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Participants listened in Austin Hall as University of Wisconsin law professor Rennard Strickland described the grim reality of Native American life in the U.S. in the symposium's opening presentation and challenged lawyers to seize political influence through the courts...
...rhetoric of the courts must be actualized, that is the calling of all generations [of Native Americans]," Strickland said...
More than one-fourth of all Native Americans live in poverty, Strickland said. Life expectancy is exceptionally low, he said, and suicide rates for Native American youths reach 10 to 100 times the level of youths in other groups...
...some employees acknowledged that the themenight could have been controversial. WinthropManager Rascoe Strickland said that the idea ofromanticizing the fifties upset him but did notsurprise...
...alarmed but not surprised by the '50stheme night," Strickland said. "We're not existingin a vacuum. A lot of the problems that exist inthe outside world exist here as well...