DN decision supported
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln Publications Board passed a
resolution Wednesday supporting the
Daily Nebraskan’s use of the Andrew
Scott Baldwin arrest photo Jan. 20.
Baldwin, a 22-year-old UNL stu
dent, was charged with assault for the
beating of Gina Simanek of Lincoln
and a Lincoln police officer Jan. 18.
The board stated it found no basis
for the charges of racism leveled against
the leadership of the Daily Nebraskan
for printing the photo.
The support for Editor Jana Ped
ersen was based on the feeling that
her work “has been consistent with
the high standards of news judgment
and tradition of excellence in further
ing the free exchange of ideas and
information in a democratic society."
In other action at the meeting, James
Griesen, vice chancellor for student
affairs, said he did not think an al
leged “legally suspect” ASUN deci
sion to cut $6,500 from the Daily
Nebraskan’s budget was based on the
paper’s content.
The decision was made because
the money was set aside for the paper
to switch to soybean ink, he said. The
switch to soybean ink has not yet cost
the newspaper.
Griesen said the board also should
not support a proposal to switch the
fee allocation to a subscription fee on
which the Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska and the
Committee of Fees Allocation could
not rule.
Pedersen said that although she,
too, did not support the policy change,
she felt much animosity toward the
Daily Nebraskan at the ASUN meet
ing.
She said she was afraid ASUN’s
decision might cause a chill effect, by
which the paper’s editors would fear
printing anything against either stu
dent government organization for fear
the budget might be further cut.
The Publications Board took no
action on the subscription fee pro
posal.
In other business, Adeana Leftin, a
sophomore news-editorial major, was
appointed editor of the Summer Daily
Nebraskan.
Spring Break
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Break with us.”
He said he was not sure if the slight
increase in travelers at his agency
was because of the economic condi
tions or simply because more stu
dents were choosing Via Van Bloom
this year.
But Barbara Arendt, a travel con
sultant with Four Seasons Travel
Agency, 131 S. 14th St., said she
thought the recession had hit student
travel plans — at least plans that
included flying.
“If they want to fly, it’s pretty
prohibitive,” she said.
Arendt said airline fares had been
creeping up for years and were reach
ing levels as high as they were before
government deregulation about 10
years ago.
Two reasons for the expensive air
fares, she said, were the high cost of
fuel and decreasing competition. Three
major carriers recently filed for bank
ruptcy and others had been driven out
of business, Arendt said.
“As the competition dwindles,
you’re going to see higher fares,” she
. said.
Florida flights that cost a little
more than S400 today were $275 as
recently as December, and SI58 a
few years ago, she said.
“When (students) hear air fares,
they decide to drive,” Arendt said.
Four Seasons saw about 30 per
cent fewer than normal Spring Break
customers this year, she said.
“They’re going to bypass the travel
agency if they’re driving,” she said.
One UNL student, Brett Tieken,
said he was driving to South Padre
Island in Texas for Spring Break.
Tieken, a junior business admini
stration major, said he and his friends
did not consider flying because of the
high cost.
They are planning to spend be
tween S400 and $500 each, he said,
on lodging and other expenses.
Arlene McKinlay of the South Padre
Island Visitor’s Bureau said the popu
lar Spring Break destination would
see a record 100,000 students this
year as opposed to 65,000 last year.
She attributed the increase in part
to the recession.
“We’re not as expensive,” she said.
“We’re in Texas, and a lot of our kids
are from Texas and Oklahoma.”
McKinlay said Padre’s central
location made the area popular with
students from across the Midwest.
“A lot of kids can just drive,” she
said.
Harass
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who knows of someone who is going
through it.
“Women often do not report if
they are sexually harassed because
either they do not know where to
report it, or there are just so many
emotions wrapped up with what hap
pens that it is difficult to come for
ward,” she said.
“People are afraid of their names
being splashed all over the media.”
As well as offering support, the
sexual harassment support group is
trying to bring attention to these is
sues and enact stiffer laws against
sexual harassment.
A core group of five or six women
is working with nine women sena
tors, including Sen. DiAnna Schimek
of Lincoln, to improve the situation
for women who may need help, Kant
said.
“The interim study we want to do
this summer is to continue to work
and address the questions that were
precipitated at the hearing and after
ward,” Schimek said.
Kant said her group was pushing
for several aspects to be included in
the interim study.
“We would like to see education in
the school systems so that youngsters
will know what is going on and what
to do,” she said.
Kant also said penalties for sexual
harassment should be changed, espe
cially in the work environment.
“Right now they are so minimal,”
she said. “Often if something hap
pens between two employees at a
company, the perpetrator may only
be reprimanded by their boss.
“There should also be mandatory
training classes for everyone,” Kant
said. “If a perpetrator has harassed
someone, then it should be manda
tory for the individual to go through
retraining and possibly counseling.”
Supervisors who know of sexual
harassment and do not do anything
about it should be held accountable,
she said.
The sexual harassment support
group meets every Saturday at 10
a.m. at the YWCA, 1432 N St.
Regents
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Three of the goals are to provide
diversity training for faculty, staff
and students; improve the environ
ment of each campus for racial and
ethnic minority faculty and students;
and enhance recruitment of minority
students.
While it is loo early to predict how
successful the regents will be in in
creasing diversity, some University
of Nebraska-Lincoln professors said
> they would take a wait-and-see atti
uide.
Lcarthen Dorsey, an assistant pro
fessor of history and ethnic studies,
said he thought the goals were com
mendable, but probably should be
taken with “a grain of salt."
Diversity is important, he said,
particularly on a campus such as UNL.
“The rest of the world is not as
homogenous as UNL is,” he said.
“Not all students will remain in Ne
braska, and I think it’s essential they
have experience with minorities and
learn what it’s like to be taught by or
to work with someone who is not
white.”
AS UN clears board members —
Senate also OKs
committee report
From Staff Reports
AS UN approved two new Ap
pointments Board members
Wednesday night and passed its
Five-Year Projection Committee’s
report.
David Swan, a sophomore busi
ness major, Deb Silhacek, a junior
public relations major, and the next
speaker of the senate will comprise
the new Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska Ap
pointments Board.
Law Sen- I A Ol III
Gene Collins
said he was con
cerned because
both appointees
were fraternity
or sorority
members.
“This has to change,” Collins
said. “To get the university in
volved (in student government),
we have to be more diversified.”
Business Sen. Heidi Putensen
said the two students were the most
qualified for the positions.
Arpong suggestions made by
Five-Year Projection Committee
in its report were the need for emer
gency phones in all University of
Nebraska-Lincoln parking lots.
The senate also approved Uni
versity Health Center Student Ad
visory Board members and made
recommendations to UNL Chan
cellor Graham Spanier of students
it thinks are qualified to serve on
the UNL Publications Board.
Methodology
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“They learned to teach language
by watching teachers do it, by re
membering how they learned them
selves,” Turner said.
The class will give graduate stu
dents the opportunity for outstanding
professional competence in their
chosen field, Turner said. One of the
factors of this competence, she said,
i
is the ability to leach.
“Our program in modem languages
naturally emphasizes undergraduate
instruction in all of the languages,”
she said.
Kapanga said he expected 15 to 20
students to enroll in the one section
offered next fall.
Modem language departments that
grant doctorates at most universities
offer a course in methodology, he
said. Some even have two or three
methodology courses.
Whether UNL implements more
methodology courses depends on the
success of this one, Kapanga said. ^
This course should not be con
fused with a methodology course in
the Teachers College, which is geared
toward high school and elementary
school teaching, he said.
However, Turner said, the modern
languages department will work with
the Teachers College to provide train
ing to help graduates receive and do
the best job.
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