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Event celebrates ‘real Africa’
By Nicole Hall
Staff writer
Students from 19 African countries
came together Saturday night to pro
mote the solidarity of the continent at
the Afro Unity Festac.
“Tonight, empty your head of TV
and movies,” said Festac emcee Batsirai
Kasu as the event began. “We are going
to learn about the real Africa.”
Saturday night’s event, put on by the
African Student Association, was a dis
play of African entertainment and food.
Among activities were traditional
dances performed by members, a fash
ion show that showed clothing from dif
ferent the countries and a professional
dance troop from the Benin Republic,
which performed the final act.
ASA members also served ethnic
food representing African countries.
This was the first Festac since the
event was discontinued three years ago,
and ASA members began planning this
year’s event in December 1997.
A few months ago ASA had doubt
ed if the plans would come to fruition,
said Innocent Anaverberokhi, senior
Management Information Systems
major and organizer of the event
Anaverberokhi said the purpose of
the event was to bring African culture to
UNL and the Lincoln community.
“The average student doesn’t see
Africa besides war and fighting,” he
said. “They don’t see the things we deal
with every day that make our life
happy.”
The guest speaker, C. James
Peterson, UNL professor of
Agricultural Economics, said he was
trying to diminish the misconceptions
about Africa.
Peterson said Africa’s economy
sometimes appears to be the worst in the
world, but not by its own doing.
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The average
student doesn’t
see Africa
besides war
and fighting
Innocent Anaverberokhi
event organizer
“(This is all) promoted by the
media,” he said.
Peterson said that Africa is on the
brink of economic growth and at the
beginning of renewal. Africa has terrific
potential although it has been slowed by
a long difficult history and inappropri
ate policies. These are all correctable
problems, he said.
Organizations
donate funds
for field trip
From staff reports
The Panhellenic Association
and the Interfratemity Council pre
sented a check for $300 to the sixth
grade class at Elliot Elementary
School on Friday.
The money will allow the stu
dents to take a field trip to the
Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha,
where the class will visit the rain
forest, which it has been studying in
science class.
Julie Stewart, vice president of
the Panhellenic Association, said
the class wouldn’t have had the
chance to visit the zoo if it hadn’t
received some rmancial help.
The donation was suggested by
UNL senior Angie Swanson, who
works at the school.
The class plans to take the trip
in a couple of weeks, Stewart said.
The Panhellenic Association
and IFC decided to take advantage
of the opportunity in order to help
out the community.
“We’ve donated to other causes
before,” Stewart said. “But we
thought this one would be a really
special cause to donate to.”
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Group injects humanities
into pre-medicine studies
By Jami Schievelbein
Staff writer
A new student organization wants
to get more pre-medicine students
involved in the humanities.
The Humanities in Medicine pro
gram will provide a way for those stu
dents to learn more about areas they
usually don’t focus on, such as litera
ture, art, history, anthropology, psychol
ogy and other cultures.
The idea for combining pre-medi
cine studies with the humanities in a
student oiganization came from Alexis
Haifley, a sophomore English major
and pre-medicine student.
Haifley said if pre-medicine stu
dents are going to work with people,
then they need to learn everything about
them, such as their religions and musi
cal tastes, in order to know how to fully
heal a person.
She said pre-medicine students
need a broad view of life so they can
treat people with many different per
spectives.
Humanities in Medicine will be
open to all majors, though it will pri
marily focus on pre-medicine. Some
activities the group may be involved in
include attending musicals, orchestras
or dance performances and visiting art
galleries or cultural fairs.
“We have a lot of access to things,
like the Sheldon Art Gallery,” Haifley
said. “Why should we overlook those
things?”
Students from all majors often
study art, plays and culture, Haifley
said, but they don’t actually experience
them. Her idea for the group is to go to
museums instead of looking at pictures
of what iOs in them and go to plays
rather than read them.
She said she wants Humanities in
Medicine to provide an opportunity for
people who can’t major in the humani
ties to be able to experience and be
involved with them.
Haifley said the group might help
students get the most out of their college
education.
She said students sometimes go
through college as if it were job training
for one specific occupation, rather than
an opportunity for a broad education.
The group’s adviser and assistant
professor of biological sciences,
Lawrence Harshman, said some stu
dents feel there is not enough time to
pursue other interests, so the organiza
tion would benefit them.
A significant number of students
feel discouraged from taking classes not
part of their major, Harshman said.
He said it is important for students
to become well-rounded and appreciate
ideas in other cultures, languages and
the arts.
Studying humanities also will help
pre-medicine students maintain a bal
ance between their career and other
areas of interest,^ well as help students
become more broadly informed, he
said.
Haifley said she welcomed ideas for
the new group.
“I don’t really want to make this all
mine,” she said. “Really, this is just for
fun.”
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