Friday, February 18, 1983
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Daily Nebraskan
Lonference probes b
Ward W. Tripled III
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"1 haea eiy positive altitude foi this conl'eiencc."
Goodi, a senior speech communicaiions major, said.
'"We're keeping some of the same woikshops and ideas
that have always been a pan of the confeience, but we'ie
adJinji some new things as well.
"I just hope that it's a learning expetienee for every
body involved and that everybody can take something
home from our conference and implement it."
The fust confeicnee was in 1978. Two hundred stu
dents attended that first conference at the University of
Missouri. The board voted to have the conference's lo
cation change each ear. and Nebraska won the bid for
this year's confeience.
Last Februaiy. African People's Union President
Eugene Tolston named Gooch chairwoman of the con
ference. From there, the planning began.
Before school let out for the summer, keynote speakers
Amette Hubbard and Tony Brown were selected. Fund
raisers such as car washes, splash parties and bake sales
were held and letters to foundations for grants w ere
drafted and mailed.
Conference organizers met twice a month during the
summer, but much of the final product was still in ques
tion when the new school term began.
"I think our biggest problem was attitudes," Gooch
said. "But I guess it's always going to be that way.
"A lot of people here didn't have positive attitudes
about the conference." she said.
Despite the doubts on the part of the black student
body, and what Gooch called 'burning out' and lack of
communication among the conference organizers, the
product presented to about 300 black students today is
what Gooch had wanted.
"If 1 had to do it all over again, I would conduct my
self better." Gooch said. "I know 1 made a lot of mis
takes. I would know what kind of attitude to take with
certain people, and be a lot more assertive," she said
"But we are still putting on what 1 think is a very good
confeience. The only changes I would make within the
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confeience itself would be to make sine we help olher
schools uet this kind of 1 lung stalled "
The confeience. cat i ing a $4.00() pi ice las', is meant
to hi inu tosiclhei Mack students on piedoininaleK while
campuses to discuss common problems and possible solu
tions. Gooch said. Il uives a chance foi black students at
smaller schools such as 1 nipoiia State in Kansas to spend
at least one weekend in a place wheie theie aie a .meat
number of black college students, she said.
"I don't think the students here realize the importance
of this confeience as much as students fiom a smaller
school do." Gooch said. "They (UNL students) do face
everyday problems of just being black on a campus like
this. If they come to this, maybe they can talk to some
body and get an idea of how to make the problems a
little less."
Non-black students who attend the confeience can
learn something also, she said.
"I think they can learn to understand how black
people led. and what we are going through here."
Gooch said. "J think if the roles were reversed, and tney
had to walk into a class full of black people, they'd freak
out. We've been conditioned to accept being the only
one there, but sometimes it's hard to do."
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