By Dane Stickney
Staff writer
For the fourth year, the People of Color in a
Predominantly White Institution conference will
draw people from across the nation to UNL.
The two-day conference starts today at the
Clifford Hardin Nebraska Center on the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus.
Wayne Babchuk, program specialist for
Academic Conferences and Professional
Programs, is the main organizer of the event.
Babchuk said the conference was important
because it was devoted to in-depth analysis of
issues surrounding campus diversity.
“People who come to the conference have the
opportunity to delve deeply into issues, he said.
“Oftentimes, conferences only expose the surface
of a topic, but this conference strives to do more.”
Because of this commitment, Babchuk said,
the conference was highly regarded across the
nation, and this year it would draw more than 200
people from 20 states.
Michael Knisely, co-chairman of the
Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of People
of Color, said the conference helped put the uni
versity in the national spotlight.
“The value of this conference is that it brings
national prominence to the university,” he said. “It
speaks volumes for die university’s proactive role
in promoting diversity issues.”
Some issues that will be discussed include
recruitment and retention of culturally diverse stu
dents, new teaching techniques and equity.
“We have over 50 concurrent sessions,”
Babchuk said. “We have the ability to cover a lot of
topics and themes.”
The conference will feature four nationally
known speakers who will cover campus diversity
topics.
Lena Wright Myers, an Ohio University pro
fessor, will speak about African-American women
and the academy.
Carlos Munoz Jr., a professor at the University
of California at Berkeley, will speak about diversi
ty and the new American identity.
Molly Tovar of Oklahoma University and
Wayne Powell of Oklahoma State University will
speak about building diversity in graduate and pro
fessional schools in predominantly white institu
tions.
Babchuk said one of the highlights of the con
ference would be the Faces of America perfor
mance, which will be at the Continuing Education
Auditorium at the Clifford Hardin Nebraska
Center from 7 to 9 p.m. this evening and is free.
“The performance company is from Los
Angeles, and the show is supposed to be fantastic,”
he said.
The show depicts the lives of nine young
Americans from different cultural backgrounds
and addresses the importance of diversity.
Babchuk said this year’s conference should be
good.
“This is the best-developed conference yet,” he
said. “The overall quality of the keynote speakers
and the number of sessions is very strong this year.”
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By Lindsay Henshilwood
Staff writer
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln last night played host to the
sounds and images of Alaska in a pre
sentation in the Nebraska Union.
An audience of about 130 was
treated to a stunning display by
award-winning photographer Ken
Madsen and Gwitch’in, Alaska,
native Norma Kassi.
This was the first of a series of
presentations to be made throughout
America between now and next May
as Madsen and Kassi aim to draw
awareness to the plight of the
Porcupine Caribou Herd.
The Porcupine Caribou are cur
rently under threat from development
by American oil and gas industries.
Madsen described the scene,
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“It is essential that a portion of
land within the refuge that the gas and
oil companies want to develop
remains untouched because it is vital
for the survival of the Porcupine
Caribou,” Madsen said.
Last year, Madsen spent 100 days
following the herds of caribou across
1.000 miles as they migrated to the
coastal plains on the Alaska-Yukon
border to calve.
After arrival on the plains, the
female caribou look thin, but every
year somewhere in the region of
40.000 calves are bom.
They are protected from their
main predators, wolves, which live in
the mountains and will not come
down to the plains.
Norma Kassi, an activist and
spokeswoman for the Gwich’in
Nation, then spoke about why the
caribou are vital to the existence of
the people.
To the people, every creature has
a purpose to its existence, and the
Porcupine Caribou Herd are particu
larly sacred, she said.
This is because after the females
have calved, the male caribou are then
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The entire survival of
our people is
based on the caribou
coming back.”
Norma Kassi
spokeswoman for Gwich’in Nation
killed by the Gwich’in in early June
and provide enough food to last them
until the next year.
There are now 7,000 Gwich’in,
but there used to be hundreds of thou
sands, and their decline has been ,
attributed to a similar decline in the j
numbers of caribou.
“The entire survival of our people
is based on the caribou coming back”
Kassi said.
Julia Lee, a junior political sci
ence major, described the presenta
tion as “breathtaking.”
“It made me realize the serious
ness of the situation”
“The Arctic is a beautiful place
we share. Surely we’ve learned our
lessons by now,” Kassi said.
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