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s p o b t s_ *_U_ THURSDAY Healthy hopeful ‘Tree’s’ stands tall April 10,1997 Nebraska football player Jay Sims just wants to Indie film regular Steve Buscemi makes his writing and directing stay healthy this spring. With a depleted I-back debut with ‘Tree’s Lounge,” which is now playing at the Mary SNOW Joke , corps Sims has picked up playing time. PAGE 7 . Riepma Ross Film Theater. PAGE 8 Blustery snow, high 28. Same ; ■' .* X I * b t I VOIt.96 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 135 ‘i {EXCEL party gets majority of RHA vote Sf - • .f* 1 By Sarah Baker Staff Reporter The EXCEL party hopes to bring new “integrity and l unity” to residence hall students next year after winning ~ the Residence Hall Association elections Wednesday. ^ EXCEL took55 per cent of the vote, with the opposing IMPACT party taking 45 percent of the vote. A total of 1,056 residence hall students voted, which equaled 25 percent of the residents living in the halls; Elections were held in eight of the residence which has elections in the fall. Both Neihardt and Abel residence halls ran out of ballots, but election workers hurried to pho tocopy more before the election was over. Voter turnout, how ever, was still lower than last yeas. In 1996,1,151, or 36 percent, of die resi dents voted in RHA elec tions. RHA Election Com lUIOOlUUVi JLiWVIkJ V/Oili3Ull said she felt the lower turnout rate was because of less campaigning by the parties. “The EXCEL party did some campaigning, but the IMPACT party didn’t do any,” Carlson said. “I am happy with the number of students that did go out and vote, but Please see RHA on 6 ' ; Ryan Soderlin/DN WAITER ECHO-HAWK, senior staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund, spoke at the Lied Center for Performing Arts Wednesday afternoon. Echo-Hawk helped lead the campaign to obtain the passage of the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act. f it The people that * I talked to were .. confident with our party's experience and leadership skills. T/iey reaZZy believed in us." Ben Wallace RHA president-elect Indigenous people need more rights, activist says By Kimberiy Swartz Staff Reporter Throughout Walter Echo-Hawk’s life time, he has seen the effects of stereotypes, economic exploitation and racism against in digenous people. Echo-Hawk, an American Indian activ ist, lobbyist, tribal judge and attorney, gave a speech entitled “Indigenous vs. i>uxiiiiuigciiuus isagiiis, n.espuiisiuiinies anu Relationships” Wednesday at the Lied Cen ter for Performing Arts. Echo-Hawk was the final E.N. Thomp son Forum speaker this semester. Indigenous people are non-European groups, Ecfto-Hawk said, who existed before Europeans colonized the land. They makeup 6 percent of the world’s population and are found in 72 different countries. Indigenous people are not in a position of political dominance and have no desire to assimilate into the culture that surrounds them, Echo-Hawk said. “Discrimination turns native people into aliens and strangers in their own lands,” he said. Each group is culturally distinct and wants the right to decide its own destiny, Echo Hawk said. “These people can’t be found on any map --- because they are nations within nations,” he said. Please see ECHO-HAWK on 6 Black student scholars honored as university ‘ambassadors’ Full tuition will be paid for students showing academic excellence and community leadership. __%j K i ' | By Chad Lorenz Senior News Editor The University of Nebraska-Lin cpln considers scholarship funds for black students money well-spent, UNL officials said. Jim Smith, director of the Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs, said the black students at UNL were showing they could be leaders as well as scholars. “You’ve done something a lot of students don’t do,” Smith told eight scholarship recipients Wednesday. “It’s * your ambassadorship that shows you care about the university.” Black scholarship winners for the 1996-97 school year gathered at the Culture Center on Wednesday for Pic ture Day. Cynthia Gooch, educational spe cialist for the multi-cultural affairs of fice, said she will display their photo graphs on the walls of her office to motivate younger minority students to aim for academic excellence. “So often when you hear‘scholar ship’ with ‘African-American,’ people tend to think of athletics,” she said. “This will show other students that they can be successful academically.” Smith said the top scholarships of fered to black students were seven full tuition Davis Scholarships. Recipients are required to show academic excel lence and leadership in the community, he said. Black students also were offered scholarships through the Larson, Gupta, David and Schorr scholarship funds, which vary from $1,000 to full payment for students’ housing. Four Schorr scholarships were awarded to black students in the Teach ers College, Smith said. As the number of minority students increases, schools will need more black teachers, he said. Smith said he urged students not to see their scholarships as gifts, but as something the students should return to the university by leading others and setting examples. “Somebody’s invested in you, start investing back,” he said. “In our day, more well-rounded, more voluntary spirit is needed so our communities become wealthier and safer.”
