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daily nebraskan
friday, april 7, 1978
nic symposium
features speakers
There's something for everyone at this year's
Center for Great Plains Studies Symposium at the
Radisson Cornhusker Hotel.
The symposium is organized into several sessions
each day. During each session, two or three noted
anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, folklor
ists or linguists from all over the world will present
papers.
Students have been invited to attend any of these
sessions free of charge.
Today, sessions on "Immigrants and Land
Ownership" and "Ethnic Cohesion and Religion,"
will be presented at 8:45 a.m. At 10:45 a.m.
sessions on "Ethnoreligious Diversity" and
"Patterns of Ethnic Adaptation" will be offered.
Afternoon sessions include a choice between
"Patterns of Migration" and "Ethnic Literature" at
1:15 and "The Transformation of Ethnic Culture"
at 3:30.
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An authentic Irish brogue brought ethnicity to life
during the keynote address of the Center for Great Plains
Studies 1978 Symposium on "Ethnicity on the Great
Plains."
The Rev. Andrew Greeley, director of the Center for
Study of American Pluralism at the University of Chicago,
spoke Thursday morning to almost 300 persons at the
Radisson Cornhusker Hotel. Greeley is a theologian,
educator and sociologist who has written many books and
articles on ethnicity and religion.
Although the speech topic was serious - "New Models
of Ethnic Plurarlism: From Moralism to Research" -Greeley
kept his audience entertained with frequent
ethnic and religious anecdotes.
Greeley challenged those who view ethnic diversity and
revival as a threat to the United States.
"Ethnicity has always been an important part of
American life," he said. "It didn't just happen." What did
happen, he said, is that professionals recently have sanc
tioned ethnic studies.
Because many who oppose ethnic diversity have not
based their fears on fact, he said, scholars and educators
must use every available scientific tool to find facts and
prove hypotheses.
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One of his own studies compared drinking problems
among the Italians, Irish, Jewish and Swedish ethnic
groups. Greeley added jokingly that "there was no inten
tion to slight Polish drinking problems."
In his study, Greeley concluded that the incidence of
drinking problems is highest among the Irish, followed by
the Swedish, Italian and Jewish groups. The types of
drinking behavior found among thses ethnic groups are
primarily learned from family and friends, he said.
Such studies are not done to pinpoint weaknesses of
ethnic groups, Greeley said, but are used to aid counselors
dealing with alcoholism.
Although the Irish, as a group have alcohol-related
problems, he said, they are more able to deal with such
concerns as death and dying. This idea prompted an
other quip from Greeley who repeated a friend's witti
cism: "you guys (Irish) are not very good at living, but
you're pretty good at dying."
Greeley said his study also indicated that ethnic traits
and behavior are passed on unself-consciously and unin
tentionally in the early childhood experience," and
that the mother's drinking pattern, is critical in determing
her children's drinking habits. Even when an ethnic
member marries outside his or her group, he said, that
person and the children remain a firm part of their ethnic
drinking subculture.
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Because of a typographical error, Thursday's Daily
Nebraskan reported that students receive a 5 percent dis
count on purchases of $50 or more at the University
Bookstore.
The discount actually applies to a purchase of $30 or
more. The Daily Nebraskan regrets the error.
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