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Speaker ^Preferences harm
CONNERLY from page V , ■;
tive action programs were necessary for
improving the chances of minorities.
A common theme among those
who disagreed with Connerly was that
the legacy of racial oppression in the
United States remains, pervading insti
tutions and beliefs and sustaining barri
ers to advancement by minorities.
Noting that the minority enrollment
at the University ofNebraska-Lincoln is
less than 4 percent, students asked
Connerly how minorities could advance
without help from affirmative action.
“The best way to empower people is
to say to them, ‘Don’t let the govern
ment run your lives,’” Connerly
responded. “Take your own life into
your own hands. Say, ‘I can achieve, I’m
going to achieve.’”
Connerly noted that, following
Proposition 209’s passage, the number
of black students admitted to the law
school at the University of California in
Berkeley dropped dramatically.
But while minority enrollment was
down at the Berkeley, Los Angeles, San
Diego and Davis campuses, it was up at
the system’s three other campuses.
Many of the barriers faced by
minorities are shared by disadvantaged
whites, he said.
Affirmative action supporters can’t
have it both ways, Connerly said: If they
claim minorities are capable of compet
ing academically with other racial
groups, then they cannot claim that col
lege entrance requirements are preju
diced against minorities.
He said long-term solutions for
advancing minorities’ prospects in soci
ety must begin in the family and be sus
tained by improving the quality of K-12
education in poor school districts.
■' Tempers flared on occasion. .*
When one student claimed her race
acted as a barrier to college admission,
Connerly replied that it was her test
scores, not her race, that were crucial.
The student responded by saying
that Connerly probably received advan
tages in his education and career
because of race.
Connerly, who attended community
college, then graduated from
Sacramento (Calif.) State College,
replied, “I worked my butt off.”
“If I can’t tell you about your cir
cumstances, what damn right do you
have to tell me about mine?” he said.
After the passage of Proposition
209 and other legislation ending affir
mative action programs, the era of racial
preferences in public policy will soon
be over, Connerly concluded.
“I believe that in the hearts and
minds of the people of America, the
idea of giving somebody a preference
on the basis of race, sex or ethfilClty is
dead,” he said.
Eddie Brown, a junior business
marketing major and student govern
ment second vice president, said
Connerly’s speech roused emotions but
didn’t settle anything.
“I thought he did a good job of pre
senting what his views were,” he said,
“but he also did a good job of dancing
around the opposition to what he
believes.”
Brown said Connerly failed to
address the political and economic bar
riers that minorities still face in society.
“He doesn’t want to deal with any of
the societal preferences that continue to
go on,” he said. Ending affirmative
action programs, he said, would “elimi
nate one small avenue for someone who
is disadvantaged to benefit from.”
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Freshmen retention
rate at 80.6 percent
RETAIN from page 1
average of the peer institutions’
retention rates from 1993-1996.
For example, the University
of Missouri-Columbia, one of
UNL’s 11 peer institutions, had a
rate of 83 percent, and Iowa State
University in Ames had a rate of
82 percent.
To address retention issues,
Moeser announced the forma
tion of the Freshman Year
Experience Task Force in his
August address. The task force
will look at the quality of life of
first-year students and at how
well UNL is mentoring those
students, Moeser said.
Ted Pardy, task force com
mittee chairmair^tftsdQsdcal
sciences professdli,said the^afc
ulty and studenf committee,
which has met once, is looking at
a variety of factors that may
affect a student’s choice to stay at
UNL.
A retention survey that was
done in 1993 is giving the task
force some direction, he said.
The data compared the demo
graphics of students who stayed
with those who left.
Information included things
such as working hours, gender,
ethnic background and whether a
major was declared. Pardy said
the committee may do another
more detailed, up-to-date survey.
The 1993 data raised con
cerns, he said. If students work,
especially offcampu's, it affects
the possibility bf their return.
Work is connected to whether
students are having financial
trouble as well, he said.?
Also, freshmen who live off
campus may be leas likely to
^return, Pardysaid..^
others will help the task force
prepare to give an honest
appraisal to high school coun
selors, parents and students,
detailing risk factors for fresh
men, Pardy said.
People often tell students,
“You did well in high school,”
Pardy said. “If you work hard,
you’ll make it.
“But that’s not as helpful.”
Efforts that could have
played a role in UNL’s recent
increase also include the new
residence hall learning commu
nities and the expansion of the
Supplemental Instruction pro
gram, Griesen said.
Donald Gregory, director of
the Division of General Studies,
said the residence hall learning
communities allow a group of
freshmen to live on the same res
idence hall floor and take gener
al education classes together.
Freshmen are more likely to
stay if they feel like they are part
of a community, Gregory said.
Supplemental Instruction
involves undergraduates who
assist students in understanding
a course’s content and in devel
oping effective study strategies,
he said.
Pardy said programs like the
learning communities and
Supplemental Instruction are
only a few of the services provid
ed in an effort to keep freshmen
at UNL.
Moeser said he hoped the
task force would look at such
services to give students a con
nection to UNL.
“I strongly suspect that the
students who fall out are the ones
who never establish any point of
meaningful contact with the uni
versity,” Moeser said.
Moeser said though his goal
of 80 percent retention has been
met, the university’s retention
efforts won’t slow.
“We want to keep moving
up,” Moeser said. “We’re never
satisfied. Anything less than 100
percent retention gives us room
to shoot for.”
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