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!
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
