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An article in the Oct. 11
Daily Nebraskan
incorrectly identified a
character in Tartuffe. The
character should have
been Dorine, played by
Missy Thibodeaux. The
Daily Nebraskan regrets
the error.
UNL delays
tightening
of standards
for admission
By Susie Arth
Senior Reporter
Tougher admissions standards for fresh
men at the University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln probably will be postponed until
1997, an official said.
James Gricsen, vice chancellor for student
affairs at UNL, said the effective date, which ,
was originally 1996, was postponed so that all
high school students would have four years to
meet the new requirements.
The requirements probably will be intro
duced to the NU Board of Regents in Novem
ber, he said. Gricsen said university adm inistra
tors were expecting a decision in December or
January.
“I'm not that concerned (w i th the delay),” he
said. “Most high schools arc advising their
students to meet the requirements even though
they haven’t been adopted yet.”
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Police caution
citizens against
phone con artists
By Shelley Biggs
Senior Reporter
Telephone scam artists operating in Lin
coln arc impersonating police officers
to swindle citizens and local businesses
out of money, an official said.
Jeff Hanson,public information coordinator
for the Nebraska State Patrol, said investigators
were looking into two recent incidents — one
in Lincoln and another just outside of Lincoln
— in which people were asked to wire money
through Western Union for pickup in another
state.
The con artists find out that someone isjput
of town, Hanson said, and then call the person’s
co-workers and relatives and say he or she has
been in an accident. The con artists say they
need money sent right away to release the
needed paperwork on the accident, he said.
In a press release warning about the scam,
the State Patrol reported that a Lincoln com
pany wired $250 to the con artists. Company
workers had second thoughts and called West
ern Union within the hour, but the money
already had been picked up,
A Western Union official said a person did
not need identification to pick up money if a
consensual message was given beforehand by
the sender and the receiver.
Investigators arc sure more than one person
is involved in the scam, Hanson said.
The State Patrol wants Nebraskans to know
lhalpolicc officers do not call citizens to ask for _£
money in any emergency, whether it be for bail,
medical payment or paperwork, Hanson said. *
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Richard Nockai-Diaz, co-chairman of the Gay/Lesbian Coalition for Civil
Rights, spends a silent moment in memory of AIDS victims during Friday
night s candlelight vigil.
Memory lane
Vigil, walkcall attention to AIDS
By Mindy Leiter
Staff Reporter
Aboul 40 people attended a candle
light vigil and walk Friday night to
show their commitment to HIV
awareness and to remember those who have
died of AIDS. *
Participants met at 12th and O streets and
marched to the north side of the State Capi
tol.
The fifth annual walk and vigil, spon
sored by the Minority Aids Education Task
Force, was a symbolic act to affirm mem
bers’ solidarity against the disease and re
new their commitment to AIDS victims,
said Joel Gajardo, coordinator of the task
force.
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Sleepout offers
brief glimpse of
homelessness
By Jeff Zeleny
Staff Reporter
Sleeping outside on hard, frost-covered
grass was a one-night adventure for most
people.
For Leonard, it was no ad venture, only a part
of everyday life.
Leonard is homeless and alone; but Friday
evening, more than 100 people joined him at
Centennial Mall for the Great Plains Winter
Sleepout. People from different walks of life
volunteered to spend one night away from their
homes.
Please see related story and photos on
pages 6 and 7.
Joan Hunter of Lincoln has a special interest
in the homeless problem.
Hunter, 51, worked at the Peoples City
Mission in Lincoln for three years, but said she
didn’t fully understand the problem until she
became homeless after moving to Seattle.
“Living in the shelter was interesting be
cause I got to sec it from the other side,” she
said. “It taught me about how I treated people
when I worked at the mission. If you work in a
place like that, after a while you gel jaded to it.
You don’t treat people like you did when you
first started.”
Hunter is now a counselor for the Lancaster
Office on Mental Retardation, but she said she
remained deeply concerned about the homeless
problem in Lincoln and the United States. Just
because people participate in the slccpout
doesn’t mean they know what it’s like to sleep
out every night, she said.
During the first partoftheevening, speakers
and entertainers performed for the crowd, but
Hunter was distracted. Homeless solutions and
politics were on her mind, she said.
“If we don’t sec a political turnaround soon,
we’ll sec a lot more homeless,” she said.
-“Inflation has hit most people hard, and George
Bush doesn’t care.”
By 8 p.m., Hunter had donned her third pair
of socks, w hile others were keeping warm with
an endless supply of coffee and sandwiches
supplied by the Salvation Army.
More than 1,500 cups of coffee were distrib
uted by 7 a.m., said Jean Williams of the
Salvation Army. About 2,500 cheese, bologna
and peanut butter sandwiches were handed out
at the Salvation Army Canteen.
As the 11 o’clock hour approached, the
crowd thinned out, and the speakers left the
stage. People started climbing into their sleep
ing bags to settle in for the cold evening outside.
Others packed up to go home.
Hunter said she couldn’t believe that people
were leaving the slccpout early.
“If (homeless people) can do it all the time,”
she said. “We can do it one night.”
By 2 a.m., silence fell over the remaining
participants. The once bustlingCemewwal Mall
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Applications to attend UNL have increased 10 times compared
to the same time last year. —
UNL receives more applications
By Kristine Long
Staff Reporter __
The number of high school stu
dents showing interest in the
University of Nebraska-Lin
coln has risen since last year at this
time, a UNL official said. '
Cari Kadavy, assistant to the direc
tor of admissions, said the office had
received more than 10 times the fresh
man applications that it had received
by this time last fall.
Last year at this time, the admis
sions office had received only 73 ap
plications, she said. This year, the
office has received 763.
That increase may be deceiving,
she said, because the admissions of
fice sent applications to interested
high school seniors two weeks earlier
this year.
But Kadavy said the number of
students who had their ACT or SAT
scores sent to UNL also had increased.
Lisa Schmidt, director of high
school and college relations, said she
thought interest in UNL also had in
creased, but she did not have exact
numbers.
“We’ve seen an increase because
we’ve been trying to generate more
interest,” Schmidt said.
Schmidt said her office had been
visiting more schools and responding
faster to students’ requests for appli
cations.
Six years ago, the Office of High
School and College Relations visited
only about 75 schools each year,
Schmidt said, in recent years, the
office has visited 550 schools a year,
she said:
Schmidt said Red Letter Days
started Friday and would last through
Dec. 4. She is wailing to see whether
attendance increases, she said.