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AS UN applauds NU Foundation and the Office of Student Affairs African investments. Gosch said that the foundation’s divestment shows that student government can have some effect. “We did have something to do with that,” he said. That resolution passed unani mously, as did the resolution com mending the Office of Student Affairs for helping students who are activated due to the Middle East crisis. Senators debated whether to bring another resolution to the floor on emergency status that would support Spencer resident Lowell Fisher. Fisher is on a hunger strike to protest the nuclear waste site to be developed in Boyd County. The site has been approved without full support of county residents. Potter said the resolution does not take a stand on the issue of nuclear waste disposal but supports Fisher’s efforts at gaining commu nity consent. Ecology Now-UNL voted Tuesday to support Fisher. General studies Sen. Andy Si gerson said the resolution, which was distributed to senators about two hours before the meeting, needed more consideration before being brought to the floor. “I just really think that sends a bad message to the people we rep resent that we can vote on a issue with only about two hours notice,” he said. The resolution will be consid ered at next week’s meeting. The body also elected arts and sciences Sen. Andy Massey speaker of the Senate. The Senate speaker is a member of the Appointments Board and can initiate legislation. Panel calls for diversity By David Burchell Rswmr Panelists on cultural diversity agreed that cultural diversity is im portant, but disagreed on how to achieve that goal. The panel discussion Wednesday in the Nebraska Union was part of Appreciating Cultural Diversity Week sponsored by the University Program Council. The six panelists discussed their own views of racial diversity and experiences with differing racial atti tudes. Helen Long Soldier, a counselor with the Office of Multicultural Af fairs, said, “We do not have racial diversity on this campus.” Long Soldier said that in compari son with campuses in other regions, the number of minority students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is low. The University of Califomia Berkclcy, she said, is 60 percent non - white. The university needs to do more recruitment of “people of color,” she said. “We need to stop looking at racial diversity as a burden or a problem,” Long Soldier said. Reshcll Ray, coordinator of ethnic and minority programs and services with Campus Activities and Programs, said members of different racial groups need to gel “back to the basics” when it comes to racial relations. “I’m not convinced that just get ting more (minority) people here is the answer,' she said. Dealing with racial diversity must be started at the individual level, Ray said, by improving relations between people of different groups. Ed Munoz, a graduate student in sociology, said UNL needs true di versity, not just equity between black and white. “To me, it seems like there is a more active recruitment of African Americans and Asian-Amcricans,” he said. Chicanos and Native Americans don’t get their share of recruitment, Munoz said. Vaughn Robertson, counselor for the Minority Assistance Program and assistant director for the Student Opportunities and Services Program, called for a universilywide plan to achieve racial diversity. Racial relations should be a part of UNL’s mission, he said, with racial diversity issues incorporated into every instructional aspect of the university. “It seems to be that the whole issue of the plan” hasn’t been ad dressed, he said. Women Continued from Page 1 Sadker said. The problem doesn’t begin in col lege classrooms, she said. Men do better than women on the American College Test before col lege, she said, and this trend contin ues on graduate school entrance ex ams. That can surprise some women who get good grades, she said. She said A’s sometimes are given to women as a compromise “for being good.” Men get more attention both in quality and in quantity, Myra Sadker said. According to previous studies, men are asked more thought-provoking questions than women, who are pri marily asked questions of rote mem ory, she said. The questions men are asked chal lenge them — the questions are broad and analytical, she said. For their participation, men re ceive both more praise and more criti cism, she said, which allow them to improve. Wright said the Teaching and Learning Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will help profes sors videotape and analyze their classes using a method that the Sadkers de veloped. Professors then can look for differ ences in how they treat men and women, she said, which is difficult to do while they are teaching. But ultimately, it’s up to the stu dents to get involved, Myra Sadker said. “Students have got to know that education is not a spectator sport,” she said. Cuts Continued from Page 1 the Department of Education. But he said $44.5 million would be cut in the amount of special allow ances paid to lenders. The cut would decrease the allowance paid to lend ers from 3.25 percent to 3 percent, he said. Lenders would raise the origina tion fee for borrowers from 5 percent to 5.5 percent to compensate, Beacon said. Origination fees are the initial fees a student is charged for a loan application. “If there’s any impact, it will be on the student, because the origina tion fee (would be) increased by half a percent,’’ he said. The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act sets targets for each year’s deficit, an official from the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, D.C., said. If the ac tual deficit is higher than the target deficit, cuts are made, he said. The target deficit for the fiscal year ending Monday was $64 billion. In August, the actual deficit was esti mated to be $149.4 billion, the offi cial said. The difference, $85.4 billion, will be cut from the budget Monday, un less Congress and Bush’s administra tion reach an agreement tb make cuts in other areas, he said. ' ‘The possibilities are up in the air. There are a number of different pro posals,’ ’ the spokesman said. If an agreement is not reached by the end of the 1990 fiscal year, most government programs will be cut across die board, the spokesman said. ppfllCfi-j Beginning midnight Tuesday, Sept. 25 2:24 a.m. — Bicycle stolen, re ported iate, Bob Devaney Sports Center. $225. 8:21 a.m.- Indecent exposure, re ported late, C.Y. Thompson Li brary. 9:02 a.m. - Book bag stolen from auto, parking lot south of Bob JDev^ej^g^ issue, Renken said. D.B. “Woody” Varner, former NU president and member of the committee, said the committee is trying to educate the public through bro chures, news releases, newspaper ad vertisements and television commer cials. “I think the chances of passing this amendment are pretty good,” Varner said. “But awareness of the issue is important because someone who doesn’t vote at all has in effect voted against it.” Regents chairman Don Blank of McCook, a member of the commit tee, said he believes there is a chance the amendment won’t be approved because it originated in the Legisla ture and not as an initiative referen dum. “With an initiative referendum, you already have a lot of support from the public,” Blank said. “An amend ment originating in the Legislature is very difficult to pass because you don’t have a grounds well of people already supporting it.” Blank said many other issues, such as the proposed 2 percent lid, are taking the spotlight on this year’s ballot. “Amendment Four could get lost in the shuffle,” Blank said. “The end of the world won’t come around if it doesn’t pass. 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The structure of the Board of Regents and the Board of Trustees would stay the same, but the boards’ duties would be reduced to the day to-day management of institutions. The new commission’s 11 mem bers would be appointed by the gov ernor with the approval of the Legis lature for six-year terms. Six mem bers would be chosen from six dis tricts of equal population and five would be chosen on a statewide basis. If the amendment is approved, the new coordinating commission would become effective Jan. 1, 1992. The proposed measure has the support of citizens and leading edu cators from across the state. Sue Renken, a co-chairperson of Nebraskans forCost-Efficienl Higher Education, said she is “very confi dent” that the amendment will be approved in November. 4 ‘The only thing that would defeat us is the failure of people to vote,” Renken said. The main objective of the commit tee is to raise the consciousness of Nebraskans to the higher education By Cindy Wostrel Staff Reporter Student leaders on Wednesday applauded the NU Foundation for partially divesting of its South African investments and com mended the Office of Student Af fairs for helping students being activated to the military. ASUN President Phil Gosch said it was proper for the Senate to thank the foundation for divest ment of South African interests. Sen. Chris Potter of the College of Arts and Sciences agreed that the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska should thank the foundation but reminded members that it was only a partial divestment. Last spring, ASUN called for the foundation todivestof its South