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Federal bills
would improve
campus safety
Proposed legislation aimed
at helping victims of crime
By Adeana Leftin
Senior Reporter
bill that would require campuses to
consider the rights of sexual assault
victims would help the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, an official said Tuesday.
Cindy Douglas, assistant to the coordinator
of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s
Women’s Resource Center, said she approved
of the legislation, which would require cam
puses to disclose crime statistics and a victims’
bill of rights.
“This legislation will help, instead of trying
to cover up that campuses are unsafe,” she said.
The Campus Sexual Assault Victims Bill of
Rights, introduced by Rep. Jim Ramstad, R
Minn., already has 108 co-sponsors in the House
of Representatives.
The bill has been assigned to the Education
and Labor Committee until the House returns
to session Sept. 11.
Alison Kuller, an intern with Rep. Peter
Hoagland’s office, D-Neb., said the bill will
come up this fall as part of the Higher Educa
tion Rcauthorizalion Act.
Ramstad, in commentary to the Minneapo
lis Star Tribune on June 19, wrote that in rape
cases “colleges and universities have taken it
upon themselves to serve as judge and jury in
what should be a criminal proceeding.”
The legislation would allow colleges and
universities to operate in the best interest of the
victim, he wrote.
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UNL language lab implements strict rules
Computerized system
to stop falsified records
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
To keep foreign language students from
falsifying information on lab cards, the
UNL language lab has implemented
stricter attendance procedures.
Most foreign language instructors at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln require stu
dents to spend lime at the language lab. At the
lab, students use headphones and taped lessons
to supplement course work with verbal prac
tice.
This year, said Hans Gildc, UNL assistant
professor of modern languages and literatures,
the language department abandoned the use of
lab cards in favor of a computerized system.
In the past, students were assigned cards to
record time spent in the lab by hand. To vali
date the attendance time, a lab attendant stamped
the card when students finished.
“There were problems in the past with stu
dents making fake stamps,” said Rita Ricaurte,
a Spanish 102 teacher. “Now we’ll have a very
accurate account of who was in the lab.”
In the new system, students must present
their UNL ID cards to the language lab atten
dant. The attendant then scans the cards, using
a magnetic strip reader that records the time on
a computer when students check in and out of
the lab.
Gildc said the change was economical be
cause students already had ID cards and the
computer to store the information already was
in place. The only purchase was the magnetic
strip reader, which Gilde said cost about $400.
The new recording system has been coupled
with a limit on the amount of lime students can
spend at the lab during one visit.
Students now can spend a maximum of 50
minutes in the lab at any one time, because the
computer does not give credit for time after the
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Opinion 4
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Grant allows AG*SAT
construction to expand
batellite network links college classrooms
to let professors instruct across country
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
AG*S AT, a national educational
network headquartered at
UNL, has received a $500,000
grant to begin the second phase of
construction on its satellite network,
which links university classrooms
throughout the United States.
Jack McBride, Agricultural Satel
lite Corporation executive director,
said the grant will give AG *S AT “the
opportunity to extend its technical
system by adding more receivers and
transmission sites” to its network.
AG*SAT allows 34 land-grant
universities to share college agricul
ture courses.
Twelve universities will receive
funding through the grant, which was
awarded by the Department of Com
merce. The University of Nebraska
Lincoln will receive eight satellite
reception antennas and equipment for
the AG*SAT Satellite Operations
Center.
With AG*SAT, McBride said, a
professor from one institution can teach
a course via satellite to students reg
istered for the class at other schools.
Students have the opportunity to inter
act with the professor through com
puter and telephone.
Don Edwards, dean of the College
of Agricultural Sciences and Natural
Resources, said that when the pro
gram first went online in January, two
courses were offered — one from
Iowa State University and one from
Penn State. UNL students were en
rolled in both classes, Edwards said.
The program allows UNL students
access to the “best expertise in these
(agriculture) areas that the country
has to offer,” he said.
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