7 saw Africa and I saw suffering. Millions and
millions of children are becoming fatherless and
motherless."
BY UNDSEY BAKER
Members of a new organiza
tion hope to make it possible to
help feed Africa’s hungry chil
dren without having to dial the
800 number at the bottom of the
television screen.
Save Sub-Saharan Orphans
Inc. was established this year by
UNL graduate student Nelson
Okuku Miruka after he traveled
throughout Africa and recog
nized the growing number of
children being orphaned by the
AIDS/HIV pandemic ravaging
the country.
"I saw Africa and I saw suffer
ing,” said Miruka, the organiza
tion's president. "Millions and
millions of children are becom
ing fatherless and motherless.”
There were 8.1 million
orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa in
1997, Miruka said. By the end of
1999, the number had increased
to 12.1 million. By June of 2000
there were 13 million.
Richard Uku, head of African
External Affairs at the World
Bank in Washington, D.C.,
acknowledged the pandemic as a
serious problem facing not only
the African children but African
adults, as well.
"(AIDS is) taking away
adults,” Uku said.
“Unfortunately, children tend to
be one of the products of this
pandemic."
Professor Robert Hitchcock,
coordinator of African Studies
and director of International
Studies at UNL, agreed.
“The AIDS crisis has been so
severe (Africans) have whole vil
lages now of orphans,” he said.
Uku said AIDS is rampant
throughout Africa because of a
lack of communication and pre
vention of the disease.
“In many parts of Africa, it’s
still a taboo to talk of AIDS,” he
said. “As openness grows and as
people acknowledge this a bit
more openly, it is addressed a bit
more seriously.”
Miruka said many of the
orphaned children are turned
away from orphanages already
filled to capacity. One of his goals
Nelson Okuku Miruka
UNL Graduate Student
for the organization is to use
donations to expand orphanages
to accommodate more children',
as well as to provide for food and
education.
“The point is that it is really
easy to support or sponsor a
child in Sub-Saharan Africa,”
Miruka said. “$20 can take one
child to school for the entire
semester. $1000 can make a
building that can accommodate
20 children in different areas.”
Miruka is hoping to receive
donations from the community,
sponsors and the student body
to deliver directly to African
orphanages in need. He empha
sized that all donations to the
organization are tax deductible
and appealed to the entire uni
versity for help.
"This effort should not only
be left for us few students,”
Miruka said. “We are going (to
Africa) to save lives.”
Old sexual-contact law disputed
BY JOSH FUNK
The trial questioning the validity of Lincoln’s
first sexual-contact ordinance may be moot.
A federal judge considering that ordinance
asked both sides to submit briefs arguing why he
should rule on the law, which already has been
repealed and revised.
In February, the City Council passed the first
sexual-contact law, which banned contact
between a customer’s or employee’s breasts, but
tocks or genital areas and another person in any
Lincoln business.
Then the majority owner of Mataya's Babydolls
Gentlemen’s Theatre Club, John Ways Jr., chal
lenged the law as overly broad and vague.
Mataya’s, which opened in November 1999, is a
juice bar that features topless dancing.
Ways argued the law would ban activities such
as ballet, kissing in a business and even Nebraska
football where players or performers touch each
other in prohibited areas.
In March, U.S. District Court Judge Warren
Urbom issued a preliminary injunction preventing
the city from enforcing that law in response to
Ways’ challenge. A trial was held on that lawsuit
Monday.
After the injunction was issued, the city
repealed that first sexual-contact ordinance and
passed a new law in April, which makes exceptions
for theaters, arts centers and similar venues.
The second law was applied in an Aug. 11 raid
on Mataya’s, 5620 Comhusker Hwy. Most of the 13
citations issued that night are still pending in
Lancaster County Court. The second ordinance
has been challenged in a separate lawsuit on simi
lar grounds.
Urbom gave both the city and Ways until Nov. 3
to submit arguments on whether the challenge to
the first ordinance is now moot.
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Because suicide can be the
end result of letting depression
go untreated, UNL will partici
pate in a nationwide screening
today that aims to alert people if
they, or people they love, are
depressed.
Suicide prevention is the
goal of National Depression
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the symptoms of depression
and help those in need.
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today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in
the Colonial Room of the
Nebraska Union.
“We want to help people
early on identify signs and then
get a treatment,” said Dr. Robert
Portnoy, director of UNL
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Services.
Early signs of depression are:
not enjoying past activities;
extreme sleep, eating, and mood
disturbances; withdrawal; irri
tability and problems with con
centration and academic per
formance.
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headaches, digestive disorders
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Videotapes also will be
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The intent of the screenings
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those who are struggling with
depression and don’t know if
they should be seeking help,
Portnoy said.
"We do not diagnose. What
we are able to do is tell folks that
the signs and symptoms they
are telling us they have are con
sistent with depression.” he
said.
This is the 10th year for
National Depression Screening
Day. Portnoy said UNL has par
ticipated for seven or eight
years.
“Depression is the ninth
leading cause of death in the
United States, claiming 30,000
lives annually,” said Jennifer
Snyder, the University Health
Center marketing coordinator.
An element added this year
to the screenings is Signs of
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If people are worried some
one in their lives may be show
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As part of the program, peo
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identifying characteristics of
their loved ones. The question
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and staff members, and are
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