Honor students and athletes join forces, fight drug abuse
By Jennifer O’Ciika
Staff Reporter
Members of the University of Nebraska
Lincoln chapter of the Golden Key National
Honor Society have joined forces with UNL
varsity athletes to combat drug abuse in Lin
coln area schools, according to Paige Groppe,
the program’s chairperson.
The Best of America Say NO! program
sends athletes and Golden Key members to
speak at 10 area schools Thursday and Friday.
The approximately 50 students involved in the
UNL program will go to schools in groups of
four to five, Groppe said.
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Groppe said these students will attempt to
show children that people can be successful
without drugs and alcohol.
“Younger kids look up to older people,
especially college students,” she said.
Groppe said this is the first year the UNL
chapter has been active in the program which
was introduced at Florida State University
three years ago. She said she felt very strongly
about the project when she heard about it.
Although the Committee for Fees Alloca
tion denied the group funding of $1,200, the
chapter cut comers and financed the program
with group funds, Groppe said.
Participation in the program is voluntary,
she said. Students donate their time and ca:
pool to the schools.
All students attended a training workshop
March 19. She said the participants aren’t
professionals but they learned a lot in the
workshops and have the facts to back them
selves up.
“If we can’t answer a question, we have the
phone numbers of people they can call,”
Groppe said. “The worst thing we can do is lie
to a child.”
The speakers will relate personal experi
ences to the kids in an informal half-hour
presentation with a half-hour question-and
answer session to follow, she said.
UNL varsity volleyball player and elemen
tary education major Virginia Stahr said she
will speak at her hometown high school, Cen
tennial.
She said she wants to tell kids that drugs and
alcohol may seem fun for awhile but they will
get burned in the end.
‘‘I feel like I’ve been given so much through
my volleyball talents and I want to give some
thing back,” Stahr said.
Groppe said the Golden Key hopes to ex
pand and revise the program next year.
‘‘Hopefully it will be easier after this year
when we start to get feedback. It seems pretty
promising,” she said.
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Members learn arrest tactics
MARCH from Page 1
energy,” he said.
Divis encouraged protesters to
kneel and luck rather than standing
up to authorities.
“Do what they say,” he said.
But Divis’ submission to the jus
tice system has its limits.
“If I get arrested, I won’t post bail
or pay a l ine,” he said. “That system
has too much money already.”
Alter Divis had set down the
ground rules, the group practiced for
the protest later this week. Partici
pants look turns playing the roles of
protesters and policemen.
Would-be protesters locked arms
and walked through a line ol police
men. Another group of protesters
locked arms and formed a circle on
the ground, refusing to be torn apart.
After the exercise, participants
agreed that they had actually resisted
arrest, and that night slicks would
have hurt more than the gentle open
fist laps t! v had felt on their heads.
One said he might like to gel ar
rested this week, hut won’t resist ar
rest because of the bad feeling he got
from the exercise.
Divis said people who decide to
get arrested should have support
people to follow police buses and find
out where they are jailed, give them
rides upon their release, and know
vital information about them in case
something goes wrong.
When he was arrested last year,
Divis said, the deputy sheriff who
transported him drove 85 miles per
hour trying to lose a support person.
But the support person eventually
found the jail, he said.
At the end of the meeting, every
one stood and held hands, reciting a
chant:
“Here we are once again/ holding
hands in a circle/ face the sun, feel its
power/ face the moon, let it How/
Mother Earth gives us birth/ Father
sky brings us changes.”
Fifteen Lincolnites will travel to
Nevada lor the protest.
student dies from gun wound
From Staff Reports
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln
student died from an apparent self
inflicted shotgun wound in Colum
bus last Wednesday night, according
to Platte County Attorney William
Kurtenbach.
In a Friday press release, Kurten
bach said the body of Donald J.
George, 19, of Columbus was found
Thursday morning near a pond in
East Pawnee Park at Columbus.
The Nebraska State Patrol con
cluded that George died Wednesday
night or early Thursday morning of a
shotgun wound to the head, Kurten
bach said.
George was a freshman business
major at UNL.
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