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Wednesday, february 6, 1980 daily nebraskan page 3 ASUN to hem Chiemo ikeriminmUon eompMnts By Rose Fitzpatrick Problems of discrimination faced at UNL by students of Mexican descent researched in a paper by. Rumaldo Lovato will be presented at the ASUN meeting Wednes day. ' Lovato, a graduate sociology student, said students have complained of discrimination applying for work study, in the classroom and in other organizations. Lovato said he and other Chicano and Chicana students hope to get greater minority student participation on the senate. Leroy Casodos, an undergraduate sociology major, said they would like to see a change in the ASUN constitution because the constitution was drawn up together before minorities came to campus. One of the main constitutional changes should be in the voting procedure, Casados said. Casados said native American and Chicano students with non-Anglo names won't get elected. Lovato and Casados are working also on a new organiza tion, United Chicanos and Chicanas of Aztlan, whose pur pose is to address issues. Reaction... Continued from page 2 Prokop said that one of the reasons Larsen may have for considering other employment is "a certain conflict between the Arts and Sciences college and the administration units." "You can't go against your bosses," he said. " . John Parsons, ASUN senator and candidate for the 1980-81 ASUN presidency, said he thought Larsen' inter view at Wyoming stemmed from UNL budgetary problems and from the Arts and Sciences faculty petition to abolish NU Central Administration. "Larsen. is respected on campus and also is not afraid to speak his views " Parsons said. 'The implication is there" of a difference with admini stration, Parsons said, There are some things you can read into it but people won't come out and say, he added. Wesselssaid that Larsen is sensitive to the students' needs in the College of Arts and Sciences, although these Lovato said that through the organization they want to bring a better understanding to the majority students of the Chicano and Chicana students. Tolerance "We can live with different religious groups in society with no threats but with a tolerance of religion. Ethnicity can be tolerated and lived with as long as everyone under stands," Lovato said. Lovato said the purpose of this organization is politi cal, to bring about understanding and to allow individuals to develop leadership and to participate in the community as a whole. ' TJiis organization is not designed to split up other Mexican-American or Chicano organizations but to allow students to articulate political ideas, Lovato said. Isolation Lovato said the off-center location of the Culture Center serves as a means of isolating minority students. He said an office in a location such as the women's resource would get more recognition, so the majority stu dents know that it exists. In his research paper, Lovato contends that assimila tion is a process of rejection for minority people and im migrants to the U.S. "It causes self-hatred and rejection, the feeling of being inferior when in fact your culture is not inferior," he said. As individuals of Mexican descent get into the univer sity system they identify more as Chicano or Chicana than Mexican-American, Lovato said. This is often the result of discrimination. C views may not be popular. She said this job is difficult because he must deal with a "year to year programmatic existence." She also said that it is frustrating for Larsen to tell faculty they may have to do with less pay or less research. Wessels said she would be discouraged if Larsen left be cause "he works diligently and consistently in what' he feels is the best for the college." 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