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Denver airport earns its wings
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
On a morning flight to
Omaha, St. Patrick’s Day 1966,
Norm Avery was one of the first
passengers to fly out of Denver’s
newly rebuilt Stapleton Airport.
Little did he know that this
Tuesday morning, almost 29
years later, he would be turning
off the airport ’s lights forever
and moving his office 23 miles
northeast to Denver’s new
international airport.
After 10 years of planning, a
16-month opening delay,
chewed-up baggage, cracked
concrete and even wisecracks by
David Letterman, Denver
International Airport will open
Tuesday morning— no kidding.
And Avery will breathe a sigh
of relief.
Avery, DIA community
relations liaison, has been
working with DIA for nine years
and has given more than 1,080
presentations for the new airport.
He has had to put up with about
as many jokes.
“One thing I learned a long
time ago was to joke about it —
find its soft spots and pick it
apart,” Avery told the Daily
Nebraskan. “When you do that
you have few negative
comments.”
DIA’s main problem came
when the airport’s automated
baggage-handling system, which
was designed to move 4,000 carts
on 22 miles of track to 88 gates,
started “eating” the luggage.
“It virtually said ‘I just can’t
do this,”’ Avery said. “It was just
trying to make it do too much.”
The problem was fixed by
limiting the automated system to
United Airlines’ terminals — the
airline that requested the system
— and using the backup con
veyor-belt system for the others.
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The Jeppesen Terminal interior at the Denver
International Airport.
Presentations
to give view
of minorities
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
When Dolores Atencio left her blue-collar
Mexican-American hometown in Pueblo, Colo.,
... to attend college in white, upper-middle class
| Colorado Springs, she felt “very poor and very
brown,” she said.
- Since then, the Colorado attorney and gradu
'" ate of the University of Denver College of Law
has dedicated her life to prevent minority stu
dents from feeling like she did more than 15
years ago.
f Atencio will give two presentations at the
, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Today’s presentation, “Ethical Implications
- of Proposition 187,” will be at 3:30 p.m. in
Henzlik Auditorium and will examine
‘ California’s controversial proposition to refuse
.: health care, welfare, education and other ben
efits to illegal immigrants.
On Tuesday, Atencio will present “Minor
ity-Students in the U.S.A. — An Overview of
History and Progress” at 3:30 p.m. at the Wick
Alumni Center.
Atencio worked in the cafeteria her fresh
man year of college and only associated with
other Hispanic students, an act Atencio called
“self-segregation.”
We didn t have a lot of bridge crossing,”
she said. “What we tended to do was exclude
ourselves from mainstream white activities
such as joining fraternities and sororities.”
She said it did not take long for minority
students to take advantage of what was avail
able to them, though.
That generation opened up doors for minor
ity college students, she said, but segregation
and racism still exist.
Increasing the number of minority students
at colleges was a first step, she said. Colleges
also should provide minority “mentors” so
minority students would have someone who
could relate to their experiences.
“We also have to teach students the simple
principle that we are all human beings of
different shapes, colors, backgrounds and
classes,”shesaid.“Wehavetoteach theyounger
generation that there are tilings we have in
common.
“It’s a bit altruistic and idealistic, but if
! someone came to me as a college student and
said that, I may have opened up much sooner to
■ this notion than I did.”
On the other hand, she said, propositions
• like California’s Proposition 187 could turn
* this teaching around.
The proposition took the theory that America
should return to a color-blind society, she said,
where people should be judged on merits rather
than color of skin.
Although it sounds good, she said, America
was “color-blind” before the passage of the
1964 Civil Rights Act, but people were not
judged on merits, she said. _
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John Ryan of Bennet leads his daughter Amy’s horse, DeeBarlnvestment, into a stall at the Animal Science Complex
on East Campus Saturday. A two-day horsemanship clinic for horse owners across the state was held at the center over
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Riders learn while ‘Horsin’ Around’
By Stacie Renner
Staff Reporter : "
More than 400 horse enthusiasts spent two
days in the Animal Science Complex on East
Campus this weekend learning the fundamen
tals of horsemanship.
“Horsin’ Around,” sponsored by the Ne
braska Cooperative Extension, is an annual
event that features different horsemanship pre
senters each year, said Kathy Anderson, exten
sion horse specialist and assistant professor of
animal science.
The event is in its fourth year and is routinely
a sold-out event. This year, the event turned
away approximately 300 registrants after the
building’s capacity of 480 was reached.
“All (participants) have horse interests, from
the modest beginner to several professional
trainers themselves and everything in between,”
Anderson said.
Marlene Bregen, who raises Arabian horses
near Elkhom, attended the event for the second
time.
“I gave up two days and if anyone gave up
Saturday to sit inside, you know it’s worth
while,” she said.
The chance to learn from other breeds was a
positive feature of the event, Bregen said. The
event held great, variety for Bregen, with basic
groundwork and a refresher of horsemanship
shown.
Both youth and adults were able to benefit
from the sessions, she said.
Sean Barnett, a senior animal science major
who helped with the event, said that brushing
up on the basic principles of equestrian training
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NU official is candidate at Bowling Green
By Jeff Zeleny
Lee Jones, NU executive vice president and
provost, is one of six candidates for the presi
dent position at Bowling Green University.
Jones, 58, came to the University of Ne
braska in 1985. He is scheduled to visit Bowl
ing Green, Ohio, for two days during the last
week of March.
Paul Olscamp, the president of Bowling
Green University, will step down June 30.
After taking a one-year leave of absence,
Olscamp has said he will return to teaching,
according to The Bowling
Green News.
Jones did not return tele
phone calls to the Daily Ne
braskan seeking comment.
The six candidates were
narrowed from a field of more
than 100. The university
Board of Trustees approved
the list recommended by a
Jones search committee last week.
In addition to Jones, the candidates include:
Betty Asher, president of the University of
South Dakota; DavidCarter, president of East
ern Connecticut State University; John Dar
ling, president of Louisiana State University;
Sidney Ribeau, vice president at California
State Polytechnic University; and Sharon
Wallace, vice president at North Dakota State
University.
Before coming to Nebraska, Jones was at the
University of Arizona from 1964 to 1985. He
started as an assistant professor of chemistry
and left the university as a vice president for
research.