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A food stamp act amendment, VISSER from Page 1 would be busy with students wanting appeals. Many times, he did not know where Visser was, he said, and ‘ ‘I just had to have Ms. Visser there” during that week. Gregory said she was in the office that week. Gregory said he wrote Visser a memo Jan. 18 because he was con cerned about her “taking off in the afternoons” and that the number of her personal phone calls and family visits had increased. Since Visser was taking a class during office hours, her availability as an*adviser was further diminished when she was late and spent too much time on personal business, Gregory said. Carpenter and Shada rarely were late, Gregory said. After Visser explained that her reason for being late was seeing her son off on the school bus, Gregory said he didn’t object to it. None of his criticism was directed at athletic issues, he said. After the Jan. 18, 1988, memo, Gregory said Visser’s attitude was “less friendly, cooler, more formal, somewhat more distant.” effective in 1987, prohibits reduction of food stamps based on income from federal student financial aid, Marshall said. According to the Aug. 22, 1986, Federal Registrar, “The statute pro vides that no portion of any federal educational grant, scholarship, fel lowship, veterans’ educational bene fit, educational loan on which pay ment is deferred, and the like which provides income assistance beyond that used for tuition and mandatory school fees shall be excluded as a reimbursement.” Cox said the amendment has not been officially approved by the Ne braska Legislature, so Nebraska doesn’t have to comply with the amendment In February Visser again left at 3:30 p.m. without an explanation, Gregory said, which prompted him to write her a memo Feb. 12. March 2, Visser told general stud ies employees she was going to class but did not go, Gregory said. By accessing her registration records on the computer, Gregory said he found that she had dropped the class March 1. Gregory said that although he found Visser’s job performance un acceptable, he did recommend a sal ary increase. Gregory said he wrote the March 30 memo criticizing Visser because he did not want to take formal per sonnel action against her. “I wanted to resolve this between the two of us,” Gregory said. Visser began to cry after reading the memo, saying, ‘‘You’re trying to fire me, you’re trying to fire me,” Gregory saief After the March 30 conference, Visser wrote a memo responding to Gregory’s criticisms and distributed it to her co-workers. Visser’s memo ‘‘attacked my in tegrity and the integrity of others in the office,” Gregory said. ‘‘Sud Buresch said she has received ‘‘a variety of interpretations from the federal office” since the amendment was federally approved. The regulations followed by Lin coln social services state that ‘ ‘exclu sions will include everything except normal living expenses,” Buresch said. Because miscellaneous personal expenses aren’t covered by regula tions, she said, some forms of federal financial aid are counted as income, if an itemization of expenses isn’t provided. Cox said she has informed her senator of the need for the amend ment’s approval on the state level and hopes a bill will be introduced next session to address the issue. denly, because of this memo, we all felt we better watch our step.” Gregory said he again discussed what he called Visser’s “disruptive behavior” with her in mid-April, but she was very resistant. Visser then went on two weeks of sick leave, he said. Gregory said he then wrote Visser a note saying that if she wanted to meet again, someone from personnel also should be present. Visser responded that she wanted to meet and set up a session with Personnel Director Bruce Currin for April 27. The meeting was later cancelled after Currin found that Visser had hired Cope to represent her. When Visser returned to work in May, Gregory testified, he noticed she was spending a lot of time work ing on the computer. Gregory tracked her computer transactions and found she was accessing long lists of ath letes’ academic records: After this, Gregory said, he still recommended a salary hike for Visser to Gricsen. Griesen* said Gregory should decide if Visser’s performance was acceptable before he gave her a raise, Gregory said. AS aSp a°" . Vie*x* Y|^ V _ n\ 1%QV s0°aV>( °°So^ i&^: <>** s1o^1 ,SS5S%?!5 ^ • f®D^l-rtPcfpte Ota^V0 **&#&■ O^ ag<^ «*G'-« •'-%?" Vs-G^cs^ ■sstr'^'S'"’* «• V*f cNe< S** oP®0 cwssV Sppe^> s°S5®®'rt . wC*® pet'®0 Vt~- . C»'®0vQO* ySV=> A«ro <*'# **<?(*v®^ co*^ . s»xdS?^^*SS* o,t^C SJ&SE&sSfc