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By Rex Seline
Undercover agents are not operating on tne
UNL campus, but they have in the past,
according to area law enforcement officials.
Reports from the officials and Student Legal
Services Center attorney David Rasmussen
indicate that a recent California Supreme Court
decision concerning undercover agents will have
no effect on their operations in Nebraska.
According to an Associated Press report, the
California court said police officers may not pose
as university students merely to compile
intelligence dossiers on students and professors
for future use.
Right to privacy
The decision of the court was unanimous and
marked the first interpretation of the 1972
California constitutional amendment
guaranteeing the right to privacy, according to
the report.
The gathering of information about students
or professors for dossiers and future use has
never occurred on the UNL campus, according to
spokesmen for the State Patrol, Campus Police,
the Lincoln Police Department and the. Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Additionally, they indicated that the
California decision would have no effect on their
operations because of the difference in
jurisdictions.
"A California decision would have no
practical effect on Nebraska," Rasmussen said.
"One state's decision would not be binding on
another state although some weight might be
given to it as an arguing point."
No federal effect
Rasmussen added that the only decisions that
would have bearing in Nebraska would be made
by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Eighth Circuit
Court of Appeals, Federal District Court in
Nebraska and the Nebraska Supreme Court.
FBI spokesman Edward J. Krupinsky, special
agent in charge of Nebraska and Iowa, added that
a state's decision would have no effect on the
federal government.
"I can't be specific about the California case,
but I can't see how it could affect us in any
way," Krupinsky said.
He added that the FBI was not presently
engaged in the use of undercover agents on any
campus and therefore the decision would have
no effect.
Agents on campus
Nebraska State Patrol spokesman Wayne
Rowe, director of drug investigations, said the
information that undercover agents exist on
campus "wouldn't be information that I could
put out.
"There could be (agents on campus), but I
couldn't say," Rowe said.
According to Rowe, there have been agents on
campus in the past. Those agents were not
involved in compiling dossiers but were
investigating reports of "ongoing criminal
activity," he said. .
Rowe contended that the use of undercover
agents would most likely be for investigations of
drug-related crimes.
Student, employe cover
State Patrol Chief Cletus Karthauser said such
an agent might pose as a student or a university
employe.
"The use of undercover agents would be
related to the investigation of a crime,"
Karthauser said. He said he couldn't even think
of a case when dossiers were compiled.
The State Patrol does not have to notify the
campus police when it makes a campus
investigation, but usually docs as a matter of
"courtesy," according to Karthauser and Rowe.
Campus Police Chief Gail Gade said the
campus police have never made use of
undercover agents, for the six years that he's
been here.
"This doesn't mean that there aren't some
who have been here. The city, state and county
sheriff all, have jurisdiction on campus," Gade
said. i .
Drug investigations
"The others could very well send undercover
agents here without telling us," Gade said.
Gade said he "couldn't even remember the
last time we had that sort of person on
campus," but speculated that it might have been
"about two years ago. It's not done often."
The last known use of an undercover agent on
campus was for drug investigations, according to
Gade.
Although there may have been "some people
that were on our campus" conducting
investigations during the campus radicalism,
student strike days of the early seventies, Gade
said, they were probably here later when there
was trouble with drugs.
No dossiers
He said no agency he knew of would have the
time necessary to compile a dossier on a subject.
A Lincoln FBI spokesman said he did not
know if undercover agents had been on campus
in the past because such information would
require an extensive file check.
Because UNL is a state institution, the
Lincoln Police Department has never made use of
so-called campus spies, according to a
spokesman.
High school seniors take UNL courses
Students attend two schools
If some of the faces on
campus look particularly
young and hopeful, they may
belong to high school seniors
who are getting a jump on their
college careers while
completing high school
graduation requirements.
Exact numbers seem hard to
pinpoint, but guidance
counsellors at Lincoln high
schools report that few of their
students are presently
following the "half and half
program.
Beryl Bowlin. a counselor at
Northeast High, said five
Northeast seniors are now
taking classes at UNL, while
three are enrolled at Nebraska
Wesleyan. She said these
highly motivated
for advanced
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"With their background
work, most of the students get
along pretty well" in university
classes, she said.
Don Darnell, a Southeast
High counselor, said advantages
and disadvantages to such a
program are discussed with the
interested students and their
parents before enrollment in a
college-level class. He said
about three Southeast students
are taking both high school and
college classes.
No shift problem
Darnell agreed that for most
high school seniors who
express an interest in taking
college classes, the shift from
high school to college classes is
no problem.
"These are very capable
people or they wouldn't be
asking" about such a program,
Darnell added.
Jim Rakers of East High,
added that he discourages
students from embarking on
such a program unless they are
"bctter-than-average students,
and independent." He
explained that most high
school students who enroll in
college classes do so during the
second semester of their senior
year. He listed three major
icasons ior students choos n
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"In some cases,
students' parents won't
the
let
them graduate early; in other
cases we feel they aren't
mature enough to graduate.
Also, some students are
involved in activities, such as
cheerleading, which they don't
want to leave behind," Rakers
said.
Gerald Bowker, Director of
Academic Services, said that
until recently, UNL asked that
high school students who
wanted to take college classes
be in the upper 10 per cent of
their class. This requirement
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still must secure the
recommendation of their high
school counselors before being
admitted.
Broad course offering
Commenting on why so few
high school seniors' chose to
begin college careers while
finishing high school
requirements, Bowker noted
that students are allowed to
take only those courses which
are not offered at their high
school and for which they
display a real need.
"The course offerings are so
broad at the Lincoln high
schools" that most students
can find what they want within
their own high school, he .said.
Bowker added that it is
difficult for a high school
senior to fit a college class into
his or her schedule.
"I've heard all kinds of
strange reasons" for students
taking college-level classes,
Rakers commented,
thursday, april 10, 1975
