Davis program supported
Official: Minority scholarships to be defended
by trie Snyder
Staff Reporter
University of Nebraska officials are plan
ning to tell the Education Department, which
has put minority scholarships under fire, why
its Davis Scholarship program is worth the
public dollars put into it.
John Beacon, director of the Office of Schol
arships and Financial Aid at UNL, said UNL
intends to respond loan Education Department
survey on minority scholarships by the July 15
deadline. J
The purpose of the Department of Educa
tion’s survey is to obtain information about
minority scholarship programs around the na
tion, as well as to discover public sentiment on
the issue. The findings are to help the Depart
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We’re prepared to present a
good case in defense if
anyone seeks to challenge.
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ment of Education establish an across-the
board policy on minority scholarships.
The survey is the latest step taken by the
department to resolve a controversy started
more than a year ago by Assistant Secretary of
Education Michael Williams.
Williams had said minority scholarships in
general were illegal, then said privately funded
minority scholarships were acceptable.
This threw the legality of publicly funded
scholarships into doubt. NU’s Davis Scholar
ship for minorities is a $1 million endowment
financed through private donors, including the
Dick Davis family of Omaha, and the state. The
Nebraska Legislature allocated $800,000 for
the scholarship program.
The Davis Scholarships arc awarded to
undergraduate students at UNL and UNO who
are black, American Indian or Hispanic.
The university’s chief lawyer said he is
willing to go to bat for the scholarship program.
NU Vice President and General Counslf
Richard Wood said he is confident the Davis
Scholarship’s legality would stand up in court.
The scholarship was drafted using Affirmative
Action decisions as a guideline,' wood said.
The intention of the scholarship is to “provide
that scholarships be available as long as there is
a statistically significant underrepresentation
of a minority group in the undergraduate popu
lation,” he said.
The Davis Scholarship is working toward
raising the proportion of blacks, American
Indians and Hispanics at UNL and UNO to the
proportion of those groups in kindergarten
through 12th grades in Nebraska schools, Wood
said.
Because of its basis in Affirmative Action,
Wood said, university officials feel strongly
about the Davis Scholarship and are anxious to
defend its existence.
“We’re prepared to present a good case in
defense if anyone seeks to challenge,” he said.
Scientist to answer questions about clams
Children and adults who enjoy
gathering clam shells can bring
their collections and questions to
the “Sunday Afternoon with a
Scientist” program to be presented
at Morrill Hall Sunday from 2 p.m.
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lo 4 p.m.
Keith Perkins III, an associate
professor of biology at Sioux Falls
College in Sioux Falls, S.D., will
exhibit samples of the types of clams,
or unionids, found in the state.
The program will allow young
sters to gather clams from a simu
lated habitat. They will learn about
the environmental needs of clams,
including water supply, geologi
cal formations and host fish.
ronsn youtn to learn about U.b. agribusiness
' Young potential leaders from
Poland’s Warsaw Agricultural Uni
versity will Icam about Nebraska’s
field-to-maricei agricultural system
as part of a new program offered at
the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln this summer.
The UNL program, was developed
to give students from Poland a basic
understanding of the legal,-economic
and management framework used in
U.S. agribusiness.
From July 10 to Aug. 15, six stu
dents will study the production and
movement of two typical Nebraska
products — com and beef.
In following the movement of
these products, the Polish students
will visit farms, processing plants
and agribusiness corporate head
quarters.
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