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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1976)
thursdoy, jrptcrr.bcr 10, 1970 pc?0 third dirnen&n Youth in trouble? walk in... 1 '' i Li) 1 - r : - ... 1 Photos by Kevin Hctey The boys' group bone cf Youth Services Systems, be., a bcal agency. 1 , , V7-- 'tx! iiLJfcwM r j i - a A. i f ,! a rc J v Lincoln 197S-1S7? Pragma -MtaauMtrxiJ. Saay.OcVJl VIS ! Vaaaf NHriCM im TkaUtaMEMan.. ' Bf.JaMy1W7? Tarn. Fcteiawy X. 1OT 8 cm. Wednesday. April 13. 1377 For information places telephone 433-1515 mmunity Oncerts I!amhersh:ps now epen to stents and newcomers to Lincoln Attendance by membership only All concerts at Pershing Auditorium Clip Clip 33(Famly) 3 (Student) S15 (Adult) , Enclosed is chat O CankAmericard Q Master Chars Ho. Nam (2 adults ft 3 children trough hth school) Nam ft asa off chsdren Ep. Deta New Membershi Addrass v Telephone Detach and mafl Chit form today to: Tatapnono 433-1513 LINCOLN COMMUNITY CONCERTS -C3 Sycamora Dr Unco in. Nebraska C3S10 tcsccfj b est cJ fssti Lbcc!x Ttsy jot wc!l kejrl ciJ csfHr-s!-l2 Uszx Cjz tJIr3 c;i',M?3 gr. T-g q, crj?y ggg coTggf t-g fed tt t; tsssss, c-Ssd trccp biisnss. tore rsrt cf a cass systca for bsc yl four tun. a 14-yesr-oU boy wanders the streets of Lincoln. Beaten and thrown ota of the home by his drunken father, he walks with the darkness in depression. He is headed for a place celled Freeway where they are supposed to be able to help youth in trouble. He's heard his friends talking about the place and hopes tlizt what he heard was true. Arming at the address he had memorized from a sticker posted on a phone booth, he sees the hand-painted sign . for Freeway station end walks inskle. Ashe stands in the doorway, the warn Vtt and . music fivm an cl-nihtrci& station blast away the darkness of his loneiy walk. To the young man who gets up to greet him he can only say sadly, "Man-1 need some help. . These two operations, group homes (one for boys and one for girls), and Free way Station, are parts of a unique organi zation known as the Youth Service System (YSS) of Lincoln and Lancaster County, Inc. The organization helps young people ages 9 to 18, working with the schools, V courts, police, and every local program or agency that deals with youth. James Aract, creator and director of ' YSS, is a greying, fatherly man who talks confidently and optimistically about his organization. YSS is a private, non-profit corporation. 'e set it up that way to avoid becom ing part of the already cxhXirz'ysYzz2s system he sd. TcJiars a grest dal mere mcb2ity in dealing with the courts and different agencies. In addition, we can divert young persons from the treadmiH nature of the governmental juvenils justice complex, where the kids are bounced from the courts to the reformatories, to the , streets, and back to the courts." Te eventually want to serve sH young people in the LincoLi-Lancaster area, not just the ones in trouble with the courts,' Arnot added. YSS was created in 1 973 with a federal grant. Arnot had previously been connect ed with a small youth services program under the YMCA and he recognized the need for a separate organization. The pro gram received much community support. The building housing the office and Freeway "vzs donated by the county, and many Lincoln organizations, including the Home Builders Association, senior citizens homes, churches, the Lincoln Public Schools and a UNL sorority, gave time, labor, money and supplies to get it started. YSS often serves as the middleman between the courts, pol?ce, schools and the dozens of agencies dealing with youth. 'There were a lot of good services around, but they were fragmented and there was a lot of duplication of effort," ' Arnot said. YSS has two services that deal directly with youth the group homes and the Freeway Station. The homes have counterparts in other agencies, although they are run a bit differently , Arnot said, "but the Freeway is a unique program in the area." (Ccied on next psge) Fowfer.: rorriGmbers UJL (Ccnfeued from p. 3) The senator believes that environmental bi3s, which he also has actively supported, "have been the toughest to get through. He says he has found little interest in environmental issues in Nebraska. Agri cultural interests, of course, a major concern in the state, often conflict with environmental interests, he explained. Cut they don't conflict as much as some people believe, the senator said. - For the past two years he has tried to set up a moratorium against the construc tion of nuclear power plants in Nebraska. In this effort Fowler has met heavy opposi tion from Rural Electric, an agricultural group. But senator Fowler has also intro duced a bill which wouM place a . mandatory deposit on all beer and pep containers. Despite supsort from agricultural groups, this bH has had cuiscuity gsttutg pszssi, he Fowlsr commented on Nshraska's Unicameral, the only one-house fesshture in the US. lis said he belves it is better than a two-hotss system, because the legis lators arc mere directly reqponsSds for how they vote. ln a two house system yoa era ahrsys tbme the other house if a bill isn't . passed," he said. Fowler sali a Iegtor from another state toM him that in that state's Jegclatssre b2 are soisetEses intentionally allowed to pass one house, and then are killed in the other. Fowler has changed in four years. The senator said he has come to realize that in order to get anything dene it is important to get people interested. 1 still believe you can work through the democratic process, with the support of the people," he said. In another way Fowlsr hasnt chantd, though. lis said that seme people who supported him ia the last election are disappointed that he isn't more fiery and radical in delivering his speeches. Cut the senator said, "I'm not comfortable being fiery." Steve Fowler has lived in Lincoln all his life. His parents are David, a UNL music professor, and Dorothy, a teacher in the Lincoln public schools. He has three older brothers. David, who was an original member of the Ehiegrass Crusade, and now is a fiddler in the Clue Eagle String Band, also teaches math at the penitentiary. His brother John is a vocational teacher at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, and his brother Wl is in charge of inventory at a warehouse. . Fowier rirst majored in journalism at UNL and later switched to history. He is still severs! hours short cf graduation. A friend cf Fourier's described him as a . nice guy who lives off csly the $3,C30 he . ' is paM to be a state senator, asd said that . his work for the Legislature leaves him no spare time. .. , ;-r V.lien did Steve Fovbr first becot interested in politics? It seams it wss ths result of a junior hJi class project. TeldtovMtacampamhead quarters. I stayed asd blew up balloons," he recalled. It was durmg the 1954 campaign, arid his class visited the headquarters cf Gair CaHan, a candidate for the US. House cf Representatives. After this ird tI experience in politics Fowler exhibited his interest by working as a volunteer ia campaigns for FhJ Sorensea and the late Sea. Robert F. Kennedy. About the future, Fowhr said he fca't interested ia running for a hihtx pcliiicd oflke. Some day he would lie to held a government administrative posiiisa, to be the head cf some government ancy. But for now he sail: "I just want to serve another four years ia the kglure "