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Editor: Paula Lavigne Managing Editor: Julie Sobczyk Associate News Editor: Rebecca Stone Assistant News Editor: Jeff Randall Assignment Editor: Chad Lorenz Opinion Editor: Matthew Waite Sports Editor: MikeKluck A&E Editor: Jim Goodwin Copy Desk Chiefs: Nancy Zywiec Kay Prauner Photo Director: Ryan Soderlin Design Chief: Joshua Gillin Art Director: Aaron Steckelberg Online Editor Mary Ann Muggy Asst Online Editor: Amy Pemberton General Manager: Dan Shattil Publications Board Melissa Myles, Chairwoman: (402) 476-2446 Professional Adviser: Don Walton, (402)473-7301 Advertising Manager: NickPartsch, (402)472-2589 Assistant Ad Manager: Daniel Lam Fax number (402) 472-1761 World Wide Web: www.unl.edu/DaiiyN6b The Daily Nebraskan (USPS 144480) is pubfishea by the UNL Publications Board, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St, Lincoln, NE 68588-0448, Monday through Friday duming the academic year; weekly during the summer sessions.The pubfc has access to the DidAmjtftim Hnnsri rUOuCaDOnS DOcuu. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daly Nebraskan by cafng (402)472-2588. Subscriptions are $55 tor one year. Postmaster Send address changes to the Daiy Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St, Lincoln NE 68588-0448. Fsriodcal postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1997 DC DALY NEBRASKAN Study Abroad photographs show snapshots of culture By Lindsay Young Staff Reporter Casey Bulk wanted to show people what Mexico was all about. So he entered a photo contest Burk, a University of Nebraska Lincoln senior history and English major, turned in three photos he took in Mexico this summer to the Study Abroad Photo Contest sponsored by International Affairs. The contest was introduced at the Study Abroad Extravaganza this fall. He said he entered the contest to give people a different perspective on Mexico. People often view it as a large desert and completely poverty stricken, Burk said. He tried to show the other sideinhispictures. “It’s always nice to enhance and dis pute what (people) believe,” Burk said. However, Burk won second place in the contest with his black-and-white picture of a homeless woman. He also entered pictures of a Mexican native with flowers and a mural depicting suf frage from Spain. “There is a lot of culture and diver sity, and it’s a really exciting place,” Burk said. Shaney Sanders, marketing assis tant for Study Abroad, said the photo contest was held to give students an opportunity to share experiences such as Burk’s through photos. This was the second Study Abroad photo contest The deadline for the pictures was Oct 9, and contest winners were noti fied this week. Ken Maxwell won the $50 first prize with a picture that gives the illu sion ofhim holding up the Tower of Pisa in Italy. He studied in Florence. Come Suhr, who spent her summer in Mexico, won third place. Others who won recognition for their pictures were Cecil Howell, who studied in Japan; Todd Anderson, with a picture from Mexico; and Warner Myers, who also studied in Italy. Pictures were judged on content, appeal, and how they represented study ing abroad. Sanders said International Affairs received a variety of photos. They received artistic photos, land scapes and marketplace photos, she said Sixty photos were entered into the contest Some of die photos will be used in promotions for the Study Abroad pro gram, Sanders said Sanders said they hope the planned new brochures, which will include these pictures, help to lure new students into the program. The photos will be displayed on the International Affairs Web site at http://www. iaffairs. uni. edu/study_abno ad ^ . _<i . .... ■•• - ■ 44 FOR A COMPLIMENTARY ENGAGEMENT PACKAGE, C CALL 1.800.642.GIFT ■ r : . - - ' • . .. • r . ' : ‘ ■/'■ _ • .. ff . - j ■ : i I . - - ■ , ' ' ..... . - - . ; ! BORSHEIM'S. A Berkshire Hathaway Company ... -• • ' r . . . • ' ' ... . Regency Court, 120 Regency Parkway, Omaha (402) 391-0400 (800) 642-GIFT State senator resigns to fill NU lobbyist slot WITHEM from page 1 “When you become an elected official, you gain skills and inside information used to promote the public interest. To suddenly say, ‘I’m going to quit and use the things the public empowered me with to become a lobbyist,’ - well, they should think long and hard about that,” Mendenhall said. She said a law, which was pro posed by state Sen. Curt Bromm of Wahoo in 1993, would have required a certain period of time to elapse between the time a senator leaves the Legislature and the time he could become a lobbyist. The proposed law, prohibiting what Mendenhall called a “revolv ing-door” policy, failed. Withem, who made $12,000 a year as a senator and will make $82,000 a year as a lobbyist, said he was unaware of specific com ments regarding his acceptance of the new lobbying position. He denied using his “inside knowl edge” to further his career. “I’ve served the state well for the last 14 years. If I were using public office to further my person al career, I would have left a long time ago,” Withem said. He said his new lobbying posi tion would require him to monitor state and national legislation that affects the university system. He said he would also relay the uni versity’s positions on certain issues to the Legislature. Although his office will be in Varner Hall on the East Campus of the University of Nebraska Lincoln, Withem said he will con tinue to live in Papillion. Withem said die funding of the university system would be a key issue with which he would work, including the deferred mainte nance of buildings on NU campus es, which the Legislature dis cussed last year. He also said a key issue would be the role of the universities in promoting economic development throughout the state. 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