Groun welcomes all women
■ Women’s Studies
Association promotes
diversity among students.
By Dane Stickney
Staff writer
In her home country, Yeaji Shin
never knew how liberated women
could be.
Her definition of liberation
changed when she came to the
United States and got involved with
the Women’s Studies Association.
Shin, a native of South Korea, is
one of two graduate assistants for the
Women’s Studies Association, a stu
dent organization aimed at promot
ing awareness of women’s issues and
education.
Shin said she became involved
with women’s studies when she
learned about feminism shortly after
she came to the United States.
“(Women’s studies) helped me
justify my female identity,” she said.
“I come from a very patriarchal and
repressive society. It has liberated
me to act out. This place is just won
derful for me.”
Shin said the Women’s Studies
Association exists to promote the
diversity of the female status on
campus by providing a variety of
information and activities.
Shin has personally organized an
event, which will be held Oct. 22,
celebrating Asian women scholars in
American academia.
“The event is to promote an
Asian women curriculum,” she said.
“Hopefully, many students will be
able to get a good perspective on the
topic.”
Tagi Adams, also a graduate
assistant, said the association also
will be sponsoring other activities
including a “Take Back the Night”
vigil on Oct. 20 and a conference in
the spring.
The association and all of its
activities are open to anyone interest
ed in women’s history, the female
community or women’s issues.
“We’re pretty broad,” Adams
said. “We don’t subscribe to a certain
point of view on women’s issues.
We’re pretty much a safe place for
anyone interested in any aspect deal
ing with women.”
Both Shin and Adams empha
sized that anyone is welcome to join
the group, regardless of gender or
otherwise.
“Every woman who is interested
in women’s issues or humanism
should get involved,” Shin said. “We
even have some male students that
are involved.”
Those interested in becoming
involved with the Women’s Studies
Association should stop by its office
at 308 Avery Hall or call (402) 472
9392. The office is open from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m.
The calendar of events for the
organization can be seen online at
http://www.unl.edu/womenssp/
wshome.html.
U.N. authority takes hold in Timor
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With East Timor’s water, electrici- Timor or be resettled elsewhere in
ty and sanitation services in shambles Indonesia, U.N. envoy Jamsheed
from weeks of looting, Indonesia Marker said,
agreed Tuesday to let the United The decisions came during talks
Nations start taking on some civilian Tuesday with Secretary-General Kofi
authority earlier than planned, the U.N. Annan, Alatas and Portuguese Foreign
envoy said. Minister Jaime Gama, and details were
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to start taking over civilian control in
East Timor to try to fill the administra
tive vacuum created when the territory
collapsed into anarchy after its people
voted to separate from Indonesia.
Pro-Indonesian militias went on a
killing, looting and burning rampage,
driving thousands of people from their
homes, torching entire villages and
destroying the territory’s utilities and
infrastructure.
Under the agreement that paved
the way for the Aug. 30 ballot, the
United Nations is to assume formal
civilian control of East Timor after
Indonesia’s parliament ratifies the
vote results, expected in late October.
Correction
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torate student. She was incorrectly
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Daily Nebraskan.
Lincoln man, 20, dies
in highway car crash
By Jake Bleed
Senior staff writer
A Lincoln man returning from
paying off his car loan lost control of
his automobile, which was then hit by
a dump truck, killing him and serious
ly injuring his passenger, Lancaster
County Sheriff Terry Wagner said.
Jose Domingo Navarijo, 20, who
resided in an apartment on the 1200
block of D Street, was pronounced
dead at the scene of the accident,
Wagner said. Antonio Gonzales, 28,
who lives in an apartment on the 2300
block of Q Street, was flown to
BryanLGH West by Star Care V,
where he remained in critical condi
tion Tuesday.
The men were driving westbound
on Highway 6 around 10:20 a.m.
Monday after Navarijo had paid for
his car loan at Ashland State Bank,
Wagner said.
The car was in the far right lane of
the highway when Navarijo lost con
trol. The blue Mazda MX 3 spun
across two lanes of westbound traffic,
over a curbed median, then across two
lanes of eastbound traffic, Wagner
said.
A dump truck driving in the far
eastbound lane then hit the Mazda
near the driver’s side door, Wagner
said.
The driver of the dump truck,
Corinda Ballard, 34, was not injured
in the accident. Wagner said she had
just delivered a load of cement at a
construction site and was returning
for more when the accident happened.
Waverly Fire and Rescue units
spent two hours trying to remove
Gonzales from the wreck with jaws of
life equipment, Wagner said.
Sheriff deputies investigated the
crash for about five hours Monday,
Wagner said. Navarijo’s car was so
mangled in the wreck that deputies
weren’t sure what it was upon arrival.
“We didn’t know what it was until
we got the vehicle registration,”
Wagner said.
Wagner did not know why
Navarijo lost control of the car nor
how fast he was going. Wagner esti
mated the speed of the dump truck at
55 to 60 mph.
Neither of the drivers nor the
Mazda’s passenger were wearing seat
belts, Wagner said.
Police arrest man, 28,
on suspicion of thefts
By Jake Bleed
Senior staff writer
Omaha police arrested a 28-year
old Lincoln man and held him until
Lincoln police could arrive and bring
him back for two counts of felony pos
session of stolen property and one
count of larceny.
Shawn Durham, who lives on the
5800 block of N. 23rd Street, was con
nected to stolen property found in two
Omaha pawn shops and was interrupt
ed Monday while attempting another
burglary at 6350 Campbell Drive in
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A 34-year-old woman told police
she heard a noise coming from her
open garage, then saw a man emerge
from the garage carrying frozen steaks
and shrimp, Lincoln police officer
Katherine Finnell said. The food was
taken from a storage freezer in the
garage. The man was also carrying a
chainsaw.
The resident confronted the man,
who dropped the steaks, shrimp and
chainsaw and ran to his car. As the
man drove away, the resident saw her
daughter’s bike stowed in the back of
his 1987 white Honda Accord.
Omaha police contacted their
Lincoln counterparts late Monday
after they pulled Durham’s car over
and found the missing bike in its back
seat, Finnell said.
Police then connected Durham
with property stolen in two Lincoln
burglaries that was found in two
Omaha pawn shops. 1
The first burglary connected to
Durham took place July 29, Finnell
said, when Durham allegedly broke
into a home at 1310 Smoky Hill Road
and took a bag of golf clubs and a bike,
valued at $850.
The golf clubs and bike were later
sold in Omaha to the EZ Money Pawn
Shop, 4721 S. 24 St., Finnell said.
The second burglary took place on
July 8, at 830 Hazelwood Drive,
Finnell said. Durham took a Honda
self-propelled lawnmower from the
home, Finnell said, and later sold it at
Sol’s Jewelry and Loan, 514 N. 16th St.
People trying to sell items to a
pawn shop are required by state law to
provide a signature and driver’s
license or other identification to the
pawnbroker.
Finnell said Durham was arrested
for larceny after stealing the bike from
the home at Campbell Drive because
the garage door was left open. Were it
closed, she said, Durham would have
been arrested for burglary.
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