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Pow-Wow strengthens culture POW-WOW from page 1 leam how to walk, you leam how to dance. It helps us express our love for who we are and our respect for die creator.” The ceremony also lets Native American students share their tra-' ditions with other students. “The Pow-Wow lets other stu dents leam about our culture,” Vernon Miller, sophomore business administration major, said. “We use it to educate the university campus and the Lincoln community.” While the student sponsors raised some $ 12,000 to sponsor the Pow-Wow, they don’t earn any money from the event. “We don’t benefit from this fi nancial-wise,” Grant said. “But heritage-wise and tradition-wise, we always benefit.” A Pow-Wow starts witha grand entry, when all die dancers enter the arena (dancing area) behind the Na tive American flag and the color guard. Everyone stands to pay re spect to a flag song, which is the Native equivalent to the National Anthem. After a prayer, which is offered by a tribe elder, the danc ing begins. There are different types of dances for men and women. Dur ing the traditional war dance, men re-enact war deeds. Graduate student Colleen Flores pointed out a woman dancing with her two daughters. The woman’s husband was drumming nearby, she said. “This is actually a real family affair,” Flores said..“These are good people, with lots of traditions and structure in their families.” Children begin dancing very young, and many continue through out their lives. “They start out from the crib,” she said. “They feel that the beat of the drum is the same as a heartbeat.” And there is significance in keeping the dance alive, she said. “It’s who we are,” Flores said. “We’re bom into it and we go out with it.” * School programs receive federal grant GRANT from page 1 Scottsbluff, said he was excited that new partnerships would receive fund ing and he said he would recommend the program to anyone. “I think it’s a good program,” Conn said. “It enables a student to under stand what’s expected and know what they want” in a career. Conn now works as an apprentice plumber at John’s Plumbing, 2540 W. O St. The school-to-work program helped him ace his interview and land the job, Conn said. Forbes said the new federal grant would help other students find similar success. “There will be some real value and training for the students,” Forbes said. Vocational and professional student organizations will receive some of the funds, she said. The grant also allows a school-to-work coordinator to be hired for Lancaster and Saunders coun ties. Federal funds are essential to such a program* Fo$*&s said “Schools have no money to put into the program,” she said. Naumaan said school and industry partnershipsthai submit proposals for. school-to-work funding must match their federal grant by at least 50 per cent in order to receive funding. Each partnership must promise to develop a program that combines school-based and work-based learning for students, he said. More than 41 percent of all public schools in Nebraska are currently part of the federally funded school-to-work program, including 37 percent of all elementary schools and 54 percent of a]l secondary schools, Naumann said. He said more than 195,000 public school students have participated in the program. Tired of playi ok tag? Then leave the games to us. Warn nfce all m^Jor credit cards |F Jfc ! O JFm1 ou have to do is come in and pick up your reserved textbooks CM A S1T: w 1W1 fftlgk me first pick of new or used books * - ‘ • * V':V'" k ‘ ■ ' A • j,' .v _ __ ^ ... ^ , ■- ■ 4? Stop by or call and reserve your textbooks today! 71w*e, is a (BBSS 1300 Q Street • 476-0111 1 Textbook Hotline & 24 hr. FAX 402-476-1352 email nbookstore6aol.com wwwjiebraskabookstore.com Ryan Soderlin/DN MELISSA CONNOR talked to the UNL Anthropology Group Friday night at Bessey Hall Auditorium. Archeologists unearth war-crimes evidence By Josh Funk Staff Reporter m-**** The United Nations Interna tional War Crimes Tribunal is ready to prosecute several war criminals from the war in Bosnia Herzegovina, thanks to the work of two forensic archeologists who spoke to the University of Ne braska-Lincoln Anthropology Club Friday. Doug Scott and Melissa Conner have been working with a UN team to exhume bodies from mass graves in the former Yugoslavia. Scott is an adjunct professor at UNL and both archeologists work for the National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center. The civil war waged in the former Yugoslavia was particularly bloody, because all three sides at tempted to create an ethnic “clean state,” the two said. Now, as the waning factions try to create a last ing peace, they must first deal with the crimes of war. The UN Tribunal provides the experts to investigate and then pros ecutes offenders to help the coun tries through this process. Conner and Scott became in volved in the Bosnian mass grave exhumations through Physicians for Human Rights, a Boston-based, nonprofit group. Conner and Scott have investi gated two mass graves in the former Yugoslavia this year, as well as in other trouble spots around the world, including Rwanda. “When the law enforcement of ficials saw our evidence logs they were real pleased because we were more detailed than they usually are,” Conner said. One mass grave in Croatia con tained the bodies of about 260 men who had been taken from a hospi tal and executed by invading Serbs. Studying these graves is a long and arduous process for the UN team. The days are long, Scott said, and emotionally draining. ‘I try to concentrate on the chal lenges of the work,” Conner said, “but I don’t like dealing with die families of die victims because they are very emotional.” Despite the hours, the stress and the emotional drain involved, the work is rewarding, Conner and Scott said. “This kind of work is applied archeology and it is very intellec tually satisfying,” Scott said. “We can help families get closure by giv ing them a body to bury, and we can help bring criminals to justice.” New skating rink to serve hockey team, UNL students ICEBOX from page 1 is learn the rules of the game,” sopho more dentistry student Shawn Powell said. Powell and a group of 1iis fellow dentistry students form the broomball team “Toothless” — one of six teams competing. “It is especially fun to be able to use this professional facility. The rink is great,” team member Cam Ochsner said. Broomball players aren’t the only students happy about the open rink. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln hockey club finally has a rink in Lin coin to call home. In the past, the team had to travel 50 miles to Omaha to practice. “It is great to have a facility to use this close to campus,” said Leah Hall Dorothy, assistant director of sports clubs. In addition to providing a conve nient practice place, the Icebox will give the hockey team a chance to im prove for next year. “It will be easier to recruit students to play for the team now that we have the use of the Icebox,” Dorothy said. The UNL hockey club has home games at the Icebox in January and February.