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Monday, April 27, 1987
BLACKS from Page 1
But since blacks make up less than 3
percent of Nebraska's population, in
state recruiting is difficult, said Lisa
Schmidt, coordinator of the Pre-admissions
Activates Office. In 1980
Nebraska's population was 1,569,825.
Of the number 47,944, slightly more
than 3 percent, were black.
"But there absolutely should be a
larger minority population and more
support services provided for them (on
campus)," she said.
Some efforts of the Pre-admissions
Office are aimed at attracting winners
of the National Negro Achievement
Award program, which identifies top
black scholars. Schmidt said UNL
offers winners a four-year merit scho
larship covering tuition and fees and
makes personal contacts with winners
to encourage them to consider UNL
Staff members of the Multi-cultural
Affairs office recruit each year at Omaha
high schools with large black student
populations. Pre-admissions Office
personnel also visit such schools two or
three times a year, Schmidt said.
Robertson said UNL offers just a few
scholarships for minority students,
, including some in the Journalism and
Engineering colleges, and 21 $1,000
Regents' Scholarships in Teachers Col
lege. But more are definitely needed,
he said.
Officials from the Pre-Admissions
Activities Office, the Office of Scholar
ships and Financial Aid and the Multi
cultural Affairs Office are working on
developing a new scholarship program
for black UNL students, Schmidt said.
She said she hopes the program will
provide $500 to $1,000 a year for about
10 new black students.
But according to preliminary survey
results, more than money, scholarships
and amenities are needed to improve
the situation at UNL. Deep and lasting
changes in attitudes and mutual
acceptance are needed.
'It's nice to assimilate to a certain
extent, but if you assimilate too much
you become no better than the person
oppressing you," Holley said. "Everyb
ody should maintain their culture. If
you don't know where you came from,
then you don't know where you're
going."
"We'd rather not be assimilated,"
Krebsbach said. "We'd rather be ac
cepted as we are."
DN Senior Reporter Jen Deselms
contributed to this report.
Health center's new
summer policy outlined
To alleviate confusion over eligibil
ity for student-priced summer health
care and problems caused by an unclear
fee-payment policy, University Health
Center officials are publicizing new
payment rules and trying to make stu
dents aware that they can use the
health center during the summer at
subsidized student rates. Students
taking three or fewer hours during the
three-week summer session now must
pay $12 by the third day of the session
to use the health center at the lower
student rates. Students taking two or
fewer hours during the five-week ses
sions must pay $20 by the first five days
of the session to receive subsidized
care.
Students registered for the 1987-88
fall or spring semester also can receive
summer health care if they pay by
either the three- or five-week session
deadline.
Last summer there were no dead
lines for summer-care fee payment.
The fees allow students to receive
care during the summer at the subsid
ized rates. Those who choose not to pay
may use the health center, but only at
higher, non-subsidized rates.
Students registered for three or more
hours during the five-week summer
session have the $20 fee already in
cluded in their tuition and fees bills.
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Infidelity may define one's character
GOODMAN from Page 4
reminded to kiss her in public," wrote
a Washington Post reporter. "Today he
touches her often and calls her 'babe.' "
Still, the question that interests me
more than Gary Hart's past or present
is this: What exactly do we know about
any person when we know "everything"
about his sexual life. What exactly
does it mean if and when a man is a
"womanizer," in terms of his ability to
lead? Nothing? Everything? Do we need
to know?
We can look at this information as
gossip of the sort that follows British
royalty or movie stars without ruining
their careers. We can also regard it as a
disqualification, evidence that a man
is morally unfit for higher office. But
historically, the record is very unclear.
In the past decade, researchers have
unearthed all sorts of examples of hi
infidelity. Was FDR's legacy diminished
by his apparent love for Lucy Ruther
ford? What of JFK, whose amorous
adventures have been chronicled, if not
exaggerated, by a flock of women
announcing "Jack slept here." Did it,
does it, diminish his moral claim, the .
clarity of his vision?
And what of another leader, Martin
Luther King Jr.? In David Gas-row's
moving biography, "Bearing the Cross,"
the "sex issue" appears, delicately, as
King's clay feet. Infidelity increased
his own sense of unworthiness, writes
Garrow. With the FBI trailing, he risked
discovery and damage to the civil
rights movement. Does that mean that
the cause, the dream, would have been
articulated, pursued more effectively
by someone whose private life was
pure?
Sexuality has a different place, a
different meaning in the lives of differ
ent public men, a Jim Bakker or a JFK.
One "womanizer" may hate women,
another love them; one may feel immune
to discovery, another may be courting
disaster; one may be following his
father's pattern; another rebelling. It is
possible to follow a strict moral code in
public and not in private.
Infidelity also suggests different
things about the leader to different
viewers or voters. In the Ted Kennedy
campaign in 1980, there was evidence
that people who believed he was un
faithful were most uneasy with what
they regarded as the political exploita
tion of his wife. We imprint our own
ideas onto acts.
If sexuality doesn't mean one thing,
if we cannot draw one lesson from pri
vate lives about public performance,
perhaps we have no need for this
information at all. Perhaps it is just
But my own sense is that, finally, this
is fair game. You do learn something
important about the character of a man
from revelations of his sexual behavior.
The information may be no more impor
tant than how he treats his children or
secretary, no more important than his
stand on world trade and farm policy. It
may tell little about how he'll deal with
the poor or with arms control. Or how
well he will run a government. But it
becomes part of a whole portrait of a
man.
You learn about fidelity to more than
a wife. You learn about his capacity for
deception. You learn about his vulner
ability to exposure, fascination with
risk-taking. You learn about impul
siveness, self-control, even the ability
to compartmentalize ethics.
This does not excuse New York Post
headliners or vicious rumor mongers .
who claim dossiers on one candidate or
another. But every president finally
serves, not just as a chief executive,
but as chief figurehead, chief role
model, chief moral leader in short,
chief American. We ask a great deal.
Anyone who runs for the office today
has to know that there is no room in the
job description for chief womanizer.
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irrelevant, salacious gossip. Perhaps Newspaper CcmpaisyW;
we should go back to the days when a
gentleman's agreement kept this off
the record.
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Post Writers Group
Goodman is a Pulitzer prize-winning
columnist for the Boston Globe.
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