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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 "
