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thursday, october 20, 2011
volume 111, issue 041
DAILY NEBRASKAN dailynebraskan.com
NU Culture Center plans chosen in China danae lenz daily nebraskan
If the Confucius Institute, a center that promotes Chinese culture on the University of NebraskaLincoln’s City Campus, is the yin, the new American Culture Center to be built in Xi’an, China, will be the yang. UNL was selected by the American Embassy in Beijing in a competition with other American universities to create a bond between the people in the United States and China, something NU President James B. Milliken said is important to create cultural understanding. The proposal will receive about $100,000 in seed funding. The center will expose students and faculty to all things American: history, government, art, law, medicine and culture. “Too often,” Milliken said in a press release, “impressions of the United States are formed through films, television and other artificial mechanisms rather than interaction with real Americans. Assuring
a physical presence of Nebraska students and faculty in Xi’an with the ability to interact on a personal level will provide a better and more balanced view of the United States,” Retired UNL professor of mechanical engineering David Lou will serve as the deputy director of the center until a permanent director is found. He is also the founding director of the Confucius Institute at UNL. Xi’an Jiaotong University, where the center will be built, is a research facility that includes 20 schools, eight colleges and eight affiliated teaching hospitals. It offers programs in science, engineering, medicine, economics, management, art, philosophy and education. The current enrollment of the university is more than 30,000 students, 13,000 of whom are graduate students. Xi’an is known as the “gateway to western China.” It’s known as China’s third international city, making it an important city for exposure to American culture. UNL Chancellor Harvey
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Perlman, who led the discussions and signed the agreement with XJTU said in a
press release, “This deepens the relationship between XJTU and the University of
Nebraska and opens up expanding opportunities for student exchanges and
joint research.”
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Wall Street protests spark interest in college students dan holtmeyer daily nebraskan
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UNL and MIT work together to plan future Lincoln tammy bain daily nebraskan
Architecture students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology collaborated this semester in research that will ultimately propose the best plan for Lincoln’s expansion during the next 40-50 years. Twelve graduate students from MIT gathered in Architecture Hall Oct. 13 to meet 16 UNL undergraduate and graduate students, as each of the architecture students shared the research they’ve gathered this semester. The findings showed how the city might look 40-50 years from now with a doubled population. Kathleen Dahlberg, Lizzie Woods and Lili Knorr, MIT graduate students, said the students used Geographic Information Systems for their research. The research consists of converting agricultural land to urban land, looking at
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factors such as the food prices, which are on the rise, and land with more agricultural value. Unlike many cities, which can expand without affecting nearby land, much of the land that surrounds Lincoln has rich agricultural value. This contrasts with other cities that have less agricultural value and opportunity cost in surrounding land, the students said. The students said their goal was to find places with overlapping information and develop it into a project, using mapping and research. “We were given very broad topics,” Woods said. Students found that land values in Lincoln were higher in the center of the city, as well as the peripherals of the city. This goes against what is assumed to be common knowledge of land values, they said.
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The Occupy Wall Street movement has been going strong for more than a month, reaching dozens, perhaps hundreds of cities on many continents and throughout the United States. Among its supporters: college students around the country who have supported the movement through class walk-outs and by joining the demonstrations. That movement reached Lincoln on Saturday, Oct. 15, kicking off with hundreds of protesters marching through downtown and around the Capitol Building and continuing with dozens camping in Centennial Mall. Many local college students were and still are in attendance as the movement continues. Forrest Teske, a freshman broadcasting major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, wants to involve the campus even more, and has created a Facebook page to build awareness and support. Teske said he’ll have a meeting for the group when it reaches 100 likes. As of late Wednesday night, the group had 76 likes. While some students share his energy, some of whom have been part of Occupy Lincoln since its beginning, others have yet to hear about it. “It’s something I’d read more about,” said Chris Ganshert, a freshman psychology major who was among the latter. “I’m not sure how interested I am in taking part.” Occupy Wall Street started in Manhattan as a manifestation of popular anger about a variety of issues, including corporations’ power over politics, historic income inequality in the country and other effects of a recession
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that has hit some far harder than others. Students, Teske said, aren’t immune to these issues. “The problem that we have is billion-dollar companies buying our politicians,” he said.
Corporate interests convince those politicians to mismanage government money, Teske continued, and that includes the funding for student aid. “We would like to see more of
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the people’s money being spent on the people,” Teske said. “We
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