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Vol. 83 No. 38
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Approximately 60 to 75 percent of the cases
brought before the Lincoln Municipal Court ere
alcohol related.
Approximately 25 percent of the offenders re
the college campus.
Harig serves 03 a municipal court psychologist,
performing psychological assessments and short
term analyses for offenders referred to him by
municipal Judaea or probation officers.
ine most typical alcohol ollense for a UNL stu-
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commended for psychoanalytic treatment are UNL dent is driving while intoxicated, Harig said. Other
students.
The majority of these students were arrested on
alcohol-related charges. ' .
Psychology extern Dick Harig, a UNL graduate
student in clinical psychology, said his statistics
illustrate the problems of students and alcohol on
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ofTenses include disturbing the peace and non-
assault , sexual cLcnses such a3 mooning, he said.
Harig said the reason that many students get
arrested for DWT b that younger people have not
had the time to learn how to handle liquor.
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Lincoln Council of Alcoholism and Drugs agreed
that people in the 19- to 20-year-old age group are
arrested for DWI more frequently than those in any
other group. She said that according to statistics,
about 45 percent of those arrested for DWI in Lin
coln are in the younger group.
Most of the young people are arrested when driv
ing between bars or going home from bars between
midnight and 2 am., she said.
Dr. P. Clayton Rivers, associate professor and
director of the alcohol training program at UNL,
said that because of "a tendency to be introduced to
driving and alcohol at relatively the same time" col
lege students get arrested for DWI more frequently
than other groups.
"They dont have good judgment in either one " he
said. Rivers said that young people tend to depend
on their reflexes while driving instead of judgment.
This type of driving is risky after the driving has been
drinking, he said, for two reasons: The driver has
lost perceptual ability and he tends to take more
risks because of reduced fear.
"If you get arrested, you're probably lucky," he
said, adding that for many drinkers, being arrested
is a way for them to get help with a potential alcohol
problem.'
In a class survey, Harig said, 90 percent of the
students in a psychology course he taught last
spring said they drank alcoholic beverages. He said
that compares to the 65 percent rate of the general
population.
College students have a higher drinking rate for a
variety of reasons that are hard to separate, he said.
One reason is the way alcohol is portrayed in adver-
tbir TzotfCJ Jt ion and l&erature, ; , . , ;
:. -. i':hs hzro canal;r; j put dor.n a tz .v shots and It
doesn't even aLcct him," he said, adding that this
portrays alcohol is a "good drug to take."
The increased stress of university life also leads
the student to alcohol, he said. New living condi
tions, new friends and possible isolation contribute
to student drinking. Peer and academic pressures
are also contributors, Harig said.
There are so many reasons that it's hard to single
out just one," he said.
Harig said if a person is arrested for DWI or
another alcohol-related offense, the judge usually
orders psychological testing and sometimes coun- -seling
for the .offender. '
- Tiz itztVLS of a sex discrimination complaint
ast UIJL Police Chief Gail Gade seemed to be
. A stcry in tlie Lincoln Star lost week reported that
UNL eIda!3 had received the matter.
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The matter h isndrr review," Ycst said. "To my
knowkd:, no oL'ici';..! action has been taken."
: Martin Eradiey !!ar.n, U!L's afHrmative action
and equal opportunity clUcer, sent a letter to Mas
sengale recommending that Gads be suspended for
five days because cf sex discrimination against two
female, parking, c&cers, Barbara Houlihan' and
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He eico recommended that UNL Police Lieuten
ant Jchn Dur!. ;:", rn and Fclicr's Immediate
superior be suspended with pry fsr three dsys. .
f loulihah and Fcilcr rejecirei ccanselir.g for tard
iness bat male clisrrs-v.'ho also have been tardy
have net had to go throu.h counseling, . ; -
Houlihan aho was placed cn probation for 30
days far bci two minutes late for work. ':::. ..
Houlihan said zl.2:z frustrated by the inaction
cf UNL oCcioLs l: ttz case. : ".
"I was the one who was wronged and I feel I have a
' ri,:;ht to knor," she eoii. "I don't D:e the way theyVs
swept it under the rug. - " ;' i '
. ilunn, vhcn contacted fcy;tl;2 Da.i!y Nebras'sn
tlonday cfternccn, would net ccrasnt on the case.
- To net goir.3 to discuss ths ca2 irlth ths prccj"
' - Houlihan said Ilunn would net Csauss the case :
., .. .The Hist tizie I tcllred to hfon he tc!d me that he .
could net tell rr.e sp:c:ZsaI!y wh:.t the rcaults are,
and that no cue at UITL would prci:"l;y tell rae,"
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n.-.-r.ee, Jcl:n V7.'Gs:l;l, also 70u!i net cemmsnt .
Ai faras vre're concerned, it's a rsttlcd i:;u?" he
in wntir. Lae ear, J tr.2 u currently wntla.i a letter
teacher wanted ruling
A $1,000 damage suit filed by a UNL student
against a UNL chemistry professor was dismissed in
municipal court Friday at the request of the stu
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Leon Sanders, 45, of Lincoln, asked that the court
dismiss his complaint against Professor Victor Day.
Sanders, a student in Day's beginning chemistry
class this fall, had said in his complaint that the
defendant had conducted himself in a manner det
rimental to the plaintU." a;.
Sanders said after the hearing that even though
he had received A's cn the first two exams, he wa3
dropping Day's class. He said that he had been
advised by a lawyer not to discuss why he had
dropped the suit
Dry's class wa3 the ony class Sanders was enrolled
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Sanders, who filed the complaint Sept-19 in the
Municipal :aal! Claims Court, had said earlier that
he Sled the suit because cf what he perceived o
disargar.isatian in Dry's class and because the elaas
.failed to meet his r.escl3 o a student .. -
The cose was moved to tluricipal Civil Court cn
Oct 3 cn a request CIsd by Day. ; - ;
' ' Day said Ilsaday that he was disapeir.tad' tliat
no judgment was ns-j in the case. lie said It wr.3
easily dre it before a judgment u rendsred in ccurt" .
who wanted to harass a prcfossar ceu'.i Ce a suit,
; ask to havj the cose drcpsd and "iva'ii away." '
' . "If t!;l3 land cf thing tcek the whcls university
f-rtcm weal J tea rasas," Bsy e:i..a ' - - - .
. Dsy stated the case hsj causrd hin iaearnv:?.
isr.ee ar.i tllsru: tel Lis s:ahsdul2 fsr tl 2 1; :t thrcs
wceiss. lie ssil that he has no r!arj ti t:':3
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