I Smokers try to extinguish habit during annual smokeout
By Shelley Biggs
Staff Reporter
More than 100 University of Ne
braska-Lincoln students will try to
clear the air around campus today.
The students will be participating
in the adopt-a-smoker program for
the American Cancer Society’s 14th
annual Great American Smokeout,
said Michelle Rochford of the Stu
dent Diatetics Association.
About 120 university health aides
will select a smoker and help him or
her go 24 hours without smoking.
Chi Omega sorouiy, 480 N. 16th
St., is challenging other sororities on
campus to adopt a smoker in an effort
to help women quit smoking, Roch
ford said.
Terry Dougherty, chairman of the
Great American Smokeout Commit
tee in Lancaster County, said that
adopting a smoker can include as
little as going jogging with the smoker
or taking him or her to places where
smoking is not permitted.
“The adopt-a-smoker program is
just being a friend to a smoker,”
Dougherty said
The university is the site of other
activities during the week of the
smokeout.
Rochford said doctors at the Uni
versity Health Outer are asking stu
dents if they smoke and are writing
student smokers a prescription to quit.
The Student Diatetics Association
and the Health Center Student Asso
ciation will have booths set up on
East and City campuses from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. today and will give out
pamphlets, stickers and candy, Roch
ford said.
Dougherty said UNL is part of a
multi-faceted plan in Lancaster County
to educate people on the dangers of
smoking and encourage them to par
ticipate in the smokeout.
Women are targeted in Lancaster
County, he said, because trends in
smoking show that by die mid-1990s,
the number of female smokers will
outnumber the number of male smok
ers for the first time.
Dougherty said activities in the
Lancaster County area include a ce
lebrity quitter, Deb Collins of KOLN
TV, and lectures at schools and busi
nesses.
The cancer society defines the
smokeout as a day set aside for smok
ers to try and quit smoking for 24
hours, he said. The day is designed to
give a smoker the confidence to quit
for good, he said.
“Some people see it as the first day
of the rest of their lives,” he said.
“Nicotine is an addiction, and the
smokeout was designed to let the
smoker say: ‘I’m going to take back
control of my life.’”
Last year, 5 million people made it
the whole day without smoking, with
4 million of those reaching their goal
not to smoke for a couple of days or
more, Dougherty said.
The American Cancer Society
hopes to have 20 percent of smokers
participating in the event.
Just fewer than IS million people
participated nationwide last year, he
said.
Regents
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president backed by total support.
“It would not be in the best interest
of the university and the state to have
Massengale forced on us as presi
dent,” Allen said.
Allen also said Dickeson should
be disqualified from the search be
cause of a censure on UNC during his
administration.
In 1984, the American Associa
tion of University Professors censured
Northern Colorado because Dickeson
had fired 47 faculty members, 39 of
whom were tenured, in 1982-83.
Regent Margaret Robinson of
Norfolk disagreed with Allen.
Dickeson should not be disquali
fied from the search, she said, but his
actions should be taken into consid
eration.
“We need to take a closer look to
see if there are pluses on the other
side to overcome that minus,” Robin
son said.
She added that she didn’t want to
publicly declare one candidate the
front-runner in the search.
However, Regent Rosemary Skrupa
of Omaha agreed with Payne’s state
ment regarding Massengale.
“It is important that the university
has a president who can get the bail
rolling, because the election of a new
governor and the upcoming budget
appropriation makes this a critical
time,” Skrupa said.
Skrupa said Budig would have been
a “viable” candidate.
“He was a substantial candidate
with strong ties to Nebraska,” she
said. “His qualifications, along with
those of Massengale, might have scared
off a lot of potential candidates.
“His withdrawal was a slap in the
face to the university,” Skrupa said,
“because he had a professional and
moral responsibility to stay in the
running.”
The regents were “stunned,” Skrupa
said, because Budig’s withdrawal
happened little more than 24 hours
after they interviewed him for the
position.
“We had no idea it was coming,”
Skrupa said.
police
Beginning midnight Tuesday,
Nov. 13
12:36 a.m. — Army poncho
taken, Triangle fraternity, 1235
N. 16th St, $15.
8:22 a.m. — Cash taken, Ne
braska Union, $55.
8:22 a.m. — Cash taken, re
ported late, Nebraska Union, $8.
2:57 p.m. — Radar detector
B taken, 19th and Vine streets
parking lot, $60.
6:21 p.m. — Possible heart at
tack, man (non-student) taken
to Lincoln General Hospital,
Nebraska Union.
9:30 p.m. *— Missing person
located, 4001 Holdrcge St.
9:37 p.m. — Illness, man taken
to the University Health Center,
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From Staff Reports
Prospects for capitalism in East
ern Europe will be
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p.m. in the Lied
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Salao Nicolas Salgo,
y an international
businessman and diplomat, is serving
as an ambassador on properly issues
with the Bush administration. He was
the U.S. ambassador to Hungary from
1983 to 1986.
In 1989, Salgo headed the State
Department’s negotiations over the
alleged bugging of the U.S. Embassy
in Moscow. t
Salgo, bom and raised in Hungary,
became a successful businessman in
Switzerland and the United States.
He also is a well-known art collector.
The lecture is free to the public.
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Dr. Richard Kcelor, chief ex
ecutive officer of Health Designs
International, will speak tonight at
7 in the Nebraska Union.
Keelor’s speech, titled “Love,
Sex and Addiction: The Search for
Health in a Dysfunctional Soci
ety,” will encompass the essential
role of understanding family sys
terns as the tools of health and
disease. The role of addiction and
compulsive behaviors that block
healthy relationships and prevent
individuals from taking care of their
health will be explored.
The presentation, which is part
of the Steinhart Lecture Series, is
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