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Lack of funds . . . Leroy Ramsey says this is hurting minority recruitment.
by Ken Kirk
UNL is losing good black students to schools offering better
financial incentives, according to Leroy Ramsey, coordinator of
minority affairs.
Ramsey said he is interested in more selective minority
recruitment. But he needs more funds so he can offer more aid
to good black students, he said.
He said UNL loses a "helluva lot" of the best black students
graduating from Nebraska high schools. He said there are
about 75 to 100 top Nebraska black students a year, which
includes National Merit semi finalists and students in the top
10 per cent of their high school class. Between 600 and 900
minority students graduate from Nebraska high schools every
year, he said.
Ramsey said 150 minority students each received an
average $2,100 in financial aid. He wants to be able to offer
top students $3,200 in financial aid. This includes Office of
Economic Opportunity grants. National Defense Educational
Aid, work-study jobs and other grants.
He said Office of Minority Affairs needs $250,000 to be
properly funded. He said he hopes to get $160,000 in federal
funds and $90,000 from the University and other sources for
next year. The 1972-73 Office of Minority Affairs budget was
around $165,000, Ramsey said.
It's embarass'ng to make a financial commitment to a
minority student when the status of financial aid is uncertain,
Ramsey said.
This is one reason no new recruitment effort for minority
students has begun this semester, he said.
Ramsey said minority students can be hurt by federal
cutbacks in financial aid. If the eligibility ceiling is raised on
federal student aid, Ramsey said each student will get
proportionately less aid. This will hurt minority students most
because they need a large amount of aid, he said.
And if federally insured student loans are eliminated,
minority students will have a difficult time getting bank loans,
Ramsey said. Minority students are classified as poor risks
because they don't have the needed collateral, he continued.
Also, if the financial aid policy is not clarified soon,
minority students won't have enough time to get money,
Ramsey said.
There are about 275 minority students at UNL. Ramsey
said he wanted to recruit 150 minority students this year and
so far has recruited 1 00 to 1 30.
He said he still is waiting for replies from high school
students he has contacted. Ramsey estimated there would be
400 minority students on campus next fall.
Ramsey said he was planning to recruit outside of the state
in the future.
'Of Mice and Men '
confronts life 's futility
JJeview by Larry Kubert
For anyone in theater, the name Guthrie Theatre is looked"
upon with awe and respect.
Currently at Kimball Recital Hall is the Guthrie's
presentation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Naturally,
it's sold-out.
Set in southern California during the Depression, the
production is good, but not perfect.
The biggest flaw is Peter Goetz's Lennie. As the powerful
but simplistic Lennie, Goeta often succeeds, but occasionally
slips. This is evident in the first scene of the play as Lennie and
George (Richard Ramos) approach the Salinas River.
Both actors were reluctant to commit themselves to their
characters. As a result, the interplay between the two was stiff
and stilted. One could not gain any feeling of the hopelessness
of the pair's situation from their acting.
Fortunately, both actors managed to emerge from this
doldrum when they came in contact with other characters.
Goetz's Lennie seemed to be troubled by two problems-his
almost-moronic mentality and his brawling personality. Both
of which attempted to show what a "man-child" Lennis was.
With the exception of the first scene, Ramos, as George,
executes a Tine pertormance. mis numane love tor Lennie is
evident throughout the play and graphically illustrated as he
forces himself to kill Lennie.
Paul Ballantyne as Candy, the aged, one-armed swamper,
delivers a sympathetic picture of an old man no longer with
any place to go. Surprisingly effective is James J. Lawless as
Slim, the rancfiV mule'-skTr!rVeT.He 'exhibits "a'quief, inner
strength which places his role above the remaining
characterizations of the play.
Of Mice and Men examines the futility of dreams and
hopes. George and Lennie have a dream of being free, owning
a farm where they can withdraw from society to be safe and
secure. George will no longer have any responsibility and
Lennie will be able to do what he most wants, to raise rabbits.
Candy dreams of having a place to die which he can call
home without fear of being turned out. Curley's wife
(Katherine Ferrand) dreams of leading a gaudy life as a movie
starlet and black stablebuck Crooks (Fred Pinkard) dreams of
being accepted as a man, without regard to his color.
All these dreams are shattered, leaving the characters in the
same wretched morass that they started the play in. They have
no means of escape from the frustration and loneliness the
world has imposed upon them,
The Guthrie Of Mice and Men production has its flaws,
which isn't to say that it's a bad show. It still offers some of
the best theater to pass through Lincoln in some time.
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