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By Beth HioEspsea
Daily Nebraskan SUflT Writer
Rod Merta has "an interna
tional perspective on life."
That's how co-worker and
international student adviser
Judy Wendorff describes Merta,
new program coordinator at
UNL's International Education
Services office.
As coordinator since Jury 1,
one realm of Merta's IES re
sponsibilities is at the Over
seas Opportunities Center.
Merta said the center, at Neb
raska Union 345, provides a
wealth of information for all
students planning or hoping
to travel, work or study abroad.
Because IES works closely with
international students, Merta
said most American students
do not realize the gold mine of
information IES offers in
expensive travel ideas and fan
tastic educational opportuni
ties.
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Merta's second job is to
coordinate various social activi
ties and programs that help.ac
quaint and involve interna
tional students with university
life.
Does Merta's interest in in
ternational cultures end at
work? No way.
Merta, an extensive traveler
himself, said many people who
travel collect souvenirs while
traveling that "dont have too
much to do with themselves."
I'd rather talk to people
and see things," he said.
" -That's not to gay Merta does
not collect some international
memorabilia. He treasures a
black marble cube he got while
visiting Taiwan. wTo me,, it
represents Taiwan," he said.
He also keeps it sea shell he
discovered off the cost of Guam
a shell that was still the
home of a live animal. Merta's
wife, Aggie, a native of the
Micronesian island of Yap,
keeps a hand-woven basket
and a pair of used moccasins
given to her by a dying Hopi
Indian woman.
These trinkets, Merta said,
are special to them. They're
personal," he said.
Merta, who has traveled out
of the United States to Guam,
Taiwan, Yap and Canada, could
have an impressive list of fav
orite tourism sites. But, he ad
mits, his favorite thing to see is
simple a desert or island
sunset.
Merta's extensive travel
began his senior year in high
school. Then, and for the next
few summers, Merta and his
friends quit their jobs two weeks
before fall semester and began
to travel cross-country.
From 1971 to 1974, Merta
worked with the Peace Corps
in Micronesia, specifically on
the outer island of Yap, east of
the Philippines.
During these four years in
the United Nations Trust Ter
ritory of the Pacific, which was
and still is overseen by the Uni
ted States, Merta taught Eng
lish to first through sixth
grades. He then moved to the
island of Palau, where he
worked with natives through
community development and
recreation.
In 1974 the Mertas moved to
San Francisco, where he had
previously earned his degree
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in political science, history and
psychology from San Francisco
University. For the next two
years, Merta worked as an
educational director in a psy
chiatric center during the day,
and with juveniles in a county
detention hall at night.
From San Francisco the
Mertas moved to northern
Arizona. From 1976 to 1978
they lived with Hopi Indians.
As director of a special servi
ces program, Merta counseled
high school and college Hopi
students. He also helped find
Hopis who were not aware of
or had never been to a Hopi
reservation, and shared with
them the educational oppor
tunities available through the
Hopi culture.
In 1978 Merta retraced his
steps to Microneisa.
After two years he returned
to Arizona to work with Mic
ronesian students on Ameri
can soil
Earlier this year the Mertas
moved to Lincoln to attend
UNL. Aggie now Is pursuing an
art degree, and Merta, while
coordinating programs for IES,
plans to study for his docto
rate in counseling psychology.
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information and instructions
regarding payment of fail semes
ter tuition:
Payment must be received in
the Office of the Bursar no later
than 4 p.m., Sept. 26. Mail it no
later than Sept. 24, or bring it to
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the Administration Building.
A $20 service charge will be
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unpaid.
Payment of the balance of
your account, which must include
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Police
leport
UNL police received three re
ports of alleged vandalism to five
cars in Parking Area 1 at 17th
and R streets.
Taillights were reported broken
on one car, the rear-view mirror
broken on another car and the
antennas on three cars were re-
ported bent or broken.
The following incidents were
reported to UNL police between ,
12:17 a.m. and 10:14 p.m. Sunday.
12:17am. UNL police assisted
the Lincoln Police Department
with a car and motorcycle acci
dent at lCth and R streets.
1 am. Noise disturbance
reported near the University
Health Center. Persons were gone
when officers arrived.
2:04 am. Noise complaint
reported at 1510 Vine St
2:11 am. Window reported
broken at Neihardt Residence Cen
ter. 2:27 am. Glass door reported
broken at Nebraska Union.
9:19 am. Vandalism reported
at 10th Street from R to T streets.
Poles used to block off grass re
portedly were dislodged.
9:48 am. Three reports of
alleged vandalism in Parking Area
1 at 17th and R streets. Taillights
reported broken on one car, rear
view mirror reported broken on
another and the antennas on
three cars were reported bent or
broken.
1:07 p.m. Person reported
trespassing on the softball field
near Mable Lee HaU.
2:07 p.m. Security alarm re
ported sounding at Low Library.
5:16 p.m. Injury reported at
the playing field near 19th and
Vine streets. Person was taken to
hospital
6:36 p.m. Disturbance re
ported on the north side of Abel
HalL
8:49 p.m. Noise disturbance
reported on U Street between
15th and 16th streets.
10:14 p.m. Officers assisted;
LPD in looking for a burglary;
suspect in the campus area No!
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