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Chairpeople : Cut would hurt culture center quality
friday, february 8, 1980
By Rose Fitzpatrick
The proposed budget cut of $1,600 from the Univer
sity Program Council Culture Center would hinder the
programming of Black, Chicano and Native American'stu.
dents straining to produce quality programs on their pre
sent budgets, according to committee chairpeople.
UPC Culture Center president Levetta Chamberlain,
said the CFA's proposed cuts would take $100 from Black
Special Events, $200 from Chicano Awareness Days, $200
from Native American Culture Week, and $900 from a
women's panel.
Culture Center programs may affect only a small por
tion of university students, but their impact is far greater
than those of other councils, Pat Brown, chairperson of
the Black Special Events Committee, said.
The programs are open to the entire university popula
tion to show them about other cultures and help them see
how minorities live, Brown said.
Budget cut
She said if the committees hadn't been doing what
they were supposed to do with the funds, a budget cut
might have been justified. However, the committees
already have shown they could do quality things with
what they have, she said.
Lisa Saucedo, chairperson of the Chicano Special
Events Committee, said a lot of people were bitter about
New York bill affects
administration of test
By Kevin Field -
The provisions of a New York Legislature "truth in
testing" bill will not affect the way the UNL College of
Law operates, but will cause changes in the administration
of the Law School Admissions Test, according to Craig
Law son, UNL assistant professor of law.
Although the bill affects only the state of New York,
the Law School Admissions Council, of which the UNL
law school is a member, has decided to comply, he said,
The bill, which took effect Jan, 1, requires college
testing services to file a copy of their tests and answers
with the state department of education and provide a
graded answer sheet to any student who requests one.
The LSAC decided to comply with the law outside
New York to ensure national uniformity in testing,
according to a report from the LSAC, .
The law requires a new test to be written every time
the exam is given and that answers be published for each
one, he said.
The move will increase costs $125,000 per exam,
according to the LSAC,
The LSAC has reduced the number of testings from
five to four each year and will no longer provide special
individual test dates except in extreme circumstances,
Lawson said. The LSAC report said these moves were
made to cut costs.
Because each test will be different, the test's validity as
an indicator of potential student performance may drop,
Lawson said,
However, the LSAT will remain the most reliable single
indicator of performance, he said. The UNL College of
Law admissions department will continue to look at both
grade point averages and LSAT scores when deciding'who
to admit, he said.
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the proposed cuts.
The Chicano Special Events Program already has run
out of money for this year, Saucedo said.
Originally, committee members had planned for
workshops on land grants, politics, the 1980 census and
the Chicano university student's role in the community,
but the group didn't get an outside grant and had to drop
their plans, she said.
She said CFA proposed the cuts because the special
events committees should rely on student organizations
such as the Mexican American Student Association
(MASA), Council of American Indian Students, and Afri
can Peoples Union for financial support.
Out of money
"But MASA is out (of money) too," she said.
Brown said the APU is also struggling for money, hav
ing to raise $1,400 to send black student representatives
to a Big Eight Conference meeting. .
Kim Otto, chairperson of the Native American Special
Events Committee, said the proposed cut would affect the
quality of programs and the number of speakers, artists
and exhibits.
She said her committee is trying to make people aware
of Native Americans. Each speaker had a special topic and
awareness won't be all there if they cant get all their
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"Everything we put into the budget had a reason," she
said. , .
Peopte she has talked with who are involved with
Native American special events don't think it is fair, she
said.
The women's panel facing the proposed fee cut is co
sponsored by UPC-City, The panel was a chance to have
representatives from Black, Chicano, and Native American
groups all on one program, Chamberlain said.
CFA, officials called the women's panel a duplicate
program', she said. Instead, it was co-sponsored, she said.
Brown said next year's programming looks pretty bleak
if the proposed cuts go through.
She said the Black Special Events committee had
hoped to make what little they had last an entire year.
Brown said there was a disproportion in the amount of
money the Culture Center received anyway because the
center is not given funds equal to the other branches of
the Union Program Council, UPC-City and UPC-East,
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