BIA funds cut may not affect
UNL American Indian students
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American Indian students attending UNL
apparently will not lose about $28,000 in
financial aid as had hfn predicted; according
to Karen Buller, UNL American Indian student
counselor.
In 1972, former Indian student counselor
John Two-Birds Atbuckle predicted that the
loss of up to $28,000 in Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA) money would cause at least 40 of
47 Indian students then attending UNL to drop
out of school. Ai buckle explained then that
only seven students would be able to stay in
school without BIA assistance.
Currently there are about 35 American
Indian students at UNL.
BIA funds available to the 47 students in
1972 declined from $38,000 to $28,290,
according to figures from the UNL Scholarships
and Financial Aids Office. This cut reflected a
$17 million shaving of the national BIA budget.
A meeting this summer between American
Indian leaders and UNL representatives
produced a commitment from Ken Bader, UNL
vice chancellor of student affiars, to partially
finance students had the BIA money been cut,
Buller said. ...
Students have not had to take advantage of
Bader's offer.
Currently, an American Indian student
receives about $1,200 yearly from the BIA to
pay tuition, books, and board, Buller said. An
equal sum is provided yearly from federal
grants.
Although the BIA is encouraging more
American Indians to go to college, scholarship
funds are not keeping pace with applications,
Buller said.
"That's the mentality of the present
administration," she said. "Applications are
increasing, but dollars are not."
"BIA spends more money on internal
administration than on services," she said.
Harry Eagle Bull, the BIA regional
scholarship director, has reported that demand
is three times greater than available scholarship
funds.
Ag course
offers
overseas
crop study
Leon Chesnin, UNL associate professor of agronomy, is
encouraging students to enroll in Agronomy 402, an
overseas study of crop production and soil management in
Israel.
As many as 40 students may sign up for the 3-hour class
which will leave Lincoln Dec. 26 and return Jan. 12, 1975.
Home base in Israel will be a dormitory at the Voicani
Research Institute. Time will be allotted for historical and
biblical touring.
Chesnin, who recently returned from a month lonq
survey of Israeli agriculture and a class organizing trip, said
that country was chosen for the study because it has a
variety of climatic and soil conditions.
The climate permits crop production for 12 months,
with two or three crops raised during the year. Many types
of crops " are grown, including some raised in Nebraska,
Chesnin said.
Farming methods are very advanced and the limited land
is used well, he said- Both dryland farming and irrigation
are practiced.
The course is being taught over the interim period to
give agriculture students, who usually return to the farm in
the spring and summer; a chance to observe a foreign
agriculture.
Orientation for the study tour hopefully will include a
lecture by the Israeli agricultural attache, Chesnin said.
Chesnin has been presenting a slide talk, including the
course objectives, to various agriculture clubs this semester.
He has included a few slides on Israeli culture and people,
in addition to the various agricultural forms.
The total cost of the class will be around $700,
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