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Weekend retreat to improve race relations By Kim Spurlock Staff Reporter A retreat this weekend will im prove relations between students and faculty by educating them on cultural diversity, a UNL official said. John Harris, special assistant to the vice chancellor for student af fairs, said the Fourth Annual Cultural Diversity Retreat for selected faculty and students of organizations will take place this weekend at Camp Easter Seal in Milford, Neb. About 80 UNL students and 15 faculty will leave Friday for the re treat, which is sponsored by “Har mony In A World Of Difference,” a consultant group out of Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City, Mo. The consultant group’s purpose is to provide educational and training opportunities on cultural diversity and race relations to groups and organiza tions, Harris said. “The retreat will attempt to in volve the campus community in an effort to enhance the understanding of different cultures,” he said. The Racial Pluralism Action Team, a group of students, faculty and staff, also will attend the retreat. RPAT, established last spring by the student affairs office, was formed in an effort to combat racism at the university. Although RPAT has ideas on what it will do for the university, Harris said the retreat will help it form more -44 - We will be there to listen to students who feel that they have been discriminated against and take ac tion, if that is what the student wants. Harris co-chairman of RPA T -ft - concrete ideas. “RPAT (members) have a real job to do,” he said. “They will be looking to create an action agenda to bring back with some measurable goals. At the end of the year they will see il they accomplished those goals.” Rob Steele, a junior news-edito rial major and co-chairman of RPAT, said he is attending the retreat to learn how to relate to other ethnic groups and to learn and understand their beliefs and cultures. Steele said RPAT will serve as a contact for students about cultural diversity issues and programs on campus. ‘‘We will be there to listen to stu dents who feel that they have been discriminated against and take ac tion, if that is what the student wants,” he said. Harris said he hopes the retreat is like past retreats, in which students and faculty were able to become emotional and to speak about their feelings. Hams added that although he has not yet seen any racism at the univer sity, he said “racism is like a shadow — you know it’s there.” The retreat will prepare people for the awakening that the United States is culturally diverse and that every one must work together, he said. Harris said students interested in attending the retreat should contact him at the student affairs office. “Students interested should think beyond the retreat and think about what the campus needs as related to cultural diversity and what they and others can do to help out in the effort to make this university more cultur ally aware,” he said. Security Continued from Page 1 after the doors of residence halls are locked at midnight. They make rounds on each floor, monitoring for unusual activity or unauthorized visitors. . They also make rounds outside, ensure that doors remain locked and check building equipment for mechanical problems, fires and vandalism, Zatechka said. If officers encounter a problem they cannot resolve, they contact their supervisor, who decides if the university police should be alerted, said Wayne Farrin, a UNL police officer and the coordinator between the department and the security force. Residence hall officers keep track of the their duties and obser vations in a daily log, Zatechka said. The log is turned over to UNL police who then forward copies to the housing office. Each night, 17 security officers and one supervisor are on duly. Each hall is assigned one officer, and Sellcck and Abcl-Sandoz complexes have two on busier nights. Each residence hall complex is assigned a “floater” who moves between halls in a complex, sending the regular officer on rounds. Three officers are assigned to East Campus, where they patrol the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education and the Burr-Fedde residence hall complex. A total of 40 student officers and six student supervisors make up the security force. Because the officers are all university students and shifts run from 10 p.m to 6 a.m., Cauble said, most officers work fewer then 40 hours a week. To ensure that offi cers are keeping up in school, they are required to maintain a minimum grade point average of 2.0, he said. “We very much need the security officers, but they are here for an education,” he said. All officers are trained in areas such as crime prevention, conflict avoidance, fire extinguishing, radio communications, CPR and first aid. “Security can be a tricky situ ation,” Zatechka said. “Officers can be confronted with a residence hall resident who makes things difficult for everyone.” Farrin said prospective officers are told that potential harassment comes with the job. “We stress if can they take the abuse,” he said. . While there are negative reac tions, Farrin said, most of the stu dents have a positive altitude to ward officers. “Most people realize why they are there,” he said. UNL chapter named best in nation Success of designer group stems from growth, president says By Heather Heinisch Staff Reporter One of the fastest growing student organizations at the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln has been named best in the nation by the American Society of Interior Designers. Jennifer Crook, president of the UNL student chapter of ASID and a senior interior design major, said the success of the organization was be cause of a growing “anxious and eager” membership. The student chapter has increased its membership 30 percent in the past year. Of the 140 interior design ma jors at UNL, more than 100 were active in ASID, Crook said. That was up from 60 the previous year and 40 three years ago. The UNL organization was named outstanding student chapter out of 178 campus organizations at the na tional ASID professional and student convention held in Denver in July. UNL ASID adviser Sue Mauldin said she was pleasantly surprised by the first-time Nebraska win. The vic tory comes from a group that “works really hard but has fun too,” she said. The honor was awarded based on membership, professional support from other interior designers in the com munity, organizational activities and a philanthropic project. “Every year we improve in every aspect,” Crook said. Besides the membership drive last year, the chapter sponsored profes sional workshops, a national speaker, competitions and a study tour to Chi cago. The group also redesigned the retail space at the Junior League Thrift Shop, 2201 O St., for a philanthropic project. “We pull together when things need to be accomplished,” Crook said. Steve Walters, past president ol ASID and a senior interior design major, said the organization stressed education and putting members in touch with “everything they haven’t learned in class.” Workshops on re sumes, portfolios and interviewing were just some, of the programs of fered to members, he said. ASID currently is in the midst of a membership drive and gearing up for the new year. Crook said the chapter goal is to have all of the approxi mately 140 interior design majors involved. One way to encourage involve ment will be to have ASID represen tatives in each of the studio classes, said Suzanne Kaiser, president-elect. Kaiser, a senior interior design v major, said ASID provides opportu nities to get involved with other stu dents, network with area profession als and learn about the different ave nues of interior design. |-NEWS BRIEFS Florida State professor to discuss art Nancy ueurummona, protes sor of art at Florida Slate Univer sity, wiH speak about the art of Imperial Rome at 7 p.m. Oct. 3. The illustrated lecture, “Pax Redux: The Roman Goddess of Peace in the Imperial Art of Au gustus” will be in 225 Richards Han at tnc university ot iNeorasica Lincoln. The lecture will be sponsored by the UNL Department of Art & Art History and the UNL research council and is free and open to the public. History professor receives fellowship Timothy Mahoney, assistant professor of history at the Univer sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, recently was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Mahoney will spend the aca demic year studying in Chicago at ihc Newberry Library. The fellowship finances a resi dency at that independent research library, considered a prime reposi tory for 19th century books, pa pers, biographies and other histori cal documents. Book sale to be held at Love Library Libraries at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will sponsor the sixth-annual book sale Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Love Library on City Campus. About 4,000 books will be for sale. Hardback books will sell for $1; paperbacks will sell for 50 cents. 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