UNL to hold convention
By Missy Larsen
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln will play host to its first na
tional MACURH convention this
weekend.
MACURH,
the Midwest
Affiliate of
College and
University
Residence
Halls, is an af
filiation that exchi
tion and ideas between member
residence halls across the Midwest.
Kathy Rush, president of the
Residence Hall Association and
MACURH conference chairperson,
said that through this network,
delegates learn new ideas and pro
grams to take back to their respec
tive schools.
Rush said participating delegates
are students and advisers from 35
schools in Nebraska, Iowa, Kan
sas, Michigan, Missouri, North
Dakota and South Dakota.
The conference will begin with
a keynote address by Barry Ken
nedy at the Lied Center for the
Performing Arts. Kennedy, vice
president from Member Services
of the State Chamber of Commerce,
will speak on setting goals. Dan
Larosa, a hypnotist, also will give a
presentation.
Saturday, delegates will put on
programs on subjects including rape
prevention, time management, study
habits and alcohol in the residence
halls.
“By hosting the conference, we
can show off our school and give
our own residents here on campus
the chance to experience the con
ference,” Rush said.
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By Jean Lass
Staff Reporter
Women’s studies curriculum at
UNL fails to address the contribu
tions “women of color” have made to
the education process, a UNL faculty
member said Wednesday.
Teresita Aguilar, an associate
professor in the Center for Curricu
lum and Instruction, said some in
structors at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln include women’s studies
classes in their curriculum, but the
classes address gender instead of
women of color specifically.
“Instructors exclude women of color
in women’s studies because the issue
is at the whim of faculty’s sensitivity
and awareness,” she said.
Aguilar spoke at the Culture Cen
ter, 333 N. 14th St., the first in the
“Women in Perspective Series,” spon
sored by the Women’s Resource
Center.
Women of color should question
where theories are formulated, she
said, because in general psychology
and philosophy theories are taken from
studies of white, male, college sopho
mores.
“Challenge yourself to think about
other perspectives,” she said. ‘‘Le^™
much about the authors of books you
read so you take into account the total
eXPSheCS that “taking into account
the total experience” means ques
tioning why a piece of literature was
written and for what audience it was
intended. , . ,
“Let’s extend what we know by
including the perspective of women
of color,” she said.
Charlene Alexander, a graduate
assistant to the dean in the Teachers
College, said women of color are not
validated for achievements they have
accomplished, as exemplified at edu
cational conferences in the Big Eight.
“At the black student leadership
conference at UNL, the first speaker
acknowledged that we were there,
but he said, ‘How many women here
can go without gossiping?”’ she said.
“That statement was divisive and
invalidating.”
Another example, Alexander said,
was at the recent American Associa
tion of Counseling and Development
conference.
There, authors Clemont Vontress
and Courtland Lee talked about their
book “Politicalization of Cross-Cul
tural Counseling,” which describes
the historical impact different people
have had on cross-cultural counsel
ing.
“All the examples were of men,”
she said. “They could not answer my
question on women’s contribution to
cross-cultural education and counsel
ing.”
Racial minorities, especially
women of color, must be included in
the educational system, she said.
Barbara Turnage, an academic
consultant for the Student Opportuni
ties and Services program at the Multi
cultural Affairs office, said women
of color need validation for increased
self-esteem for themselves and their
children.
“We’re taught to look at ourselves
and opportunities in a limited way —
that (women of color) were disadvan
taged,” she said. “Why can’t we grow?”
Turnage said that in the educa
tional system, women of color are
being “trained” to take on powerless
behavior and to act on it, whether
they want to or not.
“I have to address my society as a
black female,” she said. “I can’t for
get that, but we don’t have to struggle
day-to-day-to-day.”
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Tense standoff
marks opening!
of peace talks |
MADRID, Spain (AP) — For the
First time in more than four decades of
bloodletting, Israel and all its Arab
foes sat down together, listening warily
Wednesday as President Bush urged
them to forge a “territorial compro
mise.”
Bush and Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev opened the historic Middle
East peace conference in Madrid’s
ornate Royal Palace, then left center
stage to the participants.
The opening session was marked
by a hard-line speech from Egypt’s
foreign minister, who called for full
Israeli withdrawal from the occupied
lands.
The conference bbgan against the
backdrop of threats of more violence
in the Middle East. In Lebanon, thou
sands of Islamic protesters demon
strated against the talks, chanting
“Death to America, Death to Israel!”
In Iran, a hard-liner said all confer
ence delegates should be killed.
■
v Teace will only come as a result
of direct negotiations," Bush told the
delegates at the opening session, call
ing for territorial compromise as a
means of finding peace.
“It would be unforgiveable to miss
this opportunity,” Gorbachev told the
assembled delegates.
U.S., Israeli and Arab officials
acknowledged deep uncertainty about
the next phase of the peace process_
separate bilateral talks between Israel
and Syria, Lebanon, and a Jordanian
Palestinian delegation.
Asked whether the dates and ven
ues for these talks were set, Secretary
of State James Baker said, “No.”
The participants were seated at a
T-shaped table designed so the foes
would face each other at a slight angle
rather than head-on.
No national flags were displayed.
One Israeli delegate extended a hand
to a Lebanese woman in the chamber
but was spumed.
Palestinian delegate Saeb Erekat
was clad in the black-and-white check
ered headdress favored by Palestine
Liberation Organization chairman
Yasser Arafat.
The PLO has been banned from
the talks because Israel regards it as a
terrorist organization. The organiza
tion was palpably present, with a
monitoring delegation in town.
Jordan’s foreign minister acknowl
edged afterward that it had made him
tense to even be in the same room as
the Israelis, let alone across a table
from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir.
“It is not a dinner party,” he said
curtly.
Another first was the attendance
of Syria, the most hard-line of Israel’s
neighbors. Syrian and Israeli negotia
tors have never met except to negoti
ate a military armistice in 1949.
Zohair Jannan, head of the foreign
press department at the Syrian For
eign Ministry, told The Associated
rre!>5 uic Syrians wuuiu pun uui
the talks if Israel docs not stop build
ing Jewish settlements in the occu
pied lands and begin to withdraw.
In Beirut, thousands of Muslim
radicals marched to the bomb-shai
tered former LJ.S. Embassy compound,
where zealots burned American and
Israeli flags to protest the talks. An
Iranian lawmaker, Ali Akbar
Mohtashcmi, said all conference dele
gates were “moharebs” — those who
wage war against God — who de
served to die.
In the Israeli-occupied territories,
more than 50 people were injured
when rival Palestinian factions battled
with knives and chains. Arab report
ers said one Palestinian was killed
and at least 13 people wounded when
Israeli troops opened fire to break up
stone-throwing protests by followers
of the Muslim fundamentalist Hamas
movement.
Addressing the conferees, Bush
called for “real peace” in the region.
He said, “We believe territorial com
promise is essential.”
He suggested that subsequent talks
on a permanent solution would be
“determined on their own merits,
suggesting that any interim arrange
ment could be experimental, not bind
ing.