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THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1970
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Vol. 93, No. 83
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Earth day page 3
Editorials page 4
E-Week page 6
Serendipity 70 page 8
Charged with racism
For primary election
Law: students to
register at home
Students desiring to vote in
the May 12 primary election
"probably won't be con
sidered residents of Lancaster
County according to the elec
toral commissioner.
Under Nebraska law, only
those citizens termed legal
residents by the electoral
commission will be allowed to
vote in that county.
This, however, does not mean
that college students from
outstate will be refused the
right to vote in Lincoln just
because they are students.
"What it means," according
to electoral commissioner Dean
II. Petersen, "is that most
students are not legal residents
of Lancaster County. They ac
tuilty have a tegal residence
elsewhere."
Petersen urged students in
stead, to register In their
respective home counties
before the May 1 deadline for
registering.
"Under a new Nebraska law
people can register by mail. I
w.uld urge students to write
their county clerk as soon as
possible and request a
registration form." he added.
Students would also be wise to
request an absentee ballot at
the same time to avoid con
tusion, he said.
In order to legally register in
a county tn tne state of
Nebraska a citizen must be a
resident of the state at least six
months, a resident of the
c unty 4' days and a resident
of the precinct 10 days, he
said.
lVersn also said students
who will be having their 2lst .
birthday after the May i
registration deadline but on or
before the May 12 election
should register before the
deadline. The registration will
be approved on the date of the
individual's 21st birthday.
Anyone ho has changed his
or her name or place of
residence, even within the
county, must re-register. Peo
ple who want to change party
affiliation must also register
again according to state law.
by CAROL ANDERSON
NtbraskM Staff Writer
Charges of racism were
leveled at the HEP (High
School Equivalency Program)
at Wednesday's ASUN Senate
meeting by Sen. Phil Medcalf.
The charges were aimed at
HEP Director Gale Muller and
two of his staff members, Ted
Reithmeier and Mercedes M.
Crawford, a HEP reading
teacher, who attended the
ASUN meeting by invitation.
The standardized test HEP
students must take at the end
of the six to eight month pro
gram doesn't consider the
cultural differences of HEP
students, most of whom are
Chicanes, Medcalf said.
HEP students are "culturally
different, not culturally
deprived," Mrs. Crawford said
in answer to Medcalf's
statements. She implied that
this is why the program doesn't
concentrate more on the
psychological side of the stu
dent. Several student counselors
have been fired from the pro
gram for disagreeing with its
philosophy of Americanizing
students Medcalf said. He
pointed out three former
counselors in attendance at the
meeting. One of the former
counselors, Mike Shonsey said
he had resigned from the pro
gram as a counselor but pro
bably would have been fired if
he hadn't.
Shonsey said HEP frowned
on counselor-student social ac
tivities such as drinking
together and that some
students felt counselors were
just babysitting. He said he is
concerned because all the
counselors are white, differing
culturally from HEP students.
Muller said special efforts
are made to recruit Chicano
counselors but so far none had
been hired. He refused to
discuss the firing of former
counselors in public but offered
to talk with Medcalf privately.
Muller argued that HEP had
a right to expect its counselors
to maintain certain standards
and that these standards are
not necessarily value-loaded
but based on experience.
The ASUN inquiry was in
stigated by a resolution in
troduced by Medcalf resolving
that "ASUN request the CSL to
review the relationship of
University students to the
NHRRF. The NHRRF
(Nebraska Human Resource
Research Foundation) is con
nected with the University and
operates HEP as one of its 11
projects, according to Muller.
He said HEP is federally
funded by the Office of
Economic Opportunity (OEO)
and operated according to GEO
guidelines.
Medcalf withdrew his
resolution but says he "still
feels strongly that HEP is a
racist program." He said he
brought up the issue because
"it needs airing." The matter
will probably come up again in
the Human Rights Committee,
Medcalf added.
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