Nebraskan's award-winning design is seeking applicants for page required to be bask news skills are ^ ymr Union, 1400 R. St, or ask for UNL is a non-discriminatory institution ™ Joshua Glllln at 472*2588. . 17th &‘N’ i No Appointments Necessary | 476-9466 $6 Oil with Now Only (reg. $25.70, Environmental disposal fee mduded.) | • Oil & filter change ( up to 5 qts.) I • Lubricate zerk fittings • Check: & fill fluids: brake, power steering, battery, washer, and I automatic transmission fluid only | • Check antifreeze, air filter, Wiper blades, | and tire pressure • Vacuum interior & wash windows Best Service in : | Just 10 Minutes 1 Most brands available Expires 12-31-97 _ OgeB Mon-Jl^ 8;6 iSat, Wv f Id earn service work SERVICE from page 1 Podolske’s desk. About 100 students’ names sit on a list to do volunteer work, Podolske said. Community organizations that need volunteers call her, and she noti fies students of service projects via e mail. But the center has no computer to track volunteers’ projects and partici pation, she said. It also lacks materi als for tutoring, tools for building fix up projects or books for relating vol unteer work with careers. “We would like to have resources available to students,” she said. “All the students would need was a will ingness to volunteer, and we would help them move forward with what ever they want to do.” When the center was founded, the university expected the $300,000 grant, she said, although federal funds weren’t made available until Monday. Those funds will pay for center offices to open in both the Nebraska Union and the Nebraska East Union by next fall, she said. “We’re starting from the ground up, so the grant could really make this an awesome center,” Bugenhagen said. But the money also will help bring community service into UNL classrooms like that of Amy Goodbum, an assistant professor of English. Goodburn teaches English 482/882, a new literacy course that requires students to volunteer with literacy projects in the community, she said. Depending on the number of credit hours they wish to receive, stu dents spend between one and six hours doing community service each week, she said. Students work through several programs, including an after-school tutoring program at the Malone Center, the Lincoln Literacy Council and the Women’s Refugee Program, a local group that helps women from different countries to learn to read English. One doctoral student in the course, Kevin Ball, pairs students in his English 1 SO course as writing mentors with fifth-grade students at Elliot Elementary School for course credit. But community service does not equal an easy academic course load, she said. Goodburn’s students also meet for class Tuesday evenings, when they discuss course readings in litera cy theory while drawing upon their own volin^er experiences. They also keep journals of their reactions to volunteer work and course material. “You can teach a course that focuses on literacy theory, but many of the issues that we talk about in class are hard to conceptualize unless you have that real-world experience,” Goodbum said. “I think the experi ence is much richer for students.” Ball said the 14 students enrolled in the class agreed.that community service was essential to a good under standing of course material. “It’s almost impossible - unfair - to ask people to take a class like this and not have an experience to ground it in,” Ball said. * And those who think community service cannot relate to academia should think again, he said. “There’s often this misconception that community service is doing something for someone else,” he said. “They overlook the fact that you’re learning in the process.” « 7 All the students would need was a willingness to volunteer, t^jAve would help them move forward...” Diane Podolsee head of UNL Volunteer Resources Center \ Nelson reassures S. Korea ■ Gov. Ben Nelson told & | South Korean leaders ^ Nebraska beef is OK.^^P BEEF from page 1 11 ^ Norfolk’s BeefAmerica plant recall of more than 443,000 pounds of ground beef in October. More than 25 percent of South Korea’s beef comes from the United States. In an extended effort to ensure that meat is safe, South Korean meat inspectors have come all the way to the source, Nelson said, as (officials inspected the IBP plant last week.. But Nelson hoped the extended inspection procedures would pot be m ■ | .... ie future. to get back to the nor e inspection process,” iway American beef befQftftt arrived in South Korea was <