RHA outlines year’s festivities [
By Mindy L. Leiter
Staff Reporter
The Residence Hall Association
used its first executive meeting of the
semester Sunday
night to get orga
nized for the year.
The group
planned its yearly
retreats and activ
ities at the 6:30
p.m. meeting.
is planning a volleyball com
petition between residence halls that
is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 12,
at 1 p.m. at the Abel Residence Hall
courts.
Sarah Wilmer, events chair for the
Residence Hall Association, said she
hoped RHA could find a sponsor for
the event.
“We need help from all of the
halls,” she said.
Wilmer also said that the RHA
social committee was planning agrass
hopper dance, a suitcase dance, and
had plans for the residence halls to
become more active in festivities dur
ing the football homecoming week
end.
But she said for now, the volley
ball tournament remained the biggest
priority for the events committee.
“We need to hold it the weekend
after Labor Day,” she said, “because
after that RHA retreats and it turns
colder.”
RHA representatives also made
tentative plans for their annual RHA
retreat at the meeting.
RHA President Raquel Wright said
she urged RHA members to attend the
retreat. The retreat is a very important
training session for new leaders, she
said.
“It is a really important training
session and a way for people to get to
know each other and get the student
government off the ground,” she said.
This year’s annual RHA retreat
will be held Sept. 18 and 19 in Gretna.
The theme of the leadership work
shop will be “Planet RHA.”
Participants in the workshop will
enjoy volleyball, recreational courts,
a water slide, as well as training work
shops and keynote speakers.
RHA also discussed other impor
tant dates at the meeting, including
the Midwest Conference of College
and University Residence Halls which
will be held Nov. 12,13, and 14th. i
Registration for the conference is
Oct. 16, and an organizational meet
ing will be held at 9 p.m., Sept. 14, in
the blue room at the Neihardt Resi
dence Center.
Ride-share project caters to commuters
By Jenny Groen
Staff Reporter _______
With all the clamor about the lack
of parking, one UNL student has come
up with an environmentally friendly
solution.
Mark Petersen, president of Ecol
ogy Now, said a ride-share program
would begin at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln this semester.
Through the program, off-campus
students and faculty can hook up with
other commuters for the daily ride to
campus. Petersen first presented his
ride-share idea to the Nebraska Union
Board in January.
Interested commuters can fill out
forms displayed outside the ASUN
office in the Nebraska Union. The
new board is located next to the week
end ride-share board for students trav
eling to different areas of the United
The Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska information
office takes the cards and files them
according to where the commuter
lives.
A map outside the ASUN office
divides the commuters into regions.
The ASUN information office places
commuters’ cards into file boxes for
their region.
Commuters can look into their ar
ea’s file box to find the names and
numbers of nearby commuters,
Petersen said.
The Nebraska Unions Board and
ASUN agreed to fund the program
completely, he said. The board paid
for the maps and frames, and ASUN
covered theprinting costs ofthe infor
mation cards.
Petersen said the benefits of the
program were two-fold.
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