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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1976)
r. ;r2,1073 t - 1 . ? Omaha schools m aid ioS mfmtui Furniture, csrpat By Lisa Ercrasa . - Fostsecondary opportunities for low-income and ethnic minority students will proceed normally because of 211 Omaha Public School System decision that gives higher educational institutions aid for recruiting students, said Jimmie Smith, multicultural affairs director. The decision, announced last week by the Omaha . school system and director Don Eenning, . will allow institutions access to directory information on students of an ethnic minority or a low-income family. Following the passage of the William Euckley amend ment to the U.S. Constitution, Smith and his staff have been denied any information that would enable them to determine who was qualified to receive aid from their office, Smith said. The legislation, Smith said, was cot meant to disable offices such as. his, but, It is a case cf a law with good intentions creating major problems. Accidental shower doesn't hurt lawn No damage was done to trees or grass around Love library when the sprinkler system accidenfly went on during Sunday night's freezing temperatures. Tom Nycum, assistant to .the director of me UNL Physical Plant, said the lawns around the library were being watered during the warm temperatures last week. However, through an oversight, the timed ock on the sprinkler system was improperly adjusted, causing the system to go on Sunday night, he said. The problems referred to by SmiJh have been resolved with She recent decision of the Omaha system to help pestcecandary institutions by corralling a list of students who would fit into the minority or low-income category This directory information, which" will include name, address and phone number, is everything the office has ever requested. Smith said. We have never wanted or needed to have access to the files themselves for out own personal use, he said. Smith said the Omaha school system has said mat it will "cooperate to the fullest extent as long as the work being done is for the students well-being. - Smith said mat he did not receive an explanation of the decision, but said he p very pleased. 1 1 didn't push diem to explain, he said, "but I think that they reviewed the case and saw mat our intentions did not conflict with the intent of the Buckley amend ment. "We wl be allowed to visit each school and establish personal contact with the students of interest to us," he said, "and we wI3 then contact them by mail and telephone. Next year, Scum said, the school system will compile a master list of low-income and minority students to aid the institutions and save them time in contacting each individual school. However, this year Smith and the others seeking the information will have to work with the individual schools rather than one coordinating office. "Due to the lateness of the decision, he said, wt will be hampered to some extent in mat we will not be able to contact everyone and will lose some prospective students. , ""But next year," he said, we will be in full swing and ready for a booming year." installed in Love Studying should be more pleasant in Love Library since the installation of carpeting and lounge-type furniture in three library study areas, said Gerald Rudolph, UNL dean of libraries. Rudolph said rooms 109, 205 and 204 ia Love South have been carpeted and ccmfcrteile furniture installed. Resource materials for some departments also haw been consolidated in the rooms for easier access, he added. Room 109 contains Teachers College references, and room 105 w3 house listening facilities, tapes end references for the School of Music, fee said. The improvements were financed by the library's budget, Rudolph said, and each room cost "a few thousand dollars' to renovate. He said he did not know the exact cost, but carpet remnants were used and the library already owned the furniture. Carpet installation was the major expense, he noted. Eudget limitations prevented additional improvements from being made, according to Rudolph. He said new lighting and a better heating and cooling system will be installed in Love when the Nebraska Legislature designates official library renovation money. The study areas received financing priority because il was embarrassing that we had these vast rooms and nothing to do with them, Rudolph said. Te knew they could fulfill special functions. - Rudolph said the rooms are designated as non-smoking areas. He originally had planned to keep them as smoking areas, he said, ""but students abused their privilege. Students are permitted to smoke in the first and second floor lobbies, and the entire first floor of Love North, where some study carrels are located, he said. I jAHW miiiMnd iiumi atHatm iiilinil. Inc. 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