transfer between Uni versity of Nebraska campuses. An unexpected occurrence took place 15 minutes into the meeting when 13 students, dressed in red cloaks and wear ing black sunglasses, entered the room and stood silently around the meeting table. One red-clad woman said, “We are watching.” Moments later members of the Innocents Society, a University of Ne braska-Lincoln honor society, left.