New fraternity helps community
By Jody Holzworth
Staff Reporter
Collecting money and cleaning
up after floods are just two of the
services a new co-ed fraternity at
UNL has been performing.
Since October, Alpha Phi Ome
ga has collected money for the Food
Bank, helped clean up after this
summer’s flood in Iowa and spring
cleaned at the People’s City Mis
sion.
Lowell Schlcnkcr, a UNL grad
uate business student, began orga
nizing APO last fall after he was
involved with the fraternity at the
University of Nebraska at Kearney.
APO is currently a petitioning
group, which means it is perform
ing activities to receive its charter
at UNL next fall, Schlcnkcr said.
“The main focus of Alpha Phi
Omega is to provide community
service, although we also stress
building friendships,” Schlenker
said.
UNL’s chapter has 18 members.
Schlenker said it was important
that both men and women be in
volved in fraternity activities.
“We felt everyone should have
the chance to participate,”
Schlqnker said, “By not becoming
co-ed, we are cutting half the peo
ple out who could make a big differ
ence in our chapter.”
APO members do not live in a
house together like most fraterni
ties. However, the fraternity has
traditions as strong as other mem
bers of the Greek system without
any exclusiveness, hazing or hous
ing, Schlenker said.
Students who join the fraternity
arc required to perform at least 15
hours of community service per
semester, Schlenker said.
“We wantmemberswhoarepret
ty serious about our group,”
Schlcnker said.
The fraternity helped with a Leu
kemia Society of America fund
raiser Sunday. They also serve soup
to needy people at The Gathering
Place every month.
Schlenker said helping the home
less and needy often was an eye
opening experience.
“APO is insightful,” Schlenker
said. “We see things in the world
you would not normally see.”
APO was founded by the Boy
Scouts in 1925 and at one time had
600 chapters nationally. Now, APO
has more than 300 chapters around
the nation. The fraternity existed at
UNL for just men from 1935 until it
became inactive in 1968 because of
student apathy.
APO has been increasing in
membership during the past few
years, Schlenker said.
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The Aggies’ streak of three straight
Southwest conference titles will come
to an end because they also arc ineli
gible to win the conference title. They
also cannot appear on television next
season. Through 1998, the NCAA
will monitor the program but won’t
impose any additional sanctions.
Texas A&M isn’t the first school to
give the SWC a black eye. Arkansas
left the SWC in 1990 tojoin the South
east Conference. Southern Methodist
received the death penalty in 1987.
Four other schools have faced
NCAA sanctions in recent years.
Dykes said.
Dykes said the conference’s prob
lems may have been a key in Texas
Tech’s departure.
“This gave us sort of a bad name
nationally,” Dykes said.
Dykes’ Red Raider football team
has finished second in the SWC the
last three years. Last year, the school
won its first national championship in
women’s basketball.
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We have a lot of similarities to the schools of the
Big Eight. We're the second-largest city in the
Big 12. We have about 25,000 students. We're
not in a pro market. —Spike Dykes
Texas Tech football coach
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Located in Lubbock, the school has
an enrollment of 24,285. Texas Tech
went 6-6 last season and lost to Okla
homa in the John Hancock Bowl.
Baylor, which has an enrollment of
12,500, is the only school on the list
without a national title.
The Bears’ football team has been
to a bowl game three out of the past
four years.
In all, the Big Eight had a 6-1
record over the four schools in 1993.
The only loss came when Missouri
lost to Texas A&M 73-0 in College
Station.
Despite the SWC’s lack of success.
Dykes said, the teams are excited at
joining the conference.
“It’s a chance to extend our credi
bility,” he said. “It’s sort of flattering
and it’s nice to be included.”
The four schools fit in fairly well ii
terms of football attendance. They al
averaged more than 33,300 in atten
dance last season. SMU, Texas Chris
tian, Rice and Houston — the fou
schools that were le ft out of the merge
— all had attendance averages les:
than 26,255.
Dykes said the Red Raiders’ depar
ture from the Southwest Conference
was bittersweet.
“I think it’s a sad deal for the
conference to fall apart,” Dykes said.
“However, it’s a great happening for
the university. It brings us a lot of
prestige, and it’s a great opportunity
and privilege for us to join.”
VISION against keeping
LETTUCE from debates
From Staff Reports
Members of the VIS ION Party said
Sunday they disagreed with last week’s
ASUN Electoral Commission deci
sion to keep LETTUCE from partici
pating in ASUN election debates.
Britt Ehlers, VISION first vice pres
idential candidate, said it also was
unfortunate LETTUCE did not file as
a student election group for the Asso
ciation fo Studentsof the University of
Nebraska’s March 9 election.
Ehlers said he was not sure how
well an unofficial debate would sit
with the electoral commission.
VISION Campaign Manager
Shawntell Hurtgen said there had been
no talk of an unofficial debate between
the two parties.
“We’re up for it,” Hurtgen said.
“It’s nothing we can’t do.”
Ehlers said LETTUCE’S write-in
campaign and a student movement to
write in television talk-show host
David Letterman were examples that
students wanted a change in student
government.
“In any case, I believe the emer
gence of write-in campaigns like LET
TUCE ... underscore that students are
tired of business-as-usual politics in
student government,” he said.
Ehlers said VISION was trying to
reach out to students who normally
would not get involved in student
government.
“The VISION party has worked
hard to 1 isten to the students of UNL,”
Ehlers said. “We have visited resi
dence hall floor meetings, grcck hous
es and have phone-banked off-cam
pus students. Our platform, our ideas
arc a reflection of what the students of
UNL want.”
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