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UNL panel focuses on diversity oy Angie Brunkow Staff Reporter Students in small towns through out Nebraska are more aware of cul tural diversity because of a UNL panel that visited their high schools, an ASUN representative said. -_ Liz Healey, second vice president ot the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, said an eight member culturally diverse panel vis ited Gothenburg and Norfolk last week to educate prospective University of Nebraska-Lincoln students about di versity on campus. The Office of High anc* ^°^C8C Relations and AS UN sponsored the panels. Our main point would be to have the students be more open-minded and seek out information and not iso T T A 1 late themselves in their own culture zones,” Healey said. Students from small towns have a difficult time seeing racism orrcaliz ~ A A| iai ing their attitudes toward different m cultures, Healey said. Thccommu nities, which are predominantly white, have passed down ideas about culture and race to stu dents for many generations, she said. ‘Even if they were racist, they wouldn’t know it,” Healey said. Healey said the stereotypes stu dents had about dilfercntcul lures came from television and the news media. Some students mistakenly think that Mexican-Amcricans arc lazy and cat jalapcflo peppers, she said, and thal African-Americans arc associated only with athletics and gang activity. Panel members, who represented the African-American, Mexican American and white communities, discussed stereotypes and answered students-questions. -—— Healey said the panel was a good beginning, but said she hoped student involvement would increase so that more panels could visitother commu nities throughout the state. The panel should follow up its initial visits to Gothenburg and Nor folk, Healey said. “I don’t think what we covered in an hour was enough,” she said. But “i f they take this to heart, they can make a lot of difference when they come to the university.” ivri/\ taoies Harms button vote “J wvicy ■ iUooiI idl I Staff Reporter The Residence Hall Association on Monday considered purchasing buttons with Candice Harms’ picture on them to help inform Nebraskans about her disappearance. . Employcrsof Harms’ parents came up with the idea to make the buttons, Dave Keller, Abel residence director, said. They hope the buttons will help spread the word about her disappear ance, Keller said. Harms, a UNL student, has been missing since Sept. 22. Keller said that while people on the UNL campus were well-informed ul-viui i idi iii5 uisappearance, people outside of Lincoln must be better informed. People who wear the but tons will be able to give other Net)ras Bpcarance, he said. tons to distribute to senators in each residence hall complex, butsenators decided to post pone the decision until after Thanks giving break. Chuck Rcnsink, interim adviser for RHA, said now was the most stressful time of the year, and it was important to look out for one another. He encouraged students to be respect ful of one another during the final weeks of the semester. Quiet hours again will be enforced all day during dead week and finals week, Rcnsink said. In other business, RHA also ap proved the appointment of Smith President Raqucl Wright as chair woman of the Residential Enhance ment Committee. Sclleck Sen. Brad Prall said the Campus Escort Service still was work ing on plans to open a branch on East Campus. The service needs money and volunteers, he said. Potter Continued from Page 1 Many of the students have a deej interest in ethics because it relates to their own situations, Potter said. He said he believed the inmates were an above-average, intellectu ally gifted group. “The people I know arc on their way back to being rehabilitated — thdy do not expect to be back in prison,” Potter said. “One told me that he would carry a gun — this was at age 15. He made the comment that if he hadn’t been put in prison, he probably would have only survived a couple more years.” Potter said he didn’t keep in touch with former students who had been released, in part because many no longer lived in Lincoln. But Potter said he had kept track of one former inmate, a student in / one of his classes at UNL before being convicted on drug dealing charges. Since being released from the penitentiary, the man had relumed to the university and graduated with a degree in journal ism, Potter said. While the penitentiary should offer more educational opportuni ties to inmates, Potter said, funding is scarce. Last year, state funds for > prison education programs in - 44 One of the important points about the death penalty is that it throws away the chance of rehabilita tion. Potter associate professor of phi losophy ft - Nebraska were cut 30 percent — from $1.29 million the year before to about $906,155. In the prison’s school, inmates can work for a general education diploma, which will help them find jobs when they leave, Potter said. The school is “a bit of a haven in the penitentiary,” Potter said, because, unlike anywhere else in prison, “the people are there because they want to be.” Ir ■ C enter sponsors conference on children and war From Staff Reports_ The effects of war on children will be the focus of an all-day conference Monday featuring international and local experts. The University of Ncbraska-Lin coln Center on Children, Families and the Law is sponsoring the confer ence, which will be at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. “Children and War: U.S. Respon sibilities at Home and Abroad” will feature films, lectures and discussions on international law, the psychologi cal effects of war on children, and the plight of refugee families in Lincoln. Speakers include Magnc Raundalcn, a leading researcher on children’s responses to life-threaten ing situations from the University of Bergen in Norway. He will give a lecturcai 10a.m. A film produced by Raundalcn on the cxpcrienccsof chil dren in war-torn former Yugoslavia will follow at 11 a.m. The conference fee is S25. Call Connie Mccnts at the Center on Chil dren, Families and the Law for more information. -POLICE REPORT-1 .1 - '1 - .1 Beginning midnight Friday \ t 2:33 p.m. — Stereo stolen frorr I vehicle, parking lot at Beadle Cen ter, $200 loss, $235 damage. 2:56 p.m. — False fire alarm Whittier Building. 3:17 p.m.—Purse stolen, Oldfather _ ^Sll^SOjoss, S35rccoyexcd.^„ 4:49 p.m.— Vehicle window bro ken, parking lotat 19lh and T streets, o I(Ju. 6:26 p.m. — Stereo stolen from vehicle, parking lot at 14th and New Hampshire streets, $250 loss, $600 damage. 9:29 p.m. — Vehicle window bro ken,parking lot at 19th and T streets, M I 3U. 10:20 p.m.—Outside police assis tance, gunshots fired, 22nd and Y streets, man arrested. Beginning midnight Saturday 4:41 p.m. — Wallet stolen, Love Library, $28. Beginning midnight Sunday 1:16a.m.—Fireextinguishcrcase broken, Burr Residence Hall, $10. 2:41 a.m. — Sign taken from pizza delivery vehicle, parking lot at Harpcr-Schramm-Smith Complex SI 15._____.......... T:(R> a.m. — Prowler, Gamma Phi Beta Sorority, 415 N. 16lh St. 7:29 a.m. — Window screen off, Kappa Delta Sorority, 405 Univer sity Terrace. 10:22a.m.—Vchicledcnted, Abcl SandozComplex parking lot,$150. 4:48 p.m. — Window screen dam aged, Alpha Phi Sorority,4531 S St. 4:53 p.m. — Prowler, Della Delta Delta Sorority, 1601 R St. 5:15 p.m. — Man sick, Sclleck Quadrangle, transported to Lincoln General Hospital, 2300 S. 16th St. 7:17 p.m.— Hit-and-run accident, parking lot at 13th and R streets $250. McEIroy Continued from Page 1 McEIroy allegedly walked into a classroom at Ferguson Hall on UNL’s City Campus on Oct. 12, brandishing a loaded semiautomatic rifle. He al legedly attempted to l ire at students in the room, who were wailing for class to begin. The weapon jammed and did not fire, and no one was injured in the incident. McElroy then left the room and fled in his car, which was parked outside the front door of the building. Lancaster County deputies arrested him about 30 minutes lateral his home in Bonnet. They confiscated the rifle and 81 rounds of ammunition. Authorities have since confiscated more weapons and ammunition from McElroy’s home. McElroy remains in Lancaster County Jail on a $500,000 bond. GLC Continued from Page 1 pressing their concern about the pro posed cuts. “We’re lobbying him now to keep the university in mind,” she said. Lodes said GLC would focus on letting the governor kndw that addi tional cuts would decrease the quality of education at UNL. GLC also will ask other campus groups to write the governor and ex press opposition to cuts, she said. IF ^ “ Wc hope for more student partici pation,” she said. Lodes said GLC would not make definite plans about lobbying the Leg islature until it saw the governor’s proposal. GLC has met with slate legislators and plans to meet with officials in the governor’s office, she said. 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