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Vigil heldto ‘take back the night’
Friends, family
of missing women
gather to pray
v By Shelley Biggs
Senior Reporter
Friends, family and con
cerned citizens gathered at
Broyhill Plaza Tuesday
nighttopray for missing UNL fresh
man Candice Harms.
More than 200 people attended
the candlelight vigil and walk,
which marked the two-week anni
versary of Harms’ disappearance,
to show their support for Harms
and her family.
Judith Kriss, director of the
Women’s Center and organizer of
■ the vigil,
said the
event was
organized to
“take back
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for the miss
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women —
Harms of
-Lincoln,
Harms Kenyatta
Bush of Omaha, and Mary Cronin
of Ralston — who were not able to
do it for themselves.
“It is a lime to join together
tonight to take back this night for
Candice Harms, Mary Cronin and
Kenyatta Bush,” she said.
While some chanted, “Women
unite, take back the night,” the
group marched with police escort
down R Street cast to 27th Street,
north to Vine Street, west to 16th
Street and south to S Street — a
route similar to the one Harms
would lake home from her
boyfriend’s house. The group met
again at Broyhill Plaza.
Before the march, Kriss urged
people to think about Harms while
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Pat and Stan Harms, parents of missing UNL student Candice Harms, embrace while
night910 hundreds of Pe°Ple at the Take Back the Night rally at Broyhill Plaza Tuesday
Politician
criticizes
a divided
Canada
I By Alan Phelps
Senior Editor
An upcoming constitutional ref
erendum will bring to a head
in Canada the controversy sur
rounding Quebec’s nationalism, but
some doomsayers’ visions of a di
vided country may be far-fetched, a
Canadian official said Tuesday.
Stephen Lewis, former Canadian
ambassador to the United Nations,
said that while he doesn’t know how
long Quebec could continue “desper
ately walking that fine line” between
nationalism and separatism, he didn’t
accept the “apocalyptic notion that
the bottom will fall out.”
Lewis. SDeakine to an aiidip.nrp. of
about 1,000 at the Lied Center for
Performing Arts as part of the E.N.
Thompson Forum on World Issues,
discussed the chances of the latest
constitutional attempt to convince
Quebec citizens to stay in Canada.
The referendum is set to go before
voters Oct. 26.
The Charlottetown Accords, as the
document is called, grants Quebec
“distinct society” status, Lewis said,
and provides certain government rep
resentational and economic guaran
tees as well as providing for “aborigi
nal,” or Native American, rights. A
1987 attempt, the Mccch Lake Ac
cords, failed when two provinces voted
it down.
Lewis, a provincial leader of the
New Democratic Party, said that if
even one province voted against
Charlottetown, the accord would fail.
But that docsn ’ t mean Quebec will go
its own way, he said. More likely
would be another round of constitu
tional wrangling—something Cana
dians have grown used to in the past
decade.
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UNLprogram assists dual-career partners
By Susie Arth
Senior Reporter__
Anew University of Nebraska
Lincoln policy is killing two
birds with one stone.
UNL’s dual-career program ben
efits both the university and the em
ployee and keeps both sides happy,
Chancellor Graham Spanier said Tues
day.
Spanier, speaking to about 35
people at a Women’s Center lecture,
said the, policy would help UNL re
cruit “top notch” employees, and it
would keep families and spouses to
gether.
The program, which became offi
cial UNL policy July 14, helps part
ners of prospective faculty find a job
at UNL or in the Lincoln community.
“It is not about creating two jobs
when there is only one opening,”
Spanier said. “It is about facilitating
the employment of a spouse, it’s about
caring beyond the 40 or 60 hours (an
employee) works for us.”
New trends in American demo
graphics, Spanier said, make this
policy necessary.
For example, he said, more than
half of the women in the United States
are in the labor force. Also, most
professional people arc married lo
other professionals.
Therefore, he said, dual-career
families may be the trend of the fu
ture.
Spanicr, who initialed a similar
program at Oregon State University
at Corvallis, said the program proved
lo be a “tremendous” recruiting tool
and an incentive for faculty to stay at
the university.
The program, which became fully
operational this fall, will not always
be successful, he said, but there arc
many routes to take in finding cm
ployment for a partner.
One way, he said, is to send a
rdsumd around thecommunity to pro
spective employers. Also, university
officials can introduce the partner to
employers and serve as a reference or
contact.
Faculty fellowships, Spanicr said,
arc available to qualified partners for
one year. The fellowships
provide temporary employment in the
area of the partner’s expertise and
enable them to take advantage of all
university services.
Spanicr said about half of the em
ployees’ partners at Oregon State
So far, UNL has lined up about 25
companies in the community to serve
as clients for employees’ partners, he
said.
Spanicr said he expected to see
positive results sprout from the pro
gram.
The institution will become suc
cessful as it attracts more qualified
employees, he said. Faculty members
will be happy because they realize the
administrators arc sensitive to their
needs.
And, Spanicr said, happy employ
ees make productive employees.
Columbus legacy is misleading, scholar says
By Sarah Scalet
Staff Reporter
When Columbus came 10 the Americas,
he did not say he “stole” the land and
“enslaved” its inhabitants.
And although Americans generally do not
use those words to describe Columbus’ expedi
tion, they arc accurate terms, a scholar said
Tuesday night.
Philip Tajitsu Nash, who works with the
Columbus in Context Project of Washington,
D.C., spoke as part of Nebraska Wesleyan
University’s Social Justice Symposium 1992,
“TJie Columbus Question as a Tool for
Mlilticulturalism.” r
By using terminological disguises and por
traying the natives as violent cannibals, Nash
said, Columbus covered up what actually was
ning.
c misperceptions created a Columbus
myth, he said. „
Columbus’ desire for the glory and wealth
associated with the “discovery” of a new land
often is overlooked, Nash said.
And when the explorer saw how gentle the
native peoples were, Nash said, he immediately
thought of slavery.
however, it is not “Columbus the man” that
is important, Nash said, but his legacy.
Columbus’ legacy altered the common alti
tude toward nature — an attitude that still is
evident today, he said.
Native Americans generally refer to the
world as “Mother Earth,” with the sense that
everything is connected, Nash said.
The English language, however, refers to
the environment, which Nash said sounded like
something wrapped in plastic — alienated and
unconnected.
He listed ways Tor people to overcome their
lack of knowledge about Native Americans.
For example, Nash said not lo refer to “them ”
and “us.”
The United States has generally, although
not fully, moved away from cultural intoler
ance, he said.
However, Nash said, he hopes to see a move
from cultural intolerance to cultural compe
tency through awareness, respect and knowl
edge.
Multiculturalism would mean thatall voices
— voices of different colors, sexes, creeds and
sexual preferences — arc equally heard, he
said.