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Alcohol Continued from Page 1 Serious university code violations, such as in the recent Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity incident, are brought be fore a nine-member University Judi cial Board, Anderson said. Students caught violating the alco hol policy in the residence halls, greek houses or elsewhere on campus meet with Anderson, Schwartzkopf or a residence hall director. The usual minimum penalty for all first-time violations is required atten dance at a $30, six-hour alcohol edu cation class offered through the Uni versity Health Center. James Griesen, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the university tried to keep penalties educational. “We are an educational institu tion,” he said. “We’re trying to help students learn.” Students can ask to go before the greek, residence hall or university ju dicial boards, which can assign addi tional penalties. Schwartzkopf said the first-time penalty didn’t always deter students from breaking the rules. “The consequence isn’t great enough,” she said. Recently, Griesen and Schwartzkopf said, un i versi ty offc ials have realized students make their own exceptions to the university policy. Schwartzkopf said offic ials learned of the frequency of violations when Fiji pledge Jeffrey Knoll was injured in November. Knoll, a minor, fell from a third story window of the Fiji house after consuming alcohol there. Minors often consume alcohol on campus in uncontrolled settings, es pecially the greek houses, Griesen said. “Every weekend you’d find houses having parties,” he said. Although alcohol consumption occurs in both the greek houses and the residence halls, Schwartzkopf said greek violations were more flagrant. “In all fairness to students in the residence halls, they have not been able to have the large parties fraterni ties have been able to,” she said. Esters said student assistants could detect when parties were occurring. “We don’t sniff at doors, but if we hear quarters bouncing in a room, we confront that,” she said. Members of greek houses don’t face that kind of enforcement. Univer sity officials rely on executive officers of greek houses to patrol alcohol vio lations within their houses — a prac tice that isn’t always effective, Schwartzkopf said. “It's apparent that peer enforce ment of the rules is not working,” she said. Because greek houses are private property, only five university officials can enter uninvited. Those officials include the vice chancellor and two assistant vice chancellors for student affairs, the director of greek affairs and the director for student judicial affairs. Griesen said in the futqre, those officials would go “walking” on cam pus on weekend nights more often to check alcohol use. University officials also are dis cussing plans to step up other enforce ment methods and penalties, he said. Although the university usually handtts alcohol violations within its own judicial system, he said future repeat violators might have to answer to police and to charges such as minor in possession or contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Schwartzkopf said university offi cials weren’t increasing enforcement efforts to keep students from having fun. “Nobody is saying wc don’t want students to socialize and we don’t want students to have a good time,” she said. But if students want to have fun on campus, she said, they’re going to have to play by university and state rules. “As long as the legal drinking age is 21 and as long as this campus has a pol icy, we have to enforce our pol icy.” ASUN opposes grading proposal By Heather Lampe Staff Reporter The Association of Students of the University ofNebraska voted Wednes day to oppose a proposal to change UNL’s nine-point grading scale to a 40-degTee decimal system. Trent Steele, first vice president of ASUN, said because of the impor tance of the issue, he wanted as many ASUN members and students to at tend the Feb. 8 Academic Senate meet ing where the issue would be decided. “We’re down to crunch time,” he said. “This is going to be the most important academic issue we will face for many years. “I want to have a lot of students there, I want the Academic Senate to see the people they’U be affecting,” Steele said. Students also were encouraged to give their input on the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln Vision Statement and Strategic Plan. Rita Kean, chairwoman of the ac ademic planning committee, and John Benson, director of research and plan ning, spoke during ASUN’s open fo rum. They explained that the state ment and plan were the framework for how the university would move for ward. In other action, senators passed a resolution directing the Government Liaison Committee to lobby in favor LB 1129, a bill that would outlaw hazing. Charles Hamilton, a senator for graduate studies, abstained from the vote because he said some of the res olution’s wording was geared specif ically toward members of the greek system. He said hazing could affect any UNL student, not just those in greek houses. MEN ft WOMEN If you arc 19 to 50 years old, you could earn (500 testing a new vaccine. This medically supervised study involves 11 outpatient visits to Harris' clinical research facility over the next year. Call 474-0027 for details. All studies at Harris are medically supervised. Phone lines are open Mon-Fri, 7:30am-7:30pm; Sun 11am-3pm. HARRIS 621 Rom Street Lincoln, NE 68502 Kiley Timperley/DN University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Graham Spanier shakes hands with Gov. Ben Nelson during the governor’s weekly news conference. Huskers capture legislative award By Jeff Zeleny Senior Editor__ One month after the Nebraska football team gained national at tention and respect, Gov. Ben Nelson and the Legislature gave the team one more award Wednes day. _ Nelson and Sen. Don Wesley of Lincoln presented NU football coach Tom Osborne with a legisla tive proclamation for the Huskers’ 11-1 season. “I’ve promised not to say any thing else about the officiating,” Nelson joked, “even subliminally ... robbery.” Nelson said despite the loss to Florida State, Nebraska’s season was victorious. “I’ve had more people congrat ulate me for a loss than a win,” Nelson said at a press conference. “The good life was made even bet ter with the performance of the Comhuskers in the Orange Bowl.” The proclamation was approved by all 49 state senators, even though Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha didn’t sign it. “I’m gonna take this over,” Osborne said. “I’m sure he’ll sign it. 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