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Conference seeks to improve education
Post-secondary goals not part of plan
better students at the university level.
“As a result,” he said, “the emphasis is of
course at this point focused on primary, secon
dary and early childhood, and that helps all of
education.”
Don Blank, chairman of the NU Board of
Regents, agreed, saying he doesn’t think the
plan ignores post-secondary education.
“This is aimed at primary and secondary,”
he said. “But I have no problem with that
because we will only succeed if they succeed.”
Better efforts are needed at both levels,
Blank said.
“But I don’t think we should take away from
what they’re doing because we’ve got some
concerns,” he said. “I think this is very impor
tant and very vital, and we are going to benefit
if they are successful.”
Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., co-chairman of
the conference, said he doesn’t think the United
States can advance without better efforts at the
university level.
“We ought not disconnect the K-12 effort
from the post-secondary effort,” he said.
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By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Officials representing education, busi
ness and government went back to school
on U.S. education Friday, but their classes
didn’t cover higher education.
- The officials were attending “Nebraska 2000:
A Partnership for Education,” a conference
aimed at developing strategies for improving
Nebraska’s education. Nebraska 2000 is part of
America 2000, President Bush’s national edu
cation plan.
Bush’s plan is based on four goals: working
to improve present schools, developing models
of new schools, building a nation of learners
and involving the entire community in the
education process.
The goals focus on primary and secondary
schools and largely ignore higher education,
but officials at the conference defended that
lack of attention to the university level.
Martin Massengale, president of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, said he was not concerned
because he thought belter education at the
primary and secondary levels would result in
I Officials say community needs role
By Kara Morrison
Staff Reporter _
Presidential candidate Sen. Bob Kerrey,
D-Ncb., told a group of educators,
business and government officials Sat
urday that changes needed in the state and
national education systems “are going to have
to come from the community up.”
Kerrey spoke and led the discussion at the
“Nebraska 2000: A Partnership for Education”
conference at the Nebraska Center for Con
tinuing Education at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln.
Nebraska 2000 is an education improve
ment plan that includes six national goals and
21 national objectives established by President
Bush and the National Governors’ Associa
tion.
Colorado Gov. Roy Romer, chairman-elect
of the National Governors’ Association, spoke
at the conference and agreed that change in
education has to come from mobilizing the
grass roots.
Mobilization must occur, Romer said, be
cause traditionally “leadership loves to live in
glittering generalities.” He cited as an example
President Bush’s statement that education needs
more results, not more resources.
To improve education, Romer said, people
must be more critical and raise standards for
education.
Communities must realize that better-edu
cated young people will be more productive
and will serve their communities better, Romer
said.
“Economically to survive, we must become
more productive,” Romer said, because “70
percent of American wage-earners have not
had an increase in pay in the last 10 years.”
Many changes within the system also must
occur, Romer said.
Teachers’ contracts should be more incen
tive-based, and administrators should involve
teachers in the decision-making process, in
cluding hiring new faculty, he said.
Kerrey also said that reversing school sys
tems’ “regulatory environments” should be
considered, so that decision-making processes
are shared.
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Iransients,
not students,
usual group
using detox
Official says center offers
advice, alternative to arrest
By Lori Stones
Staff Reporter
Since Aug. 1,21 intoxicated people have
been transported from UNL to Comhusker
Place, a detoxification center at 721 K St.
None of them were students.
Lt Mylo Bushing of the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln Police Department said the
majority of people taken by police to Com
husker Place have been transients.
“They arc in places under viaducts, camped
in bushes, in the parking lots or sleeping on
stairwells in academic buildings,” Bushing said.
Intoxicated people are transported to Com
husker Place through protective custody when
they pose a threat to themselves or others.
Bolted doors lead to the two protective
custody rooms. Voluntary detoxification rooms
are connected to the protective custody unit
through the medical station. And through a
corridor, the extended-care program is con
nected to voluntary detoxification.
Rex Thompson, director of Comhusker Place,
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Duck hunt
The Greatland Traditional Dancers of Anchorage, Alaska, perform an Eskimo dance called “Duck Hunt” in the
Nebraska Union on Friday. The group, which includes members of the Aleut, Tlingit, Yupik Eskimo and Inuptaq
Eskimo tribes, was in Nebraska To attend the National Indian Education Association conference.
Huskers befuddle Tigers.
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| Weight woes plentiful, dietician says
By Kara Morrison
Staff Reporter
Adjustment lo college lifestyles
and societal pressure to be thin
continue to make weight loss
a concern among students, a Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln official said.
Kathleen Lehr, a registered dieti
cian and certified I
nutritionist at the
University Health I
Center, said an em- [■PJlFriWi
phasis often is
on dieting
in college because
most students don’t
expend as much energy or bum as
many calories as they did in high
school.
Students usually aren’t in as many
extracurricular activities and must
spend more lime studying, Lehr said.
And, she said, social activities in
college are centered on food and
beverage consumption, she said.
Society also often makes people
feel inferior if they are not a certain
size. Lehr said.
This pressure affects women more
often than men, she said.
“It is heard and observed that,
especially females, are supposed to
be pencil-thin," Lehr said.
Instead of a healthier means to
losing weight, Lehr said, students often
try “fad diets,” or trendy weight-loss
methods that promise results.
“Fad diets are very lopsided as far
as nutrients are concerned," she said.
These diets stress certain food
groups and exclude others, she said.
They often arc characterized by dras
tic changes in caloric intake— some
times to dangerously low levels, she
said.
For young adults, Lehr recommends
that women consume no fewer than
1,200 calories a day and that men
consume no fewer than 1,800calories
a day.
Consuming fewer calories does not
provide enough energy, Lehr said.
Fatigue, headaches and a lack of en
thusiasm result when the body is not
provided with a sufficient energy
source, she said.
Among the most popular weight
loss methods that can be considered
“fad diets" are liquid and pill diets.
Lehr said.
Some liquid diets like “Slim Fast"
contain nutrients and stress having
one balanced meal. Lehr said. But
these diets “have their limitations,”
she said.
“My objection to these prepack
aged diets is that you are not learning
how to choose the right foods,” she
said.
A large percentage of weight lost
on liquid diets is from water loss that
is quickly gained back, she said.
Pill diets arc often “just gimmicks,”
Lehr said.
Two common pill diets include
grapefruit diet pills and amino acid
pills, which promise to make people
lose weight while they sleep.
“Grapefruit has nothing magic in
it that causes you to lose fat, and there
is no scientific documentation that
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