Teleconference gives views
on low minority enrollment
By Michelle McDonald
Staff Reporter
Although Jim Crow laws and “sepa
rate-but-equal” clauses are long
outdated, low minority enrollment
in post-secondary education institutions still
is holding male minorities back, a group of
panelists told UNL students Wednesday at
the Nebraska Union.
Twenty-two people attended “Men of
Color: Absence in Academia,” a telecon
ference sponsored by the Affirmative Ac
tion Office at the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln.
The national teleconference, based in
Washington, D.C., included 15 minority
panelists, who arc professionals in educa
tion, psychology, government and business.
Some panelists said social inequalities
and a lack of encouragement from teachers
stops minorities from attending college.
According to panel members, statistics
show that while blacks constitute ft percent
of the population in general, they make up
50 percent of the prison population. Thirty
five percent of black males use drugs, half
of Hispanic and black children grow up in
poverty, and 90pcrcent of American Indian
men drop out of school.
Gussic Anderson, a retired teacher, said
minorities growing up in poverty do not
' have the self-esteem or the family cohcsivc
ncss to compete fairly in American schools.
U.S. Sen. Cleo Fields of Louisiana said
teachers must give more positive reinforce
ment to male minority students.
Fields said a teacher once told him he
was only capable of being a mechanic.
"But I wanted to be a lawyer,” he said.
Teachers must build students’ self-es
teem by encouraging them to go farther and
by pushing them harder, he said.
William Cross of Harvard University said,
according to his own study, 67 percent of
male minority students said their teachers
didn’t push them hard enough. But he said
most students indicated they planned to
attend college despite what their teachers
told them.
Sarah Melendez, a Hispanic member of
the panel, said the word “minority” unfor
tunately conjures up a negative image. She
said stereotypes like “minority ’ and
“underachiever” can lotfcr self-esteem.
People of color arc at a disadvantage, she
said, because tuition has "skyrocketed”
and the gap between white and minority
incomes has widened.
Terry Goods, a senior in the UNL Col
lege of Arts & Sciences, said he was sur
prised at the low turnout. He said he came to
the teleconference because minorities’ ab
sence in academia is an issue that “we men
of color arc interested in.”
The teleconference was the first in a se
ries of three The next is planned for April
18.
Suffragette and author teach
senators about past, future
By Emily Rosenbaum
Senior Reporter
The Nebraska Legislature received a blast
from the past and a glimpse into the future
Wednesday during New Horizons Day.
The program, which was started three years
ago to bring new perspectives to the Legisla
ture, included a portrayal of suffragette Eliza
beth Cady Stanton by Sally Roesch Wagner of
the University of Califomia-Davis.
Rushworth Kidder, author of two books
focusing on world issues in the 21st century
and a columnist for the Christian Science
Monitor, addressed senators and visitors about
ethics for the next century.
Wagner appeared before the Legislature in
full 19th-century garb and spoke as Stanton did
during her lifelong struggle for women’s rights.
Wagner described the hardships endured by
19th-century pioneer women who made their
way across the plains but received no recogni
tion for their work.
“Women of Nebraska lived under an oli
garchy of sex,” she said, ‘‘a dictatorship of
men.” *
She asked the senators and guests if women
wanted the opportunity to vote because of
vanity.
“Why did we want the ballot?” she asked.
“Because it was our right.”
Wagner exhibited the frustration women
felt when they were denied their “inherent
right” to vote. She told how Susan B. Anthony
was arrested for voting in a presidential elec
tion and was fined $100.
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“To vote was a man s duty and a woman’s
crime,’ ’ she said.
Stanton was in Nebraska many times from
1866 until her death in 1902. She came to
Nebraska, especially during the 1871 and 1875
constitutional conventions, to try to get women’s
suffrage into the U.S. Constitution and the
Nebraska Constitution.
Stanton spoke in Lincoln at University Hall
on June 16, 1871, while the convention was
meeting.
Kidder, author of “An Agenda for the 21st
Century’ ’ and “Reinventing the Future: Global
Goals for the 21st Century,’’ told senators that
policymakers must address the agenda for the
next century.
Kidder interviewed 22 artists, scientists,
policymakers and philosophers around the world
to learn what major issues the world will face in
the next century .
He said their concerns included nuclear
power, overpopulation, the environment, the
gap between the developing and the industrial
world, restructuring educational systems and
the breakdown in public and private morality.
Leaders cannot address these issues without
considering ethics, Kidder said.
“As we move into the 20th century, we
move into a global community,’’ he said.
Isolationism no longer will be possible as
countries become dependent on each other for
success and survival, he said.
Ethics will be needed to effectively relate to
other countries-and trust will be a big part of
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