ASUN prepares to ‘catch up’
By Angie Brunkow
Staff Reporter
Tonight’s AS UN meeting will give
senators a chance to catch up on uni
versity issues, said Andrew Sigerson,
president of the Association of Stu
dents of the University of Nebraska.
said the
” meet
give
itudcnt
nt an
y to get
ain and
0-ited for
the upcoming school year.
Sigerson said he would update
senators on university events that
occurred over the summer.
He also will discuss progress on a
campus rape awareness project he is
trying to organize with help from
Jayne Wade Anderson, director of
Greek Affairs, U NL Pol ice Chief Ken
Caublc, the Student Judicial Affairs
Office, the University Health Center
and university faculty and staff
members.
Also, senators will create a bill
directing the Government Liaison
Committee to begin preparing for the
university’s budget debate in the
Nebraska Legislature.
“It’ll be a major project holding
our own in the Legislature,” Sigcrson
said.
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UNL plans for increased waste
By Mindy L. Letter
Staff Reporter
In the fall of 1994, UNL will
gain a $31 million research center.
And the research done there will
translate into a 10 percent increase
in hazardous waste a year at the
university.
UNL’s Environmental Health
and Safely department is gearing
up to handle the expected increase
in nuclear and hazardous waste once
the Beadle Center is in operation,
said Del Weed, manager of envi
ronmental health and safety at UNL.
Weed said plans for managing
the increase in the production of
waste included a new 5000-squarc
foot storage facility on East Cam
pus.
The new facility would allow
UNL to treat its own waste, Weed
said, reducing the 40,000 pounds
of hazardous waste shipped out of
state annually and saving the uni
versity money.
It costs U NL $350 a drum to pay
a contractor to ship hazardous wastes
out of the state, Weed said.
Larry Grimm, manager of the
Radiation Safety Office, estimated
that it costs S1,900 a barrel to trans
port nuclear waste to a low-level
nuclear waste site outside of Ne
braska.
UNL’s new storage facility
would allow it to store leftover
waste chemicals until they could
be transported to other university
departments and used for experi
ments.
Weed said the university already
tries to store and use its waste, but
the new facility would increase the
amount of recycling and storage
space.
Weed also said he was trying to
make researchers aware of Envi
ronmental Protection Agency guide
lines concerning hazardous waste
so they don’t make mistakes han
dling it.
“There have to be plans for each
area of research for the handling of
waste materials,” Weed said. “The
EPA inspects and requires it.”
Weeds credits the potential re
searchers’ cooperation for the ease
of implementing policies to handle
hazardous waste at UNL.
“The persons that we require
the most help from are the genera
tors of waste, and they have been
very receptive to following our
guides,” he said. “If the generators
can follow policy, then we will be
successful.”
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Work-study job fair offers variety,
assistance to financial aid recipients
By Corey Russman
Staff Reporter_
Job seekers, have no fear: the fourth
annual Work-Study Job Fair is just
around the comer.
Students who have been awarded
work-study and have been unable to
find jobs may find their tasks a little
easier, thanks to the Student Employ
ment and internship Center, which
offers the fair.
The event will be today from 9:30
a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Great Hall of the
Wick Alumni Center.
The fair was started in 1989 when
the university decided to let work
study students find jobs instead of
matching up students and employers.
“The students arc the best to de
cide where they want to be,” said*
Emily Wilber, student employment
specialist.
Work-study, which is federal assis
tance earned through part-time em
ployment, is awarded by the Office of
Scholarships and Financial Aid.
During die 1991 -1992 school year.
work-study was offered to almost 2,852
students, but nearly half of these stu
dents rejected the aid, said Jcncll
Severson, an assistant director in the
Office of Scholarships and Financial
Aid. Severson is in charge of work
study.
W ilbcr said those rejections meant
that plenty of jobs arc available for
students who accept the aid.
“The number of jobs exceeds the
number of work-study students,’’
Wilber said.
In fact, some employers leave the
fair with fewer employees than they
need, she said.
Hundreds of positions arc avail
able, and jobs arc varied enough to fit
everyone’s style. Students may be
able to gel jobs with college or ad
r minislrativc offices, libraries, Land
scape Services, and as tour guides or
lab assistants, among others. Most
jobs arc located on UNL’s City or
East campuses, but a few jobs arc not
connected with the university, Wil
ber said.
And the fair docs more than help
students find jobs — it gives them
valuable experience in interviewing,
she said.
Students who want to interview
for positions at the fair must have
their work-study authorization forms,
which they can get at the fair. If
students find jobs they arc interested
in, they may set up interviews for the
same day.
Students who attend the fair must
have been awarded work-study by the
Office of Scholarships and Financial
Aid. If students arc unsure whether
they have been given the award, they
should gel in touch with the financial
aid office.
Although the fair is aimed at help
ing freshmen, sophomores, and trans
fer students, all work-study recipi
ents arc welcome to attend.
Work-study recipients who arc
unable to attend the job fair still can
gel jobs. The job board at 345 Ne
braska Union includes information
about work-study opportunities.
Baldwin hearing postponed
Ambiguous law
raises question
in Baldwin case
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
An ambiguity in a Nebraska law
regarding defendants found not guilty
by reason of insanity, has raised a
new question in the case of UNL
student Andrew Scott Baldwin.
Baldwin, 22, awaits a ruling on
whether he is still considered danger
ous, or whether he should continue
mental treatment after being found
not guilty by reason of insanity for the
Jan. 18 assaults of Gina Simanck
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Mountain and Lincoln police officer
Greg Sims.
Lancaster County District Court
Judge Paul Merritt Jr., postponed a
final decision Monday on whether
Baldwin poses a threat to himself or
others because of ‘^mental illness or
defect.” Newly submitted evidence,
including previous testimony from
Lincoln police and psychiatrists, caused
Merrill to reschedule the hearing for
next Wednesday.
Lancaster County Attorney Gary
Lacey said an ambiguity in the law
may further complicate Merritt’s
decision.
“Right now, the law doesn’t spe
cifically cover someone who could
be dangerous only if they were taken
off medication,” he said.
Baldwin now takes lithium car
bonatc, a depressant, twice a day, and
receives psychiatric treatmentat least
once a week at St. Joseph Medical
Center in Omaha.
At the Monday hearing, Omaha
psychiatrist Donald Swanson submit
ted a letter to Merritt suggesting that
Baldwin continue hisoulpatieni treat
ment program at St. Joseph Medical
Center in Omaha. In the report, Swan
son disclosed that Baldwin is men
tally ill, but that there is no evidence
that he is dangerous as long as he
continues treatment.
Had Merritt not received Swan
son’s psychological report, he would
have had no basis to determine whether
Baldwin was a threat and whether
further treatment was needed. If that
had happened, the Baldwin case would
have been closed.
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