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volume 111, issue 131
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Faculty Senate cites lack of say in UNL matters jacy marmaduke daily nebraskan
The meeting began with University of NebraskaLincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman’s praise, but took a quick, ironic turn. Trina Creighton, associate professor of broadcasting, didn’t expect her Committee on Committees report to
inspire such intense discussion. It ran so long, she had to leave early. “I was just coming to give a report,” she said as she stepped down from the podium. “I’ve got a class.” Creighton reported at the Tuesday meeting that a drop in UNL Faculty Senate involvement in the body’s
14 committees is more than somewhat “disturbing.” Senate members continued with concerns of their own, relating to the value of their work. “Some of the reluctance of people to serve on committees is a sense that these faculty members don’t actually have any power to do anything,” said Christopher
Marks, an associate professor of music. Secretary Patrick Shea, a professor of xenobiotic chemistry and toxicology , said the Faculty Senate committees are stuck dealing primarily with “busy work.” “We’re kept busy dealing with a list of specific tasks, so there’s very little time to
talk about big issues,” he said. “Many of these committees have very little authority on what actually happens at the university.” About an hour earlier, Perlman had opened the meeting with a speech thanking senate members for their involvement and encouraging them to get involved in the university’s
decision-making process. Perlman suggested that faculty members join committees and review boards for projects including Innovation Campus and the growth initiative. “In my experience, if the
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UNL director to head national association Munier elected to chair national financial aid committee Emily Nitcher Daily Nebraskan
Craig Munier sits with his elbows propped on the table in the President’s Room right outside the Senate floor waiting for Sen. Edward Kennedy to come and talk to him and his colleagues. Kennedy enters, greets Munier and shakes his hand. He turns to Munier and says, “Before we start I’d like to tell you a little about the table that your elbows are on. That table belonged to Thomas Jefferson. And when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, he did so at this table.” Munier sits back. Elbows down. That was 2005. Munier, director of Scholarships & Financial
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above: Freshman pre-architecture major Kekeli Dawes, Ian Wright, a freshman music education major, Mitch Benson, a freshman music major, and Kelly Clay, a freshman biological sciences major, hold a jam session outside of Architecture Hall. Normally, their band Four People plays in the Westbrook Music Building practice rooms but decided to step outside and enjoy the nice weather.
Aid at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has had the opportunity to rub elbows with many of Washington, D.C.’s elite. And his recent election as national chair of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators will give him the opportunity to meet even more. Munier came to UNL in 1998 from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign where he served as associate director. Munier started working in student financial aid in 1982, and his election to national chair caps off his career, which has been dedicated to making a difference in students’ lives, Munier said. “I’ve dedicated my entire life to the belief that luck of birth should not be the discriminating factor of who gets to go to college,” Munier said. “I don’t think that’s fair, and I think the American people, if they
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RIGHT: Benson holds his guitar above his head while the band takes a break in between songs.
Sorority promotes Latina education Lambda Theta Nu encourages middle schoolers to attend college maren westra daily nebraskan
Luisa Valencia is only 14 years old, but she’s already thinking about college. The eighth grader at Lefler Middle School in Lincoln attended Tuesday’s Latina Youth Leadership Conference at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for her third year in a row. Hosted by Lambda Theta Nu Sorority, the LYLC is an annual event held to encourage young Latina women to attend college. “You embrace your Latina self,” Valencia said about the event. “You embrace your culture.”
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According to Mariana Moguel, sophomore biological sciences major and Lambda Theta community service chair, the event is in its seventh year and continues to grow. The 2012 LYLC grew to 100 participants from 46 in 2011 and was part of a planning process that lasted about two months longer than planning for previous conferences. Students from Culler, Dawes, Goodrich, Lefler, Mickle, Park, Pound and Schoo middle schools attended the event. Every middle school in the Lincoln district was invited to send students, according to Lambda Theta President Jessica Sanchez, a senior international studies major. She said Lambda Theta’s focus is promoting Latina women in higher education, and every chapter in
the nation is required to reach out to Latina students in its area. Although the LYLC is geared toward young Latina women, middle-schoolers of any ethnicity are invited to participate, Sanchez said. Valencia’s friend Elizabeth Gajardo, also an eighth grader from Lefler, has attended the LYLC for three years as well. She said she comes for many reasons: to learn, to have fun and to meet new people. “It … helps knowing there are a lot of other girls out there who go through the same things,” she said. Tuesday’s event consisted of four workshops, titled Barbie, Reality, UNL and Educational Talent Services. Each workshop lasted for about 50 minutes each. The Barbie workshop had the students reconstructing
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It ... helps knowing there are a lot of other girls out there who go through the same things.
Students create book-trading site
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dolls in their own image by cutting the hair, coloring the skin, wrapping padding around the bodies and dressing them in new clothes. The purpose of this was to improve self-image and teach the girls that it’s okay to look different, Sanchez said. She said the Reality workshop, also called Growing
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It’s a scene that acts as a bookend to the semesters of many: a long stream of students clutching what may be the most expensive pieces of literature they will ever purchase. Months later, these same students return to sell their books back to stores for a fraction of the price. “You know, (students) take their books to the bookstore and get 40 bucks for them, and I buy them for $140. Something just feels wrong,” said Zach Christensen, a sophomore biochemistry major
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and co-creator of theredexchange.com. Because of the yearly pain of buying and selling textbooks from bookstores, two sophomore students in the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management decided to put their computer science skills to use and create a website for textbook trading. “A lot of times we were talking about it we said it was Craigslist meets Half. com,” said James Verhoeff, a
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