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Matt Milier/DN
Oscar Rios of the band Kusi Taki concentrates during one of his solos on the song
“Takiririllasu” Thursday night in the Nebraska Union Crib. The four-man group has had
various members in its 21/2 year history. The band’s next gig is 7 p.m. Saturday at the
Culture Center.
Scholarship available to hall students
By Heidi White
Staff Reporter
Returning residence hall students
with a 3.0 cumulative grade-point av
erage may be eli
gible for a new
scholarship spon
sored by the UN L
Residence Hall
Association.
The $500 schol
arship is available to a student in good
standing with the Office of University
Housing who will return to the resi
dence halls in 1996-97 after living
there at least one semester.
The amount will be credited to the
recipient’s housing bill for the spring
semester.
Eric Vandcr Woude, president of
the Residence Hall Association, said
the group decided to change the mini
mum GPA from 2.5 to 3.0 because
they wanted a residence hall leader
who was an academic leader as well.
“It’s basically to recognize posi
tive achievements....” V ander W oude
said. “They don’t have to be a part of
student government Just to have done
something to benefit the residence hall
students.”
He said two instances ot leadership
or service related to the residence halls
must be listed in the application, along
with the skills gained and impact on
the group.
“We’re going to be looking at what
they did to go beyond the required
expectations of the position,” Vandcr
Woude said.
A group of students and housing
representatives will review the appli
cations, which must include a cover
letter and two references.
Vander Woude said the deadline
for applications, which are now avail
able, would be April 15.
Committee hits road
to promote government
From Staff Reports
Craig Bembcck and his brother,
Kent, want to get more people inter
ested in state government.
So the Bembccks and the Citizen’s
Committee — a group they created
four years ago — will travel to 20
Nebraska cities, spreading the mes
sage that state government is impor
tant.
To help spread that message,
Citizen’s Committee declared April 4
through April 30 as Government
Awareness Days.
“We want to promote participation
in government,” Craig Bcrnbeck said.
“Government Awareness Days is built
on the idea that democracy thrives on
participation.”
Throughout April, Bcrnbeck said,
Citizen’sCommittcewilltakea pickup
truck and a trailer to parking lots in
different cities to share information
about state government.
“I want people to get motivated
and pay attention to government, and
maybe even call their senators once a
year,” Bembcck said.
The committee, which has 500
members statewide, offers informa
‘7 want people to get
motivated and pay
attention to government,
and maybe even call
their senators once a
year. ”
CRAIG BERNBECK
helped organize the Citizen's
Committee
tion about state senators, the Legisla
ture and bills that have passed or are
pending, he said.
The Citizen’s Committee also will
answer questions about state govern
ment, Bcmbeck said.
And, he said, he hopes Govern
ment Awareness Days will be a suc
cess.
“I always hear of public officials
saying that they don’t get any phone
calls,” he said. “We’ve realized the
more people who are active, the better
government we’ll have.”
Law & Order
Ex-Husker pleads not guilty
A former Nebraska football player
pleaded not guilty in District Court on
Tuesday to two felony counts result
ing from an alleged shooting in 1994.
Tyrone Williams, a former Husker
defensive back, was arraigned for the
second time on charges of illegal dis
charge of a firearm and use of a fire
arm to commit a felony, according to
court documents.
Williams was arrested in 1994 on
suspicion offiringa .22-caliber hand
gun at a vehicle occupied by two
people, one of them a University of
Nebraska-Lincoln student.
At his original arraignment, Will
iams’ entered a “plea in bar,” which
contended that chargjnghim with both
felonies was double jeopardy and vio
lated his Fifth Amendment right.
The Nebraska Supreme Court re
fused to review W illiams’ appeal early
last month.
Williams will face trial later this
year.
—Chad Lorenz
(Hie Daily Nebraskan
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