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Armstrong inflation eating students money
By Michelle Carr
Students should resist tuition increases just as citizens
should resist tax increases in an effort to contain inflation,
according to Richard Armstrong, vied chancellor for stu
dent affairs.
"Unless we all respond to what is happening to the
economy, inflation will continue to rampage and I feel
it (inflation) is deadly," Armstrong said.
UNL students have demonstrated their views well, and
by doing this have received the attention of the adminis
tration, he said. Students will see "evidence that the
administration does hear them and does approve of those
concerns.
Armstrong said that UNL students, as compared to
other university students, know what they want the uni
versity to provide them.
Armstrong has a good basis for the comparison. He was
an administrator at the University of Georgia at Athens
during the civil rights movement and Vietnam war pro
tests. Although most of the direct racial conflict was over in
1963 when he became .director of housing, Armstrong
said lie did have to handle housing complaints. He said
that assigning rooms regardless of race as mandated by
federal regulations, caused several complaints from
parents.
SOME OF THE complaints ended with the parents
taking the student out of the university, he said. No
apologies were made to unhappy parents, Armstrong said,
..because this would have undone "the spirit of progress.'
The Office of Student Affairs should "continue the
assimilation of ethnic minority students into the main
stream of campus life," he said.
"THE 1NSENSITIVITIES of both the majority ofstu
dents and the minorities to particular characteristics of
the others impedes the progress of equality on campus."
Armstrong said the answer to inequality is not an
easy one. Education is one solution because students learn
how to deal with people, Armstrong said.
Armstrong also witnessed a different student attitude
during the Vietnam War. The University of Georgia stu
dents were active in resistance of the war, Armstrong
said. Students held numerous rallies on campus, often in
front of the university president's home. The situation
"wasn't bedlam but was a tense time for the university,"
he said.
Armstrong attributed the demonstrations to the geo-
Armstrong said he also received complaints from
parents about blacks and whites rooming together while
he Was director of housing it UNL from 1972 to 1977.
He said the complaints were fewer than the number he
received in Georgia, but were just as intense and deter
mined. Armstrong called the civil rights movement "a period
Of intense human misery for all people, particularly in
the South."
Southerners were further frustrated "by persons
beyond the South who felt they had the solution."
Southerners became defensive as a result of attacks from
persons not living in the South, he said .
The main concern in the UNL Office of Student
Affairs is an ethnic one, Armstrong said. UNL reflects
a majority culture that different ethnic groups cannot re
late to.
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Richard C. Armstrong, Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs.
graphical background of the students, who were mostly
from the East and held liberal views.
In contrast, UNL students are alert but not aggres
sive, Armstrong said. Students should be more assertive,
he said, adding that they are more prepared to accept
someone else's interpretation and do not ask as many
questions as they should .
Students are justified in voicing concern about how
their student fees are spent, he said. Given the resources
the university has to spend on student services, the result
has been good, he said.
Armstrong, who is responsible for coordinating acade
mic services, recreation, housing, sororities and fraterni
ties, Nebraska Union programs, multi-cultural affairs and
the Health Center, said that career planning and develop,
ment is one area that has suffered because of lack of
funds.
THE CAREER PLANNING program is "an additional
duty rather than a primary responsibility." The program
is fragmented and should be more concentrated, he said.
The faculty and members of the Student Affairs Office
are voluntarily helping students with career planning, but
the university needs a concentrated program, he said.
Armstrong said the Student Affairs Office tries to work
closely with students and receive their ideas. He said he
has "advocated a greater role for students in university
decisions and policy development ."
Armstrong said he received student input from various
task forces and student groups related to the operation of
thebrnkiUnions,, , ".'
Armstrong has worked with students at various uni
versities. He was a resident counselor at Auburn Univer
sity, an assistant dean of students at Clemson University
and an administrative assistant in the office of Student
Aids at Columbia University in New York City.
Like other administrators, Armstrong said he has little
time to pursue hobbies. His "avocation ' is being colonel
in the Army Reserves, he said. He is currently grading1
papers for the Command and Staff College of the Reserve.
A native of Millry, Ala., Armstrong said adjusting to
the Midwest did take time. He said that no one should
forget where they came from and that he will never
abandon his southern heritage. After living in Nebraska
for seven, years, he said he can now visit in the South
and call Nebraska his home .
Gateway bank's Marvelous Max takes many numbers
When people first hear of Marvelous times or a new entree at McDonald's, fol
Max they may think it is their father's old lowing in that proud tradition of the Big
college buddy come back to discuss old Mac.
fir
But, Marvelous Max is neither of these.
Max is the Gateway Bank terminal just
inside the south doors of the Nebraska
Union.
What few students know however, is
that Max can be used by just about any.
one with a bank card, whether they have
an account at the Gateway Bank or not.
"Marvelous Max will accept a bank card
from any bank in the state with whom we
have a sharing agreement," said John
McLaughlin, vice-president of the Gateway
Bank.
"Currently we have sharing agreements
with about 20 banks statewide," McLaugh.
lin said.
Gateway Bank currently has agreements
with selected banks in Lincoln, Omaha,
ScottsbluiT, Kearney, Hastings, Beatrice,
York, David City and Millard.
Max gets i heavy workout. According to
McLaughlin, Max recorded more than 5700
transactions for the month of August, in
average of 1 85 transactions a day .
McLaughlin attributes this heavy use to
the location of Max, and to the fact that
Max is available for use 24 hours a day.
Max has been at the Union for about
one year, and according to Frank Kuhn
assistant director of the Union, "everything
has worked out very well."
"We used to spend $18,000 in student
fees to provide a check-cashing service for
the students of the university " Kuhn said.
"And that check-cashing service was not
very good or convenient."
"But now we eam about $4,000 1 year
on rent from the Gateway Bank, Kuhn:
said. "And now with Marvelous Max, get
ting cash is very easy," he added. h"
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