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Back people ...
back PACE
In the abbreviated style of the day it is called PACE, which
stands for Program of Active Commitment to Education. But to
many low-income students of all colors and creeds, PACE could
mean a ticket to a college education.
When tuition statements arrive in the mail this week,
University students will be asked to contribute to the PACE
scholarship fund, which was created last year in response to the
cutback in state and federal scholarship funds available to
low-income students.
In a plan approved in last spring's student elections, students
will be asked to contribute $3.50 per semester ($1.75 per summer
session) to the PACE scholarship fund. The PACE fee will be
included in the tuition, but there will be an explanation stating
that the $3.50 fee is voluntary and can be deducted from the
tuition total.
Contributing to PACE will help increase the small number of
low-income students who are currently able to attend college. A
recent report shows that in Nebraska only 18.9 per cent of the
graduating high school seniors from low-income families are able
to attend college while 65 per cent of the middle and upper
income high school graduates go on to college.
The University Financial Aids Office has made substantial
commitments in awards letters to low-income students on the
basis of the summer showing of PACE in which 29 per cent of
those enrolled contributed. The office is assuming that about
one-third of the first semester students will contribute.
The federal government will also be kicking in matching funds
to help PACE, but the amount it contributes will depend on the
amount of money raised locally.
The PACE committee also plans a faculty fund drive starting
October 1 and will solicit funds from businessmen and
foundations in Lincoln and other Nebraska communities.
The success of the program depends largely on the individual
student. If you or your parents can afford it, contribute the
$3.50 to PACE. Back people by backing PACE.
The Volunteer
Bureau wants you
What are you doing with your spare time this semester?
Sitting in the Union lounge rapping? Drinking at the local bar?
Watching hour after hour of television?
If you feel you are vegetating and want to get out of your rut
then you might consider volunteer work. The Student Volunteer
Bureau, which coordinates volunteer programs at UNL, is looking
for help.
The Bureau, which is in its second year of operation, is looking
for volunteers to staff such agencies as the Student Action Front,
University 4H and University Y. Interested students should
contact the Student Activities office in the Nebraska Union.
"There are a lot of wants that students don't know need to be
met," according to Mary Dean, the Bureau's director. For
example, volunteers are needed for the Big Sister and Big Brother
programs, which try to establish a one-to-one relationship
between students and children of low-income families.
Volunteers are also needed to work in the Lincoln Action
Program and in the hostels operated by the Lancaster Office for
the Mentally Retarded. The Looking Glass Drug Program has
contacted the Bureau to help recruit ex-users for a 24-hour drug
referral program.
The Bureau last spring acquired a volunteer van to assist
volunteer groups in their work. This Oct. 9 the Bureau is
sponsoring a volunteers orientation workshop, which will be open
to anyone interested. The workshop will deal with the many
community problems of Lincoln and will pay particular attention
to low-income residents.
If you have the time and the commitment, then you should
contact the Student Volunteer Bureau. Qary Seacrest
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When cops cop out
As the siren fades and two
policemen rush out to save the
girl in the park from a mugger
the announcer asks: "What
would you do if the cops
copped out?"
But the question raised in
this nationally-produced TV
spot may not be the one
originally intended.
If you can't call the police,
who can you call? If you are
harrassed by the police, what
can you do?
Ron Kurtenbach, who was
arrested for distributing
antiwar leaflets at the
Nebraska State Fair, has an
interesting story to tell about
the police.
I le says he went to the fair
this year with no intention of
getting arrested, but only to
see if the fair administration
was willing to arrest him. He
was then prepared to stop
loaf letting and go to court with
a suit to fight the fair's rule
against leafletting on the
grounds of first amendment
freedoms.
But Kurtenbach was not
threatened with arrest. He was
told by sheriff's deputies to
stop leafletting and leave the
fair. He refused.
Then, without arresting
him, a deputv reportedly
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grabbed Kurtenbach by the
wrists and dragged him through
the crowd to the sheriff's
office. This much was caught
on film by a news
photographer.
After the deputy had
dragged him to the station and
let him go, Kurtenbach told the
deputy that he was going to
press assault charges.
The deputy reportedly
replied: "I didn't touch you.
Show me the marks."
Kurtenbach said there were
red marks on his wrists.
So, who do you call I when
the cops cop out? Who in the
legal framework protects you
from the police? There is no
one.
For this reason, the police
cannot simply do their job
with no consideration of who's
rights are being trampled. To
act in anything less than a
strictly fair and impartial
manner is a serious breach in
the very foundation of society.
Kurtenbach also talks about
the twenty minutes he was
held in the sheriff's office.
During this time he was not
allowed to call a lawyer
(because he wasn't under
arrest) and wasn't allowed to
leave.
It was only when the
officers tried to bodily throw
him out of the fair and he
refused to cooperate that he
was arrested. Kurtenbach said
he was finally told he was
under arrest as he was being
dragged to a waiting police car.
If a law enforcement agency
can hold a person without
arresting him and thus deny
him even the right to call a
lav. er, how can any civil
liberty be safe? This amounts
to arbitrary denial of due
process.
The Lincoln police have, in
the past, distinguished
themselves for fairness. In my
few dealings with the sheriff's
office it. too, has seemed to be
a good force.
But, there is no way that
the improper procedures and
outright lying that Kurtenbach
describes can be condoned. We
cannot allow the cops to cop
out for any reason.
Students are continually
told to work for peaceful
change within the system. But
what the officers of the system
repoitedly did to Ron
Kurtenbach is very hard lo
forgive. Events like this must
be stopped if there is to remain
a viable system to work within.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1971