UNL academic center
to close doors in May
By Julie Sobczyk
Staff Reporter
Although the Academic Success
Center will close May 12, services to
help students still will be available for
the fall semester, ASUN President
Andrew Loudon said Tuesday.
The Academic Success Center
faced possible elimination last year
because of budget cuts, and, because
renewed funding for the center has
not been found, it will close perma
nently.
The center provided tutoring, study
skills tips and workshops to students
in need of assistance.
Tom Meyers, an employee of the
center, said he was sorry Uni versity of
Nebraska-Lincoln students wouldn’t
have this service on which to fall
back.
“ASC provided students with al
ternative study activities and motiva
tional advice,” he said. “We’ve given
them a friendly face and place here.”
To ensure that tutoring services
still arc available to students, the As
sociation of Students of the Universi
ty of Nebraska will create a commit
tee to publish listsof tutoring services
for students, Loudon said. These lists
will be provided to undergraduate
colleges, academic departments and
honor societies.
ASUN will take on this responsi
bility through the Student Informa
tion Service. The service will provide
names and telephone numbers of reli
able tutors to students who need assis
tance, and it will send information
about the types of tutors available.
“This shows as a student govern
ment we arc concerned about stu
dents,” Loudon said. “I think it will be
a positive thing for the student body.”
Donald Gregory, director of the
Division of General Studies and
former director of the Academic Suc
cess Center, said other services of the
center would be reassigned.
A Supplemental Instructional Pro
gram will offcradditional study groups
for students in high-risk courses, like
Biology 101, Chemistry 109, History
100 and others.
The materials from the Academic
Success Center’s workshops on time
management, study skills and test
preparation will be given to faculty of
the University Foundations program,
Gregory said.
Mary Jo Crowley, office manager
of the center, said students would
miss the center.
“We’ve seen students that have
been troubled at the beginning of a
semester, but by the end have felt
successful because of the assistance
they received here.”
McElroy
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1992, search of McElroy and his vehi
cle and two searches of his Bcnnct
residence. They also are attempting to
suppress a statement made by McElroy
after the arrest.
Chief Deputy Public Defender
Scott Hclvic is arguing that some
evidence was obtained without a
search warrant, and that McElroy orig
inally was arrested without probable
cause.
Two days after the incident. Ron
Lundy, an investigator with the UNL
police, said that when McElroy was
arrested, officers found 83 rounds of
ammunition, including two 30-round
magazines, a box of 21 extra shells
and two more rounds in the rifle’s
chamber.
In a subsequent search of
McElroy’s residence inOctobcr 1992.
Lundy said pol ice seized bloodstained
clothing, two loaded handguns, 200
rounds of various ammunition and an
unloaded shotgun.
Lancaster County Sheriff s Depu
ty David Pckarck testified that he and
two other police officers were in the
Bcnnetarca investigating another case
on Oct. 12, 1992.
Pckarck observed McElroy drive
up to his apartment complex in Bennet,
and the officer later arrested him with
out incident. Pckarck said he wasn’t
sure for what he was arresting
McElroy, and he waited for UNL
police to arrive in Bcnnct.
Lincoln Police Lt. Noah Van Butsel,
who was with Pekarek, testified he
found a loaded rifle clip in McElroy’s
right rear pocket. Van Butsel said he
also saw a weapon in McElroy’s car.
“I observed that there was a rifle in
the back of the vehicle on the floor
board,” Van Butsel said. He said UNL
police removed the rifle from the
vehicle and found a box of ammuni
tion in the truck.
Van Butsel said McElroy was
mumbling to himself and making “a
clicking or chirping noise” after his
arrest.
Van Bulscl said he did not have a
search warrant to search McElroy or
his vehicle on the day of the arrest.
During the hearing, prosecutors
played a recording of 91 1 calls re
ceived from campus on Oct. 12,1992,
in which one man identified himself
as a UNL professor and said, “I heard
shots go off.”
Another woman, who whispered
to the 911 operator amid a lot of
background noise, said “He couldn't
get it to fire; it wouldn’t fire when he
was in here." The woman said she was
calling from an office in Ferguson
Hall.
Helvic questioned why only three
of several 911 calls on the incident
were submitted as evidence.
Prosecutors on Tuesday also filed
a motion requesting to take deposi
tions from the defense attorneys’ psy
chiatrists, who have evaluated
McElroy.
“The state needs to know what
we’re defending against,” said Depu
ty County Attorney John Colborn.
“The defendant has raised the issue of
insanity.”
Helvic said turning over the de
fense’s psychiatric evaluations of
McElroy before prosecutors had
turned over their own evaluation
would give the state an unfair advan
tage.
‘‘I think its only fair that this be
simultaneous,” Hclvie said.
In April 1993, Endacott ruled that
McElroy was competent to stand trial
after a psychiatrist from the Lincoln
Regional Center testified the defen
dant suffered from a paranoid delu
sional disorder ^lt^ould handle the
proceeding.
The suppression hearing will con
tinue in Lancaster County Court on
July 27. Endacott said that date was
the first full day he had available.
Senior Kditor Jeff Z.eleny contributed to
this report.
Kellett fund established
From Staff Reports
Students majoring in agriculture at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
from Nebraska’s Panhandle will ben
efit from a $200,000 bequest to the
NU Foundation from Glen Kcllctt in
memory of his brother.
The Leo W. Kcllctt Memorial Fund
will provide scholarships for UNL
students enrolled in the College of
Agricultural Sciences and Natural Re
sources.
Preference will be given to stu
dents from the following counties in
western Nebraska: Sioux, Scotls Bluff,
Banner. Kimball. Dawes, Box Butte,
Morrill, Cheyetyie. Sheridan, Garden
and Deuel.
Glen Kcllctt was bom in Elkhom
in 1907. He moved with his family to
ScottsblufTin 1918. He graduated from
ScottsblufTHigh School and attended
ScottsblulT Junior College for one
year.
Glen Kcllctt died in March 1993
and was preceded in death by his
brother Leo Ward Kcllctt.
Leo Kellet was born in Elkhorn in
1904. He attended NU’s College of
Agriculture from 1923 to 1925. He
famed in the Lake Alice community
for most of his life until his retirement
in 1978. He died in 1982.
William Lauer/DN
Scott Johnson, a sophomore in music education, enjoys springtime sunshine and
breezes aboard Willy, the sculpture outside Westbrook Music Building.
Spring-like weather to continue
From The Associated Press
Springlike temperatures returned
Tuesday after two days of record
setting summer conditions earlier this
week.
Temperatures fell to the 60s Tues
day after a record high of 94 on Mon
day.
Monday’s high temperatures and
gusty winds were the cause for a large
grass fire Monday in Hall County.
More than 50 volunteer firefighters
and 15 to 20 firctrucks from four
departments spent more than six hours
battling the blaze on the Wild Rose
Ranch along the Platte River.
The National Weather Service said
conditions would become more sea
sonable during the next several days
as a threat of spring thunderstorms
moved into the area.
Wednesday should be partly sunny
withscattered thundershowers. Highs
should be in the 70s.
The extended forecast for Thurs
day through Saturday calls fora chance
of thundershowers Thursday with lows
in the 40s and highs of 75 to X0.
Friday should bri ng another chance
of thundershowers with lows of 45 to
55 and highs of 75 to 85.
Saturday should be dry and cooler
with lows in the 40s and highs in the
upper 60s to mid-70s.
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