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August 31, 1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 87 No. 7
Summer jobs give students
daring, danceable experiences
By Bob Nelson
Staff Reporter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Chris
Stream learned to twist and thrust like Michael
Jackson this summer. Ted Gude, another stu
dent, climbed to great heights during his summer
job.
Gude and Stream are among the thousands of
university students who spend their summers
earning money for school in uncommon ways.
Gude has spent the last three summers climb
ing broadcast towers often 500 feet taller than
the Empire State Building, and Stream spent the
summer working at Disney World in Orlando, Fla.
Gude, a senior political science mgjor, works
for the Lincoln-based Americom Tower Services.
The company specializes in building, painting
and repairing signal towers throughout the Uni
ted States and abroad.
Gude first heard about the job from a friend
who worked for Americom.
"I told him he was crazy,” Gude said. Within a
year Gude was climbing a 1,300-foot radio tower
in Reliance, S.D.
"The first time was the toughest,” he said.
“We hooked five gallons of paint to our belts and
started climbing. I had to stop about every 20
feet.” It took Gude and the other workers about
two hours to climb to the top of the tower.
Because Gude is often a half-hour’s climb from
the bottom of the metal towers, he checks the
weather with more than just a passing interest.
"If a storm comes up, it’s like we’re climbing
around on a big lightning rod. "When we see bad
weather coming, we drop everything and head for
safety," he said.
Wind is another problem Gude faces when
working. Winds can reach 40 to 50 miles per hour
near the top of the broadcast towers. Any wrong
move climbing during strong winds can spell
disaster.
Gude said his company has never had a
serious accident.
"We’ve been real lucky," he said. "There are a
lot of things that can go wrong if you’re not
careful.”
Gude said one problem with climbing towers
that there are no bathrooms at the top.
“All we can do is go over the edge of the
tower,” Gude said. "One of my friends accidently
hit the boss’s truck. That was from ovei a thou
sand feet up. Needless to say, he wasn’t too
pleased.”
Stream, a junior English mgjor, spent his
summer working in public relations at Disney
World. One of his jobs was to assist tourists
visiting the Epcot ride "Journey Into Imagin
ation."
"I was the guy that tells the visitors where to
be seated and answers any questions a tourist
might have," Stream said.
Stream’s other job was ushering at the Epcot
3-D movie “Captain EO.”
“At the movie I was the guy that announced
over the public address, ‘Ladies and gentlemen,
move all the way down to your left, filling in every
available seat. This is a full show. Please don’t
stop in the middle.’ I would say this over and over
and over.”
Besides memorizing lines, Stream also memo
rized much of the movie, "Captain EO,’ starring
Michael Jackson.
“I can do the whole dance Michael does in the
movie,” he said. "I can’t wait to go to a party and
spin and pelvic-thrust like he does in the movie.”
Jon’s helps NU take note
By Bob Nelson
Staff Reporter
Unlike most students, Jon Donlan is thrilled
to take notes.
Donlan is the owner of Jon’s Notes, located on
the second level of Nebraska Bookstore. Jon’s
Notes supplies notes for six of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln’s 100-level classes such as
Chemistry 109, Sociology 153 and Political Sci
ence 100. A student can buy a subscription from
Donlan and receive notes for every session of a
particular class.
Donlan got the idea for a note-taking service
when he was a senior in high school. By the
beginning of his freshman year at UNL, Donlan
had his business in full swing from an office in
the old Lancaster Printing building at 12th and
Q streets.
He began with notes for only two classes and
100 subscribers but has since grown to six
classes and almost 700 subscribers.
Donlan gets the notes from classes by hiring
graduate students or teachers aides in the
classes.
Selection of note takers is done through
recommendations by professors and by their
ability to take clear, complete notes that stu
dents at any level can understand.
Donlan said he stresses that his notes should
be used to supplement students’ own notes.
“People are always harping that students use
these notes to skip class," he said. “There are
people that see the notes as an easy way out of
class. They usually find out that they can’t be
used that way.”
Associate Professor Chris Eskridge, who
teaches a criminal-justice class that Jon's Notes
covers, believes the notes have both good and
bad points.
“It’s a lot like fire. It can either warm you or
bum down your house," he said.
Eskridge said he thinks the notes expand on a
student’s notes.
“The problem is when students think they can
skip my class because they have the notes,"
Eskridge said.
Many things go on during classes that notes
miss, he said.
Donlan gets permission from the professors of
each class he supplies with notes.
“There are some professors that are a little
leery of our service,” Donlan said. “It’s not some
thing that I absolutely have to do, but it keeps
from creating bad vibes."
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Hectic schedule
With football practices getting longer because of Saturday's first game of
the season, Floyd Sorley, who works with the film crew, finds time for a
snooze next to the camera truck.
Fraternity drops little sister program
By Mitchell J. Meyers
Staff Reporter
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln has de
cided to drop its little-sister program,
joining three other UNL fraternities
that eliminated similar programs last
year.
Last year Phi Kappa Psi, Tau Kappa
Epsilon and Kappa Sigma fraternities
discontinued their little-sister pro
grams.
This summer during Sigma Phi Epsi
lon’s national conference of delegates
from each of its more than 200 chap
ters, members decided to eliminate
their little-sister organization.
Ray Anderson, president of Sigma
Phi Epsilon at UNL, said the little
sister program successfully helped
broaden the fraternity’s social activi
ties with other groups.
But the fraternity agreed to drop the
program because the national frater
nity had voted not to recognize any of
its members' auxiliary groups, he said.
Jayne Wade Anderson, UNL Greek
affairs director, said she agrees with
the decision because the little-sister
program has never been recognized
officially by the university or the Fra
ternity Executives Association.
“The program distracts the members’
attentions to less important fraternity
activities,” she said.
She said that while the members
were putting so much effort into coor
dinating little-sister programs, they
could have directed more leadership at
more immediate house responsibilities
like pledge recruitment and member
ship education.
The Fraternity Executives Associa
tion, a group of nationally elected
delegates representing the smaller fra
ternity associations, passed an official
resolution earlier this summer disap
proving of the program.
“The groups inhibit the accomp
lishment of chapter goals by diverting
resources of time, effort and money,
which are needed for chapter opera
tions and programming," the associa
tion's resolution said.
The resolution also said little-sister
groups were “weakening the bonds of
brotherhood by adversely affecting in
terpersonal relationships within the
chapter.”
Jon Moss, vice president of the UNL
chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said
their fraternity’s national headquar
ters had discussed dropping the little
sister program. “But because the pro
gram has been so successful locally,
Moss said, “it probably will continue
for some time.”
Shelli Adams, a Sigma Alpha Epsilon
little sister, said she eqjoyed her role
with the fraternity, ‘it’s very impor
tant, especially during rush activities
when the fraternity is recruiting new
members, to emphasize the many social
aspects of fraternity life to new stu
dents,” said Adams, a member of Kappa
Delta sorority and a junior in elemen
tary education.
Barb Weiss, a business sophomore
and a member of Kappa Delta, said that
because she came to Lincoln from Mad
ison, “the little-sister program was
important to me because I was able to
meet more people sooner, and it wasn’t
long before 1 was seeing people around
campus that 1 knew 1 could trust."
Weiss, a Sigma Phi Epsilon little sis
ter, said she was disappointed when
the fraternity decided to drop the
program.
"I know we'll still be friends, of
course," she said. “But the title itself is
important to me at least because it
expresses that special sort of family
bond."