UNL Homecoming 1988
Festivities include alumni basketball game, carnival
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
and David Holloway
Staff Reporter
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
homecoming festivities Oct. 10-15
will include a carnival and an alumni
basketball game, w hich will promote
more involvement from Nebraskans,
homecoming committee chairman
Bryan Valencia said.
“It’s never been done before,”
Valencia said. “We hope that it will
attract lots and lots of people.”
The carnival Oct. 14 is tentatively
planned from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. on the
gravel lot south of the Bob Devaney
Sports Center, Valencia said.
Rainbow Amusements and possi
bly Lynch Entertainments will pro
vide the rides and games for the car
nival, Valencia said. The carnival
will have student booths, displays by
various academic areas and sports
exhibitions.
The carnival will continue after
the homecoming parade, which will
begin at 6:30 p.m.
The parade will take a different
route this year, Valencia said. Al
though the route is not finalized, he
said, it will probably go from P Street
towards the Dcvaney Center, ending
at the Reunion.
Valencia said the route is being
changed to attract a different crowd
and lead them to the sports center for
the carnival and the events planned by
the Celebrate Nebraska, Celebrate
UNL committee after the parade.
The Celebrate Nebraska commit
tee plans an alumni basketball game
Friday night and displays during the
carnival.
Valencia said the homecoming
committee came up with the carnival
idea after deciding on the theme
“Celebrate UNL Homecoming —
The Greatest Show on Earth.”
He said he expects the carnival to
attract Lincolnites to homecoming.
“You’ll be able to get the families
of Lincoln to come,” Valencia said,
“and a big thing like that will tend to
get a lot of the alums back.”
Bryan Van Deun, co-chairman ol
the Celebrate Nebraska committee,
agreed with Valencia.
“We feel that the university and
the residents of Nebraska should
come together in this event, Van
Deun said.
Many other events are planned
throughout homecoming week be
sides the carnival.
The week will begin Monday with
a Fun Run on campus sponsored by
KFRX. Coca-Cola and KFRX are the
sponsors of homecoming activities.
The Student Alumni Association
plans a sand volleyball tournament
for Tuesday and Wednesday of home
coming week. The homecoming tal
ent show and elections for king and
queen will also take place Wednes
day.
Students who wish to vote for
homecom ing king and queen can vote
from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 12 in the
Nebraska Union.
The pep band is tentatively sched
uled to play downtown Thursday with
homecoming committee members to
promote the event to Lincolnitcs. The
homecoming dance will be Thursday
night at the East Union.
Before the game Saturday, will be
a pep rally with possibly the introduc
tion of royalty and a performance by
the Scarlet and Cream singers.
Many of the times for scheduled
homecoming events arc not yet final
ized, Valencia said.
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Arab students change opinion
about America during visit
ARAB from Page 7
sippi Rhodes College. When I discuss
conflicts in Middle East, they don’t
acknowledge anything about it.”
Lara Khatib, a senior social work
major at Beirut University College,
said although she had visited the
United Slates before, she still had a
bad impression of Americans.
“(I thought) things were so easy for
Americans; they don’t have to work;
they gel whatever they want,” she
said. “I found out this was wrong.
Many are hard workers, have to do a
lot.”
The students said one thing that
surprised them was the high number
of AIDS victims in the United States.
“They said 2 percent of the popu
lation in New York has it,” Barghout
said. “In Lebanon, we only have six
cases that came from the states.”
Samir said, “I visited a hospital in
Washington, D.C., 20 percent in
internal medicine department had
AIDS. 1 knew it was prevalent, but not
that high.”
Achaan said he was surprised ra
cial differences still exist between
blacks and whites.
“Up until now, I thought there was
an understanding between the two,”
Achaari said. “In New York and
Memphis, blacks still feel on the
outside. There is no integration be
tween the two. The blacks have worse
jobs, wear worse clothes.”
Khatib said she was surprised how
aware Americans arc about child
abuse.
“I thought no one knew about it,
she said. “It was ama/ing because I
thought child abuse was common. I
thought people didn’t care. I saw tre
mendous efforts to stop child abuse. I
think it is great they arc trying to end
it.”
All the students thought Ameri
cans had too much freedom. Khalib
said that on the social level, she has
less freedom than Americans. She
said that in Lebanon, girls live with
their parents until they arc married.
“We’re dependent on them,” she
said, “but dependence doesn’t mean
we can’t do what we want. We’re not
as free as you arc, but we arc free.
The students got a taste of the
Midwest in Nebraska. Barghout said
she thought the people were very
business oriented and did not have
time for fun.
“When we went to farms, farm ties
arc so strong,” she said. “It’s kind of
like the Middle East — they care
about each other and work together.
Ebrahiim Alhashmi, a junior
chemistry and physics major at Bah
rain Univeristy at Manama, Bahrain,
said there was no other country like
the United Stales.
“Different people from different
cultures make one nation and live
together,” he said. “They mix other
races and live in harmony, live as a
free people.”
Besides Lincoln, the students have
visited Washington, D.C., New York
City, Oxford, Miss., and Memphis,
Tenn. After Lincoln, they will stop in
Denver and Los Angeles.
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