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Student takes STAND against alcohol, forms groups offering drug-free activities By Patrick Hambrecht Staff Reporter____ Kristy Stcclc used to drink at least three or four times a wepk. But after seeing what alcohol abuse could do to others, Steele said, she rid herself of that habit. Steele, who worked as a volun teer at the University Health Cen ter, monitored a man whose blood alcohol content was almost three times the legal limit and was expe riencing the physical effects of al cohol poisoning. “I kind of felt sorry for h im,” she said, “but he had brought it on himself. I was so frustrated, bc ^ cause I knew this sort of thing happened so many times and there was nothing 1 could do about it.” Bui Stcclc is now doing some thing about alcohol abuse. A seniorcommunity health edu cation major at the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln, Stcclc recently created Students Taking A New - 44 Traditionally, the college setting supports social situations that involve drinking, and there are a lot of freshmen and upperclassmen who don’t feel com fortable in that sort of environment. That’s what this group is for: _ C fpp/p leader of STAND - ft - Direction. STAND will maintain the sort of drug-free social club setting in college that usually ends with high school organizations, she said. “Traditionally, the college set ting supports social situations that involvcdrmking,” Steele said, “and there arc a lot of freshmen and upperclassmen who don T feel com fortable in that sort of environ ment. “That’s what this group is for.” The group has invited students to informal gatherings where drink mg is nol the locus, Steele said. “We’re doing a lot of recruit ment right now,” she said. “We’re waiting until we have a sizable membersh ip to decidc whal we want to do, so the members can be the ones to decide, instead of us telling them what to do.” Thegroupco-sponsorcd Big Red Welcome and a back-to-school barbecue. In October, STAND will help sponsor a weekly alcohol-free comedy night at Noodles Comedy Club, 228 N. 12th St. , The group welcomes non-drink ers, Steele said, but being alcohol free is not required. “We wanted to create a group for students who wanted to be with other students of similar interests,” she said. “These students arc simi lar because they want to have a good time without alcohol.” STAND members will also counsel teen-agers involved in the Alcohol and Drug AbuscCouncil’s Youth Program. “The council hclpsa lolof groups on the high school level,” Steele said. “We’d like to let high school students know there’s support for them in college.” Tiffany Malck*a freshman ac counting and finance major and a member of STAN D, said she hoped students would come to the meet ings and learn about the group. “I think STAND was a really good group to start on campus,” she said. “We always end up having a good lime together.” Grades Continued from Page 1 with the overall lifestyle of the per son.” Researchers from Southern Illi nois University and the College of William and Mary recently analyzed survey results collected at 78 cam puses during the 1989-90 school year and found thalsiudcnts w ith low grades consumed three times the amount that students on the honor roll consumed. The study was based on a survey of 56,361 students from 56 four-year schools and 22 community colleges. Researchers found students with low grades consumed an average of 11 alcoholic drinks a week. According to the research, students who were getting Ds and Fs were averaging 10.8 drinks a week, while students with As were consuming 3.4 drinks. Of students surveyed, 86 per cent said they used alcohol in the last year, and 45 percent said they drank on a weekly or more frequent basis. The report also found that men were more likely than women to go on heavy binges. According to the re search, 14 percent of men and women said they went on a binge once in the past two weeks and consumed five or more drinks. Sixteen percent of men said they had five drinks or more, three to five limes in two weeks, compared with 9 percent of women. Crawford said most college litera ture suggested that men drank at the heaviest level and that women could not drink at the same level. However, she said, it is hard to measure this because women can get the same effect from smaller amounts of alcohol than men gel in larger amounts. Corzinc said he agreed that a woman’s metabolism had a lot to do with the amount o.f alcohol she con sumed. He said this was so because the average percentage of body fat in a woman was higher than in a man, which could cause a woman to be come intoxicated faster than a man. But Corzinc said he didn’t think women were drinking less frequently than men, possibly just in smaller amounts. “In reality, I don’t see a lot of difference between the drinking pal lerns of men and women," he said. A recent college study found that students with low grades consumed three times the amount of alcohol that honor roll students consumed. 4 VISTA Volunteers share the vision of a better tomorrow by making a contri bution in the community today. Brighter futures take shape when VISTA Volunteers mobilize and de velop community resources to address the many faces of poverty. After your college career is com pleted, VISTA offers you the opportunity to put your education to work in realistic settings. VISTA Volunteers learn life skills — skills or designing programs to combat sub stance abuse. In addition to acquiring valuable and rewarding experience, VISTA Volunteers may receive defer ment or partial cancellation of certain student loans. VISTA Vol unteers receive a living allowance based on the economic level of the communities they serve. As you look toward graduation, con sider becoming a VISTA Volunteer. only a year of unique VISTA expe- HP A \ 7TCTA \ /fil I 1MTEPD VISTA offers you lhe °PPortunity 10 rience can provide. [JL [\ VlOl/l VULUIhCLIY shape a community and share a vision VISTA Volunteers are assigned to • of a better tomorrow, project sponsors which may be private To find out more, talk with a VISTA or public non-profit organizations. Volunteer representative September 24th at the Career activities may include, but are not limited to, * _ pajr? N£ Student Union 9;30am-3pm. Or, ating networks to support literacy projects, VJSTA all 1-800-424-8867 (TDD 1-202-606-5256). I Volunteers In Service to America (VISTA) is pert of ACTION, the Federal Domestic - — —’Volunteer Agency, Washington. D C. 20525 RHA seeks residents ’ viewpoints By Trish Spencer Staff Reporter m Student represents lives in the Resi dence Hall Association were urged Monday night to gather input from hall residents about important cam pus issues such as freshmen parking and grading policies. Trent Steele, first vice president of the Association of Students of the University of Ne braska, told RHA members thatgrad ing and parking policies would be big issues affecting UNL students this year, and he hoped students in the residence halls would get involved. A grading policy proposed by James Ford, an associate English professor, would change the grading scale at UNL to include minuses, Steele said. Students falling on the lower end of the grading scale would receive mi nuses, he said, and minuses would be factored into students’ grade point averages. The issue affects all UNL students equally, Steele said, and hall resi dents need to voice their opinions about the proposal to their RHA rep resentatives. Hal 1 residents also need to be aware of a parking proposal ASUN is considering that would require fresh men students to park in remote lots. RHA President Mall Hammons said the policy would affect hall resi dents the most because all freshmen were required to live in the residence halls. RHA will sponsor a booth in the Nebraska Union today and Sept. 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. so UNL stu dents can register to vote in the No vember general election. Gun fired outside Culture Center; no one injured From Staff Reports _ _ No one was injured early Sunday morning when an unidentified person fired gun shots above a crowd outside the Culture Center, 333 N. 14th St., a Lincoln police officer said. Sgt. Ann Heermann said the per son fired shots at 12:02 a.m. above a groupof about 25 people in an attempt to slop two men who were lighting. No arrests were made at the time of the report, she said. One of the men suffered a split lip and scrapes after being hit with a slick during the fight, Heermann said. The cause of the fight is unknown. Gender Continued from Page 1 said. The Big Eight would focuson ways to increase the number of coaches and officials in the conference,O’Han Ion said. “Coaches and officials arc areas where we can really act,” he said. The Big Eight may adopt financial incentives for member schools to hire more women coac hes, O ’ H an Ion said. The conference also may require each school to have a senior woman administrator present at conference meetings, he said. In other business, Big Eight offi cials will look at ways to keep thccost of athletics down, O’Hanlon said. Ideas on the agenda include limit ing travel squads, eliminating the off season training table and awarding only need-based scholarships. The Big Eight meeting will be Wednesday and Thursday in Kansas City, Mo.
