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LOUIS RUSSO, a senior sociology major, will enter the Peace Corps after he graduates this month. Russo, who will be teaching EngliWincentral
Asia, said he always “wanted to work overseas.”
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By Peter Vasey
Staff Reporter
The Peace Corps is not everyone’s first
choice for a job following graduation, but for
Louis Russo it seems like the right path.
“I’m adventurous, I guess,” Russo, a senior
sociology major, said. “I’ve also been interested,
in general, in cultures.”
Those aspects of Russo’s character have dri
ven him to join the Peace Corps. Russo decided
to join the earlier this year and applied in
May.Russo is one of 14 University of Nebraska
Lincoln students planning to enter the Peace
Corps, said Danyl Cook, a regional representa
tive for the Peace Corps recruiting office. Eight
other UNL students have applied, and have sev
eral steps, including interviews, before they are
selected.
The Peace Corps is a federal government
sponsored agency designed to assist third-world
countries, Cook said.
Russo has traveled nearly his whole life.
Born in Costa Rica - to American parents -
Russo grew up in northern California. He also
has lived in North Carolina and Kansas. He has
traveled through much of Europe, Turkey and
South America.
Russo said those travels weighed heavy in
his decision to commit to the corps.
“(Traveling) prompted a bigger interest,”
Russo said, “I’ve always wanted to work over
seas.”
But there is more to joining the Peace Corps
than adventure - it’s a good way to plan ahead in
life, Russo said.
“With graduating, so much is left up in the
air.”
An advantage to working for the Peace
Corps is the service looks good on a resume,
Russo said.
“There’s a big stereotype that Peace Corps
volunteers are going to come back and get
hooked up (for a job),” he said.
While this is true, it’s not that simple. Not all
Peace Corps volunteers are guaranteed jobs
when they return from their assignments, Russo
said.
The Peace Corps is not an easy job, Russo
said, as his easygoing manner was replaced by
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Overdue notices to arrive via e-mail
By Amy Keller
Staff Reporter
Now you can’t use the excuse that it got lost in
the mail.
Starting in January, all University of Nebraska
Lincoln libraries will be sending overdue notices
over e-mail instead of their usual postcard mailings.
Deb Pearson, Love Library circulation librari
an, said the libraries are sending e-mail notices for
two reasons: to speed the delivery of the overdue
messages and to save the libraries money in mak
ing the postcards and in postage.
■:v. The new policy came about, she said, because
the IRIS library computer system made die e-mail
program available. The UNL libraries decided to
fund the program because the administration
thought it would be valuable.
Pearson said, however, that the e-mail notices
will not have an option that enables students to
renew their books over e-mail or connect to the
IRIS system. Instead, they will serve as a electron
ic postcard.
Although she thinks the new policy will be advan
tageous for most students, Pearson said that the one
drawback could be that students who don’t checko
ut often may not realize their books are overdue.
But she said she wanted students to help. She
said students can stop by the circulation desk at any
UNL library and give their preferred e-mail
addresses to the library. Then, students who have a
bigred account, but don’t use it, will be able to have
die mail sent to an alternative account
Students can send alternative addresses to the
libraries at scottc@unllib.unl.
Also, students who do not want notices sent
over e-mail can go to the circulation desk and
request that postcards be sent instead.
Pearson said library officials hope students will
prefer the new policy, because “so many students
are so attuned to getting information electronically
and to e-mail.”
Jason Lee, a senior biology major, said he
thought the e-mail idea was good, because he
checked his e-mail twice a day and would get the
notices right away if he was sent them.
Bo Hickman, a senior art history major, agreed.
“It would be a good idea because I check my e-mail
quite a bit and it would be an easier way of finding
out”
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success
reported
■ The Student Impact Team
leads ASUN’s focus on involving
more students in government.
By Brad Davis
Assignment Reporter
ASUN President Curt Ruwe said reaching
more students was the senate’s greatest accom
plishment this semester.
Student groups and the Association of
Students of the University of Nebraska have been
working together and communicating better,
Ruwe said. But senators would not stop in trying
to meet 10 goals they set at the beginning of the
semester, he said.
One of the senate’s most important goals for
next semester would be the implementation of a
Jan. 19 Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration,
Ruwe said.
He said although ASUN would work with
other student organizations to prepare celebra
tions and educational events in honor of King, he
would not be satisfied until University of
Nebraska central administration committed to
honoring King by calling off classes on his birth
day.
Representing students’ opinions regarding
the King holiday and a fall break v/as one of
ASUN’s major accomplishments this semester,
Ruwe said.
ASUN and the Student Impact Team sur
veyed more than 500 students, 90 percent of
whom favored both a fall break and King holiday.
After the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Academic Senate refused to acknowledge King’s
birthday as an official university holiday in
November, ASUN circulated petitions, surveyed
students and wrote letters to the NU Calendar
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Last week the Academic Senate reconsidered
the motion to call off classes in honor of King,
and voted to name King’s birthday as an official
university holiday in future academic calendars.
SIT Chairwoman Carrie Pierce said her
group was planning for the King holiday, along
with other student organizations.
She said she hoped students would actively
participate and “hold up their end of the bargain”
with the King holiday. She said she also hoped
NU central administration would “uphold what
we’re trying to do.”
The SIT, Ruwe said, did not only help voice
student opinions regarding the King holiday, but
it also has helped ASUN reach more students.
“We’ve had a lot of success,” Pierce said. “A
lot of members of the team have come up with
other leadership opportunities and come up with
projects of their own.”
She said the SIT would begin a tree planting
project, an idea of one of the 300 SIT members,
to replace trees damaged by the October storm.
“The Student Impact Team has really been
one of the extraordinary successes of student
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