Minority research
focus of conference
By Veronica Daehn
Staff writer
The 1999 Ethnic Minority
Research Symposium will be held
today in the Nebraska Union from 9
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Presentations of student-written
academic papers will be the focus
of this annual event, said Keith
Parker, sociology professor and
special assistant for minority affairs
to the dean of Graduate Studies.
Besides University ol
Nebraska-Lincoln students, stu
dents from three other universities
will also present papers. Other
schools included in the symposium
are Texas A&M University in
College Station, the University ol
Texas at Corpus Christi and New
Mexico Highlands University in
Las Vegas, N.M.
Parker said it was an interdisci
plinary event and topics would not
be limited to minorities.Don
Helmuth, associate vice chancellor
for research, will offer opening
remarks at 9 a.m., and Nancy
Rapoport, dean of the College of
Law, will provide the keynote
address at 12:30 p.m.
The symposium is free and
open to the public and will con
clude at 4:30 p.m. with the presen
tation of awards by Merlin Lawson,
dean of Graduate Studies.
Awards will be given to the stu
dents presenting papers for the time
and effort they put into researching
and writing them.
Parker said the symposium was
important
“It allows students to share
research with a local audience.”
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Internationally known
reporter speaks at UNL
CNN’s Peter Arnett addresses Kosovo, Iraq, Vietnam
By Sarah Baker
Senior editor
After a career spanning more than
35 years, CNN international corre
spondent Peter Arnett knows a lot
about life and a lot about news.
But he knows even more about
what it takes to be a journalist who,
many times, has almost lost his own
life for the sake of keeping the public
informed.
Arnett, who was at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln on Wednesday,
gave the final presentation in this year’s
E.N. Thompson Forum on World
Issues lecture series. Arnett’s speech
centered on his experiences in numer
ous wars - including Vietnam, Iraq and
Bosnia - and his views on the currenl
conflict in Kosovo.
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a second time on C-SPAN this
Saturday between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
This is the first time an E.N. Thompson
Forum lecture has ever been picked up
for national showing.
Arnett’s comments on Kosovo
dominated most of his speech.
“The press often helps politicians
make the right decisions,” Arnett said.
“The press is back on track. They can
be proud of their work in the Balkans.”
Arnett said that in times of war, and
even in times of political conflict and
unrest, the press had a responsibility to
report the outrages.
“At such a time as this, the facts are
more important than the passion,” he
said.
Arnett said in an interview before
the speech that he thought the press
was doing an “incredibly bold” job in
Kosovo.
“They are telling the story in a
moving way, and the Americans are
always sympathetic to the underdog,”
he said. “The press has brought inter
national attention to it, so there is con
siderable support for NATO’s cam
paign.”
But, Arnett added, there are also
great limitations on the flow of infor
mation journalists are getting in
Kosovo and also a concern that if a
ground war ensues, journalists may be
shut out completely.
He also criticized the actions of
NATO and the Clinton administration’s
withholding information from the
press and, consequently, the American
. public.
“The Serbs know what the hell is
happening, just as the Iraqis knew what
was happening in Kuwait,” he said.
“NATO may be withholding informa
tion that may be potentially embarrass
ing to us.”
After his considerable reporting
experience in the Vietnam War without
the use of modem technology, Arnett
said the addition of live television dur
ing a war changed things.
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comparison to Vietnam at all,” he said.
“The dynamic of every war is going to
be different than the previous one. If
there would have been live TV during
Vietnam, it would have been a much
shorter war.
“But this is also not as direct a
threat to national security,” he said.
“The government admits there is no
national interest, it’s humanitarian
interest.”
During 1991, Arnett was the only
Western reporter based in Iraq for
Operation Desert Storm, and also one
of the only reporters to interview Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein.
Will Norton, dean of the College of
Journalism and Mass
Communications, said Arnett was one
of the most notorious and well-known
journalists of his time.
“By the age of 18, he was already
sued for libel,” Norton said, as part oi
his introductory speech. “He is an
internationally known correspondent
who is always in the hot spots. He has
uncommon courage; he has uncom
mon character.”
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controversy surrounding CNN’s
retracted report of nerve gas used on
American defectors during the
Vietnam War was not discussed in his
speech or in the questions that followed
his comments.
In Associated Press reports, Arnett,
who reported parts of the nerve gas
story on CNN, said he was brought in
late on the report and was not responsi
ble for any of the previous reporting or
interviews concerning the story.
Arnett, unlike two other CNN
employees, was not fired from the net
work, but did receive a reprimand.
He said that if the company sent
him, he would eventually cover the
Kosovo conflict.
“There is nothing I could do at this
point to tip the balance,” he said. “I am
not Superman, unfortunately.”
Arnett said that because of his
career, he had an outlet to get past the
“trauma” he sometimes experienced
when reporting on the battlefield.
“Journalists let it all off because we
have a catharsis every night,” he said.
“We get the news out.”
Arnett had a simple answer to what
lesson stuck with him most through his
reporting career.
“I learned that the job is to get the
news and pictures back,” he said. “Not
to play soldier yourself.”
Shakespeare’s Rose opened to public
■ The site where the 16th
century theater once stood
was saved from construction
10 years ago.
LONDON (AP) - The site of the
Rose Theater, where William
Shakespeare honed his dramatic art,
opened to paying visitors Wednesday.
But it looked nothing like the stunning
replica painstakingly recreated for the
Academy Award-winning film
“Shakespeare in Love.”
For now, it’s just a dark, damp base
ment under an 11 -story office building
on the South Bank of the river Thames.
But it’s the atmosphere that counts.
“This is the holy of holies of English
theater,” lawmaker Simon Hughes said
at a Tuesday preview.
Hughes was among the campaign
ers who linked arms 10 years ago with
the elite of Britain’s acting profession to
stop bulldozers clearing away the Rose
foundations after they were discovered
during construction work.
The office building went up, but
only after the public uproar forced the
government to cough up $1.6 million
for the developers to suspend the struc
ture on girders. That gave the Rose’s
relics a space where they could be pre
served and monitored.
Now, the theater’s supporters must
wait until the office building ends its
commercial life and is pulled down -
expected in fewer than 10 years - to
allow full excavation of the site.
The open-air Rose was built in 1587
and demolished after 1606 when the
Globe theater surpassed it in popularity.
The height of the its commercial suc
cess came in the 1590s, with a repertory
of plays by Shakespeare, Christopher
Marlowe and Thomas Kyd.
A replica of the Globe was reopened
in 1997 at the initiative of the late
American actor Sam Wanamaker. It
now puts on a slate of plays.
For now, visitors to the Rose will
merely be able to stand on a viewing
platform, built where the galleries lay
on the theater’s east side.
“The remains, which had been
buried in soggy Thames mud for 400
years, would have turned to dust if they
had been left exposed to the air,” said
Jon Greenfield, an architect who
worked to reconstruct the Globe.
Meth-dealing penalty to increase
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Brashear, resulting in the final version
of the bill.
One of the provisions under the
original bill would have created a
penalty of 20 years to life in prison for
someone caught dealing a pound or
more of meth. Under the final bill,
that person would receive five to 50
years in prison with a five-year
mandatory minimum.
Peterson said meth had been a
growing problem in Grand Island for
several years.
A meth lab was recently found in
Grand Island across the street from a
grade school, she said.
The number ol labs is on the rise
in Nebraska, she said. One meth lab
was discovered in 1996, compared to
the eight found as of October 1998,
she said.
Peterson said the gram amount of
meth seized by the Nebraska State
Patrol has increased substantially in
the last two years.
“Meth abuse is a problem,”
Peterson said. “Abuse of meth is at
least as serious, if not more serious,
than abuse of cocaine.”
The heavily traveled Interstate 80
is a pipeline for the drug through
Nebraska, she said. Besides that, she
said, it can be manufactured in small,
cheap labs just about anywhere.
Athletes and students take it to
heighten their awareness, Peterson
said, while others take it to lose
weight
The drug, referred to as crank, ice
or crystal meth, is an upper, she said.
The drug increases a user’s heart rate
and metabolism, resulting in an
“intense feeling of pleasure,” she said.
But the problems associated with the
drug include being awake for days,
heart problems and brain damage.
The bill faces two more rounds of
debate. Brashear has made the bill his
priority for the year, and the bill is part
of a crime package supported by Gov.
Mike Johanns and Attorney General
Don Stenberg.