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Higher education problems discussed Panel: Minority emphasis needed By Kara Wells • Staff Reporter Four members of a panel discus sion on race relations agreed Thurs day that universities need to attract and retain more minority students. Joel Gajardo, executive director of the Lincoln Hispanic Community Center, said the fact that few minori ties are enrolled in college is a good indication of the present race rela tions dilemma. “Since higher education is so ex pensive, how can the poor, the op pressed and the minorities have ac cess to the universities?” Gajardo asked. Once the university has attracted a minority student, the institution needs to be able to retain that student, said David Iaquinta, an associate profes sor of sociology at Wesleyan. “Crawling through that while tun nel is extremely isolating for a minor ity student,” he said. Gajardo said he also is concerned with providing minority students with a support system once they enter a university. “Can we imagine the loneliness, the alienation of minority students who venture into the university?” he asked. Gargi Roysircar Sodowsky, an assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Ne braska-Lincoln, agreed that universi ties need to provide social support to minority students and focus on multi culturalism. Iaquinta said universities need to open up to large communities to expose students to a variety of cultures. “As a university, we have broad access and flexibility,” he said, “We should be exploring the community, especially the families.” Beane agreed and said universities need to make institutions part of the community. Institutions make students separate from families, he said. This separation has “over-institutionalized” the school system, he said. “This erodes the family system,” Beane said. The universities need to be put back together as a community, he said. Syd Beane, president of the Indian Center, Inc., said that American Indi ans need to rebuild their school sys tem. They need to create an Ameri can Indian university to help preserve their culture, he said, because federal schools acculturate American Indian students and destroy their sense of culture. The panel was part of a three-day symposium on race relations spon sored by the Nebraska Wesleyan University chapter of Nebraskans for Peace. ppto Beginning midnight Wednes day, Nov. 14 9:11 a.m. — Camera taken, Agricultural Communications Building, S200. 9:21 a.m. — Telephone taken, Bancroft Hall, S60. 1:05 p.m. — Woman fell and broke her nose, reported late, taken to Lincoln General Hos pital, parking iol south of Memorial Stadium. 1:39 p.m. — Man dropped weights on his leg, taken to the University Health Center, Ac tivities Building. BEFORE YOU CAN FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS, YOU'VE GOT TO FOLLOW THE RULES. 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Since France and Britain have a “bad con science” because of events that oc curred before and during World War II, he said, those countries arc likely to help Czechoslovakia as it tries to adopt capitalism. Salgo’s native country, Hungary, always has been politically associ ated with the wrong people at the wrong time, he said. Hungary has been turning toward a market econ omy, but is saddled with a large for eign debt, he said. Salgo said that debt will “cost them their political lives.” The Soviet Union is withdrawing its army from Hungary, but slowly, he said. Romania has a new leader, but he is just another version of the totalitar ian regime that was deposed last year, Salgo said. The new government cal is itself socialist instead of communist, but the differences arc not great, he said. Bulgaria is making progress to ward capitalism, but needs time to develop it, he said. East Germany needs “no time” to become a capitalist country because it is so close, and Czechoslovakia needs “not much lime,” Salgo said. The time needed increases as one goes down the list of Eastern Euro pean countries, he said. Regents Continued from Page 1 UNL Academic Senate president. Allen called for Massengalc’s withdrawal from consideration. “Because of the political mess we’ve ended up with here, I feel Martin Massengalc should withdraw as well,” Allen said. But Blank said the board’s inter view with Massengalc was legitimate. “We availed ourselves to talk with him as we did of the other candi dates,” Blank said. “We chose by consensus that we wanted to talk with him.” Bowen said it is not unusual for candidates to be considered “at any point in time in the process.” “(Massengalc’s) nomination came from a wide range of people in the suite, not just the (NU Board of Re gents),” Bowen said. Allen said he thought politicking - by the UNL Athletic Department, the regents and Massengale himself had a lot to do with his consideration as a candidate. “If the sports department and ev eryone on down is going to pull po litical strings, God only knows who is going to be running our university,” he said. Allen referred to conversations between Payne and members of the UNL Athletic Department, including Athletic Director Bob Devaney, foot ball coach Tom Osborne and John Melton, a fund-raiser for the Athletic Department and a former assistant football coach. Allen said all three had expressed their support of Massengale to Payne. It would be wrong for Massengale to assume the presidency as a result of internal politicking, Allen said. “He (Massengale) didn’t get the votes he needed so he should ’ vc been graeeful enough to step aside,” Allen said. 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