Author encourages expanding knowledge
By Brian Carlson
StaffReporter
Ted Sorensen, former special coun
sel to President John F. Kennedy, ad
dressed the importance of the humani
ties for America’s political future in a
speech at Kimball Hall Thursday.
In his lecture, “Poetry and Politics:
The Importance of Liberal Arts Edu
cation for Public Leadership in the
Twenty-first Century,” the Lincoln na
tive and UNL alumnus said the impor
tant connection between politics and
intellectualism has been ignored.
“Politicians and intellectuals, in
stead of collaborating for the public
good, tend to view each other’s pro
fessions with disdain,” he said.!
Sorensen noted that the country’s
early politicians often quoted philoso
phy and literature in their arguments.
A politician’s command of the lan
guage and poetry gave him a distinct
advantage over his counterparts, he
said.
The separation of the political and
intellectual is unfortunate, Sorenson
said.
“No leader can understand the
problems of today without some
knowledge of the past, ofother cultures
and other religions,” he said.
Sorenson also criticized recent ef
forts to decrease federal funding for die
arts and humanities.
He said that America should not
privatize “all of its culture and knowl
edge.” Without public assistance, he
said, artists such as Michelangelo and
Shakespeare could not have achieved
what they did.
Sorenson encouraged students to
take as many humanities courses as
possible. He emphasized that
tomorrow’s leaders should have then
minds “stuffed” with knowledge but
also “stretched” to increase their un
derstanding of literature, arts and cul
ture.
“We must lead through the power
of our intellectual might,” he said.
Sorenson’s speech was sponsored
by the Nebraska Humanities Council.
GovJkn Nelson introduced Sorenson.
Author of the 1965 international
best-seller, “Kennedy,” Sorenson pub
lish his latest book, “Why I am a
Democrat,*’ this year. He will sign cop
ies apt the Nebraska Bookstore Friday
from 10 a.m. to 11 jun.
Speaker:
By Erin Gibson
Staff Reporter t
In a speech dotted with tales of hu
man-rights abuses in Chile and Roma
nia, a former U.S. ambassador to those
two countries and India detailed the
United States’ power to promote hu
man rights. \
Hairy Barnes Jr.’s speech Thursday
night kicked off the Hendricks Sym
posium to Address Human Rights,
which will continue today through Sun
day at the Nebraska Union.
While serving as an ambassador
during the Nixon, Ford, Carter and
Reagan administrations, Barnes pro
moted democracy, tree-market reforms
and a greater worldwide respect for
basic human rights.
’The soft-spoken Barnes com
manded the audience’s attention as he
told of graphic encounters with human
rights abuses.
In Chile for example, military
police doused a man in gasoline and
burned him alive for his father’s
political affiliations, Barnes said.
During the 1970s, Congress re
sponded totfie country’s demands that
human-rights abuses around the world
not be ignored, he said.
“We are not in one of those periods
now,” Barnes said.
Barnes said he worried that the
United States would stop intervening
in human rights abuses by foreign
countries.
Lindsey Smith, a senior interna
tional affairs major at UNL, called
Barnes’ speech “outstanding.”
“I appreciated his perspective as a
nonpolitical ambassador,” she said.
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