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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
