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SPORTS Second to Nonen Sharolta Nonen is NU’s last line of defense on ? the soccer field. Her coaches and teammates say she’s one of the nation’s best at it. PAGE 7 LM. A ft E The sweetest lady Famous for her impressions of Sally Jessy Raphael, drag queen comedian Kandi Kane is kicking up her heels at the Q. PAGE 9 November 20, 1998 Clouds, Clouds E Partly cloudy, high 47. Mostly: tonight, low 27. n \ fi-A _. VOL. 98 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 63 ASUN may revote on election rules ByIevaAugstums Staff writer UNL students wanting to run for ASUN seats this year may have to put their campaigns on hold, if a bill passed Wednesday by the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska is reconsidered and voted down. After two hours of debate Wednesday night, ASUN barely approved a plan for campaign and , election procedures. Much of the con troversy was over whether to keep stu dent election group names on election ballots. The senate voted to remove elec , tion party names from ballots in the future, though a revote could add the party names, among other changes. Some student government leaders on Thursday said a revote was in order because the decision to remove party names from election ballots was not representative of what most students wanted. HI “With the rules as they stand, what we are looking at is the ability of entry into a political race,” said Paul Schreier, College of Engineering and Technology senator. “If we want student government to be representative of the student body, the rules need to be changed.” He said a campaign is run with money, and without a party with which students can associate them selves, some students may not have the money to run for a senate seat. Division of General Studies Senator Jon England agreed. “The election rules are better than in years past,” England said. “But there is still some ambiguous wording and clarifying that needs to be taken care of.” Schreier and England voted against accepting the new election Please see ASUN on 2 Remains issues shadow UNITE’s weekend events By Kim Sweet Staff writer The voices of American Indian elders, tribal leaders and activists have been increasingly present at UNL over the past year since the dis covery of the possible mistreatment of native remains by university fac ulty members and staff. Amid the voices coming from reservations across the state and across the nation shouting for inves tigations and injunctions, one group’s voice refuses to be ignored: The voice of UNITE - a group of American Indian students who attend the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Making their voice heard has not been easy over the past months. Though members of the University of Nebraska Inter-Tribal Exchange face personal struggles in dealing with the possible mistreat ment of their ancestors’ remains, the group also has frustration over what they feel is a lack of information provided to them by the university. “We haven’t been included,” Amy Bearskin, a junior finance and anthropology major from the Winnebago tribe of Nebraska, said. “The first step we took on our own.” When a conference was held in September to work out an agreement between tribal leaders and the uni versity about what to do with more than 1,700 remains, UNITE mem bers were upset they weren’t encour aged by the university to attend. u I was scared to say I am a student at UNLr Misty Thomas Santee Sioux tribe member Tribal leaders were the ones who extended the invitation, said Yolanda Few Tails-Castellanos, a senior human resources and family sci ences major from the Oglala Lakota nation. The members have relied on newspapers and their own research to keep updated, she said. To understand more clearly the issues at stake in the ongoing discus sion between tribes and the universi ty, the group recently launched its own investigation. It will investigate a number of areas to see if the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 was violated and whether policies have affected the campus climate for native students, Justice said. Being left out of discussion that is taking place isn’t the only chal lenge UNITE has faced. Because of the ongoing contro versy regarding native remains, many UNITE members struggle admitting to others in the native Please see UNITE on 2 Officials: Diversity still a priority ■ inougn DiacK sruaent numbers are not as low as reported, UNL officials are still focusing on retention. By Lindsay Young Senior staff writer University officials said Thursday that although incorrect numbers in Monday’s Daily Nebraskan showed a drastic decrease in black student enroll ment, their desire for a diverse campus hadn’t diminished. Because of a miscalculation, the Daily Nebraskan incorrectly reported uiauK siuucm ciiruiimem uruppeu i u percent since 1996, while overall undergraduate student enrollment dropped 6.4 percent. Correct calculations indicate black student enrollment had actually dropped about 0.7 percent since 1996. John Harris, special assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs, said he was glad the drop in black student enrollment wasn’t as significant as he had previously thought. But, Harris said, regardless of how much or how little black student enroll ment had dropped, the university need ed to improve black student retention and recruitment efforts. “Whether we lose 10 percent or 1 percent, if it’s something that we can control, men we need ro ao somemmg about it,” Harris said. Larry Routh, interim director of admissions, said Admissions was doing a variety of things to attract a more diverse pool of students to UNL. The office is working on a package that targets minority students and addresses their concerns, he said. The video and brochure are similar to those targeting honors students. Also, Routh said, Admissions had moved minority recruitment days to the fall instead of the spring, when they have been held in the past. In the spring, many students have already committed to a school, so Please see MINORITY on 3 Scott I^IcClurg/DN KA RON JOHNSON, a junior advertising major, is one of 200 students throughout the world selected to attend the Business Tomorrow International Conference. Johnson will talk and learn with other mega-successful students at the conference in New York, sponsored by Princeton University, from Saturday through Tuesday. Student chosen to mingle with elite ByIevaAugstums Staff writer A talented man with strong willpower is packing his bags and will board a plane taking him to a worldwide gathering of success and opportunity. Ka’Ron Johnson, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln junior advertising major, has been selected by Princeton University in New Jersey to attend its international business conference in New York from Saturday to Tuesday. He is one of 200 students world wide to be selected to attend the Business Tomorrow International Conference, which is sponsored by the Foundation for Student Communication Inc. Despite learning he turned in his conference application two weeks late, Johnson said he wasn’t going to let this opportunity pass him by. Instead he reached out and grabbed it. “When opportunity knocks, I’ve been taught you answer the door,” Johnson said. “I’ve been opening those doors my entire life.” The conference will allow partic ipants to engage in intellectual con versation with national and interna tional business leaders, he said. “It’s an opportunity for me to mingle with the best,” Johnson said. “There are going to be giants there who I can learn from and network with.” Carol Klein, a representative for the Foundation for Student Communication, said the foundation is “a student-run organization whose mission is to foster communication and cooperation between business executives and America’s brightest college students.” Seventy-five schools will be rep resented at the conference, including Yale, Harvard and Stanford universi ties, as well as schools from Canada, Asia and Europe. “We look for the leaders of today and the leaders of tomorrow,v Klein said. “That is our goal.” The theme for this year’s confer ence is “Government Regulations: Challenges for the 21st Century.” Keynote speakers and panelists at this year’s conference include Michael Friedman, Food and Drug Administration lead deputy commis sioner; Heidi G. Miller, chief finan cial officer for Citigroup Inc.; and Orson Swindle; commissioner of the Please see JOHNSON on 2 Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http: / lwww.unl.edu /DailyNeb .
