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Governor signs athlete-aid bill into law
By Lisa Donovan
Senior Reporter
Gov. Ben Nelson signed into
law Thursday a bill that al
lows student athletes at Ne
braska’s postsecondary educational
institutions to receive the full amount
of need-based financial aid for which
they are eligible.
The law clashes with current NCAA
rules allowing students to accept only
a portion of need-based financial aid.
In a letter to state senators, Nelson
said he thought the majority of legis
lators wanted to “send a strong mes
sage” to the NCAA.
By signing the bill into law, I
have joined them (senators) in the
fervent hope that this voluntary na
tional organization will do the right
thing and allow both needy and aca
demically talented young Americans
to draw all the student aid for which
they qualify,” he said.
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha,
LB69’s sponsor, who said he was
criticized heavily for proposing the
bill, said he was happy to see the
governor sign it.
“I was as pleased by die rationale
he (Nelson) included in his letter as I
am by his signature,” Chambers said.
Chambers said he has been trying
to get the bill, m some form, signed
into law for about three years now.
He said he will pursue another
NCA A-violating bill that lawmakers
voted down this session. The bill would
call for paying members of the NU
football team.
Sen. Elroy Hefner of Coleridge, a
long-time foe of LB69, said he was
disappointed the financial aid bill
passed into law.
‘‘I fought the battle all the way
through,” he said.
Hefner said he will work with the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln to
examine how the law will affect stu
dent athletes.
He said he was pleased the law
will not go into effect until June 1, i
1992, so the Nebraska Legislature I
has an additional session to see if it is •
what the state wants.
Predicting Nebraska’s colleges and
universities will be sanctioned, Hefner i
said he fears the NCAA may revoke
football teams’ television rights or
not allow the teams to participate in
bowl games.
Rich Hilliard, a director of en
forcement for the NCAA, said it would
be up to the other members of the
athletic association to sanction Ne
braska’s college and university ath
letic programs.
Professors:Arab reactions unpredictable
By Alan Phelps
Start Reporter
As the war in the Persian Gulf
winds down, three University
of Nebraska-Lincoln profes
sors cautioned that coalition coopera
tion won’t necessarily lead to im
proved American-Arab relations.
“I guess I wouldn’t anticipate any
major change. It’s difficult to gener
alize for all Arabs. There will be
different reactions in different places,’’
said Lloyd Ambrosius, a UNL history
professor.
Jessica Coope, an assistant history
professor, said the United States proba
bly would enjoy improved relations
with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, but
cited Jordan as an example of a coun
try with which relations would worsen.
While David Forsythe, a political
science professor at UNI., agreed that
different countries will react in dif
ferent ways, he said problems in the
region would continue whether or not
American-Arab relations were im
proved.
“I don’t think everything will be
nice and easy for the U.S. in the
Middle East. There will always be
problems in the Middle East. It’s quite
clear you have demonstrations in
Amman, Jordan, and Cairo, Egypt,
against the U.S. It’s not as if everyone
in the Arab world was terribly happy
with us.
“Anyone who is optimistic about
the Middle East doesn’t understand
the Middle East,’’ he said.
Forsythe said he had thought the
United States casualty figure would
be higher at the end of the war.
“The Iraqi forces did have a track
record of fighting well defensively.
The collapse of their forces took
everyone by surprise,” he said.
He added that these types of ques
tions of power are frequently answered
on the battlefield.
“No one knows ahead of time what
the will of the armies is, or how effec
tive the bombing will be,” he said.
“There’s no way to be scientific about
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If the member states decide to take
ssue with Nebraska’s new law, Hil
iard said, it probably would be at the
uinual NCAA convention in January
1992.
However, “the membership may
tot find it a pressing issue” and may
lot address it, Hilliard said.
Bob Devaney, NU athletic direc
tor, said he would work toward con
vincing the NCAA to change its fi
nancial aid rules so the slate would be
in compliance with the athletic asso
:iation’s regulations.
“We’re (athletic department) not
against it... (but) I do not want to be
in violation of NCAA rules,” he said.
Iraq agrees to talks about a
cease-fire and return of prison
ers of war. Page 2.
‘Big sister’ diver serves as a role
model for teammates. Page 7.
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Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 7
A&E 9
Classifieds 11
vending machines
to supply condoms
in residence halls
By Carissa Moffat
Staff Reporter _
Although condom machines will not be
placed in the residence halls, plans now
call for the placement of discreet con
dom packages in vending machines, housing
officials said.
Doug Zatechka, director of housing at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said the hous
ing department has ruled out the installation of
condom machines in residence halls because
other schools that have them report they aren ’t
used.
“If we’re going to do something that tries to
provide some attention to the prevention of
disease, including AIDS, and the prevention of
pregnancy, there is some merit in doing some
thing that works,” he said. “What we’re look
ing at right now is packaging the devices along
with spermicidal cream, depending on the cost
of all these things.
“We also have to make the point that there
are other means of protection, including absti
nence,” he said.
“Whatever we do, the packaging will in
clude educational material."
He said the housing department plans to put
the packages in small envelopes and offer them
through the vending machines in the halls.
That way, if a student goes to buy condoms,
he said, there is some sense of privacy.
Zatechka said the deparunent first looked at
ways to have condoms for sale in discreet ways
across the counters at residence hall snack bars
or front desks. But officials thought that might
inhibit some students from purchasing the
packages, he said.
Belise Draper, RHA residential enhance
ment chairperson, said the goal of the Resi
dence Hall Association was to get condoms
into residence halls in some form.
“We would like to have condoms in the
dorms because of the convenience of having
them there,” she said.
She said the University Health Center, which
sells condoms from an honor system fishbowl,
is not easily accessible for students who live in
some residence halls and that the majority of
the several hundred students she has talked to
are in favor of having condoms available in the
ha*Draper said RHA plans to infomi students of
the availability of condoms through programs
by peer sexuality educators from the Univer
sity Health Center. ^ . .
Zatechka and Draper both agreed that the
cost of the packages should be kept low. but no
price has been set.
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Kristi Truex, the ENERGY candidate for first vice president for ASUN, emphasizes her point during the debate at
the Culture Center Thursday night as presidential candidate j. Matt Wickless listens.
Candidates debate ASUN power for change
By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter
Executive candidates of three parties
running for
ASUN said in
a debate Thursday they
will use ASUN’s power
to change policies af
fecting UNL students,
but the parties disagreed
about taking a day off
from school.
Andy Massey, presidential candidate for
UNITY, said the Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska currently has the
G)wer to effect change in problem areas.
e cited English fluency tests for profes
sors, which would be more stringent under a
legislative bill and higher admissions stan
dards, which are being considered by uni
versity administrators, as policies student
government can influence.
“Under the established power, students
united can do quite a bit,” he said.
J. Malt Wickless, presidential candidate
for ENERGY, agreed.
Wickless said that in the past, AS UN
didn’t lack the power to make changes, but
lacked energy to solve problems.
“ASUN does have the power. It’s a mat
ter of whether ASUN does it or not,” he said.
ASUN members should have common goals
to change apathetic attitudes, he said, and
band together to lobby for student interests.
Kristi Truex, ENERGY first vice presi
dential candidate, said her party’s plan —
action, involvement and public relations —
would strengthen ASUN, which could then
work more effectively to further student
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