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.
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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.
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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.
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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. The issue can always be
brought up again.”
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State College Board of Trustees,
keeping down costs and making pro
grams more effective.
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
