European vacations
cure summer sadness
Editor's note: This is the second in a
series on how UNL students spent
their summers.
By Joel Strauch
Senior Reporter
Many UNL students spent their
summer in class or in the sun, but some
managed to get in a little world travel
ing.
Colleen O’Bryan, a sophomore
premedicine and exercise science
major, spent her summer visiting fam
ily and touring Europe.
“I lived in Germany for 2 1/2 years,
and my family still lives there,” she
said.
“I spent four weeks with them in
Germany and also went to Paris,
Barcelona and Amsterdam,” she said.
Alan Phelps, who graduated from
the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
with a journalism degree in August,
spent his last semester as an exchange
student in the Czech Republic and in
Belgium as a part of the Nebraska
Semester Abroad program.
“We had opportunities to travel
with the group and also on our own,”
he said.
“We studied in the Czech Republic
and in Belgium and we also went to
Austria, Germany and Paris,” he said.
Kim Janulcwicz, a senior dietetics
major, also participated in this study
abroad program.
“I needed a break from school,” she
said.
“1 thought this would give some
time to think, to get away from the
everyday routine.”
Janulcwicz spent a four-day week
end in London and also traveled to
Amsterdam, Krakow, Paris and
Auschwitz,
“I enjoyed it very much,” she said.
“It was pretty much overwhelming.
There was more to sec than I expected.
I had to pick and choose what I wanted
to do.”
Phelps said cost was an issue that
any college student must face in taking
a trip to Europe.
“If you travel on your own, you can
get by fairly cheap if you’re willing to
stay in obnoxious places and eat the
same food everyday,” Phelps said.
“The cost was manageable,”
Janulcwicz said. “It’s probably the
best deal you can find to spend a whole
semester in Europe studying and trav
eling.”
O’Bryan said Americans also have
to pay attention to fluctuating exchange
rates and strength of the dollar in mar
kets.
“The cost of living is more expen
sive for Americans, having to deal
wi th the currency exchange,” O’ Bryan
said. “The dollar is really poor com
pared to European currencies right
now.”
Phelps, who spent a summer travel
ing in Europe with a friend two years
ago, said package deals provided a
different experience from traveling on
your own.
“If you’re on a planned excursion
or over there as an exchange student,
you might not travel around as much,
but you get to know the places you slay
better,” he said.
“The first time I didn’t know much
about it. I just got on an airplane and
went,” he said. “It turned out all right,
but I learned a lot of lessons.”
Crime
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Casady said the reason for the ex
pected enme increase comes from an
increased number of young people.
“Oneof the best predictors of crime
is the number of people you have age
15 to 30,” he said. “You don’t have too
many 50-ycar-old violent criminals.”
When the number ofl 5 to 30-year
olds increases, so docs the amount of
crime, he said. Police have a number of
youth programs that try to prevent
youth from getting involved in crime.
Programs such as Cruisin’ with the
Cops, Drug and Alcohol Resistance
Education, Gang Resistance Educa
tion and Training as well as one that
places police officers in high schools
have started recently, he said.
But Casady said there was no solid
evidence that the programs were work
ing.
He said research on the DARE pro
gram. such as following up on partic
ipants and comparing them to non
participants. was representative ofoth
cr programs.
“Essentially it’s shown a short-term
impact,” he said, “but the jury is kind
of out as to whether there’s a long-term
impact.”
Those type of questions arc abun
dant in law enforcement, he said, al
though the answers aren’t.
“We seem to spend a lot of money
on crime prevention strategies without
... (making sure) all of what sounds
good really works,” he said.
Lincoln would benefit from the
Crime Bill if it passed, Casady said. A
version of the bill was approved by the
House of Representatives Sunday.
Lincoln shouldn’t expect much
more money or resources from the bill,
however, because Nebraska has a low
population and crime rale as a whole,
he said.
Even if Lincoln had more money,
he said, funds for such things as more
policemen woulddolittle to hall crime.
“I don’t think just increasing the
number of policemen does anything,”
Casady said, “It’s how those people
are assigned.
“But most of what the pol ice do has
a very subtle and very small influence
on what happens.”
Espy
Continued from Page 1
alter the language in the bill, he said.
More open markets exist, he said, and
there are fewer subsidies to distort
prices.
Espy also told the governors, in
cluding Ben Nelson of Nebraska and
Terry Bransladof Iowa, that the feder
al crop insurance program would be
overhauled.
Farmers have limited incentive to
buy the insurance, and the $900 mil
l ion-a-ycar program doesn ’ t work wcl l.
Espy said.
Espy said the department had ex
panded services and had made cover
age for farmers “as sure as the next
disaster."
Reorganizing the USDA also would
save taxpayers $2.5 billion annually
by merging 43 USDA agencies into 29
and cutting 7,500 jobs from the bu
reaucracy, Espy said.
“No more employees paid $50,000
to measure the flow rate of ketchup...
or the length of pickle stems,” he said.
The secretary’s speech before more
than 200 people was filled with facts
and figures from the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
Espy said agriculture was impor
tant to the entire county, not just the
Midwest. The food and fiber system in
the United States generates about $950
billion a year in economic activity
equaling 16 percent of the gross do
mestic product. Espy said. He said
agriculture employed one in seven
Americans and that food and fiber
exports provided an $18 billion net
trade surplus.
Espy said open markets were mak
ing it possible for Japanese famil ies to
cat American rice and for Chinese
families to cat American apples. That,
he said, led to a huge export boom
reported by the Commerce Depart
ment.
Nebraska’s agriculture exports were
leading the nation. Espy said, with a
429.3 percent growth from 1987 to
1993.
Every $1 billion of farm exports
creates 22,000 more jobs for Ameri
cans, Espy said.
Ethanol expansion was a priority of
the Clinton Administration, Espy said.
The United States produces more than
one billion gallons annually — the
equivalent of 400 million bushels of
com, he said. Because of Ethanol,
Espy said 14,000 new jobs could be
created by 1996.
“All along there have been farmers
who told politicians in Washington
the re wasmorc profit in selling com by
the gallon than by the bushel,” Espy
said.
Farm Bill
Continued from Page 1
was concerned that farmers and oth
ers have felt anxious about its fu
ture.
The Farm Bill also may face
speed bumps getting through Con
gress, Kerrey said.
Kerrey said two organizations
may oppose the bill—the Congres
sional Budget Office and the Envi
ronmental Protection Agency.
“The CBO believes that if you
increase the demand for com, this
will increase taxpayer exposure (to
keep prices low). And the EPA
would like to write the Farm Bill of
1995. If this happens, there will be
a war,” he said.
Kerrey also said the new bill
would provide farmers new oppor
tunities to get a larger share of the
consumer dollar.
“We need to provide flexibility
for the development of alternative
crops which w ill lead to new market
opportunities,” he said.
Kerrey said he hoped that new
coalitions would be formed as a
result of the farm bill.
“We need to bring in new orga
nizations that are genuinely inter
ested in conservation, genuinely
interested in promoting our resources
and genuinely interested in improv
ing our farms,” he said.
“We need to decide who to be in
the bag with.”
Damon Lee/DN
Senator Bob Kerrey addresses the 1995 Farm Bill before
governors and officials from 13 states Monday at the
Midwestern Governors’ Conference. Earlier in the day,
Kerrey addressed the crime bill, which is now before the
Senate, with law enforcement officials via a video
teleconference.
Crime Bill
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In keeping with the tone of the
discussion. Col. Ron Tussing, Ne
braska State Patrol superintendent,
said increasing law enforcement was
a short-term solution to crime.
Prevention is a long-term solu
lion, he said. In the meantime, how
ever, violent criminals must be kept
off the streets.
He compared the problems with
crime to a terminally ill patient.
“You have a seriously ill pa
tient,” Tussing said, “and while
you’re searching for a cure, you
have to keep the patient on life
support.”
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