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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.
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“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.
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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
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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
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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
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