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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.
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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.
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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.
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