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April 9, 1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 89 No. 100 , ^ ^
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Compact may decrease
out-of-state tuition costs
By Jerry Guenther
Staff Reporter
Students from part of the Mid
west may be able to attend
colleges in other states with
out having to pay out-of-state tuition
if an educational compact becomes
established.
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.
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When people are in
the mode of cooper
ating, they can do
almost anything.
Sirotkin
compact senior consultant
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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