Netiraskan_
Officials dispute
wisdom of Apollo
trade agreement
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Less than a month away from a
NU Board of Regents vote on
its Final destination, the Apollo
009 spacecraft is causing a storm of
controversy.
The capsule was headed to the
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
in Hutchinson, Kan., in exchange for
space artifacts valued at $ 1.5 million,
but the Board of Regents Nov. 17
voted to delay the trade for 30 days.
“That nose cone will be traded
over my dead body,” Omaha Regent
Rosemary Skrupa said.
Skrupa is not alone in her determi
nation to keep the capsule, used in a
sub-orbital test flight on Feb. 22,1966,
in Lincoln. Bertrand Schultz, director
of the University of Nebraska State
Museum from 1941 to 1973, said he
also opposed the trade.
The information that has been
presented to the public about the
spacecraft is inaccurate, he said.
“All those things are damn lies.”
Estimates by the cosmosphere that
the spacecraft must be restored im
mediately are not informed, Schultz
said.
“That’s just their argument down
there,” he said. “They don’t know
about restoring it.
“That’s not an educational center;
it’s just a private museum for making
money.”
The cosmosphere has estimated
that it will cost about $400,000 to
restore the spacecraft, but Schultz
said those Figures are inaccurate.
He said that he had contacted a '
German chemist who could restore
the craft for between $3,500 and
$6,000.
Louis Parker, exhibits manager at
the Johnson Space Center located
outside of Houston, disputed Schultz’s
evaluation of the cosmosphere.
“I would certainly say it is a qual
ity institution,” he said. “I commonly
refer people to it.”
The cosmosphere could adequately
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' Umcials urge caution
of financial aid scheme
Scholarship office
less costly option,
director suggests
By Adeana Leftin
Senior Reporter___
Students should be wary of pam
phlets that were distributed
Thursday at UNL promising
to locate financial aid and scholar
ships for a $35 fee, an official said
Monday.
John Beacon, director of scholar
ship and financial aid, said he is unfa
miliar with Educational Assistance
Service, the company distributing the
pamphlet.
But in the past. Beacon said, Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln students
have been subject to scams of this
form.
“Buyer beware,” he said. “Be sure
that before you pay your money to
any of those private companies, be
sure you understand what you’re going
to get.”
Educational Assistance Service
invites interested students to send a
completed application and the $35
fee to a post office box in Omaha. In
return, the flier advertises, the stu
dent will receive information on grants,
scholarships, fellowships and other
non-repayable awards.
If not, the application fee will be
refunded, the pamphlet states.
“I used the service and now 1 have
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Jim Potter, a UNL architecture professor, lived in Ankara, Turkey, last yearto research the
effects of squatter housing.
New perspectives
Professor fascinated by developing world 1
By Eric Snyder
Staff Reporter___
Over the past eight years,
James Potter’s interest in
the developing parts of
the world has taken him to Africa
and Asia Minor.
Potter, a professor of architec
ture at UNL, ■jMimir
returned from
teaching and 1
researching at fEmaSJ/k
the Middle IVsl L
East Technical University in
Ankara, Turkey. Potter and his
wife, Debra, lived in Ankara for
the 1990-91 school year, where
Potter researched the effects of
squatter housing on recent rural
immigrants to Ankara. .
His research focused on the
problem of urban housing within
developing countries. He exam
ined the migration of rural people
into cities and how housing or the
lack of housing affected levels of
stress,
Ankara was chosen as the site
for Potter’s sabbatical because
Turkey’s capital city had recently
experienced a large influx of
rurarimmigrants.
“In the past 40 to 50 years,
there has been a tremendous
migration of rural people to
Turkey’s cities,” he said. “Alter
World War II, 20 percent of
Turkey’s population lived in
urban areas. At present, 50 per
cent live in urban areas. This has
put a tremendous strain on the
ability of the system to respohd.”
The majority of Ankara’s
population lives in districts of
squatter housing called the
“gecckondu.”
Although Potter is still analyz
ing the results of his study on the
I Inhabitants of the Turitish
I gecekondu, he said he hoped his
I findings would help develop
better housing.
In addition to the academic
advantages of his trip, Potter said
his stay in Turkey was personally
beneficial.
“The most important aspect of
living abroad is the ability to ex
perience the culture,” he said. “It
gives you a new perspective. It
requires you to be very flexible
and respond to the world in
which you live.”
Potter’s stay in Turkey took
place during the Persian Gulf
war. Although a bomb exploded
across the street from his apart
ment building, he said he and his
wife did not feel endangered.
“We didn’t feel especially
threatened, but we kept labs on
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Official says UNL needs minorities
Amt# DeFratrVON
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By Rainbow Rowell
Staff Reporter__
Che percentage of employees
who are racial minorities at
the University of Nebraska
Lincoln reflects the slate’s minority
population, a UNL official said.
Brad Munn, equal opportunity and
affirmative action officer, said more
minorities must be hired for adminis
trative, faculty and managerial posi
tions. *
Avoiding to a 1991 UNL census,
6.2 percent, or 313, of UNL’s work
force are minorities. This is an in
crease of 37 employees, up from 276
in last year’s census.
About 6 percent of Nebraskans are
minorities.
“The local base of population and
availability determine the work force,”
Munn said.
Employees hired for executive/
administrative and faculty positions
are recruited from a national pool,
Munn said. All other positions are
recruited locally, he said.
“Our goal is to reach a balanced
work force based on availability,” he
said.
Hiring minorities for these posi
tions is difficult because so few mi
norities have the education level re
quired for faculty or administrative
positions, he said.
“The number of Native Ameri
cans, Hispanics and blacks with a
Ph.D. is highly limited,” Munn said.
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Our goal is to reach a
balanced work force
based on availability.
Munn
equal opportunity and
affirmative action officer
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“We need minorities, with the excep
tion of Asians, to be pul into the
limelight, to go through graduate
programs.”
Attracting underrepresented racial
minorities is “a competitive ballgamc,”
he said.
“There arc 2,200 four-year institu
tions in the U.S. who all want these
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Corrections:
A story in Thursday’s Daily Nebras
kan about members of the Budget Re
duction Review Committee should have
indicated that Rita Kean is the chair
woman of the textiles, clothing and de
sign department
A story in Friday's Daily Nebraskan
about a presentation by Linda Coombs
and Cinnamon Nolley should have indi
cated that 75 percent of the Wam
panoag Nation Indian tribe died after
Christopher Columbus brought disease
to America The event was sponsored
by the University Program Council’s
Native American Special Events Com
mittee.
The Daily Nebraskan regrets the
errors.
U S. to help Soviets dis
mantle nuclear arsenal. Page
2
Nebraska takes win over
USC.Page 9
Slim pickin’s in video de
partment. Page 12
INDEX
Wire 2
■ Opinion 4
Sports 9
A&E 12
Classifieds 15
