Group offers self-defense class
By Amie Haggar
Staff Reporter
Working to improve the campus
climate for women, the Chancel
lor's Commission on the Status of
Women is helping the Sexual Ha
rassment Assault Rape Prevention
program fund free self-defense
classes for women.
Joe Scott, UNL police officer
and SHARP instructor, said the
three, six-hour classes would teach
women psychological and physi
cal means ofprotecting themselves
against sexual assault and harass
ment.
SHARP’S main emphasis will
be to increase women’s awareness
of their surroundings, their self
confidence and overall safety on
campus, he said.
SHARP is open to University of
Nebraska-Lincoln students, facul
ty, staff and their immediate fami
lies. Taught at the Campus Recre
ation Center on Wednesday eve
nings and non-football Saturdays,
the program will begin Wednes
day.
“We want to reach as many peo
ple as we can,” Scott said.
SHARP also is available to so
rorities, residence hall floors and
other women’s groups associated
with UNL or the Lincoln commu
nity.
Although the campus climate
toward women has improved at
UNL, Scott said, some hostility
still exists.
“Many males now have some
apprehension for fear of offending
women,” he said. “But there is still
that macho attitude out there that
creates a hostile environment for
women.”
“That type of attitude causes a
need for this type of class,” he said.
Commission Chairwoman
Claudia Price-Decker also said that
the campus climate needs some
improvement.
“People don’t stop and think
about the ramifications of their
speech and actions,” Price-Decker
said. “It comes down to really a
matter of sensitivity, of treating
people the way you want to be
treated.”
But things are improving, Price
Decker said.
“It’s interesting in that I think
we’ve seen a lot of improvements,
for example in hiring more women
as administrators on campus,” she
said.
UNL Chancellor Graham
Spanier agreed that the campus
climate is getting better.
“It is improving rapidly and dra
matically, and I am pleased with
the progress. But we still have a
ways to go,” Spanier said.
Women face treatment others
might not view as discrimination or
harassment on a daily basis, Spanier
said. The commission has been
successful in helping to alleviate
areas of these problems, he said.
“We have made progress in re
ducing the amount of overt dis
crimination, and we are seeing in
creased gender equity,” he said.
In an attempt to increase aware
ness and education about women’s
issues, the commission also dis
tributed a brochure about UNL’s
climate toward women to all uni
versity employees this fall.
“We want to get the information
out there to try to make people
more aware of the issues,” she said.
The commission also is pushing
for salary equity, she said.
“We really want to try to focus
on the faculty and staff because
something needs to be addressed,”
Price-Decker said.
As part of its focus on awareness
of women’s issues, the commis
sion is preparing a report concern
ing gender equity that will be pre
sented in October to the NU Board
of Regents, Price-Decker said.
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Fair features grad schools
Professionals to
give financial,
program advice
By Lisa Sickert
Senior Editor_____
While it’s only four weeks into the
semester, it is not too early in the year
to start preparing for graduate school,
according to UNL’s Career Planning
ami Placement Center.
Geri Cotter, assistant director of
the center, said the office was spon
soring a Graduate and Professional
School Fair on Wednesday from 9:30
a.m. to 3p.m. at the Nebraska Union
as part of Career Awareness Week.
The fair will be the first one for
graduate schools held at the Universi
ty of Nebraska-Lincoln, she said.
Cotter said statistics show more
students are attending graduate school.
One reason for this, she said, could be
because graduates with four-year de
grees are finding it increasingly diffi
cult to get competitive jobs without
advanced degrees.
People are seeing that they need to
be more specialized in their field,
Cotter said.
About 36 schools will have repre
sentatives at the fair, she said, and 20
other schools will have information
available.
Talking to representatives, who are
usually from the admissions office, is
a good way to make contact with the
schools without spending a lot of
money, she said.
But Cotter said not all schools at
the fair were degree programs.
Some are post-baccalaureate edu
cation programs offered to students
who have graduated from a four-year
college. These programs, such as the
Denver Paralegal Institute, give stu
dents specialized education but not a
degree, she said.
The fair will feature workshops
about application procedures, entrance
exams and graduate school financing,
Cotter said.
The workshops will be held at the
following times:
• Application procedures:
Wednesday, 1 p.m. — law, medi
cal and graduate programs.
Thursday, 11 a.m.—general grad
uate programs.
Friday, 10 a.m.—master of busi
ness administration, counseling and
science graduate programs.
• Entrance exams:
Wednesday, 11 a.m.
• Financing graduate schools
Wednesday, 2 p.m.
Thursday, 10 a.m.
The fair is open to all 26 Nebraska
schools that belong to the Career
Placement Association of Nebraska.
For more information about the fair or
Career Awareness Week, students can
contact the Career Planning and Place
ment Center, 230 Nebraska Union.
New roof would safeguard
library’s rare collections
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By Jennifer Groen
Staff Raoortar
Fearing damage to Love Library’s
collection of rare books and docu
ments, university officials have be
gun taking steps to repair the library’s
roof.
“We are worried about water dam
age to our special archives,” said Larry
Kahle, associate dean of administra
tive services for Love Library.
The collection is worth thousands
of dollars, he said.
Howard Parker, manager of archi
tectural and engineering services at
UNL, said Love South has a 15-year
old roof made of tar, insulated mate
rial and concrete.
Because of its age, the roofs top
concrete layer has cracked, allowing
water to seep through the other mate
rials, Parker said.
Parker said water had been leaking
onto the third and fourth floors of
Love Library and endangering the
third-floor archives, which house the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s
collection of rare books ami docu
ments.
The collection hasn’t suffered any
damage yet, and Kahle said he hoped
to begin the replacement project be
fore any damage could occur.
UNL facilities management is tak
ing bids from outside contractors for
the roof project. Crete Roofing,
Weathercraft and Sprag contractors
attended a review meeting and sur
veyed the damage this week.
Besides the cracked cement, con
tractors found debris littering the roof
ami weeds growing through the roof s
cracks. Several contractors said the
project would require a large amount
of work.
Bob Kelley, a university-hired ar
chitecture consultant from Clark
Enersen Partners, also surveyed the
roof.
The university will take bids on the
project until 3 p.m. Sept, 28. The
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s fa
cilities management will then select
the contractor based on how soon the
contractor can begin work and who
submits the lowest bid.
UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier
has agreed to fund $150,000 of the
project with the university’s discre
tionary funds, and the Nebraska Leg
islature is providing $15,000.
Hunt
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residents.
The number of permits available
each year varies depending on the
deer population and the number of
deer who won’t survive the winter,
Baxter said.
“We try to operate within the sur
plus," he said.
Two hunter safety clinics, spon
sored by Lincoln Parks and Recre
ation, will be in October. The free
clinics are open to anyone at least 12
years old.
Participants who attend all four
sessions and pass the final test will
receive huntersafety certification from
the game and parks commission.
Alcohol
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Although it is possible to be cited
for both offenses, the laws have sev
eral differences.
LB564 is a secondary offense, sim
ilar to the concept of the seat belt law.
Police must pull a vehicle over for a
traffic violation before driver can be
cited for violating tbe new law. An
other difference is that LB564 is a
traffic infraction handled by local
police. Unlike a DWI, which is a
misdemeandor, the infraction is not
reported to the Department of Motor
Vehicles or insurance companies.
The law mandates a 30-day driv
er’s licence suspension if a minor fails
a Breathalyzer test. If the minor has
no other violations within the 30-day
time frame, the offender can ask the
court to seal the violation.
Once the violations are sealed, car
insurance companies cannot learn
about the infractions and raise the
offenders’ insurance rates, Steinauer
said.
If a driver refuses to take the
Breathalyzer test, the licence auto
matically will be revoked for 90 days.
Under LB564, work-permit licens
es may be issued with court permis
sion. However, school permits will
not be issued.
This new law is receiving some
criticism because of the Breathalyzer's
10 percent margin of error.
“The equipment is not sophisticat
ed enough to deal with that small of
percentages of alcohol,” Steinauer
said. “It remains to be seen how diffi
cult this is going to be to work with.”
Student Legal Services officials
also foresee other problems with the
new law.
“It is going to be very time con
suming and possibly expensive for
students, with rather minor repercus
sions,” Steinauer said.