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April 25, 1989 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 145
Measles list provokes reactions among UNL students
By Larry Peirce
Senior Reporter
Lists of University of Nc
braska-Lincoln students who
arc not known to be ade
quately immunized for rubeola
measles were posted around campus
Monday, as health officials continue
a disease control program to prevent
a major outbreak of the highly conta
gious disease.
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
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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.”
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