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who works In the Telecommunications Center in Nebraska Had. Also, the
Nebraska Jazz Orchestra (ON, May 3) will perform tonight at 7 p m.
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Vol. 88 No. 152
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Members of Early Warning! feign death as the victims of a nuclear holocaust during
testing of civil defense sirens Wednesday morning In front of Broyhilf Fountain.
I Students ‘die’ to raise awareness
I By Roger Price
Suff Reporter
- A s civil defense sirens blared
LjL Wednesday, about 10 stu
^ dents screamed “There it
is, Aaahhhhh,,.!” and fell to the
ground - “dead,”
A couple of minutes taler, Joe
Bowman, facilitator for >Stf$jr
Wanting!, said “OK” and the stu
dents rose from their death beds
I and resumed their game of hacky
sack near BroyhtU Fountain.
The “die-in” was an attempt to
raise awareness about the threat of
nuclear war, said Bowman, a jun
ior anthropology major.
Bowman said the “die-in” was
an “empowering thing.’*
“It makes you feel good,” he
said.
Before their “deaths” mem
bers of Early Warning! distributed
fact sheets about civil defense
which included a list of actions to
take in the event of nuclear attack
and a locator map for the faitout
shelters m Lincoln.
Bowman said this event was
staged because most people aren’t
well informed about civil defense.
Carl Klamer, a sophomore po
litical science major, said he has
been participating in “die-ins” for
about four years and said he thinks
"they are an effective means of
getting our message across.”
Klamer said he and other
members of Early Warning! have
held ‘ ‘die-ins’ ’ at the state capitol,
NBC building and the Federal
Building in Lincoln, and the
White House and U.S. Capitol in
Washington, D.C.
“I think most people don’t
even think a6out nuclear war; this
shocks people into thinking,”
Klamer said.
Klamer estimated that less than
100 people saw the actual “die
in,” but “they’re going to talk
about it to others,” he said.
About 20 people watched the
entire “die-in.”
Health Center diagnoses
two more measles cases
By Amie DeFrain
Staff Reporter_
University Health Center offi
cials diagnosed two more
University of Nebraska-Lin
coln students with rubeola measles
Wednesday, and another student is
suspected of having the disease.
Dr. Ralph Ewert, chief of staff at
the University Health Center, said the
students, two males and a female,
apparently contracted the measles
from the first reported victim. All
frtiir ctnrlAntc Ha caiH IKsa on ihi
seventh and ninth floors of Abel Hall.
Ewert said the student who is sus
pected of having measles has yet to be
officially diagnosed because his rash
may only be a side effect of his vacci
nation. The victim will have to stay in
his room until the rash disappears.
About one out of every five people
who are vaccinated will get a rash or
slight fever that lasts from a few days
to two weeks, Ewert said.
The three students, Ewert said, are
considered contagious since last
Wednesday.
They attended the following
classes Monday, Wednesday and
Friday this week and last week:
• Geography 150, 1:30 p.m. to
2:20 p.m. in 22 Avery Hall.
• Classics iou, iz:jup.m. to t:zu
p.m. in 104 Love Library.
• English 205, 8:30 a.m. to 9:20
a.m. in 121 Andrews Hall.
• Modem Language 100, 2:30
p.m. to 3:20 p.m. in 104 Love Li
brary.
• Bio Psychology 101, 7:30 a.m.
to 8:20 a.m. in 124 Henzlik Hall.
They attended the following Tues
day and Thursday classes this week
and last:
• History 120, 12:30 p.m. to 1:45
p.m. in 212 Avery.
• Geography 120, 2 p.rn. to 3:15
p.m. in 110 Hamilton Hall.
• Physics 211,12:30 p.m. to 1:45
p.m. in 211 Brace.
• English 102, 11 a.m. to 12:15
p.m. in 33 Andrews.
• History 100,9:30 a.m. to 10:45
a.m. in B-5 Military and Naval Sci
ence.
Monday through Friday, a victim
attended Math 107H, 10:30 a.m. to
11:20 a.m. in 208 Oldfather Hall.
Tuesday, a victim attended Bio Sci
ence 101L, 2:30 p.m. to 5:20 p.m. in
121 Manter Hall. Wednesday a vic
tim attended Physics 211, 8:30 a.m.
to 9:20 a.m. in 113N Brace.
Ewert said those students living on
the two residence hall floors and
those in the victims’ classes should
get immunized at the health center as
soon as possible.
People who were immunized be
fore 1969 or immunized before 15
months of age should be re-immu
nized. People bom before 1957 are
considered to have natural immunity
because measles epidemics were
common before that year.
Until the state health department
decides not to provide free vaccina
tions, Ewert said, the health center
will continue to provide free shots on
weekdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Roughly 5,000 students still need
to be immunized, he said. The num
ber of faculty and staff members, who
aiso arc ocing proviaea irce snois, is
considerably less because many do
not fit the guidelines, he said.
The total cost of the entire immu
nization drive, Ewert said, hasn’t
been figured. However, at $11 a shot
times the 7,500 people processed so
far, he said, the cost can be estimated
in the tens of thousands.
“That’s a sizeable bill,” he said.
“We (the center) just keep our fin
gers crossed and just hope that those
people that have been exposed, have
been immunized.”
(Legislature reverses decision; funds UNL aquaculturalist
|#y Jerry Guenther
iuff Reporter
▲ fter voting Tuesday not to
/% provide $50,000 in funding
^ ^ few an aquacultural specialist
it the University of Nebraska-Lin
oln, the Nebraska Legislature
idopted such a measure Wednesday
noming.
Approval of the amendment came
ifter Sen. David Bemard-Stevens of
forth Platte moved for a reconsiders
ton of the measure during discussion
m LB813.
LB813 is the state operations and
tate appropriations bill that provides
unding for many of the operations at
Bemard-Stevens, co-sponsor of
he amendment, said there are numer
als individuals in western and central
Nebraska who are interested in the
aquacullural industry.
Those people need a specialist,
Bcmard-Stevens said, who can assist
them with the oxygenation, disease
control and marketing needed for
raising fish.
Aquaculture is a “budding new
industry" that could have a large
economic return for the state, he said.
Sen. Rod Johnson of Sutton said
an aquacullural expert would help
Nebraska develop a product that is in
demand, such as catfish. The No. 1
cash crop in Louisiana is catfish, he
said.
Sen. Rex Haberman of Imperial
said aquaculture could help people in
Western Nebraska as well the state by
providing new jobs.
Haberman said he thinks $50,000
is a reasonable amount to invest for a
venture capital project
“Who knows?’1 Haberman said.
Senators debate increasing tuition at KSC
By Jerry Guenther
Staff Reporter
An amendment designed to
raise the tuition rate at
Kearney State College to
equal the tuition rate at the Univer
sity of Nebraska at Omaha by
1990-91 drew serious discussion
before it was withdrawn Wednes
day.
Kearney State would become
part of the University of Nebraska
system under a provision of
LB247, a bill that is in final read
ing in the Legislature.
The amendment, sponsored by
Sen. Scott Moore of Stromsburg,
would have decreased state fund
ing for Kearney State and likely
would have forced Kearney State
to raise tuition to make up for the
lost revenue.
Currently tuition at Kearney
State is $36.50 per credit hour for
resident undergraduates. UNO’s
tuition is $45.25 per resident
undergraduate credit hour.
Moore said he offered the
amendment to prompt discussion
by senators on the Kearney State
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“Some of these fish might be sold in
Omaha sometime.”
Sen. Scott Moore of Stromsburg
said he thinks aquaculture would be a
worthwhile industry for the Legisla
ture to fund, “but the fact of the
matter is you can’t afford to do every
thing you want to do.’*
‘‘It’s as simple as that,” Moore
said.
Sen. Jerome Warner of Waverly
also spoke out against funding the
aquacullural specialist.
Warner said the Games and Parks
Commission already has 12 manage
ment biologist specialists located
throughout the state who could assist
those involved in the aquacultural
industry.
Many of the specialists have ex
pertise in the growing and cultivating
of fish, Warner said, and it would be
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■Debate to continue on bill requiring parental notification
Iky Natalie Weinstein
tiff Reporter
PI late senators continued
heated debate Wednesday
afternoon on a bill that would
equire minors who want to have an
ibortion to first notify both their par
ols.
Senators took no action on the bill
md are scheduled to continue first
ound debate this afternoon.
Sen. Bemice Labcdz of Omaha,
he bill’s primary sponsor, said the
>ill will - among other things - pro
ect “the minor from her own impru
lent decision” and preserve “the
integrity of the family unit.”
Sen. Arlene Nelson of Grand Is
land said she thinks it will destroy as
many families as it will help.
‘ This is a bill to harass those at the
most traumatic time of their lives,”
she said.
Thirty senators have co-sponsored
the bill. This is five more than is
needed to eventually turn the bill into
law.
Under the bill, the minor female
can bypass parental notification by
going before a judge or by telling the
physician that she has been physi
cally abused, sexually abused or
neglected. The physician then must
inform “proper authorities” of the
abuse or neglect, according to the
bill.
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha
said LB769 “will create untold mis
ery.”
Chambers proposed an amend
ment that would remove the section
of the bill requiring that the physician
inform authorities of abuse or ne
glect. His amendment was rejected
15-26.
Chambers said victims of abuse
who escape to shelters are kept there
in secrecy to protect them. The same
philosophy should apply to minors,
he said.
Knowing that authorities will be
contacted will cause even more stress
for the young females who must deal
with their pregnancy, he said.
Labcdz said she wants physicians
to be forced to inform authorities of
abuse or neglect so the problem will
end.
Sen. John Lindsay of Omaha said
that without the section requiring
notification of authorities, every
female could lie in order to get
around parental notification.
Sen. Brad Ashford of Omaha said
that in Minnesota where a similar law
has been passed, a survey showed that
about 75 percent of minors who were
15 or younger did inform their par
ents.
It is the other 20 to 25 percent of
young females who come from “ex
tremely dysfunctional families” and
are least able to deal with their fami
lies who are hurt by the legislation, he
said.
At the end of the day, Labedz
moved to suspend the rules so sena
tors could vote on the bill without
further debate or amendments. Her
motion failed 28-16. Thirty votes are
needed to suspend the rules.
