Moeser commits
to diversity reform
By Lindsay Young
Assignment Reporter
In response to the recent dis
cussion over a professor’s
allegedly racist e-mail prose,
UNL Chancellor James Moeser
assured the university communi
ty Tuesday that the university is
“firmly and unalterably commit
ted to strengthening diversity.”
Moeser read a prepared state
ment to members of the media in
his office and answered no ques
tions specifically about David
Hibler, a University of Nebraska
Lincoln English professor.
Hibler’s work was posted on a
university listserv and reached
more than 300 faculty members
and students.
John L. Harris, special assis
tant to the vice chancellor for
student affairs, applauded the
chancellor for stepping up imme
diately and dealing with the
issues raised by the Hibler inci
dent.
“I’ve been encouraged by the
immediate and forcefulness of
the response,” Harris said.
But Harris said the university
has not yet begun the process of
healing or learning from the
affair.
He said learning and healing
eventually took place after Sigma
Chi Fraternity members burned a
cross during an initiation cere
mony last year.
We re not on tnat course
right now,” he said. “But we can
find that course.”
Moeser said the university is
in the process of putting into
place a diversity plan and an
affirmative action plan.
And, he said, he looks forward
to a report from the
Diversity/Gender Equity
Resource Group as they “develop
a new framework for diversity
education on campus.”
Moeser said the university
will continue to take a hard look
at policies regarding the use of e
mail and the World Wide Web.
“I think he’s beginning to
sense the issues on this campus
are more challenging than when
he first took the job,” Harris said.
Moeser said the fundamentals
of democracy cannot be forgotten
and, although people are allowed
to speak freely, they must also
listen with patience and toler
ance.
“And as we are finding, at
times we pay a painful price for
freedom,” Moeser said. “Those
costs have been high this past
week. Members of our communi
ty have been hurt, and I share the
pain and anguish that they feel.”
Moeser said he is disturbed by
what has happened.
“The time has come for every
one who shares these feelings to
stand together in solidarity with
those who have been hurt by
these recent incidents.”
1 Diversity in History I
j *0 Editor’s note: Each day during Black History Month, the Daily Nebraskan
will tell the story of a minority who made an important contribution in
*0 America's history.
Because he was known as the “dean of black
business”;
' Because he graduated from Harvard University cum
laude and was the first black to receive a Harvard
1 Because, while an assistant professor of marketing
i at Howard University in Washington, D.C., he
developed the university’s marketing program and
organized its Small Business Center;
Because he became one of the earliest authorities
on black consumer marketing and pioneered
segmented marketing techniques that earned him a
spot as vice president of special marketing for
5^^ PepsiCola;
Because he was executive director and president
• of the National Association of Marketing Developers
and was named newsmaker of the ‘60s by “Advertising
A9e’:
Howard Naylor Fltzhugh, 1909*1992, is recognized
** as one who blazed a trail for minorities in the
P advertising business, fine-tuned marketing research
and molded advertising into the precise business it is
today.
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