Hanging On
Nebraska stays alive in the Big 12
Tournament race with a 75-71 win.
SPORTS, PAGE 20
DN Issues
Does real diversity ©cist at UNL?
Is so, where is it?
OPINION, PAGE 5
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Education
standards
challenged
■ U.S. Secretary of Education
advocates higher expectations and
more support for public education.
By Veronica Daehn
Staff writer
U.S. Secretary of Education Dick Riley called
for new expectations in education Tuesday during
his seventh annual State of American Education
address.
Without new expectations, Riley said, the
future of the nation is in jeopardy.
“Education is not where it needs to be,” Riley
said. “Today we are attempting to do what we’ve
never done before - give all children a first-class
education.”
More than 30 senators and Nebraska residents
watched Riley’s speech on a screen in a State
Capitol hearing room, while Riley spoke live at
Southern High School in North Carolina.
Americans are ready to make the changes that
are necessary to help the country’s youth, Riley
said.
“Americans have gotten serious -about
American education,” he said.
Reading, math, science, ACT and SAT scores
are up, he said, and more minority students are
going to college than ever.
American education is changing for the better,
he said, and higher expectations are the key to
improvement.
Riley called for continued support of special
education in die public school system.
There are 6 million disabled students in the
United States, he said.
“This is something that matters to me,” Riley
said. “Special education is not a place but a set of
services for people. We need to consistently
increase support for that every year.”
All children should have high expectations
placed upon diem, he said, because low expecta
tions do nothing but destroy a child's future.
Gov. Mike Johanns said he applauded Riley for
urging the federal government to continue to fund
special education programs.
Riley said improving schools should be every
one’s concern.
Businesses should form partnerships with
schools to help prepare students for life after grad
uation, he said.
The country needs safer schools, smaller class
es and more extracurricular activities, he said, and
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connection
Conley committed
to student unity
Heather Glenboski/DN
JOHN CONLEY, ASUN PRESIDENTIAL candidate for the Impact party, says he wants to
make ASUN a mere visible, active and student-friendly organization. He said he
wants to have student fees go to events students want.
Editor's note: This is the second of four
profiles looking at the presidential candi
dates for the March 1 AS UN elections.
Today is Impact candidate John Conley.
Tomorrow we will profile Duff candidate
Jason Kidd.
; JBy Katie Mueting
Stiff writer
John Conley would not nominate him
self for homecoming king, but if he were
chosen, he would accept die honor.
He used this analogy to describe how he
came to run for ASUN president.
“I didn’t wake up one morning and
decide I wanted to be president of ASUN:
‘Go John,’” he said.
Initially, he did not have aspirations to
be president of the Association of Students
of die University of Nebraska, “but when
eight to 12 people ask you, ... you start
thinking about it,” Conley said.
Conley is running for president with
first vice presidential candidate Amy Ellis
and second vice presidential candidate Brad
Bangs.
If elected ASUN president, Conley said
he would listen to students’ concerns and
express them to administrators.
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—CITY COUNCIL—
Sexual contact banned
in Lincoln businesses
ByCaraPesek
Staff writer
Although exotic dancing in Lincoln is still
legal, those who frequent clubs featuring exot
ic dancers are going to have to abide by a look
but-don’t-touch rule.
The City Council voted Tuesday to post
pone action on an ordinance banning nudity in
public places just before unanimously passing
an ordinance banning sexual contact in busi
nesses.
Before the council members voted oh the
first ordinance, councilman Jeff Fortenberry
urged the council to postpone the vote until the
Supreme Court reached a decision on a pend
ing court case.
Fortenberry said the constitutionality of a
Pennsylvanian ordinance banning nudity in
public places was debated before the Supreme
Court last November.
To avoid making a decision that could later
be deemed unconstitutional, Fortenberry said,
it would be in the city’s best interest to wait.
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Students ‘learn to learn ’
in long-awaited course
ByCaraFesek.
Staff writer
Every day at UNL, students are taught biol
ogy, history, calculus and countless other sub
jects without first being taught the most effec
tive ways to learn those materials.
Ken Kiewra, an associate professor of edu
cational psychology at UNL, is trying to change
that.
For years, Kiewra, an expert in the field of
learning studies, has been attempting to con
vince the university to offer a class that would
help students “learn to learn.”
And this semester those efforts paid off.
Educational Psychology 209, also known as
Strategies for Academic Success, helps students
improve their note-taking, time-management,
test-preparation, memorization and critical
thinking skills, Kiewra said
Kiewra said the three-credit-hour class
combines typical course work such as quizzes
and discussion of the text with classroom prac
tice of the skills the students are learning.
Students also choose other courses as target
courses, Kiewra said Students make conscious
efforts to apply what they are learning in his
class to their target classes.
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