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1 Block from campus, 13 & Q Lower Level
-presents
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Osborne
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
