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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
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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.
