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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.
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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.
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2) Quality of the program.
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4) Impact on undergraduate and II
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area and on other program
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5) Impact on female faculty and I
female students. |||§
6) Impact on tenured and
tenure-track faculty.
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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
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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
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Magic
Johnson retir
ing from bas
ketball. Page
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Chancellor
approves ticket cancellation.
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Huskers traveling to Kansas.
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Wynton Marsalis to appear at
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Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 7
A&E 9
Classifieds 11
