1989 Doctoral Recipients
in the United States
• 428 U.S. citizens graduated with
doctorai degrees in mathematics
59 were minority students
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• 735 graduated with physics
I and astronomy degrees
I* 48 were minority students
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Faculty vacancies
Official: Minority doctorates needed
By Karc Morrison
Staff Reporter_
Passage of the Civil Rights Act of
1991 could place discriminatory col
lege hiring practices under fire, but it
won’t automatically bring more mi
nority faculty members to campus,
UNL’s Affirmative Action officer said.
Brad Munn said that for campuses
to hire more minority faculty mem
bers, colleges first must start graduat
ing more minority students in doctor
ate programs.
Higher graduation rates will do
more to bring minority faculty mem
bers to campus than this year’s civil
rights legislation, which aims to make
it easier for employees to win dis
crimination suits, he said.
In a National Research Council
survey of earned doctorates in the
United States in 1989, Munn said,
428 U.S. citizens graduated with
doctoral degrees in mathematics, but
only 59 were minority students.
Of these, only eight were African
American and none were American
Indian.
A similar situation occurred in the
area of physics and astronomy, he
said, in which only 48 of the 735
graduates were minority students.
Statistics in the report were not given
by gender.
Helen Long Soldier, a counselor
in the UNL Office of Multi-Cultural
Affairs, said she agrees that more
should be done to graduate minority
students, including offering scholar
ships that provide “equal chances”
for these students.
But Long Soldier said she does not
believe “the excuse that we can’t find
qualified (minorities)” to fill faculty
vacancies.
She said UNL must be more ag
gressive in hiring minority faculty
members and must start providing
opportunities for growth and devel
opment for minorities so they will be
attracted to UNL and will want to
stay.
Blood-to-blood contact link proved
By Tabitha Miner
Senior Reporter
The case of a man who received
the AIDS virus from beating homo
sexuals shows that the virus can be
transmitted through blood-to-blood
transmissions outside the health care
environment, a doctor linked to the
case said.
Dr. Jonathan Goldsmith, director
of the Viral Syndrome Clinic at the
University of Nebraska Medical
Center, treated a patient who con
tracted the HIV infection from beat
ing up homosexuals in the New York/
New Jersey area while he worked as a
truck driver in the 1980s.
Goldsmith worked with Dr. Paul
Carson, an instructor in the Depart
ment of Internal Medicine at UNMC,
in determining how the patient had
contracted AIDS.
The patient went to the two doc
tors in “the recent past,” Goldsmith
said, after discovering he had the HIV
virus.
After questioning the patient about
his history, the doctors decided the
49-year-old man probably had received
AIDS when he participated in gay
bashing.
The patient is thought to have
contracted the HIV virus through cuts
in his hands that came in contact with
blood from infected homosexuals,
Goldsmith said.
While Goldsmith said he doubted
that cases of contracting AIDS from
blood-to-blood transmissions outside
the health care arena would become
common, isolated cases shouldn’t be
surprising.
“I think it’s one of those things you
anticipate will happen if you follow
the epidemic long enough,” he said.
His patient was the first known
case of AIDS received through gay
bashing, Goldsmith said, but it is not
a new mechanism for transmission.
Goldsmith said the case shows that
gay bashing should be discouraged
not only on a humanitarian, but also
on a health-risk level.
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greek judicial system or through the
university judiciary.
Bredenkamp attributed the frater
nities’ attempt to bridle alcohol use to
presidents responding to their belief
that society expects more from them
now.
“We're living in a society that will
no longer accept a lot of the things
fraternities used to do and get away
with,” Bredenkamp said.
“We’ve got to be doing it cleaner
and better than the other guy.”
But social consciousness is not the
only factor contributing to the changes,
he said.
Reducing alcohol in the houses
leads to less legal liability, he said.
Although nothing has happened re
cently at UNL, he said, the national
offices send the houses fliers about
million-dollar lawsuits brought against
chapters at other universities.
“The risk isn’t worth it,” Bre
denkamp said. “We could lose every
thing becauseof one stupid moment.”
Brenda Larsen, a committee chair
of the Greek Social Board, said the
board has been working with
Panhellenic and IFC to find creative
non-alcoholic party ideas. The social
board is made up of social representa
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We’re living in a soci
ety that will no longer
accept a lot of things
fraternities used to do
and get away with.
Troy Bredenkamp
Interfraternity council
president
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lives from each house.
Larsen said both sororities and
fraternities are required to have three
non-alcoholic functions a .semester,
ranging from dinner exchanges to
theme parties.
A contest recently was started
requiring each house to donate $20.
The fraternity or sorority with the
most creative and enthusiastic non
alcoholic party wins a part of the
money, with the rest going to second
and third place winners, Larsen said.
“That’s a lot of money when you
think of how many houses there are
and each one donating $20,” she said.
Some of this semester’s creative
party ideas include an around-the
world party with food, rather than the
customary drink in each room,
“mocktail” dinner exchanges and a
bam party and dance with no alcohol
allowed.
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