Plans made for spring break
oy Jenny Parmenter
ytaft Reporter
Forty-three days until spring break.
That includes weekends.
Many University ofNebraska-Lin
coln students who are counting down
the days are also planning their vaca
tions.
“Students usually head to the tradi
tional warmer destinations like South
Padre or Florida, although New Or
leans is becoming more and more
popular,” said Thelma Lassen, man
ager of AAA travel agency. “Even
though it’s not on the Gulf, students
still find it an exciting party town.”
Terry Wemer, a travel agent at
First Discount Travel, 5400 S. 56th
St., said Padre Island was the place to
be.
“More students from the Midwest
are traveling south, instead of to the
more popular Florida beaches,”
Wemer said. “Padre Island seems to
be gaining favor with the college
"More students from the
Midwest are traveling
south, instead of to the
more popular Florida
beaches. ”
TERRY WERNER
travel agent
crowd. Phoenix is also another place
that is becoming more popular to stu
dents.”
International Affairs, however, had
another option for students: interna
tional vacations.
“We encourage students to get a
Europass; then we help them out from
there,” said Maggie Kahler, flights
and travel services assistant. “Last year
Mexico City was the place students
went, but now places like London or
Paris are becoming more popular. We
can get students round-trip air fare
and hotel stay for under $500.”
Although most students prefer to
plan vacations on their own, many
travel agencies can help with air fare
or package deals.
“We suggest that they use special
spring break agencies that can accom
modate students’ needs, but usually
we can set them up with discounts on
air fare or car rental,” Lassen said. “Of
course AAA always helps their mem
bers with planning road maps and
other details.”
But Wemer said students should
be aware that 43 days is not a long
time.
“If students arejust starting to plan
their break, they are running behind
schedule,” Wemer said. “Most agen
cies offer their best deals in Decem
ber. I would suggest students consid
ering alternate destinations and trav
eling mid-week if they want to get the
best deal possible.”
Unions apply for funds
tty Hgjcii white
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska Unions and Student
Involvement submitted a budget pro
posal to the Asso
CFA
ciation of Students
of the University of
Nebraska’s Com
mittee for Fees Al
location on Thurs
day evening.
Daryl Swanson,
director of Ne
braska Unions, and
Marilyn
Bugenhagen, direc
tor or btudent Involvement, combined
their proposals for student fee requests,
which total $1.8 million.
, The request increased $37,891 from
last year for a total increase of 2.09
percent.
The budget for the Nebraska
Unions and Student Involvement span
a variety of areas. The administrative
and operational costs of both the Ne
braska Union and East Union are in
cluded, along with Student Involve
ment, the Women’s Center and the
Culture Center.
Swanson said the budget closely
resembled the actual operating costs
of the unions, sometimes within dol
lars, although variables such as sales
and usage of utilities made projec
tions difficult to make.
“Many unions across the country
... very often don’t show the true cost
of these operations,” he said.
Corrections
Clarificatio
Because of a production error,
three lines were missing from a
story in Thursday’s Daily Nebras
kan about tho Freshman Learning
Community.
The lines should have read:
Research has shown, he said,
that 25 percent of freshmen drop
out of school after their first two
semesters.
“The program is an efTort to help
them stay in school and to capture
their attention,” he (Don Gregory,
director of general studies) said. “If
they have something, they’re more
likely to stay.”
Student learns leadership,
survives East Coast storm
By Jenny House
Staff Reporter ~~ “
An opportunity in the nation’s
capital has opened one UNL
student’s eyes to nonprofit orga
nizations.
Although Daniel Brox doesn’t
plan to make working for a non
profit organization a profession,
the junior political science major
said he hoped to be a lifetime
volunteer.
Brox was
one of 75 col
lege students,
picked from
200 applicants,
to attend a semi
nar entitled,
“Leadership
2000: Within
the Indepen
ueni sector.
Brox Phil Dyer, a
professor ofpolitical science, said
Brox was chosen by the political
science department because he was
an outstanding student who had a
serious interest in political sci
ence.
“Not only is he a very good
student, he’s the type of person
who wants to give back to the
community,” Dyer said.
Applicants composed essays
and completed questionnaires,
which were reviewed by the Wash
ington Center, the nonprofit orga
nization that sponsored the semi
nar with the American Express
Corp.
Brox described the Washing
ton Center as an experience-based
learning program that offered in
ternship opportunities. Part of its
mission is to “utilize the resources
of the nation’s capital,” he said.
But Mother Nature and the fed
eral budget impasse made holding
parts of the seminar more of a
challenge than planned.
The snowstorm that hit the East
Coast, dubbed the Blizzard of’96,
caused problems for the planned
activities, Brox said. Some activi
ties were canceled, and an entire
day was lost.
Also, parts of the seminar took
place during some of the federal
government shutdown, Brox said,
which caused scheduling prob
lems. Replacements had to be
found for closed federal offices.
Because of the program, Brox
said he was looking into summer
internship opportunities with the
Population Institute or Point of
Light Foundation, both represented
at the seminar.
Brox said most students who
attended the conference were inter
ested in starting nonprofit organi
zations.
“Hie best part of the seminar
was getting to meet people from all
over the country,” he said.
Some of the ideas the different
conference speakers had came home
with him, Brox said.
Leonard Adler, executive direc
tor of Research, Education and
Action on Poverty and a featured
conference speaker, emphasized
pro-activity and not reactivity.
Brox agreed.
‘ ‘Something that really struck me
was that we have all the nonprofit
causes trying to set up housing or
better nutrition, for example, and
they are very reactive towards car
ing for the problem,” Brox said.
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