RHA to give out Harms fliers
t»y I risn bpencer
Staff Reporter _
Residence hall students will dis
tribute fliers to enclose in chain letters
asking for information about a Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln fresh
man Candice Harms, who has been
missing since Sept. 22.
The Residence
Hall Association
decided Monday
night to work with
the Women’s Cen
ter to set up booths
in the residence
_ (halls where stu
dents can pick up
fliers. Students will be asked to in
clude the fliers in letters they write to
relatives ana iricnas.
“I hope this will speed up the
search,” said Alicia Guerra, a fresh
man who works at the Women’s Cen
ter. 1
Guerra said she hoped the booths
would be open for at least a week.
Student volunteers will be in charge
of the booths. Envelopes and postage
will not be provided.
Andrea Casart, president of
Ncihardt Residence Hall, said she
expected many residents to visit the
booths. In the next few days, hall
residents will be preparing to partici
pate in Homecoming Week, some
RHA members said.
Casart said Ncihardt was regis
tered in every event.
Chuck Rcnsink, interim adviser
ior KtiA, said residence nan mvuivc
ment in Homecoming would reflect
the halls’ ability to cooperate with
fraternities and sororities.
In other business, RHA members
voted against a proposal to rent out
Super Nintendo games from complex
desks.
A few weeks ago, Real World
Company from Omaha offered to sup
ply RHA with Super Nintendo games
for rental.
Members decided it was not a wise
investment, Hammons said, because
RHA funds would have been used to
pay for lost or damaged equipment.
RHA would have received 30 per
cent of the profits, RHA President
Matt Hammons said.
Engineering college gets $160,000 grant
By Corey Russman
Staff Reporter
A S160,000grant has been awarded
to the College of Engineering and
Technology at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln.
AT&T awarded the grant, which
will be aimed at improving manufac
turing technology.
The College of Engineering and
Technology will use the grant to cre
ate a new packaging laboratory, said
Stan Liberty, dean of the engineering
college.
The laboratory will contain equip
ment and small robots that will show
students the effects ofpackaging, Lib
erty said.
The college hopes to develop
courses with an emphasis on global
packaging, he said.
The grant, which will be distrib
uted to the college over a three-year
period, shows a “vote of confidence”
from AT&T, Liberty said. The grant
is a “nice feather in the cap of our
institution,” he said.
Theresa Klein, director of public
relations and publications for the
University Foundation, said AT&T
was happy with the quality of engi
neering graduates from UNL. “They
believe strongly in our program,” she
said.
Sam Gronncr, secretary of the
AT&T Foundation, said the company
was pleased with the engineering
college’s uniqueness, and was happy
that the university and AT&T had
such a long-standing relationship.
Sally Krusell, public relations
manager for AT&T, said AT&T pro
vided aid to strengthen America’s
competitiveness in the global market.
AT&T also hopes to help improve
education, she said.
Alcohol
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lege days, lacked guidelines as to
what constituted responsible drink
ing. —
“I thought responsible drinking
meant throwing up in the bathroom
instead of on the carpel so that my
room males d idn ’ t have to clean up the
mess,” Hunnicutt said.
Bower also said he went through
‘‘lots of negative problems associated
with alcohol” while in college.
It wasn’t until he was a graduate
student at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln that Bower took a course
similar to the one he and Hunnicutt
now teach. He said it opened his eyes
to the need for such programs.
“From then on it was what I wanted
to do,” Bower said.
A grant from the Office of High
way Safety finances Bower and
Hunnicutt’s alcohol-awareness pro
gram on Nebraska campuses. They
also are working to develop services
that campuses across the nation can
use to prevent alcohol problems be
fore they develop.
As well as leaching students ways,
to reduce risks of alcohol ism and acute
alcohol intoxication, Bower and
Hunnicutt educate students on laws
and policies regarding alcohol.
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I thought responsible
drinking meant throw
ing up in the bathroom
• instead of on the carpet
so that my roommates
didn’t have to clean up
the mess.
Hunnicutt
education director, Alcoholism
and Drug Abuse Council of
Nebraska
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Ten yean* ago, Hunnicutt said, these
laws and policies were deemed “a
joke.” Today, he said, they arc seri
ous.
Hunnicutt said that first-lime driv
ing-while-intoxicated offenders now
must serve a 90-day jail sentence.
DWI offenders also lose their driver’s
licenses for one year in most states, he
said.
Minors caught in possession of
alcohol now have the offense perma
nently listed on their records — a
charge that ruins the hiring potential
of students in a time when jobs arc
hard to come by, Hunnicutt said.
He said employers refused to hire
people whom they suspected had al
cohol-related problems because alco
holism treatment was the No. 1 health
care cost for businesses.
Another ri sk that people often don ’ t
link to alcohol, Hunnicutt said, is the
risk of contracting the AIDS virus.
Bower and Hunnicutt said they
wanted students to realize that alco
hol consumption increased the likeli
hood of unplanned, unprotected sex,
which increased the chances of con
tracting the AIDS virus
After spending several months de
veloping their programs, Bower and
Hunnicutt have targeted several dif
ferent groups — including students
who live in residence halls, fraterni
ties and sororities, and student-ath
letes. Hunnicutt also teaches a health
education class to UNL students.
Bower and Hunnicutt arc now try
ing tocementtheirprogramsand ideas
into college groups and institutions
that will take over the responsibility
of distributing information to their
members.
“Students continually come and
go,” Hunnicutt said. “We are looking
for organizations that will lake the
responsibility for ongoing educational
programs.”
Eventually, the two men would
like to see their programs implemented
at the highest levels of all major
groups: residence halls, the national
fraternity and sorority systems, and
even athletic’ groups such as the
NCAA.
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8:50 p.m. — Fire, bowling unit
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9:02 p.m. — Jacket stolen, Cam
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11:01 p.m — Criminal mischief,
fireworks, Harper Residence Hall,
S5.
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12:02 a.m. — Criminal mischief,
fireworks, Smith Residence Hall,
no damage.
1:05 a.m.—Fire extinguisher ease
broken, Scllcck Quadrangle, $10,
man arrested.
2:04 a.m. — Outside police assis
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12th and Q streets.
2:33 a.m. — Verbal disturbance
between man and woman, Abel
Residence Hall.
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issued for verbal disturbance.
11:36 a.m. — Bicycle stolen, Burr
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player, police scanner, leather
jacket, wallet stolen from vehicle,
parking lot at 17th and R streets,
S950 loss, SI00 damage.
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Harper Residence Hall, S225 loss,
$10 damage.
12:49 p.m. — Bicycle stolen.
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6:43 p.m. — Radar detector stolen
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