All-day event to open door for gays
By David Holloway
Senior Reporter
A gay/lesbian demonstration will
take place at noon today at Broyhiil
Fountain according to N&nci Hamil
ton and David Whitaker, co-chairs of
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Gay and Lesbian Programming
Council.
The demonstration is part of the
“National Coming Out Day” for
homosexuals across the nation.
Hamilton said the demonstration
is to make people aware of homo
sexuals in the community and help
others admit their homosexuality.
Hamilton said the demonstration
will be for people who want to ex
press their feelings more.
“Oct 11 has been chosen because
it’s the first anniversary of the march
on Washington for the gay-lesbian
civil rights movement,” Hamilton
said.
Whitaker said there also will be a
booth in the Nebraska Union offering
information about the gay/lcsbian
movement
“There will be basic information
for the people coming out of the
closet giving them a place to turn
to,” Whitaker said. “There will also
be information for people learning to
cope with the fact that family mem
ben or close friends are gay.”
“All of us are at different steps of
corning out of the closet,” Hamilton
said. “We are trying to provide events
to meet the needs of all the people.”
Whitaker said the day will end at
7:30 p.m. with the film “Before
Stonewall,” which portrays the 1969
gay/lesbian mass riot in Greenwich
Village, N.Y.
“The film will show some of the
history of the gay and lesbian move
ment,” Whitaker said. “We hope to
provide a non-threatening environ
ment giving folks an outlet for their
feelings.”
Hamilton said die programming
council hopes to make the campus a
safer and easier place for homosexu
als to express their independence.
Whitaker said that by speaking
out, some people may realize that
they do know a homosexual person.
“We hope to get the message out
and let people know we are here,”
Whitaker said. “We want people to
know that there is a safe environment
for them to be a part of.
Hamilton said the gay culture has
been suppressed in Nebraska and in
most of the United States.
“Students don’t realize how many
people are gay on this campus,
Hamilton said. “We are coming out
of the closet and going into the streets
. .. and there are a lot of ’we' out
there.”
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Financial aid information is announced
By Junes Beckman
Sufi Reporter
The Office of Scholarships and
Financial Aid will award second
semester aid by the beginning of
second semester classes, said John
Beacon, interim director of the finan
cial aid office.
However, the office cannot ac
complish this goal without the coop
eration of eligible students, he said.
These students include those who
have completed a 1988-89 Financial
Aid Form and had results sent to the
Universityof Nebraska-Lincoln.and
those who have not completed the
form.
Students who have completed the
form and had results sent to UNI.
need to complete a spring aid appl ica
tion form and return it to the financial
aid office by Nov. 11, Beacon said.
These applications will be available
in the financial aid office beginning
Monday.
Students who have not completed
an aid form must take two steps in
order to receive their awards on time,
Beacon said.
First, they must complete a Finan
cial Aid Form, available in the finan
cial aid office, and mail it to College
Scholarship Service in Oakland,
Calif., along with $7.50. Students
must designate UNL as the recipient,
he said. Tne service must receive the
forms by Oct. 14.
Second, they must complete a
spring aid application form and re
turn it to the financial aid office by
Nov. 11, he said.
To be considered eligible for sec
ond semester financial aid, Beacon
said students must have been admit
ted to UNL no later than Nov. 1 Also,
they must make reasonable academic
progress as UNL students or as trans
fer students.
Studentsmustsubrnit financial aid
transcripts from each post-secondary
school attended by Friday, Dec. 9.,
along with all documentation re
quired of those selected for verifica
tion by Friday, Dec. 2. Finally, they
must settle any default or repayment
problems prior to Dec. 2.
Beacon said that if eligible stu
dents comply with these guidelines,
award notifications will be mailed
prior to the beginning of second
semester classes. Any applications
made after that date will be processed
later and may not be received by the
student by second semester.
APU members surprised at views
APU from Page 1
about racial problems.
During last week’s workshops
students listed stereotypes they had
of people from different back
grounds. During the retreat, individ
ual groups studied the lists.
Goods said the list of stereotypes
against blacks almost made him cry.
Patterson said she said she knew
that white people stereotyped m inori
ties. But she said she didn ’ t real ize the
extent to which minorities stere
otyped each other.
Gail Jackson, an APU executive
aide who attended the retreat , said she
was also surprised that minorities
stereotyped each other.
“We as a whole people have a lot
of growing to do," she said.
For example, before the work
shop, Patterson said, she didn’t know
what life on an Indian reservation was
like. She said she thought that some
Indians still lived in teepees, not
apartments like everyone else.
Patterson said she’d already heard
most stereotypes others had of
blacks. Some of the stereotypes listed
said blacks were poor, uneducated
and many were criminals.
The only stereotype that surprised
her, Patterson said, was that blacks
were communists.
“I’d never heard that one before,”
she said.
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