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Low-income white students at UNL are depriving
themselves of the financial aid they are entitled to,
according to the director of multi-cultural affairs.
Director Jimmie Smith said applications from low
income white students for financial aid are minimal.
"We have many program services that we can offer
those low-income white students if they would just come
forward and apply," Smith said.
Counselors in his office lose contact with most of the
low-income whites who are contacted in Nebraska high
schools, he said.
"We talk to interested low-income students in a very
personalized approach and encourage them to attend
some postsecondary school," he added.
Prevented by pride ; ..
Pride often prevents low-income whites from attending
those high school meetings, Smith said. He added he
thinks many low-income white students try to avoid
association with a low-income family and therefore will
not apply for assistance.
"Many low-income whites will try to upgrade their
dress and speech," Smith said, "but that won't change
their academic skills and their need for financial aid or
personal counseling."
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The Fees Allocation Dosrd (FAB) reviewed com
plaints Wednesday niit that accused the ASUN execu
tive committee cf. filiiiig the ice chancellor asi president
search committees positions without any chsss for the :
average student to apply."
In a letter to FAB, Bruce WMtacre said that ASUN
didn't hold any kind of interview procedure to screen the
applicants and that "only students who were known by .
the committee were chosen for the posts."
The persons chosen for the search committee positions
were not representative
stated.
ASUN Prfsdent
of the "average
student, he
Mueller, said the committee
spoinizsssts were advertised in the Daily Nebraskan,
bzt thzi fornsl interviews were not held for the positions.
"To ezpLia things further we're having prcibms with
finding studsnts who are interested a committee posts,"
L!uv!!;r szil. "And maybe we should have had interviews,
but the three execs rnsde the fbd selections."
Scott Cock, ASUN Senator also submitted a ktter of
contpiafnl that critic: 3rd the "effectiveness and respon
sibility" of ASUN erscutives. Cook said he bad Lis
opinion on the fact thst ASUN didn't have their office
Ivirs posted until two weeks 2jp "somsthisg that
slsouUVe been done at the beginning cf the cmcstsx."
"I admit we' didn't have the hours posted oa time, but
I don't sit behind the desk very often eilhsr" tlacller
ssid. "I thhk Vvt done ray job-rve read the con
stitution and attend all the meetings. I don't think the
jcb cf ASUN present can be run compktcly from be
hind a d:i riths', bCSu2 it requires other involvement."
but it's bzssd on time spent doing A511" .hted work,"
Morrison said.
' FAB voted 5-3-1 that ASUN be required to report
to FAB within two weeks of the criteria ard procedures
that determine ASUN executive sabrks.
In other business, FAB member Critt Miller announc
ed Ms resignation from FAB.
1 feel that working tinder the university government
system as a whole is totally useless," Miller said. "Be
fore students can deal with the real issues that face them,
we have to be able to have input into the university, to
allocate our' funds without administration approval. The
whole system cf student government has to be totally
reformed."
He said he thinks better cooperation between the
Scholarships and Financial Aids Office and multi-cultured
affairs is essential.
"We receive a list of all minority students, but we have
no way of contacting low-income whites when they apply
for financial aid because the financial aids office is the
oriy department that has those records," Smith said.
"The low-income whites need to be identified, have
their needs diagnosed and then have them referred to our
department."
' . .' Infonnatisn is ccsfldcniid
Jack Ritchie, director of scholarships and financial
aids, said the information his office receives is strictly con
fidential and cannot release any information about low
income students.
"1 don't want the students thinking that personal in
formation will be released about them -hen they come in
to apply for financial aid," Ritchie said.
He said the student decides whether or not information
can be released. Financial reports involve the family as
well as the student, Ritchie said.
"I can understand Mr. Smith's desire to receive the
names of low-income white students," Ritchie said, "But
we have to maintain a level of confidence between the
student and our office."
Three candidates
for NU presiden
mum on job offer
Three persons mentioned as being considered by the
NU Hoard of Regents to replace D. B. Vainer as NU presi
dent refused to comment on whether they had been con
tacted by the regents about the job. '! "
.:!bu don reaSy expect, me to iaswer that -question,,
do you?" asked Howard NevUle, preadent of the Univer
sity of Maine at Orono when d if he had been contact-
Neville did cy, ho-wrer, that he had talked to Varner
by telephone during the last week.
The only thing Neville would say was discusssd during
that call was the Nebraska fwCthaH teanrt chances of play
ing in the Orange Bowl.
Regent chairman James Moyhn of Omaha ssM three of
the six persons under consideration had been contacted
by the regents and have shown interest in the position. lie
said no responses have been received from the three.
Qayton Yeutter, UJS. special trade ambassador, and
Harold F. "Cotton" Robinson, chancellor of Western
Carolina University at Cullowhee, N.C., also declined to
comment on whether they had been contacted.
Both said any information would have to come from
the regents.
Yeutter, whose position of roving ambassador is con
nected with the White llause, said he has no set plans
concerning what he wH do after the Jimmy Carter admin
istration takes office Jan. 20.
He ssid he planned to remain in his present position
until after Jan. 20 to help with the transition of admin
istrations. Two other mentioned candidates, John C. Calhoun
Jr., vice president for academic affairs at Texas A &,M
University at College Station, and Charles E. Bishop,
president of the University cf Arkansas at FayetteviUe,
both were out of town and could not be reached for
comment. ' - -.v-
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c "education about highway
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There is a need to promote better undsrst
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Fcmrr two-year ASUN ssnstor, Frzk TLcrssn,
H Le daTt ATJN esa.-.Ts shodi be rtid
their pcsf&ss. I've been essockted wVh nother
stiidsnt pveisnsct and they dont pay t'rir - exscs,"
Thortpiaa tzH. "Under whst critsria are you z'.irz them
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mumcatkm and education of the public about Jhira-sy
. issfety. Got. J. Jaisss Exon said Uednesd. '"
r 1 Exon . was moderator for the Svpcr tzfety Seminar
at the Corshusker IIoteL Erit psnsljls addressd more
than 120 people cn traffic ssfsty and what is beisg done
about it.
Exon sdd 83 to 93 percent of si traffic accidents are
catrfrf by driver errors. -
a'e mst redirect our elicits to dzu dlrsdly in ch
ir.' the attitui: cf the driver" Exoa soil.
Erstt MeTis, rficmal adrmsistrstor of tha National
ugxwzy Tnuuc uuety jumrZTXsm alio stresed rn.
Most of the emergency medical services are tthted to
rsrpcnre after an accMeat has occurred, rather than pre
vention of the accident.
If a person is involved in a traffic accident in Nebraska
today, he has less chance cf sni'drg thsn if he hsd been
shot in Vietnam, he ssM.
One reason for this, he xxpliined, is the gaotizs
-cf doctors. .
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do not
FAB nseinbcr Pil l!cniKm, former ASUN ersc, rlzzr;ll: if 3
i:-h?y n';ty is a social prclbrafce sdd. If the
j-tct" deal r:rc;r.-2 it, then f't it rxroa to then."
lzit rcried ivt thst 133 U?s cjuli bs saved
E'cty per cent cf Nib
full-time doctors, he till. If an zcdlzzt occurred, the
chinccs cf a doctor bclrj t t'.s hospital st thit time ere
decreases. lis tsPsSzS tie fccHding cf a safety center
and a commimicitiosis rcaource center as a psitM mcr.
ssei &st ASUT4 execs be paid on an he;
- fets2J of monthly.
"It's net a preperd to check cn their pcxfo
r cent cf Cilun wmz I
itj rste, Dr. lcnnsth Zkz2, a tlyzZzn fca Kesmry.
he tls pc-? ".2 rrci to he trri-.-i in emsrr;
manccs, cirs.
i MunidTiJ Juds Thomis 1.
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cf tr
Tica ErIy by thrnrclTcj result in asro," he
"Uslr'j they are csiiJ trith xctbn and k;i
they dealt tnourt to a formfhs tziL
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