Government to the rescue
Decision guarantees
minority scholarships
By Kim Spurlock
Staff Reporter
Education Secretary Lamar Alex
ander temporarily ensured the future
of UNL’s Davis Scholarship last month,
thus continuing the effort to allow
underrepresented minorities equal
opportunity for higher education,
officials said.
Jimmi Smith, director of the Of
fice of Multi-Cultural Affairs at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
lauded the decision, saying the use of
government funds to provide scholar
ships for minority students is not dis
criminator toward white students.
A previous Education Department
decision required universities to show
cause for using state funds for minor
ity scholarships, but Alexander said
colleges and universities should con
tinue offering them pending a review
board investigation.
The review board, involvine Con
grass, Attorney General Richard Thorn
burgh and the American Council on
Education, will spend the next six
months studying the civil rights im
plications of the scholarships.
Until the legality of minority schol
arships is resolved by the review board,
colleges will not have to prove schol
arships’ importance to use state money.
Smith said he doesn’t think minor
ity scholarships are a form of dis
crimination brcause 90 percent or
more of white students receive more
financial aid and scholarships at UNL
than minority students.
Providing a “few dollars” to mi
norities is not discriminatory because
whites make the decisions regarding
who receives financial aid and schol
arships, he said.
Minority scholarships were bom
in the 1960s, when many colleges
seeking to attract minority students
created special scholarship programs.
The legality of such programs was
questioned in December when Mi
chael Williams, assistant secretary of
education for civil rights, said the
scholarships violated the Civil Rights
Act of 1964. The act bars racial or
ethnic discrimination by organizations
that receive federal funds, as most
colleges do.
James Griesen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said the purpose of
minority scholarships is to help under
represented minorities continue their
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that ail segments of
societies in Nebraska
have an equal opportu
nity to share in the
benefits of this univer
sity.
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vice chancellor for student
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educations.
“We are tiding to see that all seg
ments of societies in Nebraska have
an equal opportunity to share in the
benefits of this university,” Griesen
said.
He said minority families take in
well below the average income for
white families and economic circum
stances are largely to blame for mi
nority students not attending college.
Smith said that after federally fi
nanced minority scholarships were
questioned, he feared the U.S. De
partment of Education, which was
once an advocate of minority schol
arships, was now restricting access to
an underrepresented American popu
lation.
“American society requires all
citizens to be more skilled, now more
than ever in the history of this coun
try. The only way to do that is to go on
to poslsecondary education,” Smith
said.
According to a Jfecent article in
US A Today, a survey by the National
Association of Independent Colleges
and Universities showed that nine of
10 private colleges have minority
scholarships.
NU’s Davis Scholarship, in mem
ory of the late Rick Davis who died of
pancreatic cancer in 1988, is a four
year scholarship for outstanding
minority freshman students.
Davis, a former football player at
the University of Nebraska at Omaha,
established a successful insurance firm
before his death, Griesen said. Prior
to his death, Davis arranged to leave
$50,000 to start an endowment for
minority scholarships.
Further efforts by Davis’ brother
helped boost the scholarship fund to
$1 million, which includes $800,000
in state funds.
UNL freshman Matt Branting talks with Lincoln police officers after a three-car collision on the
corner of 16th and R streets Monday afternoon. Branting was the only person uninjured in the
collision.
UNL students injured in accident
t-rom start Heports
A Chevrolet Nova ramped up and
flipped off a Pontiac Fiero on the
comer of 16th and R streets Monday,
landing upside down on a GMC Jimmy
and seriously injuring a pedestrian, a
Lincoln police officer said.
Ll David Beggs said it was un
clear who was at fault in the 2 p.m.
accident, but “obviously one of the
cars had to have run a red light.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
student Christina Howlett, the injured
pedestrian, was listed in serious con
dition Monday night at Lincoln Gen
eral Hospital, 2300 S 16th St., said
Rhonda Kazebeer, nursing supervi
sor at the hospital.
The driver of the red-and-silver
1986 Nova, UNL student Kurt Brum
baugh, suffered possible neck and
neaa injuries and was treated and
released by Lincoln General Hospi
tal, according to Kazebeer. The driver
of the white 1984 Fiero, UNL student
Suzette Spratt, also was treated and
released.
Matt Branting, an 18-year-old UNL
undeclared freshman, said the only
thing he saw from the driver’s seat of
his 1983 Jimmy was the Nova com
ing down on the top of his hood
LSAT adjusts to high score boom
remote lots.
But, 1 odd said, the plan will not
work “without a decent shuttle sys
tem that goes beyond the red-and
white buses.”
She said the plan calls for a shuttle
bus route that is “harder not to use it
than to use it.”
Tom Johnson, Institute of Agri
culture and Natural Resources coor
dinator, said the aesthetics of UNL
would be hurt if on-campus parking
were provided for everyone.
“We’d have wall-to-wall parking
in order to provide 100 percent of
people with parking,” he said.
Ray Coffey, UNL business man
ager, said a multilevel, on-campus
parking garage would not be finan
cially feasible. Annual costs would
be about $800 per car, plus security
and maintenance expenses, he said.
The long-range plan also would
establish loop roads on both City and
East campuses. Todd said the roads,
which the comm ittce passed a motion
to support, would create new campus
entrances to help alleviate traffic
congestion.
In other business, the committee
passed a motion stating that parking
in a permit-designated university lot
requires a parking permit.
Karels said that sometimes people
visiting downtown Lincoln park in
university lots. And, he said, many
limes students park in visitor lots.
“Visitor parking is our biggest
short fal 1 because students arc parking
in visitor places,” he said.
Members of the committee dis
cussed the possibility of creating a
guarded visitor lot to stop students
from parking there.
By Angie Brunkow
Staff Reporter
The Law School Admission Test
will have a revised scoring scale and
one new section to adjust to increases
in high scores, a representative from
the organization that administers the
test said.
Jana Cardoza, public affairs coor
dinator for Law Services, which is in
charge of the LSAT, said that al
though the LSAT has been restruc
lured, it is not terribly unlike the
current test.”
Cardoza said the main reason for
the changes, which will take effect
June 10, was a general increase in
very high scores over the past five
years. She said the changes should
not affect Ihe test’s difficulty level
and scores in general should remain
consistent with previous years.
The test is revised periodically,
said John Gruhl, University of Nc
braska-Lincoln professor of political
science and pre-law adviser.
“They do a lot of tinkering with
it,” Gruhl said.
The new LSAT, which is being
revised by the Law School Admis
sion Service, consists of four sections
that test logical reasoning, analytical
reasoning and reading comprehen
sion. These sections are identical in
format to the ones in the current ver
sion, and both tests also have a final,
non-graded section with potential
questions for future tests that do not
count in tne student s overall score.
The revised version has an addi
tional section of logical reasoning
and a new scoring scale. Scores were
previously scaled from 10 to 48. The
new scale will be from 120 to 180.
“They are trying to have a belter,
fairer test,” said Glenda Pierce, assis
tant dean of the UNL law college.
Cardoza said changes will not be
made in the type of questions on the
test, so students should prepare as
they are now.
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