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.
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Nicolas Salgo, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, speaks
about Eastern European capitalism at the Lied Center for
Performing Arts on Thursday.
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moving toward capitalism, he said.
The masses of the Soviet Union
still arc controlled by the KGB and
army, which pul Gorbachev in power,
he said.
After Germany, Czechoslovakia
will be the next country to develop a
capitalist system. Salgo said. 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
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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
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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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