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monday, january 13, 2014 volume 113, issue 074
Inside Coverage
Unresolved issues
Internet vigilantes
DN Arts makes resolutions for 2014
Trolls serve an important role online
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Predictions come true
Sophomore guard Shavon Shields goes for a lay-up against Michigan on Jan. 9. The Huskers failed to score in the last seconds of the game to continue their losing streak. file photo by andrew barry
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continued major union renovations are unveiled, but the crib remains closed
Service trip teaches about migrant workers Students delve into issues surrounding immigration, labor during winter break trip to California Mara Klecker dn Adoni Faxas didn’t spend his break on the couch watching Netflix and complaining about the cold. Instead, the freshman quadruple major in business management, Latin American studies, Spanish and political science and aspiring immigration lawyer traveled to his home state of California to learn about issues surrounding migrant workers. Faxas was one of the 26 students who went on the alternative service break trip, “Fields of Prosperity: Immigration, Citizenship and Migrant Workers and Their Families.” The trip took students to Fresno, Calif., in the Central Valley. Pit stops included Zion National Park, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite
While some of the Nebraska Union renovations have been completed, there is still work to be done. Some parts of the union, including The Crib, remain closed. Officials said the updates will likely be finished by March or April.
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he renovated Caffina Cafe in the Nebraska Union will open Monday as expected, but renovations to The Crib have been delayed. Wood flooring for the Nebraska Union study spot will be shipped on Jan. 22, and the entire project, which costs about $2.1 million, should be complete by March or April. Even though the Runza and Caffina Cafe are open, there are touch-ups that are mainly cosmetic and will be completed by the end of January, said Ryan Lahne, Nebraska Unions associate director. The committee for furniture met Jan. 10 to project a time for when the furniture will be delivered. “The majority of the furniture should be delivered and installed during spring break,” Lahne wrote in an email. The flooring will be worked on all throughout the project and furniture is the last thing to arrive, Lahne said. “Installing the flooring will be a work in progress through the end of this project,” Lahne said. There is no itemized list of exactly where the money is going, but the funding is being used to execute the project. “The money is going to a number of fairly visible upgrades: construction, wall and floor coverings, new paint, new furniture and so on,” said Steve Smith, news director at the Office of University Communications.
Smith said half of the money for the project is coming from the Office of the Chancellors and the other half is coming from Office of
the Vice Chancellors for Student Affairs, via University Program and Facilities Fees. “There are two sources of
funds for the Nebraska Union upgrade, but it’s treated as one proj-
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National Park, Lake Tahoe, the coastline in Santa Cruz and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Faxas’s mother and father are both Latino immigrants. He remembers when he told them he wanted to be a lawyer. They took him for a drive around Grand Island and told him he should consider immigration law. “Look at all these people,” they told him, referring to the Latino community that makes up nearly 16 percent of the town’s population. “They need help.” While in Fresno, students heard presentations from migrant students attending Fresno State University. “We wanted students to hear about the importance of higher education from these students who have faced struggles with laws and discrimination,” said Linda Moody, assistant director of student involvement and the leader of the trip. “Ultimately, I hope that our students come back with a deeper understanding of the complexities of immigration and a connection to these national issues in order to start important conversations at
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New CoJMC dean to begin work in June Gabrielle Lazaro DN
The Caffina Cafe in the Nebraska Union, which was temporarily closed last semester, will reopen Monday with a new look.
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Marron’s other goals include enhancing the college’s existing programs, building University of Nebraska-Lin- on expertise and key strengths coln’s College of Journalism within the college, recruiting, hiring faculty and fundraising. and Mass Communications has “I believe there will be ophired a journalism department head from Michigan as its new portunities for further interdisciplinary partnerships, for prodean. Maria Marron will leave her fessionally oriented research, for an enhanced graduate propost as chairwoman of the Department of Journalism at Cen- gram, international partnertral Michigan University after ships and a center for media inmore than 10 years on the job. novation and entrepreneurship Pending University of Nebras- — perhaps in the Haymarket area,” Marron said. ka Board of Regents approval, Marron has spent the last she’ll begin at UNL on June 1. 12 years at Central “The time seems Michigan Univerright – for me and for sity as a professor the CoJMC – and the and chairwoman college seems to be a of the Department good fit for me, and of Journalism. Her I, for it,” Marron said. teaching areas are “The deanship of this in journalism, mecollege is a position dia law and ethics. that coalesces all of “It always is my strengths and insad to leave beterests. I bring leaderhind a place that ship, administrative, has been home,” academic, professhe said. “But marron sional and entreprethere is also the exneurial dynamism to citement of a new the position as well as adventure, a new beginning, a passion for journalism in its various forms and for the media rooted in the ongoing connectedness to the place or places we service industries.” Although Marron had no call home.” Before working at Central former ties with Nebraska, she said she’s always considered Michigan University, Marron worked as a journalist, editor UNL a significant powerhouse and in public relations in the in the region. She said learning as much as possible about the dean: see page 2 college is her first priority.