Shop owner’s case
is delayed by plea
By Michael Ho
Staff Reporter'
A plea filed by a Lincoln automo
tive repair shop owner’s attorney has
delayed the owner’s prosecution for
at least a month, a deputy county
attorney said this week.
Judson R. Cushing, owner of Judson
Automotive Ltd., 601 N. 27th St., is
charged with one count of theft and
with two counts of theft by deception.
The state filed the charges in March
on behalf of two University of Ne
braska-Lincoln students and a UNL
graduate.
Cushing’s attorney filed a plea in
abatement Monday. A plea in abate
ment is a request that a judge review
again the evidence in the case to ensure
that probable cause exists for a trial.
Because the judge will have to
review 1,700 pages of transcripts, a
decision isn’t expected until late
September, said David Stempson,
Lancaster County deputy attorney.
No trial date can be set until a
decision has been reached on the plea.
The theft charge is a result of alle
gations by Katharine Taber, a UNL
law student who took her car to Judson
Automotive last year for an estimate
on clutch and engine repairs.
She has testified that Judson Auto
motive dismantled the car and started
repairs without her authorization. The
shop refused to release the car until
she paid S439 for the unauthorized
repairs, she testified.
The slate alleges that that consti
tutes actual theft of the car, not at
tempted theft, because the shop de
prived Taber of her car for 20 days.
The two charges of theft by decep
tion were filed after two students tes
tified that Judson Automotive charged
them for new parts after the shop
dismantled the cars’ engines and re
installed the old parts.
A fourth charge of criminal mis
chief was dismissed June 27 by Judge
Gale Pokomy, who cited insufficient
evidence to support the charge.
At the arraignment in District Court
July 18, Cushing declined to respond
to the charges. As a result, the court
entered automatic pleas of not guilty
on all three counts.
Theft of property worth more than
$1,000 is a Class III felony, punish
able by a maximum of 25 years in
prison and a fine of $25,000. Theft by
deception is a Class IV felony, which
carries a maximum penalty of five
years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
uNL students to see fees
increase by 10.7 percent
By Jennifer Davis
Staff Reporter
New programs and higher staff
salaries mean University of Nebraska
Lincoln students will be paying 10.7
percent more in student fees this year
than last year, said James Gricsen,
vice chancellor for student affairs.
Full-time students will pay $155
in student fees per semester, while
part-time students will pay $70 per
semester, Griescn said. About S6.8
million in student fees should be col
lected, he said.
Each student will pay $5.14 more
for improvements to the Lee & He
lene Sapp Recreation Facility, Grie
sen said. The fee will increase again
when Phase: III of the campus recrea
tion project is completed.
A 9.3-perccnt salary increase for
Fund B employees also raised student
fees, Griescn said. Fund B finances
the Nebraska Unions on City and East
campuses, the Commonplace, the
University Health Center and the Office
of Campus Recreation.
A 38.5-percent increase in the cost
of employee health insurance also
contributed to the increase in student
fees, Griesen said.
A 10-percent increase in fuel costs
to run the unions, the Commonplace,
the health center and campus recrea
tion also raised fees, he said.
Fund A fees, which finance stu
dent-run organizations such as the
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, the University
Program Council and the Daily Ne
braskan, arc refundable to students
upon request. Griesen said S7.54 could
be refunded, out of the SI55 to be
paid this year in student fees.
AS UN fees are $2.67, UPC fees
$4.03 and Daily Nebraskan fees $.84.
Fewer than 1 percent of university
students request a refund. Griesen
said. When students receive a refund
of the UPC fees, they arc ineligible to
attend UPC-sponsorcd cvcnLs, he said.
Fund B fees are not refundable.
Each student pays $23.94 to the
Office of Campus Recreation, $72.98
for the health center, $29.04 for the
unions and $21.50 for debt service.
Michelle Paulman/Dally Nebraskan
Tom Kunz, junior news-editorial major, watches as his ID card is scanned at the University
Bookstore. Starting this semester, the photo ID card will be the only one accepted at UNL.
Photo ID to be only accepted card
By Jennifer Dods
Staff Reporter
Only one identification card -- the
photo ID -- is needed by students this
year at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, said Doug Zatechka, direc
tor of university housing.
This is the second year UNL has
used the student ID card and it will be
the only one accepted throughout the
university, including the libraries,
residence halls and athletic games,
Zatechka said.
Daryl Swanson, director of the
Nebraska Unions, said the card would
be integrated fully at UNL this fall
when the Nebraska Union cash regis
ters are programmed to accept it as a
charge card.
Swanson said about 23,000 stu
dents had photo IDs.
Warren Embree, systems coordi
nator of support services for the uni
versity, said about 1 percent of stu
dents, or 200 to 220, did not have ID
cards yet.
4 ‘Studentson campus this fall who
don’t have their cards will run into
certain roadblocks,” Swanson said.
To use the Lee & Helene Sapp
Recreation Facility, students must
present their cards which will pass
through a computer scanner to check
their student status. Full-time students
who have paid their student fees and
part-time students who have paid
special fees are allowed to use the
center.
Scanners also are used by the ath
letic ticket office when students pick
up tickets and enter football games
with another student’s football ticket.
The residence halls use scanners to
check whether students have paid their
food service fees, Zatechka said.
“Electronic scanning is working
very, very well,” he said.
Other places on campus do not
scan, but require that students show
their ID cards. At the Office of Regis
tration and Records, students must
show their IDs when requesting tran
scripts.
At the student accounts office, they
need their ID to pick up checks for
loans and financial aid. At the bur
sar’s office, they need it to receive
paychecks.
Also, students must show their IDs
at the University Health Center, at
student elections and to enter Univer
sity Program Council events, Zatcchka
said.
UNL started the $310,000 system
last fall to combine several ID cards
into one easy-to-use card, he said.
The photo card also will keep stu
dents from abusing the system by
preventing non-students from using
student services and getting into foot
ball games.
All freshmen and students in resi
dence halls received the cards last
fall. Other students had a choice of
the photo card or the oid plastic cards,
Zatcchka said. In the spring semes- \
ter, only photo IDs were given to
those students wanting a valid ID. All j
UNL departments required the card
except the libraries.
Anita Cook, coordinator of auto
mated systems for the libraries, said
that at the end of May, the libraries
changed their computer systems to
accept only the photo IDs.
Beginning and reluming students
don’t need to do anything but update
their photo IDs by filling out an appli
cation when they check out their first
books from the libraries, Cook said.
rreshman rriday gets new name, programs
By Kara Wells
Staff Reporter
The return of Freshman Friday to
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’
this year is marked not only by a new
name, Big Red Welcome, but by the
addition of three programs.
Bill Schlautman, New Student
Enrollment assistant for Big Red
Welcome, said the name was changed
because the average age of students
had increased. He said the word
freshman’’ was misleading because
there were more nontradilional stu
dents attending UNL.
Another reason for the name change,
Schlautman said, is that Big Red
Welcome is not only for freshmen,
but also for transfer and graduate
students.
Pat McBride, coordinator for New
1 i
Student Programs and Services for
Campus Activities and Programs, said
three new programs were being of
fered Friday at Big Red Welcome. To
emphasize that the Big Red Welcome
is not just for freshmen, programs for
nontraditional, graduate and interna
tional students have been added, he
said.
These three programs arc in addi
tion to various support activities for
new students, McBride said. He said
other activities include a class sched
ule tour, a Strategies for Success ses
sion, and sessions for students to meet
their college dean.
Tim Moore, coordinator for co
curritular programming for CAP, said
there would be a welcome festival at
the Bob Devaney Sports Center track
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday. He said
booths would be set up for student
groups and local businesses, offering
information and services to new stu
dents. «
Moore said about 200 booths would
be at the festival.
Big Red Welcome wraps up Fri
day night with the Party on the Plaza,
which Moore said “is designed to
welcome new students to the univer
sity.”
Organized by the University Pro
gram Council, the Party on the Plaza
features entertainment by the Lincoln
Jugglers Association, a caricaturist,
and the band Mr. Peabody, Moore
said.
About 2,300 people attended last
year’s Party on the Plaza.
At the end of a busy week,
the last thing a student needs
is something else to do.
Consider this: St. Mark's on the Campus
Episcopal (Anglican) Student Center
13th & R Streets 474-1979
Sunday Evenings:
5:00pm Eucharist
5:30pm Buffet Supper (free)
_6:00pm Program & Fellowship