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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
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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.
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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
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clude Liane Brandon, a Boston
based filmmaker and one of the
founding members of New Day;
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Nebraskans for Peace; Nell Eckcr
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coin student and fcariy warning!
member; John Taylor, spokesman
for the Coalition for Gay and Les
bian Civil Rights; and June Lev
ine, a UNL professor of English
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