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j April 19, 1989 _University of Nebraska-Lincoln ~ Vol. 88 No. 141
I Condom machines to make debut at Health Center
I By Lee Rood
Senior Hditor
'W' n response to the AIDS epidemic and
I students’ requests, the University
Health Center will be installing con
dom machines in its first floor bathrooms and
back entrance, university officials announced
Tuesday.
Dr. Gerald Fleischli, the health center’s
medical director, said the machines, which
should be installed within the next two weeks,
come in response to “the most severe STD
(sexually transmitted disease) - AIDS” and
recent student surveys.
One of those surveys, taken during the
Association of Students of the University of
Nebraska election last month, reported that 69
percent of students who voted support the in
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stallation of the machines in university build
ings.
Kunlc Ojikutu, health center administrator,
said the machines, which will sell spermicide
coated condoms at 50 cents a piece, will in
crease condom availability with anonymity.
Current health center methods of providing
condoms are intimidating for some students,
Ojikutu said.
Students who want to purchase condoms at
night from the health center have to ring a bell
at the center’s entrance and ask an on-duty
nurse for condoms, he said.
During the day, students have to go to the
center’s pharmacy and face onlookers in line as
they purchase condoms from a fishbowl for 10
cents a piece, he said.
“That can be embarrassing for shy stu
dents,’’ he said.
The fishbowl will still be available, but now
students will be able to buy condoms in the
privacy of the health center’s bathrooms and
back entry way on Vine Street -- which is
unlocked at night, the officials said.
The back entrance is well lit and provides
available parking space, he said.
Materials about acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome, condom use, safe sex and
abstinence also will be placed next to the new
machines, in exam rooms with condom packets
and next to the pharmacy’s fishbowl.
The education provided with the condoms
could be very important, Ojikutu said, and it
also will tell students to “think ahead.’’
Keeping the machines at the health center
also will allow health center officials to protect
the machines, keep them full and make sure the
condoms are fresh, Ojikutu and Flcischli said.
James Griesen, vice chancellor for student
affairs, said that he likes offering condoms “in
a health context” rather than at other areas on
campus.
Providing condom machines in the resi
dence halls would create problems, Griesen
said.
“We have to recognize that our residence
halls arc used by younger kids” in the summer,
Griesen said.
”... And I don’t want parents to see condom
machines in the residence halls and have them
think that this is a part of college life,’ ’ he said.
Some parents would not approve of the “ap
pearance” of the machines, he said.
Ojikutu said the new machine in the center’s •'
rear entry would be covered with a “shade”
during the day for appearance purposes, but
that condoms will still be available in the
bathrooms.
Dill provides protection
LB761 gets first-round approval
By Lisa Twiestmeyer and
Jana Pedersen
Staff Reporters
After almost two days of heated debate on
the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
Act, LB761, the Nebraska Legislature gave the
bill first-round approval Tuesday by a vote of
40-2.
Several senators wanted to amend the bill
but eventually agreed to delay action until
LB761 comes up for second-round approval.
Sen. Loran Schmit of Bcllwood, co-sponsor
of the bill, said LB761 is designed to provide
some forms of protection for citizens living in
the county where a low-level nuclear waste site
could be located.
The bill makes provisions for a nine-mem
ber committee in the county to monitor activity
at the site. Until the final site is chosen, each of
the three finalists would have a committee of
up to nine members. The monitoring commit
tees would provide input regarding local needs
and resources concerning the site.
But Sen. Dave Landis of Lincoln said he
thought the Legislature was taking a “pater
nalistic point of view” with the bill.
In referring to an amendment that would
have allowed citizens in the county selected for
the site to vote on whether to accept it, Landis
said the Legislature needs to listen to the
wishes of the people in the three counties
where a site is being considered.
“We should not impose on them our per
ceptions,” he said.
Although allowing citizens the opportunity
to prohibit a site in their county isn’t fair, he
said, other wishes should be taken into consid
eration.
Sen. Merton Dierks of Ewing, the sponsor of
the amendment, re-introduced the amendment
after it had been ruled not germane on Monday.
The Legislature rejected it 24-22.
Dierks distributed a handout to senators
listing quotes from Gov. Kay Orr, U.S. Ecol
ogy spokesman Jim Neal and a Department of
Environmental Control official saying the fa
cility would not be built in a community that
doesn’t want the site.
Dierks said the state had made a pledge to its
citizens that local approval would be required
before the site is built.
“This is just part of our democratic proc
ess,” Dierks said.
The Legislature should not deny citizens the -
right to vote on the issue just because it is afraid
of the outcome of the vote, he said.
Sen. Jim McFarland of Lincoln said the
people of Nebraska and senators have been
“deceived and misled” on the nuclear waste
issue. When the original bill was introduced in
1983 on whether or not to join the nuclear
waste compact, he said, the Legislature was
assured that Nebraska probably wouldn’t be
chosen as the site.
McFarland said Nebraskans had been as
sured the facility would not be located in a
community without the community’s consent.
The vote on Initiative 402 in November should
not be confused with a community’s right to
vote on accepting a site, he said.
Passage of Initiative 402 would have with
drawn Nebraska from the low-level nuclear
waste compact.
There has been a “campaign of deceit,
misrepresentation and subterfuge to not let the
people vote” on the issue, McFarland said.
Schmit challenged McFarland to prove that
any deception took place.
“You are totally wrong,” Schmit said,
“and I bitterly resent you implying that this
administration was involved in deceit and
deception.”
The people of Boyd, Nemaha and Nuckolls
counties, the three prospective locations for the
site, all voted to keep Nebraska in the compact
in November, he said. The people have been
given the votp ft* «'«='* and the “waste has to
go somewhere. ttv€
Sen. Doug Kristenscn of Minden said it was
“far-fetched” to believe that citizens thought
they were voting on whether to accept a local
site when they voted on Initiative 402.
Kristenscn said that while he doesn’t think
the people have been deceived, it seems that
people were led to believe a community would
have the right to vote on accepting a site so
Initiative 402 would be defeated.
Once Nebraska remained in the compact, he
said, there has been much less emphasis on
local support of a site.
Sen. Owen Elmer of Indianola said another
vote on the waste site would “drive further
wedges” between the people in the community
involved.
Elmer said he feels that currently one of the
three communities under consideration is suit
able. He said he opposed Dicrks’ amendment
so future conflict could be avoided.
See NUCLEAR on 2
I
Julie Zvotanek, a senior elementary education major, interviews with
Jton Hoerman from Garden City, Kan., during the Career Planning and
Placement Center’s teachers fair Tuesday at the Nebraska Union. More
than 700 teacher candidates and 100 school district representatives
from seven states participated in the fair.
Number of UNMC drop applicants
By Michelle Cheney
Staff Reporter
Although the number of medical student
applicants in the United States has
started to increase after a seven-year
decline, that has not been the case at the Uni
versity of Nebraska Medical Center, according
to Sue Pope, the administrator of academic
affairs.
According to data released last month by the
Association of American Medical Colleges,
the national number of medical student appli
cants is up to 25,825 this year, 348 more from
the same time last year.
The increase comes after a steady decrease
in medical school applicants since the 1982-83
school year.
Despite the national increase, however, the
current number of students who applied to
UNMC for next year dropped to 762 from 803
who applied for this year, Pope said. She said
that number could change as the fall semester
nears.
The number of applications to UNMC has
fluctuated each year for the past seven years,
she said. It has not decreased each year like the
national average. The lowest number of appli
cants in the past seven years was 679 in 1987
88. The highest number of applicants was
1,337 in 1984-85.
Dr. Calvin Davis, assistant dean of admini
stration for the University of Nebraska Medical
Center, said the national decline of applicants
in the past seven years could be because of the
expense of medical school and the long-term
educational commitment required from medi
cal students.
Davis also said the popularity of law and
business professions may have taken away
applicants from medical school. He said the
increase in applications was not substantial,
but said he hopes the trend will continue.
While the total number of applications has
fluctuated over the last seven years, the number
of women applying has increased consistently
and the number of minorities applying has
doubled.
See MEDICAL on 2
Lincoln police cite NU football player
for alleged off-campus domestic assault
From Staff Reports
Lincoln police cited a University of Ne
braska football player for domestic
assault Monday after he allegedly
pushed a UNL student during a domestic dis
pute.
Lt. Albert Maxey of the Lincoln Police
Department said Kelly Anders, a resident of
Neihardt Hall, went to the man’s residence at
3111 S St., and “confronted him as to their
domestic status.’’
Anders, a junior news-editorial major, al
leges that she was pushed by the man, Maxey
said. She said she then went back to her resi
dence hall, Maxey said, where the man later
arrived to “try and talk it out.”
Lt. Ken Cauble of the UNL Police Depart
ment said the Anders called the UNL police
and an officer detained the man until Lincoln
police officers arrived. The officers cited him
for domestic assault, as the alleged incident
occurred off campus.
The incident occurred between 9 p.m. and
9:40 p.m. Monday, according to the Lincoln
police report.
Husker coach Tom Osborne said the player
informed him of the incident but no discipli
nary actions are planned at this time.
He said there is “another side of this story
and we’ll have to see what develops.”
