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◄ MEWS Ultimate! Spirits, discs soar at ultimate |- nHan tournament. mOlllIay *«•« 82/45 sksc mostly sunny and cooler. High costs threaten health center’s night hours By Becky Becher Staff Reporter High pcr-studcnt costs may cause the University Health Center to shut its doors after 11 p.m., a health center official said. Kunle Ojikutu, health center di rector, said that during a recent inter nal evaluation, health center officials discovered the high, inefficient cost of serving students between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. In a four-month period only 161 students used the health center be tween 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., he said. Of those students, Ojikutu said only 57 needed immediate care. The other 104 could have waited until the next day. The cost of serving those 161 stu dents was $38,002 — $236 per pa tient, Ojikutu said. Even fewer students used the Health Center’s night service during the summer. During a 15-week peri od, 42 students used the center at night, and only three cases were con sidered urgent. Ojikutu said it cost $16,335 to keep the center open at night during the summer, or $388.92 per patient. Cost per patient rose to more than $5,000 when only the urgent cases were considered. “You have a very small number of students utilizing a big chunk,” Oj ikutu said of the per student costs. The figures, Oj ikutu said, show that students arc not being served as well as they could be. He said the high per-patient costs were not an efficient way to run a business. Ojikutu said raising student health center fees was one of the only alter natives to cutting hours. “We don’t want to do that,” he said. Oj ikutu said off cials were consid See HOURS on 3 OavMBaddwWDN _ , L bandy bummers/UN Shane Smith, a senior business management major at UNL, will be running in the New Y ork Marathon Nov. 14. Smith’s run willbenef it the Leukemia Society of America and help raise money for Christian Knapp, 11, of Lincoln, who has leukemia. More than a race UNL senior dedicates run to boy with cancer By Alan Phelps Senior Reporter When Shane Smith runs in the New York Marathon, he’ll be aiming for more than just the finish line. Smith, a senior business man agement major at the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln,isdcdicatinghis run to benefit the Leukemia Soci ety of America. “I thought it was a good idea because it gives me more determi nation to get out there and run," Smith said In preparation for the Nov. 14 race, Smith is training and lining up sponsors to pledge certain amounts of money for each mile he runs. So far, Smith has rung up almost $500 in donations. Each of the 20 Nebraska runners in the Leukemia Society’s Mid-America Chapter Team in Training hopes to raise at least $3,000. If the runners meet their goal, one leukemia researcher could be funded for three years. Smith said. The search for a cure for leuke mia took on special meaning for Smith after the society introduced him toChristian Knapp of Lincoln, the 11-year-old patient to whom Smith is dedicating his run. “When I first started training, he would ride his bike three or four miles with me,” Smith said. “Now I seem to be running a lot farther than that.” Knapp is in remission. Until he was nine years old, the sixth-grader went through a range of treatments from spinal taps to chemotherapy. Smith said he and Knapp used to spend a couple of days each week together playing miniature golf or running. Now that school has be gun again, the two haven’t had as much time to hang out. Knapp said he was looking for ward to Smith’s run. “It makes me feel happy,” he said. “I think it would be fun, and it’d help me.” Smith became involved with the leukemia project through some run ning friends in Omaha. He said he See RUN on 3 U N L rei ects speech code Policy stresses manner, not words By Paula Lavigne Staff Reporter Call it Newspcak. Call it Polit ical Correctness. But Univer sity of Pennsylvania student Eden Jacobwitz calls his university’s speech code a violation of his rights. Earlier this year, Jacobwitz was cited with violating the university’s speech code because he yelled “Shut up, you water buffalo,” to a group of noisy students. The speech code violation charge did not hold up in court, and Jacobwitz, alter ft long, drawn-out battle, was able to return to classes this semester. In 1990, the University of Ncbras code to its Student Code of Conduct policy. Linda Schwartzkopf, the director of Student Judicial Affairs at UNL, said many universities that adopted speech codes, similar to the one at the University of Pennsylvania, found their policies did not hold up in court. Because of this and other reasons, UNL did not adopt such a code, she said. Instead, Schwartzkopf said, UNL’s student conduct policy emphasizes the manner, or behavior, of the words and not the words themselves. “It is a violation if a person’s words become behavior, such as directly in your face, screaming at you, or yell ing at you in the library,” she said. “It happens when they become a disrup tion or arc of a threatening nature.” _ See SPEECH on 3 Chubickpleads not guilty to misdemeanor charges Basketball player arrested Friday By Jeff Zeleny Senior Editor niversity of Nebraska basket ball player Bruce Chubick pleaded not guilty to three mis demeanor counts Friday in Lancaster County Court. Chubick, 23, was arrested Friday for public urination, assaulting a po lice officer and resisting arrest, Lin coln Police Lt. Steve Imes said. According to police reports, Chubick was standing in an alley be tween 14th and 15th streets and O and P streets at 1 a.m. when Lincoln Po lice Officer Mark Domanguc asked him for identification. Chubick then ran west down the alley. Officer Charles Marti placed himself in front of Chubick and told him to stop. Chubick then ran into Marti, knocking him to the ground. Marti *s knee was bleeding, and he had pain in his right side, the report said. Chubick was arrested about two blocks away without a struggle, Imes said. “At the end of the fool pursuit, he did not resist arrest,” he said. Assaulting a police officer is a felony charge in Nebraska. The charge was reduced to a misdemeanor charge of third-degree assault by the Lancaster County Attorney’s office. “We decided we didn’t want to charge it as a felony,” Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Thomas Jaudzemis said. “If I thought he had tried to hurt the officer it would have been a felony. I didn’t look at it that way.” Norman Langemach, chief assis tant city prosecutor, said the three misdemeanor charges Chubick faces each carries a maximum $500 fine and six months in jail. Chubick was released from jail Friday afternoon on a personal recog nizance bond. A Nov. 2 trial date was set in Lancaster County Court. Sports Information Director Chris Anderson said Friday that Nebraska basketball coach Danny Nee would not discuss the incident until later this week. Nee could not be reached for com ment. Nickelodeon performer caters to students with children By Jeff Singer Senior Editor A group that often is overlooked on campus got a boost Satur day. University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who have ch ildrcn were able to include the whole family in a UPC sponsored event. The University Program Council broughtNickclodeon’s Frank Cappelli to perform in the Nebraska Union Saturday afternoon. Cappelli, star of Nickelodeon’s “Cappclli and Company,” gave a onc hourshow to the delight of nearly 300 parents and children who attended. The more than 125 children whocame to watch Cappclli ranged in age from a few months to about nine years. Several UNL students said it was about time the university had an event recognizing students on campus who had the additional responsibility of parenting. “There are very few things on cam pus geared toward students who have children,” said Nicole Urzedowski, a senior Engl ish major who brought her 13-month-old daughtcrTatiana to the event. “I was really excited that they had this.” Gary Doyle, president of UPC, said Saturday’s shoAv marked the first time a UPC event had been planned for students with children. Doyle said he thought the event was a success. ’‘Campus trends arc showing that a lot of parents arc going back to school, so the atmosphere is there for this style of programming, Doyle said. James Buckley, UNL’s coordina tor for campus programs, brought his 11 -month-old son Jamie to the show. Buckley said this kind of program ming was important to fill the needs of the increased number of parents at tending the university. “This was done as an effort for non-traditional students as well as for 19- and 20-year-olds who have fami 1 ies of their own,” Buckley said. “Y ou can’t take kids to sec the Smashing Pumpkins, but you can to Frank eappem. Poppy Johnson, a first-year stu dent at Southeast Community Col lege, said the Cappclli event was a boost for all Lincoln students with children. , “1 think this helps get students who are parents more involved,” said Johnson, who brought her 3-ycar-old son Devin to the show. “It was excit ing to see the kids get excited and seeing their faces light up.” See KIDS on 3
