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CAMPUS BRIEFS Observatory to open for viewing of planet movements Tonight, while the planets are moving closer to one another in alignment, students have a chance to take a closer look. The UNL Student Observatory will be open tonight from 8:30 to 11 for a free public viewing, weather permitting. Martin Gaskell, a senior lec turer of physics and astronomy, said five planets, the sun and the moon are moving into an unusu ally close alignment that will cul minate in the second we$k of May. Tonight, three of the planets - Jupiter, Saturn and Mars - will be visible moving into their close alignment, if conditions permit. “The interest, really, is in the grouping,” Gaskell said. Such close alignment will not happen again for about 50 years, Gaskell said. Also during tonight’s viewing, some highlights of the late winter and spring sky, including nebulae and star clusters, will be shown through the observatory’s 16-inch telescope. The Student Observatory is on the roof of the Stadium Parking Garage, 10th and T streets. The next public viewing will be May 12 from 9:15 to 11 p.m. Black Male Empowerment conference today, Saturday A conference starting today will allow intergenerational dia logue between boys and men ages 15 and older. The Black Male Empowerment Summit will be today and Saturday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. At a kickoff at 7 tonight, Colleen Jones, assistant manage ment professor, wiU sp^tk about her deceased husband, former vice chancellor for business and finance at UNL, Melvin*Jones. A $5 variety show will follow at 8. On Saturday, participants can attend empowerment workshops, all related to “Nguzo Saba,” the seven principles of Kwanzaa, an African-American holiday. Topics will cover economic empowerment, collective and per sonal responsibility, spirituality and academic achievement. The event features Joseph White, professor emeritus of psy chology and psychiatry at the University of California at Irvine and author of “Black Male Emerging.” Saturday’s summit will start at 9:30 a.m. and end at 5:30 p.m at Henzlik Hall. Those interested must register ahead of time. It costs $7 for students and $12 for non-students. % i:_i Professor asks students to see outside classroom MOORE from page 1 group of students. But I try to think about my teaching as embedded in a larger set of goals. I either work to develop or I connect up to new pro grams that are developing. So, a lot of my teaching takes place outside of the formal classroom. I find that that helps me be a better class room teacher. I gain new understand ing of my own field. I gain a better understanding of the craft of teaching. QIs there one thing you try to especially instill in your students? A We call it the sociological imagination. It is a set of crit ical thinking skills based on sociological theories and research methods. It gives people a new way of looking at their own world. Once you’ve had that opportunity, you never think of the world around you in quite the same way again. I also want them to understand the scholarship of feminist research, the scholarship of educational research. I want them to have this intellectu al set of skills, but I also want them to have a foundation of knowledge they can use. What does winning this 1 award mean to you? A Honestly, it means to me that the university community values innovation in teach i ing, values efforts to bring women’s studies and studies of oppressed groups, minority groups, social class issues (to light). It shows that the university values that. And they value the way in which I do that. NU Dance Team, Yell Squad & Mascot Try-outs April 13th - 15th Registration begins on April 13th at 5:00 p.m. in Cook Pavilion Call the NU Athletic Marketing Office at 472-5918 to register ‘Membership benefits include: Full Book Scholarship, $500 stipend/semester (if GPA is maintained), and meals at the performance buffet. File Photo by Newsmakers PEOPLE WHO LIVE In cities are more likely to be sick than those who live In rural areas. A study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control said pockets of people with high unemployment and poverty are III more often. People sick more in cities ■ Urban areas foster ill ness because of high unem ployment and poverty. ATLANTA (AP) - City dwellers get sick more often than their rural counterparts. People who live in areas of high unemployment are more likely to feel unhealthy. And people living in pover ty are sick most often. Those trends were drawn from a five-year study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The government asked adults how many days in the prior month they were unhealthy and compiled results from 1993 through 1997. Those num bers were compared to factors such as population, income levels and unem ployment rates. The study supports earlier research showing that residents in some pockets of extremely high unemployment reported feeling unhealthy up to 20 days a month. “People that say they are unable to work have extremely high levels»of unhealthy days,” said David Moriarty, spokesman for the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. “We really don’t know if people are not feeling well because they are unemployed, or they’re without a job because they may not have resources to have health insurance.” For the general population, the average number of unhealthy days a month is 5.3. People living in counties with more than a million residents were unhealthy almost 5.6 days a month, while those who live in counties with between a half-million and a million people felt bad 5.1 days a month. However, people who lived in the least populous areas - fewer than 25,000 residents - were almost as sick as their urban counterparts, with 5.4 unhealthy days a month. Moriarty said the study is a first step to help local officials identify problems that lead to high illness rates in their communities. Mary Martin, public health man ager for the Columbia-Boone County Health Department in Columbia, Mo., agreed. “You have to know where you are to be able to know where you want to go,” she said. A detailed analysis of the CDC study results for 3,000 counties will be released in July. Disney workers allowed mustaches LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - Attention Disney workers: Don’t throw out thos&razors just yet. A week ago, Walt Disney execu tives said they were relaxing a decades-old policy that prohibited theme-park workers from sporting mustaches on the job. But the policy has a caveat: You can only grow a mustache on vaca tion, and not at work. Walt Disney World spokesman Bill Warren said there’s nothing unusual about the caveat in the policy. “It’s a very common corporate guideline that you should grow a mustache on your vacation so you wouldn’t have an unkempt appear ance,” Warren said. “I’m not a hair expert, but I’m sure someone can grow a mustache in a reasonable amount of time.” Warren said apparent confusion among workers means that “some body didn’t get the message.” Disney officials decided to scrap the mustache ban - Which had been in place since 1957 - in order to make it easier to recruit employees in a tight labor market.