ASUN approves new committee
By Melanie Brandert
Staff Reporter
ASUN senators Wednesday ap
proved bylaw changes to form a
Freshman Impact Committee and a
roundtable of student organization
presidents.
Shawntell
Hurt gen, presi
dent of the Asso
ciation of Stu
dents of the Uni
versity of Ne
braska, told sena
tors the commit
tee members, which would consist of
freshmen, would educate and reach
out to new students about ASUN’s
services.
The committee would be com
prised of a chairman and co-chair
men, similar to the current make-up
of the Government Liaison Commit
tee, Hurtgen said. The chairman
would serve as an ASUN executive.
Hurtgen said she came up with die
idea for the committee after attend
ing a student government conference
in Texas last month.
She said she hoped freshmen would
be able to apply for a position on the
committee as soon as New Student
Enrollment began this summer.
About 25-30members would serve
on the committee, Hurtgen said, but
those numbers could change depend
ing on the number of people who
apply during the next two years.
She said committee members
would be educated about services
that most students were familiar with
and those they did not know about.
“Most people don’t know there’s
free legal help and tutor lists that they
can get help from,” Hurtgen said.
She said the committee also would
be a way for freshmen to get in
volved. New students would be able
to hear about ASUN’s services from
their peers, Hurtgen said.
“It would be a group of freshmen
telling their peers about what the
organization does instead of people
like me that have been involved in
the system since I got here,” she said.
Another bylaw change passed by
the senate would set up a discussion
group between presidents of student
organizations on campus.
Hurtgen said the roundtable was a
way of hearing the presidents’ con
cerns. She also said she would offer
office hours three days a week for
presidents to meet with her.
“It’s very important that we as
representatives from ASUN have an
open door policy this year,” she said.
“If there is something that they want
to be represented on, or want you to
represent them on, they’ll come and
share their ideas.”
Lecturer: Media stereotypes Jews
By Chad Lorenz
Staff Reporter
While the American mass media
portrays Jews as intelligent, it de
picts them as having physical and
personal inadequacies, a speaker at a
Judaic Studies Lecture said Wednes
day evening.
Sander Gilman, a professor at the
University of Chicago, cited examples
of movies and television shows that
he said stereotyped Jews. They are
shown as smart, but thin, weak, neu
rotic and sexually dysfunctional, he
said.
“Smart means ineffectual. Smart
means weak. Smart means not quite
good enough,” Gilman said.
He said television shows like
“Murphy Brown” and “Northern Ex
posure” depicted Jewish characters
1 Miles Silverbergand Joel Fleischman
in that sense.
In Hollywood, actor Woody Allen
typically plays a clever, but sexually
ineffectual Jew, Gilman said.
Gilman said those stereotypes es
pecially were apparent in the films
“Schindler’s List” and “Quiz Show.”
He said that in “Schindler’s List,”
the appearances of the two main char
acters, Oskar Schindler and Itzhak
Stem, contrasted.
Schindler was shown as sexy,
strong and elegant, while Stem was
portrayed as weak and ill, Gilman
said.
Reading excerpts from the book
by Thomas Keneally, Gilman said
“Stem spoke softly, learnedly,” and
had “a thin, scholarly look.”
“Keneally’s words, not mine,”
Gilman said.
The movie’s theme portrays Jews
as inferior, he said, since Schindler,
the virtuous Christian, rescued the
weak Jewish masses.
The film “Quiz Show” dealt with
the absence of virtue combined with
intelligence, Gilman said.
Two characters were Jewish: Herb
Stempel, a cheating contestant, and
Rich Goodwin, a detective who ex
poses the scandal.
One was shown as virtuous, the
other deceptive, he said, but both
were intelligent.
‘“Quiz Show’ was the movie ver
sion of (the book) ‘The Bell Curve’
and an extension of ‘Schindler’s
List,”’ Gilman said.
Gilman ended his lecture by an
swering a question he presented ear
lier: “Are the Jews really smarter?”
“Only if the culture in which they
dwell wants them to be,” Gilman
said.
The hidden truth behind the
media’s portrayal of Jews lay in con
text, he said.
“We make culture, ^nd culture
makes us.”
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