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monday, december 3, 2012 volume 112, issue 069
Inside Coverage
Prescribing the canvas cure
Badgers run away in Indy blowout
Nebraska football was robbed of its roses by an 8-5 Wisconsin team this weekend. After falling to the Badgers 70-31, Nebraska will play Georgia in the Capital One Bowl. With 13:01 left in the first quarter UW jumped out to a 7-0 lead and never looked back in a game that featured eight UW rushing touchdowns and 640 yards of offense.
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Students and alumni gather at the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center to play a traditional handgame in celebration of Native American heritage.
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Scenic snapshots win contest Innovation Campus picks three for display
Alfred White Eyes, a member of the Omaha tribe, volunteers as the lead singer for this year’s Native American handgame event.
Erin Carr, a graduate anthropology major, and Gwyneth Talley, a senior anthropology and global studies major, participate in a handgame, a Native American guessing game, held at the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center on Friday in Celebration of Native American heritage month.
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UNL named as ‘top producer’ of Fulbright scholars
Home for the holidays
Along with seven other Big Ten schools, UNL lands spot on Chronicle of Higher Education’s list
Round-up of Lincoln’s artistic seasonal offerings
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Camp Kesem co-chairs Kenneth Herron, a junior English major, and Corinne McGill, a junior nutrition and health sciences major, pose for a portrait Thursday afternoon to advertise the new summer camp, fully run by college students, for children whose parents have or had cancer.
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The University of NebraskaLincoln is organizing its own chapter of a nationwide summer camp for the kids of cancer patients, which is run by college students. Camp Kesem has 41 chapters throughout the nation. The free, weeklong camp aims to provide support for children ages 6 to 16 whose parents have or had cancer.
“We knew that there was a definite need for it in our community since there is nothing really like it in Nebraska right now that we know of,” said Corinne McGill, Camp Kesem UNL cochair and a junior nutrition and health sciences major. The camp will be held at the Y Camp in Boone, Iowa, from June 16-21. “One of the pillars of Camp Kesem is student leadership, so college students are the ones
who take the initiative to actually raise the money for the camp and put on the camp in the summer,” said Kenneth Herron, Camp Kesem co-chair and a junior English major. McGill said the students are basically running their own non-profit. Cancer can take a financial toll on a family because of medical bills, so the camp covers costs for campers. This means the
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– the 20 or so applicants from UNL this year went through a tedious process to make sure each application was of the highest quality. No UNL student works on his or her application without heavy revision and oversight from Damuth and each application sees roughly nine revisions tammy bain from her personally, she said. dn After the application is subFor the second year in a row, the mitted to UNL, a group of about 15 faculty members look at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln application and offer more imwas named a top producer of provement, Damuth said. Fulbright scholarships. The process, Damuth said, The Chronicle of Higher Education compiled a list of aims to make the applications the top 40 Fulbright-producing the best they can be. “Without the laborresearch instiintensive process, I tutions. UNL is don’t think you’d have ranked 40th, bethe same quality,” she hind seven other said. Big Ten schools, Damuth said UNL including the was doing well producUniversity of ing Fulbright scholars Michigan and before being named to the University of the list last year but not Minnesota-Twin as well as it does now. Cities. “I think success Nine UNL breeds success,” she students were said. “The more we win, accepted in the damuth the more students will spring as 2012want to apply.” 2013 Fulbright Damuth said she scholars. doesn’t know what next year “What I’m so pleased about is the number we do put in is so will look like. Factors like the good that we get that high yield number of applications and the students who submit them vary, of winners,” said Laura Dashe said. muth, UNL director of national “It’s just like any other comand international fellowships. petition: Some years the football But Damuth said the quality of scholarship applications is team does well, some years it doesn’t,” she said. “My role is just as important as the quantity. She said that while UNL that of coach. I take raw talents, help be the best that it can be, doesn’t yield as many applithen we just have to wait until it cants as some schools – the University of Michigan produces more than 100 per year, she said fulbright: see page 3