Tuesday, February 9, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
page 7
Forum looks at bills affecting women
By Mclinda Norris
The status of more than 25 bills pending in the Nebras
ka Legislature was discussed at the 10th annual Women's
Legislative Forum Saturday at the Lincoln YWCA.
Thirteen sponsors, including the UNL Women's Re
source Center and the American Association of University
Women, presented the day-long seminar updating about
80 attendants on bills ranging from revenue to child care.
The most important task in this session's Legislature
for the Nebraska Coalition for Women is establishing a
state Title IX, said Virginia Walsh, lobbyist for the NCW.
The Equal Opportunity in Education Act, sponsored
by Sen. John DeCamp of Ncligh and five other senators,
would replace the national Title IX outlawing sex discrim
ination. The national law, instituted in 1972, is expected
to expire this year.
The Nebraska bill would give women equal educational
opportunities in admissions, programs, activities and stu
dent services.
However, the bill is worded to give women athletes
"comparable opportunity" rather than equal opportuni
ty, Walsh said.
LB628 faced no opposition in committee, Walsh said,
and was advanced Wednesday to the second round of
floor debate over the objections of six senators.
Sen. Howard Peterson of Grand Island opposed the
Alcohol policy r...
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Larry Williams, residence director at Cather Hall, also
said he wonders about the assumption that a minor's
room is his permanent residence.
Williams said most students vote by absentee ballots,
indicating that their residence hall rooms are not con
sidered their permanent residence.
Williams also said he doubted the new policy would de
crease vandalism. He said he has talked to residence hall
directors from campuses that allow alcohol and their
vandalism and disturbance rates have not declined.
Williams said the policy is not likely to be supported
by university or state officials.
"I don't think the state legislature is anxious to lower
the drinking age or to make drinking legal on state pro
perty," he said.
Carol Lohmeier, an SA in Sandoz Hall, said allowing
alcohol in the halls would be a mistake.
"I think the halls would smell like a brewery," she
said. "There's enough alcohol in the halls as it is."
Lohmeier said SAs can recognize and counsel alcohol
abusers under the current policy.
"SAs, if they're keen enough, should be able to tell if
a person is a problem drinker or if he has been drinking
on the sly," she said.
Lohmeier said the main goal of SAs and the residence
director in Sandoz is not to scold or punish students
for drinking, but to help them determine why they have
an alcohol problem.
"I have faith in the present system," she said.
But the SA for Cather Halls's fourth floor, Don Miller,
disagreed. He said the current policy is constantly violated
and hard to enforce.
"We keep playing these cat and mouse games," he said.
"It's ridiculous."
Although he favors a change in the alcohol policy,
Miller said he sees some problems in the proposed policy.
"I don't see how it can get around the problem of
letting minors drink," he said. "And I don't know if it
would cut alcohol abuse or vandalism. I personally don't
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bill, claiming women's athletics caused his sister's sterility
and a daughter-in-law to have four miscarriages, Walsh
said.
Dental hygienists and dental assistants also have the
support of the coalition as bills pertaining to their profes
sion face the Public Health and Welfare Committee Feb.
23.
LB920, introduced by Sen. Shirley Marsh of Lincoln,
would increase the duties of a dental hygienist by expand
ing the term "supervision" to mean authorization and not
just physical presence.
The bill would also enable hygienists to provide oral
health education and fluoride applications, and perform
charting and screening for oral diseases.
Jacque Rhodes, president of the Nebraska Dental Hy
gienist Association, said the redefining of "supervision"
will enable hygienists to work in areas such as nursing
homes, hospitals and physically-handicapped or mentally
handicapped care centers besides the dentist office, public
institutions or schools.
Hygienists will not be able to give local anesthetic
under the act, Rhodes said, but the act provides for the
Board of Dental Examiners to delegate the responsibility.
LB853 provides for the registration of dental assistants
and the appointment of a dental assistant to the Board of
Dental Examiners.
think so."
Bruce Glover, residence director in Schramm Hall,
said he likes the proposed policy better than the "strictly
punitive" policy UNL now has.
"We need a more education-oriented policy," he said.
Glover said he used to work at Penn State, where stu
dents of legal age were allowed to drink in their rooms.
The system there worked smoothly, he said, largely be
cause the policy emphasized alcohol education.
Students become responsible drinkers when they are
educated about alcohol, Glover said.
Karen Madeja, Sandoz Hall's residence director, agreed,
saying that "even people who don't drink need to be edu
cated about alcohol issues."
Madeja agreed that UNL's current policy is negative.
"It forces students to be covert and sneak around, and
I hate that," she said. "It also tells students 'You can't
be responsible and drink,' and I disagree."
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