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That is just one of several arrange ments possible under the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, said Phiilip Sirotkin, a senior consultant for the compact. Sirotkin of Boulder, Colo., said Nebraska is one of 12 states consider ing the compact, which must be ap proved by at least five states before it can go into effect. States have until 1994 to approve the compact, he said. -4 4 When people are in the mode of cooper ating, they can do almost anything. Sirotkin compact senior consultant -A A _ W w Other stales considering the com pact are Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, North w Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indi ana and Ohio, Sirotkin said. Participation in the compact is voluntary, he said, and colleges in each state joining the compact would decide for themselves what types of programs to share. One of the biggest advantages to the compact would be helping keep education costs down, Sirotkin said, because states wouldn’t have to offer duplicate programs to try to compete with each other. Nebraska, for example, could accept out-of-state students into the Univer sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln College of Dentistry' if colleges in the compact didn’t have such a college, he said. In turn. UNL graduates could study veterinary science in other states that offer graduate veterinary science programs. UNL docs not offer gradu ate degrees in veterinary science. With many colleges and universi ties operating on tight budgets, Si rotkin said, it makes sense for states to share educational programs. Sirotkin said the compact would not have any enforcement powers and would just be a mechanism for states to work together. “When people are in the mode of cooperating,” Sirotkin said, “they can do almost anything.” The Midwest is about the only region of the country that currently does not have an educational com pact, he said. Six states belong to a New Eng land compact, 15 states to a Southern compact and 15 other states to a Western compact, he said. Larry Scherer, counsel for the Nebraska Legislature’s Education Committee, said Nebraska has sup ported educational compacts in the past. In the late 1970s, Nebraska was one of four states that approved a similar compact for the Midwest, Scherer said. That compact failed because not enough slates approved it, he said. Scherer said the Education Com mittee will do an interim study on the compact this summer to decide whether to recommend it to the Legislature for approval next year. Membership in the compact would differ from membership in the Asso ciation of Big Eight Universities, of which UNL is a member. That is uwaujv n ttv/uiu aiivnr mi nvyitunu higher education institutions, not just UNL, to participate. The compact also would allow UNL to share pro grams with additional stales. Besides sharing programs, Strotkm said, colleges in educational com pacts sometimes get grants from pri vate enterprises to work on projects together. Although members of the com pact would decide the direction it would take, Sirotkin said, some other possibilities include faculty exchanges and setting up prepaid tuition pro grams. With a prepaid tuition program, Sirotkin said, parents could contrib ute annually to the compact and then have their children attend any college in the compact without paying tui tion. So far, Sirotkin said, support for the Midwestern compact has been strong. Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota and Michigan have legislation consider ing it this year, he said, and support in Illinois and other states has been excellent. “Nobody has really said they are opposed to it,” he said. Courtney Butherus Staff Reporter Nuclear activist Hugh Kaufman said he and associate Lynn Moorer arc out to help Ne braska citizens who are concerned about Nebraska’s proposed low-level radioactive waste dump. But Lawrence Grimm, a radiation safely specialist, said that what Kaufman and Moorer arc requesting is a step back in safely and that their confrontational methods are detrimen tal to the public. Kaufman called public officials and proponents of the nuclear waste dump everything from “liars” to “incompetent frauds” when he spoke Friday at the University of Ncbraska Lincoln College of Law. In addition to attacks on U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Ncb., and Gov. Kay Orr, Kaufman presented his case for why law college Chairman Norman Thorson is the target of a grand-jury investigation for bribery. Kaufman was referring to a peti tion signed by five Nuckolls County citizens in January that called for a grand jury to investigate bribery alle gations against Thorson and others. Thorson has represented Orr on low-level waste legislation. Kaufman claims Thorson and businesses in volved are trying to sabotage radioac tive wrstc monitoring committees set up in Boyd, Nuckolls and Nemaha counties. Kaufman said that by not attend ing committee meetings, Thorson is ‘‘not allowing these committees to put information on record that the public should know.” But a second petition, for investi gation of violations of the Nebraska open meetings laws, didn’t include Thorson among the seven allegations. When Grimm tried to voice his disagreement with Kaufman’s alle gations Friday, Kaufman interrupted, saying, “Listen, junior, I don’t have time to play with you.’’ In an interview, Grimm said Kaufman and his associate Moorer have gotten people scared and riled up before anyone could educate them about the safety of nuclear waste. Grimm said Kaufman and Moorer stir people’s emotions by using con frontational politics and intimidation tactics instead of rational debate. “These monitoring committee meetings are nothing but a zoo where people get up and scream and yell at each other,” Grimm said. “If they’re saying Thorson wasn’t available, it’s because they’re trying to set him up to do a hatchet job on him. See KAUFMAN on 5 Melissa McReynokSs/Daily Nebraskan A breath of Fresh Aire Chip Davis of Mannheim Steamroller brings The Music of Nature to Lincoln. Proceeds from Sunday’s concert at the Bob Devaney Sports Center and the rest of the tour will benefit Yellowstone National Parte. Nuclear activist protests waste dump r Speaker encourages safe sexy ' better partner communication By Matt Merek ; Staff Reporter k nationally renowned speaker is spread ing a message of safe sex and sexual - ^ pride. Suzi Landolphi told about 50 people in the Nebraska Union on Sunday night that she doesn’t want sexuality 10 go back to W torian days when people were ashamed of iheir sexuality, but she doesn’t want things to stay the way they are nov . In her talk, “Hot, Sexy and Safer,” she defined safer sex as communication, hon esty and trust. People need words to communicate suc cessfully, Landolphi said, even when talk ing about sex. Discussing sex with a partner can be em barrassing, she Laid, but, as the couple talks more, it eventually becomes easier. Honesty includes wailing to have inter course, not faking orgasms, and not expos ing each other to sexually transmitted dis eases, she said. Honesty also involves sexually satisfy ing a partner in ways other than intercourse and being comfortable about having sex with the lights on, she said. Partners should trust each other enough to be comfortable with using condoms to protect from sexually transmitted diseases, she said. Ljmdolphi discussed the most nsky meth ods to get AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. AIDS can only be sexually acquired through the exchange of semen, blood or vaginal fluids, she said. Anal intercourse is the easiest way to gel AIDS, she said, because anal tissue can rip and tear easily thus causing bodily fluids to be exchanged. She recommended that people forgo this method of sex. Vagina) intercourse is the second easiest way to get AIDS because minor irritations See $PEAKERon5 Recycling project calls on local bars and restaurants for bottles By Julia Mikolajcik Staff Reporter Eleven bars and restaurants in downtown Lincoln will participate in an experi mental beer-bottle recycling project for nine months beginning in May. Gene Hanlon, city recycling coordinator, said the city conducted a survey of all bars and restaurants in Lincoln to sec if they were inter ested in recycling bottles. About one-third of the establishments sur veyed said they were interested, but only 11 agreed to participate. Hanlon said 55 percent of downtown restau rants and bars presently recycle aluminum cans. But he said none recycle bottles. The Nebraska Department of Environ mental Control started the project with a $35,000 grant to the city as part of the litter-reduction and recycling program. Lincoln officials put the project up for bid for any group that wanted to take charge, Hanlon said. Two organizations, the Nebraska Recycling Center, and Citizens for Environ mental Improvement, made proposals, he said, but the latter group w ithdrew its proposal. The project will begin w hen 32-gallon con tainers i'or the bottles arrive. It will last at least nine months to determine if it could be ex panded to other bars and restaurants and to determine if it will be economically feasible to continue. The following restaurants and bars will participate in the program: Barrymore’s, The Bistro, Brittany’s, The Comhusker, Duffy’s Tavern, Ellcven, Julio’s, Lincoln University Club, P.O. Pears, Spigot and W.C.’s. Cori Amend, manager of Barrymore’s, said, “We decided to do n to help out with the environmental issue.’’ Amend said Barrymore’s already recycles its beer bottles but will put liquor bottles in the containers the city will provide. Scott Boles, manager of El leven, said he thinks it is important to recycle, and the pro gram just makes it easier for him to contribute. “Everyone needs to do their part to pre serve’’ the environment, Boles said. Zoo Bar manager Keith Landgrcn said his See RECYCLING on 5
