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Horticulture Club grows By Shane Anthony Staff Reporter When members of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Horticulture Club attended their first meeting of the school year, they found a pleasant surprise; new members - lots of them. Garald Horst, an adviser for the group, said attendance at the first two meetings was twice that of last year’s membership. Officers, advisers and members hope this growth will bloom into new and better opportuni ties for club members. Horst has served as one of the club’s advisers for three years. The horticulture professor said he came to UNL in 1990, and he has not seen such membership numbers since he has been here. “It’s just about the biggest group. It definitely is,” Horst said. “We’re very excited about that.” Last year, an average of 15 to 20 students attended meetings regularly, Horst said. About 40 students attend ed meetings last month, he said. Horst and the club’s officers are trying to figure out what caused this jump in membership. One possibility is a jump in the number of horticul ture majors from 120 students last year to more than 160 this year, Horst said. Senior horticulture major Cindy Tejral, president of the club, offered another explanation. Advisers encouraged students to look into the club during New Student Enrollment, she said. “I guess a lot of people have been taking their advice.” The increase already has the club’s officers talking, Tejral said. She said the officers would like to have more fund-raisers, and have more opportunities to work with groups such as the Range Club and Pi Alpha Xi, a horticulture honorary. One goal is to send more mem bers to the Midwest Association of College Horticulture Students Conference this spring, she said. In the past, two or three members attended; but this year, the club would like to send 15 to 20 partici pants. This year’s conference will be in River Falls, Wis. On the way home, the group would like to visit arbore tums, golf courses and other horticul ture-related sites in Chicago, St. Louis and other cities, Tejral said. “Getting this rolling is a good way for us to explore more what we’re looking to do in the field of horticulture,” she said. Horticulture majors specialize in areas such as landscaping, production or green houses. She said the club’s activities allow members to gain experience in parts of the industry outside the focus of their education. “Basically it gives you a lot of dif ferent, well-rounded skills that you’ll need eventually, no matter what industry you go into,” Tejral said. Dusti Duffy, a freshman horticul ture major at UNL, said she joined the club this year after hearing about it in her first horticulture class. Duffy said she switched to horticulture from her art major because she want ed to combine her love of architec ture with the outdoors. Joining the club was a good step toward a career in landscape architec ture, Duffy said. She said she thought the experience of participating in the group would pay off. “I love it. I’m really into this.” Willa Cather lecture draws many By Kim Sweet Staff Reporter People ranging in age and educa tion - from high school students to college professors - gathered at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery on Wednesday afternoon for something they all had in common - a love and intrigue for the writings of Willa Gather. Students and faculty gathered at the art gallery for a lecture by Susan Rosowski, a University of Nebraska Lincoln professor of literature. The lecture covered Cather’s life, writing and interests, ranging from Cather’s first experiences at the University of Nebraska to her accura cy of detail in describing the people, places and surroundings of Nebraska. Rosowski said Cather’s descrip tions of plants and flowers were so accurate that scholars now can identi fy the specific species. She told the audience of the writer’s interest in botany and ecology. In 1890, at age 16, Gather came to the university intending to study science. Rosowski said Cather could go to foreign places and see similarities and connections between those places and the familiar. As she traveled to differ ent places like Pittsburgh and New York, she met people who at first seemed eccentric and different from the people at home. Whenihe came back to Nebraska, she began to see similar traits in her family and friends. This helped her go to unfa miliar places and feel more at home. The auditorium was filled with many who have read Cather’s works for years, as well as those who are just beginning to study the Nebraska author in depth. Joslyn Cummings, a senior at Millard West High School in Omaha, was at the lecture with a group of prospective UNL students. Cummings, who is doing a research project on the author, said she was impressed by Rosowski’s knowledge of Cather. “She’s really smart, amusing, and amazing with her knowledge of Willa Cather.” Rosowski also talked about Cather’s ability to be a storyteller. For instance, in “My Antonia,” Cather describes in detail the scene as the main character gives birth, a portrayal typically avoided in literature of that time, Rosowski said. Cummings said, “I was interested in how Willa Cather used storytelling and her own words.” Cather’s books train readers to have an ear in reading and to hear the character’s voices on a written page, Rosowski said. Cather accomplished this not only with her writing, but with the way the book was published. Cather used cream pages with bold typeface to create a warm feeling. She used wide margins and spaced the illustrations in a way that would give the reader a feeling of air and sun light. Rosowski ended the lecture with her observations of how Cather chal lenged readers to be aware of the sto ries each person tells. The lecture was the first in a year long series featuring distinguished professors from UNL. “We’ve chosen this series to high light some of our outstanding facul ty,” Richard Edwards, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, said. Rosowski is the general editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition, a project taken on by UNL faculty. Rosowski grew up in Kansas and attended universities in Arizona and California, but it wasn’t until she moved to Nebraska later in her life that she became interested in the writ ings of Cather. She read “A Lost Lady” right after moving to Nebraska in an attempt to become acclimated to her new surroundings, and was hooked, she said. Democrats: Wrongdoings began earlier CONGRESS from page 3_ Whiu lawyer La any Breuer spent the morning testifying before a federal grand jury about why presidential aides failed to find videotapes of White House coffees involving Clinton and major donors until after Attorney General Janet Reno ruled that there was no need for an independent prosecutor to investi gate Clinton’s activities at the coffees. “I was pleased to have a chance to testify,” Breuer said after his two hour appearance at the courthouse. The House hearings’ first day was dominated by partisan sniping. Burton’s opening statement was a cat alog of charges against Clinton fund raising, accompanied by grainy video frames of controversial fund-raising figures that resembled political attack ads. “It is clear that partisanship has been the dominant theme in our com mittee,” robbing the investigation of credibility, said Rep. Henry Waxman of California, the panel’s senior Democrat. Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., accused Republicans of “hypocrisy that boggles the mind” in claiming that Democrats are more guilty than the GOP of fund-raising abuses. As for the Lums, the House com mittee would have to approve immu nity from prosecution before the cou ple would testify. Such a vote requires a two-thirds majority of the commit tee. Burton released a seven-page statement by the lawyer for the Lums spelling out what they were prepared to testify. The document stated the couple — “with the knowledge of DNC per sonnel” — brought in money from unidentified sources when a fund raising event for a former California congressman “fell well short of its goal.” Such conduit donations — in which the true source of money is dis guised — are illegal. The document said they also would testify the Democratic Party was aware that they made hidden con tributions by paying bills for party events directly. 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