SPORTS
Echoing last season
Nebraska softball player Tobin
Echo-Hawk has matched and
improved upon her impressive
numbers last season.
Page 7
Thursday
65/34
Today, partly cloudy,
breezy and warmer
with a chance of
showers.
April 7, 1994
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 93 No. 136
Fiji members active in changing image
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
It’s a little quieter around the Phi Gamma
Delta Fraternity house these days.
Six months after Jcficry Knoll fell
from a third-story window in an incident in
volving hazing, members of the fraternity are
taking the university-imposed sanctions seri
ously and arc working to improve the image of
their fraternity.
Following the incident, Fiji was sanctioned
by the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln. The
fraternity is not allowed to serve alcohol at
social functions until 1996-97 or sign new
members until the summer of 1994.
The fraternity members also are required to
perform 12 to 16 hours of community service
per month. But according to the Fiji philan
thropy chair, the members would have done th is
anyway.
Dave Hunter, a sophomore, said the frater
nity would have been involved in public service
activities even without the sanctions.
“Maybe it influenced us todomore,” he said.
The fraternity has started or is planning the
following:
• Continuing to work with the Tabitha
Meals on Wheels program. Fiji president Brian
Mejak said the members had to prove them
selves to be rcl iable before they were given more
responsibilities in the Tabitha program.
• Serving dinner at the First Presbyterian
Church to raise money for Fresh Start, a pro
gram for children. Hunter said he hoped the
members ofthe fraternity could raise more than
S300 for the program.
• Serving dinner at the Peoples City Mis
sion in Lincoln. Mejak said members would
work every Wednesday night for two hours.
• Recruiting members for the Nebraska
Human Resources Institute, a program similar
to the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program.
Mike Johnson, a member of Fiji, volunteers
in the institute as part of Project Pals, a program
involving children with orthopedic disabil itics.
“You just basically hang out ... and help
them get better self-confidence in themselves,”
Johnson said.
There arc 12 to 15 counselors paired with a
child, called a junior counselor, he said. The
pairs can do activities as a group or just go out
on their own, he said.
“We do things like go to the circus and go
bowling,” Johnson said. “They really enjoy
spending the time with us. They really look up
to us.
Jay Calderon/DN
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity members Jeff Barton, left, and Marcus Haith play basketball in the Fiji parking lot
Wednesday afternoon. Members of the fraternity are doing community service projects in Lincoln to comply
with sanctions imposed by the university last fall.
They really enjoyed going to the circus.
This weekend the group of volunteers and
children are going out for a picnic. Johnson
said. He said the program benefited many.
“It’s good for the community and the univer
sity to have a program like this,” he said. “It
gives (students) experiences other than in the
classroom.”
Johnson said he was the only member of the
fraternity currently involved in the program.
but he is trying to change that. He said he had
talked to several members who were interested
in volunteering.
Hunter said with all of the activities being
planned, there had not been any problems find
ing willing Fiji members, even after the in
house membership had been reduced to a “core”
group of 40 because of the hazing sanctions.
More than 20 other members live off-campus.
“We haven’t had any problems getting the
guys to do the Meals on Wheels,” he said. “We
haven ’ t had any problems getting guys to nil up
the events we have.”
James Griescn, vice chancellor for student
affairs at UNL,said the Fiji community service
activities were “acceptable.” He would not say
if he was pleased or displeased with their ac
tions.
Griesen said he wanted to have formal com
munity service plans approved by the university
See FIJI on 6
ASUN passes bill opposing the ticket price increase
by Heatner Lampe
Staff Reporter
A bill opposing the recent $17
increase in student football
tickets was passed by unani
mous vote i n ASUN Wednesday night.
Andrew
Loudon, presi
dent of ASUN,
said he was very
disappointed that
the athletic de
partment did
little to gauge stu
dent opinion on
the increase.
The bill states that the Association
ol students ol the University ot Ne
braska requests that the athletic de
partment make a greater effort to in
volve students in future decisions that
affect the student body.
Britt Ehlers, first vice president of
ASUN, said he and Loudon would
talk to Athletic Director Bill Byrne
next week to urge the department not
to raise the price ofbaskctball tickets.
“We want to make sure they listen
to us in the future and ideally try to get
a price decrease in next year’s basket
ball tickets,” Ehlers said.
Ehlers said the price increase was
especially unfair to students because
students had just recently received
worse seating in Memorial Stadium.
/\nu, enters saiu, ine iimmg oi me
increase was unfair to students.
“(Students) had no idea. It was
almost just one week before lottery
applications were due. It gave stu
dents little time to plan for the SI7
increase," Ehlers said.
According to the athletic depart
ment, the increase will help pay ath
letic department costs, such as changes
and repairs to the stadium.
Greg Sphon, a senator for graduate
studies, said he wasn’t so much upset
at the price increase, but at the idea
that students weren’t involved in the
decision.
“While no one likes a price hike,
the main thing is that students didn’t
nave me cnance u> muicc a uccisiun,
Sphon said.
In other action, the steering com
mittee in charge of raising money and
planning for the memorial in honor of
Candice Harms was appointed.
Six members, including Candice
Harms’ mother, Pat, will be involved
in raising $15,000 over a six-month
period for the memorial.
Loudon said the memorial would
most likely be a wall placed in the
northwest sec lion of North Plaza Park,
or green space.
Sphon said the memorial was a
positive way to remember Harms.
“The memorial is a way to show
that each individual student is more
r
tnanjusia numDcroui ratnerpartot a
larger UNL student body and family,”
he said.
Ehlers said the memorial was not
only a good way to remember Harms
but also a way to remind students not
to take the attitude that “it will never
happen to me.”
Dave Milligan, a senator for the
E ngineer i ng a nd Tec hnology Col lege,
was elected speaker of the senate.
The speaker’s responsibilities in
clude being the public relations per
son for ASUN, sitting on the appoint
ments board, being a member of the
executive committee of ASUN and
choosing members of ASUN’s sub
committees.
1
rair matches students with jobs
By Julie Sobczyk
Staff Reporter
omc UNL students got a head
employment Wednesday at
the Job Fair in the Nebraska Union.
The fair, sponsored by the Student
Employment and Internship Center,
gave students an opportunity to meet
with local employers and discuss sum
mer jobs.
Lindy Nolan, assistant coordinator
of the fair, said 44 businesses around
Lincoln were represented at the event.
start on looking for summer
Freshmen through seniors attended
the fair. Most of them were interested
in part-time jobs for the summer.
Eric Pet/, a sophomore business
major, said he heard about the fair and
stopped in to see what it had to offer.
“I’m looking for a summer job in
either anoffice or some tvpcof manual
labor,” Pet/said. “I think the fair gave
me a lot of different aspects and op
portunities for jobs around Lincoln.”
Business representatives also real
ized the benefits of the job fair.
Carolyn Straub, director of human
resources for Runza Restaurants, said
the job fair had been successful for
Runza. Many people applied for the
part-time and summer jobs for which
they were hiring.
N ick Badura, a representative from
Matrixx Marketing, agreed.
“I feel we’ve had success here,” she
said. “We’ve given out a lot of appli
cations, and 1 think it’s been very
beneficial."
Li ndaZimmcrman, a recruiter from
Harris Laboratories, said the job fair
was an excellent way for students to
get a head start on their futures.
“I think college graduates can im
prove job prospects if they get a part
time job or internship in a field related
to their major.”
Lied Center to lose director
From Staff Reports
Robert Chumbley, director
of the Lied Ccn ter for Per
forming Arts, has ac
cepted the executive position of the
Fine Arts Center at the Stale Uni
versity of New York in Buffalo, the
chancellor’s office announced
Wednesday.
Chumbley, who has been ex
ecutive and artistic director at the
Lied Center since 1989, also ac
cepted an associate professor job at
SUNY-ButTalo.
Chumbley’s wife, Shirley Irek,
has accepted a job as visiting asso
ciate professor of music at SUNY
Buffalo. Irek is an assistant profes
sor at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln School of Music.
Chancellor Graham Spanier
said Chumblcy’s leadership during
the Lied Center’s first four seasons
was exceptional.
“We sincerely regret he has cho
sen to leave UNL but understand
that the professional opportunities
afforded to Mr. Chumblcy and
S hi rley I rck are not ones they should
pass up,” Spanier said in a state
ment.
A national search for
Chuinbley’s successor will begin
immediately in order to have a di
rcctor in place by fall.