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-----— H ‘ ■ . • . ' . • ^ ^ | I I” USllAy 40/25 I I Today, mostly sunny. To I ^LJ night, mostly clear. Satur ■ W ■ day, increasing cloudiness, JL I_hgh around 50. Congress mulling act to encourage police service Scholarships would be traded for work in law enforcement By Jeremy Fitzpatrick Senior Reporter In an effort to entice more college students to pursue careers in law enforcement, lawmakers in Congress are considering legislation that would pay college costs in exchange for four years of service as a police officer. The Police Corps and Law Enforcement Training and Education Act, part of the 1991 Violent Crime and Control bill, wouldcreatea system simi lar to the military’s Reserve Officer Training Corps. Participants would be awarded scholarships of up to $7,500 per academic year to pursue an undergraduate or graduate degree at a four year institution of higher learning. Students in the program would have to maintain satisfactory academic progress and participate in two eight-week training sessions on basic law enforcement to maintain their scholarships. After graduation, they would be required to serve for four years in a state or local police force. Assignments would be based on geographic areas with the greatest need for police officers and on considerations of where officers could be used most effectively. However, attempts would be made to place individuals near their home areas. See POLICE on 3 Off the beaten path A lone student makes his way across the railroad tracks under the 10th Street overpass Thursday morning. As temperatures dropped Wednesday, Lincoln received an additional 3 inches of snow. Student members balance budget, books Committee’s obligations force student resignation By Roger Price Staff Reporter Time constraints have forced the resigna tion of one of five student members of the Budget Reduction Review Commit tee, a student leader said. Andy Massey, president of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, said Ann Brede, a senior nursing major, resigned q | inprj from the committee because D U U Va t I of academic concerns. rk| “Being on the committee,” ' Massey said, “is such a big § time commitment that some students can’t afford it academically.” Massey said he has appointed Susan Oxley, a sophomore speech communication major, to fill the position. Student members on the BRRC are Rob Broomfield, a senior business major; Shawn Burnham, a senior political science major; Don Dibbem, a graduate student in business; Jason Krieser, a junior in agriculture and natural resources; and Oxley. Massey said that despite having only two days to select the student members of the BRRC, he tried to find a diverse group of students who had the time the committee re quires, were well-educated about the univer sity system and would report effectively to ASUN. See BRRC on 6 1) Probable savings. 2) Quality of the program. 3) How essential the program is to M UNL's mission. p 4) Impact on undergraduate and II graduate students majoring in that J|| area and on other program departments P*® 5) Impact on female faculty and I female students. |||§ 6) Impact on tenured and tenure-track faculty. 7) Integrity of programs that require/ i their students to take courses / / offered by a targeted program. w Ami© DoFrain/DN Official says criteria to ease budgeting By Diane Brayton Senior Editor Unofficial guidelines proposed at a recent Academic Program Council meeting will facilitate discussion of recommended budget cuts, a UNL official said. Roy Sneddon, an APC member and an associate professor of civil pi mPCT engineering at the DUUUC I university of r\l& Nebraska-Lin * _ coin, said he pro w# ( S posed seven cri teria Wednesday in an attempt to outline future actions of the commit tee. “The purpose (of the guidelines) is simply to allow the committee to untangle a very complex decision making process,” he said. The proposed guidelines would judge the programs slated for cuts based on probable savings; quality of program; impact on undergraduate and graduate students majoring in that area and other departments within the institution, and impact on tenured and tenure-track faculty. They also would target how essen tial the program is to UNL’s mission, the effect on female faculty and stu dents and the integrity of other pro grams that require their students to take courses offered by the targeted program. The guidelines emphasize various points brought up during public hear ings in October, Sneddon said. At those hearings, representatives of programs affected by proposed budget cuts offered testimony. The proposed cuts arc in response to a legislative mandate that UNL cut its budget by 2 percent this year and 1 percent next year. Thomas Zorn, chairman of the APC, said the committee established offi cial guidelines last spring that would be used to decide what budget-cut ting recommendations it would make to the UNL chancellor. “I’m sure those (the established guidelines) will form the basis of our discussion,” he said. But, Zorn said, the “points of dis cussion” suggested by Sneddon re flect the established guidelines. The idea of proposing the guide lines was prompted by some mem bers’ desire for a set format to guide APC discussion following hearings, Zorn said. Even if the guidelines arc adopted, he said, “different people are going to evaluate each program slightly dif ferently. That’s human nature.” For example, he said, the student member of APC might weigh the impact of a certain cut differently than an administrative member. The APC will probably consider adopting the proposed guidelines at its next meeting, he said. Foreign language studies on the rise Total enrollment rive mosx popular 6,547 language courses in Fall 1991 Total enrollment 1) Spanish 1,350 2) French 608 3) German 433 4) Russian 154 5) Japanese 100 •85-’86 ’87-'88 'B9-'90 Source: Harriet Turner, chairwoman of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures - Ami* D«fraln/DN Global concerns spur increases in nation, UNL By Jared Wittwer Staff Reporter International political and eco nomic changes have spurred foreign language enrollment both nationwide and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, language officials said. Since 1980, national enrollment in foreign language courses has grown by 30 percent, said Beilina Huber, director of research for the Modern Language Association in New York. Harriet Tumer, chairwoman of the Department of Modem Languages and Literatures, said the creation of the European Economic Community, the collapse of communism and the ris ing economic power of Japan are all reasons for Americans to become proficient in one or more foreign lan -nd towards a more global community has made Americans acutely aware of the need to study foreign languages, Turner said. The United States “can no longer expect to dominate the economic and cul tural life of our time,” she said. Japanese, Russian and Spanish language courses have experienced the largest increases in enrollment nationally and at UNL, Huber and Turner said. Nationally, the number of students taking foreign languages in 1990 was See LANGUAGE on 6 Magic Johnson retir ing from bas ketball. Page 2 Chancellor approves ticket cancellation. Page 3 Huskers traveling to Kansas. Page 7 Wynton Marsalis to appear at Lied. Page 9 INDEX Wire 2 Opinion 4 Sports 7 A&E 9 Classifieds 11