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November 12, 1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 87 No. 56
Eric Gregory/Daily Nebraskan
Movin’ on up
John Rudder of Builders Inc. construction climbs the
scaffolding on the west side of the indoor practice field
Wednesday afternoon. Workers are finishing a brick
veneer near the top of the building. Workers will begin
painting the lines and numbers on the field in the next
couple of days.
Stopping after-bar war
Restaurants take guard against drunk patrons
By Beth Thew
Staff Reporter
When Lincoln bars close at 1 a.m.
and the “munchics” take over, many
bar patrons—including University of
Nebraska-Lincoln students— head to
late-night or all-night restaurants to
satisfy their cravings.
Restaurants have several ways of
handling 'he after-bar rush.
“We get our employees psycho
logically ready for it,” said L.ance
Covault, manager of Amigo’s at 14th
and Q streets.
Employees remove display plants,
napkin holders and plastic table num
bers because they often get stolen. The
plastic numbers are replaced with
numbered styrofoam cups, he said.
Also, plastic silverware and paper
cups are substituted for metal silver
ware and plastic cups to cut down on
theft, he said.
Roberta Morgan, manager at
Denny’s Restaurant, Ninth and R
streets, said the bar rush brings prob
lems with “petty things” such as
people replacing the creamer with salt
or sugar and throwing things on the
floors and tables.
Drunk customers are usually ob
noxious, Morgan said. If a patron is
too obnoxious, Denny ’s policy is to
call for police assistance, she said.
“Sometimes if they’re too drunk,
we try to give them coffee, then call
them a cab anti send them home,”
Morgan said.
Kari Johnson, night manager at
Village Inn, 2949 N. 27th St., said the
restaurant has no problems with van
dalism or thel'L
‘ We more have a problem with
people that are too drunk passing out
in their seat or with fights,” Johnson
said.
’We understand that
a good share of the
customers will be
pretty rude.’
- Covault
Village Inn employeesask custom
ers to leave if there is a problem with
their behavior or they arc too drunk,
Johnson said. If the customers refuse
to leave, employees call for police
assistance, she said.
‘‘Once two guys came in that had
thrown coffee on the manager the
night before,” Johnson said. ‘‘When
they wouldn’t leave, we had tocall the
police and they had to physically drag
them out.”
Village Inn employees arc trained
to handle drunk customers, Johnson
said.
Covault said Amigo’s employees
“take it in stride” and try to deal with
disturbances in a low-key manner.
“We understand that a good share
of the customers will be pretty rude,”
Covault said.
Amigo’s employees ask customers
to hold down the noise level and not be
obnoxious, Covault said. If a problem
arises, Amigo’s has a police officer on
hand Friday and Saturday nights, he
said.
Johnson and Morgan both agree
that drunk customers do not tip as
often. The after-bar rush is when cus
tomers most often “stiff’ the wait
resses, Johnson said.
“If a customer is really drunk,
though, sometimes they leave a lot (of
tip money),” Johnson said.
Lt. Jerry Smith of the Lincoln Po
lice Department said most arrests for
driving while intoxicated (DWI) are
made between midnight and 2 a.m.
“We see more DWIs during that
time, but not a significant increase in
vandalism,” Smith said.
Vandalism is not usually caught at
the time it occurs, Smith said. Many
acts of vandalism are not reported
until morning, so there is no particular
time of night when there is more
vandalism, he said.
State ranks 48th on stress scale
followed by Iowa, South Dakota
By Linda Holmes
Staff Reporter
Nebraskans have just as much
stress as New Yorkers or Californians,
contrary to a survey by New Hamp
shire researchers, said Dr. Paulo Bahr,
medical director of the Community
Mental Health Center of Lancaster
County.
The study was conducted by two
professors andastudentat the Univer
sity of New Hampshire's College of
Anthropology and Sociology.
The survey listed Nevada as the
state with the most stress.
Bahr, who lived in New York for
two years, said stress is homogenous
everywhere in the country.
In fact, problems like traffic jams
help people relieve stress because
they can work their problems out
before they get home, Bahr said.
Arnold Lansky, professor of soci
ology at the University of New Hamp
shire, said slates were reviewed in 15
categories. Some of the categories
were business failures, unemploy
mcnt, divorces and bankruptcies.
Nebraska was listed as the 48th
most stressed state, followed only by
Iowa and South Dakota. Nebraska
landed in midlist for business failures,
43rd for high-school drop-outs, 39th
for abortions, 38th for divorces and
48th for unemployment.
Stales with higher stress levels had
more suicides, fatal accidents, smok
ing, lung cancer and alcohol-related
diseases, Lansky said. He said the
researchers were able to predict that a
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Financial aid execs question default solution
By Randy Lyons
Staff Reporter
U.S. Education Secretary William
Bennett’s proposal to crack down cm colleges
and universities that have more than a 20
percent Guaranteed Student Loan default rate
has disturbed financial aid administrators.
J. Phillip Shreves, director of financial aid
at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, said
he believed targeting universities as the prob
lem is not the solution.
“The policy raises questions in my mind
about Bennett’s overall understanding of the
GSL program and how little control we have,”
Shreves said.
When students apply for a GSL, the finan
cial aid office only certifies that the informa
tion on the forms is correct, Shreves said. If
the universities arc going to x' held respon
sible for the default situation, they need some
additional control like helping collect de
i faulted loans, he said.
"We have no legal right or ability to ap
prove or disapprove the GSLs,’ he said.
The default rate for the 1,389 UNO stu
denis who look out GSLs in 1985 was 23.39 i
percent.
Although the default rate is still above the
allowable rate set by Bennett, Shrevcs said,
UNO serves a greater population of students I
who have lower socioeconomic status. This
creates a greater risk of a higher default rate,
he said.
UNO’s default rate is higher because of
these conditions, but is proud of the role it
plays in providing an education for lower
socioeconomic students, Shrevcs said.
Federal statistics for 1985 also were re
leased for other area colleges:
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln, 2,165
students w ith a 9 percent default rate; Univer
sity of Nebraska Medical Center, 151 students
with a 1.98 default rate; Kearney State Col
lege, 792 students with a 11.74 default rate;
Peru State College, 110 students w uh a 25.45
default rate; Wayne State College, 321 stu
dents w uli a 10.28 delault rale; Chadron Stale
College, 151 students with a 9.27 default rate;
Southeast Community College, 14 students
with a 50.0 default rate; and Metro Commu
nity College, 38.3 students with a 51.4 default
ate.
Douglas Severs, assistant director of the
JNL Office of Scholarships and Financial
\id, said one of the problems leading up to the
ligh default rate is the government’s reduc
lion of available grant funds over the past
years.
“Il’s a twist of fate,” Severs said, “and it’s
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1985 GSL Default Rates
23.39% 25.45%
Brian Barber/Daily Nebraskan