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By Jeffrey Robb
Senior Editor
Venetta Aaron was a person who
was concerned about others. But last
weekend, Aaron’s friends from the
sociology and communication studies
departments were the ones who were
concerned about her.
Aaron, 25, a graduate student in so
ciology, entered Lincoln General Hos
pital Friday and died Monday from a
heart attacks Aaron, a first-year gradu
ate student in sociology at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, had devel
opedpneumoniaandabloodclot, which
may have moved to her heart.
“She was such a wonderful, loving
person,” said Naomi Lacy, a graduate
student in sociology.
Friends said Aaron would be missed
dearly.
Aaron was a bit of sunshine, they
said. She always smiled and had a
“She [Venetta Aaron] touched a lot of people's lives
with the kind, beautiful Christian spirit she had. ”
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STACY WEBSTER
Sociology graduate student
great laugh that could be heard all the
way down the hall.
Loving, kind, generous, positive,
and soft-spoken were words used to
describe her. She was a beautiful per
son, said Stacy Webster, who has taken
every class with Aaron.
“She touched a lot of people’s lives
with the kind, beautiful Christian spirit
she had,” said Webster, also a gradu
ate student in sociology.
Aaron was close to her family and
always talked about them, her friends
said. Her parents arrived in Lincoln
just after their daughter’s death.
Aaron, who graduated from
Clemson University in South .Caro
lina before coming to UNL, taught a
nationality and race relations class.
She took her graduate work, teaching
and relationship with students seri
ously, Webster said.
A few sociology classes were can
celed Wednesday.
“She’ll be so missed by the com
munity here at UNL,” said Ana-Maria
Wahl, a sociology professor and friend.
Smith addresses future of university
By J. Christopher Haln
Senior Reporter
Coffee, rolls and a healthy dose of
university-speak were the prescrip
tion Wednesday morning at a legisla
tive breakfast held by Lincoln area
state senators.
About 65 people, most over age
50, turned out to hear University of
Nebraska President Dennis Smith
speak about the university’s future.
Smith was the guest of the eight
senators who represent some portion
of Lancaster County.
Smith said there had never been a
tougher time to be president of the
university.
“We are enteringanew era in higher
education nationally,” Smith said.
In the next century, Smith said,
more than 65 percent of all jobs will
require some type of post-secondary
education.
Smith saidhe was focusing on five
areas to bring the university forward:
the food processingbusiness, biotech
nology, health care, information tech
nology and engineering.
He said the university needed to be
a major player in the future of the
agriculture-related fields of food pro
cessing and biotechnology. .
The transplant center, as well as
cancer research and treatment at the
University of Nebraska Medical Cen
ter, will keep NU involved in health
care, Smith said*
Computers, interactive video and
other multimedia, Smith said, could
end the way classes have been taught
for the last 200 years—standing and
lecturing.
“Information technology will trans
fer the way in which we educate,”
Smith said.
The university should proceed with
its plan to enhance engineering educa
tion at both the graduate and under
graduate levels, Smith said.
Engineering, said Sen. Don Wesely
of Lincoln, was one of the thorniest
issues a university president has had
to step into.
“(Smith’s) handling of that issue
has been much admired by many of us
“We are entering a new
era in higher education
nationally. ”
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NU president
in the Legislature,” Wesely said.
People attending the breakfast had
the opportunity to ask Smith ques
tions.
J. Warren Vannoy, an 80-year-old
retired farmer from the Lincoln area,
expressed to Smith his displeasure
with NU.
“If I had any more children, they
wouldn’t be going to the University of
Nebraska.”
After the breakfast, Vannoy said he
had two problems with NU—scholar
ship money going to students from out
side Nebraska and teaching assistants
who can’t speak English well.
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