RHA dance to foster pride
ByIevaAugstums
Assignment Reporter
Over 350 students from UNDS resi
dence halls will form a community and
dance the night away on Saturday, dur
ing the Residence Hall Association’s
fifth annual semiformal.
Taking place in the Historic
Haymarket’s Lincoln Station Great
Hall, the $6,000 event includes trans
portation to and from the residence
halls by the Big Red Bus, a dinner, din
ing entertainment from a string quar
tet, pictures and a disc jockey dance,
Rob Holbum, RHA social chairman
said.
During dinner, Jan Leeper from
Leadership Lincoln will speak on creat
ing a residential community within the
existing campus community, Angie
Splittgerber, RHA entertainment chair
woman, said ^ -
“We want to focus on the idea of
creating a unified community in the res
idence halls, both on City and East cam
pus,” Splittgetber said
Besides creating a “close-knit”
community; Tag Herbek, a senior sec
ondary education social science major
and Pound Hall student assistant, said
he hopes the event will successfully
make students want to continue the five
year tradition.
Holbum said the original residence
hall semiformal took place in Harper
Hall in 1993.
Dave Williams, RHA programming
chair, said every residence hall was
given an open invitation to take part in
this year’s event. Each hall was allotted a
certain number of tickets based on the
number of residents living in tfie hall
and the amount of participation in last
year’s event, he said.
“We are amazed at the overwhelm
ing response we have had this year,”
Wiliams said.
Shane Perkins, Neihardt Hall
president, said he wasn’t surprised
when Neihardt Hall sold out in six
hours. 4,* •.
Perkins said Neihardt’s first student
assistant to sell out of tickets sold out in
six minutes. ~ .
Holbum said those attending the
formal are encouraged to dress in
appropriate attire.
“This isn’t a black-tie affair,”
Hobum said. “But it is very classy.”
Tickets are still available at $10 each
and must be purchased by a student liv
ing in a residence hall. Students interest
ed should contact their floor student
assistant.
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Conference to focus
on the black family
By Lindsay Young
Assignment Reporter
Members of Afrikan People’s
Union are expecting about 1,000
guests in less than a month.
And they expect to be ready.
APU is sponsor
ing the 21st Big XII
Conference oh Black
Student Government
Feb. 19-22.
The theme of the
conference is “Black
Love ... Restoring
the Essence of the
Black Family.”
This is the third
time the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
has held the confer
ence in its 21 -year
history. UNL also
held the conference
in 1984 and 1991.
APU has been
responsible for
assembling and mail
ing registration pack
ets, taking reservations, raising
money, organizing speakers, reserv
ing the hotel, making plans to feed
about 1,000 people, developing
workshops and finding volunteers.
“Our students were able to put
together the kind of planning per
spective that has gotten them the
award (of holding the conference),”
said Jimmi Smith, director of the
Office of Multicultural Affairs and
an elder on the planning committee.
The conference will cost about
$200,000, organizers said.
Kim Stokes, APU sponsorship
chair, said various groups such as the
Chancellor’s Office, Academic
' Affair^ University Foundations,
Student Affairs and the University
Program Council have donated
money.
APU held a pancake feed and a
dance in the fall. Organizers have
solicited Lincoln and Omaha corpo
rate businesses for donations as well,
said Lynda Todd, sponsorship orga
nizer and assistant director of the
Educational Talent Search program.
Much of the costs will be cov
ered by registration fees, Stokes said.
Students may register until the
tirst day or tne con
ference, Patton said.
Those interested
in registering can call
the conference hot
line at (402) 472
5397 for more infor
mation.
The money is
paying for speakers,
postage, advertising
and the reservations
at the Cornhusker
Hotel, 333 S. 13th St.,
which is where most
events will occur.
APU has invited
high-profile speakers
to the conference,
such as Nikki
Giovanni, a poet,
* author and editor;
Cornel West, an author and Harvard
University religion professor; and
Julianne Malveaux, an economist,
columnist and syndicated host.
Patton said volunteers are still
needed to hand out programs, take
tickets at events, introduce speakers,
lead workshops, get people to proper
locations and help with registration.
In exchange for volunteers’ ser
vices, Patton said, organizers decid
ed to waive the volunteers’ registra
tion fees.
APU hopes various university
departments will participate in the
career and graduate school fair,
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People and the NAA.CP
Youth Council as well as both the
Lincoln Public Schools an^the
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