On-campus cable rates stay low
Cable changes
hit off-campus
students harder
By Corey Russman
Staff Reporter
Despite the changes in cable rates
that began Sept. 1, students living on
campus won t pay more for cable
services, UNL’s director of housing
said.
Off-campus students won’t be so
lucky.
Doug Zatechka said a contract be
tween university housing and
Cablevision kept student rates from
being affected by the changes for
other Lincoln residents.
The rate changes comply with new
Federal Communications Commis
sion regulations. These regulations
require all cable subscribers to pay the
same rate per channel and also require
that added equipment charges reflect
the true cost of each item.
However, Zatechka said, the sev
en-year UNL contract expires at the
end of this academic year. Negotia
tions are under way for a new con
tract, which undoubtedly will have
some increase built into it, he said.
Students living in the residence
halls currently pay about $55 per year
to receive 40-channel cable service,
Zatechka said.
Rick Kiolbasa, assistant general
manager for Cablevision, said that
rate would not change this year for the
more than 4,000 students living on
campus who subscribe to basic cable.
More than400 on-campus students
subscribe to extra cable channels such
as HBO and Cinemax, he said. These
students also will not see an increase
in their cable bills, Kiolbasa said.
Off-campus students, more than
80 percent of whom are cable sub
scribers, will be less fortunate, he
said. Their rate already was substan
tially higher than that of residence
hall students, and their contracts did
not protect them from the rate in
crease.
Off-campus cable bills increased
from $5.19 to $10.91 for basic, 22
channel service, Kiolbasa said. Those
subscribing to the 40-channel service
saw an increase from $ 19.15 to $20.26
per month, he said.
In addition to the new rates,
Kiolbasa said a 5 percent franchise
fee was added to each bill.
But off-campus students have at
least one benefit from the change.
Students with multiple cable outlets
will no longer have to pay for the extra
outlets and likely will see a decrease
in their total bill, Kiolbasa said.
AIESEC locates jobs worldwide
By Ann Stack
Staff Reporter
While most students will be rush
ing to find work after graduation, a
few will be lucky enough to have jobs
waiting for them — in another coun
try.
AIESEC, the Association Inter
nationale des Estudiants en Sciences
Economiques et Commerciales, is an
organization at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln that provides students
with jobs abroad following gradua
tion.
“It’s a French organization that
started as a business internship pro
gram,” student adviser Joseph Simpfl
said.
“It’s the largest student-run orga
nization in the world. It’s in 74 coun
tries and in over 711 universities,”
AIESEC’s Keith Klanderud, vice pres
ident of External Affairs, said.
“All majors are welcome. We feel
everyone has something to contrib
ute,” Klanderud said.
“AIESEC operates like a small
corporation, and undergraduates can
get practical experience m finance,
fund raising, marketing, external af
fairs, human resources, orpublic rela
tions,” he said.
Recent UNL graduate and busi
ness major Sarah Campbell partici
pated in AIESEC for almost three
years. AIESEC found Campbell a
paid, post-graduate internship in
Cairo, Egypt. She leaves for Africa on
Oct. 8.
“I will be working for an Egyptian
travel agency,” Campbell said. “They
want my help to develop businesses in
the United States and to open new
markets. I’ll be there six months to a
year.”
Deciding where students will be
sent to work is a lot like a computer
dating service, Campbell said.
“I had to fill out an application that
listed my qualifications, the classes
I’ve taken, my major and the work
I’m looking for,” she said.
“The overseas company fills out a
form with the qualifications that
they’re looking for, and you get
matched to a company. I happened to
get matched to one in Cairo.”
Campbell isn’t AIESEC’s only
success story. Klanderud said the
group usually placed three to six stu
dents in overseas jobs per year.
“A lot of times the company will
hire the person full-time (after the
internship) or find a branch in the U.S.
for them,” he said. “The possibilities
are endless, and the success rates are
tremendous.”
Klanderud described the job ex
change process as “a constant inter
change; a reciprocal internship ex
change program.”
In order to send students overseas,
AIESEC must petition area business
es to participate in the exchange pro
gram.
“We market to the Lincoln-Oma
ha area businesses,” Klanderud said.
“We present AIESEC to them and try
to get them to take an intern from
another country."
AIESEC is having a special orga
nizational meeting Saturday from 2-5
p.m. at the Nebraska Union. Regular
meetings are Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. at
the union and Sundays at 8 p.m. at the
AIESEC office, 108 Neihardt Resi
dence Hall.
Nicaraguan foreign minister launches lecture series
By Neil Feldman
Staff Reporter
The E.N. Thompson Forum on
World Issues, an annual lecture se
ries, gets under way today at 3:30 p.m.
in the Lied Center for Performing
Arts with a presentation by former
Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Father
Miguel d’Escoto.
Today’s lecture, entitled “Religion
and Politics: United States Policy in
Central American and Nicaragua,” is
the first of five presentations offered
by the E.N. Thompson Forum, a co
operative project of the Cooper Foun
dation and (he University of Nebras
ka-Lincoln.
D’Escoto was Nicaragua’s foreign
minister from 1979 — the vear the
Sandinista Front for National Libera
tion gained central political power in
Nicaragua—through the 1990 elec
tions, when the government in
Managua again changed hands.
Widely known as a fighter and
preacher of peace, d’Escoto received
the first Alfonso Comun Peace Prize
in Spain as well as the Lenin Prize in
Moscow and the Thomas Merton
Peace Prize in Pittsburgh.
Ordained in June 1961, d’Escoto is
a priest of the Foreign Mission Soci
ety of America.
Currently, d’Escoto is working to
revive the Foundation for Integral
Community Development, a program
he founded after Nicaragua’s 1972
earthquake.
Crash
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sleeping and Kenny (Wilhite) was
driving.
“AH of the sudden I heard him yell
out, ‘Oh shit! ’ I opened my eyes and
I saw a ditch. We ran into the ditch and
rolled over six times.”
Brinkley said W ilhite then ran to a
nearby gas station to call the police.
After he returned, Brinkley said he
and Wilhite tried to help the people in
the van.
“(Kenny) ran down to help the
father because his daughter—it was
like a baby—was under the van and
all you could see was her legs,”
Brinkley said.
Brinkley said muddy conditions
prevented them from moving the van.
He said when they pushed the van,
they would slide unoer it because of
the mud.
In the accident report, Wilhite stat
ed: “I was trying to pass when I felt
that I was getting too close. I tried to
hit the brakes and they went to the
floor. I was going 72-73 miles per
hour.”
The officer’s statement in the re
port said the brakes of W ilhite’s vehi
cle, a rented 1990 Oldsmobile Cutlas
C alais, appeared to be in good work
ing order. Skid marks left by the car
prior to impact also indicated the
brakes were in good order, the report
said.
Following the accident, Wilhite
finished his footbalj career at Nebras
ka and Brinkley played his junior
season. Wilhite graduated with a bach
elor* s degree in home economics in
December 1992. According to the
UNL records and registration office,
he attended graduate school At UNL
in the spring of 1993.
Charges were not filed in the acci
dent until Jan. 29,1993.
Cynthia MacPherson, attorney for
Kathy Quick, Ann’s mother, said late
Wednesday night she was dissatisfied
with the way the prosecutor’s office
handled the case.
“I was not satisfied with the pros
ecutor’s office,” she said. “No, I don’t
think the charges were timely brought.
“Ask the prosecutor when the acci
dent happened and ask how long it
took them to file the charges,” she
said. “It should not have taken a year
to dispose of this matter.”
MacPherson, who is also Kathy
Quick’s sister, said she did not blame
the defense for the delay in the trial,
but she thought the prosecutor’s of
fice had mishandled the case.
Bryant King, assistant Platte Coun
ty prosecutor, said the delay was not
unusual.
“You obviously don’t file some
thing five minutes after an accident,”
he said. “I don’t think there is any
thing unusual about that.”
Kathy Quick filed two lawsuits
against Wilhite and Brinkley in Wright
County Court in Missouri. A settle
ment was awarded in both cases.
In the Brinkley lawsuit, Quick was
awarded $100,000 from the State Farm
Insurance Corporation, said Norma
Jefferys, deputy Wright County clerk.
Brinkley said he was not insured at
the time of the accident, but his moth
er held apolicy with State Farm Insur
ance.
In the lawsuit against Wilhite, $6.5
million was awarded to Quick. The
settlement has not yet been paid,
Jefferys said.
Although Osborne said he knew
about the accident, Nebraska Athletic
Director Bill Byrne said he had not
been made aware of if
Byrne said it was difficult to com
ment about the accident until he had
more information.
“You are asking me to speculate on
something that I have very little infor
mation about,” he said.
Bryne said it was the policy of the
athletic department to treat athletes
under investigation like other students
and not publicize information about
them.
“We assume athletes have the same
rights as any other citizens and we
expect them to be treated in official
matters like any other citizens,” he
said.
“We understand that athletes are in
the limelight and they have extra at
tention paid to what they are doing.
When it comes to matters of the law,
we attempt to see they are treated as
any other citizen,” Bryne said.
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