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Action party declares
candidacy for ASUN
By Dan Dwinell
Staff Reporter
Action Parly candidates an
nounced Tuesday they will enter the
race for executive positions in the
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
Action candidates Jeff Petersen
for president, Nate Geisert for first
vice president and Kim Beavers for
second vice president spoke in the
main lobby of the Nebraska Union.
The ASUN election will be
March 9.
Petersen said his qualifications
included being this year’s chairman
of the Government Liaison Com
mittee and being on the ASUN
Executive Committee. In addition,
he was an ASUN senator last year.
Petersen is a junior from
Scotlsbluff.
The three candidates announced
the parly’s platform and what they
hoped to accomplish if elected.
Petersen said it is important for
Nebraskans to know the University
of Ncbraska-Lincoln is an outstand
ing institution.
“We need to expand our hori
zons,’’ he said. “We need to form a
partnership between the university
and the state.”
He said he would lobby tp im
prove student financial aid and
continue»to work on raising faculty
salaries.
“Il can't be a one-year lix,” he
said.
The Action Party wants to im
prove communication.
Beavers said it is important to
inform and get more students in
volved in the government. She sug
gested giving information to rtsi
dcnce-hall student assistants, flexor
presidents and Greek houses.
‘We need to break down com
munication barriersand integratcal!
UNL students,” Beavers said.
In addition, she proposed that
senators should have meetings in
their colleges at least once a month.
Gcisert raised another communi
cation problem. He said he would
work to raise the English speaking
requirements for foreign teachers.
Beavers said the student-to-ad
viser ratio is loo high and should be
towered. She said that in the Col
lege of Journalism there are 60 stu
dents for every adviser.
Beavers said advisers need to
know more about courses offered
outside their department.
Gcisert said a student informa
tion hotline should be created along
with a drop/add manual to clear up
confusion on the procedure.
He added that an evaluation of
Dead Week should be done and the
procedure should be changed if
necessary.
Library serials budget cut postponed
By David Holloway
Staff Reporter
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
Chancellor Martin Massengalc gave
SI50,000 to postpone any cuts in the
library serials budget for the 1988-89
fiscal year.
Faculty Senate President Jim
Lewis said Tuesday that the
SI50,000 was money the university
saved in energy costs.
Agnes Adams, professor of librar
ies, said this contribution will not
prevent the growing problem of the
serials budget. But the SI 50,000 will
allow the fiscal budget of 1988-89 to
pass without any cuts, Adams said.
By the lime the library has to
renew subscriptions in 1989, it will
have to pay an additional $255,000,
assuming its budget gets a 5 percent
increase from the Legislature,
Adams said.
“There has been a trend in foreign
takeovers by western European
countries in the area of publications
during the past decade,” Adams said.
“What is going on in the serials world
can boil down to three factors: dis
crimination, devaluation, and ex
ploitation."
Adams said that countries outside
Europe pay on the average 31 percent
more than European nations.
United actions against these fac
tors have been started on a national
basis by the Association of Research
Libraries which consists of more than
100 large academic libraries working
together, Adams said.
The association has hired a lawyer
to advise libraries about situationson
handling publishers and make the
problem known on a national level,
she said.
UNL has been corresponding with
other Big Eight schools in order to
share materials, cutting down the
cost of buying new materials as a
result, Adams said.
Lewis said if the library serials
budget is reduced, it is predicted in
five years the journals for students
and faculty members will be cut in
half.
APU panel says support groups
help black students cope at UNL
By (iretchen But* hr
Si .ill Reporter
Support groups are important to
help black students cope at predomi
nantly white universities, partici
pants in an Abakan People’s Union
panel discussion said Monday night.
The panel was the first in a series
of campus activities for National
Black History Month during Febru
ary.
“Black History Month gives us an
opportunity to educate black folks
and white folks about the contribu
tions of blacks to the nation and the
world,” said Vaughn Robertson,
counselor for the Multi-Cultural
Affairs Center.
The events were planned by APU,
UPC Black Special Events, UPC
Black Entertainment and Della
Sigma Theta sorority.
About 40 people gathered at the
Culture Center, 333 N. 14th St., to
interact with the five-member panel
made up of University of Ncbraska
Lincoln students.
The panel discussed problems
such as black stereotypes made by
while students w ho grew up in small,
rural, predominantly white commu
nities.
“They see us as the stereotypical
characters on ‘Saturday Night
Live,’” said Angela Jones, a senior
speech communications major and
panel member.
Melanie Dupree, a sophomore
engineering major on the panel, said
the most difficult thing for her to cope
with was being one of only three
women as well as the only black
student in one of her engineering
classes.
Ollier panel members said white
students at UNL were friendly to
ward them.
Patrick Palmer, a sophomore
management majoron the panel, said
he found w hitc students were friend
lier than he had expected.
Black students said they can cope
with a predominantly white univer
sity by becoming involved in suppv >rt
groups such as black student govern
ment, APU choir and black churches.
Panel members also suggested
closing the gap betw een black under
classmen and upperclassmen, and
called for more black student unity.
Tonya Horn, a senior human de
velopment major, and Bridget Sims,
a sophomore broadcasting major,
were also on the panel.
Other Black History Month ac
tivities will begin Thursday at 7 p.m.
at the Culture Center with a movie
about apartheid in South Africa. The
film is entitled “Winnie and Nelson
Mandela.”
A dance, sponsored by the Della
Sigma Theta sorority, to raise money
for research on sickle-cell anemia
will be from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. at the
Culture Center.
A black awareness workshop is
scheduled for Feb. 22 in the Nebraska
Union. Speakers w ill include Mario
Kelly, assistant professor of educa
tional psychology, and Maxine
Montgomery, assistant professor of
English and ethnic studies.
A black studcnt/faculty reception
is scheduled for 5 p.m. Feb. 23 in the
Nebraska Union. A movie entitled
“Wo/a Albert” w ill follow.
Other activities include a dinner
Feb. 26 and a skit about racism at
UNL Feb. 29.
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