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Campus pitches in for recycling
Ekart says more people recycling individually
By Brian Luger
StaffReporter
UNL recycling director Dale
Ekart’s job requires him to dig through
campus trash containers every few
months to check on the effectiveness
of his program’s efforts.
He and his staff rummage through
the university’s trash, making sure re
cyclable items aren’t being sent to land
fills.
“Dumpster diving” is not exactly a
glamorous chore for the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln’s recycling director,
but it helps. The trash-checks are part
of a program that collected 700 tons
of recyclable material last year alone.
Ekart, with the help of students and
administration, has built up the recy
cling program and has increased the
amount collected each year from bins
in residence halls and other campus
buildings.
Recycled products include mixed
office paper, newspaper inserts, alumi
num cans, glass and plastic cups. Al
though Ekart said UNL recycling was
down this year, he said the decline
could have been a result of increased
recycling by individuals on campus.
More people are recycling, he said,
which means less is going to die land
fill. If that is the case, Ekart said, “ev
eryone deserves a real pat cm the back.”
Students are doing their part by ask
ing questions and participating in re
cycling, Ekart said, and custodians
have helped by placing recycling bins
where they are accessible. The admin
istration also has pitched in to the re
cycling program, he said.
After each football game, recycling
staff collects plasdc cups in Memorial
Stadium. Ekart also is begnming to get
involved with the fraternities and so
rorities cm campus by educating mem
bers on what they can do to recycle.
Finally, program employees will go
“dumpster diving” in a few months to
see how many recyclable products are
thrown away on campus.
James Zank, director of the student
run Environmental Resource Center,
said the recycling program made a
good start, but “more needs to be and
can be done.”
Because of recycling program’s
success, Ekart said he was able to pro
duce an informational video about the
university’s recycling efforts.
“We Recycle” is a nine-minute
video that talks about the role of the
UNL recycling program.
The video highlights “a pretty wide
variety of thoughts and ideas,” Ekart
said.
“We Recycle” is free to university
groups, students, faculty and staff.
Anyone interested in the video can call
472-6099.
Economist Choate joins Perot ticket
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political circles, although he was a
frequent radio talk show guest dur
ing the NAFTA debate.
Perot’s poll standing has plum
meted in recent months to the point
where he now gets roughly 5 per
cent in national surveys—well off
the 19 percent of the vote he gar
nered in 1992.
This shaky political standing
apparently made it hard for Perot
to attract a major political figure to
share the Reform Party ticket.
In his hunt for a running mate,
Eerot twice made overtures to Uni
versity of Oklahoma President
David Boren, a Democrat, but the
former governor and U.S. senator
said he didn’t want the job. .
Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur
of Ohio also declined an offer. She
and Perot see eye-to-eye on NAFTA
and other economic issues. Repub
lican Rep. Linda Smith of Washing
ton, an outspoken advocate of dra
matic campaign finance reforms,
also reportedly declined an offer.
Still, the pick drew early praise
from Reform Party regulars.
“He’s not a politician,” South
Carolina Reform PartyChairwoman
Betty Montgomery said. “People
need to think outside the box and
realize you don’t have to have a
politician to go and run the coun
try.”
Perot Mends James Campbell
and Carl Owenby appear as stand
in vice presidential candidates on
many state ballots because Perot
was required to name a running
mate when he filed candidacy pa
pers.
Perot and Choate co-wrote a
book predicting the North Ameri
can Free Trade Agreement would
cause a flood of U.S. jobs overseas
and put pressure on U.S. employ
ers to keep wages and benefits down
if they hoped to remain competitive.
Choate's work also was cited occa
sionally during the Republican
presidential primaries by Pat
Buchanan, who is a fierce critic of
the NAFTA and GATT trade agree
ments.
In 1990, Choate wrote a contro
versial book, “Agents of Influence”
in which he charged that Japan was
spending millions of dollars to in
fluence U.S. policy through a net
work of well-connected Washing
ton lobbyists.
Professors bring capitalism to Albania
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change to a free-market economy,”
Sommer said.
The team taught more than 2,000
Albanians about market economics and
management techniques.
“We had to teach them that profit
was not evil because they viewed profit
as exploiting the workers,” Lee said.
Now the Albanians are beginning
to put this knowledge into practice—
small stores and restaurants are open
ing up all across the country.
Since 1991, Albania has enjoyed
Europe’s fastest economic growth, Lee
said, but it is listed as one of Eastern
Europe’s poorest countries, with 40
percent unemployment and an annual
per capita income of about $950.
“Working in Albania is a stark re
minder of our position of privilege and
everything we take for granted,"
Sommer said.
Despite vast differences between
the culture of Albania and the United
States, professors were still able to find
common ground with Albanians be
cause their nation’s economy — like
Nebraska’s—is based on agriculture.
This program also has benefitted
Nebraska’s economy by developing
business contacts in Albania.
“In working with the Albanians,
I’ve found them to be friendly and easy
to build a relationship with,” said
Robin Andersen, director of die Ne
braska Center for Entrepreneurship.
The professorssaid their Albanian
experience helped them improve their
classes at UNL and diversify the uni
versity.
Wesleyan professors
debate muiticulturalism
By Kimberiy Coffeen
StaffReporter
Racism, feminism, minority in
equalities and cultural pluralism are
just a few of the many issues that cause
heated debates in today’s society.
And Tuesday night, Nebraska
Wesleyan University held a debate that
brought all those issues to light at once.
The debate, “Multiculturalism —
Friend or Foe?,” was held in Emerson
Recital Hall, 50th Street and Hunting
ton Avenue. This was the first forum
of the 1996-97 school year.
All of the panel members were
Wesleyan faculty members. Roger
Cognard, English professor, was the
moderator for the debate. The debate
was split into two sides with two pan
elists on each side.
The “friend” side speakers—who
spoke in favor of multiculturalism —
included Gerise Herndon, English pro
fessor, and Heather Bullock, psychol
ogy professor.
The “foe” side speakers — who
spoke against multiculturalism — in
cluded Old Oyinlade, assistant sociol
ogy professor, and Buz Wehrman, head
of library technical services and asso
ciate professor of library and informa
tion technology.
The first section was for opening
statements. Panel members were given
eight minutes to express their opinions.
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“Multiculturalism is not just about
reconstructing, but expanding whose
experiences we consider relevant,”
Bullock said.
Oyinlade said he thought multi
culturalism could create misunder
standing of different cultures.
“We assume that lack of knowledge
is the reason that people discriminate
and make judgments about others,”
Oyinlade said. “There are many people
with Ph.D.s that are bigots.”
The second section was for re
sponses and any questions the panel
had.
“I have no objection to the over
looked, but what is the mechanism and
criteria for who you are going to bring
in?” Wehrman asked.
Herndon said prejudice had to do
with more than just one race.
“Many groups have focused on
ethnicity, but it has to go much deeper
than just a white prejudice,” Herndon
said.
The third section was for an audi
ence reaction. This was split up into
three 10-minute parts such as students,
faculty and staff, and general public.
The final section was for two
minute closing statements for each
side.
“(Multiculturalism) takes place in
side and outside of the classroom,”
Bullock said.
Oyinlade concluded the argument
for the foe side.
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