[EDITOR'S NOTE: SEE ALSO UND UNDER FEDERAL INVESTIGATION FOR RACISM]

Lillian Elsinga 's Amanuensis, the Boeser Zwerg (Nasty Dwarf) Jerry Bulisco Who Is Three Feet Tall, Confiscates Alleged Booty

Elsinga's African Empire

Lillian Elsinga has fired many African American Directors of the Era Bell Thompson Multicultural Center, one after another, charging that they have been embezzling funds. Each time she fires someone she confiscates their salary and never accounts for it.  It's amazing how this Master of Arts in German is able to discern immediately corruption in PhD's especially when their skin color is not White. Then ROTC Corporal Bulisco takes over their jobs until another victim shows up. (Sounds a bit like Germany gobbling up the prime parts of central Europe and leaving the Italians Albania.) Of course, as always, UND's students suffer while a couple of simple-minded petty tyrants afraid of intermixing ideas with individuals outside of North Dakota's "good ole boy network" cling to the past.

Those who might consider attending UND who are of color, should be aware of the fact that it is not safe. There is no place to report Hate crimes in the State of North Dakota as it is the only State in America with no Human Rights Commission. There are no real statistics. 

In my four years attending UND I heard of rocks and bottles thrown at Black and Indian students. Cars speed up to hit you when you cross the street. People jeer, yell, and whoop out of passing car windows. Mary Ahmed and her eight year old son were attacked outside of an elementary school (Lewis and Clark) by a group of White sixth graders in Athletic Jackets and the Local Newspaper refused to report it. It is commonplace to hear of obscene racist threatening letters, there was a painting of a Black man being lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in a dormitory tunnel, and there have been assaults. Several in town businesses refuse to accept checks from Indians. Many Indians arrive at UND with their household in a horse trailer because U-Haul in Southern North Dakota has a blanket policy-they do not rent to Indians. I attended a child's birthday party at the Grand Forks Happy Joes, and the manager went into the party room and removed the VCR from the TV set, back where we were and put it in front behind the counter. The attendees were all of color and most had graduate degrees. Blockbusters on Washington took a Hawaiian friend of mine away by the police in handcuffs in front of her children. The arrest form cited her as a disruptive number 4. Naturally when you looked at the 4 on the bottom of the paper it corresponded with Indian. Mayor Owens got that one dropped. 

The worse thing I have encountered at UND is the 'sneer'. As you pass local White people and they see you are of color, first they wrinkle their noses as if they smell something bad, then they add a smile. It comes off like an evil sneer. It is interesting, though sad to watch the local people in action. They are pretty pleasant to each other. Smile smile smile, sneer. You really feel like an outsider at UND.

Lillian Elsinga's response to these horrors is "there appears to be an increase in hate crimes on universities everywhere" and that she monitors Internet exchanges that deal with campus trends, and those exchanges indicate that many campuses have seen an increase in Hate crimes.

UND does not appear to address these issues, but accepts them as the Norm. Meanwhile, Elsinga continues to fire each multicultural director, one after another. 

Here is how it appeared in the papers folks. . .

STRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND

The University of North Dakota's administrators repeatedly demonstrate hostility to anyone they perceive as different then themselves. Not only do they deliberately isolate the black students, UND administrators label anyone the perceive as different  then themselves as 'crazy' or 'unsuitable', lie about the individual and do everything they can to stop that person from doing their job. Ultimately, they destroy the person's career and often their financial integrity.

STUDENTS AND UNIVERSITY NEED TO DO MORE TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY, BLACK STUDENTS SAY

UNIVERSITY'S COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, TREATMENT OF NON-WHITES STILL QUESTIONABLE

Isolation can be a common feeling for students coming to a college in an unfamiliar place. It can be particularly difficult for black students who come to a university that is as white as the snow that covers UND's campus for most of the school year.

UND has 96 students who identify themselves as black, according to enrollment analysis. The problem is, says Multicultural Student Services Director M.C. Diop, those 96 students do not know each other.

References: Published on 02/16/98, AGWEEK And Grand Forks Herald

REPORT: HIRE CULTURAL COORDINATOR
CONSULTANTS PROPOSE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS AT ERA BELL THOMPSON

A pair of consultants have concluded that the best way to solve long-standing problems at UND's Era Bell Thompson
Multicultural Center would be to hire a new director of multicultural student programs and locate that person somewhere
other than in the student center. The center went through two directors in two years, was closed for a time,
then was operated most of last year by students. 

Published on 09/08/96, Grand Forks Herald

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:26:14 -0500
From: elsinga@vm1.nodak.edu (Lillian Elsinga)
Reply-To: Campus Judicial Affairs and Legal Issues
Subject: racial hate posters

I need to know if other campuses are receiving posters from a group which
calls itself the "camp of the Saints" or cots.?
Some posters on our campus reference the term ETHNOFUGALISM which they
define to be a mental disease that makes caucasians feel guilty for being
caucasions and then go on to denigrate various minorities.
Is this a national group? Any assistance would be appreciated! please send
to following address: thank you!
Lillian_Elsinga@mail.und.nodak.edu
University of North Dakota

UND FAILED TO SUPPORT CENTER DIRECTOR

I am having a problem when an institution of higher learning starts using underhanded tactics (``Era Bell Center closed'') . I have a problem when an institution of higher learning thinks it can lie to people and hide it, and thinks that the truth never will come forth.

The problem with Dr. Sandy Hoagland's leadership of the Era Bell Thompson Cultural Center was that he never got any support from UND and was undermined at almost every turn.

Published on 04/08/95, Grand Forks Herald

THE BEST REMEDY? STUDENTS NOT IN AGREEMENT ON UND'S CLOSING THE CULTURAL CENTER

Most minority students at UND felt closing the Era Bell Thompson Cultural Center will leave them without a place to gather.  Some students summed it up this way. "The good ole boys who run this place don't like the center because we are not like they are...our skin is black." Many students believed the center's director was deliberately placed in a bad position designed to cause unbearable stress and tension...a way to 'run him off'.

Director Sandy Hoagland is resigning as a result of those tensions. Hoagland will be given special research assignments in student services until he leaves UND on May 31. His duties will be split in the meantime by Lillian Elsinga and Gerald Bulisco, assistant dean.

References: Published April 1995 Grand Forks Herald, Fargo Forum, UND Students

ERA BELL CENTER CLOSED

UND's student affairs office closed the Era Bell Thompson Cultural Center Thursday and began moving its services to other places on campus.

Gordon Henry, UND vice president of student affairs, said the action was precipitated by the resignation of the center's director, Sandy Hoagland. He has held the post less than a year since coming to UND from Ames, Iowa, where he was a research consultant.

ANOTHER CULTURAL CENTER DIRECTOR QUITS
UND'S COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY QUESTIONED

The director of UND's Era Bell Thompson Cultural Center has resigned suddenly after just less than a year in the student affairs post.

Sandy Hoagland Wednesday confirmed reports he had resigned, effective May 31, but he gave ``no comment'' as to why.

Published on 04/06/95, HERALD

Article 153 of 180, Article ID: 9101170360

Published on 09/08/1991, GRAND FORKS HERALD TONI SCOTT HAS BEEN NURSE, DRUG COUNSELOR, MISSIONARY HER NEXT CHALLENGE: MAKE GF MORE AWARE OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY AT UND A former missionary, nurse and drug counselor has taken over a newly expanded minority student affairs post at UND. Toni Scott says she hopes she can help make the campus and the Grand Forks community more aware of the cultural diversity at UND. She'll also encourage students from minority groups to get more active on and off campus.

UNIVERSITY CULTURAL SERVICES UND OFFICIAL QUITS UNDER CLOUD

Toni Scott, a UND cultural services coordinator who has suspended because of student complaints, submitted her resignation Wednesday .

Personnel Director Fred MacGregor said Scott will leave UND June 30 and will stay on the payroll until then with a different assignment in student affairs. He gave no details.

Published on 04/15/93, Grand Forks Herald

EMPLOYEE INVESTIGATIONS CONTINUE AT UND

UND officials are continuing separate-investigations into the cases of two employees who were suspended with pay earlier this month.

Dr. Edwin James, dean of the medical school, said he expected to make a decision by next Thursday or Friday concerning Gary Faris, director of the Indians into Medicine program. Faris was put on leave Feb. 8, while UND conducts an internal audit of his funds.

This follows the firing of Toni Scott, suspected of embezzling funds as well. UND will be looking for a new Director. In the interim, her duties will be taken over by Lillian Elsinga, the Dean of Students.

Published on 02/20/93, Grand Forks Herald

SECOND OFFICIAL AT UND SUSPENDED

The coordinator at UND's Era Bell Thompson Cultural Center has been suspended, with pay, while the student affairs office conducts an investigation.

Dean of Students Lillian Elsinga said Thursday she had put Toni Scott "on leave" after receiving a student complaint. She said her investigation would be completed soon, and she would give no details at this point.

Published on 02/12/93, Grand Forks Herald

MINORITIES HARD TO GET, HARD TO KEEP AT UND

If Yolanda King had her way,  all students going to college in the United States would be required to take a course on minority cultures. That  was one of the must emphatic points  daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. made during a student
funded speaking-appearance at UND last week.

The treatment of minorities, and in fact, non-North Dakotans at UND can only be described as nothing short of abusive. As of this writing (12/9/99), nothing has changed at UND.

Article 129 of 180, Article ID: 9301240203

Published on 12/19/1993, GRAND FORKS HERALD FALSE STORY UPSETS SOME IN BLACK COMMUNITY STEREOTYPES ARE HURTFUL An untrue story this past week about an armed black man abducting a young girl in Grand Forks was hurtful to the community's black people and promoted negative stereotypes of black men, some Grand Forks resident say. "It promotes the stereotype of black men committing crimes, of having fancy cars," said Mary Ahmed, a black woman who is an adjunct professor at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University at Grand Forks Air Force Base.

Grand Forks Herald

HERBERT JONES TAKES OVER BLACK STUDENT PROGRAMS

Herbert Jones will start today as the new coordinator of black student programs at UND.

Jones 38, was the only one interviewed for the position last month. He was one of 10 applicants and one of two asked to interview. The other applicant withdrew.

Published on 03/03/91, G

Published on 08/23/88, GRAND FORKS HERALD

UND'S BLACK STUDENT PROGRAM COORDINATOR LEAVES UND

UND is searching for a new Black Student Programs coordinator to replace Jacqueline Skinner, who left last week to take a job as assistant dean of students at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington.
A seven-member search committee has reduced the number of candidates to three out of nine applicants, according to Vickie Hampton-Mitzel, who co-chairs the committee.

Published on 06/25/88, Grand Forks Herald

Article 110 of 176, Article ID: 9601310053

Published on 01/26/1996, HERALD SCHOOL BOARD SHOULDN'T CUT KING'S BIRTHDAY FOR HOCKEY If it eliminates Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday as a holiday, the Grand Forks School Board no longer can be a decision-making model in education. This would be a fatal blow to this community and a setback in education. We've come too far in this community in breaking down some of the racial barriers. Why must we turn back now? For this idea to be even considered, one must question the racial makeup of the board Published on 03/24/1996, HERALD BIGOTRY, HARASSMENT FROM LEWIS AND CLARK STUDENTS In this country, we are witnessing the birth of a new generation of youth, part of a different type of family structure called street gangs. Their family value system through street teaching centers on violence, thievery, guns, drinking and drugs. This new value system from the street is destroying the lives of youths, families and communities. Today, we are challenged to rise above the narrow confines of our individual concerns to broader concerns involving the youths within this community.  Article 121 of 176, Article ID: 9507260136 Published on 07/27/1995, HERALD CARTOON ENEMY WOMAN TAKES COMIC BOOK FIGHT TO CONGRESS, TV A woman who attempted to purchase all available Greater Grand Forks copies of a comic book that she says promotes racial hatred to young children apparently will see her concerns reach Congress and national television. Mary Williams-Ahmed, who says that comics promoting racism and containing violence and sexually explicit material ``should not be considered nutritious reading'' for young people, will be interviewed for a possible feature on TV's ``A Current Affair.''