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VOL. 99 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 45
ASUN
promotes
midterm
reviews
By Veronica Daehn
Staff writer
ASUN is urging professors to let students
criticize or praise their teaching earlier than
usual this. year. '
Beth Lee, the Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska’s Academic Committee
chairwoman, said she has been asking teachers
to provide midterm evaluations for students to
fill out
“It’s a good thing for (teacher§)Htd have
midterm evaluations,” Lee said. “But a lot of it’s
got to be students asking teachers to do them.”
End-of-the-semester evaluations are the
only review teachers are now required to give.
While those are helpful to teachers for
future classes, Lee said, the students who filled
out the evaluations do not gain anything.
Freshman Cristine Walsh agreed.
She said she would rather fill out an evalua
tion at the midpoint of the semester than at the
end when the class is over.
“I don’t want to fill out a survey that doesn’t
help me anyhow,” said Walsh, an international
business major.
Midterm evaluation forms are available at
-.
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Council OKs
special sale
of fireworks
By Sarah Fox
Staff writer
The Lincoln City Council voted 6-0
Monday night to approve the sale and use of
fireworks in Lincoln to celebrate the millen
nium.
Lincoln usually allows fireworks to be
sold only around the Fourth of July.
But this year, because of the council’s
approval, fireworks can be sold Dec. 30 and
31 and can be shot off from 8 a.m. Dec. 31 to
2 a.m. Jan. 1.
Councilwoman Annette McRoy asked
the council to amend the original ordinance
to let people shoot off fireworks until 2 a.m.
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O.C. LOVE-WADE was diagnosed with sickle-cell anemia when he was 3 months old. The 16-year-old junior at Lincoln Northeast High School
will have to receive four pints of blood once a month for the rest of his life.
16-year-old struggles against disease
By Kelli Lacey
Staff writer
As 16-year-old O.C. Love-Wade sits on the
sofa in his two-bedroom apartment, which he
shares with his family, he looks like any one of his
fellow students at Lincoln Northeast High School.
But he cannot do most of the things other teen
agers can.
Despite battling a painful disease known as
sickle-cell anemia, Love-Wade is content.
He has accepted the fact that he will have to
receive four pints of blood once a month for the
rest of his life.
He knows that he can never join his friends for
a game of basketball or a quick meal at
McDonald’s.
Even running up the stairs to his second-floor
apartment can cause his body to go into a “crisis,”
which could lead to death.
His body simply cannot take it.
Love-Wade, who was diagnosed when he was
3 months old with the disease, which clogs blood
vessels, must depend on help from toe communi
ty to keep him alive.
Love-Wade’s story is toe driving force behind
the Community Blood Bank’s blood drive, which
is being held today and Wednesday in the
Nebraska Union Centennial Room. The
University of Nebraska Lincoln^ Panhellenic and
toe Afrikan People’s Union are co-sponsoring the
drive. '
Love-Wade’s illness is incurable. Only regular
transfusions, which often take eight hours to com
fcfc
As long as I can feed him and take him to the doctor, it
makes the day worth getting up. That's my whole world.”
Alberta Wade
O.C. Love-Wade’s mother
plete, and pain medication provide relief and keep
his body alive.
Sickle-cell anemia is a hereditary disease in
which the body produces a type of abnormal
hemoglobin causing red blood cells, which are
normally round, to be sickle-shaped, or shaped
like a crescent.
Because of the cells’ odd shape, they clog the
blood vessels, not allowing any oxygen to flow
through the body.
When the blood cannot flow through the body,
the lungs, kidneys, liver, bones and other organs
and tissues are damaged. During this time the
body is going into a “crisis.”
After he had a near-death crisis last May,
Love-Wade moved into the final stages of the dis
ease, which left him unable to walk for more than
two months.
Mary Beth Carstens, promotions coordinator
for the Community Blood Bank, said the goal of
the drive at UNL is to find at least 16 donors who
can donate their blood about three or four times a
year to Love-Wade.
Although Love-Wade needs any donors who
have O positive or O negative blood types,
Carstens said, it is the black community that blood
drive organizers are focusing on.
Sickle-cell anemia is a hereditary disease most
commonly found in blacks.
“About one in 20 African Americans will
match his blood, whereas about one in 200
Caucasians will be a match,” Carstens said.
Love-Wade’s mother, Alberta Wade, said that
blacks possess a special enzyme that will help her
son.“The transfusions are keeping him alive and
giving him enough energy to get through the next
couple of days,” Wade said
Love-Wade’s mother has dedicated herself to
taking care of her son. The painful disease, she
said, has been hard for her and her family. Love
Wade has three brothers, 22-year-old Marco, 18
year-old Eddie and 17-year-old Tim.
“As long as I can feed him and take him to the
doctor, it makes the day worth getting up,” she
said.“That’s my whole world. I take care of my
boy.”
The care constant support Love-Wade said he
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