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I MM -j Eight people walk to SAC to display policy opposition By Cindy Wostrel Staff Reporter They left Monday morning clad in halter tops, T-shtrls, Birkenstocks and tennis shoes, and one even wore a long skirt and a wide-brimmed hat They carried sunscreen and cameras. They loaded sleeping bags, pillows and towels into a car. Eight people oegan the walk from a Lincoln Unitarian Church to Strategic Air Command at i Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue to show their opposition to U.S. foreign policy and nuclear arms. Robert Huffmann, a junior from Omaha North high school, woke up early Monday morning to come to Lincoln just so he could trek back to Omaha. Michelle Allen, a 17-ycar-old Bellevue East senior, said she’s going on the walk because, * * it sounded like fun to cross the line (at SAC). ’ ’ But Traci Anderson, who will be a sopho more at Omaha Central this fall, said her mother would ground her if she participated in any civil disobedience. Emo Sybcrt, who will make the walk for the fourth time since the annual event began four years ago, said, “It’s something that I really believe in.” Camilla Eckersley said this year the group is sponsored by Youth for Peace and the Univer sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln’s Early Warning!. She said the walkers should arrive at SAC on Saturday in lime to stage a 4 p.m. protest. She said planners of this year’s protest expect fewer than the 75 demonstrators they’ve had in the past. The walk is a big part of the demonstration, Eckersley said. “It (the walk) makes the demonstration mean more,” she said. See WALK on 2 Michelle Paulrnan/Daily Nebraskan Highway 34 traffic passes the “SAC Trekkers” as they approach Eagle on Monday afternoon. Traci Anderson (left), Camilla Eckersiey, KatiTolber, Emo Sybert, Kristin Long, John Doan and Robert Huffman will reach Strategic Air Command in Bellevue on Saturday afternoon. Michelle Allen is not pictured. :-—-— I J EL N D AFARTTJeTd ' MIchtth l^imiium/Paity nobrnokcn Joseph Akpen (toft), Sfidf Coulibaly and Dions Siribe march near the State Capitol during the anti-apartheid protest Saturday afternoon. Demonstrators march in memory of Soweto By Jennifer Dods Staff Reporter In memory of the deaths and riots in Soweto, South Africa, 14 years ago, about 20 UNL students and Lincoln residents dem onstrated against apartheid Satur day afternoon. The demonstrators marched from Rroyhill Fountain to the Capitol, stopping at the governor’s man son and the Uruvmdyol Nebraska U uM _ _ __ _ sored by the Coalition Against Apartheid, a student group com posed of members of the African Student Association, Early Warn ing!, the Nigerian Student Asso ciation and the Women’s Resource Center. Holding a poster reading “Our Blood -- Your Profits,” African Student Association member Mar tin Pinto said he wanted others to know about the Soweto riots and the NU Foundation’s South Afri can investments. The Soweto riots began Jum 16, 1976, when police fired into -: See APARTHEID on 3 J South African program discussed By Mark Georgefi Staff Reporter Association of Students of the University of Nebraska Presi dent Phil Gosch said he hopes that a long awaited University of Ncbraska-Lincoln scholarship program for black South African college stu dents soon will be established. “We want to sit down and hope fully find some ways in cooperation with the University of Nebraska Foundation and the administration to get the scholarship program going,” Gosch said. “The bill was passed unam ' mously,” he said, referring to the May 2 passage of an AS UN bill which focused on apartheid, divestment and a black South African scholarship program. Gosch said many universities na tionwide already are helping prepare black South African students for post apartheid society. He said he and Arts & Sciences Sen Chris Potter have researched some of those programs. Gosch said the scholarship pro gram, called the South African Edu cation Program, brings black South African students to American univer sities and colleges, then returns them to South Africa after the program’s completion. The students arc pursuing under graduate and graduate degree pro grams with mostof them being gradu - ate students, he said, gram inlormalion, Gosch said, over 760 black South African students nationwide have participated. About 4(X) students already have returned to South Africa with their “GPAs as good or better than the average American student’s,’’ Gosch said. More than two hundred colleges currently participate in the program, which also could teach American students about what is going on in South Africa, Gosch said. “We learn, they learn, and South Africa gets to better utilize the talents they have,” he said. Gosch said this or any similar scholarship program is not ‘‘getting rid” of or ‘‘softening ’ the NU Foun dation divestment problem. Any scholarship program eventu ally implemented at UNL, won’t ‘‘let anyone off of the hook. We’re very serious about addressing this (divest ment) issue,” he said. But the scholarship program and the divestment situation arc two dif ferent issues, he said. The scholarship program will immediately help needy South Afri cans, whereas divestment will proba bly take years, he said. ‘‘It shouldn’t be one or the other, but both,” he said. Gosch said he hopes students, faculty members and cili/cns of Nebraska continue to pressure the NU Foundation to divest. Gosch said he hopes the ground work for this scholarship program will begin soon but has no idea how many scholarships will be funded. Commuters face less hassle during summer Parking space availability increases By Christine Piilard Staff Reporter Commuter students with park ing permits have more lots to park in this summer, accord ing to John Burke, University of Ncbraska-Lincoln parking adminis trator. Parking lots designated as green or blue arc interchangeable during the summer months only, Burke said. According to the UNL Parking Handbook, students with green com muter permits may park in blue lots marked one, two, three or six, as well as in any green lots marked with numbers in the 20s. The only blue lots that arc re stricted arc ones marked four and five. These arc next to sororities and fraternities that arc occupied. During the regular semester, the blue lots arc for residence hall park ing only and arc enforced 24-hours a day. Students with green permits arc not allowed to park in those lots. Because there aren’t as many stu denis living on campus during ihc summer, the change makes things handier i'or commuters, Burke said. When purchasing permits for the summer, students may not be told about the change, he said. Bui it is written on the back page of the park ing handbook that students receive The cost of a permit for the sum mer is S25, but permits can be pur chased at a rate of $4 per week. Burke said the parking department plans to start selling permits for next school year July 15.
