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ets memorial scholarship
for secretary and UNL student
By Lauri Hopple
UNL's International Educational Services office
Monday set up a memorial scholarship fund for
Lynn Prusia El-Tabech, a UNL student and IES
secretary who died Sunday.
Prusia El-Tabech was found dead in her home at
815 N. 30th St. A bathrobe belt was found around
her "neck and authorities said the cause of death was
asphyxiation due to strangulation.
. Judy Wendorff, IES program coordinator, said "
the staff decided a scholarship fund, which would
go to a UNL foreign student, would be a "solid thing
to do with the grief."
"Lynn was a dear friend to international students
and because of her job, was often the only one they
would talk to," Wendorff said. The scholarship will
be a lasting memorial and help the students Prusia
El-Tabech loved, she said.
Mohamad El-Tabech, the victim's husband and a
UNL student was arraigned Tuesday in Lancaster
County Court in connection with the death on
charges of first-degree murder and the use of a
deadly weapon to commit a felony.
Lancaster County Judge Gale Pokorny set a
$250,000 regular bond for El-Tabech, who is now in
jail. . ,
Chief Deputy County Attorney Gary Lacey said
El-Tabech, originally from Beruit, had applid for a
visa extension and filed a chanee-of-status form
with the immigration office after his marriage
El-Tabech, 26, arrived in Chicago in May 198 J and
his 90-day visa expired in August 1983. according to
the Lincoln Star. The El-Tabechs married in De
cember. Since El-Tabech is not an American citizen, Lacey
said, the court may have made the bond a regular
bond which requires 10 percent bail for the accused
to be released. EI-Tabech's next court date is July 9,
a docket call.
Chief Deputy Public Defender Scott Helvie, who is
representing El-Tabech, said he could not comment
on the matter.
The victim's family will be notified of each contribu
tion to the scholarship fund, Wendorff said.
To make a donation to the fund, make checks
payable to UNL and send to Box 30186, Lincoln, NE
68503 and write either "Prusia Fund" or "In Memory
of Lynn Prusia" on the check. The IES office will
accept cash or checks and will transfer all gifts to
the scholarship fund.
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Lincoln Women against Violence protest the use of women in pornography Thursday.
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incoin women protest violence, porn
By Donna Sisson
"We are not toys for the boys: pornography the
theory, rape the practice," shouted members of Lin
coln Women Against Pornography as they picketed
a local adult bookstore on O Street between 9th and
10th streets.
Approximately 30 women gathered for the picket
and as they rallied, two male passerbys grabbed
signs and joined in shouting for the cause.
A speak-out for women only was scheduled after
the picket at Commonplace.
The speak-out was limited to women because, "it
is hard to talk about it when your rapists are there,"
said Anna Capek, member of Lincoln Women Against
Pornography.
"We want women to talk in an open environment
because this is the first speak-out and they need to
be able to do that," said Rebecca Chance, member of
Lincoln Women Against Pornography.
This will be the first time women have been
allowed to speak about it alone, Chance said. When
people in power get together and exclude others,
there could be a bias, but when an oppressed group
of people get together, it's because they need to. "We
don't intend to be anti-male because we want sym
pathetic males to work with us," she said.
The Lincoln Women Against Pornography grew
out of women's concerns over the rapes in Lincoln,
where violence originates and wondering why they
have been the victims of such crimes, Capek said.
Pornography is violence against women because
it shows them enjoying being bound and enjoying
the pain and people believe this message, Capek
said.
The group, which was co-sponsored by the Women's
Resource Center, was formed last February, Chance
said.
Chance said they, chose to picket the bookstore
because that is where a lot of pornography begins.
Thursday was chosen because that it's a night when
a lot of traffic passes through downtown, she said.
The Lincoln Women Against Pornography has
also started task forc.es educating the community
and doing legal research about pornography, Chance
said. They also had a tour of the bookstore last week,
she said.
Women are told not to look at or talk about the
pornography but they should have the right to see
what it's all about, Chance said.
Often times, women don't have a choice because
they are economically, emotionally or physically
coerced- to submit to pornography, Capek said.
Sometimes, they are kidnapped or blackmailed like
Linda Marchiano of "Deep Throat" who couldn't
even go out of her pimp's sight to go to the
bathroom, she said.
Prof relates drinking habits & a
By Jana Daldrn&n Bouma
To drink ortot to drink. That is the question for
many of Nebraska's 20-year-olds but only until
next January 1. At that time many young Nebraskans
wfil face a change in their drinking habits when the
state's legal drinking age goes from 20 to 21. Other
states soon may be forced to join Nebraska in raising
the legal drinking age to 21 or face a reduction in
their federal highway funds.
But wil the changes in drinking age have the
desired effect of lowering the number of deaths
caused by mtoxieated young drivers?
According to UNL psychology professor Clayton
Rivers, the law's effects are unknown. Rivers has
researched various aspects of alcohol use and co
authored a book on chemical dependency counsel
ing. Rivers said the bill probably will lower the number
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of young people who drink, "at least temporarily."
Part of the reduction will come from public educa
tion which accompanied passage of the bills, he said.
However, if the reduction is to last, the public must
come to accept the idea that growing up and drink
ing do not go together.
"Any kind of program which restricts the source
(of alcohol) by an outside agent really does not work
unless it is accepted by the public as the way it
ought to be,' "he said. "Laws are enforced by the
pressure of the community"
Other countries, such as Sweden, with tougher
drunk-driving laws, do a much better job of control
ling the problem, Rivers said. But, he said, the laws
work because the people in those countries accept
the rules.
"That's where we have ambivalence in this coun
try," he said. Americans don't want to give up their
own right to drink, he said, although they don't mind
taking that right away from someone else.
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National and international news
from the Reuter News Report
Salvadorait lef tSots
seise power plant
SAN SALVADOR Left-wing guerrillas Thurs
day seized El Salvador's largest power plant In
a blocCly battle with government troops before
retreating several hours later, according to
reports from the insurgents and the military.
The rebel Radio Venceremos said the insur
gents retreated after wiping out an army bat
talion in the battle for the Cerron Grande
hydroelectric plant, about 50 miles northeast
of San Salvador. The military earlier had said
many government soldiers were killed or
wounded in an hour-lCng battle for the plant
and that other soldiers and technicians were
taken hostage. It did not give precise figures.
Meanwhile in Washington, Salvadoran right
wing leader Roberto D'Aububson at a Thurs
day news conference said he would head a
"constructive" opposition and support Presi
dent Jose Napoleon Duarte's efforts to bring
leftist rebels into the political arena.
Narcotics ring broken
NEWARK, N.J. Forty persons, most of
them Lebanese nationals, were indicted by
federal grand juries here and in Detroit Thurs
day on charges of operating an international
heroin and cocaine ring that used women
clutching babies as couriers. Eighteen persons
were indicted in New Jersey and 22 in Michi
gan, and 27 of them were arrested in pre-dawn
raids throughout the United States, officials
said. .
W. Hunt Dumont, the federal prosecutor in
Newark, said the ring imported 48.5 pounds of
heroin and cocaine from Lebanon and South
America worth an estimated $25 million from
October 1982 to January 1983. He said women
usually holding babies, carried the drugs in
false-bottom suitcases, most of them arriving
at international airports in New York, Miami
and Los Angeles.
Drinking age establistied
WASHINGTON Congress passed and sent
to President Reagan Thursday a bill to estab
lish a nationwide minimum drinking age of 21
in the United States. The bill would cut federal
highway funds by five to 10 percent for states
which did not establish a minimum 21-year-old
drinking age within two years.
The House gave final approval to the bill by
voice vote early Thursday after the Senate
passed the bill on Tuesday. Reagan supports
the legislation, which supporters say will help
reduce accidents caused by drunk drivers.
About half of the 50 states now have a 21-year-old
minimum drinking age, while the others
allow drinking by 18-, 19- or 20-year-olds. Pas
sage of the bill is part of the growing movement
to impose tougher penalties on drunk drivers.
Business boosts science
NEW YORK Lucrative research agree
ment betveen corporations and universities
do not destroy academic freedom and have
helped the United States excel in science and
technplogy, a report released Thursday said.
The report, written by a task force for the non
profit research organization Twentieth Cen
tury Fund, addressed the growing concern
that scientists and universities are vulnerable
to commercial exploitation, especially in fields
such as genetic engineering where potential
profits are high. It said firms give millions of
dollars to universities for biomedical research
which can be used to produce substances
with wide commercial applications like inter
feron. It disputed conclusions reached by Nicholas
Wade, an editorial writer at the New York
Times commissioned by the fund to write a
background study of the issue. Wade wrote, in
part, that ". . . the line between carnpus'and
marketplace has become blurred . . ." .
The report recommended guidelines to fos
ter cooperation between universities and cor
porations while strengthening the values of
the university. They included requirements
that faculty disclose commercial connections
and that universities hold title to any patents
resulting from joint inquiries. '
Friday, June 29, 1984
