February 19, 1993
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Vol. 92 No. 107
Professor says altering boundaries leads to conflict
By Neil Feldman
Staff Reporter
eligious struggles have con
tributed to more geographic
change in the past few years
than the world has ever seen, political
geographer Harm De Blij said Thurs
day afternoon in his speech at the Lied
Center.
De Blii, a political geography pro
fessor at the University of Miami who
has appeared on ABC’s “Good Morn
ing America,” spoke to an audience of
about 800 people at this year’s fourth
lecture in the E.N. Thompson Forum
on World Issues.
“Revival of religions is going on
everywhere,” De Blij said. “This is
particularly evident by the Islamic
fundamentalism that is sweeping
across Algeria, Iran and Egypt.”
De Blij said a major religious move
ment also had cast a shadow over
India, suppressing democracy and
causing considerable havoc among
the populace.
“The degree of religious revival is
a global phenomenon,” he said, “and
it mandates immediate international
attention.”
De Blij alluded to the notion that
several conflicts that are currently
inflamed — Bosnia, Somalia and
Afghanistan — have historic ties to
religious upheaval.
Shifting the tone of the lecture, De
Blij displayed a number of maps and
discussed the grand geographic alter
ations the globe 4iad seen since the
doors were slammed on communism.
The amount of changes the world
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The notion that we must have democracy through
out the world is rapidly spreading to all corners of
the globe.
—De Blij
political geographer
has witnessed since the end of the
Cold War is unbelievable, he said.
“The notion that we must have
democracy throughout the world is
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comers of the
rapidly spreading to all
globe,” De Blij said.
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Jeremy Brown, left, De Marc us Weaver and Carlos Helmstadter joke around during a foosball game at the Malone
Center. In the background, Stacey Murry watches the game.
Malone magic
Community center celebrates diversity, promotes self-esteem
By Stove Smith
seruor toitor
Located two blocks from the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City Campus,
the Malone Community Center
emanates the message that it, like UNL,
wants to propel young people to successful
careers.
Center volunteers
do it several ways. But
no matter what, the
message is clear:
Children are the future,
so that’s where to start
improving the commu
nity.
“We’ve found that
children are the most
eager people to learn,”
said Marlyn Logan, the
center's family enrichment program director.
“We’re more than happy to help them,
because we realize how vital it is to reach
them in their formative years.”
The Malone Center, 2032 U St, began in
1932 as the Lincoln Urban League, with a
mission to improve the social and economic
conditions of African Americans in the area.
In 195S, it reorganized as the Clyde
Malone Community Center and began
offering programs such as child care, youth
and adult services, and community social
work for the neighborhood around UNL.
About 20 full- and part-time employees
currently work at the center.
The center’s services are as diverse as the
clientele. It offers day care for 18-month-old
to 12-year-old children, a game room with
video games and foosball tables, and a
weekend basketball league.
It also provides assistance to people with
special needs: traditionally, the elderly and
handicapped citizens in the Malone neigh
borhood. There is rarely a moment when a
room is left unoccupied.
In 1990, the center added a drug and gang
prevention program, which functions through
the family enrichment department.
The department’s goals are to keep kids in
school, to reduce substance abuse and to
reduce the disproportional number of
minorities who appear before the nation’s
courts, Logan said.
One way volunteers try to accomplish
these goals is through the Winners program,
a 16-student creative-writing class that
focuses on successful black Americans. The
class is designed for local junior and senior
high students, she said.
Schopls in the United States always have
taught history from a European standpoint,
Logan said. Winners focuses on history from
other perspectives.
The one-year course, funded by a federal
grant, features African-American role models
such as Frederick Douglass, Billie Holliday,
Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Desmond Tutu.
These positive role models can help students
in their daily lives, Logan said.
“They can learn about Jesse Jackson, how
he speaks out and how he uses the system to
perpetuate what he wants to say and how he
uses it in the political arena,” Logan said.
“Then they, too, as young people, can do
the same. They can improve relationships
with their teachers, friends and even them
selves,” she said. “Then they can go about ‘
changes in a positive way instead of in a
rebellious way.”
The class, which meets weekly, is
associated with the Lincoln Council on
Alcohol and Drugs and is open to everyone,
she said. With the council’s help, the '
program has been dubbed a success by
Malone volunteers.
“It’s taught kids how to literally be a
winner instead of being a follower or falling
into the pitfalls of peer pressure,” Logan
said. “It's also given them the tools to resist
all the other bigger pressures out there, like
drugs and alcohol.
‘Tt’s an excellent way to reach out to
kids,” Logan said. “It’s something that’s
different — and we think more effective —
from other methods. Sometimes, ‘Just Say
No’ to drugs is simply not enough.”
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Too few appeals
approved, says
student leader
By Mindy Letter
Staff Reporter
Appealing a UNL parking ticket may be
almost as frustrating as receiving one,
said Susan Oxley, student life commis
sioner for AS UN.
Appeals are rarely granted, and the process
is arbitrary and complicated, she said.
I
uxiey said appeals were
not being granted as often as
in past years. Of the 65 £q>
peals made in the past month,
none were granted, she said.
“I don’t see the reason for
having an appeals process if
no appeals are ever granted,"
“We have to make sure we represent the
student body as a whole and not take students’
rights for granted,” she said. “In an appeals
process, there should be appeals granted and
denied, and we have a concern when so few are
granted.” r
Ryan Hughes, a member of the parking
appeals board, said fewer appeals were being
granted because the Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska senators assumed
students knew the rules of parking.
“They figure that students know the rules
this late in the year, or maybe students fail to
address due process,” he said.
Oxley disagreed. She said many students
didn’t buy their permits until January and were
still unfamiliar with parking regulations.
She said many students might not have read
through the parking handbook.
“I certainly don’t read throug h the handbook
from cover to cover,” she said. “It’s not a test.”
Mark Goldfeder, a parking advisory com
mittee member, said any student could appeal
a ticket. However, he said the appeal had to be.
grounded in policies set forth by the parking
handbook in order for it to be given serious
consideration by the committee.
In order to appeal a ticket, he said, students
must first take their case to the ASUN Parking
Appeals Board.
Tom Johnson, chairman of the parking advi
sory committee, said that in cases where offic
ers have committed procedural errors, the ap
peal is granted by the parking police.
If the officers did not break procedure, the
appeals go to the parking appeals board for
review, Johnson said.
StacyLovelace.an ASUN senator and mem
ber of the parking appeals board, said the
validity of the applicant’s story was the most
important consideration in grafting appeals.
“I think there is a heavy degree of honesty
judging,” she said. “If they have contradicted
their story, or changed it, then we tend to
disbelieve them.”
Oxley disagreed.
“I don’t know if that’s necessarily true be
cause they they might goof up their story if they
are flustered,” Oxley said. “If they completely
change a story, that's different”
Lovelace said applicants presented their
cases to the appeals board, which then decided,
to refuse or grant the appeal by majority vote.
Applicants who are unsatisfied with the
decision of the appeals board can take their
appeal to the parking advisory committee for
further review.
Goldfeder said 10 to IS percent of students
with rejected appeals chose to do just that. The
committee reviews 100 to ISO appeals a year.
