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Kelly Continued from Page 1 The accusation that members are manipulated so that their personali ties are changed to conform to the group5 s norm also is unfounded, Kelly said. The church has 90 adult members, he said, representing a variety of ages and races. “Every member is encouraged to live life like Jesus,55 he said. Kelly also denied the accusation that he encouraged members to drop out of college. If members ask for his advice, he said, he always tells them to finish their education. But Kelly said the accusation that only members of the Lincoln Chris tian Church would be saved might be true. When people leave the church, he said, they could be leaving Cod be cause they are showing that they are, only willing to offer a lower level of commitment to God. Kelly said he was unsure if others would be saved. “I hope there are others, but I have no reason to believe there are,” he said. Many people think they will “fall on the good half when Judgment Day comes” simply because they believe in God, he said. The Lincoln Christian Church, he said, teaches that good works arc also necessary to be saved. Even followers of other religions who hold this belief may not be saved because they make a lower commit ment to God, Kelly said. Kelly said former members were making accusations against the church because they left with bad feelings. No one, he said, is lured into the church by manipulation. “. . . I think all the attacks are unnecessary,” he said. “Nobody is a part of our church that doesn’t want to be.” Missing Continued from Page 1 Harms’ disappearance was sus picious, Wagner said, because there was no reason for Harms to be in the rural area. “It just doesn ’ t seem like a natu ral disappearance,” he said. Wagner said Thursday’s search lasted about six or seven hours in the milo field where a farmer found Harms’ car shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday. The search included many depu ties, members of a rural fire depart ment and helicopters, he said. Todd Sears, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate student and Harms’ boyfriend, said he thought it was a good sign that authorities did not find her in the field, because the weather had been cold the last couple of nights and the exposure could have hurt her. Harms was last seen leaving Sears’ house at 332 N. 22nd St. Tuesday night. Sears and Harms’ father reported her missing at about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. Scars said Harms always took the same route home from his house: She drove east on R Street up to 27th Street, turned north to Vine Street, then drove east to 61 st Street. Harms lives at 6100 Vine St. Sears said he hoped anyone who was in the area Tuesday night and noticed anything out of the ordi nary would report it to the sheriff’s department. I - - - — -^.....— -.-.—. • - ■ —-.—.. .. ..... Al Schaben/DN Sgt. Chuck Barnes stands by as his Army National Guard unit and authorities search a milo field east of North 27th Street and Bluff Road Thursday for Candice Harms, who has been missing since Tuesday night. „ Service sponsors walk to promote safety on campus By Sarah Scalet Staff Reporter UNL police officers and members of the Campus Escort Service hosted a walk Thursday night to educate students about safety on campus. The walk was part of Campus Safety Week at the University of Ne braska-Lincoln. UNL police officer Lisa Yardley, a member of the crime prevention unit, said the walk was organized to point out safety measures to interested stu dents and to see if problems unknown to officers existed. Yardley told students not to walk alone at night and to call a friend before leaving to walk home. Also, she said, students should vary their routes walking home to prevent developing a pattern that could be followed. Brad Prall, chairman of the Cam pus Escort Service, and Brian Burger, a manager of the service, also wenton the walk to show students which paths they preferred to use. One place Prall said he tried to avoid was the area around Memorial Stadium. However, Cpl. Larry Kalkowski emphasized that no route was neces sarily any safer than another. And, he said, being awarfe of sur roundings and knowing what to do in an emergency was necessary. He advised students faced with emergencies to run to lights and people, and to try to use an emergency phone. However, he said, the phones were not just for emergencies. Any time students feel nervous about someone, he said, they should use one of the phones. “Personal safety is a stateof mind,” he said. ^ The UNL Police Department cre ated Safety Week this year to bring safety issues into the open, Yardley said. -» “We have a fairly safe campus,” Yardley said. “We’d just like to keep it that way.” Coaches don t see problem with UNL’s gender inequity Schools work to narrow gap NCAA report shows By Chuck Green Senior Reporter Athletic adm inistrators throughout the coun Uy are searching for ways to resolve gender inequity in college sports, but two University of Nebraska-Lincoln coaches do not see the dis parities as a major problem. A gap between the number of male and female college athletes was revealed last March in a report by the NCAA. It indicated that only 30.9 percent of Division I athletes were women. At UNL, 25.7 percent of the athletes are women. Athletic and faculty representatives from Big Eight universities met in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday and Thursday to discuss how to narrow the gender gap. Rick Walton, Cornhuskcr women’s gym nastics coach, said he didn’t view the gap as a major problem. “We’ve never had much trouble with it,” he said, “but our sport is unique in that we don’t really need more scholarships than we’re given.” At UNL, the women’s gymnastics team is allotted 10 scholarships, while the men’s team is allowed seven. However, the men’s scholar ships arc equivalency scholarships, which can be split among athletes. For example, one male gymnast could be given aid for his books, while another would be allotted money for his room and board — all from one scholarship. The women gymnasts receive only full schol arships. Walton said the only problems with his number of scholarships emerged when injuries occurred. “If you have loo few people, you have to ask your athletes to compete even if they’re not completely healthy," he said, “and that in creases the chance of further injury.” Last season, one of Walton’s gymnasts in jured her knee during warm-ups before the first meet. Thai, along with slow recoveries by other injured gymnasts, resulted in early season prob lems for the Huskcrs, Walton said. “ Wc had to rely on some of our girls compet ing in events they usually don’t compete in,” he said. “It had an effect on us.” One way to allow for more women’s schol arships would be to reduce funding for men’s sports, particularly in football, where NCAA rules allow 92 scholarships. Walton strongly opposes that plan, which is being considered at the Big Eight conference. "That would be like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs,” he said. “Football pays for most of the rest of the athletic department, here and elsewhere, and it would hurt all sports in the long run.” Jay Dirksen, Nebraska’ s cross country coach and the assistant coach of the track teams, agreed. “Because of the way society is, we’ve gotten to a point where it seems like everybody is concerned about an yone getting ahead of some one else,” he said. “That just isn’t what compe tition is all about. It would be like telling Nebraska’s football team that it can only have 75 scholarships, like Iowa Slate has. “It’s just not right.” But Dirksen said more scholarships would benefit both the track and cross country teams. The track team has more events to fill than scholarships available, he said. The team has 16 women’s and 14 men’s scholarships. But the women’s team has 17 events and two relays, and the men’s team has 19 events and two relays. For that reason, the team must rely heavily on non-scholarship walk-on athletes, he said. The cross country team has no scholarships. Because of that, it has to draw many of its runners from the track team, Dirksen said. However, he and Walton said more scholar ships would be helpful only if they weren’t at the expense of the football program. Also, Walton said, pleasing everybody is not possible. “You just have to try to do what’s in the best interests of the majority, and hope it will help.” ——■ 1— —A*. -.. , • . ■ _■_^ __ CLASSIC STYLING 1 (LIMITED OFFER - SAVE $20. TO $30) Take advantage now of this great savings. The Herff Jones Representative Will Be At The University Bookstore, City Campus On September 23 through 26 t