COLAGE sponsors Coming Out Day rally
By KODin i rimarcm
Staff Reporter
About 25 students and faculty
members at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln participated in
Wednesday’s National Coming Out
Day rally near Broyhill Fountain.
Sponsored by COLAGE, the
Committee Offering Lesbian and
Gay Events, this year’s rally theme
was “Take the next step.’’
COLAGE chairman Dave
Whitaker said a rally is only one way
for gays, lesbians, and their parents
and friends to show their visibility.
4 ‘People have the choice of how
visible they want to be,” Whitaker
said. “They can take any small
step.”
Whitaker, a senior from North
Platte majoring in English, said Na
tional Coming Out Day marks the
anniversary of the Gay and Lesbian
March on Washington, D.C., Oct. 11,
1987, when 600,000 demonstrators
marched for gay and lesbian civil
rights.
Virginia Uribe, who started Proj
ect 10 for gay and lesbian youths at
Fairfax High School in Los Angeles,
spoke to the crowd about issues of
isolation and violence that these
youths often face in school.
“Students should have a sense of
worth and desire,” Uribe said.
“Equality within the education sys
tem is a right we shouldn’t have to
fight for.
“Liberty and justice for all. Re
member those words, because they
mean everyone.”
Margie Winn, a senior advertising
major from Omaha, said that coming
out provides “positive and realistic
role models for gay and lesbian
youth.”
“Coming out is a difficult process
because they are stigmatized,” Winn
said. There are “different comfort
levels and different stages,” she said.
“It can be a lifelong process.”
FACULTY from Page 1
duplication and unite office and func
tion, McShane wrote.
It also would give the president
enough to do so that he or she would
not “micromanage” campuses other
than UNL, he wrote.
McShane wrote that an alternative
to combining the offices could be
hiring a single staff officer who
would answer to the regents and have
no independent authority.
Only after central administration
problems have been solved,
McShane wrote, should the univer
sity choose a new chief executive of
ficer.
If the chief executive is selected
before the problems are solved, he
wrote, the selection would produce
only “the definition of an ideal scout
master.”
Other concerns such as the addi
tion of KSC into the NU system and
redefining roles and missions for
each campus of the university can
occur only after a final decision is
made on how central administration
will operate and a chief executive is i
selected, he wrote.
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UNL, Charles University plan 5-week student exchange j
Some University of Nebraska
students will trade places in 1990
and 1991 with students from Char
les University in Prague, Czecho
slovakia.
The two universities will have a
student exchange, thanks to a
$50,000 grant from the U.S. Infor
mation Agency of the U.S. State
Department.
Nine students from each uni
versity, five in 1990 and four in
1991, will trade places. The ex
change will last five weeks.
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln and the University of
Nebraska at Omaha received the
grant
Nebraska students who want to
participate in the exchange should
be enrolled at UNL or UNO, be
under 25 years of age and have a
knowledge of Czech.
Since 1981, almost 40 students,
faculty members and administra
tors have participated in the UNO
exchange program. UNOcurrently
is hosting two visiting faculty
members from Charles University.
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ASUN from Page 1
Wood said if AS UN wants to deny
funding for any student organization,
it must establish content-neutral stan
dards to judge all organizations.
As long as the standards weren’t
based on the speech content student
groups wished to sponsor, he said, the
circuit court ruling would not apply.
For example, he said, standards
based on attendance would be con
tent-neutral.
Wood said a proposed change in
ASUN bylaws to allow the UNL
ROTC to be exempt from ASUN
constitutional requirements for stu
dent organizations would be legal
under present law because ROTC is
covered under federal law.
The change, sponsored by general
studies Sen. Steve Thomlison, would
allow ROTC exemption if the ASUN
constitution conflicts with federal
government regulations.
Thomlison said he proposed the
change because federal regulations
only allow 17- to 35-year-old stu
dents in ROTC, which puts the UNL
ROTC program in conflict with the
ASUN constitutional requirement
prohibiting age discrimination.
But Arts and Sciences Sen. Julie
Jorgenson said the change was aimed
at allowing ROTC to discriminate on
the basis of sexual orientation.
Currently, she said, the ASUN
constitution doesn’t interfere with
ROTC.
The bylaw change motion failed
11-13.
BERGER from Page 1
If students come away from his
class with these goals accom
plished, Berger says he is satisfied.
However, he says he can’t be
certain if his goals are met by stu
dents.
“I’m not a good judge of that,”
he says. “You’d have to ask my
students.”
Helpful, supportive and enthu
siastic were the terms used to de
scribe Berger by Brad Vasa, one ol
Berger’s former students and a
member of the honors program.
“He presents the material in an
interesting way and gets the stu
dent excited about it,’ Vasa says.
“He goes the extra mile.’’
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