Event will help unite
Malaysian students
By Joy Ludwig
Staff Reporter
Malaysian food, culture and
drama will be highlighted at UNL’s
annual Malaysian Night on March
9 in the Nebraska Union.
This year’s theme, “Land of a
Million Smiles,’’will emphasize the
multiculturalismofthcpeople from
Malaysia, said the event’s coordi
nators, Katherine Bong and Felicia
Leong.
Leong, a senior human resource
management major, said the event
would include the three races of
Malaysia, which are Malay, Indian
and Chinese.
“The purpose of the event is to
unite all the Malaysian students and
promote the Malaysian culture to
the United States and the Lincoln
community,” Leong said.
The event will begin with a lion
dance, a traditional Chinese dance
performed only on special occa
sions, followed by a Malaysian din
ner.
A Chinese musical called “Niu
Lang-Zhi-Nu” — a fairy talc and
love story where a farmer falls in
love with an angel — will be the
evening’s llrsf drama, Leong and
Bong said.
Bong, a senior finance major,
said the musical drama would be
emotional and tear-filled.
Leong said students had been
working on the drama for about
three months, and her cousin, a tai
lor in Malaysia, hand-made the
seven angel costumes.
After a slide show, Bong said a
modern drama, “A Dream, A Will,
A Family,” will show how Malay
sian families strive to save money
to send their children to U.S. col
leges.
“It’s really hard to cam that much
money to send their chi Id to school,
“7he purpose of the
event is to unite all the
Malaysian students
and promote the
Malaysian culture to
the United States and
the Lincoln
community. ”
FELICIA LEONG
Malaysian Night coordinator
_
but it also unites the family,” Bong
said.
Lcong said a fashion show later
in the evening would feature three
types of clothing, contemporary,
traditional and Batik.
She said Batik was a formal,
hand-made, colorful style of dress
similar to what government offi
cials usually wear.
One of the last events will be a
Chinese opera, “You-Long-Xi
Feng.” Lcong said this humorous
love story was about a king who fell
in love with a village girl.
She said the ancient Chinese cos
tumes used in the opera would be
the highlight of the night.
The event is being organized by
the Nebraska University Malaysian
Students Association. About 100
students helped organize the event,
which Bong said was expected to
attract more than 400 guests.
She said few tickets were left,
but she would try to find tickets for
any students who are interested.
More information is available
from Bong at 438-7832, Lcong at
438-1835 or Siang-Full Kooat477
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UNL to offer classes over web
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter
High school students who take cor
respondence courses from UNL soon
will be able to study for some of their
classes in front of computer screens
instead of over textbooks.
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln in July will start an enhanced
distance learning program, in which
high school students can take four
classes over the World Wide Web,
said James Sherwood, associate direc
tor oftclecommunications for Distance
Education.
The project will put multimedia
learning materials, such as text, pic
tures and sound bites, on the web for
enrolled students, he said.
“The increased access is the real
key here,” Sherwood said. “A student
could do this at 3 in the morning or 3 in
the afternoon.”
The system provides an alternative
to the 40 high-school-level correspon
dence classes that now arc conducted
through the mail, he said.
Four of these classes—global per
spectives, chemistry, writing and ge
ometry — will be available first,
Sherwood said. The department even
tually hopes to offer all 40 classes if
the first four are successful.
Initially, students will use a web
browser such as Netscape to log on to
a UNL distance learning home page,
lie said. Students will need an assigned
personal identification number to get
into the page.
In the future, students will use spe
cialized software now being designed
by the National Information Display
Laboratory at the David Sarnoff Re
search Center in Princeton, N.J.
The software will allow students to
configurelhclcamingmatcrialstothcir
own learning styles, Sherwood said.
Students who learn visually can use
pictures, graphs and diagrams, while
those who learn best by reading can
use only text.
“Theoretically, learning will be
made easier, funner and more success
ful,” he said.
Sherwood said he hoped and ex
pected distance learning by computer
to be more effective than in-class lec
tures. The department will watch the
students who use it to measure their
academic progress, he said.
Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey helped
secure S2.6 million from the General
Service Administration to pay for the
project.
The project is part of Kerrey’s vi
sion to promote education and tech
nology in Nebraska, he said in a press
release.
“What we arc announcing today
was science fiction just a lew years
ago.”
Proposals leave racing
out of AKsarben’s future
OMAHA (AP) — A horse race
track was not included in three pro
posals from architects who spent sev
eral days dreaming up options for
AKsarben property.
The Douglas County-owned track
is struggling financially, and live rac
ing will not be held this season. Rac
ing enthusiasts hope live racing will
resume next year./ _
Thirty architects and planners vol
unteered three days of work to come
up with proposals for the 350 acres at
AKsarben. Each plan olTcred on Fri
day included a University of Nebraska
at Omaha campus of up to 100 acres,
a civic center or arena with up to 7,000
seats and exhibition space, a park of
up to 50 acres and small and privately
developed businesses.
Kenny Rosen, the head of the com
pany that oversees racing for the
county-owned track, called the pro
posals premature.
Rosen said simulcasting would
continue at the track and a measure on
the November ballot would give vot
ers the chance to approve off-track
betting. He said a live meet in 1997
also was possible.
John Sova, the architect who helped
organize the work done by the Omaha
chapter of the American Institute of
Architects, said the group decided to
leave out the racetrack and livestock
barns because they covered up to 250
acres and did not leave much to work
with.
Douglas County Board members
George Mills and Mary Ann Burgeson
said they were bothered that none of
the proposals included a racetrack.
Mills, Borgeson and County Board
Chairperson Clare Duda said they
would have liked to have seen a place
in the plans for events such as the
Douglas County Fair and the River
City Roundup rodeo.
But the three board members and
fellow board member Kyle Hutchings
said the concepts were exciting and
might be a new focal point for discus
sion.
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will start making offers soon.
Star City Hockey will seek its
players during the player draft
starting May 14.
The franchise office will be
added to the coliseum after reno
vation is completed, but for now
a temporary office and ticket
phone line has been set up.
The franchise is already tak
ingseason ticket requests at 438
5555, though the price of tickets
hasn’t been decided.
Renovation of the arena will
begin after the UNL rodeo on
April 14, Skold said. The con
version should be complete by
the beginning of the State Fair
on Aug. 23.
Only events of the Lancaster
County Fair will be displaced
while construction continues,
Skold said. The horse shows and
rodeo will be moved to the grand
stand.
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