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By JoshKnaub
Staff writer
For freshman exchange student
Olivia Ho, the International Student
Orientation was “beyond expectations.”
Ho, a freshman nutrition major
from Hong Kong, was one of about 300
participants in the weeklong annual
event sponsored by the university’s
International Affairs office for new
exchange students.
Upon arriving at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, Ho was mistakenly
placed in an East Campus residence hall.
She contacted the International
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Affairs Office, which not only changed
her housing assignment but also sent
volunteers to help her move.
“I have a very good impression of
IA. And not just because they helped
me move,” Ho said.
While the International Affairs
Office and orientation leaders don’t aid
all incoming students in this way, many
of the students involved said they
gained something from die orientation.
Volunteers help exchange students
in completing required paperwork.
Piotrek Juszkiewicz, orientation
coordinator, said 20 Welcome Team
volunteers and 12 peer advisers, inter
national students Who get a scholarship
to act as mentors for incoming students,
shepherd the sometimes overwhelmed
students through a dense mass of man
dated forms and photocopies.
Juszkiewicz said the Welcome
Team and the peer advisers were the
lifeblood of the orientation activities.
“Without them, this event would
fall on its face,” he said.
Kathy Lee, a senior broadcasting
maj or from Korea and a peer advisor for
IA, and other peer advisors, met with
students on Monday, making sure stu
dents had the correct paperwork in
place and explaining the weekSs sched
ule.
While Lee and other peer advisers
were checking documents and giving
directions, Welcome Team members
were busy greeting students and pass
ing out Pepsi.
Juszkiewicz said the event was
designed to prepare students who may
have never experienced college life in
he United States.
“These students rarefy have an idea
what he American educational system
is like,” he said.
Workshops on campus safety, med
ical issues, UNLSs academic system and
oher topics help to acquaint he stu
dents with life in Lincoln.
Tours, social events and a shopping
tour provide activities to combat bore
dom during he week.
Tanya Lin, a junior exchange stu
dent from Russia, said he chance to
meet people was he best part of he
event.
“There were so many friendly peo
ple his week.”
Third suspect in kidnapping
still being sought by police
By Jake Bleed
Senior staff writer
Lincoln police are searching for the
third ofthree men suspected of invading
two Lincoln apartments, kidnapping a
resident and exchanging gunfire with
another resident Monday morning.
A warrant has not been issued for
the suspect’s arrest. Police believe the
man is still in Lincoln.
Shot three times, one of three sus
pected intruders was found at
BryanLGH East hospital by police an
hour after die attack. The 23-year-old
was still hospitalized Thursday. Lincoln
police Capt. Gary Engel said die sus
pect would be arrested upon release.
A second suspect, .19-year-old
Kenneth Barnes, was arrested Tuesday
and charged with robbery, kidnapping
and felon in possession of a firearm.
Officer Kacky Finnell said Barnes’ pre
vious felony is from another city.
At about 3:40 a.m., three men
forced into an apartment at 131
Wedgewood Drive and held the 56
year-old resident at gun point. They
were looking for a man named Bob.
After telling the intruders no one
named Bob lived there, the resident was
robbed of her wallet and forced at gun
point to visit a neighboring apartment.
Police said the three forced into the
second apartment and exchanged shots
with a 56-year-old male resident.
Apparently firing in self-defense, the
man has not been charged. The three
intruders then fled the scene.
Engel would not say if all three
intruders were armed but said firearms
related to the crime were recovered.
Engel said a description of the missing
suspect would not be released until a
warrant was issued.
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