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October 31,1989___University of Nebraska-Lincoln•__ Vol. 89 No. (&
Jury selected tor suit against university
By Jerry Guenther
Senior Reporter
A jury of four men and three
women was selected and heard
opening arguments Monday in
a civil suit involving a former Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln adviser
who claims that she was fired for un
covering alleged irregularities in ath
letes’ academic records.
Mary Jane Visser, who was em
ployed at UNL for 19 years, has
brought suit against two UNL offi
cials and the NU Board of Regents.
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James Griesen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, and Donald Gregory,
director of general studies, are the
UNL officials named in the suit
Gregory was Visser’s immediate
supervisor when her employment
with UNL was terminated Sept. 2,
1988.
Patricia Nelson, deputy clerk of
district court, said presentation of
evidence will begin 9 a.m, Wednes
day.
According to Visser’s petition,
she is seeking her former job back,
damages for emotional distress, back
pay and compensation for attorney’s
fees.
Visser worked as an instructor for
the College of Home Economics and
as an adviser in the Division of Gen
eral Studies in 1987 and 1988.
In the summer of 1987, Visser
reported to the Faculty Senate Grad
ing Committee and alleged that cer
tain health courses were offered
mainly for football players and other
student athletes with low grade point
averages.
Early in 1988, Visser pursued an
independent investigation of other
alleged irregularities.
Some of those include athletes
being classified as learning disabled,
transcript irregularities among ath
letes and programs being made avail
able to athletes but not to the general
student population.
Visser also maintains that she later
was placed on probation and denied
any salary increases and was told by
Griesen and Gregory not to investi
gate any of the alleged irregularities.
According to court records, UNL
officials have denied Visser’s
charges, stating among other things
that Visser came to work late and
used her computer to examine tran
scripts of athletes that she wasn’t
advising.
Visser’s attorney, Thom Cope of
Lincoln, said he is very optimistic
about winning the case. ,/
Lincoln attorney David Buntain,
who is representing UNL and the
regents, could not be reached for
comment.
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Al Schaban/DaMy Ntbraakan
First Lieut*. Steve Piemann (left), a senior geology major, and David Seversoh, a senior geography major, stand
in front of an F-4, a olane worth more than $2 million. Ptemann and Severson are National Guard member* of the
173rd Reconnaissance Squadron of Lincoln. / vf * . .. I E,
Two UNL students fly jets in their spare time
By Emily Rosenbaum
Reporter
For University of Nebraska-Lincoln
students Steve Plamann and David
Severson, part time work is some
thing a little out of the ordinary.
Plamann and Severson fly F-4 jets on
reconnaissance missions every week for the
Nebraska Air Guard.
“There isn’t a better part-time job,”
Plamann said. ‘ ‘I really get a kick out of it. ’ ’
Plamann, a first lieutenant wjth the 173rd
Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, which
is part of the 155th Tactical Reconnaissance
Group, said that to stay current with the
changes in flying it’s necessary to be in the
air two to three times a week.
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“You have to be really cognizant of what
your plane is doing/* he said.
The F-4 is an all-weather, day-and-night,
mulii sensor plane, he said, and the 20 to 22
F-4s the group uses were made in the mid
1960s, and used during the Vietnam War.
Ihe group flics out of the Lincoln Munici
pfll Aupoit.
On a reconnaissance mission, the two
man crew practices low-level flying at alti
tudes of 100 to 500 feet, said Plamann, a
senior geology major. The pilot sits in the
front part of the cockpit, the weapons sys
tems officer in the hack.
The crew practices simulated air combat,
target acquisition, employing the extensive
systems of the plane and flymg underneath
enemy radar systems. AH of this is accom
plished at speeds exceeding 800 miles per
hoar while paying close attention to pos
sible hazards and obstacles of the land
scape. * 0’
“If you’re not a little bit scared ai 100
feet, then something's wrong,” Plamann
said.
Severson, a first lieutenant with the air
guard, pointed out similarities between
flying and driving.
“Driving a car is dangerous, but if you
pay close attention, you minimize the dan
ger,” he said.
“Flying to me is pretty exhilarating.”
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Ecology Now wants
to keep recycling plan
By Jana Pedersen
Senior Reporter
Although compliance with Ecology
Now’s pilot recycling project wasn’t as
high as its members had hoped, they
still want to continue paper and aluminum
collection in the Nebraska Union.
James Zank, member of Ecology Now, said
the group collected 122 pounds of aluminum
cans and 91.5 pounds of paper from the public
areas of the union during the first two weeks of
the recycling project.
During the second week, Ecology Now also
collected 76.25 pounds of paper from three
offices in the union, Zank said.
In the first week of the recycling project, he
said, the UNL grounds department collected 73
cubic yards of compressed garbage from the
union. Each cubic yard of compressed garbage
weighs 1,150 pounds, he said.
Comparing the amount of garbage collected
l by the grounds department with the amount of
recyclable material collected by Ecology Now
shows that few people used the recycling re
ceptacles, Zank said.
He said he wasn’t sure why compliance was
low, but said the compliance rate wasn’t reason
enough to discontinue the project.
I kind of expected low compliance at the
start of the project,” he said. “With some
better communication between us and the
public, it might do a bit better ... but it went
pretty well overall.”
Jeff Lies, recycling coordinator for Ecology
Now, said he plans to increase compliance
through publicizing recycling on campus with
a flyer that will be sent to all students and
faculty members.
The flyer will explain the need for recycling
on campus and promote use of the receptacles
in the union, Lies said.
Ecology Now members will continue the
union recycling project as long as possible, he
said.
Currently, the project is supported entirely
by money from Ecology Now, including
money earned through the union recycling
pre he said.
said Ecology Now has permission
from union director Daryl Swanson to keep the
aluminum receptacles in the union until the end
of October.
The group would like to keep the project
going at least until the end of the semester, he
said.
Lies said he hopes by that time, Ecology
Now will be able to show university officials
that a larger recycling project would be finan
cially feasible.
“If we can just get people to recognize the
(receptacles) in the union, possibly we could
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Students set scholarship help from resource center
By Pvt Dinslage
Stiff Reporter
iege, according to Kathryn Rosypal,
the center’s vice-president.
Great Potentials, based in Chi
cago, processes dataforms from ap
plicants wanting information on
undergraduate or graduate scholar
ships. A fee of $30 for undergrade
ates and $39 for graduates is charged,
she said.
About $135 million in private
scholarships goes unused each year,
according to U.S. Department of
Education figures, Rosypal said.
Rosypal said many of these schol
arships nave very specific require
ments, such as ethnic origin.
The information on the form is
received by GPRC and sent by com
puter to Academic Guidance Serv
ices in New Jersey. A report is sent to
the student, listing at least five pri
vate sources of possible scholarships,
she said.
If fewer lhan five sources are
found, the applicant is refunded the
$30 undergraduate or the $39 gradu
ate fee, but still receives the report,
Rosypal said.
The five sources listed in the re
port do not include any governmental
aid for which the student may qualify,
but that information is included, she
said.
Most of the scholarships listed in
the report are awarded by racial, reli
gious and ethnic groups, Rosypal
said.
The scholarships do not necessar
ily require A averages, she said, and
some with specialized requirements
may not have an academic require
ment at all.
According to Karin Van Deun,
assistant director of scholarships at
the UNL Office of Scholarships and
Financial Aid, it is true that some
scholarship money is not awarded.
This usually is because student’s
don't‘‘go the extra effort” to find out
about corporate awards, Van Deun
said.
Rosypal said that GPRC has
helped about 20,000 people. Last
year, GPRC sent reports to about
2,000 students, 99 percent of whom
had at least the five sources listed.
The report received “will suffice
for the four years of undergraduate
work.” Students do not need another
report until they begin graduate
school, she said.
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