Number Four
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
June 23,
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omen pilots sponsor
aviation seminar at UNL
By Jeanne Mohatt
Flying has a bad image, and inaccu
rate news reporting is often one of the
reasons, says Evelyn Sedivy, pilot,
teacher and a committee chairperson in
an international women aviators organi
zation. Sedivy, 42, is the international chair
person of the aerospace education com
mittee in Ninety-Nines, Inc., a world
wide, non-profit organization of licensed
women pilots. Ninety-Nines and the Air
craft Owners and Pilots Association
(AOPA) are sponsoring an Aerospace
Education Seminar on the UNL campus.
The seminar began Monday and will end
Friday.
"People in aviation get upset with the
news media Sedivy said. Many report
ers do not have an aviation background,
and when a crash occurs the reporters do
not know what to ask.
"They pick up on the gruesome. It's
spectacular," she said.
Aviation's bad image also comes from
"hangar flying," pilots comparing hair
raising experiences they have had and
trying to top one another's stories, she
said. Non-pilots get a bad impression of
flying when they hear those stories.
Marion Stevens, aerospace education
director for Beech Aircraft Corporation
of Wichita, Kan., agrees that "hangar
flying" has helped create aviation's poor
image.
"We need to start telling the beauty of
flying instead of the horrors," he said.
Educating the public about the
"beauty of flying" is the purpose of
Ninety-Nines and the aerospace educa
tion seminar. The workshop has at
tracted 35 women pilots from America's
four corners (Florida, New York, Califor
nia, and Oregon) and states in-between.
Aimee Dye, an aviation education spe
cialist from the Federal Aviation Admin
istration, said members of Ninety-Nines
can help educate elementary and high
school students about airplanes by giving
presentations in classrooms or conduct
ing tours of local airports.
Dye, w.ho is not a pilot, said, "You
don't have to be actively involved as a
pilot to teach about it (aviation)."
Sedivy, who has been a pilot for about
20 years, said Ninety-Nines was formed
in 1927, and Amelia Earhart served as its
first president. When notices were sent to
all American women pilots that a for-women-only
organization was forming, 99
women responded. Hence, the name
Ninety-Nines.
The organization's purpose, she said,
is to promote aviation through educa
tional, charitable and scientific means.
"We try to share our expertise, our
knowledge of aviation" by speaking to
local Rotary clubs and other civic organi
zations, and to 4-H clubs, Boys and Girls
Scout clubs and schools, she said.
"We want to convey the message that
flying is safe and it is great," she said.
Sedivy said her two main loves are
aviation and education. She taught ele
mentary school in the Lincoln school sys
tem for about 14 years and is now a high
school teacher at Waverly.
"I have always related it (aviation) to
math, science, social studies all sub
jects." She said the Ninety-Nines' aerospace
seminar is "a means of further educating
ourselves by sharing and getting ideas
from each other."
Sedivy also is in charge of a three
week aerospace education workshop for
local teachers. The workshop, which is
conducted through the university, ends
Friday.
The Sorenson lecture Friday by Dr.
Gerald A. Soffen, the life sciences direc
tor for the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, will conclude both
workshops.
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f he UNL School of Music, Nebraska Kepertory Theatre, and UNL Summer
Sessions will present "A Little Night Music" at Kimball Recital Hall Performances
are at 8 p.m. Thursday Saturday July 3 , July 5 and at 3 p.m., June 29 and July 6
Legislative bill bongs
city head shop - owner
By Jeanne Mohatt
Dirt Cheap's head shop is closing be
cause it couldn't win a power struggle
against Nebraska's government; said Dirt
Cheap owner Terry Moore.
"There's this game going on known as
power vs. no power the very weak vs.
the very strong," Moore said Wednesday.
"The game is stacked way too much
against us."
A bill passed by the 1980 Legislature
bans the sale of drug paraphernalia. Dirt
Cheap's head shop sells drug parapherna
lia. The shop is closing, however, not only
because of the bill, but because "negative
publicity is bad for business," Moore
said.
Dirt Cheap has been selling drug para
phernalia and records for 10 years, Moore
said, "supplying a consumer product.
Now it (selling the bongs.etc.) has be
come an emotional and a moral issue, and
that's bad for business."
"We're not about to defend drugs," he
said. "If we stay in the business, we're de
fending drugs."
Moore said he will stay involved in the
suit questioning the constitutionality of
the Legislature's so-called "ban-the-bong"bill.
But even if he wins the suit, "I don't
think I will go back into the head shop
business," he said.
Moore emphasized that only the head
shop, at 227 N. 11 St., is closing, not the
record store next door. The two buildings
will be combined into one record and
book store some time this summer.
"It's an economic move to lower our
overhead,1' he said. "It's a move back to
the way the store was originally. It was
much easier to manage then."
Dirt Cheap will sell the drug para
phernalia it has in stock over the next
two months.
"We (head shops) have driven home
the social acceptance of social drug use.
Marijuana is less harmful than alcohol or
tobacco."
But, he said, the "climate" of the
country has changed, "and when it gets
too much for them (the government),
they clamp down,"
Some people may say Dirt Cheap is
abandoning the battle by closing its head
shop, he said, and "that could be a fair
assessment. But if they were in my situa
tion, and looking from a business point of
view, I think they would come to the
same conclusion."
Financial Aids office
will replace cut grants
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Evelyn Sedivy, committee chairperson in Ninety-Nines, Inc, a world-wide or
ganization of women pilots, stands with Robert Carter, guest lecturer for the
Aerospace Education Seminar. v
Students expecting to receive Basic
Educational Opportunity Grants this fall
"shouldn't worry" about getting all of
their money, even though Congress cut
$140 million in the budget for the grants.
The Scholarships and Financial Aids
office at UNL will replace any and all
money that students should receive, said
Doug Severs, assistant director of
scholarships and financial aids.
Severs said "students shouldn't
worry" about the grant reduction be
cause his office "will replace the funds
with some other money," either univer
sity, state or federal dollars.
Most students apply for more than
BEOGs when they apply for aid, Severs
said. They can apply for National De
fense Student Loans, Supplemental.
Educational Opportunity Grants, work
study, and other financial aids. The
financial aids office will replace the re
duced BEOGs by increasing the amount
students will receive from these other
grants and loans.
Those students who did not apply for
aid other than a BEOG can still apply for
aid for the spring semester, Severs said.
He said he had no way of knowing
how much money UNL students will lose
from the congressional cut in BEOGs, be
cause Congress did not reduce a specific
amount for every college in the country.
The financial aids office will send let
ters to students either shortly before
school starts in August or shortly after,
notifying them of the reductions in their
BEOGs and the increases in other areas.
National Defense Student Loans will
be available for students in the fall be
cause Congress failed to act on a provi
sion that would have abolished them, he
said.
