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February 1,1989 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol, 0$ Ho. 91
L NL minority enrollment up;
recruitment causes increase
By Amy Edwards
Senior Editor
Black male enrollment at the
University of Nebraska-Lin
coln is improving despite na
tional trends of decreasing enroll
ment.
A recent report from the American
Council on Higher Education has
shown that black male enrollment has
dropped more than any other minor
ity group in the last decade.
The report, released Jan. 18, stated
that minorities as a group experi
enced a 7.6 percent increase in col
lege enrollment. However, that jump
was “fueled mainly by the increased
enrollment of Asians and Hispan
ics.” From 1976 to 1986, “the pro
portion of black ir m attending col
lege suffered the largest decline of all
racial and gender groups,” the report
stated.
But Vaughn Robertson, assistant
director of student opportunities and
services in the Multi-Cultural Affairs
off ice at UNL, said Friday that black
male enrollment at UNL has risen.
Currently there are 226 black men
and 149 black women at UNL, ac
cording to the Integrated Postsecon
dary Education Data System in the
office of Institutional Research and
Planning. In 1987, there were 214
black men and 161 black women at
UNL.
Robertson said improvements in
UNL’s black student enrollment have
taken place only in the last three
vears. Three years ago, UNL had the
iowest black enrollment in the Big
Eight, Robertson said.
“Now we’re getting ready to be at
least in the top half,’’ he said.
The increases have come as a re
sult of changes in minority recruit
ment programs at the university,
Robertson said.
Changes include more recruit
ment programs and commitment to
diversity at the university, Robertson
said.
Colleges and departments bring in
their own scholarships, targeted at
minorities. Robertson said the re
cruitment effort is not coordinated,
but it has made a difference.
“This year, we’re going to give
the most minority scholarships in the
history of this university,” Robertson
said. ‘ ‘We have not turned a comer
by any means. But at least we’re able
to bid for a certain part of the stu
dents.”
Robertson said the university is
beginning to change a negative im
age that it has had in the minority
community.
“The chancellor of the university
is saying that diversity is important,”
Robertson said. “To see the chancel
lor of the university come to the
Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration
and give the address is an important
bertson, who has been a coun
selor in the minority" assistance pro
gram for eight years, said the changes
he sees are making him optimistic.
“(Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs James) Griesen has pul his
money where his mouth is,”
Robertson said. “If you make it bet
ter for black students and Chicane
students, you make it better for all
students.”
___ 1984 1986 1987 1988 |
~$j 220 212 214 226 11
Black ^ 164 173 161 149 j
' Native?!.23 23 39 29
j AmericanTi23 27 30 26 |
* -1—1 » 'fl—I !■■■ ^
Asia 75 101 95 111
i American 56 58 62 68
I'" ■ - —" ..
127 119 112 120
Hispanic^ 96 93^^J05^J05J
12,435 11,940 11,577 11,844
White 9,839 10,030 10,012 10,317
j Source: Thi Integrated Po<tsci'ondan/ Education Pata System \
Andy Manhart and John Bruce/Oaily Nebraskan
Two hall associations urge condom machine installation
By Diana Johnson
Senior Editor
and Jana Pedersen
Staff Reporter
Cather/Pound Residents’ Asso
ciation voted Tuesday to support the
installation of condom dispensers in
restrooms in the two residence halls.
The resolution, which will be pre
sented to the University of Nebraska
Lincoln’s Office of University Hous
ing, was passed by a vole of 16 to 1.
Two members abstained and six were
not present.
Supporters of the resolution said
condom dispensers are needed in
residence halls for convenience, for
the protection of residents and for the
prevention of unwanted pregnancies.
Schramm Hall President Eric
Aspengren, who was a guest speaker
at the meeting, said one in five stu
dents receiving treatment from the
University Health Center have sexu
ally transmitted diseases. Condom
dispensers would help prevent the
spread of sexually transmitted dis
eases, he said, because they would be
convenient.
Condoms currently available at
the health center are not convenient,
he said, because the health center is
not open at night.
“Not everyone’s going to plan
ahead/’ he said.
A similar resolution was passed
unanimously by the Abel/Sandoz
Residence Association Monday
night.
Following the passage of the Abel/
Sandoz resolution, University Hous
ing Director Doug Zatechka said his
position on the issue has not changed.
Zatechka told Residence Hall
Association representatives and
Abel/Sandoz Residence Association
members last week he did not support
putting condom machines in the
halls. He repeated his position Tues
day before the passage of the Cather/
Pound resolution.
Abel 13 representative Belise
Draper, who presented the bill, said
the resolution was “not to establish
law, but is a recommendation that
something be done.”
But Zatechka said Tuesday the
decision to install machines is not his
alone.
“It is not a unilateral housing
decision,” he said. At present, he
said, he is unsure exactly what chan
See CONDOM on 6
Increased support
to speed reburials
By Brandon Loomis
Senior Reporter
Slate Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha
said Tuesday that support from the
Nebraska State Historical Society’s
director should clear the way for his bill requir
ing the society to return some skeletal remains
to Indian tribes.
The Associated Press reported that James
Hanson, director of the society who has op
posed such a move for years, voiced approval
for LB340 Monday. In the past, the society has
maintained that the remains were too valuable
for research to be relumed for burial.
The bill, which applies to public institutions
and agencies, would require anyone who dis
covers human skeletal remains to stop any
activity of disrupting the unmarked grave, and
report the finding to local law enforcement
officers. It would also make it illegal to know
ingly throw away or abandon human remains
or burial goods.
Hanson, who was unavailable for comment
Tuesday, said Monday that the degree of his
support for the bill might hinge on future agree
ments concerning the handling of the remains,
with Pawnee Indians, AP reported.
Hanson’s comments came after he met with
Sen. Dennis Baack of Kimball and Bob Perc
goy, the attorney representing the Pawnee tribe
arid the Native American Rights Fund, AP said.
The Pawnee tribe, now based in Oklahoma,
wants about 20 percent of the society’s collec
tion of remains and artifacts to rebury them in
accordance with their religious beliefs. Cham
ber’s bill requires that the remains be relumed
by Sept. 10.
Chambers said Hanson’s comments will
help eliminate any conflict about the bill,
which already had ‘‘tremendous legislative
support.”
“I give a lot of credit to Mr. Baack for
bringing them together,” Chambers said.
See BURIAL on 3
Oavtd Frana/D*Ny Nabraakan
jj»nt Webb, a graduate student in industrial and management systems
engineering, works with an electrical discharge machine with radio
frequoncy control at the Walter Scott Engineering Center Tuesday
afternoon.
Research at center
devoted to industry
By Theresa Sindelar
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln has established the Non
Traditional Manufacturing Re
search Center to develop and research
materials important to the success of
U.S. industries, according to the center’s
director.
il
Kamlakar Rajurkar, professor of in
dustrial and management systems engi
neering, said the center’s research is
important because U.S. industry needs
new technology to help it compete in the
international market.
One main purpose of the center is to
develop new manufacturing processes.
The research is targeted at existing and
future needs of computer software and
monitoring systems hardware used in
industrial machining methods, Rajurkar
said.
Ken Webb, a graduate student in
volved in the research, said that non
traditional manufacturing research in
volves development of more effective
tool designs - such as using electricity or
chemicals for cutting or drilling.
“Right now industry is usirg very
hard materials (to drill into) and it is
difficult to find powerful tools that resist
wear and are low cost,” he said.
See RESEARCH on 3
