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v.VJIi nebroskon t riitor n O M'CKiel (O.J.) Nelson. Mjnatjinn Editor: Mary Votjoril. News Ctiitor. Tim Anderson. Special EJItor. Ken Kirk. Sports Editor: Bill BennetT. Photography Chief: Gail Pcldj. Night News Editor: Cheryl Westcott. Editorial assistant. Lori C.'epper. The Daily Nebraikan !s written, edited and managed by students at he University of Nebrasxa-Lincoln . It is editorially independent of the U" versity faculty, administration a no student body. The Daily Npbiaskan ;s publshed by the Publications Committee on Mjmay Wedm sd.iy, Thursday and Friday throughout the fall and spring semesters except holidays and vacations. Copyr,ght 1073, The Daily Nebraskan. Material may be reprinted , tnout permission if attributed to the Daily Nebraskan, excepting material rove'tni by another copyright. :. onj riasj postage paid at Lincoln, Nebraska. Address: The Daily Nebraskan '34 Nebraska Unionldtn ci H itreets, 'Lincoln, Nebr. 68508. Telephone. J02,4722588. 2f .... , W fSS YOU'VE v 1 O n GOT... AV v i 0 flip. i rnt, A 1 L 1 1 I rk 13 -J! X2 HfttliKi-Fr4!t-l-l,-l! MWiftlfffTtif t rm rt; r N till J AM KS COBUKA J! Uof N WINTER1M CHARTER FLIGHTS TO EUROPE 5 3 I MUNICH or ROME-S247.60 Koimd-liip l)n 20-Jan. I .'5 LONDON-$212 -spaceon.y; I ; o 1 1 1 1 l-i t i Dec. 2!-,m. I Applications and $50 deposits for flight only space are now being $ nrrontod in thp Fliahts nnd Studv r . 7 8 Tours Office, Room 204, Nebraska Union. Phone 472-2484 r,i ii.r- in some interim courses r, still .-jv.)il;il'jl'.- ft ' '' '. '" sut'M-'Ct to chanqf, with maximum increase of $30.) biacK group offers women identity, friends By Nancy Stohs Last year UNL Greeks revived Greek Week. This year total pledges in sororities and fraternities increased. Next week competition for homecoming displays will make a comeback. In the midst of this, a new group called Black United Sisters (BUS) has formed at UNL. It offers its 50 members friendship, social life, functions with UNL's black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi, stresses academics and has an initiation ceremony. However, according to BUS President Faye Zollicoffer, a graduate psychology student, "We don't want to give the impression this is a sorority, because it's not. It's a social club." BUS was organized last spring in conjunction with a UNL-sponsored program where upperclass black women were "big sisters" to freshmen. Zollicoffer said it gives identity to black women on campus through a "feeling of oneness and blackness." Because it kept the big sister program, part of the group's purpose is to show the ropes to freshman black women, Zollicoffer said. Besides the usual freshman adjustment problems, many black students come from Omaha and must adjust to a city with a higher white population, she said. "Sometimes you just need a friend," she said, and BUS tries to provide that. Zollicoffer said the club, which meets 3 A x - - Mil'fTT'-"-A ' tat. Him mi HIT' Hi mil Photo by Gail Folda Faye Zollicoffer, Black United Sisters president twice monthly at the UNL Cultural Center, hasn't made many plans for the coming year. She said she doubted BUS would ever evolve into a sorority like others, unless members would start a local chapter of the national black sorority. "We don't want it to turn into something you have to go through a big hassle to get into," she said. The only membership requirement now is to show interest in black womanhood and unity, she said. But this is preferable to members spreading out and joining white sororities, she said. "I think we should definitely stick to our own," she said, "because we have different values and lifestyles, even different ways of dancing and dressing. "At this time there would be a lot of confusion if black women did just like total integration. You couldn't relate to yourself .is a black person." t Ml ombudiman fazcr'jyrn! fUT Student Night Every Tuesday 5 9 Save up to $1.45 er pizza. Discount on all pizzas. member of A.S.K., A fT Crr discount not good on delivery 4 ( 5-265o Co-defendant with Daneil Ellsberg, Anthony Russo, THE PENTAGON PAPERS. Tues. October 16, 3:30 pm, Union Centennial Room, L ? i . f i ' V -.,. , V 1 '"' y t Rap Session, I 7:30 pm, t Selleck Quad 1 V;'-;A' J v.- ,f , . h .h" ' ', h The Resistible Rise of flrturo Ul AN EPIC THEATRE EXPERIENCE October 15 - 20 TICKETS: STUDENTS $2.00 GENERAL $2.50 12& R ASK (TIE1TI8ERS SAVE 50 BUY ASK CARD IN UNION LOBBY 1-4 MONDAY-FRIDAY daily nebraskan monday, October 15, 1973