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Official says
team to tackle
racial issues
Group to raise awareness,
assist victimized students
By Sean Green
Staff Reporter
Anew action team at UNL will address campus
issues to help reduce racial tensions and
assist those who think they are victims of
racism, said the special assistant to the vice chan
cellor for student affairs.
John Harris said the newly created Racial Plu
ralism Action Team, comprised of University of
Nebraska-Lincoln faculty, students, staff and
administrators, was created by James Griesen,
vice chancellor for student affairs. Griesen got the
idea for the UNL team after observing a similar
team at Oklahoma State University.
Harris said one purpose of the 16-member
team, which met for the first time Tuesday, is to
raise campus awareness of different racial groups
and to foster discussion about racial issues.
“We want students to come to grips with the
reality of cultural diversity,” Harris said. “Nebras
kans, especially those from rural areas, could
easily go along with blinders on, but they should
get exposure to people of other races.”
Harris said although he has received no reports
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Michelle Paulman/DN
Mowing right along
Groundskeeper Chuck Hetherington mows the northeast courtyard at the State Capitol Building on Tuesday.
Involvement in Homecoming encouraged ■
ASUN residence liaison committee revived
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
After two years of dormancy,
an ASUN residence liaison
committee is being revived to
improve relations between members
of greek organizations and students
living in residence halls.
The committee originated in a 1989
ASUN bylaw, but it has been rela
tively inactive over the past two years,
said Gwyn Vaughn, ASUN second
vice president.
“The committee hasn’t met in the
last two years, basical ly because there
haven’t been problems (between
members of greek organizations and
students living in residence halls),”
she said.
The committee is composed of
students in sororities, fraternities.
residence halls and members of the
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
According to the bylaw that formed
it; the purpose of the committee is “to
provide a communication link be
tween students in fraternal organiza
tions and residence halls.”
Vaughn, who is heading the com
mittee, said Homecoming will pro
vide the committee with its first op
portunity this year to ease interaction
between the greck system and resi
dence halls.
“What we’re really concentrating
on right now is getting involvement
from residence halls in Homecom
ing,” she said. “We’re trying to keep
people on the Homecoming commit
tee in touch with residence hall stu
dents.”
Last year, signs posted in resi
dence halls invited residents to par
ticipate in some greek-sponsored
Homecoming activities, but the invi
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a lot of the hostility
that goes on. They’d
really like to end that.
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tations “weren’t received well,”
Vaughn said.
“This year, instead of just posting
signs, we’re trying to have a repre
sentative from each (fraternity) house
go over to each (residence hall)
complex to invite resident hall stu
dents over,” she said.
Mike Lewis, vice president of the
Residence Hall Association, said the
lack of interaction last year should
not be attributed to hostility between
the two groups. A better explanation
is that the integrated events weren’t
organized far enough in advance, he
said.
This year, planning began earlier
in order to overcome that problem.
“I really don’t think there’s any
hostility (between the groups),” Lewis
said. “1 think there’s indifference, but
I think it has more to do with Home
coming than with the greck system.”
Vaughn said the committee is going
to work actively with residence hall
student assistants to generate enthu
siasm and participation in the resi
dence halls for Homecoming events.
After Homecoming, Vaughn said,
the group will begin solidifying plans
for next semester. The committee hopes
to bring in a speaker and have a phi
lanthropy jointly sponsored by the
residence halls and the greek organi
zations. Because the committee is not
financed, however, the scope of its
activities is limited.
And, Vaughn said, because the
committee’s plans this semester in
volve residence hall students in greek -
sponsored events, its aim next semes
ter is to involve greek organizations
in a residence hall event, such as the
annual casino night.
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UNL students
to experience
Soviet changes
By Julie Skar
Staff Reporter
In May 1992, students from UNL
will travel to the Soviet Union to
experience sweeping economic
changes firsthand, an official said.
About 25 students from a variety
of different majors will be selected to
study the Soviet economy and exam
ine ways that the United States could
help business owners in Moscow, St.
Petersburg and the republic of Tajiki
stan, said Robin Anderson, the direc
tor of Nebraska Center of Productiv
ity and Entrepreneurship.
Recent changes in the Soviet Un
ion have sparked interest in the pro
gram, Anderson said. A trip in June
1990 involved only 18 students from
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
This year, the program will differ
slightly from the last because of the
new market economy forming in the
Soviet Union, Anderson said.
Students will bedivided into teams
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Congress studies plan to increase
Pell Grants for college students
UNL official says legislation’s effect remains unclear
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
The House of Representatives
currently is considering a plan
to increase funding tor Pell
Grants available to college students,
which are awarded on die basis of
financial need.
The giants are covered under Tide
IV of die Higher Education Act, first
passed in 1965. The act is reauthor
ized by the Congress about every six
years and is cuirendy being reauthor
ized.
According to an article in the
Chronicle of Higher Education, Tho
mas Wolanin, staff director of the
House Subcommittee on Postsecon
dary Education, said lawmakers will
propose increasing the maximum Pell
Grant from $2,400 to $4,500 a year in
order to recognize higher living ex
penses.
Bill Vaughan, a staff assistant on
the subcommittee, said the subcom
mittee has held 45 hearings in which
it heard recommendations from stu
dents and the heads of universities.
He said the subcommittee will
consider these recommendations
during the First week in October. Ideas
such as increasing Pell Grants will be
discussed.
Vaughan said the subcommittee
will then present its recommenda
tions to the House Committee on
Education and Labor, which will for
mulate its own proposals. -
The chairman of the committee,
Rep. William Ford, D-Mich., will then
present the completed bill to the House
of Representatives.
Ford would like to introduce the
bill by the end of the year, Vaughan
said.
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He said he could not predict what
specific elements will be in the bill.
“There are a lot of ideas floating
around, but nothing concrete,” he said.
John Beacon, director of admis
sions and scholarships and financial
aid at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, also said he was unsure what
the final bill would look like.
“I’ve been reading about it for
months,” he said. “But it’s still months
away from being resolved.”
He said the issue was not as easy as
simply raising Pell Grant funding.
“We have other grants,” he said.
‘If they are saying they are going to
;ombine these grants into one simpli
fied Pell Grant, students won’t get
iny more money, they will just get it
in a different way.”
He said it was too early to predict
low the changes might affect UNL
students.
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