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Students can use U-locks to protect their bicycles from theft. The number of bikes stolen so far this year has
doubled from the same period last year.
A real steal
Bikes disappear from campus at twice last year’s pace
By Dionne Searcey
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Bike thefts at the University of Nebras
ka-Uncoln are double the number
they were last year at this time, UNL
Police Sgt. Mylo Bushina said.
From the First day of school until last
Friday, 64 bikes were stolen from campus,
Bushing said. Last year during the same
time, 31 bikes were stolen.
Bushing said most of
the bikes were stolen
from the west edge of
campus near buildings
such as Avery Hall. Oth
er high-risk areas in
clude the racks near the
Abel-Sandoz and
Cather- Pound residence
hall complexes.
Everyone is at risk from bike th ieves at all ,
times, Bushing said. Even students entering
a building for a few minutes should be leery
of leaving their bike unattended, he said.
“Somebody could park it there and just be
inside a half hour in the middle of the
afternoon at an academic building,” Bush
ing said, “and they come back and their bike
is gone.”
If thieves can’t steal the whole bike, they
also will look for bike accessories such as
tires and seats.
Students who own bikes with quick-re
lease tires and seats should carry extra locks
for those features, he said.
In order to help track stolen bikes, stu
dents should register their serial numbers
and license their bikes, Bushing said.
Forty of the bikes stolen this year had
serial numbers recorded or were 1 icensed, he
said.
Bushing said he thought most stolen bikes
ended up disassembled by thieves and
swapped for parts.
“They end up just about anywhere that
they can get rid of them,” he said.
Police compile a list of stolen bikes to
give to bike shops and pawn shops. Many
shops subscribe to a computerized theft line
that sends a nationwide look-out for serial
numbers of stolen bikes, he said.
Scott Maurer, a UNL graduate and em
ployee at Cycle Works, said he had no idea
where a thief would take a stolen bike.
“It goes to the Southeast; it goes to Flor
ida; it goes to the peninsula. Who knows?”
Maurer said.
Most stolen bikes probably don’t stay in
town, he said.
“If you were a smart crook, logically
you’d get that bike out of the same city,” he
said.
Maurer speculated that local bike thieves
traveled in groups looking for easy victims.
“Three guys go out with a van and a
bunch of cable cutters and go at it,” he said.
Cycle Works employees keep an eye out
for stolen bikes, Maurer said, and report
suspicions to police. They are especially
leery of unpainted bikes, he said.
Along with licensing bikes, Maurer said
advertising descriptions of stolen bikes is a
good idea.
Last week a customer brought an un
painted bike to the bicycle shop for repair, he
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Russian violence leads to tenuous unity
Yeltsin needs support
from outlying provinces,
history professor says
By Sieve Smith
Senior Reporter
___
r 11 he gunfire is slowly subsiding in Mos
I cow, but Boris Yeltsin’s apparent victo
ry Monday could be little more thaiva
sign of more problems to come in Russia, one
UNL professor said.
James McClelland, an associate history pro
fessor who specializes in Russian history, said
Yeltsin’s task of keeping the fragile Russian
state together was far from finished.
McClelland said in the aftermath of the
violence in Russia’s Freedom Square, keeping
the state unified would be just as or more
difficult than the months of stalemate with
Parliament and the recent armed conflagration
combined.
“In the long run, the real danger (for Yeltsin)
is not Parliament,” he said. “The local areas of
Russia — the outlying provinces — may not
listen to Yeltsin, or whoever may be in power.”
Armed iroops ousieu re
bellious, hard-line law
makers from the White
House, the republic’s par
liamentary building in
Moscow, late Sunday and
early Monday.
MrPtallnnn eairl th<»rp
UNLreaction could be a smallcr-scalc
repeat of the 1991 failed coup against Mikhail
Gorbachev.
The Soviet Union broke up as a result of the
failed coup, with several of its rcpubl ics declar
ing independence, he said. McClelland said the
remaining provinces inside Russia may try to
dissolve tnc Russian republic.
“It’s possible that the provinces may follow
that model,” McClelland said. ‘They may pound
their chests and claim their independence, then
in one to three years realize they’ve got some
economic problems.
“They may also declare independence and
be met with violence.”
After the Soviet Union crumbled, many
world leaders “laughed off’ the formation of
the Commonwealth of Independent States, pre:
dieting its rapid collapse.
“It nasn’tcollapsed,” McClelland said. “The
{former Soviet) republics — though declaring
i ndcpcndence—are re inforcing their econom
ic ties with the power center.
“They couldn’t survive on their own.”
Yeltsin is no strangerto violence, McClelland
said. All of Russian history entails power strug
gles.
But McClelland said Sunday’s retaking of
” the White House was part of the worst civil
strife in Moscow since the Bolshevik Revolu
tion in 1917.
McClelland said Yeltsin was forced to make
an unfortunate decision, but he said there ap
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Judge rules
Baldwin must
remain in state
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor _
Scott Baldwin will not be allowed to return
to his home in New Jersey and will remain
in the Lincoln Regional Center unless
another appropriate Nebraska facility is found,
a district judge ruled Monday.
In a four-page opinion, Lancaster County
District Judge Paul Merritt ordered the regional
center to provide a written treatment plan rec
ommending an appropriate facility for Baldwin.
The plan must be submitted to the court by
Oct. 22.
Baldwin, a former NU football player, was
found not guilty by reason of insanity in the
January 1992 beating of Gina Simanck of Lin
coln. In September 1992 he was paralyzed from
the chest down when he was shot during a
scuffle with Omaha police.
In the order, Merritt said state law would not
allow Baldwin, 24, to return to New Jersey,
even though the Lincoln Regional Center has
said Baldwin should be allowed to return home.
“The court is aware of no authority (and
none has been cited) which permits it to place
Mr. Baldwin outside the state of Nebraska,”
Merritt wrote.
“So long as Mr. Baldwin remains under the
court’s jurisdiction, due to having been acquit
ted on the basis of his defense of not responsible
by reason of insanity, he will be treated by the
slate of Nebraska.”
Lancaster County A ttorney Gary Lacey said
Baldwin should stay in the regional center for
a long period of time, despite regional center
officials’ wishes.
“I understand they want to get rid of him,”
Lacey said. “I’m OK with where he is.”
Lincoln Regional Center Spokeswoman
Carol Smith said late Monday she didn’t have
enough information to discuss the order.
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Seven candidates
remain on list
for NU president
By Steve Smith
Senior Reporter
[he committee in charge of finding a new
NU president spent 5 1/2 hours Monday
eliminating four more names from con
tention for the university system’s top post. ^
After the committeers Sept. 9 meeting. 15
candidates remained to as contenders for NU
President Martin Massengalc’s position, NU
Corporation Secretary J.B. Milliken said.
Of those 15 candidates, two dropped out and
one late nominee was added, leaving 14 eligi
ble candidates.
Members of the committee have “complete
ly checked” references of 11 of the 14 finalists,
with three candidates left to be referenced,
Milliken said.
At least seven candidates remain in the
presidential pool for certain, he said. However,
the list could contain as many as 10 names when
considering the three candidates who have not
been referenced.
Milliken said those three candidates agreed 3
to supply the committee with references.
“id say we’ll be able to move (the other
three candidates) forward with the selection
process soon,” Milliken said.
The lengthy debate during the meeting was
appropriate. Milliken said, considering the
weight of each decision the committee would
make.
“It was a long meeting,” he said. “Part of the
reason ... is because we’re getting to a point
where each decision is very important.”
* Professional adviser Bill.Funk of the Korn/
Ferry search firm said the committee’s progress
in calling candidates’ references had made
considerable progress.
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