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CONVOCATION APRIL 10 Cl The 64th annual All University Honors Convocation for the University of Nebraska-Uncoln will be held Friday. April 10, at 2 30 p m in the Devaney Sports Center All students and their parents are encouraged to attend Students revel on island beach South Padre Island. Texas. Need I say more? Probably, if you want to know what to do in one of the most densely populated Spring Break party areas. Come to think of it, it may be easier to list the things I DIDN’T do over the week: I didn’t stay sober. I didn’t get stung by a jellyfish. I didn’t get much sleep. And I defi nitely didn’t worry about a thing. Even though that should sum it up well, I’m still going to let you know exactly what goes on for the entire week on the edge of our wonderful continent. First of all, from the University of Nebraska, Padre Island is a whop ping 18 hour drive, even when yourspeedaverages75MPH. What that adds up to is 1,080 minutes of some of the most boring highways and interstates in the country. But it’s worth it. The hotel strip is w here most of the action is, so that’s where every one stays during the daytime hours. The women put on their bathing suits while die men pick up a couple cases of beer, and they all meet on the beach. Once the day gets going, it’s impossible to see any sand unless you’re laying on it. It is a sight you have to see to believe. My shoes were stolen the first J' L^rrowa pair from major dilemma was figuring out how to bail an other friend out of jail. Evidently public intoxication is frowned upon by the local police, and tripping in a parking lot gives them enough reason to approach you. 'Ibis should have taught my group a quick lesson, but two others spent time in jail for public intoxication also. No harm done — now they have stories to tell their grandchil dren someday. The night life at Padre was in credible. Several bars lined the strip, of fering a variety of sellings, music, dancing, and drink specials. (Women who lifted their tops for the bartenders usually got free drinks.) Two of the bars, Charlie’s and Louie’s, were filled with at least 5,000 people nightly, making for very interesting dance partners (depending on how much you’ve had to drink), and lots of fun with your friends. If you don’t have any friends with you. no problem. Everyone was yen- friendly and yoti are welcome to party with just about anyone on the island. An extremely publicized Spring Break trend was bungee jumping. See PADRE on 10 CLINIQUE i Gateway, Lincoln A FREE GIFT FOR YOU Clinique “Reward Yourself’ Yours with any Clinique purchase of $12.00 or more Your Gift Includes: • Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion • Daily Eye Benefits • Bronze Satin Soft-Pressed Eye Shadow • Honey Ginger Different Lipstick • Lip Brush • Non-Aerosol Hairspray Allergy Tested, 100% Fragrance Free One to a customer, while supplies last. Offer good through April 18th, or call 434-7445 to place your order. More to Tijuana than bars, booze i woke up last Wednesday dur ing Spring Break with a killer head ache. I thought I was going to puke. Bruises from I don’t know where dotted my legs. My back hurt. The room was kind of spin ning. It smelled like old urine. It took me a minute to realize where I was. Oh yeah, Tijuana, Mexico. But I wasn’t partying the night before: I was moving a mountain. I went to Mexico with 17 other young men and women to help build a house for The City of Ref uge orphanage in Tijuana. I passed up parties and beaches for a week ot dirt and showerless ness. We pulled into the orphanage Monday and were welcomed by about 30 or 40 smiling children. We played games with them in the morning until they went to school and we went to work. We drove to our work site over bumpy Mexican roads, through the barrios of Tijuana. I thought of the yuppie neighborhood we’d stayed in the night before. Visions of the $250,000-plus lake-side houses stuck in my mind as people in shacks peeked out when we piled out We were told to excavate a grassy hillside soa retaining wallcouldbe created. A house would be built later on. We stared up at the 10-foot wall of rocky dirt that loomed ahead. After about six hours of picking through rocks and mud, my hands fell as though they were going to drop off my arms. If only we’d had a bulldozer. I thought of my friend soaking up the sun on the beach in the Bahamas. We worked all Tuesday after noon and headed back to the or phanage. But hot showers weren’t waiting for us. The city of Tijuana rations its water. We couldn’t even have a glass of ice water. Thai evening we went to Revo lutionary Avenue to buy ponchos, beads, blankets — the usual. David Badders/DN We passed by the bars — the same clubs I went to last July. They were packed with college students spending their Spring Break the traditional way. I met a lot of fun people at those clubs last summer. Buncnes of long haired guys, tons of groovy college students and just all-around shiny, happy people. But the folks I met this year in Tijuana were different. There was Martha — a woman whose husband helped her start the orphanage, then left her for another woman. She sings to the children and becomes the mother many of them lack. There was Sarah — the 10-year old bilingual who explained that there were three kinds of children who lived at the orphanage: the bullies, thesnots and the nice ones. There was Leondardo — the 14 year-old boy who wants more than anything to be a preacher and spread love in the world. ThisSpring Break was definitely a change from South Padre Island or the Bahamas. But when we loaded into the van after the third day of work, I looked up at the nearly level ground that used to be a grassy hillside, and I was happy that I missed out. iWC's WTCTsl | , TAKE A STUDY BREAK! j $2.80 Pitchers $1.15 Well Drinks W.C. 'S Downtown I " 1228'P Street I Lwc • ^ jCoupon^ot^Good With Any Other Offer w,£^J JOIN NK LAWN & GARDEN'S SUMMER SALES REPRESENTATIVE TEAM!! NK Lawn & Garden Co., a leader in the lawn and garden industry for over 100 years, has an excellent opportunity for you. * A resum6-enhancing summer job experience while earning degree credits. * A monthly salary plus performance bonus. * The opportunity to travel. * A job that provides a company van and gas, paid business expenses, and a daily living allowance. 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