Trio Day observed
Kerrey addresses war,
social, economic issues
By Kim Spurlock
Staff Reporter
The U.S. government’s social and
economic policies over the last 17
years have been a failure, said U.S.
Sen. Bob Kerrey at the annual Trio
Day luncheon at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
“One million people are in city,
county, state or federal institutions of
incarceration. It costs us $50,000 per
cell to build an institution and $15
$20,000 to keep someone in them,”
Kerrey, D-Neb., said.
Kerrey said the policy of “we’re
going to lock them up and throw
away the key” is not working.
The debate in Nebraska of whether
to use cigarette tax revenues for build
ing prisons to alleviate overcrowding
or for education that is underfinanced
is one failure of the economic policy,
he said.
Kerrey said he advocates affirma
uvc aciiun ana proviamg more schol
arship money for minority students.
“When you have a pattern of dis
crimination placed in a community,
if you’re going to counter that pat
tern, if you’re going to correct it,
you’ve got to act affirmatively in
scholarships and hiring in order to
correct it,” he said.
Kerrey began his speech with
comments and answers to questions
about the Persian Gulf war.
“I expect we’ll have a victory. I
don’t doubt that the victory will be,
by almost every measure, very im
pressive,” he said.
He also said there will be a great
deal of human suffering as a conse
quence of the war and all wars should
be viewed “as a failure of politicians
to be able to figure out how to avoid
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I expect we’ll have a
victory. I don’t doubt
that the victory will be,
by almost every meas
ure, very impressive.
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them.”
Kerrey was the keynote speaker at
the Trio Day luncheon in Selleck
Residence Hall.
Saturday was established by Ne
braska Gov Ben Nelson as Nebraska
Trio Day, which is in concurrence
with National Trio Day, said Joel
Schcrling, I no Day chairperson from
Creighton University, sponsor of the
day.
Janies Taylor, a senior biology
major at Creighton and Trio Day master
of ceremonies, said Trio programs
are educational opportunity programs
that help low-income, disadvantaged
students who might not otherwise have
a chance to attend college.
“Nearly 450,000 students are served
each year by over 1,300 Trio pro
grams nationally. In Nebraska, more
than 2,700 students are served by
these programs,” Taylor said.
Trio programs include Upward
Bound, Talent Search, Student Sup
port Services, Educational Opportu
nity Center and the Ronald E. McNair
Post-Baccalaureate Achievement
Program. Eight colleges and univer
sities across Nebraska have Trio pro
grams.
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U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey speaks in the Centennial Room of the Nebraska Union Sunday
evening for Disability Awareness Week.
Senator: Fight for disabled rights
By Lori Stones
Staff Reporter
U.S. Seri. Bob Kerrey urged Ne
braskans lo battle discrimination in
their efforts to help disabled Ameri
cans overcome their handicaps in the
keynote address for Disability Week
at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln.
“There’s a need to fight, to iden
tify and say that it’s not right for a
person to not be able to get a job, a
house or, at limes, public schooling.
Be impatient with that injustice,”
Kerrey said Sunday in the Nebraska
Union’s Centennial Room.
In the fight to improve accessibil
ity, Kerrey said, Americans must
“follow the trails of discrimination”
and bring personal examples so the
government can deal with them.
He encouraged citizens to speak to
him about problems in Lincoln or at
UNL that he might be able to help by
proposing legislation in his position
on the Appropriations Committee in
Congress.
Citizens also must make sure that
rules set by the government to bar
discrimination are written and ad
ministered correctly, Kerrey said.
He referred to the Justice Depart
ment’s recently published pamphlet
on the American Disabilities Act.
Justice officials have the responsi
bility to write the rules so they apply
to all disabilities, he said, and Ameri
cans have the responsibility to over
see them.
“We must watch the rules and make
sure that there is no backsliding,”
Kerrey said.
The battle to overcome discrimi
nation is sometimes hard, he said,
because people might be unwilling to
resist employers, universities and even
friends.
The fight to help the disabled must
begin with each person, Kerrey said,
telling about a recent experience.
Kerrey said he hired a deaf em
ployee to work in his office in Wash
ington. It wasn’t until then, he said,
that he noticed how hard it was to
communicate with a deaf person.
Kerrey said he is battling to im
prove accessibility in the office for
the deaf employee and he is learning
sign language to help the employee
give input into the day-to-day deci
sions in the office.
But the benefits are greater than
the work in helping disabled persons,
said Kerrey, whose leg was injured in
Vietnam.
Being aware of disabilities can
help people, Kerrey said, because
awareness allows people to discover
the amount of capacity human beings
have and continue to have.
Keynote address
kicks off week
honoring disabled
From Staff Reports
“Ability in Disability,” the theme
for Disability Week that began Sun
day, will recognize what handicapped
students can do when barriers are
removed, the coordinator for UNL
Handicapped Student Services said.
“Our goal is not compliance but
independence,” Christy Horn said.
In honor of the week, Handicapped
Student Services has organized sev
eral events for University of Ncbraska
Lincoln students.
U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.,
Ielivered the keynote address for
Disability Week on Sunday.
There will be a panel discussion at
7 tonight on “Challenges and Oppor
unities” in the Centennial Room of
he Nebraska Union.
Horn said UNL students and for
ner students with disabilities will
liscuss successes and troubles at UNL,
ncluding improved accessibility and
ndependence in the residence halls.
Tuesday at 7 p.m., Sheldon Me
norial Art Gallery will show “My
^eft Fool,” the true story of a man
vho overcame his disabilities and
>ecame a writer.
The week will end with an awards
eceplion on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.
n the Georgian Room for faculty and
itaff members who have allowed an
enabling environment for students with
Usabilities. The awards will be pre
icnted by Nebraska Ll Gov. Maxine
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