Stalking
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Lancaster County attorney Gary Lacey
called the bill that was passed last year
“inadequate.”
“The victim was only covered by law if
they were stalked by a person who threat
ened to kill or do serious bodily injury,”
Lacey said.
“The bill now covers activities (commit
ted by stalkers) that arc so subtle in nature,”
Lacey said. These activities include follow
ing or stalking a person or telephoning the
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/ have had my life threat
ened, and my parent’s lives
have been threatened, as
well as those of my friends.
I’m tired of it, I just want to
live. I want to be free.
— Hennecke
stalking victim
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person.
Lori Hennecke of Lincoln, who said she
had been stalked for the past two years,
testified in favor of the bill.
She told the committee of the terror that
surrounded herself and those around her.
“I have had my life threatened, and my
parent’s lives have been threatened, as well
as those of my friends,” Hennecke said.
“I’m tired of it, I just want to live,” she
said. “I want to be free.”
Program to help disabled find jobs
By Sarah Scalet
Staff Reporter
Disabled students at UNL and UNO are
being asked what they think about campus
services for the disabled as part of a new
program to help students with disabilities in the
job market, an official said.
Dr. Mary Friehc, co-director of
Postsecondary RESUME, said a survey being
sent out would determine how often students
use services for the disabled and how helpful
those services are. RESUME stands for Rel
evant Employment for Students in University
Mediated Experiences.
The survey,due Feb. 15,also will determine
any additional needs of disabled students and
how those needs can be met, Friehc said.
Once the survey results are known,
Postsecondary RESUME co-directors Friehc,
of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Jan
Leuenbcrgcr, of the University of Nebraska at
Omaha, will determine what steps should be
taken to ease the transition of disabled students
from college to the work force, Friehc said.
The project’s advisory committee, which
will meet Wednesday, will draw together grant
personnel, students with disabilities and busi
ness and university representatives, Friehc said.
Friche said she thought students with dis
abilities might need help preparing for the work
world, both in finding and keeping jobs at their
. skill levels.
“National surveys suggest thalsludenls with
disabilities may have difficulty finding em
ployment,” she said. “When they do get em
ployment, they sometimes have difficulties
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keeping a job, or sometimes are unable to get a
job at a level that is equal to their level of
training.”
Exactly why this occurs is one thing the
project aims to find out, Frichc said. Possible
reasons include employers’ attitudes, work ac
commodations and expectations of graduates.
Postsecondary RESUME will help students
vices, Friehe said.
The one-year grant, which was awarded to
Friehe and Leucnberger last October, can be
renewed for a total of three years, she said. By
the end of those three years the service should
be in place.
People working under the grant include a
full-time project coordinator, a part-time ca
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National surveys suggest that students with disabilities may
have difficulty finding employment. When they do get employ
ment, they sometimes have difficulties keeping a job, or some
times are unable to get a job at a level that is equal to their level
of training.
—Friehe,
co-director of Postsecondary RESUME
with disabilities plan for careers and obtain
appropriate work experience and internships
before they graduate, she said.
The project will coordinate programs al
ready in place at UNL and UNO, she said,
including Career Planning and Placement, the
Office for Students with Disabilities and Voca
tional Rchabililalional Services.
In addition to preparing students for the
work place, the program also will prepare the
work place for the students, Friehc said.
Project members will work with businesses
to help employers understand the capabilities
of disabled students and graduates, she said.
The program is funded by a $135,(XX) grant
from the U.S. Department of Education Office
of Special Education and Rehabilitation Scr
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recr planning and placement counselor, a part
time rehabilitation counselor, and graduate as
sistants at both UNL and UNO, Frichc said.
Poslsecondary RESU ME is part of a nation
wide trend to help citizens with disabilities,
Frichc said.
Although Poslsecondary RESUME is the
first program of its kind in Nebraska, similar
programs exist in other slates, Frichc said.
The Americans with Disabilities Act, passed
in 1990, aimstocliminatcdiscrimination against
people with disabilities and assist them in the
work place, she said.
However, the ADA targets disabled citizens
in general, while Poslsecondary RESUME tar
gets those who arc college graduates, Frichc
said.
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China
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Chai said the United Stales could
speed up the insertion of democracy
by putting pressure on the Chinese
government. She said she was opti
mistic that President Clinton would
do just that.
“We need to attach conditions to
China’s most-favored-nation trade
status with the United States,” Chai
said.
Chai. who became the international
spokeswoman for the Chinese De
mocracy Movement in 1990, is now a
graduate student at Princeton. She
was nominated for the Nobel Peace
Price in 1990 and 1991.
In her time at Princeton, Chai said
she had noticed a huge political and
cultural gap between the United States
and China.
“You havejustelecicd a new presi
dent, and everything is so peaceful,”
she said. “Everything is so smooth
and happy and enjoyable.
“What we wanted three and a half
years ago was the same thing — we
only wanted equal dialogue with our
government officials. Instead of sit
ting down and listening to our voice,
they sent tanks and troops,” she said.
“That is the difference between com
munism and democracy.”
Chai gave a firsthand account of
the incident at Tiananmen Square and
, her flight from China, from the muzzle
flashes of the tank guns to the V0
month exile she endured to escape
from her country.
She said friends, military officers,
civilians and total strangers helped
her and other student leaders marked
for execution flee China.
“They gave me my freedom, that is
true,’’Chai said. “But there was really
nothing left for me.”
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There’s a very strong
tendency toward democ
ratization almost every
where (in the world). I
don’t think China shouldy
be too far behind.
—Chai
Chinese student leader
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Sometimes she said she asks her
self what it would be like if the move
ment and the Tiananmen Square inci
dent had never happened.
“I think of how nice it would be if
my friends were still alive, if my
family would not have been taken
away from me, and if China was still
my home country,” she said. “But
facts tell me, ‘No, the massacre did
happen.’”
Chai said that it was only a matter
of lime until the Chinese accept de
mocracy.
“There’s a very strong tendency
toward democratization almost ev
erywhere (in the world),” she said. “I
don’t think China should be loo far
behind.”
Death
Continued from Page 1
was murdered by Charles Palmer in
1979, said “There’s just no way they
can guarantee with this bill that a
person will serve a life sentence.”
Amicus Nebraska founder William
Beatty Brown of Omaha said LB651
was a “shell game” that promised life
in prisonbut could not deliver. Amicus
Nebraska is a group that supports
capital punishment.
Donald McCall, vice chairman of
the Slate Board of Parole, testified in
favor of repealing the death penalty.
McCall said a murderer sentenced
to life without parole had nochance to
be pardoned unless the Slate Board of
Pardons commuted that sentence,
which is highly unlikely.
“Commutation is a long, arduous
and even litigious process which of
ten lasts longer than the offender’s
life span,” McCall said.
Only three senators — two fewer
than needed — voted for the ad vance
mentof the bill: Sens. Chambers, Tim
Hall and John Lindsay, all of Omaha.
Voting against advancement were
Sen. Carol Hudkinsof Malcolm, Chris
Abboud of Ralston, Dwitc Pedersen
of Elkhorn and Jennie Robak of Co
lumbus.
Sen. Dan Fisher of Grand Island
was absent.
The committee advanced another
death penalty bill, LB600, by a 6-1
vote.
That bill would allow condemned
inmates to choose lethal injection,
rather than electrocution, as the
method of execution.
Harold Clarke, director of the Ne
braska Department of Corrections, „•
said lethal injection is used by 22 of
the 38 states that have the death pen
alty.
He said lethal injection would be a
painless and more humane way to die.
It also would be easier on the execu
tioner and others who must witness
the carrying out of the death sentence,
he said.
Brown of Amicus Nebraska said
he opposed LB600.
“It could open up another 10 years
of appeals for those already con
demned to die,” Brown said.
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