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Isaac, 9, Danielle, 3, and Debra Bachman, 26, form the end of the anti-apartheid march with University of Nebraska-Lin
coln student Yolanda Scott and George Turner, 19. About 15 people marched from Broyhili Fountain to the State Capitol
on Monday afternoon.
NAACP member
wants NU foundation
to divest from S.A.
By Cindy Wostrel
Staff Reporter
A local representative of the NAACP on
Monday suggested that his listeners “join
hands with the Mandelas, join hands
with the Jesse Jacksons,” in the fight against
apartheid.
Elbert Smith, publicity committee chair
man for the Lincoln chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, told about 20 people at Broyhill Plaza
that the NU Foundation should take its money
out of South African businesses.
The talk was part of a rally and march that
launched Anti-Apartheid Week.
Joseph Akpan, of the African Student’s
Association, said,4 ‘apartheid is exploitation of
the masses.”
After the rally, Akpan said he hopes the NU
Foundation will follow the lead of other cities,
colleges and universities and divest from South
Africa.
At Michigan State University, he said, the
university’s foundation claimed it didn’t need
to divest from South Africa. Like the NU
Foundation, MSU’s foundation is a non-profit,
private organization and was set up to follow
the interests of the university, Akpan said.
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Natural resources highlighted
Agriculture college changes name
By Jennifer Dods
Staff Reporter
Che name change of the College
of Agriculture to the College of
Agricultural Sciences and Natu
ral Resources reflects recent changes
within the college’s curriculum, a
college official said.
Adding “Natural Resources” to
the name shows how the college now
teaches modem agriculture and man
agement ol natural resources, said Irv
Omtvedt, vice chancellor of the Insti
tute of Agriculture and Natural Re
sources.
I ne college is making these changes
as it continues to implement a series
of plans designed to upgrade and
enhance its competitiveness. Chang
ing the name will highlight the natu
ral resources area of studies and will
attract students currently unaware that
these programs are offered by the
college, Omtvedt said.
The college offers a bachelor of
science degree in agricultural sciences
and one in natural resources. In past
years the college only granted bache
lor’s degrees in agriculture.
Besides changing the degrees, the
college will offer two new majors.
One is a water science major in
natural resources. The other is bio
chemistry major, pending approval
by this week’s NU Board of Regents
meeting.
The biochemistry major is joint
between the College of Agricultural
Sciences and Natural Resources and
the College of Arts & Sciences.
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We're stereotyped as
being a college that
trains farmers and
ranchers when only a
few students end up
doing that. We show
there are other high
tech options.
--Cammack
enrollment coordinator
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Changes in other majors include
allowing students to “make their own
degree” and do independent studies
in animal science, said Cindy Cam
mack, enrollment coordinator for the
college.
The agriculture engineering major
has been changed to biological sys
tems engineering, and new majors
arc being planned in agricultural tech
nology management, Cammack said.
Last fall, departments in biometry
and agricultural meteorology were
created. The agricultural education
program is adding more business
courses, creative teaching courses and
training and development courses.
Cammack said the name change
will tell of the programs and career
opportunities that the college offers.
“We’re stereotyped as being a
college that trains farmers and ranch
ers, when only a few students end up
doing that. We show' there are other
high-tech options,” she said.
Some of these options are majors
such as I(kkJ science, niocncmisiry,
biotechnology and horticulture, in
cluding landscape design, she said.
Cammack said that emphasizing
the studies in natural resources will
make the college more competitive
and show what the college offers to
new students and their future em
ployers.
She also said she thought the new
name change will attract students’
attention to the college.
“Our biggest challenge is educa
tion, but the college’s image is also a
challenge,” she said.
The college’s goal isto increase its
undergraduate enrollment from 1,1 (K)
to 1,6(X) students over the next two
years, and to attract more non rural
and nontraditional students.
Harris supports keeping
UNL as system flagship
By Mark Georgeff
Staff Reporter
Lincoln Mayor Bill Harris said
Tuesday at a Lincoln Cham
ber of Commerce meeting
that he would support the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln remain
ing the flagship of the University
of Nebraska system.
Harris named “historical and
financial reasons” as the basis for
his opinion. ^
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UNL is Ne
braska’s first
land grant col
lege and be
cause of its
significant ag
ricultural re
search, Harris
said, UNL
should remain Harris
NU’s flagship campus.
The majority of graduate and
research projects arc located on the
UNL campus, he said.
A Lincoln-based, technological
research and development park that
will primarily involve UNL pro
fessors and graduate students will
bring a substantial financial influx
to Lincoln, Harris said.
Research and development in
aieas of science, manufacturing and
future technology will be done at
the industrial area, he said.
Harris said the financial influx
encouraged him to “cement that
relationship between the research
component of the University of
Nebraska, when I saw the money
coming forward for research from
the slate of Nebraska.”
He also said the city of Lincoln
will need to strengthen its relation
ship with the technological park’s
research and graduate components
in order for both parlies to prosper.
But, Harris said, the two Omaha
campuses and Kearney State Col
lege’s desire to remove UNL’s
flagship status will have to be dealt
with.
Obviously there arc going to
have to be some additional changes
in Omaha, because the Omaha
system deserves it. And of course,
Keamey’seoming into the system.
There’s going to be constant change
and adjustment,” he said.
Harris said the proposed NU
Foundauon-sponsored office com
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