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NelSra^kan Editor Amy Edwards Photo Chief Dave Hansen 472-1766 Might News Editors Jana Pedersen Managing Editor Ryan Sleeves Diane Brayton Assoc. News Editors Use Donovan Art Director Brian Shelllto Eric Planner General Manager Dan Shattll Editorial Page Editor Bob Nelson Production Manager Katherine Pollcky Wire Editor Brandon Loomis /advertising Manager Jon Daehnke Copy Desk Editor Darcle Wiegert Professional Adviser Don Walton Sports Editor Jeff Apel 473-7301 The Daly Nebraskan(USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board, Ne braska Union 34,1400 R St., Lincoln, NE, Monday through Friday during the academic year; weekly during summer sessions. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The public also has access to the Publications Board For information, contact Pam Hein, 472-2588. Subscription price is $45 for one year Postmaster; Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St.,Lincoln, NE 68588-0448. Second-class postage oaid at Lincoln, NE ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1990 DAILY NEBRASKAN ..■■■■! ' — 1 ASIAN AMERICAN COMMITTEE Presents ^1990 ASIAN FOODFEST^> DATE: FRIDAY APRIL 27, 1990 TIME: 4:00-7:00 PM PLACE: UNL CULTURE CENTER (333 N. 14TH) COST: STUDENT W/ID $3.00 NONSTUDENT $4.00 ALL YOU CAN EAT!! 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Rob Armstrong, a senior corre spondent for CBS Radio, told the conference Indians will have to “play the game” in the coming decade to overcome the problems they face. “The 1990s may prove to be the most pivitol period for Native Ameri cans since 1492,” he said. “Native Americans must move now or get swept away with the tide. I thifik it’s a serious question, whether Indians will survive past the year 2000.” ‘ ‘Our most crucial years arc com ing up,’ ’ said Tim Giago, publisher of the Lakota Times, an Indian-owned weekly newspaper based in Rapid City. “A lot of important issues are coming up for Indian people, includ ing the future of a number of trea ties,” he said. “There’s going to have to be a grass roots movement of both Indians and non-Indians to keep those treaties from being repealed by Con gress.” About 100 journalists, educators and others from at least 14 states with large Indian populations attended the three-day conference called “The Media and the American Indian.” It ends today. “Indians must learn to play the game,” Armstrong said. “It took corporate America a decade to do that, and it has paid off tremendously. There has never been an organized effort on behalf of Native Americans to get the word out. That has got to change.” Armstrong, who covered the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee by members of the American Indian Movement, said Indian leaders must learn to adopt strategics public rela lions experts use to gain access to me media. , . “Indians arc almost an invisible minority,” he said. The term dis advantaged minority’ in official Washington means blacks and, oh yeah, sometimes Hispanics. “It comes down to one fact — Indians don’t have much political clout, and political clout is what matters in Washington.” On Feb. 27,1973, an armed group of Indians with grievances about the federal government’s handling ol Indian affairs occupied the village of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs police scaled off the village by setting up roadblocks. Before the 71 day stand off ended, two Indians were killed and a deputy marshal was wounded. The event was a high-water mark for media interest in Indian stories, said Armstrong. “In the ’60s and ’70s there were a lot more stories on Indian affairs, he said. “I think that had a lot to do with the timbre of the times. Wounded Knee was sort of a pinnacle for the coverage of Indian affairs ... it too, did not last.” For the most part, the majority of stories on Indians that began to ap pear in the national media throughout the ’80s were examples of “la/y journalism” and “cliched writing,” he said. “Indians have been and still arc the victims of stereotyping,” Arm strong said. “They’re probably the most stereotyped of all minorities.” Giago said that no matter what happens, Indians are survivors. “They’veadapted,” he said. “It’s a very enduring culture. They sur vived troops coming to kill them, 100 years of federal bungling . . . they’ll Jo whatever it’s going to take.” Cheney offers B-2 cutbacks to committee WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Dick Cheney on Thurs day called for slashing Pentagon plans for the B-2 stealth bomber and other sophisticated aircraft, citing a diminishing Soviet threat! Cheney, pressed by congres sional Democrats to cut military spending in response to rapid changes in Europe, testified his blueprint would trim $2.4 billion from President Bush’s$307 billion defense budget for 1991 and would save $34.8 billion through 1997. In addition to cutting the pro posed number of B-2 bombers f rom 132 to 75, Cheney said he intends to cut planned purchases of the C 17 long-range transport plane and the Navy’s A-12 attack aircraft, and to delay purchases of the Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Aircraft and the Advanced Tactical Fighter. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Les Aspm, D-Wis., commended Cheney for “coming to grips with some things he clearly needs to come to grips with,” but said he didn’t go far enough. The Democratic-control led House is already debating a fiscal 1991 budget that would make sig nificant cuts in proposed Pentagon spending. The Senate is working on its own version. Cheney told the House com mittee, “Soviet military capability will continue to be robust but we can in fact afford to slow down the pace of developing and fielding the next generation of aircraft.” He said NATO faces “fewer enemy aircraf t and a reduced ground threat” as a result of the dramatic changes sweeping Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. THANK YOU UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA and ECOLOGY NOW • for extraordinary recycling efforts and for exhibiting environmental awareness and responsibility in support of 0 __ ‘ Court Continued from Page 1 to pay student fees next year. ASUN president Phil Gosch asked the court loclarify the meaning of “regularly enrolled.” At UNL, he said, the average DCS student carries four credit hours of night classes, while the average full-time undergraduate carries 13 credit hours. He asked the court to show flexibility in its interpretation of the constitution’s eligibility requirements for the student senate. David Cygan, a DCS part-time economics and accounting student, said that because Haughton was elected to represent a group of students who arc part-time by definition, tak ing away her senate scat on the basis of her part-time status would he irrational. Cygan, who also is a Nebraska assistant attorney general, said most lull-time students would not represent DCS students adequately because of their different circumstances Clark Sackschcwsky, a second-year law student, testified against a flexible interpreta tion of the constitution by the court. Sackschcwsky said that adapting the eligi bility requirements for Haughton's case could “flow over to other students" without the proper qualifications. Instead, Sackschcwsky called for a consti tutional amendment to he voted on by the student body according to the constitution’s rules. “1 support Haughton," Sackschcwsky said, but "1 would rather sec an amendment and pre serve the constitution." Teachers Continued from Page 1 fcssor of psychology, said, teaching circles are groups of faculty members who give each other advice. Because graduate students teach, they also arc encouraged to attend the circles, he said. Bernstein said the circles are helpful be Alcohol Continued from Page 1 The Sensible Advertising and Family Edu cation Act (SAFE), was proposed because the war on drugs has to begin with alcohol, said Mary Takach, legislative aide to the bill’s cosponsor, Rep. Joseph Kennedy of Massachu setts. cause the peer evaluations arc instrumental in identifying teachers’ strengths and weak nesses. Prior to the new program, the colleges were using only student evaluations to judge a pro fessor's performance. But student evaluations are no! enough, Barrett said, and students can't judge the con tent of course material to determine if informa tion is outdated. Although President bush has dealt w ith the problem of illegal drugs, Takach said, the president hasn't addressed alcohol problems enough. According to Takach, the bill is designed to educate children about the dangers ol alcohol. Advertisements glorify alcohol and give the public a clouded image of it. she said. The proposal will go into subcommittee hearings at the end of May. Fighting Continued from Page 1 tec meeting Sunday, Gosch said. The bill will be referred to one of the ASUN standing committees for review and brought before the ASUN Senate next Wednesday, he said. Committee members agreed that the fight ing words provision would be addressed by ASUN or the Review Committee again in the fall. James Gricscn, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that even if the committee and ASUN could come to a ‘‘great consensus” on a fighting words provision, procedures lor implementation have not yet been discussed. Gricscn and the committee also briefly dis cussed a proposal to incorporate an honor code” in the Student Code of Conduct. Such an honor code, Gricscn said, would make it a violation to not report a theft, assault or any felony offense committed by another student. But there is not enough time to look at such a proposal in depth, which is a significant departure from the current code, he said Griesen said he also suspects students would view such a policy with “disdain.” No one likes to be told they have to be a ‘ ‘snitch on a fellow student, Griesen said.