ig nrotner: i tried strateg
but you have to be yourself
by STEVE STRASSER
Staff Writer
The old locomotive stands silver and
solemn, presiding over the laughter below as
the Silver Streak flashes down the snowy
slbpe, jars to a slushy halt half-way down,
and sends Jack Mayfield the rest of the way
on his face.
But before Jack can repay the traitorous
sled, the Royal Racer flies straight at him
down the hill, slithering easily through the
slush and sliding triumphantly to the
bottom, while Jack picks himself up out of
the snow again.
The difference between triumph and
humiliation can sometimes be measured in
seconds or inches. In this case it was
measured in pounds - about 40 lbs
difference in weight between Jack Mayfield
and his little brother Bob Smith.
Well, they aren't technically brothers, but
they are anyway, because they want to be.
There are important things to talk about.
"If you lie calm in the water will sharks
bother you?"
Jack doesn't think they would.
"What costs more, Jack, a horse or a
motorcycle?" Jack's not sure, but
"motorcycles don't die."
"How fast do snowmobiles go?"
Jack can't answer too many of the
questions. He never had a little brother
before. But Bob has a lot of things to ask
about. He never had a big brother before.
Even his father has been gone for quite a
while now. Jack knows what that's all about,
because he can't remember his real father
either.
But every Thursday afternoon after his
last class in Centennial College, sophomore
Jack Mayfield drives out to Lincoln Air Park
and picks up 13-year-old Bob Smith. Two
brothers get together, thanks to Student
Action Front, a University organization on
the third floor of the Nebraska Union which
always needs volunteers for its Big Brother
program.
They've been brothers since last October.
Sometimes they go bowling or play pool. Or
they might wash Jack's car.
Bob likes Jack to take him to Centennial
College where all the big kids hang out. You
can watch "Star Trek" on a color TV there.
"At first it was kind of shaky," Jack
admits. "I hadn't worked with kids much
when I started this. I tried strategy on him
for a while, but that didn't work. You have
to be yourself."
One time they went to the fine arts
department at Bennett Martin Library. But
Bob couldn't find any Mungo Jerry records
there, so he checked out a book about
whales.
"He's really concerned about ecology,"
Jack says. "All the whales are disappearing."
Jack can remember when he was 13 very
clearly. "I would see ads on TV for the Big
Brother program and think it would really
be great to have a big brother. Now I'm glad
I'm doing something and not just sitting
around."
Bob was shy and unsure of himself back
in October, but things are smoother now.
After all, Jack bought him a Go Big Red
tee-shirt, so all his friends think he's on the
NU football team.
And Jack kind of likes sliding on his face
at Pioneer Park once in a while, as long as he
can hear his little brother's laughter ringing
off the old locomotive at the top of the hill.
A policy is 'ill-defined'
In one University
dormitory a rap session
constitutes the "formal or
informal" activity necessary for
Residence Hall Association
(RHA) open visiting hours to
be held. In a different hall the
same rap session would be
interpreted to be in violation of
current RHA visitation policy.
The reason for this double
standard is varying
interpretations of the current
RHA visitation policy by
different residence directors,
according to Barry Pi'.ger,
chairman of the University
Housing Policy Committee.
"The RHA open house
policy as it is currently
enforced is one of the most
arbitrarily administered and
ill-defined social regulation
policies this University has ever
had," he charged.
Current RHA hours may be
in effect for up to six hours a
day. During the visitation
period some activity, formal or
informal, must be planned.
A residence hall staff
member, a faculty member or
parent must be present to
sponsor the event.
The problem of the policy is
that it is general and must be
arbitrarily administered, Pilger
said. In some halls very formal
activity must be planned while
there need be virtually none in
others, he added.
Another aspect of the
problem lies in the area of
sponsorship. Some residence
directors apply sponsorship
rules strictly while others do
not, he said.
I would hate to be a
residence director and have to
try and administer this policy,"
Pilger said. "A unified effort is
needed through the RHA to get
a new and better policy."
RHA president AI Bestmann
said RHA hours are being
widely used in most
dormitories. But, he added that
there are problems with the
policy.
He said a new policy is now
being considered by the
Housing Policy Committee and
RHA. The policy is the
outgrowth of studies by an ad
12:30 p.m. - Inter Varsity
Christian Fellowship
3 p.m. - Miss U. of N.
Committee, Union
4 p.m. - Faculty Evaluation
Report Hearings, Union
4 p.m. - A. S.U.N. Senate
Meeting, Union
4 p.m. - Social Committee,
East Campus
5 p.m. - Culture Committee,
East Campus
5:30 p.m. - Engineering
Toast masters. Union
6 p.m. - Special Services
Tutoring, Union
6 p.m. - Husker Honeys, Union
6 p.m. - Kosmei Klub Exec,
Union
6:15 p.m. - Phi Beta Kappa
Dinner, Union
6:15 p.m. - Red Cross, Union
6:30 p.m. - Masters Week,
Union
6:30 p.m. - Kosmet Klub,
Union
7 p.m. - Pi Tau Sigma Smoker,
Union
7 p.m. - Alpha Kappa Psi,
Union
7 p.m. - Omicron Delta
Upsilon, Union
7 p.m.- Builders, Union
7:30 p.m. - Spring Day, Union
7:30 p.m. - Math Counselors,
" Union
7:30 p.m. - Education
Committee, East Campus
8 p.m. - Student Veterans
Organization, Union
8 p.m. - Kappa Alpha Psi,
Union
9 p.m. - ASUN - Education
Committee, Union
hoc committee appointed by
the Housing Policy Committee
last fall to study social
regulations in all residence
halls, Greek houses and
cooperatives.
Pilger said the proposed
policy approaches
self-determination in living unit
social policies with "only
minimal guidlines".
Bestmann criticized the
portion of the policy that
requires the door of a room be
open to provide an
unobstructed view of the room
when a guest of the opposite
sex is present. A problem in
this rule is that most dormitory
doors do not open in a way
that will give an unobstructed
view of the room, he added.
Delta Delta Delta
offers scholarships
The annual Delta Delta
Delta service projects
scholarship competition is
being held on campus for all
full-time undergraduate women
students.
Tri Delts at the University
will grant two full tuition
awards. All local winners in
colleges where there are Tri
Delt chapters are eligible for
one of the $1,000 awards to be
made by the Tri Delts'
National Service Projects Fund.
Union operating
hours to change
The Nebraska Union Board
has announed a change in the
weekend operating hours of
the Nebraska Union effective
next week.
On Saturdays the building
will open at 8:30 a.m. instead
of 7 a.m. The building's
opening on Sundays has been
changed from 11:30 a.m. to 1
p.m.
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