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Sports ■ Nebraska Volleyball team wins Invite, Page 7 Arts & entertainment ■ New Lied director to expand programs, Page 9 PAGE 2: Officials ponder clues in USAir crash Play ball! . Damon Lee/DN Taye Hanson, a freshman vocal performance and business arts management major, cheers on the Chi Omega softball team Saturday afternoon during the Alpha Tau Omega softball tournament at Municipal Park. Brian Rosen, philanthropy chairman for Alpha Tau Omega, said 16 UNL sororities participated in this year’s event, which raised more than $2,500 for the Make A Wish Foundation and ChildHelp USA. AmeriCorps is launched nationwide m ▼ 1 1 1 in eorasKa saiaents will participate in service program By Angie Goettsch Staff Reporter President Clinton’s service corps of college students soon will be marching into Nebraska. lnNcbraska,20collcgestudcnlswill serve in AmcriCorps, said Craig Derickson, Nebraska’s director of AmcriCorps. AmcriCorps, which kicks oPT today nationwide, is President Clinton’s na tional service program that will oPTcr students academic scholarships in ex change forcommunily service. Through the program, students can help solve local problems while getting leadership and service opportunities. Nebraska’s Soil Conservation Ser vice will work with the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture to fill the Nebraska positions. Five people will be working at olTiccs in Norfolk. Lincoln, Omaha and Tccumsch. Derickson said participants would cam a living stipend of $7,660, and supervisors would recc i vc $ 12,000. They also would receive an educational vouch crof$4,725 when they completed 1,812 hoursof service. The educational vouch er may be used to pay for college loans or tuition. This summer, organizers have been gearing up for the project around the country. Students had to apply to partic ipate in the AmeriCorps program by Sept. 2. Dcrickson said many University of Nebraska-Lmcolnsludentshadsenlhim applications. No specific qualifications were re quired to apply for AmeriCorps, he said, other than a strong interest to work in a community service program and on environmental projects. Site supervi sors are required to be college gradu ates. Other service participants must be college bound, John Beacon, UNLdircctorofschol arships and financial aid, said the pro gram would give people who normally couldn’t afford it the chance to go to college. But, he said, “it will be at least one year before anyone will be able to get a voucher.” Beacon said: “Under this scenario, you are a servant for some years before you ean use that money toward college, but students will not have loan depen dencies.” Derickson said the Corporation for National Service administered the na tional program. Stale commissions sponsor 300 programs across the coun try. and federal agencies also sponsor some projects. Derickson said AmeriCorps pro grams that were linked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, like Ne braska’s program, would help solve environmental problems. See AMERICORPS on 6 Football player is shot By Chad Lorenz Staff Reporter NU football playerBrendan Holbein was injured Friday night in a shooting at a party in Lincoln, police said. __ Lt. Steve Imcs saiu nuiuciu, wnu wasatapartyat3()th Street between U and Vine streets, was shot at 12:38 a.m. ■ Multiple shots were fired from a 9 mm handgun, and one of the shots grazed the ZU-ycar Holbein old student on the left side at waist level, Imcs said. Lincoln Police Chief Tom Casady said the shooting was the result of a physical fight, which occurred outside See SHOOTING on 6 Sighting of woman confirmed By Matthew Waite Senior Reporter A sighting of Kendra Marshall in Chadron has been confirmed, but she’s not safe yet, a state patrol investigator said. No one has deter mined that she is ab solutely alone,” in vestigator Dennis Leonard of Holdregc said. Law enforcement officials reported a Thursday sighting of Marshall, 23, in .. . i, (. hadron, me former Marsnau UnivcrsityofNebras ka-Lincoln law student was captured on video. That v ideo was sent to Marshal 1 ’s family, and they confirmed Friday she was the person on the tape, Leonard said. Leonard said the videotape showed that no one apparently was with Marshall. He said noobviousemotional orphysical indications of danger or fear were present. But Leonard said officers would con ITee MARSHALL on 6 UPC, ASUN forge compromise, but spat isn’t over yet By Matthew Waite Senior Reporter Executives of the student government and the student programming body have forged a com promise in an attempt to end a fivc-month-old control feud. The dispute arose out of a bylaw change which the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska passed last spring. The change set up a committee to select University Program Council executives and event directors. UPC said the measure was unfair because the ratio of ASUN members to UPC members on the selection committee was two to one. UPC mem bers rejected the change during the summer, and ASUN filed a petition about tnc issue in student i court. The compromise, completed during a three hour meeting on Friday, states that the UPC executive council will be selected by a committee of six students, three from ASUN and three from UPC. It also would return to UPC the power to select its event directors, ASUN and UPC presidents said Sunday dur ing a press conference that the compromise had a long way to go. Andrew Loudon of ASUN and Lia Jensen of UPC said the compromise must pass their respec tive legislative bodies for it to be adopted. The compromise was the result of a joint effort of the two leaderships, Loudon said. He said he was confident the members of the two groups would agree to the compromise. Both, however, agreed the compromise would cause dissension among members. “Obviously there are going to be some hostile feel ings that people haven’t dealt with yet,” Jensen said. “Compromise is something we all need to deal with.” Loudon agreed, saying he would try to get ASUN to pass the compromise. “In any situation with a compromise between two groups that were so far apart, there is going to be some dissent," he said. The one issue at odds throughout the debate, Loudon said, has been the accountability of UPC. He said the compromise made UPC accountable toASUN. Jensen said UPC thought it always was ac countable to student government and that the selection committee for U PC' leaders was unneed ed. Despite that disagreement, she said, UPC decided it would work with ASUN. The two groupscan resolve the issue by making a selection committee with equal UPC and ASUN member ship, Loudon said. Both presidents said they were surprised by how well the twosidesgot alongduring the Friday meeting. They both said the discussions were civil.