RHA votes against paper towels.
By Corey Russman
Staff Reporter
The University of Ncbraska-Lin
eoln Residence Hall Association voted
to support the removal of paper tow
els from residence hall floor bath
rooms Monday night.
Matt Hammons,
RHA president,
said the resolution,
which passed 17-5,
clarified RHA’s
stance on the issue.
Housing officials
have the final say
on the policy,
Hammons said.
Jason Adams, national communi
cations coordinator for RHA, said th is
was the first time RHA had taken a
solid position on the paper towel is
sue.
Heath Kramer, senate speaker,said,
“We arc all grown-ups, have had
around 13 years of education, were
taught when and how to wash our
hands, and we don’t need a paper
towel there to tell us to wash our
hands.”
Scllcck President Brent Gaswick
said RHA members should ask them
selves if they wanted paper towels
reinstalled for health reasons or merely
convenience. Paper towels are not
required for sanitary reasons, he said,
so there is no need for them in resi
dence halls. „ „
The RHA resolution slates that
removal of paper towels would climi
natc 60,000 square feet of waste gen
erated by the residence halls. Re
moval of towels also would reduce
vandalism in the halls, the resolution
stales. In the past, students have started
fi res with the paper towels and clogged
drains with them.
The resolution also said that re
moving paper towels would not con
tribute to the spread of disease.
Furthermore, other Big Eight
schools do not use paper towels in
residence halls, the resolution said.
In other business, RHA considered
a bill that would require fliers to be
sent to each residence hall room in
forming residents that paper towels
have been restocked only temporarily l
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decided to postpone action on the bill, i
Spanier
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“I think the only reason she
agreed to see me was because she
knew I wanted to talk to her about
her work and notabout Hemingway,”
she said.
Although Spanier has a strong
interest in Hemingway, she said she
was concerned with getting ac
quainted with Gcllhorn.
“It’s a rare privilege to be able to
talk to a living writer about his or
her work,” she said.
But Spanier’s main focus
remains on Hemingway’s works.
She is a member of the
Hemingway Society, a group of 125
scholars from several countries who
meet every other summer for confer
ences on the writer.
Spanicr joined the group in 1990.
conferences in Boston and Pamplona,
Spain.
Pamplona, Spain.
Spanicr also just became a
member of the editorial board of the
literary journal “Hemingway ^
Review.”
Even though Spanicr has devoted
a lot of lime to studying Hemingway,
she said she wanted to concentrate on
Boyle and Gcllhorn for now.
Both of these writers are excit
ing, Spanicr said, and she is having
fun getting to know them.
Recruitment
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money was used primarily for the
recruitment of “under-represented
ethnic minorities,” such as African
American, Hispanic and Native
American students.
However, Gricscn said, minority
students at U NL also can receive other
aid, such as Regents scholarships.
About 150 minority sludentsapply
for scholarships at UNL annually,
Gricscn said, and only seven or eight
of those students get scholarships
through the endowment funds. An
other 15 minority students receive
some kind of assistance, he said.
IfUNLhad more money available,
Griesen said he wouldn’t necessarily
want it pul toward competition with
other institutions for academically
gifted minority students.
“Frankly, there are a lot of other
needy (minority) students around who
could benefit from scholarships,” he
said. “If we had another $5(),(XX), that
would be great, but I’m not sure I’d
want it dumped on trying to get the
glamor students.
“I’d much rather take that same
amount and put it toward helping 15
or so students from the next tier, who
could do as well or almost as well at
Nebraska.”
The main problem UNL has with
recruiting top in-state minority stu
denis, Griesen said, is competing |
against more attractive offers from i
other schools.
“Money talks,” he said. “If stu- I
dents from this state have a chance to 1
gooff to the Ivy League on a free ride,
there’s not a whole hell of a lot we can
do about it.”
But East Coast institutions aren’t
the only schools that give UNL offi
cials headaches.
“In the Big Eight, I would say that
Kansas, Kansas Slate and Iowa State
can all offer better packages than us,”
Griesen said. “When Iowa Slate of
fers a free ride, and we can only offer
S3,(XX), that’s that.
“Students arc going to go wher
ever the bottom line is the cheapest
for them.”
AIDS
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dents outside the art department dis
played their works.
Palomo said the coalition was
“deeply concerned” with AIDS aware
ness.
“We need to lake a stand against
AIDS and show people we can unite
and do something about this plague
that affects cvery body,” Palomo said.
“Until people realize that it’s
everyone’s disease, nothing’s going
to happen.
But it wc can come together un
der a happy pretense and raise money
for something that’s very unfortunate
for many people, wc can maybe bring
about AIDS awareness,” he said.
The funds raised will notbccountcd
until outside donations are collected,
Palomo said.
No dollar goal was set for the fund
raiser, he said. The real goal, he said,,
was to spread awareness.
‘‘Wcdon’t think that thcrc’sa mini
mum you can set on donations — no
donation is too small,” Palomo said.
Health center representatives took
donations in a box that said, “United
for the cause — for AID S, for human -
ity” at the d(K)r and distributed litera
ture on AIDS prevention. Palomosaid
the proceeds would go to the Ameri
can Foundation for AIDS research,
which is located in Los Angeles.
Janet Crawford, head of commu
nity health education at the health
center, said she thought the exhibit
was a unique way to promote AIDS
awareness and to show off student
artwork.
‘‘It gives the student artists a chance
to exhibit their work,” she said. “It’s
a nice tie-in to be able to promote
awareness,as well as student projects.” I
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building were finalized.
“We have a longer-term plan for
that building, but the ideas arc not yet
fully developed,” Carpenter said.
Benson said that if the interna
tional affairs office was forced to
vacate the building, the office would
be offered alternative space elsewhere.
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I just wish that I didn’t
feel this way about it
— that we’re losing a
part of our history.
Woodcock
manager of Da Vinci’s
-ft “
Carpenter said the university had
decided that the park would replace
DaVinci’s.
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Jeff Woodcock, manager of
DaVinci’s, said he did not agree with
the university’s plans for a park.
“I just wish that I didn’t feel this
way about it— that we’re losing a part
of our history,” he said.
Marsha Mueller, a junior theatre
major, said she was disappointed about
the closing of the restaurants.
“Now wcactually have tocross the
street to get food,” she said.
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