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YouVrobably won't we any Bicentennial events ipon
sored by Blacks, because most are ignoring Amenca s
Bicentennial celebration, according to some UNL black
students.
I don't even know there's a Bicentennial cojaing up,"
said Chariest er Williams, a senior philosophy and pre-law
major from Levitow, Fenn,'and president of Ksppa Alpha
Psi, the black fraternity.
Persons who wonder why Blacks ignore the Bicenten
nial should ask themselves if Blacks have been ignored
during the 200 years of the Bicentennial, Williams said.
One black student said he is going to try to start an
awareness campaign to protest the Bicentennial
celebration.
The Bicentennial is celebrating the past, said Clyde A AH
Stearns, a sophomore special education major from
umana.-
However, Stearns sail, Blacks can't celebrate their
people's progress until all Blacks have it as good as white
people.
Teople will say the Bicentennial is for the black
people because they have progressed a lot," he said. But
these people forget their heritage.
Ashamed of heritage
Stearns, who said he grew up in the Omaha ghetto, said
that after Blacks have succeeded outside their community,
they should return to help it. But some Blacks are
ashamed 6f their heritage, he said, because they wact ac
ceptance by white society.
"Try to act White, and you're considered a hell of a
guy," Steams said.
"For the first 100 years of the 200 years that we're
supposed to be celebrating, the black man was still in
slavery," he said. Steams is vice-chancellor of the Elites, a
NU social organization, which he said is designed to join
community and campus environments.
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While America is celebrating 200 years of freedom,
-Blacks are "still fighting for freedom and constitutional
rights," siad. UNL Minority Affairs Director Jimmie
Smith.
Instead of ignoring the celebration, Blacks should be
"bringing up examples of what needs to be done," Smith
said.
Smith said Blacks could participate by honoring Blacks
who have "overcome the plights" in America.
Continued from p. 1
Dennis Snyder, a senior English major from Lincoln
and SAP candidate in the Arts and Sciences College, said
his party also demands that the parking lots north of the
Union be taken out and replaced with a "people's park"
with grass and trees.
As for the issue of alcohol and visitation in residence
halls, Snyder said "You're stupid if you think you don't
already have them. You have to question the validity of a
law not obeyed by 99 per cent of the people including
people in the (Memorial Stadium) press box and the
state's own governor."
"You're stupid if you think you can get it by playing
Mr. Nice Guy," Young added. "We want to see students
wake up and see that the government they have now is a
Stearns said he could not start a movement protesting
the Bicentennial out of the UNL Minority Affairs Office
because it's "White-oriented." Funds to that office prob
ably would be discontinued if such a pretest originated
there, he said.
The Elites abo wl not initiate a protest for the same
financial reasons, Stearns said.
It's hard to unite Lincoln's Blacks, Stearns said,
"because they're all in their own cliques." Hcever, he
said, major issues like last fall's Sierdell Lewis shooting by
a Lancaster county sheriff united them.
"VYe don't have time to pull apart " he added.
farce. The best ASUN can do now is be better administra
tors; all they do now is push papers"
Even so, Snyder promised that if SAP is elected, it wl
"make the campus as interesting for the administration
and regents as they've made it for us."
SAP Senate candidates are: .
College of Agriculture-Dave Deqpnont of BurweH.
College of Arts and Sciences-On Bal'ot (who is Dave Hardy of
Lincoln), Mike CJgoIman of Omaha, Raoul Duke (who officially is
Kent Wolgamott of Curtis), Gregory L. Heineman of Omaha, Carl
LaFong (who is Dave Uhl of Omaha), The Moldy Moldy Man (who
is Rich Nelson of Lincoln) and Norman Mushari (who is Dennis
Snyder of Lincoln). . ,
College of Engineering and Technology-Steve K reuse of
Millard.
Teachers College Lawrence Scharmann of Point Pleasant
Beach, NJ.
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