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The lists contained the names of 13,282 students “not known to be adequately immunized," said Dr. Gerald Flcischli, medical director of the University Health Center. As of Monday at 8 p.m., no stu dents with measles symptoms had come to the health center and no new eases of measles had been diagnosed there, Flcischli said. The list is a result of a computer search of health center and university records to find people who may need to come to mass immunizations on Wednesday and Thursday at UNL. Health officials are trying to pre vent a major outbreak of measles after one student was diagnosed as having rubeola measles last Thurs day, Flcischli said. Others arc ex pected to show symptoms this week, Fleischli says measles insert to save time Diane Brayton Staff Reporter _ An insert in the Daily Ne braskan today and Wed nesday should help Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln stu dents save time in the mcaslc-im munizalion process, according to Gerald Flcischli, University Health Center medical director. Flcischli said the insert will contain information about rubeola measles, mumps and rubella measles -- the three diseases the vaccination protects against. Also, he said, it will list the side effects of vaccination, people who he said. Lists arc posted in the Nebraska unions, Love Library, the health cen ter, the Reunion and in residence hall cafeterias. UNL students had a variety of reactions Monday to seeing, or not seeing, their names on the measles list on the wall of the main lounge of Nebraska Union. Lisa Weathermon, a junior sociol shouldn’t be immunized, and the kind of reaction to the vaccination people can expect. The insert includes an immuni zation request form that students arc instructed to read and complete before vaccination, he said. By filling out the form before hand, he said, students will shorten the amount of time it takes to be immunized. “If people don’t know what’s happening ahead of lime, lines back up,’’ Fleischli said. UNL students who arc under 19-ycars-old and live in Lincoln with their parents will need their parents’ signature on the form. ogy major, said she “panicked’ when she saw her name on the list. Wcathcrmon said she might be or the list because she didn’t turn hci immunity information to the hcaltl center when she came to UNL ir 1986. Kathy Rungc, a junior elementary education major, said she was sur prised her name wasn’t on the list Even her mother told her she wouk High school students attending UNL classes also will need their parents’ permission, he said. UNL students under 19 who don’t live in Lincoln will not need parental consent, Flcischli said. “College students should be able to read and understand this type of document,” he said. “But people who live in Lincoln should take advantage and discuss the form with their parents.” Immunization request forms also will be available at the immu nization sites in Cook Pavilion and the Nebraska Union Wednesday and Thursday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. probably need to be immunized, she said, because she was born in 1967. i She thought that because she was bom before 1969 she would need the i shot. i Runge said the health center’s reaction to the measles outbreak was appropriate. “We live in a house with other students, someone is bound to have I it,” she said. “And the guy that has it lives in Abel Hall, the biggest dorm on campus.” After checking for their own names some students searched for their friends’ names. Troy Bredenkamp, a sophomore biological sciences major, said he was relieved that he wasn’t on the list. “I don’t like shots,” he said. “But I had to laugh when I saw how many of my friends were on the list.” Rungc said she was concerned that faculty also would be at risk of catch ing the contagious disease. “They’re making such a big deal of it for the students, but there’s the faculty too,” Rungc said. But health officials said last week end that persons bom before 1957 arc considered immune to the measles because epidemics were more com mon before that year. Kori Lewis, a sophomore psychol ogy major, wasn’t on the list and was waiting for her doctor to verify her immunity. “Everybody is just freaking out about it,” Lewis said. Lewis said her doctor in Lincoln nas received many phone calls from students who wanted to know il they were immune. See MEASLES on 3 Legislative bill to grant more discretion to police By Jana Pedersen and Jerry (luenther Staff Reporters C ranting law enforcement officials more discretion in domestic violence cases, the Nebraska Legislature gave second round approval Monday to LB330 after amending it five times. LB330, which was introduced by Sen. Carol Pirsch of Omaha, advanced 29-0 after more than two hours of debate. Under LB330, a law enforcement officer without a warrant may arrest a person if the of ficer has reasonable cause to believe the person has committed a felony or misdemeanor, or has reason to believe such a person will not be apprehended unless immediately arrested. The bill also states an officer without a warrant may arrest an individual if the officer believes that person may cause injury or dam age, may destroy or conceal evidence, or has committed a misdemeanor in the presence of the officer. LB330 was amended 26-15 to include an other bill, LB218, which gives officers the authority to perform warrantless arrests if they believe an individual is “threatening another in a menacing manner.” Sen. David Bcmard-Stcvens of North Platte said the amendment is necessary to _ Sec DOMESTIC on 3 r~ Sttaun Sartin/Dally Nahraakan Rub-a-dub-dub Neal Kloster (left) and Greg Imlgrigtit take the afternoon shift of Triangle fraternity’s Raft-a-thon philanthropy Monday afternoon outside the Nebraska Union. Hungary to become multiparty democracy, speaker says By David (». Young Suff Reporter In less than one year, Hungary will become the first commu nist state in Europe to change to a system of multiparty democracy, said Peter Rajesanyi, adviser to the general secretary of the Hungarian ^Communist Parly. Rajesanyi spoke to a small group of University of Ncbraska-Lincoln faculty and students Monday after noon. He is visiting the United Stales to study its political organization. The Hungarian government will institute a new constitution in De cember, which will lead to multiparty elections in May 1990, he said. These elections will be the first of their kind in Eastern Europe since the Soviets imposed communist rule after World War II. “Hungary is the only country in the whole Eastern European region which is moving toward a multiparty constitutional democracy,” he said. “The system adopted and applied alter the second World War has been outdated -- outdated by the mid 1970s at the latest.” Rajesanyi said several changes in the European political sphere made Hungarian reform measures possible. These changes include the relaxation of Soviet political control in Eastern Europe as well as the planned devel opment of the European Economic Community free-trade /one by 1992. Under the current economic sys tem in communist Hungary, the na tional currency is “soft,” and thus not convertible to U.S. money or other Western “hard” currencies. Future reforms in Hungary could change this condition, making it pos sible for the country to join the EEC. If everything goes right, Hungary might become a part of the Common Market in 10 or 15 years, Rajesanyi said. Involvement with the European Economic Community, as well as other tics to Western economics, is essential if Hungary is to pull itself out of the crisis created by past eco nomic policies, he said. Hungary now has the h ighest per capita debt in all of Europe, Rajesanyi said. One of the largest political prob lems facing Eastern Europe is con flict among individual communist countries, he said. The most serious problem involves Hungary’s neigh bor, Romania, whose continued Sta linist policies have created external and internal problems, he said. “Large quantities of refugees arc coming over from Romania to Hun gary,” Rajesanyi said. “Every month, we have 12,(XX) people come over from Romania. This is the big gest potential crisis in the next two or three years in the whole of Eastern Europe.” m