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Golden Key chapter honored
The Golden Key National Honor Society at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln won the Key Chapter Award at the national convention
awards banquet in Atlanta.
The award is presented to outstanding Golden Key chapters across
the country that have excelled in five major areas: communication at
the local and national levels, leadership and support of the adviser and
officers, involvement of honorary members in programs and activities
of the chapter, the institution of a successful campus awareness and
reception and the involvement of members in chapter activities that
benefit the campus and community.
Golden Key is a nonprofit, academic honors organization that pro
vides academic recognition, leadership opportunities and scholarships.
Membership into the society is by invitation only to the top 15 percent
of juniors and seniors in all fields of study.
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UNL ministers say involvement
in religious groups increasing
By Lesli Thorn
Staff Reporter
Ministers of four religious groups
at UNL say they are optimistic that
religious involvement on campus is
increasing.
The Rev. Larry Meyer, campus
pastor at the Lutheran Student Cen
ter, 535 N. 16th St., said students
place a higher value on organized
religion now than in the past.
“Nationwide, there has been an
increased involvement in church ac
tivities by students,” Meyer said.
Involvement by freshmen at the
Lutheran Student Center increased
about 50 percent in 1990, he said.
The student center served 140
students at weekly worship services
and 1,000 total students for “one rea
son or another” in 1990. Meyer said
he expects this number to increase in
1991.
Brett Yohn, director of Campus
Challenge, 1725 S. 52nd St., also said
student religious involvement at UNL
is increasing.
Yohn said students may get in
volved in religion in order to sort out
problems in their home environment.
“If the student came from a bad
home environment, there is a need for
spiritual guidance, a need to make
sense of things that happened at home,”
he said.
Students also attend church more
after they start college because of a
change in values, he said.
“This is when students face the
insecurity of getting a job,” he said.
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Life tends to not show
reason sometimes, and
students are looking
for the answers to
many social and moral
issues they face.
Pennington
minister
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“This time can make students think
there’s more to life than money.”
More than 100 students are in
volved with Campus Challenge, Yohn
said.
Campus Challenge is the UNL
chapter of Baptist Student Union, Yohn
said. The chapter’s name was changed
this year because it is multidcnomi
nauonai.
The Rev.-Jim Pennington, director
of ministries at the University Lu
theran Chapel Missouri Synod and
the Student Center, 1510 Q St., said
about 325 students attend services
each week at his parish. He said stu
dent religious involvement is on the
upswing because students are seek
ing answers to life’s “puzzling ques
tions.”
“Life tends to not show reason
sometimes, and students are looking
for the answers to the many social and
moral issues they face,” Pennington
said.
The Rev. Mark Randall, campus
minister at Cornerstone-United Min
istries in Higher Education, 640 N.
16th St., said student religious in
volvement is increasing, but students
don’t express their involvement
through attendance at weekly serv
ices. Instead, they seek religion on
their own and without organized reli
gion, he said.
“This is a period in life when young
people move from a first-person iden
tity to a second-person identity and
try to find religion on their own,” he
said.
Randall said Cornerstone serves
between 60 to 80 students each week
and 300 to 400 students each aca
demic year.
Budget forces cut to save $4,300
Midterm grade reports eliminated
By Sarah Duey
Staff Reporter
Because of budget cuts, students
at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln will not re
ceive midterm
grade reports this
year.
The elimina
tion of the mid
term reports are
in response to a
Nebraska Legislature mandate last
spring that called for UNL to cut its
budget 2 percent this year and 1 per
cent next year.
In the past, professors sent reports
to studpnts at midterm to inform them
either of a failing grade or outstand
ing progress.
James Griesen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said he has heard no
negative feedback about the elimina
tion of the reports, a -move decided
upon last summer.
Eliminating grade reports will save
the university about S4.300, he said.
Griesen said the cut was unfortu
nate but added that he thought infor
mation on students’ progress could be
communicated in other ways.
The UNL Department of Registra
tion and Records will inform students
about the change through dorm news
letters, an ad in the Daily Nebraskan
and a brief on this semester’s tuition
statement.
The administration hopes to make
students and faculty aware of the
change, he said.
“We want to let students know that
these reports won’t be coming,”Grie
sen said. “We will make an effort to
communicate this to all.”
rroressor says breakup ot U.b.b.K.
I may help, hurt profits for U.S. farmers
By Roger Price
Staff Reporter
The breakup of the Soviet Union
may boost U.S. grain prices, but help
ing to restructure the country’s food
distribution system eventually could
hurl the U.S. farmer, a UNL professor
said.
Wes Peterson, associate professor
of agricultural economics at the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln, said
scholars across the country are at
tempting to predict the impact of
changes in the Soviet Union on U.S.
farmers.
‘‘There is no historical base for
figuring this out,” he said. “All the
rules arc being thrown out the win
dow. It is very difficult to predict.”
Changes won’t be dramatic, Peter
son said, but farmers may sec a small
increase in grain sales.
“The Soviets arc the second larg
est agriculture market for the U.S.,
and they arc likely to stay that way,”
he said.
A small harvest because of the
summer drought combined with the
increased Soviet demand also may
increase grain prices, he said.
A possible increase in U.S. foreign
aid could help the Soviets pay for
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There Is no historical
base for figuring this
out. All the rules are
being thrown out the
window. It is very diffi
cult to predict.
— Peterson
agricultural economics
associate professor
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grain, Peterson said. However, he said
he docs not foresee “large-scale aid,”
similar to aid given to Western Eu
rope after World War II under the
Marshall Plan.
Some Americans may become upset
by U.S. aid lo the Soviets, he said.
“You’d have zillions of people
standing up and saying you have
problems at home. You are already
seeing it in the editorial cartoons.” he
said.
And, Peterson said, food and
monetary aid will not solve the real
problem with feeding the Soviets.
, Although the agricultural produc
tion system in the Soviet Union is not
suffering, the distribution system is,
he said.
It is easier now for the Soviets to
import grains than export what they
produce, Peterson said.
But, he said, “if we provide the
Soviets with technical assistance to
change their distribution system, they
won’t need us anymore.”
Peterson said the United States
should help the Soviets create a more
efficient food distribution system
despite the effects at home.
Career days to spread inrormation
by Lori btones
Staff Reporter
Students can ask questions and learn
more about their chosen careers at
Technical Career Day Sept. 25 and
Career Information Day Sept. 26 in
the Nebraska Union. .
Keith Zimmer, athletic and career
counselor for the Hcwiu Academic
Center, said Technical Career Day is
an event “designed for students with
technical majors such as computer
science, engineering, arts (and) con
struction.”
I he College Placement Associa
tion of Nebraska, which includes about
36 postsecondary institutions, is co
ordinating Career Information Day.
Sandra Knight, assistant director
for Career Planning and Placcmeni,
said that last year about 500 students
attended Technical Career Day and
1,200 students attended Career Infor
mation Day. Both events are free.
Twenty companies have signed up
for Technical Career Day and 63 have
signed up for Career Information Day.
Zimmer said he is hoping students
will take advantage of and benefit
from these two days.
For freshman and sophomores, he
said, the event is a chance to “explore
and learn more about careers,” and
for juniors and seniors “it is a chance
to make contacts for internships and
jobs.”
Students arc encouraged to dress
professionally if they plan to contact
company representatives for future
intet^igws.
Knight said, “This is a golden
opportunity for students,” adding that
any level of student, whether under
graduate or graduate, can benefit from
the event.