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October 22, 1986
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 86 No. 42
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to repeal LCS62, lobbyists on ,
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Probation muling surprises Osborne
By Bob Asmussen
Night News Editor
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said
Tuesday he was surprised the team
received a one-year, non-sanctioned
probation from the National Collegiate
Athletic Association. The penalty was
announced Monday from the NCAA
offices in Mission, Kan.
"I thought, in my own deliberations I
guess, that it would maybe result in a
private or public reprimand," Osborne
said. "I'm not saying the probation is
unfair, I'm just saying I was surprised
at it."
The NCAA made its ruling based on
three incidents involving the football
program. Osborne said he talked with
Frank Remington, chairman of the
infractions committee, about the pen
alty. Osborne said the football team was
put on probation because the NCAA
wanted "to make sure the university
established some type of internal
checking procedures." Then there
would be "some agency a person could
go to" with questions about leasing or
rule interpretation. "They felt like
maybe the university didn't have any
thing like that in place," Osborne said.
All three examples cited by the
NCAA involved the "extra benefit"
rule. One case involved the leasing of a
1985 Nissan 300ZX by injured Nebraska
running back Doug DuBose.
Osborne said that in August 1985
DuBose saw a car he wanted in a car lot
and asked his parents about acquiring
the car.
Osborne said during two-a-day prac
tices in August 1985, DuBose asked
Nebraska assistant academic counselor
Marsha Shada to check into how he
could lease the car. Shada picked up
lease papers for DuBose, Osborne said.
Osborne said Shada also took pay
ments to the leasing company for
DuBose. He said there was no evidence
that anyone other than DuBose's parents
paid for the leased car.
Osborne said the NCAA also was
concerned about false statements made
to the NCAA by DuBose and Shada
"The seriousness of the matter was
heightened when the assistant aca
demic counselor failed to adequately
inform her superior of these events and
when she and the student athlete
provided false information to the NCAA
during the investigation of the matter,"
Remington told the Associated Press
Monday.
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Berst said Tuesday that the NCAA's
suspicions were heightened by the
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season practice. Berst said Monday's
ruling would have made DuBose in
eligible to play if he were healthy.
"He would not be eligible for regular
season or bowl competition," Berst
said. "There's no necessity to take that
action because the player is injured."
Osborne said the two other incidents
involved players being reimbursed for
plane flights home and a player using a
van and living with his Lincoln parents
for two weeks one summer.
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Members of the Ag Men fraternity begin their 500-mile "Run to the
Rockies" Tuesday after a pep rally near Broyhill Fountain. The relay-run
event is to help raise money for the National Kidney Foundation. The run
is scheduled to end in Boulder, Colo., before Saturday's football game
against the Colorado Buffaloes.
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By Kevin Freadhoff
Staff Reporter
Despite budget cuts that have reduced the
UNL Police Department from 45 full-time com
missioned officers to 27, the department still
functions, UNL Police Chief Gale Gade said.
The department has been operating with
about 30 officers for the last several years.
Some students are unsure of the amount of
authority a UNL police officer can exert, Gade
said.
The university needs to educate incoming
students about the powers of the department, he
said.
Gade said UNL officers have the same author
ity and arrest powers of any other law enforce
ment agency in the state.
The Lincoln Police Department has jurisdic
tion on campus because UNL is located inside
Lincoln city limits. But campus police call in
LPD only when necessary. A homicide case
would be an example, Gade said.
The UNL Police Department is allowed to go
off-campus to investigate a crime which occurred
on campus, he said.
Campus crime is at its highest early in the
school year, Gade said, because new students
have problems adjusting to college and taking
care of themselves.
The most frequently committed crime is theft,
Gade said. Sexual assaults have increased, but
not significantly, he said.
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Crime statistics are increasing on campus,
Gade said, not because of an increase in crime,
but because more people are reporting crimes
than in the past.
Gade said the UNL Police Department is
always trying to improve its services.
"The students here are very important to us,"
Gade said, "and we want to make sure that we
offer the best services possible to the students."
Crime prevention programs are ongoing, Gade
said. A foot-patrol program is now in effect; offic
ers visit residence halls, fraternities and sorori
ties and present programs on crime prevention
and awareness.
The UNL Police Department recently hired
two new officers, Gade said, the first time a new
officer has been hired in three years. A low
officer turnover rate is the strength of the police
force, he said.
"We have a bunch of professional people who
do a heck of a job. They do it well because they
have done it for some time," he said.
Despite a quality staff, the department still
suffers from its small size, Gade said.
"We really don't have enough people in order
to get some things done that we want to get
accomplished," Gade said.
If the department had more officers, it would
expand its foot patrol program and other crime
awareness programs as well, Gade said.
"It's impossible to increase the number of
officers when the entire university is suffering
from budget cuts, he said.
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