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January 17,1989 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 80
Peggy Haas, an undeclared freshman, celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day by reading an article on King
end watching the “Eye on the Prize” video in the Nebraska Union Monday.
Speaker tells students to stand up
By Jana Pedersen
Staff Reporter__
Urging students to keep Rev Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.’s dream alive, Omaha
South high school teacher/counselor
Raushan Ashanti-Alexander said college
students need to work for what they believe
in.
“I want you to remember... we still have
a job to dos” he said.
Part of that job is standing up against
what is wrong, he said, even if that means
standing up in front of a hostile audience -
one of King’s greatest abilities.
Ashanti-Alcxander spoke to about 85
people who attended a service honoring
King ’s birthday Monday night at the Culture
Center.
Continuing King’s fight against dis
crimination is one way of keeping him alive,
Ashanti-Alexander said.
‘‘A person is alive as long as you talk
about what they represent. A person is only
dead as long as you ignore them.
‘‘The day you think Martin Luther is
dead is the day you realize you don’t have
any freedom and you never had any in the
first place,” he said.
Ashanti-Alexander said the civil rights
battle led by King left a lasting impression
on him when he was growing up in Okla
homa and inspired him to become a teacher.
Ashanti-Alexander said as a teacher, he
is concerned about the emphasis today’s
youth place on materia! possessions.
College students should not be satisfied
with just wanting to be wealthy, he said.
They should be in college to develop skills
for future occupations.
“You can be a role model without being
rich,’’ Ashanti-Alexandcr said.
Ashanti-Alcxander said college students
need to become actively involved in the
battle against drugs - a battle he compared
to King’s war on segregation.
“The real task of being (in college) is that
you’re either in the game or out of it. You’re
either pan of the solution or part of the
problem,’’ he said.
By Lisa Donovan
Senior Reporter
With school - colored condoms and
“Lepprecondoms,” one Califor
nia-based company is encouraging
college students to make the educated choice
and practice safe sex, a company spokesperson
said.
Not only will the condoms be available in
Husker scarlet at the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln, but according to Nick Fogel, presi
dent of College Condoms, they will be avail
able with greck lettering and fraternity and
sorority colors.
The condoms soon will be available at vari
ous fraternity and sorority sportswear compa
nies, Fogel said.
Another item that College Condoms is
marketing is a green condom for St. Patrick’s
Day, called a “Lcpprccondom.”
A leprechaun appears on the package,
throwing four-leaf clovers from a pot and
dancing over a four-leaf clover. The logo says
“Don’t leave it to luck.”
Although the product sounds lun and novel,
the condoms arc no joke, Fogel said.
“These are good quality condoms, he
said.
Fogel said Circle Rubber Company of
Newark, N.J., one of the nation’s largest manu
facturers of condoms, makes the colored con
doms.
Because the colored condoms are a novelty,
some of the embarrassment that goes along
with purchasing condoms is eased, Fogel said.
People will talk about the condoms and will
be more relaxed, he said, which is a positive
step, because condoms used to be considered
“illicit sexual tools . .. now they’re a neces
sity.”
The company is marketing the condoms to
colleges in five stales, Fogel said. They are not
yet being sold on college campuses.
The product currently is available in Cali
fornia, Iowa, Kansas, Arizona and Florida. The
condoms probably will be available in Lincoln
by the beginning of April, and will cost about
$2.99 for a package of six.
Although no officials at UNL have been
contacted, Fogel said, he would like to see the
condoms eventually sold on campus.
“Right now we’re going to sell them off
campus and later on we’ll talk with the book
stores and see if they’ll sell them,” Fogel said.
“What we’re trying to do is market the product
to the major college in the state, and then we’ll
go from there.”
Official won’t confirm
UNL vice chancellor
is among candidates
By Brandon Loomis
Senior Reporter
The executive director of the Idaho State
Board of Education would not confirm
Monday that Robert Furgason, Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln vice chancellor for
academic affairs, has been selected as one of
six finalists for the University of Idaho presi
dency.
Rayburn Barton said the Idaho Board of
Regents had selected six finalists, but had not
released the names.
“Iam not at liberty to confirm or deny that,”
Barton said.
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the names of six finalists Saturday, including
the 53-year-old Furgason, a graduate and for
mer dean of the University of Idaho’s College
of Engineering. One of the six will succeed
President Richard Gibb, who is resigning in
July to return to teaching, the report said.
Barton said the regents will narrow the list to
four candidates, and announce those names on
Jan. 23 or 24. They will then invite the finalists
to visit the campus and interview. The regents
arc tentatively planning to announce the new
president by Feb. 16, he said.
Furgason was unavailable for comment
Monday.
Council urges fraternities
to study pledge alternatives
By David G. Young
Staff Reporter
The National Interfratemity Council
passed a resolution at their December
meeting calling for consideration of
drastic changes in the way fraternity pledges
are integrated into their houses.
Jayne Wade Anderson, diiector of greek
affairs and cooperatives, said the proposed
changes come as part of continuing national
efforts to stop fraternities from requiring
pledges to perform ridiculous acts, known as
hazing.
The resolution passed by the most recent
council meeting calls for fraternities to study
alternatives to pledging status and pledge edu
cation, Anderson said.
A second resolution recommended ending
the entire pledging process, she said. But the
resolution failed to pass the council’s coordi
nating body, known as the House of Delegates,
she said.
“This would change the whole fraternity
structure — perhaps to a mote four-year educat
ing process instead of just one year,’ ’ Anderson
said. “Some people think that it’s really time
for a revolutionary change.”
Under the current system, most chapters
educate members about the fraternity only
during the pledging period.
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