Media reports from that day indicate that students forced their way into the president's home and held his family hostage. Both J.W. Maucker, then president, and students deny it happened that way. I let them in. The district attorney, however, threatened jail time for those involved. Maucker continued to work with the Board of Regents and the students, though, and the university opened the Ethnic Minorities and Cultural Education Center in February 1971.
All events take place at the center.
The pilot project, funded by the Iowa legislature, has several primary purposes, according to UNI's Marilyn Drury, project manager. The project is exciting because we are working with the schools, AEAs and the two state departments. We hope to expand to additional schools and subject areas, such as humanities or science, during the next year. She said the project addresses the fact that delivering data electronically is changing the way educators receive and exchange classroom information. Newer technologies revolve around the use of DVDs or internet delivery.