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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1973)
ctai u neor slce Wednesday, december 5, 1973 lincoln, nebraska vol. 97 no. 53 If" Cold weather, food lure rats from trash to dorms By Jim Fuilerton Rat control is in i':; toti'ies! time of th ye-.n at the Abel-Sard. H?;i'h: c:e Malls, accordin-j, to members of tie. s; 'tci i nico staff t f , ; i , The maintenance stal rvicn hfi . -,;rcf with tin.' increasing cold, rts aie kMrovviny nevt to the buildings for waionh. They al o die attracted to the a red by food that has born thrown tc '.ho ground from the toons ot the residents. According to Josepn ZaunirT, assislnt director ot the Dept. of !Vsahh;nance Mid Operation:,, when people indicate they heve seen rats, the maintenance workes set ou r Sfiring traps and poisoner! "uri cafetei:as." As of Monday, seven ruts Iwve been killed at Abel-Sancloz since T hanKsciiving. When a uo.imlaint i:, t ado aUu rats, the staff at A bp! Sa-.dw ti i.-'s to tak" action immediately "to prevent a complaint from leaching the health den iriment," one staff member said. According to Susan f tita secietary for the complaint division ol the Lanca ha County Health Department, nu complaint'; have been made to her regarding rat- in the Abel-Sando area, criten saiu that if ner ol lice diu receivi complaint, a county saniufan would check the a' ea to determine if there is a problem, and if so, now to cope with it. Zannini said the trap;, and pofnns also are used as precautionary measures when no rats have been seen, jus to be!,; keep ihoir number down. Ihe rats come 'rent neaiby junk piles or the creek that runs behind the dormitories. hi Jte according to another siatf 'neither. Rat trap, left, and standard motive trap TONIC: partial solution to Indian problems s' v' 1 ; .SI '"J.'j ....... w Uy Kith Landgrcn Last Tliursday afternoon at '1 J,) .. Vdii pulled away from Andiews Mali U.nd ''r VV.nnebago. The v::n carried e,'"Ui (A Ollee.j stude'nts, nvvTiiii rs of i group called Tutois ol NoLt a ska ''id m Ch 1. 1, n (TONIC). n's hard to classify TO.'vC. piec;.f.'iv. It isn't a replacem.j.i ("r f...ru,ai edi'caticm, nor is it priniaf i!, .eeenii-'l tt i.'iniou'1, Mistly if:, me . 1 . of ( onrni inication fwtveti collei.' students and children. iOi'IC if.e!'' is a yitup iin'mi duiinq the activist days of the !,Ue 19hUs fart of the group, by far the ? v 1' 9 ' i' - ' C,( t I' 7 Photos by Kermit Wolff A f4 J 't' ' -TV -,v " ' - fin - 1 .A a 'it. V. . t 1 f t i f "ft: .1 N v eC - , 7' V J , 1- - V Til.. . " .)" ... a. ' ' ' : laryor nart, tneets in Andrews Hall on Tuesdays with children from Lincoln. About 40 tutors participate, with an equ.'l number of children. The Winnebago project was nearly nat large at one time, but the s'. e .v s involved (Winnebago is 107 miles north of Lincoln) and the time commitment have diminished the Op's sie. rite city's problems haven't gone awav, unfortunately, though progress is ben ii made, American Indians are as badly treated as any minority group, and the Wtnnebagos have special pinblerm of their own. An interview with Norman Tree, chief of the tourman Winnebago Police Force, ic'.e.iled glaring problems in education, pi ill '.u:s and family life. Alcoholism, according to Free, is "the biggest health problem, the biggest social problem and the biggest law enforcement problem" facing WinneUigo in 1973. It has been ,or so long that Free despaiis of ever really solving it. Progress is steady, though. A halfway house was opened recently as a step toward rehabilitating Wiuuctvrjo'r, alcoholics. Also, a crisis p!i tvention center, staffed exclusively by volunteers, is attempting to solve some of Winnebago's social problems, mare of them related to alcohol vVmnebago's political troubles are :':: iti.tliy those of any community in wnijh ,j minority of the population holds a majority of income-producing taepetty. 'i; cjjy !S 75 p0r cor,t lni.ai, Uit political control is mostly iii tne hands of white's. f act. orts in the Indian community and haditionally low voter turnout ;;no!ig nunonty groups havu enabled whites to control the school system. A typical election is a three-way race, wi.h the Indian vote divided between a conserv itive and a liberal candidate, enabling the one white candidate to win the election. ft it is in school where the h-di.ms' problems arise, Winnebago e1 of inn, and American Indian 1 hi'do.'H everywhere, legin to slip 01 in id theii white counterparts after the Paul or fout th year of elementary s; hwol. Some speculate it may be the A'u,hSixon orientation of the school '''d 1 n and the child's growing .''-ae'v.s ol thai bias that are 1 isi I ile. '! is t the-.e ye. us, those U.'tween 1 : ic1 en 1, 1 1 -jixth grade, that I OfJiC's efforts an.- directed, v'vir (.hihli 0 cosily under V) , .! ..I r ' hot vlri j in a building built o: d by Hie Dutch Rc-foi ire.'d Church to meet tin; volunteers Iromj Lincoln. I deally a otu: lo cue ratio of volunteers and cleldren wuuld exist, j but as in t" rest h 'I" ptograin has slipped, that rahc, 'n.;s Ik. en tm.io.,sil)lc to maintain. fi 01 11 tally 20 to 30 children gieet tlie 8 to 10 vclunlcers. Success really isn't measured in numbers for TONIC volunteers though. It is measured in noestions like "Did you come all the way from Lincoln just lo see wy' arid in signs when 9 p.,n. comes and the 'nn is to leave Winnebago. it nevei uuue ieaes at o seems. There always is a film mat tuns a Itltii late-some paint, somewhere, nejvling to be' cleaned up. And in an evenino of 4owi analysis tie dyin), the new in,.!lc ii'.ovi.es and fairy Udes, no o," r.as 'ime : vonder if it's all doing any good. The kids aie active aod noisy, fi.ill of the exciicmrnl chil!;rn fe d in v.-hat seem to bo liny luines ; aUcits. in the past, that exci lemeni hasn'i x 101 " I'm j to learning like it does lor vtate children. But on I hursd,..y r g'-! f beiiins to, and when the bus finally do leave, tfli. unestion 01 hi t': 1 el! 'bet 1 d s t was woi Ihvvhile 1-. ans v red !; vas I .V'fOl-'V '-11 . -1 trs .3 Si'. 'V V if V yd ' ft K f H t S "! .if? i it r. , ff mSV'WIIHNM ".'5 ' ( ..-...;- 4 , , .J,,.-"-' 1, J(
