Committee name changed
ASUN meets forfinal time of semester
By Kasey Kerber
Staff Reporter
An emergency-status bylaw
changingthe name of the Freshman
Impact Com
mittee to the
Freshman Ac
A 011M tion Committee
w 111 was among the
issues dealt
with at
ASUN’s final
meeting of the
semester
Wednesday
night.
ine name
change reflects the current ACTION
party of the Association of Stu
dents of the University of Nebraska.
But before By law A was passed,
it generated a small debate among
ASUN senators, some of whom said
the name change negatively re
fleeted the dominance of the party
that won the ASUN election.
“If you arc going to change the
name of this every year, it makes it
look like this is nothing more than
an election issue,” said Andrew
DeLanccy, a senator representing
the College of Fine and Performing
Arts.
But a majority of ASUN sena
tors said the name change was sim
ply a name change and nothing
more.
“I don’t think the name of the
committee is the issue,” said cam
pus life committee chairwoman
Amy Ragcr. “It doesn’t change the
committee’s purpose.”
The bylaw was passed by a clear
majority in a voice vote.
In other ASUN news, Govern
ment Bill No. 3 was passed, com
mending Joan Leitzel, senior vice
chancellor for academic affairs, for
her service to the University of
Nebraska-Lineoln.
“While many individuals arc
glad for her that she’s moving on,
we are also saddened that she is
leaving UNL,” ASUN President
Eric Marintzer said.
Frank Kuhn, assistant director
of operations of the Nebraska
Union, was thanked in Government
Bill No. 4 for his 37 years of dedi
cation to the university.
ASUN also approved 21 ap
pointments. Nine appointments
were made by Marintzer, and the
remaining dozen were made by the
Appointments Board.
A senate bill was passed unani
mously to grant recognition to the
student organizations AgLEC (Ag.
Leadership, Education and Com
munication Graduate Student As
sociation), NERDS (Nebraska Edu
cators Really Doing Science) and
the 3D Studio Users Group.
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Lecture to compare
blac k, white families
By Tasha E. Kelter
Staff Reporter
A professor ffom Harvard wi 11 speak
at UNL today about his 20 years of
research comparing black and white
families.
Dr. Charles Vert Willie’s lecture,
titled “A New Look at Black and White
Families: A Comparative Perspective,”
will compare different aspects of black
and white family life, said Brian
Wilcox, director of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln’s Center on Chil
dren, Families & the Law.
Willie is the vice president of the
American Sociology Association and
a professor of education and urban
studies in the graduate school of edu
cation at Harvard.
“He’s one of the few people to do
direct comparative research (on the
subject),” Wilcox said.
Willie said his research had taken
several directions, including his
- “theory of complementarity,” which
explains how “dominant and subdomi
nant groups in the same socio-eco
nomic status” adapt to life.
“No group is sufficient to go it
alone,” Willie said.
Willie also has developed a theory
of school desegregation called “Con
trolled Choice,” which he said he would
share at the lecture if people expressed
interest.
Wilcox said the lecture was directed
toward the entire university commu
nity.
The objective of the lecture is to
bring some of the foremost research
on family life to UNL, Wilcox said,
and “tochallenge people to think more
about the issues facing families in the
1990s.”
This is Willie’s first visit to UNL.
The lecture is at 3:30 p.m. in the
Nebraska Union. Willie will speak for
about 45 minutes and then answer ques
tions.
Computer kiosk to help
Nebraskans find work
From Staff Reports
A computer kiosk unveiled
Wednesday will put Nebraska welfare
recipients into the 21 st century in their
efforts to find employment.
Gov. Ben Nelson unveiled the “Em
ployment First Kiosk” Wednesday
morning during a ceremony in the lobby
of the Lincoln-Lancaster Department
of Social Services.
■ “Nebraska’s welfare reform efforts
will truly be successful if we can help
recipients achieve independence
through employment,” Nelson said in
a press release. “The Employment First
Kiosk will provide people with an av
enue for attaining personal responsi
bility by assisting them in efforts to get
off of welfare and into the workplace.”
The kiosk, funded by a grant from
the U.S. Department of Labor, is the
result of a combined effort of the Lin
coln-Lancaster Department of Social
Services and Nebraska Job Service.
Lancaster County is the first of five
counties being phased into the “Em
ployment First” welfare reform pro
gram, which is expected to go state
wide by 1997.
A legislative bill adopted in 1995,
LB455, requires welfare recipients in
Nebraska to fill out a self-sufficiency
“Nebraska s ivelfare
reform efforts will truly
be successful if we can
help recipients achieve
independence through
employment. ”
BEN NELSON
Governor
contract that says they will seek em
ployment. The kiosk offers welfare
recipients one more chance to find
employment.
A touch-sensitive computer screen
is used to select topics such as job
search, interviewing tips, resume
preparation, employment rights, young
adult opportunities and general infor
mation about jobs.
Dan Dolan, commissioner of the
Department of Labor, emphasized in
the release that the kiosk was easy to
use.
“Every client that comes into the
Social Services office, young or old,
job ready or not, can look at jobs
available in Lincoln and across the
nation.”
Archbishop: Abortion backers
could lose church privileges
OMAHA (AP) — A second high
ranking church official in Nebraska
will warn Catholics this weekend that
public support of abortion and eutha
nasia or ordination of women could
bring consequences.
Catholics in the Omaha Archdio
cese will not be allowed to teach, serve
communion or serve on parish coun
cils if they publicly differ with church
teachings on the three issues. The mes
sage from Archbishop Elden Curtiss
will be delivered this weekend in a
letter to be read at all Masses.
Curtiss stopped short of the posi
tion taken last month by Lincoln Bishop
Fabian Bruskewitz, who said Catho
lics who belonged to any of 12 forbid
den groups faced excommunication.
Curtiss does not mention excommuni
cation in his letter, a copy of which was
obtained by the Omaha World-Herald
and reported in Thursday’s editions.
Curtiss was out of town Wednesday.
Curtiss also does not single out
specific groups, except the Masons.
Catholics may not belong to Masonic
lodges, Curtiss said, but he did not
spell out a penalty for membership.
“Catholics who support abortion
and euthanasia place themselves in
direct opposition to church doctrine
regarding the obligation to support
human life from conception to natural
death,” the letter states.
“Therefore, any Catholics in this
archdiocese who publicly support abor
tion or euthanasia may not be in any
teaching, ministerial or liturgical min
istry, or be a member of any parish or
archdiocesan council.”
Liturgical ministries include serv
ingcommunion, reading Scriptures and
leading music.
The same roles also would be for
bidden to Catholics who publicly dis
agree with Pope John Paul II’s teach
ing that the church cannot ordain
women to priesthood.
Curtiss oversees Catholic parishes
in Omaha and northeast Nebraska. The
Rev. Michael Gutgsell, chancellor of
the archdiocese, said the prohibition
would caver parish councils, parish
finance councils and other groups that
speak for the parish.
Though the letter does not specifya
consequence for Masonic membership,
Gutgsell noted that Curtiss cited a 1983
church document stating that Catho
lics who belonged to the Masons could
not receive communion.
Curtiss affirms the discipline of
celibacy in his letter but does not spell
out any penalty for dissent on that
point. He also rejects giving lay people
a role in selection of their bishops.
Lay people are consulted in a num
ber of matters in the archdiocese,
Curtiss says.
“However, the selection of bishops
is quite another matter because it in
volves the universal communion of
bishops with the Pope. This takes the
process out of the political arena and
popular vote.”