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By Becky Keasling
Staff Reporter
Something’s cooking at the cul
ture center tins fall.
The smell of enchiladas and
eggrolls will greet students when
they visit the newly renovated kitch
en at the center.
Coordinator of Minority Pro
grams, Reshell Ray said the center
is the only facility on campus that
has its own kitchen.
When the kitchen is renovated
this summer, it will enhance the
center and die community, Ray said.
Besides food, history is also im
portant to the culture center.
The center is currently celebrat
ing it’s 10-year anniversary at its
current location of North 14th St
Before 1985, the center was lo
cated at 17th and Y St.
The former culture center was
established in the late 1970’s, Ray
said.
“UNL has a long history of pro
viding a place for students of col
or,” Ray said. “ A lot of schools
have centers for specific minority
groups, butUNL has one truly multi
cultural center.”
The center has a lounge area,
computer lab, study lounge, game
room, and a meeting space for mi
nority students. Also, the center has
two large rooms that can be re
served for classes, speakers, and
seminars.
The center offers a wide variety
of programs such as the ARMS
program and the Shades of Leader
ship celebration.
ARMS is a minority leadership
program which helps students of
color explore their identity in a
predominately white campus.
This program gets minority stu
dents involved on campus through
leadership, he said.
Another main event is called the
Shades of Leadership. This pro
gram is a celebration for students of
color, and each year they recognize
minority leaders.
The culture center’s main goal
for next year is to make the center
more visible, Ray said.
Dorm livin’ is the place to be
Many of you may be moving into
Residence Halls or On Campus
Housing Units, but don’t let the
whiners at the Residence Hall
Association or the New Student
Enrollment tour guides fool you.
Within days, you’ll be calling
these living accomodations what
they are: DORMS.
Dorm life is a rather unique
experience. I myself had quite a
time living there (although you
couldn’t get me to move in again —
it’s like elementary school, you had
fun while you were there, but you
sure as hell can’t return.)
One of the craziest things about
dorm living is sharing a room with
somebody.
Come on, before I came to
college, the last person I shared a
room with was my sister—when I
was five! (And the psychiatrist bills
for that one are still taking a lot of
weight out of my wallet.)
And now here you are, in an
eight-by-eight, sleeping with a
person that you quickly discover
you don’t know that well.
They might have any number of
previously unknown habits: snoring,
sleepwalking, the uncontrollable
urge to stab someone in the middle
of the night, just to name a few.
It is not my intent to frighten you,
but let me regale you with a story
about my own dorm roomie.
I moved into the dorms, intent on
having a single room (it was more
expensive, but it would have been
worth it).
Instead, I was greeted by this
javelin-throwing giant of a man
from New Jersey.
I asked for privacy, they gave me
Bob.
Now Bob was a nice guy if you
could get used to his alcoholic
singing, candid-camera womanizing
and ability to flatulate on command.
(I had to be constantly aware of the
outgoing message on my answering
Joel Siraueh
“But remember, the
residence halls have a
crack team of security
experts, trained in
martial arts, search and
reconnaisance and
balloon shaping. ”
machine).
Needless to say, I had an interest
ing semester.
Another aspect of dorm life that I
will pro/con for you is Validine (or
as it is known in the PC world —
the UNL Campus Food Service).
I know it sounds like some
mood-altering drug, but it’s not. It’s
the cafeteria-style eatin’ that you
will quickly form a love-hate
relationship with.
It’s sounds perfect. All the food
you can eat, delicately prepared for
your dining needs. The only thing
^.they don’t dnis bring ft dut to your
table.
There’s only one catch; 80
percent of it is unedible.
It looks real, but it’s like those
wax fruits. If you eat it, you get sick.
Maybe you have an iron stomach,
but be careful. One of my friends
kept a jug of Pepto-Bismol in his
room for use upon his return from
dinner.
But I don’t want to ruin your
appetite completely (or piss off the
Validine employees to the point
where they might make me the main
entree).
Some of the stuff is pretty good.
But you need to stick to the food
that you know.
There’s always cold cereal. I
remember one bad week where I
had three square meals of Lucky
Charms every day.
One thing to consider if you are
above the legal drinking age and
live in the dorms, you cannot
partake in a glass of wine after
dinner—or even a harmless fifth of
Jack Daniels before vomiting.
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln is a dry campus (at least
that’s what it says on paper.)
I suppose there are hooligans out
there who will attempt to sneak
alcohol into their rooms. (I remem
ber one time when Bob brought up a
keg in a television box.)
But remember, the residence
halls have a crack team of security
experts, trained in martial arts,
search and reconnaisance and
balloon shaping.
There are a lot of benefits to
living in the dorms as well. There’s
a person on each floor called the SA
(Student Assistant) who gather the
dormies around and have neat
meetings and play flag football and
plan get-togethers with floors of
opposite sex dorms that never pan
out.
Dorm life can be.a won^fuL }
opportunity to meet neW pedpre,'
become involved in campus
activities and leam new crocheting
techniques.
Just be prepared for the Bobs of
the world and accept that you have
to live under someone else’s roof, if
just for a little bit longer.
Strauch is a graduate of UNL and the
Daily Nebraskan Summer Editor.
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