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Diamond in the Fall ' Hollywood Mogul October 7, |1999
Nebraska Baseball Coach Dave Van Horn uses Nebraska native Darryl F. Zanuck made a name
. the fall to teach Husker philosophy and build for himself in Hollywood - as a big-time
* _ depth throughout his squad. PAGE 9 producer and a hard-nosed studio head. PAGE 12
VOL. 99 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 " NO. 34
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Stacy Thomlison/DN
MARK BLOOMFIELD, enter, a junior animal science ma|or, art elder members of Sigma Pbl Epsilon
Fraternity work on their lawn display for Homecoming. The fraternity is working along with Kappa Delta and
Chi Phi fraternities to build a likeness of th* Sears Ttophy.
Competition is building
■ During Homecoming
week, display-making is
keeping fraternities and
other participants ttisy.
By JillZeman
Staff writer
The men of the Sigma Alpha
i Epsilon Fraternity know what hard
work is all about.
Since noon cm Tuesday, they’ve
been keeping a constant watch on
their soon-to-be completed home
coming lawn display.
Members of the fraternity aren’t
taking any chances when it comes
to their work in progress, titled the
Big Red Express. Brothers have
been camping outside overnight on
sofas to ensure that no one inter
feres with their masterpiece.
The Big Red Express is one of
many entries in this year’s annual
Homecoming week lawn display
competitioiL
Nearly all of the participants in
the competition have someone
guarding their displays throughout
the night, explaining the unusually
high number of stereos and furni
ture in the lawns of fraternity hous
es this week.
The displays will be judged by a
group of six people, chosen by the
Homecoming Steering Committee,
said committee member Ryan
Stowe,
Each entrant is given a set of
rules and regulations, which outline
the approved size and structure of
die displays, Stowe said.
Judging will begin at 10:30
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NU Directions
examines goals
By Kimberly Sweet
Senior staff writer
It’s been more than a year since
UNL received a $700,000 grant from
the Robert Wood Johnson foundation to
fight high-risk drinking among college
students.
After a year of planning, NU
Directions, the coalition formed to
implement the grant, is armed with a
plan it hopes will make a noticeable
dent in the amount ofhigh-risk drinking
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
said Linda Major, coalition coordinator.
The group, made up of community
and university members, students and
business people, approved a strategic
plan in May to combat high-risk drink
ing during the next four years.
This fall, the group created a time
line, including the dates when it hopes
tb implement the goals.
“Wfe hope to show some activity in
each goal beginning dns year,” Major
said. “Then we will spread it out over
four years.”
Thirteen goals make up the plan.
Enforcement, education, looking at
UNL alcohfglpolicy, implementing
substance i^iito^ipgHBnsand working
with businesses to decrease high-risk
drinking promotions art just some of
the areas NU Directions hopes to wak
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It will take time. I
don’t think what we
see will be
immediate.”
Becky Smith
co-owner of Iguana’s
on over the next four years.
Some of the group’s specific goals
include the following:
■ Decrease the number of students
who drive after drinking.
■ Decrease alcohol consumption
and its related consequences by greek
affiliated students, athletes and other
students who partake in high-risk
drinking.
■ Reduce the use of false identifi
cation and increase enforcement
■ Reduce the number of retailers
who use high-risk marketing and pro
motion practices.
■ Increase the number of students
who participate in alcohol education
programs and related student groups.
■ Promote low-risk 21st birthday
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UNL event focuses
on minority status
■ At ‘Moving Beyond
Analysis,’ diverse group
discusses campus climate.
By Margaret Behm
’ Staff writer L.v'
Faculty, staff and students con
certed with minority status at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln got
an opportunity Wednesday to voice
their thoughts.
“Moving Beyond Analysis To
Solutions” took place in the Culture
Center and allowed participants to
voice concerns about race relations
ami devise potential solutions to die
problems.
“As far as being a student, I do not
think of myself as a UNL student. I
think of myself as an African
American student at UNL,” said N.
Omar Valentine, a senior marketing,
psychology and sociology major.
Valentine is also the senior dele
gate for the Affikan People’s Union.
The event was co-sponsored by APU
and the Culture Cento.
At the event, one major concern
was that minority students don’t have
significant representation in student
government.
Valentine said that getting more
representation on various issues was
important. Valentine explained that
minorities are asked opinions only on
issues that have to do with their race.
He said he would prefer to be a
part of decisions made on campus
that have to do with issues not related
to race, such as parking.
ASUN President Andy
Schuerman said the Association of
Students of the University of
Nebraska was working to improve
minority representation in the senate.
“(It is) not to just represent their
group but to make a step in the direc
tion of understanding the struggles
that people of color go through,”
Schuerman said.
Another issue addressed at the
event was low minority enrollment.
“There are problems because this
is a prominently white campus,” said
Colette Mast, a senior sociology
major. “I’ll only speak for the Native
Ametican struggle, that we are
extremely isolated. I see a lot of self
segregation on this campus.”
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