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WEATHER:
Monday, mostly cloudy and cool with a 50
percent chance of showers and a high in the
60s. Cloudy Monday night with a 40 percent
chance of showers and a low between 45 and
50. Winds northeast from 10 to 15 miles per
hour. Cloudy Tuesday with a 30 percent
chance of showers and a high in the 60s
INDEX
News Digest.2
Editorial.4
Arts & Entertainment_7
Sports.11
Classifieds.15
September 11,1989 __University of Nebraska-Lincoln_Vol. 89 No. 10
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Nebraska opened Hs second century of college football Saturday In a iess-than-typical
fashion. One fan, seven-year-old Brook Brestei of Lincoln, appears to be unimpressed with the
Comhuskers’ performance during the second half. For more football photos, see pages 11 and
Night, day students pay same fees
By Roger Price
Staff Reporter
Students at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln who regis
ter only for evening courses
now will pay the same student fees as
day students' as part of a “more
equitable” fee assessment system,
according to administration officials.
James Griesen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said many changes
have taken place since the Division of
Continuing Studies was founded,
which have led to the change in- the
assessment of student fees.
When the division was founded,
Griesen said, almost all night classes
were offered through the division.
Since then, he said, “the lines
between day and night work have
become blurred.”
One example Griesen gave was in
the Department of Educational Psy
chology. In that department 37 sec
tions of 34 classes are offered at
night, but none are offered through
the Division of Continuing Studies.
Another example is Political Sci
ence 417/417c where, Griesen said,
the same class at the same time and
location is offered to both traditional
and evening students.
The only difference between the
two students, Griesen said, is that
under the old system one paid student
fees and the other didn’t
Griesen said he has received a lot
of complaints from evening students
who were paying student fees be
cause they were enrolled in night
classes outside the Division of Con
tinuing Studies.
“It struck me that it was really
important for equity in this area,”
Griesen said.
Robert Simerly, dean of the Divi
sion of Continuing Studies, agreed.
Simerly said the new system is the
“most equitable way for all students
to pay for services rendered by stu
'dent fees.”
Griesen said that under the new
system, all students will pay identical
See FEES on 6
Search committee plan
draws some criticism
from student regents
By Lisa Twiestmeyer
Staff Reporter
The NU Board of Regents’ plan
for selecting members of a
presidential search commit
tee drew criticism from some NU
leaders who said there are too many
general public members and too few
faculty and student representatives.
With the three student regents
casting the only votes against the
plan, the board voted unanimously to
adopt Regent Don Blank’s proposal
for selecting the 12 voting and six
non-voting members of the commit
tee.
Student regent votes are unoffi
cial.
The committee will comprise
one NU student, one faculty member
from each campus, one NU Founda
tion representative, six members
from the general public and a “wild
card’’ member.
In addition, the committee will
include six non-voting, “ex-officio”
members: an affirmative action offi
cer, an administrative officer, a rep
resentative from each of the alumni
associations of each campus and a
regent selected by the board.
The faculty senate presidents and
student regents of the three NU cam
puses said the general public is over
represented on the committee.
The board unanimously rejected
an amendment by University of Ne
braska-Lincoln student regent Bryan
Hill to add three more students, one
from each campus, to the ex-officio
members of the committee.
“With 40,000 students, I can’t
think of a more major constituency
the university has,” Hill said.
Hill said students at the univer
sity’s three campuses arc “distinctly
different from each other” and come
from different backgrounds. It is
important that the different types of
students be represented, he said.
University of Nebraska at Omaha
student regent Paula Efflc said it
would be a “monumental task” for
one student to try to represent all
three campuses.
But regent Rosemary Skrupa of
Omaha said students at each of the
See REGENTS on 6
White pleads not guilty
Osborne suspends player
By Jerry Guenther
Senior Reporter
ilh recent publicity alleging
drug use by former Ne
braska football players.
Coach Tom Osborne said he is uncer
tain what type of effect drug charges
against I-back Lamont White will
have on the public’s perception of the
Nebraska football program.
White, 20, of 435 S. 20th, pleaded
not guilty to possession of a con
trolled substance during arraignment
in Lancaster County Court Thursday.
Author Armen Keteyian’s book,
“Big Red Confidential: Inside Ne
braska Football,” alleges that some
former Nebraska football players
used drugs while on the team.
Osborne said Sunday that the alle
gations in the book, including co
caine use by 1983 Heisman Trophy
winner Mike Rozier, are from anony
mous sources.
Osborne said some people, includ
ing former player Nate Mason, have
said they never saw Rozier use co
caine.
But, Osborne said, the public will
have to make its own decision.
Osborne said White, a 5-foot-9,
180-pound sophomore, has been sus
pended from the team because of the
charges.
“In no way does that pre-judge
him one way or the other,” Osborne
said. “I just think it’s kind of awk
ward to go ahead and play him if he is
under some type of charges.”
White is scheduled to appear in
Lancaster County Court Sept. 25.
Lancaster County Attorney Mike
Hcavican said White and another
man were stopped by Lincoln police
last June at a car wash on North 27th
Street.
Hcavican said police found a vial
with what they believed to be cocaine
residue in it inside a briefcase in the
car.
Osborne said White told him the
vial belonged to the other man who
was in the car.
Osborne said it was his under
standing that White was helping the
other man move when the incident
occurred.
“We feel very badly about
Lamont’s situation,” he said. “He
was obviously around the wrong
people.”
Possession of a controlled sub
stance is a Class IV felony, punish
able by up to five years in prison, a ,
$10,000 fine, or both, Hcavican said.
Osborne said he originally thought
the case would be dismissed.
“Probably sometime in the next
few days we’ll know what the dispo
sition is,” he said.
If White wouldn’t have been sus
pended, he would have played Satur
day against Northern Illinois,
Osborne said.
New system lessens processing time for financial aid
By Robin Trimarchi
Stuff Reporter
College students nationwide could be
getting financial aid money more
quickly in a couple of years, say federal
Department of Education officials, but some
financial aid officials are not so sure.
The Department of Education announced in
early August that a new system for processing
financial aid forms will take effect in the 1990
91 school year.
Five financial-aid service companies now
will be authorized by the federal government to
process students’ federal aid forms. Before, the
College Board’s College Scholarship Service
and the American College Testing Program
together handled six million forms a year.
John Beacon, Office of Scholarships and
Financial Aid director at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, said the current process
takes about 7 calendar days. He said the educa
tion department expects a 72-hour turnaround
time with the new system.
Bill Moran, an education department offi
cial, said that under the new system, the five
companies will electronically transmit all data
directly to one central computing center, which
then will return the information to the process
ing service company. The processor will in
form students of their aid eligibility.
“The student applies to one source and
receives a reply from one source ,” Moran said,
rather than the previous system of dealing with
both the company and the computing center.
According to the Aug. 9 Chronicle of
Higher Education, the new system will cost the
federal government $20 million.
“We acknowledge that it costs more,”
Moran said. “We want it simpler and more
streamlined for students to follow.”
But a few financial aid administrators have
reservations about the new system.
Beacon said he is concerned that the faster
turnaround time might be “misleading.”
For example, an aid form received by the
central computers at 12:01 p.m. Friday would
be logged on the following Monday’s work
day, with a deadline for processing at noon
Thursday, he said.
Don Davis, acting director of Student Fi
nancial Services at the University of Texas at
Austin, said he believes the new process will
“cause confusion.”
“Some students use more than one (proc
essing) service,” Davis said. “For example,
when applying to more than one school, there
may be some schools that will not receive the
proper forms.”
The current system allows only the federal
Pell Grant processor to accept financial-aid
form changes directly from the student, Davis
said.
Under the new system, “corrections can go
back and forth through the process,” Davis
said.
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