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Nebraska guard Brian Banks fires a jump shot over Kansas guard Clint Johnson
in the first half of last night's game in the Nebraska Sports Complex. The
Huskers beat the Jayhawks 62-58. See page 14.
Recent rape-murders
prompt legislative bills
By Tarn Lee
Hie rape-murders of two Lexington,
Neb. women in the past year are the stimu
lus behind three bills heard by the
Nebraska Legislature's Judiciary
Committee Wednesday.
The bills, introduced by Gothenburg
Sen. Herb Duis, would require convicted
sexual offenders to undergo a hearing to
determine whether they are sexual socio
paths, set the penalty for first-degree
sexual assault (penetration) at a minimum
of 25 years with no parole, and would
require any person accused of sexual
assault to post 100 percent of the bond set
by a judge. Persons accused of sexual
assault now must post only 10 percent of
the bond.
Two Lexington-area women, including
the sister-in-law of murder victim Ruth
Eby , testified in favor pf the bills.
Ellen Eby of Overton, said the laws are
needed to prevent crime and to protect
society. "We have to think of society's
rights. Where were the rights of Ruth Eby
when that happened?"
The man accused of the killings was out
on bail for another sexual offense at the
time of the crimes.
Lincoln Sen. Jo Ann Maxey read a
letter from a Lincoln woman whose son
was sexually assaulted last summer. The
woman, who asked not to be identified,
was in favor of the bills because the assault
occurred when the man accused of the
crime was out on bond following the
sexual assault of a six-year-old girl in the
same neighborhood.
Gina Washburn, coordinator of the Lin
coln Rape Crisis Center, said the center was
in favor of the sexual sociopath hearing,
but thought the 25-year minimum penalty
was too stringent. The strict penalty would
increase plea-barganing and judges and
juries would U reluctant to convict
persons accused of the crime, she said.
Washburn said requiring 100 percent
bond from those accused of sexual assault
was discriminatory against poor people,
and would lead to judges ordering low
bail so the full amount could be posted.
Michael Gooch, a Lincoln attorney,
said men who are ruled as "treatable"
sexual sociopaths are committed to the
Lincoln Regional Center and those who are
ruled "unbeatable" are sent to the Nebraska-
Penal Complex. Gooch represents
three penitentiary inmates who were
committed as untreatable sexual socio
paths. Continued on page 6
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thursday, january 26, 1978 vol.101 no. 64 lincoln, nebraska
Baris center aidsihoffiesick; moneyless U.S. traveler
By Amy Lenzen
PARIS Michelle wiped a tear away as
she talked about her family.
"I miss them so much now, especially
my little sister. We're really close,
"I came to Paris because I was unhappy
at school. I didn't know what "I wanted
to do with my life. I thought that by com
ing to Europe to study I might get my head
together. I thought that I would be happy.
"And I was at first. Paris is so fascina
ting and lovely. But I still don't know what
I want. And I'm so lonely."
"Won't you please help me?" she beg
ged. Michelle is a regular client at the
Student Advisory Service, a clinic for Ameri
cans living in and near Paris.
Mary Larounis and Irving Levin, master
psychiatric social workers, from the
American Aid Society see some 200 stu
dents every month.
Fortunately, according to Larounis,
most problems brought to them are not as
severe as Michelle's, a student with emo
tional problems intensified by culture
shock.
That afternoon Angela came to the
clinic. She is from San Francisco. After
traveling nearly a month in western and.
southern Europe she had only 40 francs
(about $9) to last two weeks until her
plane would take hex home.
Although she had called her parents,
her mother could not send money until
her next paycheck, a week away. Angela
wanted a loan.
John 'from Portland, will be a student
at the University of Paris as soon as he
earns some money. He needed a job and
wanted to work in a home where he could
get room and board. Did they know of
anyplace?
Continued on page 6
State's economy strong in '78
The economy in Nebraska and the na
tion will be strong in 1978, according to
two UNL economics professors, but their
predictions were clouded by an air of un
certainty. Donald Pursell, director of business re
search at UNL, and Wayne Dobson, Abbot
Professor of Economics at UNL, spoke
. Inside.
Hearing impared: Striking farmers
found Washington not listening
to demands. L. Kent Wolga
mott .pige 4
Eager beavers in Hat City: Jim
Williams jets to Iowa to learn ins
and outs of writing re
sumes .page 12
Is upper level Econ a brain drain?:
UNL professors discuss the rele
vence of upper level economics
courses .page 1 1
Wednesday night at a B-Week program en
titled "The State of the Economy: Nebras
ka and the Nation."
'The Nebraska economy is becoming a
service economy," Pursell said. He said
most of the jobs available to UNL business
graduates in 1978 will be in banking and
retail services.
The other side of this, Pursell said, is the
declining importance of agriculture in Ne
braska's economy.
Farm income generated only six percent
of the total personal income in the state in
1977, Pursell said.
"Grain farmers will be paying 1978 pri
ces on incomes that are at the same level
they were at in 1968," he said. "Farm in
come in 1976-77 was an absolute disaster."
Dobson said the national economy is
strong going into 1978 and cited four
million new jobs generated last year as
proof.
But he warned that the economy may
be too fragile to withstand the national
deficit contained in the Carter admin-.
istraUon's new budget.
"It will be highly inflationary and un
desirable to try to push unemployment to
a level which exceeds the economy's ability
to absorb workers,1 Dobson said.
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This man could be less lonely if he went to the American Aid Society Clinic in
Paris, France.