Address
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frustrating passage of the GOP Con
tract with America. Yet, advised to be
civil by party leaders, Republican law
makers were on their best behavior,
even when Clinton was most critical
of their agenda.
Each side found something differ
ent to cheer. GOP lawmakers led the
applause when Clinton declared that
the era of big government was over.
Democrats initiated the clapping at
the president’s next sentence: “We
cannot go back to the time when our
citizens were left to fend for them
selves.”
The budget crisis loomed para
mount over the House chamber. The
next budget deadline comes at mid
night Friday with the expiration of a
temporary spending measure that has
kept much of the government open.
“I am convinced we will balance
the budget,” Clinton said, adding,
“now is the time to finish the job.” He
said both sides should lock in agreed
upon budget savings and continue
negotiating the differences.
On other sensitive points, Clinton
urged Congress to enact a welfare
reform plan, replacing the Republican
version he vetoed, and to increase the
minimum wage, which the GOP has
opposed. He also urged a tax cut for
working famil ies, but didn’t acknowl
edge the Republicans’ own tax-cut
plan, part of the GOP budget that
Clinton vetoed.
Again and again, Clinton urged
Americans to work together. After
ticking off several old and new gov
Dole challenges
Clinton’s speech
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Senate Majority Leader Bob
Dole, front-runner for the GOP
presidential nomination, made
the Republican response to Presi
dent Clinton’s Stateofthe Union
address, outlining GOP differ
ences with Clinton.
He assailed the president as
“the chief obstacle to a balanced
budget” and “the rearguard of
the welfare state.”
Dole said Clinton was “ca
reening dangerously off course”
in welfare, education, Medicare
and taxes.
“We will challenge President
Clinton again and again to walk
the talk he talks so well.”
emment initiatives, he said: “None of
this will work unless all of you, every
person in America, reach across the
lines that divide us and try to find
common ground.”
Clinton proposed that the federall>
funded college work-study prograrr
be expanded to 1 million students, up
from 700,000 now. He also called foi
all schools to be linked togethei
through computer technology.
And he challenged Hollywood pro
ducers to provide entertainment theii
own children would enjoy, urging £
TV ratings system much like the mov
ies. He invited entertainment leader:
to the White House to work on way s t(
clean up television programming.
ASUN to discuss Union plans
• By Kasey Kerber
Staff Reporter
Union expansion and designs for
three possible replacements for the
Broyhill fountain will be the main
focus of tonight’s ASUN meeting.
--- Kim Todd, cam
pus landscape ar
m ■ ■ mm chitect and interim
AuUN directorofphysical
campus planning,
will sneak at the
meeting and present
the three designs.
“This meeting
will be an open-fo
rum tormat, said
1---ShawntcllHurtgen,
president of the Association of Stu
dents of the University of Nebraska.
“People will have a chance to ask
questions and express their opinions.”
Hurtgen said students with con
cerns pertaining to union expansion
should attend the meeting.
“This is a meeting in which stu
dents who have kept up with the ex
pansion efforts can express their opin
ions, and those students who might
not have kept up with the issue at all
can catch up.”
While no ASUN legislation is in
the works endorsing or criticizing the
proposed designs, Hurtgen said, such
a bill could be written after the meet
ing.
Advising also will be discussed at
the meeting.
Hurtgen said ASUN’s efforts to
improve advising first began in April,
and the issue is nearing conclusion.
“February 13 is the deadline we’ve
been given by the Admission and
Advising Committee,” Hurtgen said.
“Yet even before then, we need to
meet with the committee’s subcom
mittee.”
Hurtgen said ASUN’s focus for the
next week would be on gathering in
put from students on advising—both
complaints and positive experiences.
“We need students to be pro-active
about the changes they want in advis
ing,” Hurtgen said.
The Admission and Advising Com
mittee will vote on ASUN’s advising
proposals at its Feb. 13 meeting.
Luncheon unites senators, students
Twelve Nebraska state senators
took advantage of a free meal Tues
day and took time to meet and greet
UNL students at the Wick Alumni
Center.
Sponsored by the Government Li
aison Committee, the free luncheon
gave students and ASUN senators a
chance to discuss legislative issues
dealing with the university.
ASUN President Shawntell
■ Hurtgen said the luncheon was one of
] the test times students had to meet
with state senators and express con
-— I
cems.
“But what I like best about it,” she
said, “is how informal the whole thing
is. It’s a quick in-and-out type func
tion.”
Junior arts and sciences senator
Kiersten Yanken said she saw such
meetings as a chance for senators to
put a face with the university.
“When they’re sitting in Appro
priations trying to decided how to
spend funds ... this shows a human
side of the university.”
Amy Rager, a sophomore general
studies major, said she saw the meet
ing as a chance to show senators that
students weren’t apathetic.
Sen. Jim Cudaback of Riverdale
said the meeting was a great opportu
nity for senators to get out and listen to
students.
“It’s great anytime you can come
out and have contact with the student
body,” he said. “You get to see the
other end of the spectrum.”
— Ted Taylor
Hitchcock
Continued from Page 1
tries, Hitchcock said.
But the United States spends less
than 1 percent of its budget on for
eign development, Hitchcock said.
Percentage-wise, he said, this places
the United States in 20th to 30th
place in the world in spending on
foreign development programs.
Hitchcock said he thought the
government could allot more money
to foreign development if military
spending were cut.
“I’m not anti-military; I just think
we shouldn’t be killing people. We
“It’s impossible that
development won’t
reach these areas.
World popu lation is
too high. It’s not
possible for them to be
remote. ”
ROBERT HITCHCOCK
associate anthropology
.
professor
need the military to promote peace,”
he said.
If UNL students are concerned
about human rights, Hitchcock said,
internships are available with orga
nizations such as the United Na
tions and the World Bank, which
supports development projects.
Many positions are given to volun
teers.
The most accessible way to be
come involved in international
projects, however, is through
churches, Hitchcock said. Many of
the mission projects do not involve
envangelism, he said, and churches
are “not as picky about experience.”
Reaction
Continued from Page 1
“Tonight he called for the creation of
numerous new spending programs, and
he is willing to limit the growth of exist
ing spending,” Bereuter said in a state
ment.
“Yet, he says he is for a balanced
budget. Where is the money going to
come from?”
Sen. Bob Kerrey, a Democrat, high
lighted the important challenges the
president laid out to Congress and the
nation.
“His challenge was to focus our at-*
tention on the American family, on chil
dren, on education and on an economy
that provides a reasonable safety net,”
Kerrey said in a release.
Democratic Sen. James Exon said in
a statement that Clinton’s speech hit on
all the key issues, and he called it one of
the best he’d heard in 18 years.
Exon said he was pleased with the
president’s efforts to work with Repub
licans on the budget.
“Sooner or later, the Republicans are
going to have to get off their high horse
and come back and meet with the presi
dent of the United States,” he said.
UNL political science professor John
Hibbing, said he did not expect the
President to introduce so many new
programs.
“I was surprised a little to the extent
he put forward new programs,” he said.
“I thought he would cut that section
short because a lot of the money just
isn’t there.”
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