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Great expectations
NU cross country runner Jeanette Zimmer vows
not to succumb to the pressures that befell her
_ high school career. PAGE 7
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A dogged band
The members of Kid Quarkstar have reshaped
themselves as Happy Dog to become Lincoln’s
premiere funk and jazz group - again.PAGE 9
October 6, 1998
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Humanities
1 center is aim
of campaign
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ByIevaAugstums
\ Staff writer
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Providing future research, teaching and programming in the
: humanities at UNL is the dream of two dedicated professors.
i Sue Rosowski, Adele Hall Distinguished Professor of English,
and John Wunder, professor of history, have been appointed by Senior
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Richard Edwards to lead the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s campaign to win a National
* Endowment for the Humanities regional humanities center.
“This opportunity to receive a regional humanities center allows
us to dream about what can happen and what should be happening in
- the humanities,” Rosowski said. “John and I first must plan how to
achieve that dream.”
Edwards said the
national endowment
recently began a compet
itive process to establish
10 regional humanities ^
centers nationwide. •
Nebraska is competing
in the Great Plains
region, which also
includes the University
of Oklahoma in Norman,
the University of Kansas
in Lawrence, the
University of^South
Dakota in Vermillion and
the University of North
Each regional center will be permanently funded by a $20 million
endowment, including $5 million from the national organization, he
said.
“We have an excellent chance at receiving the center,” Edwards
said. “But there is strict competition - (universities in) Kansas and
* Oklahoma.”
IfUNL gets the grant, Rosowski said, the center would encourage
? activities within the humanities, including research, teaching support,
publications and programming.
Humanities are studies concerned with human thoughts and rela
tions, such as literature, philosophy and history.
The center would continue the efforts of the national oiganization
j and “bring various groups together engaging in conversation and the
; exchange of ideas,” she said.
Wunder said UNEs effort is aimed at writing two grant proposals.
The first proposal is a planning grant. The second requests that
UNL be named the new regional center, he said.
In phase one, Wunder said the National Endowment for the
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j We want to articulate
the voices of people;
from the Plains, as
well as listen to and
bring voices in.”
Sue Rosowski
English professor
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CHRISTINE PAPPAS, a UNL political science doctoral student, stands in front of DHL’s “Torn Notebook” sc
lure’s wind-scattered paged are a good
New Literary journal
Nebraska’s newest literary journal is looking for a few good
writers.
The Plains Song Review is the latest effort of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Arts and Sciences
Though many may be hesitant to participate, editor Christine
Pappas, a political science doctoral student, said she encourages
students from all disciplines to send in their work, whether it is
dealing with politics or poetry.
The journal is intended for undergraduates, she said, but grad
uate students and professionals also can submit work.
As long as the manuscript deals with the journal’s theme -
exploring Nebraska’s sense of place - Pappas said the works
would be welcome.
The journal’s title pays homage to Nebraska author Wright
Morris, who won the National Book Award for his novel “Plains
Song” in 1981.
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BySheeriWeyers
StaffWriter
Cornfields and graduates in caps and gowns
are among images students will encounter when
* they buy Pepsi beverages this year.
To make vending machines more attractive
and keep the campus from glowing with Pepsi
logos, Lincoln Pepsi Cola Bottling Company and
i the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are installing
« collage panels in Pepsi machines around City and
East campuses.
The collage includes cornfields, graduates, the
City Campus landscape, the Lied Center for
Performing Arts and the Mueller Tower. The panels
will be on 10 to 15 machines and will be complete
by the end of the fall semester.
Installing the panel was a part of the contract
made last year between UNL and Pepsi, giving
Pepsi the exclusive rights to sell beverages on cam
pus, said Steve Ford, president of LinPepCo.
Many people were skeptical of last year’s bev
erage contract at first, but the decorative panels
will help keep Pepsi logos from becoming a domi
nant image on campus, said James Main, vice
chancellor for business and finance.
“The university did not want to commercialize
the campus with nothing but Pepsi,” he said.
Pepsi’s plan is to not be “so prominent on cam
pus to the point where people become offended,”
Ford said.
The national Pepsi corporation and the univer
sity took about nine months to approve die panel
design. Approval included deciding which pictures
could be used on the panels. Some pictures depict
ing NCAA teams at the university might have been
used, but NCAA members cannot be associated
with any merchandise.
University photographers shot the pictures,
and several people helped choose them, said UNL
spokeswoman Phyllis Larsen. But students did not
help choose the photographs used in the collage,
said Sally Buchholz, manager of publications and
photography.
The collage will not only be seen at die univer
sity, but throughout the state, Main said.
“The idea is to represent UNL with the pop
machines,” he said.
“We are just trying to give a good feel for UNL.
The collage represents a wide range of things at die
university,” Larsen said.
In the future, panels may have images similar
to their surroundings, but, in the meantime, Pepsi
and UNL are seeing how receptive people are to
the first panel.
Ford said no other university has a collage on
its Pepsi machines.
“I don’t think you will see vendor fronts any
where specific to a school,” he said.
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