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'University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 83 No. 178
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Kansas enacts new housing policy;
UNL conservative in three areas
By Jana Dahlman Bo una
The University of Nebraska is one of the most
conservative of Big Eight schools in terms of three
major residence hall policies.
An informal survey of the other Big Eight schools
showed that only two other schools do not allow
liquor or 24-hour visitation on undergraduate resi
dence hall floors.
The two schools, the University of Missouri in
Columbia, Mo., and Oklahoma State University in
Stillwater, Okla., join UNL in requiring freshman
students to live in campus housing, according to
school officiate there.
Five other Big Eight schools allow 24-hour visita
tion for members of the opposite sex on some resi
dence hall floors, although they all make a distinc
tion between visitation and cohabitation.
Mark Denke, assistant director of residential pro
grams at the University of Kansas in Lawrence,
Kan., said that school has allowed 24-hour visitation
since the late 1 960s, when many schools abandoned
the philosophy of en loco parentis. That philosophy
gave schools authority to act in the absence of the
students' parents.
Recently, however, KU has enacted a new housing
policy. Although 24-hour visitation is still allowed,
students must sign a roommate agreement at the
beginning of the school year to deal with potential
conflicts. The policy was develqped to deal with the
concerns of parents, residents, and administrators,
Denke said.
UNL Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Richard
Armstrong said that when the NU Board of Regents
originally adopt its present visitation policy, it con
tained a provision for 24-hour visitation. The provi
sion was removed, however, because public response
at the time indicated that the policy would not be
popular in Nebraska.
He said 24-hour visitation has been raised as an
issue by students several times since the policy was
adopted, but it has never reached the board of
regents for action.
UNL's alcohol policy is also governed by the
regents, Armstrong said. Although alcohol gener
ally is banned from all state property, Armstrong
said the regents could have made a special excep
tion to allow alcohol in the residence halls.
They chose not to, Armstrong said, because, The"
board of regents are firmly convinced that alcohol
on the campus is not appropriate, especially when it
is available close to campus."
A regent's policy also requires freshman students
who do not live with their parents to live in the
residence halls or in university-approved housing.
The policy was originally adopted when UNL
engaged in a large residence hall building program.
The policy was needed, he said, to insure that the
school would be able to pay off the mortgages on the'
buildings.
Recently, the policy has not been stringently
enforced, he said, because the residence halls have
been full.
He said the university can't get too excited about
students who live off campus if there is no room lor
them in the residence halls anyway.
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Nancy De&ny takes a break from the heat
Monday afternoon with a little shade, a mag
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-By Jay Mnlligan
Students who work their way through college
often find it harder to pay for classes than to pass
those classes. According to two Lincoln businesses,
research jobs are flexible enough to leave students
with enough physical and mental ability to keep
studying, even after a workday.
Jane Clifton, evening manager of Selection Research
Inc., said SRI employs about 40 college students.
About two-thirds of those students attend UNL,
Clifton said.
"UNL is a super source," Clifton said.
SRI, 301 S. 68th St., is a marketing research firm
that conducts studies and polls for newspapers,
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television stations, hospitals and advertising agen
cies. Clifton said the Omaha World Herald, is one of
SRI's local clients.
Although the students at SRI are from a variety of
backgrounds, Clifton said, "It's especially good for
marketing and advertising majors."
They earn as much as they work," Clifton said..
They have the chance to earn an unlimited amount.
They are guaranteed minimum but often make
$5.50 to $7.50 (an hour)," Clifton said.
National Research Corporation, 300 S. 17th St., is
another marketing research firm in Lincoln. It
employs about 30 students, 90 percent of whom
are from UNL
Joe Carmichael, NRC's weekend supervisor, said,
"We primarily do health care and food service stu
dies. They're what we specialize in."
NRC does studies for several national food chains
as well as studies for hospitals and hospital chains
across the country, Carmichael said.
The Midwest is a good place for a research firm, he
said.
"I think it is an advantage to be in the Midwest and
have a Midwestern accent because it is easier to
understand. It's neither a New York nor a southern
accent, it's kind of in between," Carmichael said.
At NRC, students start out at $3.50 an hour and
often get a raise after the first couple of months,
Carmichael said.
"We're looking for someone in marketing, business,
or advertising," Carmichael said. But, he said, these
aren't the only majors of the people working there.
Both SRI and NRC will be hiring students this fall.
By J&na Bdklmsn Bouma
UNL got more than it bargained for when it
received three new computers from Control Data
Corporation, according to the director of UNL's
Computig Resource Center.
Doug Gale, said rumors had been spreading
thst the three brand-new Cyber 170 computers
were already obsolete. He said the rumors were
based on the fact that CDC has already aban
doned the Cyber 170 series to produce a new,
more advanced line of computers.
Accord to Gale,. however, UNL's computers
are not out-of-date. CDC secretly built Li extra
circuitry and instructions, he said, giving the UNL
computers the same capabili-si as the new line
cf Cvbcr 10 computers.
In feet, Gsde said, UNL can update its three
computers just by running a two-hour computer
prs4sm. The computers will then be sbla to use a
powerful rsw computer program developed by
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CDC for its Cyber ISO computers.
"The new Cyber ISO line," Gale said, Is just the
Cyber 1 70 line in new boxes with the extra circui
try turned on."
Gale said he was pleasantry surprised when
CDC revealed the extra circuitry.
"It will allow us to use existing computer pro
grams, as well as develop new state-of-the-art
programs," Gale said. "In thb esse, we really can
have our cake and eat it too."
Gale said he didn't know which of UNL's CDC
computers would be converted to the new con
figuration. Although the new system provides
some powerful features, he said, it might also
reduce the number cf people that could use the
computer at one time.
Gale said ths most likely candidate for conver
sion b the Model 835 mainframe computer, to be
vizzd by advanced students and rc-searchers.
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in ths Nabrcrka En.ccrLn Center.
Student says court
chips at S63X ch laws
By Gene Gentrup
The Nebraska State Supreme Court should follow
its own doctrines for assessing what is reasonable
and unreasonable search and seizure, according to
a UNL law student.
In an article in the current issue of the Nebraska
Law Review, Mark Killenbeck, a senior at the UNL
College of Law, argues that over the past few years a
number of rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court have
"chipped away" at the doctrine of probable cause,
the fundamental rules and guarantees protecting
citizens from unreasonable search and seizure.
The Fourth Amendment says, "no warrant shall
be issued but upon probable cause."
Killenbeck's article titled, "Closing the Gates: A
Nebraska Constitutional Standard for Search and
Seizure," focuses on a decision of the State Supreme
Court which affirmed the conviction of an Omaha
area woman for possession ofLSD (State vs. Arnold).