New work-study procedures
allow students to pick jobs
By Natalie Weinstein
Staff Reporter
New procedures in the work-study
program may be causing some confu
sion.
John Beacon, director of the Of
fice of Scholarships and Financial
Aid at the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln, said that in the past his office
automatically has matched students
to campus positions.
Beginning this semester, students
who receive work-study as part of
their financial-aid package must find
jobs themselves, mainly through the
part-time job board in the Nebraska
Union.
Only about one-third of the au
thorization notices have been picked
up from the financial aid office. The
notices arc needed before students
can interview for work-study jobs.
Work-study has been offered to
about 3,000 UNL students for the fall
and spring semesters, Beacon said.
About 1,200 so far have rejected the
offer, he said.
As of Thursday afternoon, about
603 of the remaining 1,800 students
had picked up their authorization
notices. Students who reject work
study still can receive the work-study
money as part of their student loans.
But students who don’t work must
pay back that money.
Beacon said he isn’t sure why
more students had not picked up their
authorization notices. Some might be
waiting until they have more time to
apply for jobs, he said. Others might
not even realize that there is a change
in the procedures, Beacon said, even
though everyone was notified by
mail.
Forty-four UNL departments took
part in a work-study job fair Aug. 24.
All eligible students were notified
about the fair by mail.
“The response was disappoint
ing,” Beacon said.
The new system is supposed to
benefit students, campus employers
and financial aid office workers.
Beacon said students now can find
jobs they arc interested in, instead of
having to accept randomly assigned
positions.
Thus, campus employers arc more
likely to have qualified students
working for them, such as chemistry
majors, instead of English majors,
working as chemistry lab assistants.
Financial aid office workers also
benefit by having to do less work.
Work-study allows students who
applied by ihe March 1 deadline to
cam up to SI,500 -- another change.
Previously students could only earn
up to SI,000.
“I want them to take advantage of
this,” Beacon said of the eligible
students.
The program benefits students in
two ways, he said. First, the money
students cam as part of work-study
will not count against students as
income on next year’s financial-aid
need assessment. Second, students
can graduate owing less money, he
said.
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Police bikes are patrol possibility
By Amie DeFrain
Staff Reporter
Thanks to donations and a local
radio station, Lincoln police offi
cers soon may be patrolling the
city on mountain bikes.
Brad Hartman, KFOR station
manager, said the eight Cannon
dale bikes are a gift from the radio
station and participants in an Au
gust KFOR fund-raiser called
“Volksbikc.”
The bikes were bought, from
Bike Pedalers, 1353 S. 33rd, for
$375 each, he said.
Capt. Ed Ragatz of the Lincoln
Police Department said that in the
past, officers used their own bikes
for nighttime undercover projects.
The deparunent hasn’t kept
specific records on how many
times bikes were used in Lincoln
police operations, he said.
Cities like Seattle have bike
patrol units that ride daily, Ragatz
said. These unit officers sport
matching uniforms and use spe
cialized bike gear, he said.
Ragat/. said uses of the new
bikes by the LPD arc in the plan
ning stages.
He said he still wants bikes used
for nighttime projects, but is think
ing about having officers patrol the
downtown area and parks during
Andy Manhart/Dally Nebraskan
ihc day as well.
“Bicycles have a whole gamut
of uses (for the department)," he
said.
Ragatz said the decision to use
the bikes will be left to each of the
four patrol area supervisors.
Potential demonstrators discouraged by
fear of breaking the law, activist says
By Michelle Cheney
Sl«ff Reporter
Many people have trouble voicing
their convictions against abortion
because they are afraid of breaking
the law, an anti-abortion activist said
Thursday.
Denny Hartford, chairman of the
Omaha Christian Action Council,
told about 50 people that the fear of
being civilly disobedient may pre
vent some Christians from demon
strating in anti-abortion activities.
Speaking at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law on
East Campus, Hartford said he has
been arrested for praying on the steps
of the Supreme Court and for praying
across the street from abortion clin
I
ics. .
Hartford said he thinks his actions
arc an example of a defense of neces
sity. He said this defense holds that
potentially illegal activities arc con
sidered acceptable if they contribute
to a greater end.
Hartford used the example of sav
ing a girl from a burning house. He
said he might have to break and enter
to save her, but he would not be
charged for any crimes because it
would be necessary to commit a
crime for the greater good of saving a
life.
He said saving an unborn child is a
necessary and good end to achieve.
This is why he considers his anti
abortion activities to be a defense of
necessity.
This defense usually is unaccept
able in court for anti-abortion demon
strations, Hartford said. He said some
laws that rarely are enforced in other
cases are used against pro-lifers.
For example, he said, he was pray
ing across the street from an abortion
clinic with two other people when he
was arrested for not having a parade
permit
Hartford said picketing and sit-ins
interrupt the status quo and police
like to stop small demonstrations
before they snowball.
In a post-speech interview, Hart
ford said violent protests arc wrong.
He said he would not condone activi
ties such as bombing abortion clinics.
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VIGIL from Page 1
Awareness was the goal of the
vigil, said Nanci Rivenburg,a Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
dent and vigil organizer.
“1 don’t want people to be able
to forget violence,’' Rivenburg
said.
The vigil, originally scheduled
for Aug. 31, was postponed by or
ganizers so the link to the murder
of J. Eric Jones would not be as
close, said Dave Whitaker, a UNL
student and organizer of the vigil
Jones was shot Aug. 27 at a Lin
coln party. The crowd was a mix of
homosexuals, heterosexuals.
blacks and whites.
“We were trying to avoid mak
ing him into a martyr," Whitaker
said.
''Having a death so close to
home finally made people get off
their butts and do something/’
Riven burg said.
Karen Eckery, a counselor at
the Rape/Spouse Abuse Crisis
Center, told the group that hatred
and violence continues when
people laugh at a racist joke or
make fan of homosexuals.
“When you leave here, take the
message that we will not accept the
violence/’ Eckery said.
John Taylor, chairman of the
Coalition for Gay and Lesbian
Civil Rights, encouraged all par
ticipants to lobby for a hate-crime
bill that is pending before the U.S.
Senate. _
The bill will be voted on this
month, Taylor said.
The bill, if passed, would re
quire the U.S. Justice Department
to gather statistics on violent
chines, Tavlor said. The statistics
would make it possible to pass
additional legislation against vio
lent crimes, he said.
REGENTS from Page 1
design a recruiting strategy and de
velop a pool of candidates.
The association's services cost
$19,800 plus expenses. A search
generally lasts four to six months,
Stead said.
Sharp said Leadership Develop
ment Associates’ services also in
clude a pre-search study. The firm
charges $800 a day per professional
person working on the study.
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The firm’s services generally cost
between $16,000 and $22,000, he
said.
All of the consultants said more
extensive pre-search studies last
longer and add to the cost.
Following the meeting, Blank said
that while a consultant will be needed
for the presidential search, none of
the presentations convinced him that
an outside consultant is needed for
the internal analysis.
Any internal analysis would have
to last longer than a few days, Blank
said, which is how long most of the
consultants had said the normal pre
search study would lasL
But Blank said he agreed with a
point Sharp made in his presentation
- that an outside consultant can pro
vide an objective opinion in such an
analysis.
The Computing Resource Center Is offering free micro
computers seminars to UNL faculty, staff, and students. The
seminars will feature an introduction to Microsoft Word on the
Macintosh.
Beginning midnight Wednes
day Sept. 6
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No reservations. Macintosh sections are limited to IS.
Macintosh seminars will be held in Henzlik microcom
puter lab.
Microsoft Word on the Macintosh
Tuesday., September 12 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Wed., September 13 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.