friday, december 12, 1980
daily nebraskan
page 5
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pa ere
s go the editor
A notice to black high school students:
Friends:
Avoid the University of Nebraska like a plague:
Unless you arc prepared to deal with a university that
has designed itself to get fully 80 percent of you down its
hallowed halls and out is back doors before you even
reach your senior year;
Unless you are prepared to cope with a university that
tolerates your black skin only it it's either under a Big
Red uniform or out of sight;
Unless you are prepared to tolerate working with so
called liberal white students who love you until you assert
your blackness;
Unless you are prepared to stomach a university lead
ership that would gladly sell you down the river, jump
into bed with P.W. Botha of South Africa and financially
support South African racism if it means a few bucks lor
the university;
Unless you are prepared to withstand a white 'greek'
sytcm that is the racist, sexist blueprint for the social
system of this racist, sexest state, a "black fraternity"
which in terms of black progress is no more than a social
club, or a "black sorority" which eases the guilty Pan
hcllcnic consciences and exhibits neither blackness nor
sorority (sisterhood);
Unless you are prepared to stand a comatose black
student body which is cither totally and irreparably
blind to its own oppressed state or is too disco-funkati.ed,
zapped, and blown away to care;
Unless you are prepared to find the prayed-tor-means
to unite the people and get us all out of this putrid gar
bage can before the politics of rascist, repressionist Reag
anism slam down the lid on all of us forever.
fcdmund Guthrie
Editorial criticized
On behalf of the Talks and Topics Committee and the
University's Program Council, I would like to reply to
Barb Richardson's editorial which appeared Monday.
Perhaps the first fact which needs to be brought to
light is that the Talks and Topics Committee, which is a
committee within UPC, subsidized the Gonzales lecture
with $400, which was the total amount of money request
ed. Therefore, the accusations of prejudice against Chic
anos that Rumalso Lovato has made against the Talks and
Topics Committee and the UPC are not only extremely
hard to understand but ludicrous.
The idealism espoused by Ms. Richardson in her edit
orial is fine, but she chose not to include enough facts in
her article to make it realistic.
Ms. Richardson states: "The Talks and Topics Com
mittee may have learned that selecting speakers should be
an open process with student involvement." The Talks
and Topics Committee is entirely composed of students
and always has been.
T & T members take very seriously their role as a rep
resentatives of the entire UNL student body in the select
ion of speakers. Furthermore, the Talks and Topics Com
mittee is very receptive to student input in the selecting
of speakers. Consequently, all of our meetings are posted
on the university calendar and open to the public.
Moreover, the Daily Nebraskan was negligent in serv
ing the student population by not sending a reporter or
two lectures this semester which were part of the UNL
Afternoon Speakers Forum sponsored by Talks and Top
ics. Kathryn Sjulin
Chairperson of the Talks and Topics Committee
CAP went beyond objectives
On Dec. 4 the Daily Nebraskan printed an article en
titled "Gonzales visit elicits accusations of prejudice."
The article tried to present, in detail, the controversy that
arose during an attempt to bring a speaker to the UNL
campus.
While some of the statements presented in the arti
cle were true, the article missed the main point of the
controversy. The author presented the controversy as
arising from a personal conflict between a student and
the Campus Activities Program office, rather than from
the CAP office's denying the Chicano students and stud
ent organizations to put on a program for the entire stud
ent body.
With the Gonzales event, as'wi'th otlier events put on
by Chicano organizations on campus, the CAP ottice has
gone beyond the stated objectives of the office, i.e.,
providing advice and assistance to students and organi
zations. In this particular instance the CAP office, without
consulting all the groups involved, made decisions on
housing and transportation, sent correspondences, did not
intorm trie groups when and why tne speaker was con
tacted, contributed to funding misunderstandings, gave
false information to the media, insisted that the sponsors
not contact speakers, use student fee money to control
the students' program, used a Chicano staff person against
Chicano organizations and finally, attempted to cast
doubts on a student's credibility.
Therefore, the Mexican American Student Association,
the Chicano Graduate Student Association, and the Unit
ed Chicanos and Chicanos of Aztlan endorse and support
the principles that underlie the controversy reported by
the Dec. 4th article.
Our organization supports the use of student fees for
Chicano events, freedom of expression by students
through their involvement in the planning and develop
ing of programs, and thereby oppose the censorship and
control of our programs, and the acts and attitudes which
institutionalize racism on our campus.
Mexican American Student Association
Chicano Graduate Student Association
United Chicanos and Chicanas of Aztlan
imo TjteffiQ
Ok. I
We wish to fipobgize for inadvertently omitting
the Mowing houses in our thank you
for participation on Honey Sunday.
These houses were also tremendously hetyfal:
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Retarded Citizens
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Billiard enter
formerly Snooker Bowl
o Open Bowling Every Day
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o Lincoln's only pool room
o Eight ball, Snooker, & Carom
o Lincoln's most popular
pinball room
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