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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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“ 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.
The Legislature did not target the
university for additional cuts in its
third special session to reduce the
state’s budget, Lodes said.
Hopefully, they Tc not looking to
the university for more cuts,” she
said.
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