Chancellor
encourages
new students
By An£l« Schendt
Staff Reporter
During a fireside chat Thursday in the Wick
Alumni Center, Chancellor Graham Spanier
encouraged a class of freshmen to get involved
on campus.
“Get involved and really sink your teeth into
activities that you really think you can make a
difference in, or you have a deep personal con
viction for,” Spanier told the Chancellor's
Leadership class.
The class is a group of freshmen who are
chosen through their demonstration of leader
ship skills, academics and activities in high
school. Some members from last year have
become advisory board members this year to
help out the new members.
“The goal of the group is to promote lead
ership on campus and at our old high schools,”
said Freshman Tami Schluns, who is an unde
clared major.
The 42-member group meets about twice a
month for a year to expand their leadership
skills, said Denise Cradick, the assistant di
rector for the Office for Student Involvement
and administrator for the program.
The chat was the third meeting for the
group.
“We have to go to 80 percent of the activi
ties,” said Freshman Angela Splittgerber, an
undeclared major.
“It’s not a big time commitment for me,”
said Trisha DeVries, a freshman elementary
education major.
In addition to those seminars, they have one
community service activity to do as a group
per semester. Cradick said the group decided
what they wanted to do. They also will go on a
one-day retreat at Camp Calvin Crest on Sat
urday.
Spanier said each member gets a $500
scholarship for the year, which is financed from
the state budget.
A few times throughout the semester, the
leadership class will meet again with Spanier
to get to know him and to learn from him. They
*also will have dinner at his house.
Fall’s here — cold may not stay
By Paula Lavlgne
Senior Reporter
It’s cold. It’s wet. It’s raining. It’s windy.
It’s the first day of fall in Nebraska.
Students scurried across campus in a blur
of umbrellas, winter coats and gloves after
a cold front moved into Nebraska early
Thursday morning.
The predicted high for today is 56 de
grees — about 20 degrees below normal —
with light rain and northerly winds at 10 to
15 mph.
Fred Meier, chief meteorologist at the
National Weather Service in Lincoln, said
a storm front moved out of the Rockies
Wednesday night and swept through the
Midwest Thursday morning. The front
should be in the southern states by Satur
day morning, he said.
“We’ve got the coldest weather we’re
going to get,” he said.
Temperatures may drop into the upper
30s Saturday morning as the front passes
and the skies start clearing.
But Meier said the cold would not last
long.
“I expect to rebound quite a bit on Sat
urday with highs in the 60s and 70s,” he
said. “It will be a mostly sunny day.”
The cold, rainy weather agitated students
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Shannon Novak, a freshman general
studies major, stood outside the Nebraska
Union fidgeting with her umbrella.
“I thought today was going to be the '
worst day,” she said. “I hate ram.”
Novak said her roommate reminded her
to bring an umbrella.
“Otherwise, I’d be soaked by now.”
Jenny Anciaux, a junior psychology ma
jor, spent part of her afternoon looking for
an umbrella in the University Bookstore.
“The weather is depressing. It’s from one
extreme to another,” she said. “It’s hot, then
it’s freezing.”
However, not everybody was depressed
by the cold temperatures.
Joyce Campbell, an employee at The
Bakery in the Nebraska Union, said she
loved the cold weather, but her customers
did not. Their No. 1 order was hot coffee.
Jon Waller/DN
Ruth Ford, a specialist In UNL’s Geography Library, makes her way
across campus Thursday afternoon. The high temperature Thursday
was 33 degrees lower than Wednesday's high of 82 degrees.
“They come in and say ‘Brrrr, it’s cold
out there!’” she said. “But they keep com
ing in.”
Meier said the record low for Saturday
was 31 degrees, but it was unlikely the
record would be broken this year. A light
snow fell Wednesday night in Scottsbluff,
Meier said, but failed to accumulate.
Is the first day of fall a sign of a cold
weather trend?
Not right away, Meier said.
“There will be more cold fronts as fall
progresses,” he said, “but it will be in a week
or 10 days, near the end of September.”
Cass County water unhealthy
From Staff Rtporto
Three of 10 water samples taken
from the Cass County water district
were found to be contaminated
Thursday, a county health chief said.
The water supply became contami
nated after a water main was dam
aged by a dynamited beaver dam, said
Scott Holmes, chief of the environ
mental health division of the Lincoln
Lancaster County Health Depart
ment.
Health officials issued a boil or
der Wednesday for area residents.
The water district includes portions
of eastern Lancaster and Cass coun
ties, Walton, Prairie Homes Estates,
the Larsen subdivision and Woodland
Hills Golf Course.
Holmes said he advised all water
users in that area to boil water used
for drinking or preparing food. Wa
ter can be safely used to bathe or to
wash clothes.
Holmes said the district had been
chlorinating the water supply since
the damage occurred and would con
tinue to do so until tests indicate the
water was safe.
The water main was repaired, and
the contamination should disappear
with time. Holmes said. He couldn’t
predict how long it would be before
the water was safe to drink but said
the public would be notified.
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