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Construction progresses at UNL I ■ Although some projects are scheduled to be finished as early as February, improvements are not coming to an end. BY VERONICA DAEHN The plethora of seemingly unending construction projects on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus will not come to a halt in the near future. The closest project to completion is the Kauffman Residential Center being built north Of the Nebraska Union, said Barry Shull, manager of architectural and engi neering services for Facilities Management and Planning. The $14.7 million project, which will house the J.D. Edwards Honors Program, will be done in February or March, Shull said. The center will house computer science honors students and will contain faculty members’ and administrative offices, class rooms and a dining hall. Construction began on the center in July of 1999 and is right on schedule, Shull said. A hazardous materials building is being built on the southwest side of Hamilton Hall. Shull said this should be done by March or April. This building will replace the former haz ardous materials building that was dis placed by the stadium parking garage, he said. Ground was broken in July at 17th and Vine streets for the construction of Othmer Hall, a chemical engineering building. It is expected to be done by June 2002, Shull said. Construction of a parking garage at 17th and R streets will be done by October 2001, but a portion of it could be completed and opened by August. That project began in June. Love Library South is undergoing phases of construction, Shull said. The heating, ventilation and air condi tioning system in the library is the original one from the 1940s and is being replaced. “The humidity control was non-exis tent," Shull said. "And the comfort of people inside was not up to today’s standards.” Working on the library is difficult because it is an occupied building, he said. That's why the construction is being done in phases. A building that will be used for the Teachers College is being constructed on 14th and Vine streets, Shull said. This will replace Lyman and Bancroft Halls and will be completed in July. Workshops help RHA mold leaders ■The association continues toward its goals despite the resignation of its president. BY ANNA JO BRATTON Despite the recent resigna tion of its president, the Residence Hall Association has been focusing on developing leadership among its members this semester. The student-led association also is trying to use its funds to improve the social aspect of dorm life, said Becky Minshull, who will be RHA president until the end of the semester. Minshull announced her resignation Sunday. Because she is graduating in May, she needs to balance homework with her duties in RHA, she said. Minshull said she would continue to be involved. Tiffany Quinze, the current vice president of RHA, will replace Minshull as president and will appoint a new vice president. Quinze said she admired Minshull for giving up her posi tion in RHA to focus on school. While it’s a little overwhelming now to think about being presi dent, the other members of the group should make the transi tion easy, she said. “We have a really awesome group of senators,” she said. Many of the council mem bers recently attended a leader ship conference at the University of North Dakota. The conference helped pre pare students for leadership positions, which will ease the transition to a new leader next semester. It also will help RHA plan events in the future that will draw more students, Minshull said. “You have to be excited in what you do to get people involved,” Minshull said. , The conference, held by the Midwest Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls, occurs annually at colleges in Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Kansas. Participants attend work shops on how to present ideas, deal with problems and be effective leaders. A lot of people on RHA also are leaders in other campus organizations, Minshull said. They can bring the skills they learn at the conference back to make an impact on the campus, she said. Each year, the conference works to raise money to donate to a charity. This year, schools collected pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House. More than 40 schools attended; UNL collected 52 percent of the total pop tabs. “That said something really big about UNL caring,” Minshull said. In other events, Movie Madness will take place Thursday night in the Heritage Room at the Nebraska Union. “The Whole Nine Yards,” will be 7 really am a firm believer in RHA and what it can accomplish." Becky Minshull RHA president ! showing at 7, and “28 Days” will be showing at 9. RHA also will be sponsoring the Angel Tiree Project again this year in cooperation with ASUN and the Athletic Department. Beginning Nov. 27, students can pick up a card at the Nebraska and East unions and in the dining halls.' The cards list a specific child and tells what the child needs or wants. Minshull said she hopes stu dents will be more involved in their residence halls, RHA and on campus. “I really am a firm believer in RHA and what it can accom plish,” she said. The Point sponsors ski-trip giveaway ■The promotion gives the winner and four friends a stay in Winter Park,Colo. BYJOSH FUNK There may not be any of the bickering or crazy challenges associated with MTV’s "Road Rules,” but The Point’s new pro motion bears a few other simi larities to the popular show. One winner will take four friends on a ski trip to Winter Park, Colo., to kick off 104.1 The Point’s World Tour. A photographer will accom pany the winning group and send back pictures and video, which will be broadcast on The Point's Web site, http://www.the pointl041.com, and at The Brass Rail, which is home to the sta tion’s world tour promotion. The radio station will supply the winners with a van for the trip, two condominiums for two days in Winter Park and lift tick ets, Clear Channel Communications Marketing Executive Marc Frease said. The promotion is targeted at university students, Frease said, and it differs from the TV show in a few important ways. "This is a one-destination party,” Frease said. “It kind of highlights college life.” The promotion begins next Monday, and the prize package will be given away at The Rail, 1436 O St., on Dec. 7. The Rail’s owner Tommy Mausbach said the promotional parties will feature local bands. "I know the promotional parties will be a real good time with the on-air (radio) personal ities and local bands,” said Mausbach, who is looking to promote his newly remodeled bar. “I think (the trip) could be interesting.” The Point has enlisted the help of Sprint PCS, which donat ed the use of a phone to transmit photos, Sunsational Tan, Micro Mart and The Rail to sponsor the trip. People will be able to regis ter for the contest at any of the sponsors’ businesses and through radio call-ins. The Dec. 7 giveaway party will feature on-air personalities Matt Rydberg and Brady Goodman at The Rail from 8 to 10 p.m. The winner will have the option of taking the trip anytime 7 know the promotional parties will be a real good time with the on-air (radio) personalities and local bands. I think (the trip) could be interesting.” Tommy Mausbach Brass Rail owner this winter, Frease said, though he or she will have to plan it two weeks in advance. Frease, who is a senior UNL marketing major, said the trip would be “something (the win ners) can remember for the rest of their lives.” A nerdy week for nerdy students UNIVERSITY WIRE PITTSBURGH - Two weeks ago, the greek community was successful in staging a series of events called Greek Week, despite the fact that fraternity and sorority members are a small minority of the Carnegie Mellon University campus population. Recognizing that far more of CMU’s students belong to the geek population, the Activities Board recently scheduled a slate of events called Geek Week. With events including juvenile geek activities like playing with toys and watching movies with lots of nerd appeal to more plugged-in pursuits like playing video games, Geek Week had something for all varieties of dweeb. A number of the activities dur ing the week were designed to bring out the young geek in the participants. The centerpiece was perhaps Friday’s event, “Toys! Toys! Toys!” The organizers man aged to assemble a remarkable variety of playthings from years past, including Voltron, Hay-Doh, Lite Brite, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, and a whopping 36,000 Legos. Even if you’re someone who thinks that they don’t qualify as a geek at all, that’s a whole lot of Legos. I Before that, theNActivities Board scheduled a substantially more violent toy-related evening, as dolls of Britney Spears, Teletubbies, and Jar Jar Binks met their unfortunate demise at the hands of the attendees. Deservedly, every Star Wars fan's arch-nemesis, Jar Jar, took the worst beating of all. If there’s one thing that geeks like, other than computers (natu rally), it’s movies, and Geek Week featured plenty of them. Thursday evening the Activities Board screened the classic geek movie, “Real Genius.” The following night included late-night showings, this time with the focus on Japanese anime. Japanimation favorites like were screened until the wee hours of the morning. A GeekWeek without comput ers and video games just wouldn't be right, and die CMU effort was full of them, for all degrees of tech nology lovers. For those moderate geeks just interested in the fun side of com puting, a five-round video game tournament was held in Wean Hall. After the first four qualifying rounds, the competition culmi nated in the finals on Saturday, complete with fog machine and strobe lights. The entrants were known only by first names and sometimes initials. For those more interested in the technical side of all things computer, Geek Week offered a couple of events. Jim Waldo gave a lecture on Wednesday, “Networks of Things: Changing the Network Rules,” perhaps to get the partici pants into the tech-geek spirit of things. Intriguing hacker-related competitions were designed by the Activities Board, but would-be participants failed to enter, proba bly because they were too busy... hacking. ..A. i> *Jr A. i .1 I j .X. .i 1... "s 1 \ ( ) > I f~> i LAWRENCE C. ROSS, JR. Speaking on THE DIVINE NINE: O The History of the Nine African American Fraternities and Sororities Explore the Historical Perspectives of Black/African American Greeks 3 *Blackbaord Bestseller *L.A. 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Call tor details. www.nabi.com dailyneb.com College's relocation may have to wait SCHOOL from pagel building up to date and make sure the connections are up to date.” The new building will com bine the news-editorial and broadcasting newsrooms, a move that will make UNL’s college of journalism one of the only schools in the country to implement media convergence. “That part we’re looking for ward to,” Shipley said. The move could be hardest on the broadcasting department, Shipley said, because it has so much large, technical equipment Some of the department’s satellites will be placed on top of the Nebraska Union because of interference from the Federal Building, which is near the new building, which used to house Security Mutual. The broadcasting department will need extra time to move its equipment to the building, Shipley said. It’s not as easy as moving household items, she said. “Broadcasting will need tran sition time because of their equip ment and the time it will take to make sure everything works,” Shipley said. “That’s going to take longer.” If the move cannot be com pleted by the start of the next fall semester, Shipley said, some classes will remain in Avery Hall until the end of that semester. Other classes would be taught in the new building, die said. Despite the hassle, the move is worthwhile, Shipley said. “It’s going to be a fantastic move for us,” she said. "We’ve been so cramped here with the sharing of classrooms and no study rooms or lounges.” Charlyne Berens, chair woman of the news-editorial department, said she was looking forward to sharing the newsroom with the broadcasting depart ment - "Convergence is the way media are going,” Berens said. “The idea is we will be able to use our strengths to help each other.” While the move itself won’t be fun, Berens said, it will be worth it “Nobody ever likes to move, but they usually like the results when they're finished,” she said. “I think we will, too. It's worth the hassle.” UNL revamps Web site WEBSITE from page 1 time a user logs on. These include a close-up ofWilla Cather and a shot of flowers in the Maxwell Arboretum on East Campus. Paul Erickson, faculty and staff development manager for Information Services, said he liked the new Web site. “It seems like it’s a lot easier to find information people want to get,” Erickson said. “It’s more dynamic than the old one.” He said it was good the home page stories would change every aay. John Wolcott, an instructional technology support specialist, agreed. “That's one of the big things with Web sites - to keep them cur rent," Wolcott said. “If they’re updating informa tion daily, that’s definitely a good thing." 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