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<^V3 TVl A/r Nebra^kaN_ CB A students go to Hungary for program By Mark Ceorgefif Staff Reporter 9 _I sieve rurgascn, Anay An ger, Cheryl Hamilton, IWiko Cuba, Sean fttmpton and Beth Read will attend the summer study program July 16 to Au gust 17. h Clay Singleton, asso ciate dean of die College of Business Administration, and Kathy Singleton of UNL Man agement Information Systems also wiii attend. ... ! “This program is the begin- J Ring of what we hope to be a long-running, bilateral exchange program/' J. Clay Singleton said. Read, a senior mqjoring in French and intemattonal affairs, ! said she would someday like to work in Europe and will use the study program to find out what her prospects might be. ‘For all of Europe to have tme cconomy-it’H be exciting. Right now is the time to go to Hungary and Eastern Europe/’ she said. i nc summer study program will include classes and meet ings with Hungarian business and government officials about United States foreign investment programs throughout Eastern Europe, Read said. Seminars will include (me on international financial manage ment, team-taught by J. Clay Singleton, Kathy Singleton and faculty members from the Uni versity of Central Florida and Florida’s Roiiins College, and a seminar in Economic Theory and Policy of Eastern Europe in the 1990s, presented by a Budapest University of Econom ics faculty member. Kathy Singleton said her duties also wi ({include evaluat ing Hungary’s computer and information gathering systems to identify areas that need itn pTUVCTildH. She said the changing politi cal scenery was a major incen tive m her involvement noth the program. The political climate in itself i ! Regent renews KSC fight for vote By Matt Herek ' Senior Editor_ Kearney State College picked up at least one vote on the NU Board of Regents in its fight to have a voting member on the Univer sity of Nebraska’s Presidential Advi sory Search Committee. Regent Rosemary Skrupa of Omaha said she will introduce a resolution at the next regents meeting that would give KSC an equal vote on the search committee. The board previously denied KSC voting membership on the search committee. Regents Don Blank of McCook, John Payne of Kearney and Kcrmil Hansen of Elkhom originally voted to give KSC a vote on the committee. Skrupa said her original vote against the proposal was not against KSC, but against the procedure that took place when the vole was taken. The board was not given enough time to con sider the proposal, she said, because it was thrown in at the last moment. Anything that is important enough to come before the board should have at least 24 hours of reflection on the issue before it comes to a vote, she said. ‘ ‘We shouldn’t be running the board of regents by the scat of our pants,” Skrupa said. She said part of the reason she is changing her vote is because of a letter written to regent chairman Blank by state Sen. Douglas Kristcnscn of Minden. The letter had a ‘‘very persuasive logic to it,” she said. Kristcnscn said it is simple that KSC should have a voting member on the search committee because it is already part of the University of Nebraska system. It is an insult to the Nebraska Legislature and to KSC to exclude it from voting membership on the committee, he said. Granting KSC a voting member wouid have been an excellent oppor tunity to bring it into the university system on an important matter, he said. “It was an excellent opportunity that they (the regents) fumbled,” he said. In his letter, Kristensen said it appears to him that “Kearney State has been given the role of ‘paying its dues’ before it becomes part of the system. The University of Nebraska is not a fraternity, and a period of pledgeship for a new campus is dis tasteful.” Excluding KSC from voting membership “doesn’t work well in this system,” he said. Some members of the board were opposed to KSC becoming part of the university system, he said, but it will be a part of NU whether the regents like it or not. Kristensen said he would love to see the KSC merger with NU move into the realm of how to do it instead of the badgering that is taking place. All of the campuses have been receptive of KSC, he said, but the problem remains with the regents who oppose the merger. Regent Robert Allen of Hastings, who voted against KSC having a voting member on the committee, said KSC will be “treated with all the consid eration in the world” by the search committee. He said the regents and the com mittee will be careful to look out for KSC’s interests in the presidential search and make sure that the campus is treated fairly. The search committee is a good committee that is doing a good job where KSC is concerned, he said. It is the wrong time to stop the committee and interject something new onto it, Allen said. “Their (KSC’s) vote is not needed,” he said. Allen said he will talk to Skrupa and find out the logic behind her resolution, but he said he does not know how he will vote. Biology career outlook for students, minorities is good, scientist says By Kara Wells Suff Reporter A noted American Indian scientist said high school students have a positive job outlook for careers in biology. Clifton Poodry. professor of biology and acting dean of the division of natural sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, spoke Monday to about 40 students at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Poodry said he believes he was the first American Indian from his tribe to graduate from the University of Buffalo, and was the first American Indian to cam a doctorate in biology from Case Western Reserve Uni versity. ms spcccn was part oi me Gentry Program, designed to bring students from rural Nebraska high schools to Nebraska Wesleyan to study science and computers. Poodry said that “kids of this age arc really fortu nate” when it comes to finding jobs as biologists. He said that loo few students arc going into science and there arc “a lot more" job opportunities opening up for graduates. He said opportunities for minorities arc good since they are underrepresented. “When you can count the number of American Indian biologists on one hand, you know they’re really underrepresented,” he said. As an American Indian, Poodry said, it was an advantage for him to grow up on a reservation. He said that on the reservation, he gained a strong self-image and a sense of identity. He said the fate of American Indian burial remains housed in museums is a complicated issue, involving con fl icting val ucs of respect for ancestors and the kno wl - edge gained from studying the bones. Poodry compared the remains of American Indians being kept in museums to fliers shot down in Vietnam. “They both need to be brought home,” he said. Mtehalte Pauiman/Daily Nebraskan Poodry