Regent candidate: Minority recruitment lacking
By Sara Bauder Schott
Senior Reporter
Administrators at the University
of Nebraska should be held account
able for the recruitment of minority
students and fac
ulty, a candidate
for NU Board of
Regents said
Monday.
Dick Pow
ell, a Lincoln op
tometrist, spoke
at a meeting of
Prm,«n lhc Afrikan
roweil Peoples Union in
the Culture Center.
He said the Board of Regents needs
to set a goal in minority recruitment
and make sure the administration
accomplishes that goal.
“We need to do a better job re
cruiting minorities,” Powell said. “We
need to out-recruit the other Big Eight
schools.”
Many of Nebraska’s most gifted
minority students go to school out of
sute because other schools have more
vigorous recruiting programs, Powell
said.
Recruited students should be as
sured that they will have the financial
help to attend school, Powell said. He
said students should know what kind
of aid they can expect over the course
of their college career so they can
plan ahead.
Because many high school stu
dents in Nebraska do not have the
money to attend college, Powell said,
he would not support scholarships for
foreign students, such as South Afri
cans. The Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska, with the
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endorsement of Powell’s opponent
Chuck Wilson, has called for a South
African scholarship program as a way
to combat apartheid.
“We should instead help the un
derprivileged of Nebraska,” Powell
said. ‘‘When it’s all taken care of and
the underprivileged of Nebraska can
go to school, then I’ll go after the
underprivileged of the world.”
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Providing funds for minority stu
dent governments might help keep
minority students at the university,
Powell said. He said he would be in
favor of a reasonable plan to support
the organizations, although the re
gents wouldn’t be able to finance
every student organization.
The university needs to recruitand
retain minority faculty, as well as
minority students, Powell said.
Powell said the university should
try to help the spouses of faculty find
jobs when they relocate to Nebraska.
Putting one person in charge of
recruiting minority faculty would get
the program underway quickly, Pow
ell said. He said there is probably
someone on the Lincoln campus right
now who is qualified to do the work.
“It would take a little money,”
Powell said. “Administrators tend to
pay a little lip service to the idea of
minority recruitment, but no one is
holding dcodIc accountable.”
We should instead help the underprivileged of
Nebraska. When it’s all taken care of and the
underprivileged of Nebraska can go to school,
then I’ll go after the underprivileged of the world.
Powell
regent candidate
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Teaching assistant files complaint
Leaking roof destroys display
oy idoixna Miner
Staff Reporter_
An art display damaged by a leaky
roof has prompted a teaching assis
tant to file a formal complaint about
the deteriorating condition of Richards
Hall.
Susan Moss, a graduate teaching
assistant, sent a letter last week to
Joseph Ruffo, chairman of the De
partment of Art and Art History,
complaining about the leaking roof.
The leak that Moss reported three
weeks ago recurred last week, alter
ing a still life for beginning drawing
students, she said.
Bob Carpenter, campus architect,
said the leak in Room 107 will be
fixed. Its repair was delayed because
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the leak originally was reported in the
Nclle Cochrane Woods Art Building,
he said.
The still life included draped fab
ric, a bowl and bottles. While nothing
valuable was damaged, Moss said,
the still life as a whole was ruined
because objects had been altered from
one day to the next.
The leak that ruined the still life is
symptomatic of the draining condi
tion of Richards Hall, Moss said.
Richards Hall needs painting, re
pairing and cleaning, she said.
“I certainly haven’t gone around
and itemized things, but it’s really
obvious to the untrained eye that the
building is in bad shape,” she said.
Carpenter said Richards Hall is
11th on the university’s capital con
struction budget request list.
The list is created every two years
and includes 20 priorities for mainte
nance and construction projects at the
University of Nebraska campuses,
Carpenter said.
The list was approved by the NU
Board of Regents and will go before
the Nebraska Legislature in 1991 to
use when making decisions on which
projects can be financed, Carpenter
said.
The Richards Hall project will be a
complete renovation and is estimated
to cost $9.7 million, Carpenter said.
The project will take atx)ut two to
three years once it is approved by the
state, he said.
Richards Hall has been high on the
maintenance department’s list of
renovations, but nothing can be done
until financing is approved, he said.
Novice Spanish class is offered
By Shelley Biggs
Staff Reporter
Complaints from students who felt
like foreigners in their beginning
Spanish classes have prompted changes
in the course.
A section of Spanish 101 has been
converted to a beginning class for
students without any Spanish back
ground, said Tom Carr, professor of
modem languages and literatures.
“The class is specifically for stu
dents who have never been intro
duced to Spanish before,” Carr said.
Antonio Martinez, assistant pro
fessor of modem languages and lit
eratures and instructor for the begin
ning Spanish class, said the class
operates at the same speed as the
other 101 classes, but the instructor is
more aware that students never have
had Spanish before.
“The class is not exactly slower
than the other 101 classes," Martinez,
said. They cover the same amount;
the professor just doesn’t take any
thing for granted.”
Martinez said the department added
the beginning course because some
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It’s an experiment to
see how it works. There
seems to be a need for
it.
Link
interim chair
modern languages and
literatures department
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students complained about feeling left
behind. Before, beginning Spanish
classes mixed students who already
had taken some Spanish with students
who were taking Spanish for the first
time.
“Students that had no background
in Spanish were feeling very inade
quate,” Carr said.
Next spring, the department still
will have 15 sections of Spanish 101,
but four of those sections will be
strictly for beginners, said Frederick
Link, interim chair for the modern
languages and literatures department.
“It’s an experiment to see how it
works,” Link said. “There seems to
be a real need for it.”
Rita Ricaurtc, assistant coordina
tor for first-year Spanish, said three
sections for beginners originally were
offered this semester, but two were
closed because the department wasn ’ t
able to gel the class in the spring
bulletin on lime.
“Students mainly found out about
this class through their University
Foundations classes,” Martinez said.
Beginning Spanish sections (X)l
and 002 at 8:30 a.m. and 005 and 006
at 9:30 a.m. will be offered next
semester, Carr said.
NU regents
acknowledge
lid opposition
From Staff Reports
The NU Board of Regents Friday
passed a resolution that recognizes
University of Nebraska students’
opposition to the 2 percent spending
lid.
The lid, which would limit spend
ing increases each year to 2 percent,
would be “counter-productive for the
University of Nebraska by failing to
allow state appropriations to kocp pace
with rising inflation,” the resolution
states.
Students arc concerned about at
tracting and retaining quality faculty,
maintaining facilities and keeping
tuition rates at reasonable levels, it
states. They “have a true responsibil
ity to do all they can to protect the
best interests of our future and wish to
sec that Nebraska remains vital and
‘open for business,’” according to the
resolution, sponsored by UNL Stu
dent Regent Phil Gosch, UNO Stu
dent Regent Kelli Sears and UNMC
Student Regent Mark Meyer.
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