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Monday.
Proposals could imperil aid
Legislature could
step in to save
Davis scholarship
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
If the University of Nebraska’s
Davis scholarsh ip—awarded
on the basis of race — is ruled
illegal under proposed Department of
Education regulations, it could be saved
by the Nebraska Legislature, a UNL
official said.
James Gricscn, vice chancel lor for
student affairs, said he thought the
Davis scholarship might not be af
fected by the proposed regulations. If
it is, he said, the Legislature could
pass legislation to protect it.
Griescn said he and Richard Wood,
general counsel for the university,
had consulted on the matter.
“ . . . We agree that the Davis
scholarship as currently operating may
meet all the requirements set forth in
the proposed new requirements,” he
said.
“But to be certain, we will proba
bly return to the Legislature for addi
tional legislation that clearly states
the Davis scholarship is needed to
help deal with the results of past dis
crimination practices in the state.”
Wood said that if the proposed
regulations were pul into effect and
the Davis scholarship was ruled ille
gal, the Legislature would have to
pass legislation finding a “compel
ling stale interest” in continuing the
scholarship to correct past discrimi
nation.
However, he said, NU must wail
and sec the new regulations in their
final form before it takes any action
on them.
The Davis scholarship — a SI
million endowment— is mostly funded
by an S800,(XX) appropriation from
the Legislature. It provides a mini
mum of $1,5(X) and a maximum of
S5.922 per year to African-Ameri
can, American Indian and Hispanic
students at NU.
Secretary of Education Lamar
Alexander handed down the proposed
regulations in December that would
allow universities to consider race a
factor in awarding publicly funded
scholarships. But the regulations would
prohibit universities from awarding
scholarships solely on that basis.
Monday was the end of a 90-day
trial period during which the Educa
tion Department received comments
on the controversial new regulations.
They now may be adopted or over
turned.
A similar move by the department
in 1990 was repealed after public
outcry.
Griesen said he thought if the regu -
lations took effect, the Legislature
would support additional legislation
to protect the Davis scholarship. He
said the support of Omaha Sen. Ernie
Chambers would be essential to se
cure the passage of the legislation.
“Sen. Chambers led the effort to
get the Legislature to invest in the
Davis scholarship and has been an
excellent supporter of the program,”
he said. “I do believe that as long as
he supports that additional request for
legislation, that it would be supported
by the full Legislature.”
Chambers was unavailable for
comment.
Women’s security
problem for UNL,
faculty members say
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter
Women’s safety is a problem
at UNL that seems to be
quietly growing, two faculty
members said at an open forum
Monday.
At the Chancellor’s Commission
on the Status of Women forum, spon
sored as partof Women’s Week 1992,
David Hiblcr, an assistant professor
of English, told the
commission he
had heard of sev
eral instances of
assault on campus.
But he said he had
not seen many of
these incidents
publicized or investigated.
“There seems to be evidence of
some hanky-panky going on with the
numbcrs-kceping,” he said in regard
to the number of sexual assaults re
ported at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln.
Mary Beck, chairperson of the
commission, said a ruling, set to lake
effect this year, mandated that all
universities receiving federal funds
make statistics about sexual assault
known to students and faculty mem
bcrs. That includes statistics not cur
rently released, she said.
But Beck agreed there was a dis
crepancy between the number of as
saults on record and the number of
actual sexual assaults. A majority of
assaults arc not reported or investi
gated and therefore not on record, she
said.
Hiblcr said he had a sense that few
incidents were reported because the
investigation procedures used by the
police were somewhat deficient, and
the victims thought there was no real
place to go.
“They feel a tremendous sense of
isolation,” he said.
Beck said there was no real mecha
nism to gel information on reporting
assaults to students.
But with some changes in the
Women’s Resource Center and the
affirmative action office, she said, a
network of students and faculty
members could be set up to provide
information on sources to contact for
help.
Hiblcr said he saw a definite need
for information about campus safety
and reporting eases of sexual assault.
See FORUM on 6
Multicultural progress
must be more radical,
UNL professor says
By Sarah Scalet
Staff Reporter
Racial minorities arc beginning
to demand that society open
up culturally, a UNL English
professor said.
Joyce Joyce said that although
multiculluralism had increased in
recent years, changes still must be
made.
“Society isn’t opening up because
it wants to,” said Joyce, who teaches
classes in African-American litera
ture. “It’s opening up because it has
to.”
The changes in society arc extend
ing to schools.
A bill in the Nebraska Legislature
would require Nebraska public schools
to provide for the development and
implementation ol multicultural edu
cation programs.
The bill, LB922, is pending after
appearing on select file Monday in
the Legislature. Efforts such as LB922
arc vital, Joyce said.
In Nebraska, white people have
little exposure to minorities, Joyce
said, and the state is homogeneous in
terms of interaction.
Although it would lake a long lime
— about 15 years — to see the direct
effects of LB922 at UNL, Joyce said
efforts must start somewhere.
She said the educational system
must be restructured to emphasize
multiculluralism because America’s
history was not written from a multic
ultural standpoint. ^
See MULTICULTURALISM on 6
Parties Question each other’s motives
The three remaining Democratic
candidates compete for 783 delegates
today Page 2
j
A pending legislative bill could in
crease multicultural emphasis at the
UNL Teachers College Page 3
Stephen King s movie “Lawnmower
Man" is a cut below average Page 9
INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 7
A & E 9
Classifieds 10
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ACTION and COMMIT
hold open forum debate
By Mike Lewis
Staff Roportor
Executive candidates from the ACTION
and COMMIT parties ended the ASUN
open forum debate Monday by chal
lenging each other’s motives for holding press
conferences.
During the debate, the last one before
Wednesday’s Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska elections, a student
asked the candidates what they thought was the
difference between politics and “political
games.”
COMMIT presidential candidate Andrew
Sigerson, a junior economics major, said
ACTION had questioned his party’s need for
holding press conferences at all. COMMIT
candidates were accused of using their three
press conferences as political tools, he said.
But ACTION held its own press conference
Sunday, Sigerson said.
Alyssa Williams, a junior philosophy major
and ACTION’S presidential candidate, said
COMMIT’s press conferences fit her defini
tion of political games.
“My press conference was
for issues,’’ she said.
Sigerson said using
COM1 MIT’s press confer
ences to point out his opptf
ncnis’ weaknesses did not
mean he was playing po
litical games.
Another student in the audience asked Si
gerson about his attendance record at last year’s
ASUN executive committee meetings.
Sigerson, who was chairman of the Govern
ment Liaison Committee, said he missed sev
eral ASUN meetings because they were held at
the same time as Student Foundation meetings.
He was president of that organization.
But, Sigerson said, he sent another GLC
lobbyist to take his place at the ASUN meet
ings, and he knew what was going on at the
committee meetings.
Sigerson said his involvement with ASUN
over the last three years demonstrated his
commitment to student government.
Williams said she would make the ASUN
meetings her priority.
barlicr in the debate, Williams said her
party was pushing for a mandatory class on
mulliculluralism. 'r
Since many students arc required to take
classes in Western civilization, she said, a
mulliculluralism class also should be required.
Sigerson said the University of Nebraska
Lincoln did not have enough resources to pro
vide such a class.
“Where arc we going to get professors?
Where are we going to get classroom space?”
he said. “We don’t have that money.”
