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Problems impede
special education
By Lisa Donovan
Staff Reporter
Employees at the Barkley Memo
rial Center are working to help special
education students after high school.
Stanley Vasa, professor of special
education and communication disor
ders, said public schools have worked
hard to accommodate special educa
tion students, but have not adequately
prepared them for independent adult
hood.
Project Parents in Partnership, a
program started by Vasa and a five
member staff, is attempting to tackle
this problem.
Vasa, project director, said the
project will help train secondary
education personnel to work more
effectively with students who have
mild to moderate handicaps and their
parents. The project will help in the
transition from college or trade
schools.
The project, administered by
UNL’s department of special educa
tion and communication disorders, is
financed by a $ 102,384 grant from the
U.S. Office of Education.
The project started because of a
growing awareness of the problems
learning-impaired students have once
they have finished high school, Vasa
said.
The problem is compounded by
the fact that secondary special educa
tion teachers are often expected to
help their students find iobs and ar
range for additional schooling fol
lowing graduation, yet few of these
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Indian Club powwow
scheduled this weekend
By Deanne Nelson
Staff Reporter
In an effort to keep American
Indian traditions alive, the Lincoln
Indian Club will hold its annual
powwow this weekend at the Licoln
Indian Center, 1100 Military Road.
The Omaha, Winnebago and
Sioux tribes will participate in the
powwow, said Edna Fremont, presi
dent of the center. Students from the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln’s
Multi-Cultural Affairs office will also
participate, said James Smith, office
director.
The powwow will be held on the
powwow grounds west of the Indian
Center Friday through Sunday nights
from 7 p.m. to midnight and also
Saturday and Sunday from 1-6 p.m.
Admission is free, but donations will
be accepted to help cover costs of
prize money for the dance competi
tion and to pay back money borrowed
from the Indian Center for the pow
wow.
The dance competition contains
five different divisions including
men’s and women’s traditional
dances, men’s and women’s fancy
dances and a tiny tots’ division, which
is for child competitors, Fremont
said.
The traditional dances “arc the
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Members of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cricket Club practice behind Love Library
Saturday.
Students keep Cricket popular
By Pattie Greene
Staff Reporter _
Two teams with four players each
entered the arena — a grass field
behind Love Library.
The skies were clear and the mer
cury was at 100 degrees.
Like every other Saturday the past
six years, the bowler took a running
start, throwing the ball at the batsman.
Trying to defend his wicket, the
batsman swung. He missed and the
ball hit the wicket
Out! The bowler threw again ...
Batsman? Bowler? Wicket?
These University of Nebraska
Lincoln students play the English
originated game of cricket The UNL
Cricket Club was established two
years ago by this group of foreign
students after they had been playing
together for four years.
Nadeem Mohammad, a senior
management major, said someone at
the International Educational Serv
ices office suggested the group be
come a club. As a club, they could
receive money to travel to games.
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Not everyone is entertained
bv model missiles’ messages
By Vktori* Ayott*
Staff Reporter
Ten University of Nebraska
Lincoln students raised the concern
of the Lincoln Fire Department
Friday when they placed an alarm
ing message in some strategic
places.
Fred Soflin, fire inspector lor the
Lincoln Fire Department, said the
fire department found 20 to 30
miniature mock missiles through
out Lincoln.
“The one that raised the alarm
was one located on the from porch
of the governor’s mansion," Soflin
said.
'Hie rocket at the governor’s
mansion was found at 4;50 a.tn. Fri*
day. Mock missiles were also found
on campus, throughout downtown,
and at Gateway Shopping Center.
‘The notes that were attached
were somewhat alarming - leading
us at first to think they might be some
kind of explosive device," he said.
All the rockets had the same note
attached, Soflin said, which started
out “You have just been killed by a
nuclear device.
Soflin said the students involved
were found and contacted to take
therestofthemissilesdown.The 10
students will attend UNL this fall,
but Sonin said he doesn’t think they
are part of any recognized anti
nuclear group.
“They were simply trying to
make a statement about nuclear
armament* but they wem a little bit
too far,” Soilm said.
Lt Ken Caubic of the UNL
Police Department said that three
missiles were found on campus.
One had the death note, and the
others had a note saying “Secu
rity?”