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Census Continued from Page 3 will be counted at their campus ad dresses, not their permanent addresses, because they live on campus more than six months of the year. Heads of households will be asked to complete the questionnaire with information current as of April 1, Walker said. People not living at their permanent address at that time still will be counted at the address that they live at for more than six months of the year, she said. One in six Americans chosen ran domly will receive a longer census form, she said. The long form asks45 questions in addition to the 14 ques tions on the standard form. Questions on both forms ask about ancestry and housing. The district census office edits the forms to make sure they are filled out correctly and to determine who has failed to return them, Walker said. The office staff then contacts those who have not returned forms, she said. If those people fail to respond to office workers’ follow-up calls, work ers go to people’s houses to obtain information, she said. Walker said this will be the first census in which officials will count people at shelters, abuse centers, air ports, youth hostels, fairgrounds, YMCAs and YWCAs. Walker said if forms are filled out correctly and quickly, the census will cost taxpayers less because census workers will be employed for a shorter period of time. Government officials estimate the cost of this year’s census at $2.5 bil lion, Walker said. That comes to $1 per person over the 10-year period of the 1990s, she said. Lincoln’s office will send out about 160,000 census forms to a 16-county region in southeast Nebraska, Walker said. After the district office completes its work, it will send the forms to Kansas City, Mo. There one of sev eral processing offices across the United States will compile the statis tics, Walker said. Results of the census will go to President Bush in December, Walker said. They will be released to local governments around April, she said. The census serves three purposes, Walker said. One is to provide the fair representation required by the U.S. Constitution, she said. Another is to provide for fair distribution of funds, she said. The government and private businesses also use the census to de termine the growth rale in certain areas, she said. The government and private sec tor use the census’ statistics to plan locations for hospitals, schools, day care facilities, senior-citizen centers and social programs, Walker said. 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Gholson Continued from Page 1 After reluming from Vietnam, Gholson began his community or ganization efforts in Brooklyn, N.Y., to help inner-city blacks overcome problems caused by poverty. He worked part time in the community, organizing rent strikes, apartment repair programs and establishing a day-care center staffed by mothers on welfare. Gholson’s efforts to help blacks “maximize their potential” have not been restricted to adults. In 1977, he wrote and performed in educational and anti-drag puppet shows for the Washington, D.C., Department of Recreation. The act, titled “Puppets with a Purpose,” was performed at day-care centers and elementary and junior high schools in Washington. Gholson also had a private 30 minute puppet show, the “Hank Harambee Show,” which he performed on the East Coast. The show, with an Afro-centric puppet and a “very conservative” Gholson, demonstrated that all blacks must work together to achieve their goals. The name was symbolic, because “harambee” is a Swahili word for “unity,” Gholson says. In 1978, Gholson “got tired of traveling with the show” and trans ferred to the city Recreation Depart ment’s Therapeutic Recreation Cen ter, where he worked for 11 years with black handicapped children. Using his musical and singing tal ents, developed while he was grow ing up in Cape Charles, Va., Gholson says he wrote and produced two major plays and more than 20 skits, inte grating handicapped performers with performers who were not physically challenged. One of the musical plays he wrote and produced, “An Old to New Re vue,” won second place during a regional one-act tournament in Wash ington. It was the first play in the tournament that included handicapped performers, Gholson says. “It was the greatest thing in my life, seeing these kids develop self esteem and confidence and getting them to accomplish something no one thought they could do,” Gholson says. Low self-esteem, frustration, apa thy and anger of black children and adults in America are effects of the “cultural retardation” blacks have suffered at the hands of “white, main stream American society” through out their history. Blacks feel the odds arc against them, he says. “We’ve been tricked and conned i by the while culture,” he says. Blacks are not taught to have pride in their “blackness” or the many famous, talented black poets, writers, musicians and inventors, Gholson says. Elementary and high school edu cation about black history and culture teach that “the black people were living in savagery in Africa, were sold by their own people, brought to America as slaves and civilized,” Gholson says. Black people grow up with the impression that they should say, “Thank you, Mr. White Man, for rescuing my race from savagery,’ ’ he says. “The problem is the reluctance of -4 4 We've been tricked and conned by the white culture. Gholson -ff the white people to accept their true history, to sec that blacks have been victimized.” Acceptance of that history would necessitate solutions, such as rede signing the urban educational system to include ma; ir courses in African American history, Gholson says. Gholson is angry about the racism, bias and prejudice demonstrated by some American institutions, particu larly the educational system and the military, but he keeps his anger in check. “It’s not healthy to show it,” he says. Showing his anger, he says, would be subscribing to the racist attitudes that have been shown him. “I can see both sides of the story. 1 don’t like the story, though. In fact, sometimes I want to tear up the whole damn book.” violence, unoison says, is not a solution to the cultural retardation and poverty black people face. “1 spent 14 months in Vietnam and have seen destruction at its zenith .... Anybody who has been to war knows war is insane. I can’t do that and don’t want that for anybody’s children, specifically not for children of my own culture.” If controlled, however, that anger is healthy, Gholson says. “If you’re not angry, you have no information on things detrimental to your physical and mental health. Anger motivates me to continue solving the problems of the black people.” Gholson says he plans to work in community organization when he graduates in 1991. He is uncertain, however, whether he will return to the East Coast or stay in Lincoln. Groups of people and areas in Lincoln have the same problems as inner-city areas on the East Coast, he says. “All I have to do is close my eyes and walk in certain areas of Lincoln, and I hear the same cries and needs as in Harlem,” Gholson says. People in poor areas need to know that there are solutions and how to work for them, he says. They need a “healthy understanding of their his tory” and of what they can do with pride in their culture. "You need to get to a level of understanding that you are a human being, not a black, a white or a His panic. With that understanding, you can work over, under and around obstacles in your way,” Gholson says. Bringing the black people up to this level of understanding is a war against ignorance, racism and pov erty, Gholson says. While taking lime out to finish his degree, Gholson is preparing for that challenge. “I’m gaining the time to retool and prepare myself for a real war, one that means more than the Vietnam War,” he says. “I don’t, need lethal weapons this time, though. I need my intellect, my dedication and sense of fair play” to help young people in the inner-city fightthe problemsof drugs, poverty, apathy and bias in the educa tional system. According to Gholson, young people need someone who can work with them, sacrifice for them and help them. They need someone who is “grounded there, who can stand the jungle.” “I am a Vietnam veteran and a veteran of the inner cities when gangs roamed the streets. I have killed people, so the violence doesn’t bother me. I know who I can trust and who not to trust,” Gholson says. “I haven’t written off the next few generations,” he says. “It (will be) difficult and frustrating and will take a long time. But it’s more frustrating to know you’re not doing something.” Gholson glances off in the dis tance and his voice softens. He sounds tired. “Sometimes, though, I feel that I’d just like to go to Jamaica because I’ve contributed enough already, that I have done all that God has given (me) the strength and talent to do.” Then his intensity returns, as he speaks about moving to Nebraska “without an entrenched black cul ture.” “I decided that I was secure enough in my blackness to deal with the ab sence of an established black com munity ... I carry my cultural knowl edge and heritage in my head. It’s the best defense against attempts to (cul turally) retard me.”