1 ext book trouble
Professor questions 'ridiculous' bookstore prices
By Kara Morrison
Senior Editor
The price of textbooks has often
been the subject of student griev
ances, but one professor thinks it’s
a subject worth studying at UNL.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln history
professor James Moore was shocked at the
high price of a 336-page paperback book
that he assigned to his History 202 students.
Moore was asking if any of his students
already had the book so that he could show
it to the rest of the class when he noticed its
price tag.
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Moore, along with Norman and Emily
Rosenberg, wrote the first edition of “In Our
Times: America Since World War II,” and
he still receives a small amount — 17 cents
— in royalties per book.
“That’s how it grabbed my attention,”
Moore said. “My royalty statement listed the
retail price of the book at $17.98.”
He noticed that a used edition of the book
was being sold for more than what he knew
to be its suggested retail price.
The suggested retail price of the book is
$18, according to the 1992-93 edition of
“Books in Print”
At the University Bookstore, "In Oui
Times” sells for $22.90 used and $30.10
new. The same book at the Nebraska Book
store sells for $22.25 used and $29.65 new.
“That’s about 25 percent over retail for a
used book,” Moore said. “That’s ridicu
lous.”
Larry Behrends, general manager of the
University Bookstore, said “Books in Print”
was a valid source for pricing information,
but he said his store used current pricing lists
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Campus uproar
not anticipated
over lift of ban
By Corey Russman
Staff Reporter
As President Clinton finalizes plans to
end the 50-year-old ban on homosexu
als in the military, one University of
Nebraska-Lincoln student hopes the action will
open people’s eyes.
Lise Johnston, co-chairperson of the Gay/
Lesbian Student Association, said it was “about
time ROTC was forced to come in step with the
| anti-discrimination laws at UNL.”
Clinton plans to phase in his system in two
steps. In the first step, the president would ask
Defense Secretary Les Aspin to stop the ques
tioning of new recruits about their sexual orien -
tation and to stop the process of ousting de- *
dared homosexuals.
In the second step, the White House would
issue an executive order to formally lift the ban
and address the problems raised by the Joint
Chiefs and others. The executive order is ex
pected within six months.
The Association of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska has already called for a change
in UNL’s Reserve Officers Training Corps’
policy, said Herb Howe, associate to the chan
cellor and the administrator to whom ROTC
reports.
The policy prohibits gays and lesbians from
participating in activities that lead to a commis
sioning.
ASUN adopted a bill in August 1992 that
required the ban on homosexuals be lifted. If
the ban remained in place, the Academic Sen
ate would urge the respective colleges to recon - &
sider whether to grant academic credit For
ROTC courses.
The Academic Senate would also ask ROTC
instructors to withdraw from faculty status until
the programs complied with the NU Board of
Regents’ and UNL’santi-discriminationpolicy.
Johnston said she hoped Clinton would lift
the ban as soon as possible, but she admitted
there might be difficulties.
“There always will be problems any time
you make a step forward,” she said.
Johnston said she believed Clinton’s action
would be protested by religious conservatives,
among others.
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Starts work to include women, minorities
By Angie Brunkow
Staff Reporter
The effort to make UNL class
rooms a “wanner” place is underway,
a faculty member said.
Su/anne Ortega, an associate pro
fessor of sociology, said several cam
pusorganizations were trying to make
education more inclusive of women
and minorities.
A committee formed by the Aca
demic Senate is the leader of this
movement.
Robert Bergstrom, an associate
professor of English, heads the com
mittee charged to develop a general
education plan for the university — a
plan that considers the role of diver
sity.
The committee was formed in
October with the help of Joan Leitzcl,
senior vice chancellor for academic
affairs, and UNL Chancellor Graham
Spanicr.
Bergstrom said a universitywide
plan for undergraduates would be
developed within two years, but the
committee should decide the role of
diversity by February.
Bergstrom said the committee
would try to gel input from minori
ties, women and department heads to
incorporate diversity into the plan.
“The matter of diversity and
multicultural education has been on
our minds since the beginning,” he
said.
Ortega said a group of faculty and
staff was also looking for ways to
integrate diversity and education.
The group, Faculty and Staff for
Cultural Diversity, is planning a fac
ulty workshop in April to help faculty
members learn to include diversity in
math and science classes.
Ortega said many professors in
those departments were interested in
making their classrooms more open
to minorities and women, but they
were unsure how to do it in such “cut
and-dry” subjects.
“It’s easy in English. It’s easy in
art. But what does cultural diversity
have to do with math and science?”
she said.
Ortega said she hoped this ques
tion would be answered by the work
shop.
She said diversity needed to be
included in math and science because
few women or minorities were repre
sented in those subjects.
Students might be encouraged to
take the classes and pursue math and
science majors if the classes included
discussions about the contributions of
women and minorities, she said.'
Ortega said the workshop also
would include a student panel, offer
ing students the opportunity to share
their classroom experiences and give
advice.
Students to learn about diversity through SCOPE
Peer education
key to program
By Michelle Leary
Senior Reporter
Anew program at UNL would
help businesses save money
in the long run by teaching
students about diverse relations be
fore they enter the work force, a
spokesperson for the program said.
Reshcll Ray, coordinator of ethnic
minority programs in the Office of
Student Involvement, said that “if
students learn to how to relate with
others who have diverse backgrounds,
companies will not have to re-train
their employees later on.”
The program, SCOPE, which
stands for Students Creating Oppor
tunities in Pursuit of Equity, allows
students at the Universilyof Ncbraska
Lincoln to educate their peers on di
versity issues.
Ray said she thought of the idea for
SCOPE after visualizing a telescope
in her mind.
“When you use a telescope, you
look through a small hole and you can
see the moon, the stars and virtually
the whole universe, and that’s how I
sec diversity,” Ray said. “People can
look through their small hole (their
eye) and sec everything around them:
the people, their cultures and their
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I get mad when
people act Ignorant
as far as accepting
other people.
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SCOPE educator
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diver scness."
Ray said she began accepting ap
plications for SCOPE educators last
November. She chose eight students
to participate.
UNL student Susan Davis said
many people had discovered it was
easier to find the differences between
themselves and others than it was to
find similarities.
“But learning to find those simi
larities is important to me," Davis
said.
That is why Davis, a junior psy
chology major, applied to be a SCOPE
educator.
The educators, who attended aday
and-a-half training class, are diverse
in race and culture.
“Their diverseness will be the key
to making this program successful,”
Ray said.
Kimberly Slock, a freshman sec
ondary education major, said she
joined SCOPE because her frustra
tions with people had elevated after
coming to UNL.
“I get mad when people act igno
rant as far as accepting other people,”
said Stock, an Asian American. ‘‘When
it’s in your face every day you want to
do something about it.”
“I applied to SCOPE because I
really wanted to join something where
I could find a solution instead of
having to listen to people complain
ing,” Stock said.
Ray said SCOPE’S goal was “to
create an environment on campus that
will be conducive to all students,
whether they be an African-Ameri
can student from an inner-city or a
student from rural Nebraska or a Japa
nese student from Singapore.
“We want them to feel comfort
able here at the university,” ;he said.