Demonstrators demand
NU divest immediately
By Tabitha Hiner
Staff Reporter
Demonstrators carrying sighs read
ing “Divest Fully Now” rallied out
side the Nebraska Union on Friday.
About 30 people listened as Jo
seph Akpan, president of the Nige
rian Student Association, and natural
resources sophomore J Burger said
they wanted the University of Ne
braska-Lmcoln and the NU Founda
tion to completely divest from South
Africa.
4 ‘The university is an institution of
higher learning.” Akpan said, “lthas
ideals; it is not just a private institu
tion that makes money. It is our duty
to make the university live up to those
ideals.”
The NU Foundation announced
Friday that it would partially divest in
accordance with the Sullivan Prin
ciples, now called the Statement of
Principles.
Akpan said divestment along those
guidelines would not be adequate.
The Sullivan Principles deal mainly
with the workplace and require that
corporations dealing in South Africa
have policies of non-segregation, equal
pay for equal work and representa
tion in training classes and manage
ment positions by races according to
their percentage of the population.
The principles also require im
provements in areas siifclV as educa
tion and health care.
While the principles appear fair,
Akpan said, the companies monitor
themselves, making the principles
ineffective.
Joseth Moore, a junior art major,
said he did not know a great deal
about the Sullivan Principles, but said
that the way they are implemented
would show their effectiveness. He
said that if the principles would bring
about divestment, that would be posi
tive.
“But, if it is some bureaucratic
cover-up, it is a step down because
you make people think they’re di
vesting when it’s not true,” he said.
Burger said he thought the rally
would help influence the university
to divest.
“I would hope as taxpayers and
students paying tuition .. . that they
would take our concerns seriously,”
he said.
Moore said that there should be
more attempts in Lincoln to stop
investment in South Africa.
UNL graduate Scott Wesely said
rallying efforts are a start for some
thing bigger.
“The issue of apartheid shouldn’t
be just about South Africa,” he said.
“It should be about human relations
all around the world.”
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RHA approves,
allocates budget
for fall semester
By David Burchei!
Staff Reporter
The Residence Hall Association
approved a $29,340 fall budget at its
weekly meeting Sunday night.
The budget estimates an income
of $27,252 this fall from the 4,542
students living in residence halls this
semester. Each resident pays $6 for
RHA services.
Combined with a $2,088 carryo
ver from last spring, RHA estimates a
$29,340 income for the semester.
This budget is $4,209, or more
than 13 percent less than last fall’s
budget, which was $31,461.
The decrease is because of a re
duction in the number of students
living in the residence halls this
semester. Last fall, 58 more students
were estimated to be living in the
halls, according to the RHA budget
bill.
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one new item on the budget was fi
nancing RHA’s retreat to Trailridge
on Oct. 6 at a cost of $1,000.
Other budget items:
• Allocations to local governments
at $20,439.
• Executive Board-controlled funds
at $3,000.
• Social Programming Commit
tee at $ 1,000.
• Health, education and culture at
$500.
• Publicity committee, publisher
of the residence hall newsletter Hall
ways, at $750.
• Committee on residential en
hancement at $50.
• Conference fund at $570.
• National communications coor
dinator fund at $150.
• Allocauon to National Residence
Hall Honorary at $100.
• Contingency fund at $2,781.
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