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1	From the cornfield to the college campus: Jim Johnson's personal struggles have prepared him to help minority students cope.	Johnson is director of the Ethinic Minorities Cultural and Educational Center. His childhood in Brownsville, Tenn., as the son of a sharecropper parents, to a predominantly white campus in eastern Iowa, has been a winding one.
2	Is the U. S. selling itself out to the Japanese? Hardly, says Northern Iowa economics professor.	As of 1988, all foreign investors combined owned less than two percent of commercial real estate in America, less than one percent of farmland, and less then four percent of corporate stock.
3	Mary Jean Montgomery heads Northern Iowa's Studies in Leadership Advisory Board.	Montgomery, the 1989-90 chair of the University of Northern Iowa's Studies in Leadership Advisory is seen here with Dr. Grace Ann Hovet working on new leadership programs.
4	Mary Jean Montgomery heads University of Northern Iowa's studies in leadership advisory board.	The Board, made up of 28 state leaders representing fields such as business, finance, government, education, and non-profit organizations, as well as University faculty and staff, is designed to develop, implement, and evaluate a leadership program.
5	Northern Iowa professor named fellow of national conservation society.	Bernard Clausen received the 1989 Fellow Award from the Soil and Water Conservation Society. Clausen was honored for his efforts to educate the general public in resource management and conservation, according to SWCS president Dave Cressman of Canada.
6	Northern Iowa's cooperative education programs continues to grow; "oasis" program being developed to help students adjust to placements in cities.	Since most students who attend UNI are from Iowa and many of them from small towns or farms they are nervous about taking jobs in large cities. Oasis helps place UNI Co-op student in one of six Midwestern cities and provides them with prearranged housing.
7	Sixth place sweepstakes to University of Northern Iowa individual events speech team at Bradley tournament.	Five members of the individual events speech team advanced to the finals rounds of competition at the Bradley University Individual Events Tournament.