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Lincoln’s Only 1 Block from campus, 13 & Q Lower Level -presents Ron Osborne ( Fri&Sat 24 25 From Portland, Oregon, Ron has opened for Sam Kinison, Drew Carey, Joan Jett, Ed Asner & Vanna White. Seen on HBO & MTV the Oz’s stand up comedy is a show not to miss! This Friday only: College Comedy Night V2 Price Tickets for students-must show student I.D. ONLY $3 - SHOWTIME 8P.M. 18 & Over welcome ' *—-* -« • ItiimeUij ^. 1 K^mamaMMMaiaalaiaimwHiMiMiMiiiMiaiaiiiiiiieiaiiiaiaiaeiiiaiiieiaeiaiiiaiMiaiaiaiiiaiaiiiftawiaiMiaiiiaiaiiiiiaiaiaiaiiiiiiieauianieJ See More. Spend Less. Special fines for students and facility from DER Ravel Services. Unlimited jail I From J travel in 17 / / countries. L 0 j Unlimited rail travel I in the most popular / *21 f) I European countries.*—■-- i 5 rail travel days in one month. I Airfares at low “consolidator” rates. Available mm 4TTtt07 from AAA. 2900 “O” Street, Lincoln * (402)441-4500 Ross University has been educating Medical and \Merlnary Medklne Students for more than 20 years and Is now accepting*applications for enrollment In Its 3 calendar year, post-baccalaureate program (DPT), to be established at the Medical School Campus on the Carrlbean island of Dominica. . Curriculum wfll be developed following the American Physical Therapy Association guidelines for practice. ^ . Clinical rotations wiM be developed in U.S. hospitals o$er practice sites. T ROSS UNIVERSITY SCNMLOFMEDICINlT 460 West 34th Street, New Yoilc, NY 10001 Ph: 212 279-5500 . Fax: 212 629-3147 or 268-7767 Rest Assured. Be Insured. Your University Health Center, together . with QM Southwest of Dallas, Texas, ^ : offers UNL students a comprehensive : and affordable medical insurance plan specmcaiiy designed to suit me needs of undergraduate and jj graduate students. The plan offers students: * Summer coverage, May 21-Aug. 20,1998, for only $112,001 * * Convenient services of the University Health Center for initial treatment! * Dependent coverage is also available! , * International students are covered on current policy until 8-6-98. Brochures and applications are available at the University Health Center, International Affairs Office or by mail. Questions? Call our 24-hour information fine at 472-7437. Everyone Concerned About People of Color! Last Opportunity this school year!!! The Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of People of Color will host 1) Thursday, April 23, 1998, 2-3 pm, East Campus Union 2) Friday, April 24, 1998, 10-11 am, City Campus Union (rooms to be posted) An important goal of the Commission is to help improve campus life for people of color at UNL. These forums are meetings to provide an opportunity for !he: university community to converse with the Chancellor and other UNL administrators about issues that you find pertinent Your input will help improve our campus Midwest colleges seek diversity By Lindsay Young Assignment Reporter Although it may seem the challenge of attaining a diverse student population is limited to UNL, the university’s peer institutions have found themselves in die same boat UNL’s peer institutions, most of which are in the Midwest and predomi nantly white, are working to overcome such obstacles as mostly white state populations, lack of state help in fund ing pointed recruiting programs and a sometimes “chilly” campus environ ment, administrators said Some universities have increased funding for minority recruitment pro grams, and others believe success hap pens from the top down. Some believe the effort shouldn’t just be focused on individual schools, but on a nationwide minority recruit ment effort Because of low minority popula tions in the Midwest, many universities have to look to outside pools to recruit from, often overlapping. Sherwood Thompson, University of Kansas minority affairs director, said having a low minority population in the ctatp ic tint snmpthino nan change. “We can’t grow any people like we grow wheat or barley or grain,” he said. But looking throughout the United States is the key to increasing minority representation, he said. “You don’t go out and paint people different colors,” Thompson said. “You go out and expand your boundaries and increase your pool of minority stu dents.” According to statistics obtained from both the schools’ offices of institu tional research and planning and the schools’ respective World Wide Web pages, most ofUNUs peer institutions’ minority populations have hit a plateau. The University of Missouri Columbia has been an exceptidn, espe cially in the recruitment of black stu dents. It has increased the number of black students from 642 undergraduates in 1993 to 1,126 in 1997, an increase of2.7 percent of the total student body. In comparison, UNL has remained steady, with black students making up about 2 percent of the population. The ....... ,..., rv,1 Miiortty representation UNL's peer institutions are facing similar obstacles in the recruitment of minorities. The University of Missouri-Columbia has increased its representation due to focused efforts on blacks since 1993. Purdue University University of Missouri-Columbia Bb^ Colorado State University [jaHl University of Kansas University of Iowa ??§ -" gFaltt995 University of Nebraska-Lincoln g&j University of Kansas also has stayed steady, with blacks making up about 3 percent of its student body. Because minority enrollment fig ures the universities reported were self reported by students, they were only an indication of the actual demographics of the universities, said Peg Blake, UNL director of admissions. In the past four to five years, the University of Missouri-Columbia has stepped up efforts to recruit primarily black students, said Gary Smith, its director of admissions. The focus on black students is because the state black population is 10.7 percent, and the other minority groups make up less than 1 percent eacn, ne said. Programs the university started included summer enrichment pro grams, special overnight programs for prospective students and minority recruiters in both St Louis and Kansas City . 7' .; One reason for the increase of minority students at Missouri caribe traced to the then-chancellor’s decision that diversity would be the university’s main thrust Since then, the black popu lation has nearly doubled. Coming from the top just might be toe key to toe University of Iowa’s suc cess in retaining minority students, said Joe Coulter, its associate provost for JonFrank/DN diversity. Though Iowa has not increased its minority student population in the last three years, it has maintained it The University of Iowa spends a lot of energy recruiting American Indians from North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska, Coulter said. “I’ll be honest with you,” he said. “We recruit the dickens out of those folks.” University of Iowa President Mary Sue Coleman arrived about two years ago, and since then, Coulter said, efforts have increased. “This comes right straight from the top, and that makes a big difference in my opinion,” he said. Thiw fijrtnrs rntmtinn r»f minorities at any institution, Thompson said These include campus environ ment, funding so students can stay in - school and a diverse faculty andstaff. " ' One of the things Kansas does to retain students is to give therp sliort term goaifc, suiih as plans to study abroad. Thompson said minority students were not leaving colleges because they were not well-prepared. “They are leaving because the cam puses are chilly or because there are no persons of color who they can relate to or talk with.” Gunny’s Building damaged in fire By Josh Funk Senior Reporter An electrical fire in the basement of the Gunny’s Building cut off power and filled the basement with thick smoke Wednesday afternoon. Four fire engines were called to building on 12th and Q streets while everyone was evacuated. After knocking down the flames with a chemical foam, firefighters i found the fire had started in two main electrical junction boxes on the north | wall, Deputy Chief Ron Kanne said. “They just blew up,” Kanne said. Once the flames were controlled, firefighters had to wait for a Lincoln Electric System crew to shut off power to the building before they could extinguish it “Electricity and water don’t mix,” Kanne said. With only a limited supply of the chemical foam on each engine, fire fighters must use it carefully, Kanne said. While firefighters were working in the basement and waiting for the LES crew to arrive, downtown traffic had to be diverted around die yellow, 1-foot diameter hoses that snaked through the middle of the streets from hydrants to the buildings. The near-rush hour traffic was diverted off P and Q streets just before 5 p.m. to R and O streets at 14* Street. Shortly after 5 p.m, LES shut off power to the building, and firefighters were able to extinguish the flames. Kanne said he did not know what caused the two electrical boxes td catch fire, but it would take a while to rewire them. .. % The fire caused little damage to the building, and electricity, was later . restored. W Conference to li From Staff Reports Nationally renowned writer and philosopher Sissela Bok will kick off a three-day international conference on politics and the media at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln today. Throughout the conference, Bok and other distinguished speakers will explore the political influence of the news media, issues in journalistic ethics and political theory. Topics include the limits of priva cy for public officials, journalists* responsibilities, the public journalism movement and the growing persua sive power of sound bites and political advertising. Bok will speak on “Journalists, .' , i Media Violence and the First Amendment” during the conference’s opening session at 7:30 p.m. in the Love Library auditorium. Bok is a distinguished fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies who won a 1991 Melcher Book Award for “Alva Myrdal: A Daughter’s Memoir”, Other speakers and their sessions include: ■ Clive Cookson of London’s The Financial Times on “Communicating Risk: Mad Cows, Killer Bugs and Politics” speaking at 3:15 p.m. Friday in the Steinhart Room. ■Anthony Hartle of the U.S. Military Academy on “The Military and the Media: Truth or Consequences” at 10 a.m. Friday in the Steinhart Room. ■ Paul Pines, novelist and critic* on “Dancing with die ‘Boric’: Media, Min£ Control and the Poetic Imagination” at ID a.m. Friday in the Steinhart Room. ■ Myra Marx Ferree of the University of Connecticut on “The Framing Context Between Pro-life and Pro-choice Movements” at 8:30 a.m. Friday in the Steinhart Room. ■ Dennis Thompson of Harvard University on “Privacy, Politics and the Press” at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Nebraska Union. The conference is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the UNL College of Arts and Science’s Public Discourse and Human Values Area of Strength. For more information call (402) 472-2426.