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October 13, 1995
Art from the heart
Travis Heying/DN
Artist Denny Dent brought his two-fisted art attack to a full house in the Nebraska Union Centennial Room Thursday
night. Dent gave an energetic performance, painting portraits of musicians such as John Lennon, Elvis Presley and Jimi
Hendrix.
New system i
3y Kelli Bamsey
Staff Reporter
The 1995 Homecoming Court was chosen
ising a new system designed to increase the di
versity of the candidates.
“The new system worked out pretty well, the
:ourt is more well-rounded,” said Andy Vuko,
:hairwoman of the ASUN Homecoming roy
ilty committee.
The Homecoming committee has drawn
riticism in the past for hot representing a di
rerse student population — mainly because of
ts under-representation of minority students.
This year, no minorities were selected to be
m the court because no minority students ap
plied
Vuko said there hadn’t been any complaints
changes royal
about the court. The committee did all it could
to publicize the new process, she said.
The new selection process allowed applicants
to choose between three
tracks — athletic, commu
nity service, or campus in
volvement — to apply.
Vuko had one com
plaint of her own, however.
“I would have loved
to see more athletes apply,”
she said, “because they do
a great job of representing
the university through their
-1 SDort.”
Homecoming fes
tivities begin Monday and last through Oct. 21,
the day of the Nebraska-Kansas State football
game.
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Continuing the celebration of the football
team’s 1994 National Championship, this year’s
theme is “We’re Here and We’re Staying, Num
ber 1 Nebraska.”
The annual banner contest, Husker Howl,
wally-ball tournament, all-campus pep rally and
wacky Olympics will return for the week.
The traditional displays have been replaced
by an Oct. 20 carnival in North Plaza Park. Stu
dents can build a display or booth there, said
Britt Ehlers, chairman of the Homecoming com
mittee.
The following 20 students were named
homecoming royalty:
Dean Acheson, a senior agri-business ma
jor, member of Mortar Board, Gamma Sigma
Delta honorary fraternity and a University Am
bassadors member.
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Black men
to march
for unity
By John Fulwider
Senior Reporter
To Asante Moody, the Million Man March
on Washington is not a show of force.
It’s a foundation on which the future of
black people will be laid.
The UNL senior business administration
and economics major said all the world’s great
accomplishments didn’t happen overnight —
they started by laying a firm foundation.
The march, which will be Monday in Wash
ington, D.C., is intended to mobilize black
men to be effective leaders in their families
and communities.
Black women and men who cannot attend
the march are encouraged to stay home from
work or school Monday to show their support.
The foundation will be one of unity within
the black community, Moody said. The Mil
lion Man March will be different from the
1963 civil rights march, Moody said. In 1963,
the black community reached out to America
before it had unity among its members, he said.
The 1963 march drew 250,000 people to
Washington and helped lead to the passage of
voting rights and public accommodations laws.
In 1995, Moody said, black community
members are doing the opposite — building
unity among themselves before reaching out
side their community.
Moody said religion had divided blacks for
years. He said he hoped the division would be
healed by respecting religious differences and
coming together based on what blacks had in
common.
Moody helped organize transportation from
Lincoln and Omaha to Washington for the
march. He said he worked hard to make sure
everyone who wanted to could go.
But the goal was more important to him
than the logistics.
“I’m concerned about the genuine success
of this march,” he said.
Eric Shanks, 37, a 1987 University of Ne
braska-Lincoln graduate, also is going on the
march. Shanks was a Daily Nebraskan colum
nist from the spring semester of 1993 to the
spring semester of 1995.
His parents marched in a civil rights march
in the early 1980s, he said, and his father
marched in the 1963 march.
“This is a family tradition,” he said.
Shanks said he was excited about going on
the march.
“It sounds like a great idea,” he said. “A
whole bunch of brothers getting together for
something other than a football game.
“I just can’t wait. I’m surprised I’ve been
able to sleep.”
Masters Week celebrates UNL success stories
Beutler shares knowledge
of contemporary therapy
with psychology students
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
People’s minds are different, and therefore
everybody needs his or her own mental cure.
It’s a simple concept, but making that match
is a challenge that has consumed Dr. Larry
Bcutler’s 25-year career.
Beutler, director of training and programs
director of the School Psychology Program at
the University of California, has published
more than 250 scientific papers and 10 books
on the subject. *
Beutler, who received his doctorate from
UNL in 1970, returned this week to share his
knowledge with psychology students during
Masters Week, an annual event that honors
successful University of Nebraska-Lincoln
graduates.
Beutler chose UNL for his doctorate be
cause of its long-standing tradition in the psy
chology department.
He is not a native of Nebraska, though. He
was bom in Utah and raised
in Idaho. Beutler returned
to Utah and received his
bachelor’s and master’s
degrees at Utah State Uni
versity.
When Beutler went into
psychology, he confronted
a profession with some ste
reotypes.
I MM I People are always wary
Beutler of psychologi sts as they are
of attorneys,” he said, laughing.
Psychology has stepped out of the shadows
in the United States, Beutler said, and is mov
ing out of the medical sector to the social
sector.
As it makes that move, Beutler said he
studied how mental health can be tailor-made
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Tolin uncovers mysteries
of plant viruses, helps
Midwest’s wheat farmers
By John Fulwider
Senior Reporter
Sue Tolin will be recognized this week for
her work healing the sick.
Sick plants, that is.
Tolin, a plant pathologist, studies plant
viruses.
“A lot of people don’t think that viruses
infect plants,” she said. “But they do.”
Tolin, a professor of plant pathology at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Uni
versity will be honored during Masters Week,
an annual event honoring UNL graduates. She
earned a master’s and a doctorate degree from
UNL between 1962 and 1965.
One of the viruses Tolin has studied, wheat
streak, affects wheat crops in Nebraska’s high
•plains.
The virus stunts the plant’s growth, she
said, causing it to grow only about an inch tall.
Farmers often blame the poor growth on bad
location, she said, and decide to not plant there
again.
Uncovering the wheat
streak virus required some
detective work, she said.
The virus always turned up
where there had been a hail
storm, she said.
Investigations found that
a small mite that fed on
young wheat plants was
spreading the virus. The
Tolin hail would break the head
off the wheat, scattering seeds on the ground.
The mites fed off the new plants that grew
among the older wheat. They would remain to
continue spreading the Virus when a new wheat
crop was planted.
Tolin said plant pathology was a relatively
new field, beginning around 1900. But she said
there was evidence of plant viruses existing
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