li Freeman Davis, director of the Minority and Women’s Small Business Assistance Center, speaks at the Culture Center, 333 N. 14th St., on Sunday. Davis Continued from Page 1 The minority population is in fluenced by consumerism, but of $200 billion being spent by mi norities, only 5 percent is circu lated back, Davis said. For minorities to battle this, moral elements and traditions from cul tural pasts must be brought back, he said, and the cultures must unify if anything is to be accomplished. Minorities must “implement self esteem values and standards and pul them back vibrantly,” he said. “We must pul back the respect to our cultural images. Generations of minority youth might be lost unless communities invest in them by turning youth away from illegal means, such as selling drugs, of making money, Davis said. Manufacturing and industrial op portunities instead of small mom and-pop businesses would further minority business involvement, he said. Minorities also must try to take the driver’s seal economically, he said, because the drivers tradition ally have been white. “The faster the car goes,” he said, “we just can’t jump out.” Bats subject of symposium By Pat Dinslage Staff Reporter “Bats in the belfry,” “blind as a bat,” and bats getting caught in people’s hair are common perceptions about bats — and they’re not true, said Merlin Tuttlc, founder of Bat Conser vation International. Tuttle and about 200 scientists, educators and graduate students from around the world gathered in Lincoln this weekend to exchange informa tion and present new and continuing research on bats. Bats live in colonics, usually in caves, and their echolocation — or radar — system is very sophisticated — too sophisticated for them to blun der into anyone’s hair, according to BCI research. Bats have good vision and arc mammals, not rodents. Such misunderstanding of bats is the biggest threat to them, Tuttle said, because people try to kill them off. “People kill them out of fear. We need to educate people to understand why bats are important,” he said. People have set fire to caves where bats live and wiped out a whole col ony or vandalized the roosts, Tuttle said. “In the United States, 40 percent of the species of bats have been de clared endangered or are on the list for endangered species,” Tuttle said. “Bats are one of the species most vulnerable to endangerment.” Patricia Freeman, bat researcher, zoology curator and associate profes sor for the University of Nebraska State Museum, said most of the re search reported at this weekend’s symposium concerned worldwide destruction of bat habitats. Destruction of bats’ roosts in the tropical rainforest is the worst in the world, she said. “Caverns arc being blown up, forests cut down, which limits the insects” which arc the source of food for the bats, she said. “Only 4 percent of England is forest now, and when the forests arc gone, the bats die.” Freeman said that the 1,000 spe cies of bats represent one-fourth of the total 4,000 species of mammals on earth. Freeman is working on a survey of where in Nebraska bats arc located. There arc 13 species of bats iden tified as natives of Nebraska, she said. Nine of the species are hibernating bats and four species migrate. But researchers are not sure where they migrate to or even exactly where the bats are located in Nebraska and how they survive, Freeman said. Many species seem to live in the eastern and western parts of the state. “There are limestone caves and quarries in the eastern part of the state,” she said, “and we’re worried that if these arc demolished, we may be hurting the few available roosting sites in the state.” Despite the extent of research al ready performed on bats, researchers really don’t know that much about them, Freeman said. Two of the major problems in bat research, she said, arc locating the roosts of the bats and capturing them for study. But with the miniaturiza tion and sophistication of electronic detection equipment, researchers arc belter able to capture the bats, she said. Researchers also have difficulty studying bats because of the bats’ habits — they roost in the day and fly at night when they are difficult to see and study. Bats often change the lo cations of their roosts, making it dif ficult for researchers to locate the colonics, Freeman said. jjn brifesi I Forum on 2 percent lid today at Nebraska Union Ballroom Collegiate Organizations Inform ing Nebraskans will sponsor a 2 percent lid forum today at 7 p.m. Ed Jaksha, sponsor of the pro posed 2 percent lid; Gary Oxley, Tri-County High School Superin tcndcni; Roger Christianson, di rector of the Department of Eco nomic Development; and Charles Lamphear, director of the Bureau of Business Research at UNL, will speak in the Nebraska Union Ball room. The lid amendment, which will go before Nebraska voters Nov. 6, would limit state and local govern ment spending increases to 2 per cent each year. ! Sheldon panel to discuss documentary films’ influence Social Change in the Nineties/ is the title of a panel discussion set for 7 p.m. Thursday at the Sheldon Film Theater. 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