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now be able to conduct
faculty-assisted studies.
By Ieva Augstums
Staff Reporter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Honors Program students now have
the opportunity to conducttheir own
research with the help of experi
| enced research faculty members.
The Undergraduate Honors
Student Research Program, which is
a part of the Agricultural Research
I Division, has received $25,000 this
year and will receive an additional
$28,738 next year, totaling $53,738
annually, as part of UNL’s realloca
tion plan.
“We have a strong commitment
j to undergraduate research,” said
Steve Waller, assistant dean and
director of UNL’s Agricultural
Research Division. “The realloca
j tion of university funds gave us the
opportunity to submit a proposal and
| create a program solely devoted to
student research.”
Jim Partridge, associate director
of UNL’s honors program for the
1 College of Agricultural Sciences and
Natural Resources, said ARD’s pro
! gram allows students to do more than
complete undergraduate research.
“The program is one of a kind,”
Partridge said. “It allows students to
set and carry out goals, and in the
process it gives them practical, real
world experience.”
The program is expecting more
| proposals than it can afford, but it
- will pay for 12 this year. Up to
$2,500, for a maximum of. 12
months, will be transferred to an
ARE) faculty member’s project to
support a^tudent,^^^^^^^^
academic areas are encouraged to
apply to the program.
5 “The goal of ARD’s program is
i to have students work along with a
5 faculty mentor and conduct original
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If you Have a chance to do
a thesis, do it.”
Jennifer Friesen
junior veterinary science major
research, which can be applied to
their honors thesis,” Berger said.
The completion of an honors the
sis is an implied contract for every
honors program student Whether or
not the student completes an honors
thesis is up to the student, he said.
“Only 25 percent of honors pro
gram students actually complete an
honors thesis,” Berger said. “Our
long-term goal is to have all Honors
Program students complete a thesis.”
He said he hopes, programs like
the ARD’s will help more students
complete their honors theses.
Waller said the university has
many research opportunities for stu
dents, but many are independent
studies.
“Many students do work in labs
along with professors already,”
Waller said. “But ARD’s new pro
gram provides the opportunity to
receive academic credit through
supervised, scholarly research at the
expense of the university.”
The program is open to junior
and senior honors students. Partridge
said sophomores are encouraged to
enroll in Agricultural Sciences 299H
(Honors Thesis Seminar) or Human
Resources and Family Sciences
498H (Research Methodologies)
courses before they begin their hon
ors theses. However, enrollment is
not required.
S: “The seminar helps students
write a proposal for undergraduate
research,” Partridge said. “Once a
Waller said students think they
are competing to be a part of the pro
gram because it offers several bene
fits, including the opportunity to
work in a interdisciplinary, problem
solving, environment as part of a
team.
“We have highly capable stu
dents attending school here, and they
will be the leaders of tomorrow,”
Waller said. “We have to continue to
support students and we must be
optimistic with their endeavors.”
Jennifer Friesen, a junior veteri
nary science major, is in the final
stages of her honors program thesis.
Friesen took the honors thesis
seminar in the second semester of
her freshman year, in 1996. The
class, Agricultural Sciences 299H, is
a one credit independent study
course focusing on research methods
and proposal writing, she said.
“The seminar really helped me
develop my research proposal,”
Friesen said. “I was able to talk with
different professors and find the one
that I wanted to work along with for
my undergraduate research.”
Friesen was not a part of ARD’s
student research program, but rec
ommends applying for the program
if the opportunity arises.
“If you have the chance to do a
thesis, do it,” she said. “It’s a lot of
work, but there are many rewards in
the end.”
Waller said ARD relies on stu
dents who took either Agricultural
Sciences 299H or Human Resources
and Family Sciences 498H last year
to consider the program this year and
take ^dvantegeof the new,funding, *
Students who have wnttehim
undergraduate I
L
Honors Student ResearchJProgram.
Applications are du6 today fo the
Agriculture Research Division
office. For information contact
Waller at (402) 472-2201.
By Lindsay Young
Staff Reporter
A group of Latino students is
about to do something that hasn’t
been done on this campus in 44
years - establish a fraternity.
The first steps to the establish
ment of a chapter of a traditionally
Latino fraternity could be taken as
early as next semester, Oscar Baeza,
an organizer and junior psychology
major, said. This will be the first
fraternity brought into the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
greek system since AgMen was
established in 1953.
There is an active African
American fraternity that was in the
fraternity system’s original charter
in the early 1900s.
Baeza is working with about 10
students and the Greek Affairs
office to unearth the chapter of one
of two traditionally nonexclusive
Latino national fraternities at UNL.
The fraternities the group is looking
at are Sigma Lambda Beta and
Omega Delta Phi.
Forming a chapter is a massive
undertaking, Baeza said.
“There’s never been anything
like this on this campus,” he said.
And Juan Izaguirre, an organiz
er and sophomore social sciences
major, said it is needed. Organizers
said the fraternity will:
■ Establish the bond of Latino
brotherhood on campus.
■ Encourage academic success
and cultural enrichment.
■ Serve as a stepping stone for
the recruitment of Latino students
to UNL.
■ Help with the retention of
Latino students aftMi1: ^ l'101
ililiillsts
important to establish brotherhood,
Baeza said.
Scott Berryman, fraternity coor
dinator in the Greek Affairs office,
said the fraternity provides a good
opportunity to bring more universi
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ty students into the greek system.
He also said it would bring more
minorities into the greek system.
“I think it will be a good tool to
diversify the greek system,” said
Lori Lopez Urdiales, staff assistant
in the office of admissions.
Urdiales said Gabrielle Dalton,
president of the Mexican American
Student Association, and a group of
students also are looking into bring
ing a Latina sorority to campus.
Berryman said he doesn’t know
how the fraternity will affect the
other houses in increasing minority
membership.
“It will be hard to say what
effect it will have on the other hous
es,” he said. .
Organizers hope other students and
offices are excited about die chapter.
“This is going to Be an excellent
opportunity for pur university,”
Berryman said.
I hope we have the support of
the other university offices to make
it a success,” Urdiales said.
Representatives from Sigma
Lambda Beta and Omega Delta Phi,
the prospective national fraterni
ties, will be visiting today and
Saturday with organizers and any
students interested.
Izaguirre encourages any stu
dents interested to come, take notes
and ask questions, which will be
taken into consideration in deter
mining which fraternity will be best
for the campus.
Today Sigma Lambda Beta will
be visiting with students at 7 p.m. in
the Culture, Center,! Qhacjga I)elta
Anyone wanting information on
each fraternity: can see their Web
pages. Sigma Lambda Beta is at
http://www.lambdas-betas.org/ and
Omega Delta Phi is at http://w3.ari
zona. edu/~odphi/national. html.
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