Lewis: parking‘eaten alive’
Senators discuss UNL parking problem
# By Robin Trhnarchi
Staff Reporter
Safety issues, space lost to con
struction and the creation of a
“class society” on campus domi
nated the Faculty Senate’s discus-,
sion Tuesday of the parking prob
lem facing the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln.
The increase in reserved park
ing spaces closer to campus and
the enforced 24-hour towing re
strictions created by construction
pose safety problems and need
immediate attention, senators said.
William Lewis, chairman and
associate professoi of mathemat
ics and statistics, noted that the
reserved parking and the open
parking lots on the edges of cam
pus are unsafe and are * ‘not defen
sible” after dark.
Parking has been ‘‘eaten alive”
by construction, Lewis said. He
said he is concerned that too many
spaces will be lost during the Phase
III construction of the Recreation
Center.
Ray Coffey, UNL business and
Finance manager, accepted ques
tions and suggestions from the
senators. He acknowledged the
immediacy of the parking prob
lem.
Citing the ‘‘proliferation of
special-use reserve spaces,” psy
chology professor Donald Jensen
questioned whether the use of
parking space by service vehicles
and other university business ve
hicles is efficient. Jensen said such
l w,
spaces may be counterproductive.
Jensen suggested that reserved
or special-use parking is “turning
(the university) into an area with
clear class status,” beginning with
administrators and ending with
students.
Coffey said the cost of faculty
and student permits should cover
costs, while fines and penalties,
.estimated to total $250,000 to
$300,000 for this year, will be used
for blacktop, lighting and safety
improvements.
Highlighting the recommenda
tions, the senators unanimously
passed a resolution introduced by
Lewis urging the Parking Advi
sory Committee to convert the
Area 10 horseshoe parking south
of the Coliseum to paved parking.
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Speaker fights discrimination in schools
By Roger Price
Staff Reporter
School should be a place where
gay and lesbian youth are educated,
not terrorized, said Virginia Uribe,
keynote speaker for National Coming
Out Day.
Uribe spoke to a crowd of about SO
people in the Nebraska Union Tues
day night about Project 10. She
started the program in 1984 at Fairfax
High School in the Los Angeles Uni
fied School District to assist gay and
lesbian students.
Uribe said the program was the
result of her doctoral studies in psy
chology, in which she specialized in
adolescent homosexuality. She said
she found there were no programs in
the United States to help gay and
lesbian students within the schools.
Project 10 is a dropout prevention
program that offers emotional sup
port, information and resources to
youth who identify themselves as
lesbian, gay or bisexual, Uribe said.
Project 10 alao helps students in
these groups deal with suicidal
thoughts, alcohol/substance abuse
and uie risk of AIDS, Uribe said.
Uribe said the name for the group
came from the figures of a study by
the McKenzie Institute, which said
about 10 percent of the population is
homosexual.
Uribe said she wanted to avoid
using the words gay or lesbian in the
group’s name in hopes of limiting the
initial negative response.
As a part of Project 10, Uribe set
up workshops for counselors and
teachers, expanded the school librarya
and formed support groups, for gay
and lesbian youth, she said.
“Project 10 is a concept that ac
knowledges that gay and lesbian
youngsters exist and that they have
rights,’’ Uribe said.
Uribe said these rights include the
right to attend schools free of verbal
and physical harassment; the right to
attend schools where respect and
dignity is recognized for all students;
the right to have access to accurate
information about homosexuals; the
right to have positive role models
within the curriculum; the right to be
included in all adolescent support
groups (alcohol, suicide, etc.); the
right to hove legislators who fight for
freedoms without prejudices; and the
right to a heritage free of unchal
lenged discrimination and hate.
The program is inexpensive,
Uribe said, but it does take courage to
stand up to the opposition and one’s
own internal homophobia.
She said educators must say, “I
support this program because I am an
educator, and I support public educa
tion for everyone.”
Those opposed to programs like
Project 10 will use every form of
attack available to stop it, Uribe said.
She said some of her opponents
have started a telemarketing cam
paign to raise money to fight Project
10, telling people that the program
recruits gays and lesbians within the
school system to replace those who
die of AIDS.
Uribe said this form of attack has
strengthened her commitment
through her sheer disgust of their
tactics.
Other events takfhg place today as
a part of National Coming Out Day
include a rally with Uribe from 11:15
a.m. to 12:35 p.m. at Broyhill foun
tain, the continual showing of the
movie “Can We Taflc” in the Ne
braska Union, and a special movie
presentation at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska
Union.
1 Activist to speak at women’s studies conference
An internationally renowned au
thor, activist and scholar will be the
keynote speaker at the Midwest
Women’s Studies Regional Confer
ence Friday at 8 p.m.
Angela Davis will speak on
“Women, Race and Class in the
1990s” in the Great Plains Room of
the East Union.
The conference, titled ‘‘A Femi
nist Agenda for the 1990s,” will be
held Friday and Saturday and is spon
sored by the UNL Women’s Studies
Program and the Division of Continu
ing Studies. Other topics to be pre
sented include violence against
women, female minority groups,
feminist literature and women’s stud
ies at the university level.
UNITY from Page 1
campuses, Gholson said.
Davis said he came up with the
idea for Unity after noticing that
other media don’t cover minority
concerns.
He said stories in the magazine
will focus on racial violence on pre
dominantly white campuses, lack of
minority representation on student
governments and in key faculty and
administrative positions at Big Eight
schools, admissions requirements for
Big Eight schools, businesses with
high retention rates of minority em
ployees, direct university invest
ments in South Africa, and other is
sues of special concern to minorities.
Many of these subjects also were
discussed at the delegate meeting,
Davis said.
Racial outbreaks are increasing on
Big Eight campuses, he said, which
puts increased stress on black stu
dents.
On some campuses, he said, black
students can’t even walk to class
without confronting racist designs on
fraternity T-shirts.
As well as discussing ways lo
combat campus racism, Davis said,
'the delegates also talked about ways
to increase funding for black pro
grams on campuses and made prepa
rations for a larger minority student
conference that will be held At the
University of Iowa in February.
Davis said the magazine will be
funded by corporate grants, advertis
ing and subscriptions. He hopes to
publish the first issue of Unity in
February.
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