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VOL. 97 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 104
A student who cares
APU president promotes campus race relations
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DONNY WHITE is president of the Afrikan Peoples Union and has been
heavily involved in black student leadership while attending the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
By Lindsay Young
Assignment Reporter
When Donny White was a fresh
man living in Neihardt Residence
Hall, he felt his student assistant did
not relate to him as a person.
White said the student assistant
didn’t do enough to pursue a person
al relationship with him.
As the years went by, White
decided he wanted to become a stu
dent assistant so he could help fresh
men have a better experience than he
did.
During his five years at UNL,
White, the Affikan Peoples Union
president, aimed to help someone or
do something for the university com
munity in everything he did.
“I’m a self-motivator. A lot of it’s
internal. A lot of it is just to see smiles
on people’s faces,” said White, a
senior psychology major. “And a lot
of it is just to better myself and the
people around me.”
White believes student leaders
need to do more than just talk the
talk.
“I pride myself on being what I
call a progressive leader. I mean, if I
see a problem with the university, I’m
not just going to sit back and talk
about it and complain,” he said.
This applies to his work last year
with the Judicial Board, his contribu
tions to the judicial team that
reviewed the Sigma Chi incident, and
his work with race relations at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
White also is in Air Force ROTC
and teaches funk and step aerobics at
the Campus Recreation Center.
Because of his involvement,
White said, he receives about 20 mes
sages on his answering machine every
night.
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Football ticket
prices increase
■ UNL students will pay
more, but seating won’t
change, say athletic
administrators.
By Brad Davis
Senior Reporter
Students won’t have to sit in
the nosebleed section at football
games next year, but they’ll have
to shell out more money for tick
ets.
Student season tickets, which
go on sale during the ticket lot
tery March 16-20, will cost
$107.50, a $20 increase from last
year.
It’s the first price increase in
three years, said John Anderson,
director of ticket operations.
But on the bright side, student
seating will remain the same - for
now.
Anderson said the student sec
tion at NU’s Memorial Stadium
will remain the same as last year
because of students’ satisfactory
participation with a new stadium
rule.
The rule, enacted during last
year’s football season, forbids
students from standing on the sta
dium’s wooden bleachers during
football games.
In previous years, NU’s athlet
ic department received about 200
calls from older ticket holders
who complained students stand
ing on the bleachers obstructed
their views of the field.
The “stand down” rule was a
cooperative effort by University
of Nebraska-Lincoln administra
tors, the NU Athletic Department
and the Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska.
Although the rule stated stu
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I applaud students
for working with the
Athletic Department
CurtRuwe
ASUN president
dents could continue standing in
the foot wells below the bleach
ers, it warned if students persisted
in standing on the bleachers, the
number of student seats would be
reduced and the section would be
moved.
Anderson said students did
“very well” in following the
stand-down rule last year. He said
his office received only one com
plaint call last year, compared to
hundreds in past years.
Though students will keep
their seats for next season,
Anderson said the section will be
monitored throughout the year to
ensure compliance with the rule.
ASUN President Curt Ruwe
said promotion of the rule during
last year’s season contributed to
its success.
He said cooperation between
student government and the
Athletic Department, along with a
Daily Nebraskan story, all helped
increase awareness of the rule.
He said he hoped next year’s
ASUN administration would con
tinue to work with the Athletic
Department to keep students
aware of the rule.
“I applaud students for work
ing with the Athletic Department
and student government for mak
ing this happen,” Ruwe said.
“Those seats will be ours as long
as this keeps up.”
UNL’s Omega eggs offer a healthy alternative
■ Professor Sheila
Scheider’s program helps
chickens produce eggs
containing “good fat.”
By Ryan Brauer
Stuff Reporter
Though Omega eggs may sound
like a food from another world, they’re
not. They are hatched here at UNL.
And their potential medical “super
powers” have some UNL researchers
pretty excited.
Sheila Scheideler, associate profes
sor and poultry scientist in the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s
Institute of Agriculture and Natural
Resources, has developed a program
that manipulates the diet of chickens to
get them to produce eggs containing
“good fat.”
While “good fat” may appear to be
an oxymoron, Scheideler said the eggs
contain atypically high levels of omega
3 fatty acids. And omega-3 fatty acids
increase d person’s ration of good to bad
cholesterol and decrease the risk of car
diovascular disease by reducing the
occurrence of blood clots.
Scheideler created the heart-healthy
eggs by feeding hens housed at UNL’s
Poultry Research Facility a diet of flax
seed, which is high in omega-3 fatty
acids.
The eggs were marketed briefly at
Super Saver in Lincoln, but now are
available only at the East Campus dairy
store.
“They were very well-received,”
Scheideler said. “Nutrient-enriched
foods are definitely the current trend.”
Scheideler recently applied for a
patent on her dietary plan for producing
Omega eggs. She is also attempting to
obtain a trademark license for the name
Omega eggs. The patent application
process should be completed by July.
After that date, any egg producer
would be able to petition UNL for an
exclusive or nonexclusive license to
produce and market Omega eggs.
“UNL will get a license fee of a cou
ple of cents per dozen eggs sold,”
Scheideler said.
Scheideler’s program for producing
Omega eggs began in 1993 and has
gone through four stages. First,
Scheideler worked to assure consistent
quality of the eggs.
Consumer taste tests and a health
study in collaboration with the UNL
dietetics department followed. The last
step was producing eggs with a con
sumer-friendly price tag.
“Making these eggs economically
was a crucial step,” she said.
A carton of one dozen Omega eggs
now sells for about $1.05, or about 10
percent more than the cost of a normal
dozen.
Scheideler said the higher cost of
Omega eggs results from the expense of
feeding chickens a flax-seed diet. The
flax, a major crop in parts of North and
South Dakota, is more expensive than
typical chicken feeds, but is cheaper
than other sources of concentrated
omega-3 fatty acids.
“Flax is the best nonmarine source
for these acids,” she said. “Fish oils are
the b^jppurce, but flax is much more
economical.”
She said Texas A&M University
researchers in College Station, Texas,
were also working on a similar process
of creating omega-3 enriched eggs by
feeding chickens a diet of biologically
engineered algae.
But the costly algae diet produces
eggs much more expensive than the gro
cery store variety, Scheideler said. One
dozen of the eggs costs about $2.50.
Dietary studies conducted by Nancy
Lewis, UNL associate professor of
dietetics, showed that people eating
Omega eggs regularly reduced their
serum triglyceride levels by 14 percent
after six weeks. High triglyceride levels
increase people’s risk of heart disease.
Scheideler’s research was conduct
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