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January 14, 1986
By Eric Gregory
Staff Reporter
An order by Gov. Bob Kerrey's office
has raised questions about the author
ity of UNL's campus police.
The order, which took effect Jan. 1,
says the authority of the campus police
is to "enforce the laws of the state on
the campus of UNL." It says nothing
about their authority off campus.
Campus Police Chief Gail Gade said
Wednesday that no official boundaries
have been set by the order, but it seems
to limit his officers' authority to prop
erty owned by the university.
Gade said that he didn't think the
way the order is worded left any room
for interpretation.
"As far as I'm concerned, this re
striction would really hamper us in giv
ing the campus community approp-
Freshman honors
program started
By Eric Paulak
Staff Reporter
UNL officials, concerned with the
intellectual needs of some students,
have started an honors program for
incoming freshmen.
The program will start this fall with
about 100 freshmen. The students will
be chosen by the honors program com
mittee. Loretta Johnson, chairwoman of the
committee said that over 500 invita
tions to enroll in the program were sent
out, but all high school seniors can
apply.
The title for the first seminar is
"Perceptions of the Natural World,"
and the master lecturer for it will be
biology professor John Janovy.
Janovy will give a one-hour seminar
once a week. But the students, who will
be divided into six groups, will meet
twice more each week.
In each of the smaller one-hour lec
ture classes, professors from other
Administration studied
By Jonathan Taylor
Senior Reporter
A $75,000 study aimed at streamlin
ing the NU administration is underway,
NU President Ronald Roskens said
Monday.
Following the NU Board of Regent's
approval of the project in November,
the accounting firm of Peat, Marwick,
Mitchell and Co. were hired to help the
university study all levels of the admin
stration, Roskens said.
The accounting firm is just the
initial stages of the 60- to 90-day study,
said Alan Seagren, vice president of
administration.
The firm will examine and review
the structure and organization of the
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riate protection," Gade said.
"The initial legisla
tive intent was that
these powers be
limited."
- Tagg
Gade said his officers no longer
would be able to enforce traffic laws on
the streets surrounding campus or deal
with off-campus fraternities and sorori
ties. departments will stress their field of
specialty.
Janovy, one of the founders of the
course, said that having taught 20,000
freshmen in 20 years he thought fresh
mens' views were too restrictive. He
hopes to change that with the seminar,
he said.
However, Janovy said, it may not be
fair to offer the course to only 100
freshmen.
"The question of fairness should be
decided before the course is made,"
Janovy said.
Students enrolled in the honors pro
gram will be required to take three to
six hours of honor courses both in and
out of their major, Johnson said. They
also will be required to write a senior
thesis.
Students will then take another
seminar in their sophomore or junior
year.
A 300-level seminar is planned, but
right now the honors program commit
tee has not decided what it will be or
who will teach it.
adminstration and make recommenda
tions "that will enhance its functions
and perhaps at the same time, reduce
cost," Rosken? said.
The firm wl I study public relations,
human resources, the physical plant,
purchasing, insurance and risk man
agement and printing and duplicating,
he said.
Roskens said he would not predict
what kind of changes could take place
as a result of the study, but hoped it
would "develop a more defined and
streamlined operation." He also said he
hoped unnecessary duplication in the
university system could be reduced.
The Regents will discuss spending
the $75,000 in interest-generated in
come for the project at their meeting
Saturday.
Tim
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
IN
In the past, campus police had no
set limitations on their jurisdiction.
Instead, they used their judgment,
Gade said.
Gade said that as things now stand,
if an officer sees a traffic violation on
an off-campus street, the officer will be
powerless.
Don Nelson, chief of staff in the gov
ernor's office, said the intent of the
order is "to dispel the notion that any
higher education law enforcement
officer is given state-wide jurisdiction."
Nelson said the order was not in
tended to limit campus police to prop
erty owned by UNL For example, he
said, off-campus fraternities and soror
ities are two areas where campus
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Pick-up saves time, money
By James M. Lillis
Staff Reporter
Students are encouraged to pick
up their grade reports to help the
University save mailing costs, said
Alice Torwirt, administrator of the
Technical Records office.
Grade reports will be distributed
in the Union today and at window 1,
Administration 208 from Jan. 15 to
17.
Students who haven't picked up
their grades by then will have their
reports mailed to their permanent
home addresses.
"About 5,000 grade reports have
been distributed already," Torwirt
said. "Student lines have been short
but steady so far."
Torwirt said UNL stopped mail
ing grade reports in 1983. This
allowed students to get their grades
sooner.
"By the time we had the grades
mailed to the students' homes, they
were already coming back to school,
and so they had to wait until their
grades were mailed back to Lin
coln," Torwirt said.
"Grade report pick-up was not
only convenient," Torwirt said, "but
it also saved the university almost
$4,000 in its first year."
Students will need to present one
form of identification a drivers
license, student identification card,
or library card in order to pick up
their grade reports.
Students who have someone else
pick up their grades for them must
send a written note of approval with
their name and Social Security num
ber. The person who picks up the
report also must present identifica
tion. Students who have questions
about their grade reports should go
to window 3, Administration 209.
Mark DavitDaily Nebraskan
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report. Grades will be distributed in the south end of the Nebraska Union lobby today and at
window 1, Administration 203, Jan. 15 to 17.
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police certainly should have authority.
Bob Tagg, superintendent of the
Nebraska State Patrol, said Friday that
"university related" would be a good
way to describe the area of authority for
campus police.
He said that while campus police
should have authority over off-campus
fraternities and sororities, they should
no longer be able to issue traffic cit
ations off campus.
Campus police actually are commis
sioned as state deputy sheriffs, Tagg
said. "The initial legislative intent was
that these powers be limited."
Tagg said there was no specific inci
dent that triggered the governor's
order. The question of the limit of cam
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pus police's authority has come up
from time to time and has never been
defined, he said.
Tagg said the commission the
document that gives the police force
its authority is in the process of
being rewritten to define more clearly
the authority of the campus police.
He said the new commission should
be finished sooa
Dean Leitner, chief of the Lincoln
Police Department, declined to com
ment on the order Monday afternoon
because he was going to a meeting to
clarify the wording of the governor's
order.
Leitner said a clarification of the
order should be available Wednesday.
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