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Reporter: 1990s to decide
fate of American Indians
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The next
10 years may prove to be the most
crucial time for Indians since whiles
landed on North America’s shores, a
reporter said Thursday during a con
ference on Indian-media relations.
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treaties from being repealed by Con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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.