thursday, februaiy 19, 1976
page 14
daily, nebraskan
February dedicated to Black heritage
By Barbara Lutz
Several UNL student organizations and the University
Office of Minority Affairs are pooling resources during
Black Heritage Month to make students more aware of
successful Biack Americans and opportunities for Black
students at UNL.
Annette Hudson, minority affairs special services coun
selor, said National Black Heritage Week traditionally is
the second week of February, but because it is difficult
to schedule speakers at the beginning of the month, Feb
ruary has been designated Black Heritage Month in
Nebraska.
Jimmi Smith, minority affairs director, said five
speakers will visit UNL during the month and talk about
"things they (students) can gain from the university, when
they leave and while they are here." UNL's Black gradu
ates have found there are benefits for Blacks in a predominantly-White
university "in terms of what they'll
have to deal with when they leave," he said.
Smith said it is important for Black students to know
their rights on campus and the desired relationships with
professors and staff and non-faculty members.
Two 1972 graduates and one 1973 UNL graduate, now
successful businessmen, told several classes Wednesday of
their experiences since graduation.
Al Lewis, Vernon Slaughter and Raymond Metoyer
Director. . .
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According to Richie, the day care center was started in
the fall of 1971, five years after a study was made show
ing what she called a need for child care for low-income
students.
It originally was intended to be free of charge, but,
Ritchie said, because of financial problems, the centers
have hud to charge students.
This semester the fee is $40 a month for parents with
one child in the program, and $55 for more than one
child. Lincoln day care centers usually cost between $90
and $150 if used five hours for five days a week, she said.
Additionally, parents using the service must attend one
said they remember many difficult times during their,
college years. Speaking to, students in psychology, black
literature, jazz and counseling classes, Lewis and Slaughter
related experiences as residence hall student assistants on
predominantly White-student floors, antagonistic profes
sors and student harassment.
Lewis went to law school 'after he was graduated, and
taught at Manpower, Inc. He said he worked with
Northern Natural Gas Co. in Omaha until his promotion
to director of personnel training at Northern Petrochem
ical in Chicago.
Slaughter said he read an advertisement in the Daily
Nebraskan for a record industry job in Minnesota. He
landed the job and now is a local promotion manager
special markets manager for Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem (CBS) records in Washington D.C.
Metoyer. can be seen on Omaha channel 6, WOWT-TV.
The 1973 graduate is an anchorman, newscaster and pho
tographer. Hudson said the Union Program Council Black Activi
ties Committee is sponsoring a speech tonight by Ralph
Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference (SCLC). -
In March, she said, Alex Haley, Black historian and Ida
-Lewis, editor of Encore Magazine, will speak at UNL.
parent meeting a month, help in fund-raising projects for
the center and be on one parent committee, Ryan said.
Many academic departments use the day care center
as a part of their educational program, Ritchie said.
According to Kyan, the day care centers receive help
- from students from the Graduate School of Social Work,
and the Educational Psychology, Child Psychology,
Speech and Hearing, Food and Nutrition, Human Devel
opment and English Depts. For class credit, the students .
observe children in the center and plan activities.
Since th program fist started, the number of children
in the center has grown frpm 12 to about 70, she added.
Currently, the two centers serve 55 children, Ryan said.
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Photo by Kevin Mislay
Vernon Slaughter, a UNL graduate end a promo
tion and special marietta manager for Columbia
Broadcasting System (CBS) records, was one of
three speakers Wednesday. Slaughter, at UNL for
Black Heritage Month, related his experience as a
clack student
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