Success 2000
| Preparing for success in the 2 V century. Lieutenant Governor Kim Robak
I talks about how to meet the challenges we face.
7:30 PM
| Tuesday, November IS1'
Wick Alumni Center
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Open to all NU students, fault)' & staff
Sponsored by the University Honors Pregram
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Women know the importance of annual exams, but many
are concerned that it may bring bad news about their
health. Abnormal pap smears, fibroids, ovarian cysts, irregular
uterine bleeding or pelvic pain can be frightening. But are
they always life threatening? Early detection and treatment are
crucial and can alter the course of endometriosis and cancer.
Being informed can offer reassurance.
David McIntosh. M.D Gene F. Stoh*. M.D. Dr. David McIntosh of the University of Nebraska Medical
Gynecologic Oncologist Obsletrician/Cynecolngisi _
Center in Omaha, and Dr. Gene Stohs, Women’s Health Care
IINMC Olsletncs 4 Women's Health Cose r , . , _
Gynecology Department, Center >n Williamsliurg Center m Lincoln, otter candid discussion about endometriosis
L,IR',,I,1 and cancerous conditions of the female reproductive system.
INMC, in conjunction with Olson Center for Women’s Health,
invites you to attend. “Women and Gynocologic Health”,
an “All About Women” forum November 18, 1997.
University
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Women & Gynecologic Health
The Comhusker Hotel, 333 So. 13th, Lincoln
Tuesday, November 18
7 - 8:30 p.m.
A FREE community service sponsored by the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the Olson Center for Women s Health and the
Gynecologic Surgeons & Obstetricians. RC. Seating is limited; registration is required. Call 1-800-775-2855 to pre-register.
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Students to use break
for leadership learning
By Amanda Schindler
Staff Reporter
Spring break will bring more than
just needed time off next semester.
It will bring more than good
times, more than great memories*
For 60 UNL students, it will bring
vision.
LeaderShape Nebraska, a six-day
intensive program exposes students
to leadership development issues,
said Kris Baack, assistant director of
Student Involvement, Leadershape
and one of last year’s facilitators.
The program, coordinated by
Student Involvement and a project of
Student Affairs, will be during spring
break, March 21-26.
At Camp Carol Joy Holling, near
Ashland, students will learn about
ethics and integrity, as well as how to
plan a vision that will impact the uni
versity, Baack said. Each day will
bring a structured schedule of work
shops and discussions, she said.
The vision is “something they
would like to change about the uni
versity,” Baack said. “It’s a future pic
ture.”
LeaderShape got its start last year
when the first gfoup of 52 students
attended. This year, 60 participants
will be accepted, and will consist of
students representing different
majors, grade-levels and student
groups, Baack said.
Brian Hilts, a senior biological
A r„
systems engineering major and for
mer LeaderShaper, said that
LeaderShape helps students set up
different steps needed to reach their
visions.
“You meet people on campus,
like you, who are striving for the
same goals,” he said. “When you
leave there, you leave with this feel
ing that you can conquer the world,”
he said.
Hilts said sacrificing spring break
for LeaderShape was worthwhile.
“It’s fun in a different way,” he
said. “This is bettering yourself, yet
having a good time.”
LeaderShaper and sophomore
accounting major Brandeis Tullos
said she enjoyed meeting other par
ticipants and learning with them.
“It’s become a real network,” she
said. “It seems like I’ve found more
people. I can go anywhere to talk (to
someone) now.”
Baack said the benefits of the
program were felt not only by partic
ipants, but also the six faculty mem
bers who worked as facilitators.
“We talked before about the
impact it would have on students’
lives, and ended up talking about the
impact it had on our own,” she said.
Once a national program,
LeaderShape originally operated out
of Allerton, 111., through the
LeaderShape Institute.
After having a vision of its own,'
the Institute decided to bring the pro
gram to campuses across the United
States in 1992. Since then, more than
900 young men and women have par
ticipated, Baack said.
LeaderShape does not end with
the drive home, either. A 12-month
follow-up program, including work
shops on how to advance each stu
dent’s vision, is used to help keep the
group together and provide support,
Student Involvement Graduate*
Assistant Minarca Gurule said.
Although the program essentially
is the same at each site, it also incor
porates the different issues facing
each of the campuses, she said.
LeaderShape is paid for through
$500 scholarships awarded to each
participant. Students are required to
pay a $50 deposit, which is refunded
when the students complete the pro
gram.
Gurule encourages people inter
ested in developing their leadership
potential to apply by picking up an
application at any of the following
locations: ;
Student Involvement at 200?
Nebraska Union or 300 East Campus
Union; Culture Center, 333 N. 14tl*
St., Student Affairs at 106 Canfield
Administration; the Women’s Center
at 340 Nebraska Union; ASUN at
115 Nebraska Union; the Web at
www.unl.edu/sinvolve/leadershape.
Applications are due by 5 p.m. on
Dec. 2, at either Student Involvement
offices.
City leaders join to support
vehicle reroute on campus
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east of the Beadle Center.
The new six-lane boulevard propos
al is part of a draft package in the
Antelope Valley Major Investment
Study, a study by the City of Lincoln to
fix storm water, community revitaliza
tion and transportation problems in a
600-block area that includes UNL.
The city would build the roadway
starting at K and 19th streets downtown
and continuing north to Superior Street.
In another effort to improve pedes
• trian safety on Lincoln streets and the
City Campus, ASUN passed several
Government Liaison Committee direc
tives this semester.
l ne directives, including Senate
Bill No. 4, allow members of the com
mittee to lobby the Lincoln city govern
ment to make changes to improve
pedestrian safety.
Committee lobbyist Eric Ford said
the bill, passed on Sept. 18, sought
improvements of two pedestrian cross
ing areas on City Campus identified as
dangerous for pedestrians.
Both Vine Street, from 14* to 17*
streets and 14* Street near the Campus
Recreation Center were identif ed.
According to police reports, other
pedestrian/vehicle accidents in the past
year occurred at R Street crosswalks
and parking stalls.,
When the bill passed, ASUN
President Curt Ruwe said there were
several options4o eliminate some of the
risk to pedestrians in the areas where
most accidents have occurred.
He suggested adding flashmg lights
to alert drivers of the pedestrians in the
area, lowering speed limits on danger
ous streets or adding a crosswalk with a
traffic light in one of the areas.
Senate Bill No. 9, passed on Oct. 1,
directed the committee to lobby the city
to lower the speed limit on 17* Street by
Abel and Sandoz residence halls.
Ruwe, Ford and committee
Chairman John Wiechmann met with
representatives from Lincoln city gov
ernment at the end of October to discuss
pedestrian safety on City Campus.
They presented the members of city
government with police reports and tes
timonials from eight on-campus acci
dents that involved pedestrians.
Ruwe said city officials were “very
receptive,” and the city agreed to study
speed limits in some areas on campus.
“Safety is one of the biggest concerns
we have,” Ford said “When we went to
meet with the city and were talking about
the area by the rec cento, they were very
open to suggestions - they’ve been trying
to improve things there for a while.”
He said the city would study adding a,
flashing, yellow light near the campus
rec. He said the committee also requested
lowering the speed limit to 25 mph north
of the railroad tracks on 14th street. The,
limit is now 25 mph near campus rec. ,/
rvuwe saiu ne wouiu asK a university i
planning official to present information
about the city’s Antelope Valley plan to!
better inform senators before they voicet
their approval or dissent of the plan, t
The plan includes changing 16th
and 17* streets to two-way residential*
traffic routes with 25 mph speed limits
and blocking intersections on R StreetIj
Because the project would take 15
20 years to complete, Ruwe said ASUN:
would seek more immediate improve
ments in safety on campus. I
Miller and Meyer said they also
want the city and campus to develop £
community education plan, including^
bicycle and pedestrian awareness and
bicycle safety.
Meyer said he suspects bicyclists
who are “doing dumb stuff” cause
many accidents. But motorists don’t!
respect bicycles eithei^he said
Miller said motojrists traveling"
through the campus area also must bq;
made more aware of pedestrians. >
“People don’t realize it’s the stu
dents’ campus,” she said
Both Meyer, and Miller said they,.
would support options developed by
UNL and the city to reduce traffic and]
the bone-crunching trauma it causesoni
campus. Not one more student should
sufferas they did, they said
‘ They’ve got to do something,’ ’ Miller*
said “There’s obviously a problem. \i
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