Residence halls sponsor
leadership conference
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By Kim Sweet
Staff Reporter
Two weeks after students tie up
their carpets and move their couches
out of residence halls for the summer,
thousands of people will take their
place.
And the new residents will brain
storm how to make the halls better.
More than 2,800 students repre
senting colleges and universities
from across the nation will pack
Harper, Schramm, Smith and Sandoz
halls for the annual gathering of the
National Association of College and
University Residence Halls
Leadership Conference.
The conference, held between
May 21 and 24, will focus on improv
ing campus residence halls, said Alan
Nietfeldt, conference chair.
“I think it’s a great opportunity
for students,” Nettle said. “This is a
great opportunity for individuals to
be involved that previously wouldn’t
have been able.”
The conference will attract stu
dents from more than 200 schools
and will last for four days.
“We have a pretty diverse set of
programs,” said Josh Anderson, pro
gramming chairman. “There is a
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wide range of stun ranging from
making the Residence Hall
Association better to stress relievers.”
The presenters also come from
schools across the nation and repre
sent every geographic region,
Anderson said.
The annual conference started in
1953 and has since been held at
dozens of different U.S. universities.
NACURH is one of the largest
entirely student-run organizations in
the country, Nietfeldt said.
More than 100 volunteers will
help carry off this summer’s confer
ence.
“All will get a wonderful volun
teer experience and a chance to meet
2,000 new people from around the
nation,” said Tarina Cox, volunteer
chairwoman.
Volunteers working for the con
ference and not attending summer
school simultaneously also will get
free room and board, free T-shirts and
many other benefits, Cox said.
Nietfeldt stressed that all stu
dents, including volunteers, have a
great deal to gain from NACURH
’98.
Students interested in volunteer
ing should call the NACURH office
at (402) 472-5200 by Tuesday.
Ethnic studies program
observes 25th anniversary
By Lindsay Young
j Assignment Reporter
Though it has been instrumental
in bringing about change in minority
representation at UNL, the Institute
for Ethnic Studies has room for
improvement, its first director said.
“We really have not done as much
as we could have,” said Ralph Vigil,
who helped start the program and
was the original director. i
Because a large number of the
institute’s faculty members are
minorities, the program plays an
important part in increasing diversity
within the University of Nebraska
Lincoln’s faculty and in keeping fac
ulty members on the campus, said
Marcela Raffaelli, assistant profes
sor of psychology and ethnic studies.
The institute is celebrating its
25in anniversary this year.
The institute was established by
activists who felt minorities needed
better representation on campus, said
Vigil, a UNL professor of history
and ethnic studies.
Vigil was the institute’s first
director in 1973. The institute’s cur
rent director is Miguel Carranza.
The creation of the Institute for
Ethnic Studies ha& led to more
minorities in teaching positions, but
the representation needs to increase
outside of the institute as well, Vigil
said.
Vigil said the new curriculum
was geared toward nonminority stu
dents.
Ethnic Studies 100, an introduc
tory class, covers ethnic issues such
as the history of immigration to the
United States, the relationships
between native people and non
natives, discrimination and social
change.
The Institute for Ethnic Studies
offers courses in Native American
Studies, African and African
American Studies, Chicano Studies
and Latino and Latin American
Studies. Students can major in Latin
American Studies.
The mission of the institute is to
encourage interdisciplinary studies
and the exploration and understand
ing of minority experiences,
Raffaelli said.
“The thing that links us all is that
the point is to understand experi
ences of ethnic people,” she said.
But the program needs a few
more professors who have expertise
in each of the areas ethnic studies
teaches, Vigil said.
it doesn t mean you have to
belong to a minority group to teach
it,” Vigil said.
Vigil, who was recruited for the
director position from the University
of Texas, retired as director in 1978
to publish a political biography of
Alonso D. Zorita, a Christian human
ist who lived from 1512-85. The
prize-winning book was published
by the University of Oklahoma press
in 1988.
The humanist view, Vigil said, is
that all people, regardless of race or
background, are “brothers under
God.
“This, of course, was what ethnic
studies was all about,” he said.
Vigil is retiring after this semes
ter.
He said the program has been
doing well for the resources it has.
“I might note that we do have
some rather good people in ethnic
studies,” Vigil said.
“Given the time and funds, they
are doing excellent.”
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Expert on architecture
speaks at commencement
From Staff Reports
A nationally known expert
on parks and architecture will be
the guest speaker next Saturday
at UNL’s commencement ser
vices.
Roger Kennedy, former
director of the National Park
Service and current emeritus
director of the National Museum
of American History of the
Smithsonian Institute, will
address more than 1,800 gradu
ates at 9:30 a.m. in the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
Kennedy, who will receive an
honorary doctor of letters
degree, was appointed as
National Park Service director in
1993 by President Clinton. He
retired from his position in 1997.
Kennedy served as director
of the National Museum of
American History from 1979 to
1992 and is the author of several
books on architecture history.
Dogs kill 26 animals;
Hastings man charged
HASTINGS (AP) - The owner
of two dogs that killed 26 animals
was charged Thursday with four
counts of harboring a vicious ani
mal, four counts of dogs running at
large and 56 counts of possessing
an unlicensed animal.
The misdemeanor charges,
filed in Adams County Court
against Sheryl Lee Feik, stemmed
from an attack Tuesday by Feik’s
two Siberian Huskies on animals
being raised by a 4-H group.
“It’s an issue of public safety
and of great public concern,” said
Bob Sullivan, assistant city attor
ney in Hastings.
Each count carries a fine of up
to $100. On the charges of pos
sessing an unlicensed animal,
Sullivan said each charge repre
sents one day that Feik failed to
license the animal with the city.
Sullivan said he told Feik he
will drop the charges if she has the
dogs destroyed. However, she still
must pay restitutf©^|to t^e ^-H
group and court Jf, S
f Feik said she has consented to
have one of the dogs destroyed, but
she wants to build a kennel and
keep the other dog. She said she
believes it will help if the dogs are
separated.
Sullivan said he has no inten
tion of allowing the release of
either dog unless required by law.
The dogs are being held at the
police department’s animal shel
ter.
$ Feik’s dogs reportedly killed
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four sheep, 15 ducks and duck
lings, four chickens, a goat, a tom
turkey and a rabbit, according to a
Hastings police report.
The deaths occurred at about
7:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Rural
Ranchers 4-H bams in Hastings.
The animals were cared for by
Lincoln Elementary sixth-graders
and other students up through high
school working on 4-H projects.
Feik said she believes someone
let her dogs out of her yard, which
is enclosed by a 7-foot fence. She
said the dogs could not escape
without human assistance.
“I feel somebody is letting
them loose,” she said.
Feik said several people in her
neighborhood have told her about
similar incidents.
Scottie McMillin, Adams
County 4-H coordinator, had said
the dogs have killed animals at the
barn before. McMillin said he
fsked Eeik to pay for damages. * c
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.McMiHia bufcnever received an *
estimate for damages. She said she
plans to pay for all the damages.
“We apologize for the loss of
the kids’ animals,” Feik said.
The dogs have never attacked
people and are not vicious, she
said.
Feik said the animals at the 4
H bam are not protected well, and
the barns have openings where
other dogs could enter.
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Clarification
In Thursday’s story about
threatening e-mail, the origin
of the messages was stated
incorrectly. Police have deter
mined the messages were sent
through an out-of-state e-mail
server, but they do not know
where the messages originated.
Man cited for open burning
UNL police cited a homeless
man Wednesday for roasting a
chicken over an open fire.
Brian King, 27, wrapped a
chicken he had found in newspa
pers and started a small fire to
roast it, UNL Police Sgt. Mylo
Bushing said.
The officer found King roast
ing his chicken near Behlen
Laboratory around 5:30 p.iri.
Wednesday.
King was cited for open burn
ing.
Blind man robbed
A legally blind %man was
knocked down and robbed on a
street corner Wednesday night.
The 39-year-old man, who was
drunk, was walking along 21st
Street to the Super C convenience
store, 21st and G streets, when
someone pushed him down from
. behind around 9 p.m., Lincoln
|jPbti#e^^iAaij jte&rmann said. ||
B iQva|tiy^ceyrs kicked the man ’
and took his wallet, containing *
$10, and fled south on 21st Street.
Road rage flares up
In a case of road rage, one man
assaulted another man’s car in
traffic, causing $400 damage
Wednesday night.
The victim of the attack
changed lanes in front of an Audi
near the intersection of 16th and G
streets, Heermann said.
While the cars were stopped,
the Audi’s passenger got out and
yelled “let’s fight.”
When the man tried to open
the driver’s door of the 1993 5
Lincoln Continental, the driver of i
; that car said “I don’t have time for
you. Get a job.”
The man responded by kicking
the Lincoln’s door and punching
the hood.
The Audi left westbound on G
Street.
Compiled by Senior
Reporter Josh Funk
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