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state senators.
* ‘The Roskens thing was the straw
that broke the camel’s back for a lot
of senators,” he said.
Moore said that with the passage
of LB247, the bill that merges Kear
ney State Ifito the NU system and
calls for a study of higher education
in the state, it's more important than
ever to have a spokesperson who can
communicate NU’s needs.
"You don’t want a spokesperson
who has made some enemies,” he
said.
The study could end up realigning
higher education in the state, he said
Moore said he is sincere in his
suggestion, but said it may not be
necessary for Hoch to resign as chair
man if the reasons for Roskens' dis
missal are revealed.
Sen. Ron Withem ofPapillion said
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education.
Extensive education focused on
keeping students in school would
have cost Texas $1.7 billion,
Cisneros said. This is a 10-1
ratio of loses over gains, he said.
“It’s expensive to lose an entire
generation to the dropout problem,”
Cisneros said.
To combat this problem, he said,
America must place high educational
expectations for all students. It must
be unacceptable to perpetuate failure
in the school systems, he said.
Schools must have clearly defined
goals and made sure they implement
them, Cisneros said. This should be
done by the whole community but
especially by school principals.
"America does best when she
invests in her people,” Cisneros said.
The speech was sponsored by
UPC Talks and Topics, Chicano
Special Events, the UNL political
science department, UNL Teachers
College, Affirmative Action, the
Mexican-American Student Associa
tion and the Rio Grande Restaurant
he thinks the decision to step down as
chairman should be left to Hoch. But
he said he agrees with Moore that this
C04}W era* the Roskens incident
Withem said he thinks there has
a great deal of strain between
regents, NU administration and the
Uaislature because of recent events,
rtc said he doesn’t know if it was
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children who had seen the poster and
wm upset by it. The policeman also
Mid that he found the poster to be in
poor taste, but dichi’t think it was
illegal, and left, Schulz said.
At about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday,
two vice squad officers came to
puffy s and issued the tavern a ticket
for delivery of pornography, which
carries a fine of up to 5L0OO.
Schulz said the the woman's pri
vate areas were obscured with mark
ing pens before the posters were
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* Although we did censor the po'st
ers,’ ’ Schulz said,' ‘ I did it against my
better judgment because I don’t want
to see myself as a censor - although
I did agree with the lady (who com
plained to Duffy *s) because I thought
they were in poor taste, too.”
Schulz said he plans to be more
selective about what kind of promo
tional material is distributed.
"It was an unfortunate misunder
standing that this happened because I
don’t think the people at Duffy’s
would ever do anything malicious
like shat,” Schulz said. ‘‘We’re
going to be a little hit more careful of
now we advertise the hands and how
that reflects on the public.”
But, Schulz said, these offensive
band posters are nothing new and
they serve a purpose within a certain
realm of artistic expression.
He said many Lincoln bars have
hung posters that he thought were in
had taste.
"(But) every time a poster like
that has been hung, it’$ (been) to
ship.
If Hoch would continue as regents
chairman, Withem said, he would not
have problems working with her.
Hoch could not be reached for
comment Thursday. •
bring across a message/* Schulz
said.
A band that is against animal ex
erimentation, for example, may
ve a very graphic picture of a grue
some subject animal to get across
how horrible it thinks it is, Schulz
said.
“There are all kinds of things that
go on in America and all over the
world that are disgusting and wrong
- what better way than to use an
censor me post
ers, I did It against
my better judg
ment because I .
don’t want to see
myself as a cen
sor — although I
• did agree with the
lady because I
thought they were
In poor taste.’
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example like that?” Schulz said.
“After talking with the band, 1
don’t think it (the poster) was done
maliciously,*’ he said. “I think it was
done to get across a point. Their
music was very disturbing as their
poster was very disturbing.”
The band could not be reached for
comment Thursday.
JN ew program teaches leadership skills
By Lisa Bolin
SufT Reporter
A new program at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln offers students
the opportunity to learn a skill vital to
success - leadership.
The Experiential Leadership De
velopment Program, or ExLD, is
designed to develop effective leaders
by improving such skills as speaking,
listening, organizing and persuasion,
said Susan Fritz, project coordinator.
The program is sponsored through
the Center for Leadership Develop
ment on East Campus, Fritz said.
ExLD, which began in July, is
aimed primarily at undergraduate
students in the College of Agricul
ture. she said, but is open to all UNL
students. Twenty students currently
are enrolled in the program, Fritz
said. v
James Homer, professor of agri
culture education, said he initiated
the program because leadership skills
are a high priority for employers, and
UNL does not focus on this type of
learning. ,
“UNI. is competent in teaching
wholistic education but is lacking in
teaching interpersonal skills,** he
said.
ExLD is funded through New
Partnerships in Agriculture and Edu
cation, which was started with a grant
from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in
Battle Creek, Mich., Homer said.
The program received $15,370 from
the foundation last spring and an
additional $300 Tuesday, he said.
, Students who enroll in the ExLD
program, Fritz said, are asked to de
fine their goals and devise a plan to
reach them. She said students may do
this themselves or lfcith their advisers.
Students then give themselves
assessment tests to determine their
strengths and areas that cm be im
proved, she said. Fritz said students
determine which activities offered
through ExLD will improve their
interpersonal skills.
Participants are encouraged to at-'
tend seminars 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tues
days, Fritz said. The scry mars inc lude
speakers, and group or individual
activities to reinforce what haslieen
learned, she said.
Students are encouraged to par
ticipate in activities that already are
provided by the community and uni
versity, she said.
The ExLD program also provides
advice for students interested in shad
owing or following leaders around
for a day, as well as internships, Fritz
said.
Homer said ExLD is a 12-month
trial program. If the program is suc
cessful, Homer said he hopes die
Center for Leadership Development
can find additional funding to con
tinue ExLD.
Members part of Centennial program
Reunion set for 90 alumni
By Sara Bander
Staff Repotter
About 90 alumni who participated
in a University of Nebraska-Lincoln
educational experiment called the
Centennial Education Program will
gather in Lincoln this weekend for a
reunion.
Barbara Wright, director of stu
dent programs and reunions at the
Wick Alumni Center, said the alumni
will come from all over the country to
participate in activities starting to
night and ending Saturday evening.
Wright said three alumni of the
program, Steve Ferris, Jim Pattavina
and Jim Schaffer, formed a reunion
committee that worked to organize
events for the reluming alumni.
Robert Knoll, the first senior fel
low of the program, said students
accepted into the program lived in
Love and Heppner Halls in the
Neihardt Residence Center. He said
students took half of their classes in
the Centennial program and the rest
in thfc greater university.
He said students declared under
graduate majors and used the Centen
nial courses as their electives. '
Knoll said the program was very
controversial when it began in 1969.
” We were trying to set up an alter
nate mode of education, he said.
‘ ‘ We were trying to combine life and
living experience with educational
experience.”' .
Pattavina said the community
Kded by the program was very
ultohim. •
*T was in the Navy for four years
after high school, so I had been away
from school for a while by the time I
got to college,” he said. ‘‘I remember
thinking ‘1 don’t wan t‘to join a frater
nity,’ but l wanted some way to join a
community.*' -
Pattavina said special friendships
formed among Centennial students
because they lived, worked and
learned together.
Knoll said he is* impressed by the
achievements of the program’s
alumni.
‘ ‘These are some very remarkable
people,’ ’ he said. “One wonders ‘Did
we influence them or did they come
to us because they were remark
able?’”
The program was not an honors
program, Knoll said, but the students
may have been-special because they
were self-selected to the program.
‘‘They were people who wanted to
try something, who were discontent
with the standard,” he said. ‘‘They
had initiative.”
Wright said the program ended in
1981. Knoll said changing times sig
naled the end of the Centennial pro
gram.
“It had run its course,” he said.
“What we were doing was no longer
necessary. We were not attracting the
same kind of students as we had be
fore.”
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