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Midwest states
cracking down
on fake IDs
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Reporter
Fake ID holders beware.
In June, Nebraska drivers licenses will
become more difficult to alter under a
plan already approved by the Department of
Motor Vehicles. Two more proposals heard by
a legislative committee Monday would further
hinder fakers.
The new licenses will have
a message printed with re
flective security material in
side the lamination. If the
lamination is broken or tam
r| pered with, the reflective
message will disappear.
-' The message reading:
“Buckle Up. Don’t Drink and Drive,” will be
nearly impossible lo reproduce.
Minors’ licenses will have the date of their
21 si birthday highlighted above the photo
graph, as well as the driver’s dale of birth. This
feature would eliminate subtracting the current
year from the driver’s dale of birth, making age
detection easier for liquor store employees.
Cynthia Brammcicr, Nebraska Department
of Motor Vehicles Driver Services administra
tor, said the licenses were another step in the
reduction or drivers license fraud.
“The new system is a belter mechanism for
keeping everyone honest,” she said.
Fraudulent licenses arc more common now
than a few years ago, she said, because of
improved technology.
“Personal computers and desktop publish
ing have done a landslide business lor fraud,”
she said.
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Matt Hanwell, left, and Dale Hoyt, both of Lincoln, had perfect weather conditions for ice fishing on Holmes Lake
Monday morning.
Groups holding out for official repeal
UPC, COLAG E members
debate ASUN restoration
of student fee allocation
By Steve Smith
Senior Editor
Although the Committee for Fees Alloca
tion denied COLAGE’s student fees
appeal, UPC president Gary Doyle said
he was optimistic that funding ultimately would
be allocated for the group.
Doyle said the University Program Council
and COLAGE, a UPC subcommittee, had
adopted a wait-and-see stance until the Asso
ciation of Students of the University of Ne
braska meeting on Feb. 17, when ASUN will
consider UPC and other Fund A student fee
requests.
That’s when UPC officially will appeal
CFA’s most recent denial of funds to the Com
mittecOffering Lesbian and Gay Events, Doyle
said.
At CFA’s appeals hearing Feb. 4, the com
mittee voted 5-4 to deny UPC’s appeal for
COLAGE funding. CFA chairman Shane
Tucker said the absence of a committee chair
person and underactivity were two factors in
the denial, in addition to some committee mem
bers’ belief that COLAGE was a political group
not eligible for funding.
“To tell the truth, I didn’t actually think the
CFA vote would have been that close,” Doyle
said. “That gives me some reason for opti
mism.”
Doyle said he felt studcnisat UNL were wise
enough to see that COLAGE deserved funding.
“I hope that students on campus have grown
since the last time this happened,” Doyle said,
referring to CFA’s 1989 denial ofCOLAGE fee
allocation, after which NU General Counsel
Richard Wood warned ASUN senators that
legal action could have been taken against
UNL.
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Because of the increase in technology, other
slates arc also changing their drivers licenses,
she said.
Iowa drivers licenses have a similar reflec
tive feature covering the photo and birth date.
The image is an Iowa Department of Transpor
tation logo that is difficult to reproduce, Terry
Dillingcr, director of Iowa Driver’s Services,
said.
Even with the reflective feature, Iowa offi
cials arc planning to upgrade the eight-year-old
licenses, he said, with a possible digitally pro
duced ID.
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Multicultural education law one step closer to reality
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter__
ne year after passing a law re
quiring multicultural education
for Nebraska’s elementary and
secondary school students, slate legis
lators still are at odds over how to
carry out the measures.
Butaftercommittcehcaringsatthe
end of last week, the law is much
clearer and its implementation is one
step closer to completion, one official
said.
Marsha Babcock, legal counsel to
the Legislature’s Education Commit
tee, said much of the confusion about
the law’s requirements was clarified
at last week’s committee hearings.
“What we tried to do was address
concerns brought forth by other bills
relating to multicultural education,’’
she said.
Last Thursday, LB27, a proposal
intended to resolve critics’ concerns
about the multicultural education law,
was advanced to the full Legislature
without opposition, but only after
changes were made during a meeting
of the Legislature’s Education Com
mittcc.
Critics of the multicultural educa
tion law were concerned that the as
sessment process of the plan — a
required aspect of the law — would
require children to be tested on their
values and beliefs.
The amended version of LB27 re
moved the word “assessment” from
the mandate, and would requirccvalu
ations of the multicultural curriculas
beginning in the 1997-98 school year
and every five years afterward.
LB27 would require the stale to
design a process for “evaluating the
implementation and effectiveness ol
each multicultural education pro
gram.”
LB27 was introduced by Sen. Ron
Wilhem of Papillion, chairman of the
Legislature’s Education Committee,
and originally sought to require con
sent by the Legislature before acquisi
tion of real property by the University
of Nebraska.
The multicultural education law,
introduced last year by Sen. Ernie
Chambers of Omaha, would require
state elementary and secondary school
districts to implement multicultural
curriculas lhal would expose students
to the culture, history and contribu
tions of various races.
The programs would be required
to meet standards set by a 21 - member
advisory committee, which will be
chosen and approved by the Nebraska
Board of Education.
Also, the proposed curriculum
would not alter the number of hours
students would have to carry, and the
board would assess periodically the
progression of students’ attitudes and
awareness of other cultures starting
with the 1993-94 school year.
Housing undergoing changes
Projected average occupancy is 3,902 students.
Average increase per student would be $79.16.
MEAL PLANS CURRENT PROPOSED %
RATE RATE INCREASE
Double-20 meal plan $2,915 $2,995 2.7%
Double-13 meal plan $2,860 $2,940 2.8%
Single-20 meal plan $3,465 $3,545 2.3%
Single-13 meal plan $3,410 $3,490 2.3%
Source: Division of University Housing
New plan needed
to keep halls full,
UNL official says
By Angie Brunkow
Staff Reporter ‘
Keeping residence halls at or
near full occupancy will not
be a problem for the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, a housing
official said.
Doug Zatechka, director of hous
ing, said a plan proposed for the 1993
94 school year includes changes that
would help to solve the problem of
declining occupancy in UNL resi
dence halls.
He said the plan would focus on
encouraging more upperclassmen to
live on campus, and should help UNL
avoid the problems other Big Eight
universities face.
“All schools in the Big Eight have
suffered serious occupancy losses,”
he said.
For example, between 1988 and
1992, occupancy in University of
Kansas halls fell by 2,205 students.
UNL suffered an approximate 11
percent drop in the number of hall
residents in the last six years, Zatechka
said. UNL is currently at about 90
percent capacity.
Zatechka said he thought the de
clining number of students in the halls
was related to the privacy gained in
off-campus housing.
But UNL residence halls continue
to be a popular housing choice be
cause of the relatively low cost,
Zatechka said. On the average, UNL
students pay $644 less per year than
students at other Big Eight schools.
UNL also offers more options for
the money, including cable televi
sion, phones, mattress pads and com
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