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2 Summer Nebraskan May 27, 19K2 Nebraska guardsmen use tuition waiver Results of disaster drill given study by officials Correction Cameron quote word choice in error The School of Journalism wishes to cor rect an error caused by an improper choice of words in a news story published in the April 23 issue of the laboratory newspaper, The Journalist. The story in volved appeared on page two under the heading "Voters to decide gay rights fate." The improper wording was cited by Dr. Paul Cameron, one of the sources for the story which was written by a student re porter. The error occurred in the student's paraphrase of Cameron's remarks. Cameron's direct quote was, "I am not a principal, nor a candidate for a principal ship, but if I were a principal, all other things being equal, I would prefer to hire t eachers who were married and childed." BY MIKEKLUSAW As the cost of college education has risen, some students have joined the Nebraska Army National Guard to use the 75 percent tuition waiver offered by the Guard. Students must attend a state-supported school to receive the tuition waiver. Bid rigging sentences aiding YMCA BY JEAN TIMMERMAN "The $256,000 we are receiving, as a result of Constructors Inc., bid rigging sentence, is going to be of tremendous help," said Rich Wright, executive director of the Lincoln YM CA's Camp Kitaki. Constructors Inc., has been ordered to pay a $300,000 fine, provide $256,000 worth of serv ices and materials to Lincoln YMCA's Camp Kitaki paving project and $116,000 worth of service for road work at Conestoga State Recreation Area. The company must pay $100,000 to Lincoln Foundation to develop an inmate work pro gram at Lincoln's Community Residential Center on Cornhusker Highway. Metro Pavers Inc., Lincoln, has been sen tenced to provide $26,100 in labor and materi als for a parsonage remodeling project at Lin coln's Tabitha Home and pay Tabitha $35,000 for use,at the home's discretion. William A. Anderson Construction Co., Kearney, has been ordered to pay a $25,000 fine and give $50,000 to Campus House Inc. of Kearney Paulsen Building and Supply Co., Cozad, has been ordered to pay a $50,000 fine, and give $100,000 to a non-profit corporation to be formed, establishing a Dawson County youth group home and $100,000 to a foundation to develop Cozad park projects. W.A. Biba Engineering Co., Geneva, was sentenced to pay $100,000 to Independence Center at Lincoln General Hospital, to estab lish a alcohol-drug abuse program in Geneva, plus a $50,000 fine. Dobson Bros. Construction Co., Lincoln, has been ordered to pay $100,000 to the Ne braska Indian Economic Development Proj ect in Lincoln. Just as students consider the tuition waiver beneficial to them, the Nebraska Army National Guard considers the students beneficial to the Guard, according to Chief Warrant Officer Gerald K. Gerner, Nebraska Military Department controller. An estimated 3,000 guardsmen take advan tage of the tuition waiver program, Gerner said. The Nebraska has about 5,000 guardmen, so a high percentage of guardsemn use tuition waivers, he said. As a result of this tuition benefit, we are getting a higher calibre of guardsman, Gerner said. It is a definite assest to the Guard to have a better-educated person, he said. Better educated soldiers When you have a guardman who has taken it upon themself to further his education, you definately have a better-trained soldier, Gerner said. A better-educated guardsman can know more about a particular field that is compat ible to a military job, Gerner said. When a person, for example, studies busi ness administration, this person may achieve more confidence addressing and directing groups of other people, Gerner said. The military professional is just like a ci vilian professional, such as an engineer, a lawyer or a doctor, and you need that sort of person who can take charge and cause people to get the work done, Gerner said. Gerner estimates that nine male guards men to every one female guardsman use the tuition waiver. This is rather misleading, because there are more men than women in the Guard, Gerner said. The women who are in the Guard and at tend school are taking as much advantage of the tuition waiver as the males, Gerner said. About 934 guardmembers attend the Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, Gerner said. BY PAT MASTERS Feeling they can win it all, the University of Nebraska Lincoln women':, softball team will play Creighton at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the first round of the Softball College World Series. "If we play as well as we can then we have a good chance of winning," said sophomore pitcher Sandy Wolterman. The 32-12 lady huskers have beaten the bluejays twice and lost once, 1-0, in eight in nings. Head coach Nancy Plantz said her girls can expect "off speed junk pitches," slow -moving pitches, thrown from Creighton. They will have to adjust to the faster throwers of California State Fullerton and UCLA, the first and second seeded teams, she said. The NCAA tournament committee seeded Nebraska seventh among the eight teams in the tournament. The players are all healthy and everyone should be ready to play, Plantz said. "Also, we have been getting progressively better. We haven't peaked yet and I think we will play better in the world series," she said. The only returning starters are first base man Rhonda Revelle and right fielder Nancy Wicks. "We have seven new starters," Plantz said. "It takes time for them to get used to playing big time ball." The performances of two freshmen, De nise Day and Ann Schroeder are big reasons the ball taem is doing so well, Plantz said. Both are all america caliber, Plantz said. Day has hit safely in 11 of the last 12 games and led the team in batting with a .302 average. Her 42 hits and 16 rbi's also led the team. Schroeder was hitting only .200 before the Big Eight championships, but has since raised her average to .284. She has hit safely in 11 of the last 13 games and batted .375 against Creighton. Plantz said another reason Nebraska has been winning is because the pitchers have been throwing better. I'Ucher Jeanne Wagner, 15-5. will probably tai1 against Creighton, Plantz -;a..J. but Wr!l erman may relieve her BY MARK KRI EG Kit A community disaster exercise held on Wednesday, May 19, at the Brunswick Corpo ration plant at 4300 Industrial Ave.,"went well," according to authorities in charge. The city-county drill " was to help us learn and get prepared for something that might happen," said Norman Francis, coordinator of Lincoln and Lancaster County Emergency Services. "We learned things we have to do, Francis said. "Agencies involved learned that they must coordinate their on-site command sys tem and communications, he said. The drill included a mock explosion and fire at the Brunswick plant that resulted in toxic fumes being emitted from the plant. The explosion and toxic fumes resulted in the sim ulated injuries of plant employees and pas sengers in two passing cars. The effort involved over a 1,000 people, in cluding hospital staff. Twenty-one separate government and private organizations were called on in the emergency. In the final game against Missouri in the Mideast Regional championship, Wolterman relieved Wagner with one out in the top of the third inning. Wolterman, 12-4, never allowed a run as Nebraska won 4-1. Nebraska won the Big Eight tournament, earning a right into that regional. Plantz said she thought the girls had ac complished a lot during her second year coaching at Nebraska. "The turning point came at the Missouri tournament April 16-17, when we beat Creigh ton and Missouri there," Plantz said. "Then the players realized they could beat anybody. Before that they didn't know they could." The team has since stayed in a positive mood, despite the lack of practice time out- "We had table top planning of toxic ma terial exercises but we had never tested them in the field," Francis said. "The only way to find out if the planning works is to test it." The plant was offered by Brunswick offi cials as a site for the test. "For the first time a major private indus try volunteered their plant and some of their people," Francis said. The planning was done by the Disaster Preparedness Planning Committee. The com mittee is comprised of representatives from agencies involved in emergencies. The success of the exercise has not been determined. The testimony of the exercise ob servers, or judges, will be studied, according to Francis. The judges were members of the committee that did not take part in the re sponse but instead critiqued their agencies' performance. "Any exercise is a learning experience. You never do everything perfect, but in a real disaster they don't do everything perfect ei t her," said Francis. doors, Plantz said. "We have had to practice in the field house on astroturf while other schools have been able to practice outside on grass. It just isn't the same," Plantz said. Plantz said she is anxious for the team to play in front of home state fans. "I think the people in Nebraska are proud to have a team represent them in the College World Series," Plantz said. If Nebraska beats Creighton then they will play Friday at 6:30 p.m. against the winner of the Arizona State CSF. If Nebraska loses to Creighton, they will play at 1 p.m. Friday against the loser of the Arizona St. game. All games will be played at the Seymour Smith Softball Complex at 68th and Harrison SUMMER NEBRASKAN The Summer Nebraskan is a student newspaper published each Thursday as a laboratory project by School of Journalism classes in Advertising, Editing, Photogra phy and Reporting. REPORTERS Jim Anderson Mark Krieger Marlene Burbach Dianne Lutzi Jenni Burrows Pat Masters Mike Klusaw Jean Timmerman PHOTOGRAPHERS Mike Boettcher Beth Lawton Bruce Boyle Kris Mullen Jeff Browne Kevin O'Hanlon Connie Gonyea Peggy Polacek Jeff Goodwin Tim Schaffert Kathy Graff Tom Shelton Julie Hagemeier Larry Sparks Terry Hyland Ann Stedman Kris Knudsen COPY EDITORS Linnea Fredrickson Bill Hayes Theresa Goodall Pat Kovanda ACCOUNT REPS Gary Coleman Jeanie Lingenfelter Instructors are Jack Botts, Julie Dean. Ron Gibson and Don Glover. School of Journalism Dean is R Neale Topple v. - iif , v u Photo by Beth Lawton Cindy Aerni, a member of the UN-L women's softball team, feeds balls into the automatic pitcher during a practice in Schulte Fieldhouse Tuesday. The team 'eft Lincoln Wednesday for the world series in Omaha this weekend UN-L women to play Creighton
