CORRECTION
A graphic showing Gov. Kay Oit and the University of Nebraska’s proposed
budgets was misleading (DN, Jan. 30). The graphic labeled NU’s budget proposal
as the University of Nebraska Lincoln’s.
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Tuesday, mostly sunny with record high in the
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January 3 », 1989___ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 90
Yost announces minority recruitment plan
By Amy Edwards
Senior Editor
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln is taking steps to keep
its minority students, and to
increase the number of minorities
who pursue a graduate education at
UNL.
John Yost, vice chancellor for
research and dean of graduate stud
ies, announced Monday the Minority
Graduate Student Recruitment Plan.
Yost said the goal of the plan is to
increase the number of minority stu
dents pursuing graduate degrees at
UNL by 50 percent in three years.
“I hope it will make a great differ
ence in recruiting minority students.
Also, undergraduate minority stu
dents will stay here to do their gradu
ate work.”
Yost said he hopes those students
eventually will teach at UNL.
The plan is for “target minori
ties,” Yost said, which include Na
tive Americans, Hispanics, blacks
and American-Asians. There cur
rently are 122 targeted minority
graduate students at UNL, 76 of
whom are full-time, Yost said.
The plan, which targets seven
doctoral fellowships at $10,000 and
four master’s fellowships at $7,500,
is on a commitment basis, Yost said.
That means that after two years for
the doctoral fellowships and one year
for the master’s fellowships, depart
ments must continue to support the
programs, depending on students’
progress towards their degrees, Yost
said.
Minority students also will re
ceive first priority for the four Chan
cellor’s Fellowships and seven Patri
cia Roberts Harris Fellowships.
This will increase the number of
scholarships targeted for minority
graduate students by 200 percent,
Yost said.
The plan also includes:
• Establishing a Minority Graduate
Student Recruitment fund to provide
departments with support to bring
prospective students to campus for a
recruitment visit
•Partial support to departments for
faculty to speak on campuses and for
participation in meetings for recruit
ment of minority graduate students.
•Establishing a Minority Graduate
Student Advisory Council to help
with the development of the plan and
a support system to retain minority
graduate students.
•Cost sharing or matching funds
for federal grant proposals to increase
See GRADUATE on 3
Alcohol bills
advance to
floor Monday
By Natalie Weinstein
Staff Reporter
Cwo bills designed to shut off
the supply of alcohol to mi
nors were advanced to the
floor of the Nebraska Legislature
Monday afternoon.
After listening to about two hours
of public testimony, the General Af
fairs Committee unanimously ad
vanced LB440, which increases the
penalty for creating fake identifica
tions, and LB441, which places
“near beer” under the regulation of
the Nebraska Liquor Control Act.
The committee placed an emergency
clause on the near beer bill making it
effective May 1, 1989.
State Sen. Jacklyn Smith of
Hastings, chairman of the committee,
said both bills have a “very good”
chance of becoming laws because the
committee has given them its “total
support.”
LB44U increases the penalty tor
“manufacturing, creating or alter
ing” ID s from a Class III misde
meanor to a Class I misdemeanor.
The maximum penalty for a Class
III misdemeanor is three months
imprisonment or a $500 fine or both.
The maximum penalty for a Class I
misdemeanor is one year imprison
ment or a $1,000 fine or both. Neither
category has a minimum penalty.
State Sen. Gary Hannibal of
Omaha, who introduced both bills,
said the state needs to “shut off the
supply” of alcohol to minors. In
creasing the penally for doctoring
ID scan help, he said.
The crime is “worthy of a little
bigger hammer,” he said. “We could
really make an example of them.”
LB441 defines “near beer” as
beer containing less than one-haif of
one percent of alcohol by volume.
The bill subjects near beer to all^pro
visions of the Nebraska Liquor Con
trol Act except for taxation. Minors
would no longer be able to purchase
near beer. Unlicensed retailers would
no longer be able to sell it.
See ID on 3
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Week’s events
support gay,
lesbian pride
By Lisa Twiestmeyer
Suff Reporter
Che Committee Offering Les
bian and Gay Events has des
ignated Feb. 1 through 7 as
Lesbian and Gay Pride Week at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The week-long series of events,
including films, poetry readings and
a dance, is designed to “increase
people’s knowledge about homosex
ual culture and let them know gay
culture exists independent of straight
culture,” said Nanci Hamilton, co
chairperson for the event.
“We want people to know it is a
viable, valuable alternative culture,”
Hamilton amdr-'T
Co-chairperson David Whitaker ^
said education has always been the
main goal of COLAGE, formerly the
Gay and Lesbian Programming
Committee. The week’s events wifi
help continue that tradition, he said.
“We would ultimately like to
make this a safer campus for diver
sity,” Whitaker said, “so people
don’t have to be so afraid of those
different from themselves.”
The week will kick-off with a
keynote address by Louis Crompton,
a UNI. English professor, titled '‘Out
of the Closets and Into the World: A
History of Gay and Lesbian Civil
Rights” Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in
the Nebraska Union. Crompton will
present an overview of international
gay civil rights since the 1950’s based
on 10 years of research.
See COLAGE on 3
Suicide attempted
in residence hall
From Staff Reports
An attempted suicide was re
Cirted at 12:30 Monday morning in a
niversilv of Nebraska-Lincoln resi
dence hall, according to University
Police.
Cpl. Doug Petersen said the vic
tim. a 19-year-old female, suffered
wrist lacerations. She was treated and
released from the University Health
Center and Lincoln General Hospital.
February to bring African Heritage programs to UNL
By Eric Pfanner
Suff Reporter __
Although he is excited that February is
African Heritage Month, Vaughn
Robertson, specialist on black affairs
for the Office of Multi-cultural Affairs, said he
hopes that eventually black history will be
“celebrated all year long.”
“I don’t know how close we are to that,’ ’ he
said.
“I think we are in the midst of a renaissance
- well, maybe more like a birth.
To promote awareness of black history,
several events have been scheduled at the
University of Ncbraska-L incoln for February.
UNL Affirmative Action is sponsoring
“Beyond the Dream," for the African
People's Union, Wednesday from noon to 2
p.m., in the Nebraska Union. The program is
part of a national teleconference organized by
Black Issues in Higher Education. The telecon
ference will involve students from universities
around the country and other private groups.
Paul Miles, special assistant for minority
affairs to the vice chancellor for student affairs,
said other highlights of the month include a
speech at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Culture Cen
ter, 333 N. 14th St., about blacks in politics by
state Sen. Ernie Chambers, followed by a
panel. A minority career night will be held Feb.
7 at 6 p.m. in the Culture Center/
The Big Eight Conference on Blacks m
Student Government will take place Feb. 16
through 19. An APU committee of nearly 50
rill attend the conference at
olorado, Miles said.
Cor the month include
apartheid, Feb. 22 in the
Nebraska Union, and Ajamai Bindon, Feb. 28
at 7 p.m. in the Culture Center, on black issues
and A trican-American affairs. Other events
will be posted in the Nebraska Union.
Miles said for him, a highlight of the month
would be to have as much participation from
non-minority students and faculty as possible.
“The world is not lily-white,” Robertson
said. “It hurts graduates when they are not
exposed (to minority cultures).
Because people are resistant to change,
Robertson said, promoting diversity on cam
pus has been a slow process. In the last two
years, he said, much progress has been made,
‘ ‘but we have not yet turned the comer.”
The key to making that step, he said, is to
include minority events in long-range plans.
“But don’t just plan - execute, too,” he
said.
Robertson said he supports the diversity that
he hopes African Heritage Month will encour
age.
* * Being colorblind is not a neat way to be,”
he said. “To not recognize what I am by being
colorblind is somewhat insulting to me.”
