Foreignstudentswillget
a lesson in democracy
By Michaela Pieler
Staff Reporter
A new program by UNL’s Inter
national Affairs office will allow
foreign students to promote demo
cratic ideas in their home countries,
an IA director said.
Yenbo Wu, director for interna
tional student programs and recruit
ment, said he created the program
“American Democracy for Interna
tional Students” to fill a gap in the
education ofthe 1,250 international
students on campus.
“When our students leave UNL,
they have learned a lot about Ameri
can society and culture,” he said.
“But they only have a very superfi
cial understanding of our demo
cratic system.
“They are not able to influence
the democratic process in their
countries.”
While UNL succeeds in export
ing degrees, it fails in exporting
ideas, he said.
The new project, Wu said, will
allow students “to take home our
most precious and noble export —
democracy.”
The free program, sponsored by
IA and the International Student
Organization, will begin in March
and run until November. Wu said
he expected about 30 participants
to meet once or twice a month.
The Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska cam
paign debate on March 4 will lead
off the democracy program, Wu
said.
Later in March, students will
attend a hearingof Nebraska’s Uni
cameral Legislature and participate
in a discussion, chaired by UNL
journalism professor Mike
Stricklin, with newspaper editors
and TV reporters about the role of
the media in the political process.
In spring and early summer, sev
eral workshops (on financing cam
paigns and elections, for example),
party conventions and campaign
speeches are scheduled.
A tour to a voting site and visits
of each party’s headquarters after
the presidential election in Novem
ber will conclude the program, Wu
said.
“The election will be the focus
of the whole program,” he said.
“We want our students to under
stand how an American president is
born.
“Our program will make them
understand the democratic system
at all levels.”
Wu said IA would mail flyers
about the program to all interna
tional students by the end of this
week. He said he encouraged all of
them to sign up at IA ’ s front desk by
March 2 or by calling 472-5358.
Women to present their work
By Eva Nekovar
Staff Reporter
The third annual Women’s Studies
Conference, titled “No Limits: We are
the stories we tell,” opens today and
Saturday.
Kristin Mapel-Bloomberg, confer
ence committee co-chairwoman, said
the conference, sponsored by the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln’s
Women’s Studies Association, would
consist of 23 sessions, each about 90
minutes long, with three women in
each session.
Each speaker will have a different
topic, Mapel-Bloomberg said. %
Mapel-Bloomberg said the two ses
sions she was especially excited about
were “Women in World Literature,”
today at 2:40 p.m., and “Family Pres
sure and MotherhoodSaturday at
10:30 a.m.
Keynote speaker and UNL alumna
Londa Schiebinger will speak today at
11:30 a.m.
Schiebinger is a professor of his
tory at Penn State University and au
thor of “Nature’s Body: Gender in the
Making of Modem Science.”
“We want to adhere to women stud
ies which would be truly open, un
questionably inter-disciplinary and
able to accommodate traditional and
non-traditional topics and presenta
tions fromawide variety of academics
disciplines,” Mapel-Bloomberg said.
“The committee feels this provides
a place for scholars and artists to
present their work without the need of
focus on credentials of academic af
filiations.”
Some other sessions are Women
in the Press,” Saturday at 9 a.m., and
“LesBiGay,” Saturday at 4:05 p.m.
Lora Savery, a women’s studies
and English major, said she thought it
was important to hear other women’s
voices.
“I will be able to see other women
and scholars in the academic commu
nity,” she said.
Savery will be presenting “Femi
nist publishing companies,” Saturday
at 9 a.m.
“It is important for women to be
heard. There are so many fields where
women do not get enough recogni
tion,” Savery said.
The conference—which attracted
about 200 men and women last year—
will be held in the Nebraska East Union.
Admission is free to everyone.
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Bell said members of the depart
ment and ASUN met to discuss the
standing problem and other issues.
“The standing was out of control,”
she said.
Shawn tell Hurt gen, president of the
Association of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska, said she was pleased
that seating would stay the same.
“It’s great they made the effort to
get student opinion,” Hurtgen said.
To handle future discussions with
the Athletic Department, she said, a
new ASUN committee has been
formed.
The Athletic Department Commit
tee of ASUN will work with the Ath
letic Department to provide student
input on issues such as marketing and
tickets.
The committee, which stemmed
from controversy over student seating
changes, will consist of seven student
representatives from a variety of orga
nizations and interests on campus.
Student representatives include one
member from the Inter-Fraternity
Council, the Panhellenic Association,
the Residence Hall Association and
three other students.
The members will be selected from
applications received by March 8.
ASUN’s first vice president will head
the committee.
Jon Scheve, the ASUN senator who
drafted the bill to form the committee,
said it would be critical next year.
“This next year is going to be piv
otal for the Athletic Department and
their relationships with students,”
Scheve said. “We want to try to dis
solve this image that the Athletic De
partment is against students and in
stead, work with them on many is
sues.”
Scheve said the committee would
be fully formed and begin meeting
with the Athletic Department by April.
“I expect that the committee will
meet at least once each month and
even more often if an important issue
pops up,” he said.
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