Instructors confer on literary politics
By Lisa Twiestmeyer
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln English department and the
Nebraska Council of Teachers of
English will sponsor a conference on
the roles of literature instruction and
school curriculum in maintaining a
democratic culture.
The conference, “Literacy, Cul
ture and the Shaping of a Democ
racy,” is scheduled for Thursday and
Friday at the East Union.
UNL English professor Robert
Haller said the idea for the conference
came from the English department’s
1985 conference on the politics of
writing instruction. Recent contro
versy over school curriculum and the
publication of several books about
cultural literacy inspired the idea fora
conference on the politics of literature
instruction, he said.
Five speakers scheduled to appear
at the conference will address issues
such as the function of education in a
democratic society, the role of teach
ers in maintaining democratic culture
and the idea of a core set of texts which
should be studied in all schools in a
democratic society.
On Thursday, Eva Brann, author of
“Paradoxes of Education in a Repub-,
lie” and classics scholar at St. Johns
College, will speak at 9 a.m. At 11
a.m, Henry Giroux of Miami Univer
sity in Ohio, an author and education
theorist, will appear, followed by June
Jordan, a poet, political activist and
professor of English at the State Uni
versity of New York-Stony Brook.
On Friday, William Everett of
Emory University’s Candler School
of Theology will speak at 9 a.m.,
followed at 11 a.m. by Flarold Kolb,
author and director of the Center for
the Liberal Arts at the University of
Virginia.
In addition to the speakers, June
Jordan and Adrienne Torf will per
form excerpts from their musical,
“Bang Bang Uber Alles,’’ at 8 p.m.
Thursday.
The conference is open to the
public and admission is free. The
Thursday evening performance has a
suggested donation price of $1.
Union Board studies booth policy
By Bob Nelson
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska Union Board ap
pointed an ad hoc committee Monday
to investigate changing Union booth
policy to allow non-student groups to
rent booths in Nebraska and East
Unions.
The present policy states that only
AS UN-recognized student organiza
tions may rent booth space for promo
tional activities. Booth use by non
student organizations get with per
mission from Union Director Daryl
Swanson .Only one non-student group
per week may be in the booth area.
If Swanson doesn’t grant permis
sion, the commercial organizations
must be sponsored by a s t or
ganization and no represt es of
the business may be present in the
booth.
Businesses have been reluctant
about having students selling their
product, Swanson said.
Swanson said there would be no
commitment by student group mem
bers if professionals were allowed to
sell products for the students.
The present policy was adopted to
keep the union a sanctuary from
commercial enterprises, Swanson
said. Because of changing student
views it may be time to reconsider the
policy, he said.
Union Board member Pat Wyatt
said he is worried about bringing
commercial organizations into the
union.
“I’d hate to see the union be turned
into the yellow pages,” Wyatt said.
Wyatt said the first priority of the
booths should be for student groups
rather than for businesses.
Swanson agreed with Wyatt but
said that giving student groups prior
ity would be difficult.
“Commercial groups make reser
vations r month in advance,” Swan
son said. “Students make them a day
in advance.”
Swanson questioned the policy
because representatives of commer
cial groups were selling products in
the booths without permission. Swan
son also cited a recent incident in
which a student representative of
AT&T wanted to promote AT&T
credit cards in a union booth. Because
he was an individual student he could
not rent a booth, Swanson said. He has
no opportunity to promote the credit
cards unless he is sponsored by a
student organization, Swanson said.
Bruce Lear, Union Board vice
president, will lead the investigation
committee.
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