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ASUN racial affairs subcommittee born
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
A SUN, at its final meeting of the year,
achieved its yearlong goal by unani
mously passing legislation to create a
racial affairs subcommittee.
Teachers College Sen. Steve Thomlison said,
“It was a long time in
coming.”
Over the last school
year, many minority stu
dent groups have lobbied
the Association of Students
of the University of Ne
braska to create a better
system of representation.
Racial minorities were the first to ask for
representation and the last to get it— interna
tional students, handicapped students and gay,
lesbian and bisexual students already have sub
committees. Different opinions on the struc
ture of the racial minority committee have
postponed the subcommittee’s establishment.
College of Law Sen. William Collins said
the past attempts to create the subcommittee
have made ASUN look like a “fiasco.”
He said that in the past, there was “a lot of
shouting and name-calling, and nobody won.”
Minority students are not thrilled with the
idea of a subcommittee, Collins said, but they
are willing to work with it.
Pat Jilek, a College of Journalism senator,
agreed with Collins.
“(Minority students) are as willing to work
with us as we are willing to work with them,”
he said.
College of Business Sen. Mike Jilek said the
support from the minority students is a chal
lenge;
“It’s a challenge for us to work our tails off
for them,” he said.
In addition to creating the subcommittee,
ASUN passed a bill forming a temporary
commission to evaluate the subcommittee.
The commission will be made up of at least
four ASUN senators and will include represen
tatives from the Coalition of the People of
Color.
This summer, the commission is charged
with establishing the criteria by which the
subcommittee’s success will be judged. The
criteria must be presented to the senate at its
first scheduled meeting next fall.
The commission is supposed to ensure that
the subcommittee addresses only racial affairs
issues and to assist the subcommittee in devel
oping its goals.
In the fall, the commission will have a
round-table discussion with the ASUN presi
dent, speaker and interested senators to discuss
the subcommittee’s implementation.
The commission also will assist ASUN in
recruiting minority students to serve on the
subcommittee.
In December, the commission will evaluate
the effectiveness of the subcommittee using
the criteria it established. Two reports will be
filed with ASUN, one from the commission
and a second from the Coalition of People of
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Official disallows
DN distribution
at State Capitol
By Bill Stratbucker
Staff Reporter . {
and Lisa Donovan
Senior Reporter
Spurred by concern over this
week’s Daily Nebraskan joke
issue, a state official decided
the UNL student newspaper and other
publications no longer will be distrib
uted from their regular State Capitol
location.
Larry Primeau, director of the
Department of Administrative Serv
ices, said Monday’s Daily Nebraskan
supplement caused the department to
reevaluate what materials it dissemi
nates at the kiosks and stands it con
trols. •
“We kintj of want to limit what we
have downstairs,” Primeau said of the
stand that normally carries the Daily
Nebraskan. The decision was not based
on a desire to squelch the Daily Ne
braskan, he said.
In addition to the Daily Nebras
kan, the University of Nebraska at
Omaha’s paper, The Gateway, no
longer will be circulated at the Capi
tol stand, according to the new pol
icy.
Primeau said that although the
papers no longer will be distributed,
those working at the Capitol still could
subscribe or pick up a copy and bring
it to the building.
“We arc not banning the DN,” he
said. “We’re not banning it from our
building. We’re just not allowing the
passive distribution of it.”
Primeau also said the decision was
not an attempt to silence academic
freedom, but dial the joke issue proba
bly could have been removed be
cause some of the material fell under
the state’s sexual harassment policy
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Diversions
takes on a
r deeper shade of
green. Page 5.
The Food
and Drug Ad
ministration is
inspecting food from South Amer
ica to prevent the spread of
cholera. Page 2.
UNL graduates will gain a dose
of realism after May 11, colum
nists say. Page 4.
NU and Creighton take one
victory each. Page 13.
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Opinion . 4
Diversions 5
Sports 13
Classifieds 14
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Senior electrical engineering major Ken Peralez plays “La Bamba” during a protest by the Mexican American Student
Association near the Administration Building.
Mexican-American students conduct protest
By Carissa Moffat
Staff Reporter
Carrying signs, fliers and a
guitar, Mexican-American
students staged a sit-in pro
test Wednesday outside the Ad
ministration Building to demand
that their concerns be addressed.
Mexican-American Student
Association members said they were
protesting administrators’ lack of
action on promoting recruitment
and retention of Mexican-Ameri
can faculty and staff members and
students, gaining more support for
multicultural affairs and develop
ing stronger ethnic and Chicano
programs.
“We’ve gone through all the red
tape of the administration, and we’re
still not getting a response,” said
Frank Sanchez, a senior psychol
ogy major and last year’s MASA
president. “We want to create some
awareness; sometimes that’s the
only way you can gel a response.”
The students held signs reading
“Actions speak louder than words” <
and “Chicanos and Hispanics need
active recruitment and retention.”
Sanchez said MASA is looking
for“sincerccommitment”from the
administration.
When NU President Martin
Massengale was University of
Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor,
Sanchez said, MASA met with him.
Massengale talked about address
ing the same issues MASA is bring
ing forth now, Sanchez said.
But when Massengale became
president, Sanchez said, he seemed
to forget about the discussion.
Massengale was unavailable for
comment Wednesday, but in the
afternoon Interim Chancellor Jack
Goebel met with MASA members
in his office.
MASA members also met with
Goebel two weeks ago to discuss
issues they are concerned about,
but some students said that meet
ing was unsuccessful.
)
Goebel said he thought they had
established “a means to improve”
during the last meeting. He said he
was wailing for MASA to send him
a list of groups that could help in
the recruitment of students and
faculty members.
“We try to respond, we try to
follow through..That’s what we
do with any group,” Goebel said.
He also told MASA members
they need to be realistic about how
much can be done.
About two weeks ago, a 1988
89 report from the Chancellor’s
Commission on the Status of Mi
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