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from telling perspective
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By Jonathan Houghton
Staff Reporter
Helen Adams almost didn’t speak at
the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom
Breakfast Friday morning.
She wasn’t sure she had a story to
tell about living with racism in Lincoln
duringfier 71 years.
But the audience of700 disagreed
and gave Adams a standing ovation.
Adams, a teacher at Elliott
Elementary School, said she hoped
King’s dream of racial harmony would
one day became a reality, despite her
struggles wiihracism in Lincoln.
“It is possible for people to work
better together,” she said.
AiSaia)^ q>timim^rmiains despite
twonegative experiences with bigotry
she said she will neverfoiget.
Once, Adams-phoned the leader of a
Girl Scout troop she wanted her daugh
ter to join. The leader invited the two to
come to the meeting.
But the den mother was noticeably
less enthusiastic upon meeting Adams
and her daughter face to face, saying she
hadn’t realized on the phone that they
were “darkies.”
Rather than tolerate the den moth
er’s prejudices, Adams said, she left her
daughter at the scout meeting and
immediately called the main Girl Scout
office to report the incident
“That was the first time I did any
thing close to being militant,” she said.
On another occasion, Adams and her
husband applied for a bank loan in order to
purchase kmd. They were granted the
loan, but only if they picked a lot in the
“black?’ section of town.
Adams said she and her husband
refused the loan, and she added that she
wishes that bank employee could see
Although Adams said King’s dream
has yet to be totally realized, she also
believes that laws are not the solution to
racism.
‘1 don’t think you can legislate peo
ple’s hearts,” she said. “I think you
MLK activities at INE v -
9:30 am.: Rally marches
from Nebraska Union to Lied
Gate: fcr Enframing Arts via
O Street
10:30 a.m. - Nxn Morning
axMxatim in Lied Center.
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lounge
10:30 a.m. The Rev. Den
Coleman, MAE© Dads
11:00 a.m. Etrivesityd:
Isbtraska liter-tribal.
Exchange
11:30 a.m. Afrikan Bacples
Union
1:30 pm. I Have a Etreem
Speech broadcast cn
KRNU-FM (90.3)
2:00 pm. Mexican American
Studant Associaticn
2:30 pm. W cmen s Studies
Associaticn
3:00 pm. Vietnamese
Studant Associaticn
3:30 pm. Gay, lesbian,
Bisaual, Transgander
Studant Associaticn
4:00 pm. Sabor Mexican©
dancers
9 am. - 4 pm. Studant
ImaLvemant will pest stu
dents drears on the vail
12:30 p.m. - 2:30 pm.
Ehitersity aftemocn anvo
caticn with neater Kan
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change people’s hearts by talking with
them one on one.”
The Freedom Breakfast, held at the
Comhusker Hotel, also featured short
speeches by Gov. Ben Nelson and
Johanns. , •• ,
Nelson said embracing diversity
includes practicing “zero tolerance” for
racism of any kind.
Adams agreed.
“We are still judging people by the
clothes they wear, by the color of their
skin and how much money they have.”
New SEA adviser Lopez
inspires newfound zeal
LOPEZ from page 1
education major Dan Van Bibber. “We
just took it one step further.”
The newsletter is not just for SEA
members, but die whole department.
The group also has a new Web page.
“More communication among die
members is vital for this year,” Van
Bibber said.
During the spring semester the SEA
will work on class and style, and it will
instruct members on organization and
composition of classes they will teach.
Officers will attend the Spring
Delegate Assembly, the business side of
the organization, to elect state officers and
make changes to the SEA constitution.
Last semester was Lopez’s first as
the SEA adviser, and he didn’t even
know he was going to be the adviser
until this fell. Therefore, he said, he did
n’t want to change much of the group’s
structure.
“The officers were established
already, and itb not up to me to change
any thought or effort they put into it,” he
said.
Lopez got the job, he said, after the
old adviser left. The dean’s office
phoned him and three others to ask if
they wanted the job.
They must haw aft turned it down,
and he was left, he joked But that does
n’t matter to the students. To them, he
couldn^ be more perfect for the job.
“Bill stepped in and was so excited
for things to happen,” Van Bibber said
“He’d do anything for us. ...Hefebeena
great help to the SEA.”
Freshman elementary education
major Brandy Nash said most other
advisers seemed too busy to deal with
students outside of medaagiand class
es, but Lopez has walked well with die
students.
“He’s not too busy. He’s even gone
out of town with us (to^ovember^ con
ference in Kearney), which is kind of
unusual,” she said “He has a lot of new
ideas to make our chib stronger.”
Fifth-year senior and elementary
special education major Jill Ludwig
said student reaction to Lopez has been
“marvelous.”
“He’s so full of ideas and sugges
tions. Heb open to any ideas (we have),”
she said
The SEA will continue to grow, said
Lopez. “There will be more volunteer
weds, more involvement with the New
Student Enrollment
“We’re planning on a bigger cun
pus presence.”
Correction
Wednesday’s Daily Nebraskan incorrectly stated the opening date of
die University of Nebraska-Lincoln Studio Art Faculty Exhibition.
The exhibition will open today in die Gallery of the Department of
Art History in 102 Richards Hall.
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