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A WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1969 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 5 . Turner: blacks attend college out of need, not capability by Mike Barret Nebraskan Staff Writer Black students must attend establishment institutions to acquire skill and political direction that will serve the needs of their people, the director of Cornell Univer sity's Center for Afro Ameri can studies said Tuesday. Dr. James Tumor told an audience of 75 people that "black students increasingly understand that going to college is not a question of what they want to do, but of what is needed." The sudden increase in the number of black students is not due to the students' i ndividual capabilities, he said. "Even though many brothers and sisters may think they have what is re quired by whites, the large increase is due to actions of blacks elsewhere and to reactions of some people in white society." Turner said white control of blacks over long periods of time has led blacks to manifest "the colonial personality." Because of this personality "blacks began to seek after things white, as the source of power, the source of im provement of their condi tion," he said. "They began to be very empty in their relationships to things that FURNISH TOUt APARTMENT ATTRACTIVFIT RENT CONTEMPORARY, EARl AMERICAN, OR MEDITERRANEAN FURNITURE OCTOBER SPECIAL- ' 10 OFF CONTEMPORART ITEMS Intorter DIvwiHM 12M SootH SI. 4-Mn NO VIETNAMESE EVER CALLED ME 1 i Only Four More JUlslfQ A side-splitting farce on , the F-ench bedroom manner. Call in now for reservations 472-2073 Students $1.75 University Theatre Temple Building 12th and R Dr. James Turner, Cornell University's director of the Center for Afro-American Studies were related to themselves." He added that, "this type of control has forced black people in this country into a great deal of misdirection. "First it was thought that discrimination was an ab normal perversion, taking place in certain segments of society. All we needed to do was improve the moral fiber of the South and that would solve the American dilem ma." o WW WilSter Dosaufc8 NIGGER Mannheim Film Festival Award Winner by David Weiss THURSDAY OCTOBER 30 2:30 & 7:00 pm SHELDON AUDITORIUM Admission $1 $pontord by Ntb. Union Film CftmmitlM ni Shxldon Art Gallery p 7-i n J3 -Zlizinl Then the problem was called stereotypes, Turner said, and if black people would dispel those stereo types, change would take place and an improvement in racial problems would be forthcoming. People thought that with sufficient educa tional programs, racial pre judice would end, he added. Blacks set out to prove things white people thought Donuts & Coffee . . . ... to start the day ... to end the day Open 24 hours 5121 0 488-9926 Nights! nit i m m irfVi ilH "n I about them were untrue, ac cording to Turner. Panels of sociologist and doctors got together to prove that black "rhythm" was not genetic, Turner added. They said "blacks are no different than you. We are the same as whites." "Blacks believed if they could somehow submerge, culturally and socially, into the dominant group, much of the kind of economic Continued on page 6 Meres wttiat pur first fear or two at IBM could, he like Soon after his Intensive training course, IBM marketing representative Preston Love, B.S. '66, started helping key Iowa commissioners solve problems. Like how to Introduce school kids to computers, without installing one. His answer: share one In Chicago by phone cable. ON CAMPUS NOV. 4, 5 Palmer: by Bill Smitherman Nebraskan Staff Writer Students (a.) should (b.) should not have a rode in University decision making. (Choose one) Charles Palmer, president of the National Student t i on, chooses answer (a.). Speaking Monday evening in the Union Centennial Room, Palmer told a crowd of about 100 that people everywhere are beginning to demand more control over their own lives. Students have been one of the most active groups in asking for a voice, Palmer added. They are asking for control in environmental and moral decisions of their Universities, he said. "To cat a University a democratic community is crap", Palmer continued. "If an American university is any kind of community, it would be called a monarchy. Controlled Universities in the United States have traditionally been controlled by small groups of administrators and faculty members, he contin ued. There has been little or no input from students. He said that students wan ting a voice in their own lives have tried in recent years to use the "existing channels and levers" to effect change. "However, they found that the channels never really existed and that all the few H I: An Equal Opportunity Employer S ram7 Students should have role levers were broken," Palmer continued. He said that token student representation on university governing bodies has been one way that students have tried to make themselves heard. However, this Is ineffective because most decisions are made behind closed doors, Palmer added. "For Universities to have a real democratic decision-making process, the decisions must be made in public. The past student body president of the University of California at Berkley said that students should have a role in University decisions because they are the most directly influenced by them. Palmer noted that students nationally have taken posi tions and won fights in areas of campus expansion, university building programs and academic areas. "In many cases students are putting forward whole new concepts of education," he continued. "They are hir ing teachers, and starting classes of their own in some cases." Palmer said that the students are right to criticize what Universities are doing. "The University should be a part of the community and do good for the community in general," he continued. By working together for a better university and com- muiuiy, siuuems wiu oegin 10 communicate and think, he said. More participatory You'll become involved fast. You'll find we delegate responsi-billty-to the limit of your ability. At IBM, you'll work individual ly or on a small team. And be en couraged to contribute your own ideas. You'll advance just as fast andfarasyourtalentscantakeyou. Here's what three recent grad uates are doing. OiUlul lll. - v; 1 programs will mean more people involved and active. Palmer continued. Not enough "However, student power is not enough," he said. "We can't just have the universities as islands of participation in a non participating society." He explained that when the university becomes a place where people have control over their own lives, it will naturally begin to challenge the social order as a whole "For this reason, It 1 necessary to relate what Is going on at the university to the society," he said. "Some people away from campuses are already beginning to ?x v.; -J V . W ; 'if ' ; ' --. - t v Iff" "( ' x " Doug Taylor, B.S. Electronics Engineering '67, is already a senior associate engineer working in large scale circuit technology. Aided by computer design, Doug is one ol a five man team designing integrated circuits that will go into IBM. computers in the 1370'8. - ... Soon after his IBM programmer training, John Klayman, B.S. Math '63, began writing programs used by a computer system to schedule every event in the Apollo tracking stations. And when the finished programs were turned over to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, he was responsible for making them work. Visit vour Placement off Icq and sign up for an interview with IBM,, challenge the way their dec isions are made. "If students can relate to people outside the Universe ty, then the blame for pro blems can be fixed where it belongs and not on the easy scapegoat of students." Powerful force Palmer said that student governments can be a powerful force in effecting change. However, to become effective, the s t u d e n t government must be finan cially separate from the University, he continued. He added that student cor porations offering goods and services are one way of ob taining the money.