Sorority, fraternity
plunge into fund raising
Members of Kappa Alpha Theta
Sorority and Phi Gamma Delta
Fraternity will spend 72 hours in hot
water this week.
Their HotTub-a-thon, a fund-rais
er for The Gathering Place, a Lincoln
soup kitchen, began today at 6 a.m.
and lasts until Sunday morning at 6.
“It’s always great to give back to
the local community. Our sorority
already donates time one to two times
a month at The Gathering Place,” said
Laurie Jacobs, philanthropy chair
woman for Kappa Alpha Theta.
Hot tubbers will soak on the front
lawn of Phi Gamma Delta’s house,
and walk-by donations will be
accepted to add to donations from
businesses sponsoring the drive.
It is being sponsored by 150 to 200
local businesses, including Superior
Pool and Spa, which donated the hot
tub for the event, bw-3, Midwest
Lighting and Co., and KKNB-FM
(104.1) The Point, which will broad
cast live the entire 72 hours.
This is the second annual Hot
Tub-a-thon. This year, as well as last
year, Phi Gamma Delta has asked a
sorority to join them in the event.
Karaoke benefits others
Next Thursday night, Temptations
dance club is opening its doors to
Alpha Xi Delta Sorority and other
interested houses for a karaoke fund
raiser night. The proceeds will go to
the Make-A Wish-Foundation.
Karaoke Night was the result of a
brainstorm by Courtney Johnson, the
philanthropy chairwoman for Alpha
Xi Delta.
“I was trying to think of some
thing new we could do that no one
had done*before,” she said.
She also said that Alpha Xi Delta
aims to raise more than $500 for
Mater. A-Wish Nebraska.
The sorority sent letters to all greek
houses and also some high school choir
directors to notify them that they could
put together acts for the event
Each group who participates pays
$50 and can enter up to three groups
to perform. They then will be judged
and receive prizes donated from local
businesses. The performers will be
judged on creativity, costumes, vocal
quality and entertainment value.
Disc jockeys from Smitley-Carr
DJ company, who will provide the
karaoke machine, will be the only paid
service involved in Karaoke Night.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20
for the event, and the contest begins
at 8:30 p.m. Any interested greek
houses must sign up by Sunday to
enter an act.
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Lied Center for Performing Arts. In
his speech, entitled '‘Drugs, Thugs,
and U.S. Interests on the Historic Silk
and Spice Roads,” Gouttierre said the
two old trade routes that formerly
were used to spread exotic goods still
impact the people of Central and
South Asia. Afghanistan, which sits
between the two regions, especially is
affected, he said. One important
effect of the trade routes has not come
through physical goods, he said, but
spiritual influences.
“The most significant commodi
ty carried along these routes was
religion,” Gouttierre said.
As exploration continued along
the trade routes, he said, Christians
brought and spread parts of their reli
gion to the region. Today, religions
conflict in Afghanistan, where a civil
war sparked by ethnic and religious
differences rages on.
A large American company has
strong interests in creating peace in
Afghanistan, where the company
hopes less conflict will lead to a more
stable economy. Peace in Afghanistan
is crucial so the company can move
goods such as gas and oil from
Turkmenistan, to the north, to
Pakistan, which borders on the south.
Together with other foreign
countries, the American company
has made contracts with
Turkmenistan and Pakistan, but not
Afghanistan.
The United States has other eco
nomic interests in Central and South
Asia as well, Gouttierre said. The
area, with its rich resources, holds the
possibilities of various resource
monopolies, including gold, gas and
oil. Many merchants are exploring
the possibilities of Central Asia,
which wants economic independence
from the former Soviet Union.
Some of the region’s people turn
to drugs to help support themselves
economically. The United States
must take more steps in stopping
drug trafficking in the area,
Gouttierre said.
The area is a major source of
heroin and opium, and much of it is
exported to the Middle East, Europe
and North America. Afghanistan
especially, in recent years, has found
narcotics to be a very profitable
resource, he said.
The drug problem is compounded
by the post-Cold War political state of
Afghanistan. Drugs weren’t as big of
a problem during the Cold War,
Gouttierre said.
“In Afghanistan today, a nation
state does not exist,” Gouttierre said.
He compared the country’s economic
state to Berlin’s after World War II.
Most leadership is held by rural con
servative clerics who adhere to the
Jeffersonian doctrine, “He who gov
erns best, governs least,” Gouttierre
said. Neither the clerics nor their
rivals have the full support of the
people.
Although the trade routes have
led to economic benefits abroad and
at home, Gouttierre said, the social
picture does not look positive in
Afghanistan.
He cited a survey of 300 chil
dren ages 8-18 in Afghanistan in
which the majority did not expect to
live to adulthood. The survey, con
ducted by UNICEF, was done by
mental health specialists.
“Across the country, there is a
wave of despair and disdain,”
Gouttierre said.
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