ASUN explores civil rights
Mental journey
highlights meeting
By Andrea Kaser
Staff Reporter
AS UN members began last night’s
meeting with their eyes closed.
John Harris, special assistant to the
vice chancellor for student affairs and
guest speaker at the meeting, asked
members to close their eyes while he
took them on a mental journey to
Africa.
“Right now, in this room, we are a
community of people. We are Afri
cans. We’re princes and kings and
queens and princesses,” he told the
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
“One day there comes a rustling
from the shore. Suddenly someone
grabs your arm and puts a chain on it,
and they do the same to your leg, and
you wonder why.”
Strangers do this to the sisters,'
brothers, mothers and fathers of this
community, Harris said, and they are
herded onto crowded ships.
“Someone’s taking us from Africa,
and we know not why,” Harris said.
This was where the civil rights
movement began,
Harris said. Harris
was invited to
speak in honor of
Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.
The movement
began “when
someone decided that because of the
very nature of my skin I was different
— inferior. We still wonder why,” he
said.
The civil rights movement was, for
King, not a political movement, but a
moral one, Harris said. But, King
believed morals could not be legis
lated, he said. Behaviors, however,
could be mandated by law, he said,
citing King. And that is why lawmak
ers play such a crucial role in civil
Tights, Harris said.
As a legislative body, the actions
of AS UN are key to race relations at
UNL, Harris said.
The United States is at a turning
point, he said, with the arrival of the
Clinton administration and the recent
riots in Los Angeles.
“As people feel less and less a part
of the American dream, they’re ca
pable of anything,” he said. .
The decisions of AS UN members’
generation will set the course for the
future of civil rights, he said.
“Your generation will move us
forward or backward in race relations
like never before,” he said.
In other business, members of the
campus life committee decided to
petition to put prayer back into UNL
graduation ceremonies. And the Gov
ernmcnt Liaison Committee was
granted approval to lobby for legisla
tive bills that support multicultural
education in elementary and second
ary schools.
Bjorklund, Barney waive hearing rights
From Staff Reports
Two men charged with first
degree murder in connection with
the death of Uni versity of Ncbraska
Lincoln student Candice Harms
waived their rights to a prelimi
nary hearing Wednesday.
Robert Bjorklund, 30, appeared
in Lancaster County Court
Wednesday. He waived his rights
to a hearing and will be arraigned
Jan. 27, his attorney, public de
fender Scott Helvie, said.
Bjorklund also is being charged
with robbery and use of a weapon
to commit a felony.
Scott Barney, 24, waived his
right to a prcl im inary hearing Tues
day, and will be arraigned Feb. 3 in
district court, his attorney, Kirk
Naylor, said.
Barney is being charged with
first-degree murder in connection
with the Harms case.
Harms’ body was discovered in
a field southeast of Lincoln Dec. 6
after she had been missing for 12
weeks.
rroject to help disabled students tind jobs
From Staff Reports
Students with disabilities will
soon have more help finding jobs
because of a SI35,000 grant the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
recently received.
According to a UNL news re
lease, the grant, given by the U.S.
Department of Education Office of
Special Education and Rehabilita
tion Services', will be used to create
a project entitled Relevant Em
ployment for Students in Univer
sity Mediated Experiences.
The project will be aimed at
helping college students with dis
abilities make the transfer from
college into employment, Mary
Friehc, assistant professor of spe
cial education and communication
disorders, said in the release.
“Our objective is to work with
university students with disabili
lies to gel them better prepared for
employment,” Frichc said.
The project will be co-dircctcd
by Frichc and Jan Lcucnbcrgcr of
the University of Nebraska at
Omaha. Project members also will
include a project coordinator, a
part-time career planning and place
ment counselor, a part-time reha
bilitation counselor and a graduate
assistant on the UNL and UNO
campuses, the release said.
Splinter
Continued from Page 1
As vice chancellor for research,
Splinter oversaw the university
museum, University of Nebraska
Press and regulatory committees
overseeing research.
Splinter said the university
museum was one of the top muse
ums in the country and he enjoyed
working with it.
He mentioned the largest
elephant skeleton in the world on
display there: ‘‘I remember when I
was a kid, they found it south of
North Platte,” he said.
The University Press has
achieved national recognition under
Splinter’s supervision.
“I’ve been very pleased to serve
on the press board to decide which
b<>oks will be published,” Splinter
said. “One little fringe benefit is
that I get to read books printed by
Nebraska Press. I enjoy that.”
As for his personal plans after
retirement, Splinter said he hoped
to complete some research on East
Campus — studying soil moisture
measurement with radio frequen
cies.
He also has planned a trip to
Alaska, and wants to go sailing off
the coast of Maine, he said.
But Splinter is not sure he will
like life after UNL.
“I’m retiring with some apprehen
sions,” he said, ‘‘because really I’ve
enjoyed my academic work all these
years, teaching and doing research.”
Regent
Continued from Page 1
Besides Dr. Wilson, the regents
attending the Nov. 15 meeting were
Payne, Don Blank of McCook and
Nancy Hoch of Nebraska City.
Massengale arrived after the meeting
had started.
Dr. Blank would not disclose any
information from the gathering, in
cluding whether Massengale was told
during the meeting that he did not
have the board’s support to receive a
contract extension.
“By no means did we (the regents
that were present) represent the board
of regents,” Dr. Blank said. “There
were simply some people on the l>oard
who wanted to talk to Dr. Massengale. ”
Skrupa said she thought the meet
ing was “ill advised and wrong.”
“It puts all the regents in a bad
light,” she said.
Skrupa said the meeting should
have been discussed as a personnel
matter in a closed meeting, but the
press should have been notified.
The meeting with Massengale was
within stale law, which slates that a
quorum of members is necessary fora
gathering to bean official board meet
ing.
Visitors
Continued from Page 1
their stay in Lincoln. They will audit
four UNL business and economics
courses, serve as interns at local busi
nesses to get hands-on free enterprise
experience, and work with tutors and
with Anderson at the center. Overall,
the Tajiks will work an average of six
days a week.
“It’s going to be very, very busy,”
Anderson said. “A lot of people think
that 90 days is a lot of lime to leam.
But when you’ re starling on the ground %
floor, it really isn’t.”
AndQfson said obstacles could
come up in the Tajiks’ road to learn
ing free enterprise.
“Obviously, thcrc’sa problem with
the language,” he said. “We didn’t
realize that a lot of American business
terms don’t translate into Tajik. So
we’re literally creating words to work
with.”
Anderson said the process would
work much more effectively if a larger
delegation of professors from Khojand
could come to Lincoln to leam.
“I think that the program would
really take off if they had a few more
folks over here,” he said.
But the Khojand visitors have some
things working in their favor, Ander
son said.
“They have the support of the com
munity and the local businesses,” he
said. “And they pick up on concepts,
very quickly.”
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