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thursday, january 24, 2013 volume 112, issue 086
Party Plans
Revive Party
Engage Party
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The Revive Party executive candidates are (from left) junior economics and finance major Sam Adams, junior marketing major Sierra Allen and junior business administration major Zach Stull.
Revive Party strives to make college more affordable, connect students to UNL resources and student government conor dunn dn
students to the resources available at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and make college more affordable. Revive Party’s executive candiRevive Party announced its intention dates consider themselves the unto run for the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska in the derdogs of the election because they Nebraska Union and on East Campus haven’t been involved in ASUN. “Unless you get plugged into Wednesday. “We bring a different kind of fire ASUN early, it’s hard to get involved,” and passion,” said Zach Stull, a junior Adams said. “We’ve had to take initiative and form our business administraown party. We want tion major and candianyone to be able to Unless you date for ASUN presifor these posident. “We’re not stuck get plugged run tions and have the in the same rut.” best candidates fill Stull, along with into ASUN early, these spots.” his running mates Si- it’s hard to get The executive erra Allen, a junior candidates said marketing major and involved.” there are about 50 candidate for ASUN Sam Adams people signed up internal vice president, junior economics and finance to help with Revive and Sam Adams, a jumajor Party’s campaign, nior economics and fiincluding current nance major and candiASUN senators and date for ASUN external advisory board members. vice president, decided to run during “The whole revive thing is that we last semester’s finals week. “We were talking about ways to know these people don’t have a ton of improve the university, but then we experience in ASUN, but they have a decided we not only want to talk but lot of leadership,” Stull said. Stull is president of Sigma Phi also take action,” Stull said. Epsilon fraternity and a member of Revive Party has three platforms. Lincoln’s TeamMates Mentoring ProThe three executive candidates said gram. He said as president, he would they want to increase student involvement in student government, connect
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The Engage Party executive candidates are (from left) junior marketing and finance major Eric Reznicek, junior finance, economics and management major Kaitlin Coziahr and sophomore political science and English major Jeff Story.
Engage Party seeks to connect students across campus through UNL organizations, encourage sustainability
How to get involved with ASUN campaigns Students who want to get involved with a party’s campaign should visit the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska office in the Nebraska Union. • If a student wants to run as an elected candidate, he or she must receive a certain amount of student signatures and turn in the forms to the ASUN office. Forms for each running party can be picked up in the ASUN office. Elected candidates will fill the role of ASUN senators and certain committee positions. • If a student wants to be involved with a campaign but doesn’t want to be an elected candidate on the ballot, he or she can contact any of the running parties’ executives in the ASUN office at any time during the election season. • Information regarding the running parties can be found in the ASUN office and on the parties’ Facebook pages. • Many committees on ASUN, such as the Environmental Sustainability and Government Liaison committees, are appointed positions, which will take place after the election season. Any student can put his or her name forward for an appointed position.
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Eric Reznicek, a junior marketing and finance major and candidate for ASUN president, and Jeff Story, a sophomore political science and Kaitlin Coziahr wants to engage English major and candidate for the student body. ASUN external vice president. Since her freshman year, the “Students are what make this junior finance, economics and university tick,” Reznicek said. management major has been in“They are the life, the meaning and volved with the Association of the motivation behind this camStudents of the University of Nepus.” braska. Last year, Engage Party Coziahr ran in the Students has three platforms: ASUN elections engage students, enas a member of are what gage sustainability the Impact Party. and engage the stumake this She was elected as dent organizations a member of the university tick. at the University of 2012-2013 ASUN Nebraska-Lincoln. Senate and chair Eric Reznicek Engage Party of the Communica- junior marketing and finance wants to engage tions Committee. major students to become After three involved at UNL. years of service to Coziahr said there ASUN, Coziahr are more than 400 organizations on said she’s ready to take the reins. “There’s a lot of projects I campus. Thus, she believes everyfeel really strong about,” Coziahr one should find one thing they want said. “My drive to get those done to be involved in while they’re attending UNL. got me to want to run for an exec “I can’t imagine someone feelposition.” And so Coziahr is running ing like they don’t have a group to join or somewhere they can belong as Engage Party’s internal vice president in the upcoming ASUN elections alongside running mates engage: see page 2
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King’s message of equality inspires open mic night Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center hosts Open Mic MLK Tribute Night Heather Haskins DN On a fateful day in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger. “Like Martin Luther King Jr., she was armed with enough courage to impact the world,” said junior journalism major Brianna Foster in her poem, “Picture of Courage,” which won the Open Mic MLK Tribute Night Wednesday. The Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center and the Office of the Chancellor held the open mic night, inviting all students to perform poetry, music and spoken word in honor of MLK Week. “It’s a great tool for exposure to the multicultural center,” said
Billy Coby, program coordinator at the Office of Academic Success and Intercultural Services. “We want to promote our program, which is open and inclusive to everyone.” The first half of the evening allowed any student to come up to the mic and recite poetry or speak about King’s message. “(King is an) inspirational icon that will forever live,” said Aron Sanders, a nutrition and health sciences major. “It is nice to see that whites and blacks can get along together.” Sanders, who identifies as mixed race, said that he felt King’s holiday was “a blessing.” One student had a unique style of poetry reading that included beat boxing, while another talked about her experience visiting the site in Washington, D.C., where King gave his legendary “I Have a Dream” speech. “Just to stand there … it was amazing,” the student said. “It was very spiritual. Just to see how (people) age 60 and age 10 came together for a greater cause, (it
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Stacey Waite, an English professor at UNL, performs a poem titled, “On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by Security Personnel at Newark International Airport,” at Outspoken: Open Mic MLK Tribute Night at the Nebraska Union Wednesday night. was) just amazing.” Another student explained the
impact King’s words have had on him.
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“The things (King) said about unique experiences of different not being silent in the things that cultures. matter, I have really taken that to “The requirement for perheart,” he said. formers is to touch upon (King’s) During the second half, stumessage,” Coby said. “We want to dents who signed up ahead of promote Dr. King’s legacy of intime performed in a contest. clusiveness.” Foster, the winner, read a Snacks were provided for the poem that discussed Rosa Parks event. Free mugs and gift cards to as well the Little Caffina Café were Rock Nine and given to audience King is an Barack Obama. She members as a thank received an iPad2 for attending. inspirational youAll for her poem. performers “I wanted to icon that will received prizes: a write a poem that forever live. It’s choice of a sweater, acknowledges the a hat and scarf or a struggles that peo- nice to see that T-shirt. These items ple went through were provided by whites and blacks for their rights,” the UNL Recreation Foster said. Center. can get along Foster spent After her iPad2 two weeks writ- together. ” was presented, ing her poem and a smiling Foster Aron Sanders wrote it specifically showed off her nutriton and health sciences for the open mic prize. major night. “I am so excited Other poems for this; I really apperformed discussed a variety of preciate this,” Foster said. news@ topics including gender identity, dailynebraskan.com love, American values and the