Students to migrate south
By Veronica Daehn
Staff writer
Ticket sales for the annual student
migration football game have not
decreased in recent years, but the tick
et manager said a surplus still
remains.
John Anderson, ticket manager for
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Athletic Ticket Office, said 578 stu
dent tickets were sold for the game
against Missouri this Saturday.
Eight hundred tickets were made
available to students.
About the same number is avail
able every year.“We ended up selling
the rest to the public about a week
ago,” Anderson said. “Students just
weren’t buying them.”
Migration-game tickets went on
sale Aug. 23, he said, and for the first
time this year, students were able to
charge them to their consolidated
bills.
But the new payment process did
not have an impact on the number of
ticket sales.
ASUN President Andy
Schuerman said ticket applications
have been in the student government
office for the last two weeks.
Applications were also available
in the Athletic Ticket Office.
ASUN selects what game will be
the migration game each year,
Schuerman said.
Marlene Beyke, ASUN director of
development, said students chose
Missouri this year because they
thought tickets might be more diffi
cult to get.
“We go to Kansas and Colorado a
lot, but students decided this was a
good opportunity to get to Missouri,”
Beyke said.
Beyke does not know how many
applications the ASUN office gave
out this year.
Anderson said while there were
more than 200 tickets that students did
not buy, there are no tickets available
now.
Because students had not pur
chased all of the tickets, Anderson
said he sent the rest to football donors.
“I can only hold them so long,” he
said.
The process of buying migration
game tickets was different this year,
Anderson said.
In years past, a lottery system was
used to determine the order in which
students could buy tickets.
That was eliminated this year
because students never bought all of
the tickets.
Anderson, who is in his fourth
year at the ticket office, said tickets
were sold on a first-come, first-serve
basis this season.
“(Ticket sales) are still strong,”
Anderson said. “We’re still selling
500-600 tickets.”
Center plans semester events
■ Gayl^esbian Bisexual
Transgender Resource
Center wants to reach out
to more students.
By Dane Stickney
Staff writer
Bea Carrasco may be new to the
Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender
Resource Center, but she already has
severaf ideas on the organization’s
role at the university.
The_ resource center has been pro
viding a safe haven for University of
Nebraska-Lincoln students for nearly
20 years, said Carrasco, the center’s
new graduate assistant.
This year, GLBT, which is located
on the second floor of the Nebraska
Union, plans to reach more students
through a series of events throughout
the semester.
“The main project this year is the
(gay/lesbian) film festival,” Carrasco
said. “We hope the festival will bring
people together.”
The festival, which will be held in
late October, will feature six films
that cover gay and lesbian topics.
The center also plans on sponsor
ing many community-wide events,
which will be announced in the near
future.
Aside from the activities, GLBT is
always busy providing a comfortable,
friendly and educational setting for all
UNL students, Carrasco said.
“Basically, the GLBT resource
center is a resource place for any stu
dent looking for support,”-she said.
r‘We have a lot of information for any
one who wants to learn more about
gay and lesbian issues.”
The resource center also acts as a
headquarters for three student organi
zations: Allies, the Graduate GLBT
Student Association and Spectrum,
the undergraduate GLBT group.
Carrasco said all of the oiganiza
tions worked in conjunction with the
GLBT resource center to help make
the university more aware of the
growing gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgendered population.
Together the groups try to help
students overcome stereotypes about
people with untraditional sexual ori
entations.
“Not all gay and straight people
follow a set stereotype,” she said.
“You might see some one who looks
really dykey or flamey, but they aren’t
gay. Sexual preference is not like race.
You can’t just look at someone and tell
whether they are gay or not.”
Carrasco said she didn’t expect
people to totally change their percep
tions of people with different sexual
orientations, but she did hope they
were willing to learn.
“People don’t have to think that
being gay is OK,” she said. “I under
stand if people have a different opin
ion, but they need to be aware that
we’re all the same with minor differ
ences. Gay people just happen to fall
in love with different genders.”
Carrasco encouraged any student
to come to the center to learn more
about the different sexual orientations
on campus.
“People come to college to get
educated,” she said. “A lot of students
at UNL come from small towns that
are somewhat narrow-minded.”
Laura Ortmann, a senior bio
chemistry major, said she got
involved with the center four years
r
ago through the Allies organization.
“I’m an ally,” she said. “I totally
believe GLBT people should have the
same respect that I’m allowed because
I’m straight.”
Ortmann said she had seen the
center improve awareness of gay
issues on campus in the five years she
has been at UNL.
“I never heard about stuff like this
when I first came here,” she said.
“They’ve done a great job of making
people aware of the gay community,
and it has opened up a lot of discus
sion.”
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Horizon, and UNL School
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Friday,
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