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Vol. 83 No. 80
No good solutions to backpack theft
DyDeb Pedercoa
Four backpacks were reported stolen from the
two City Campus bookstores Monday, but, accord
ing to a Nebraska Bookstore official, that number
could have been worse.
Tor the number of people coming through' the
store, two backpacks are not a lot to lose, althouch
there shouldn't be any missing," Mark Oppegard,
general manager of Nebraska Bookstore, 1 135 R St.,
said.
Two backpacks were reported missing from
Nebraska Bookstore, and one was reported missing
from University Bookstore. Another backpack was
reported stolen, but was recovered immediately.
Gail Gade, director of the UNL Police Depart
ment, said police have been assigned to protect
backpacks at the bookstores for a number of years.
The officer may miss a theft attempt when he leaves
the backpack racks to check on other parts of the
store. "
"It's a difficult problem with no really good solu
tions," Gade said.
Gade said the procedure followed when a theft
attempt is spotted is to let the suspect take the item
outside the store and apprehend the suspect there.
The suspect can then be charged with larceny, he
said.
Oppegard said the first week of classes is a prob
lem for backpack thefts, but the percentage of thefts
on the UNL campus is minor compared to other
college campuses.
The two backpacks missing from Nebraska Book
store were taken from the wooden racks by the front
doors. Oppegard said theft could be prevented if
students used the coin-operated lockers across
from the racks. Coins are returned after using the
lockers.
Gade said money left in backpacks is a prime
attraction for thieves.
Alcohol intake moderation lends
ammunition to battle of the bottle
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People should limit the quantity and frequency of
their alcohol use to prevent alcohol-related prob
lems, said Ray Daugherty, president of the Lexing
ton, Ky., based Prevention Research Institute.
Daugherty, also the executive director of the Ken
tucky Alcoholism Council, was in Lincoln Monday
and Tuesday to present two one-day seminars on
preventing alcohol problems. The Alcoholism Coun
cil of Nebraska and the Nebraska Prevention Center
for Alcohol and Drug Abuse sponsored the "Prevent
ing Alcohol Problems Are We Doing it Right?"
seminars which took place at the Cornhusker Hotel.
. About 40 people attended each seminar.
"When people drink more than two drinks a day
or more than three on peak days, they substantially
increase the risk for a variety of alcohol-related
problems," Daugherty said.
If a person's alcohol consumption is under these
limits, Daugherty said, the risks are decreased more
than 40 times. , '
But when a person drinks six drinks in one day
rather than six drinks spread over six days, the risks
are increased, he said.
Daugherty said research shows that the people
with the greatest chance of developing alcoholism
or alcohol-related problems are children of alcohol
ics, since genetics is a factor. He suggested that if a
person had a strong family history of alcoholism,
that person should abstain from alcohol
"They tend to have a very positive reaction to
alcohol," Daugherty said. "They tend to have a high
tolerance, but it takes less drinking to result in
alcoholism or alcohol-related problems."
According to. Daugherty, college freshmen and
fraternity members drink more than other college
students. Freshmen do it because it is their first time
away from home and they have a lot of freedom, he
said. Drunkenness has become a part of the lifestyle
in fraternities, he said, but that is beginning to
change.
Daugherty said professionals use several
approaches in primary prevention to help people '
deter alcohol-related problems.
Until the 1960s, the prohibition approach was the
strongest approach, Daugherty said. According to
this approach, he said, people either supported
prohibition or made people who drank feel guilty.
During the '60s, the prohibition approach changed
into the "responsible drinking approach," Daugh
erty said. People who drank, but were not expe
riencing immediate problems, thought they were
handling alcohol, but this was not true, he said.
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Classified 14
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Jew course to study- European. holocaust
By Stephanie Carter political science professor who helped
organize the course, sajd 13 internat-
"Holocaust" once conjured images of ionally-known specialists will be guest
disastrous fires, such as those in San
Francisco and Chicago around the
turn of the century.
Today, "holocaust" is synonymous
with the Jewish experience in Nazi
Germany.
This semester UNL will offer a new
political science course on the Euro
pean holocaust. Ivan Volgyes, a UNL
speakers for the class.
This is not just intellectual, but
emotional and to some extent, spirit
ual," Volgyes said.
Although the class will consist main
ly of discussions and lectures by the
guest professors, Volgyes said holocaust
survivors from the Lincoln and Omaha
Jewish communities also will speak to
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the class.
Fending problem
Most major universities have courses
dealing with the holocaust, he said. In
the last three years, UNL had only a
mini-course on the subject because the
university had no money to begin a
new class.
The NU Foundation, the Nebraska
Committee of Humanities and the Lin
coln and Omaha Jewish communities
collectively funded the course, Volgyes
said.
Volgyes said he hopes next year UNL
can find and fund a specialist to teach
the course rather than having interna
tional speakers. He said that a per
manent professor would help in estab
lishing a permanent course on the
holocaust and Judaic studies.
Local specialists, such as Associate
Professor Louis Picard and Professor
Peter Cheng of the UNL department of
political science, will speak to the class
about current holocausts in Cambodia
and Afghanistan, Volgyes said.
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Non traditions! approach '
The students in the course will record
their reactions to each lecture in a
journal, he said. One paper will be
assigned, but it will not be traditional
The paper will allow each student to
play the role of someone involved with
the holocaust. The roles will be taken
from actual documents of German
orders.
Some of the guest speakers will be:
George Ranki, a professor from In
diana University, and a specialist on
WWII and Fascist governments.
Andrezej Korbonski, a UCLA pro
fessor who was involved in the Polish
resistance and uprising.
Eric Goldhagen, a Harvard profes
sor who has written on the social and
psychological costs of living under
German rule.
Samuel Sharp, a former professor
at American College, who is a special
ist on international politics. He worked
with the chief prosecutors during the
Nuremberg trials (1945-1946) of Nazi
war criminals.
Professor Peter Black, with the De
partment of Justice, who tracks down
Nazi war criminals living in the United
States.
Father John Morley, a judge scho
lar at Seaton Hall University in New
Jersey.
This is one of the greatest things to
happen to Nebraska in a long time,"
said Volgye3.
The course will be offered Tuesday
evenings from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
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