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tuesday, february 18, 2014 volume 113, issue 098

Inside Coverage

Wellness in Nebraska

On the bubble

Lincoln named top 10 city with health coverage

Win at Michigan State puts NU in tournament talk

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Unions board looking for new members

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James Hasselbalch serves customers at Duffy’s Tavern on Tuesday. Dollar beer night is every Tuesday at Duffy’s.

Beer & Pizza

photo by andrew barry

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Scrubbingout synthetics Brother-sister duo works to create organic soaps, prepares to open store The Fizz Shop

story by Mara Klecker | photo by Jennifer Gotrik

Layla YOunis DN Last semester, one student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln spent hours testing the comfort of furniture throughout the Nebraska Union. She didn’t have any physical problems, and she didn’t work for a furniture store. But she was a member of the Nebraska Unions Board, who was advising on all the recent renovations taking place in the union. And although trying out different couches was her favorite part about being on the board, Melissa Bakewell, a junior advertising and public relations major and vice president of the board, said her term ends this semester and union officials now need to search for new members. The union board is made up of 12 students, two faculty members and two staff members. The board meets every other Thursday and also advises union officials with policy changes, space allocations and budgeting, according to Charlie Francis, director of the Nebraska Unions. Half of the students will finish their two-year term at the end of this semester. “This year, the board was involved in choosing the next pizza vendor,” Francis said, referring to the Subway Pizza Express that will be open by early April, according to union officials. Choosing new food vendors is part of the board’s responsibility to help allocate space around the union to organizations and businesses that want to reserve space in the unions, Francis said. For policy changing, students on the board will give their opinions on possible new updates on the reservation process. Last year, two student organizations didn’t understand the renewal process for space allocation and didn’t send in their application to renew either their storage or office space in time, Bakewell said. “Even when (a student organiza-

Summayia Khan, a UNL alumnae, and Asawar Sajid, a graduate accounting student, are siblings that are starting The Fizz Shop, an organic soap and skincare store in Lincoln. The store will officially open on April 12.

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ollege guys sniffing mango-scented soap isn’t an unusual sight in Asawar Sajid’s accounting class. “They just whip it out and smell it,” Sajid said. “I’m like, ‘Dude, are going to use that?’ They are like ‘Nah. Not yet. We just really like the smell.’” The vegan and vegetarian soap

samples were gifts from Sajid, a graduate accounting student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He and his sister, Summayia Khan, a licensed esthetician and UNL alumnae, are starting The Fizz Shop, a specialty store selling organic soaps and skincare products. Located in the Calvert Place Mall on 48th and Calvert streets, the shop will offi-

cially open on April 12, though the duo will start making products in the store’s backroom lab starting March 1. The idea came when Khan’s husband walked in the door and asked her to figure out a way to make vegetarian soap. The 25-plus ingredient products he was looking at in the store often had beef fat or

lard. “I certainly wasn’t up for putting lard on my body,” Khan said. So she designated a corner of her apartment as the soap-making lab. She started researching and ordering. Lavender. Eucalyptus. Goatmilk. Honey. Pink Himalayan sea salt. She used some pots and pans, her microwave, a blender,

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union board: see page 3

Morrill Hall to debut world’s largest snake exhibit Extinct Titanaboa replica to comes to campus from Smithsonian Institute collection Tyler Williams dn Titanoboa is coming to Lincoln. The 48-foot-long replica of the world’s largest snake will be featured at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall starting Saturday. The exhibit is part of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and will be open through Sept. 7. “This is the first exhibit in recent memory to have such national and international coverage to be housed at Morrill Hall,” said Mark Harris, associate director of University of Nebraska State Mu-

seum. Not only will the Titanoboa replica be on display, there will be fossils and bones of actual Titanoboas as well as modern reptiles and video clips from the Smithsonian Channel documentary “Titanoboa: Monster Snake.” Harris said the replica of Titanoboa is so big it barely fit in the loading dock doors of Nebraska Hall, where NU State Museum has storage space. The replica will be unpacked in Nebraska Hall, then moved by University of Nebraska-Lincoln moving services to Morrill Hall. It will have to be carried up stairs because it won’t fit in the Morrill Hall elevators. A Smithsonian representative and his crew will assemble it, which is expected to take at least a half day. The Titanoboa exhibit will be the focus of this week’s “Sunday with a Scientist” – called Titanoboa vs. Today’s Nebraska Snakes – from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Jason Head, a earth and atmo-

spheric sciences assistant professor at UNL and curator of vertebrate paleontology at University of Nebraska State Museum, will be presenting a program that highlights the differences between the giant snakes of the past and their modern ancestors, as well as their relationship to climate change. The program will give visitors the chance to interact with live snakes and learn about the importance of snake conservation. Head, along with Carlos Jaramillo from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Jonathan Bloch, from the University of Florida Museum of Natural History, first described this snake in 2008. The Titanoboa was first discovered by these teams in Cerrejón, the world’s largest open-pit coal mine located in La Guajira, Colombia. Along with the Titanoboa, they found giant turtles and crocodiles, and some of the

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The Titanoboa is a 48-feet-long snake replica and is part of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, which will be open through Sept. 7.

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