I SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION 1 9 8 7 C O L L E G E A C H I E V E M E N T A W A R D S As state chairman of the Nebraska Council of Youth, Jacobitz plays a lead- ing role in tackling issues facing Nebraska youth, from teenage pregnan- cy to the farm crisis. He says a major problem among Nebraska youth is guilt about leaving home to attend college, while their families suffer from financial stress. Issues like these are taken up in council discussion groups. "If I ever left the state," Jacobitz claims, "it would be to work on agricultural problems that, when solved, would help Nebraska. My roots are here." WILIAM KINCAID YALE UNIVERSITY Arriving at Yale from Fayetteville, Arkansas, Bill Kincaid jumped into community service in New Haven as if he'd lived there all his life. To Kincaid, community service is everything. He says he puts his energies to use "on both the political and the basic services levels." Kincaid has been actively involved in voter registration and campaign volun- teer work in local, senatorial, and guber- natorial elections. He's also a math and reading tutor at an inner-city New Haven school. At Yale, Kincaid is a member of the Yale Hunger Action Proj- ect, and he's president of the Yale Col- lege Democrats. "This fall," he notes, "the College Democrats helped at least 85 students take part in local and state campaigns; I believe that tasting what political in- volvement is like as undergraduates will make these students more likely to take an active role in public affairs later on." ARTHUR KDA KALAMAZOO COLLEGE Arthur Kudla is a chemistry and biology double major whose achieve- ments are revealed in the laboratory, in the area of toxicological research. Kudla's interest in toxicity stems from his concern with the environment. Throughout high school, Kudla con- American Studies major and the 1986 Truman Scholar from Iowa, Mander- scheid has already been exposed to a va- riety of political venues. Having served as page to the speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives, he spent the fall of 1986 in London as an assistant to a member of Parliament and a member of the North Atlantic Assem- bly (NAA). During his tenure in the House of Commons, Manderscheid managed to contribute material to "Alliance Political Developments" and "Terrorism," two reports to the NAA. He also wrote a special update on Syria for a general report on terrorism. In addi- tion, he condensed a 30,000 word terror- ism report for publication in the venerable Jane's Defence Weekly. Manderscheid is spending the current semester in Washington as legislative researcher for Senator Tom Harkin, working on the "Save The Family Farm Act." For a young man raised on the family farm in Zwingle, Iowa-you might say his Washington assignment is home grown. BRETI MATTHEWiS DARTMOUTH COLLEGE "Leadership" is how Brett Matthews collectively describes his achievements. Matthews began his Dartmouth career by founding and co-directing Students Against Famine in Ethiopia (SAFE), a network of 75 colleges nationwide that, via direct mail and telemarketing, raised $65,000 for African relief. As a result, Matthews was appointed to the Board of Directors of U.S.A. for Africa's student campaign. During his sophomore year, Matthews co-founded and presided over Common Sense, a campus newspaper designed to bridge the gap between Dartmouth's rival right- and left-wing papers. By negotiating a grant, selling subscriptions and recruiting staff, Matthews quickly made Common Sense a viable and respected voice on campus. In Matthews' junior year, he was elected co-captain of the Dartmouth Varsity Football Team and received Ivy League honors for play during the season. ducted independent research at home using self-designed and self-constructed equipment and procedures. He investi- gated the toxicity of the herbicide Agent Orange and won first place in environ- mental sciences at the International Science and Engineering Fair. Since then, he's picked up numerous awards for research in air pollution, chemical tox- icity, and carcinogenesis. His research has taken him to settings as diverse as the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the Michigan Cancer Foundation in Detroit. Spending his junior year in Kalamazoo's Foreign Study Program, Kudla is attending the Friedrich Alex- ander-Universitat Erlangen in West Ger- many. "International cooperation," he says, "is the next step in solving environ- mental problems." DAVID MANDEDSCHEIO UNIVERSITY OF IOWA David Manderscheid intends on hav- ing a career in government service. An