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Lincoln Area Churches Your guide to Spititual Guidance Southview Christian Church 2040 South 22nd Street TA warm and friendly Family Church at 22nd & South WORSHIP 10:30 AM SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:15 AM ' The Unitarian > Church of Lincoln COME AND GET TO KNOW US. A FRIENDLY WELCOME AWAITS YOU! Hie Unitarian Church of Lincoln 6300 A Street Lincoln. Nebrarka 68510 Phone (402) 483-2213 V. saint John Kronstadt Eastern Orthodox Church 2800 Holdredge*Lincoln, NE. 68503 (402)475-7716 Rev. Father James Dank- Pastor / Priest (402) 475-7049 Divine Liturgy- Sunday 10 AM Vespers- Wednesday and Saturday 6:30 PM Ancient Christianity Lutheran Student Center 535 North 16th Street (Across from Niehardt-Pound Complex.) Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Wednesday Evening Worship 9:00 p.m. Larry Meyer- Pastor 435-3697 Sundays at Cornerstone 10:00 am Fellowship Hour 10:30 am Morning Service Cornerstone-United Ministries in Higher Education 640 North 16th Street • 476-0355 ■ dm faj pi km* fcjgj g4j feBTearnai-'bsm pi eI bi bi gr Stf.MA3<3<S09t‘lMECAMmiS ‘Episcopal (Anglican) 13th & VC Uloly Communion: Sundays at 8:30,10:30,5:00; *Tuesday at 12:30 young Adult Supper & Trcgram: Sundays at5:30 ‘father ‘Don Olanaivay, ‘lAcar/Chaplain 474-1979 HUE ‘EPISCOPAL CtfCPRprt WELCOMES 70U i?iangig.ran!rffRnTqn|iffRi?n|iB mnmnnnnp Feel like you’re fighting a losing battle? Join us Sunday mornings to learn how the battle has already been won for you by Jesus Christ Sunday Worship Experience 9& 11 AM Other spiritual growth opportunities are offered throughout the week. University Lutheran Chapel 16th & "9" Streets 477-3997 The young adult ministry where Christ is worshiped in an atmosphere of praise and celebration! Paving the way Jon Waller/DN Ryan Cornelius, a junior at UNL, spent last summer and winter break helping the residents of his hometown of Grant, Neb., learn how to use the Internet. Cornelius also is part of UNL’s institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources’ program to help schools, small businesses and individuals use the Internet. Student links town to Internet By Paula Lavigne Senior Reporter Interstate 80 used to be the only highway connecting the small west ern Nebraska town of Grant to the rest of the state. Now it’s on another highway— the information superhighway — and ready to connect to the world. Grant’s 1,200 residents can thank Ryan Cornelius, a junior agricultural business major, for helping them get on the Internet. Cornelius, a graduate of Grant High School*; said he was inter ested in computers in high school, but was too isolated to access on line resources. When Cornelius came to the University ofNebraska-Lincoln, he logged on to a new world. “I thought Internet was a good deal,” he said, “but it had a lot more potential.” This past summer, a technology instructor at Grant High School received grants to build a commu nity technology center. 7feel good that I can have a part of this successful story. ” ■ RYAN CORNELIUS UNL junior With the help of the Nebraska Department of Economic Devel opment and UNL’s Institute of Ag ricultural and Natural Resources, Cornelius was asked to assist with training at the center. Grant is an agricultural town— Cornelius grew up on a farm—but instead of shying away from the new technology, he said, the town embraced it. Agricultural workers can ben efit from the Internet by accessing the U.S. Department of Agricul ture, worldwide livestock and grain prices and UNL’s on-line agricul tural resources. The Internet will also allow them to cut down on mailing and adver tising costs, Cornelius said. “The businesses thought it had a lot of potential,” he said, “but the schools will really be the ones who benefit from it.” Grant Public Schools have 30 computer terminals with Internet access, and are adding a computer lab to the grade school. Cornelius is working on a project with Grant High School students where they will create an on-line “virtual community” of Grant, complete with a history, street maps ! and pictures of parks. He said he encountered a few . skeptics who thought the Internet was just a fad. “It was a little overwhelming for some people,” he said. “A few of the older people kind of put it off.” Although it may take a while for the educational and business ben efits to fully develop, Cornelius said the Internet would put Grant ahead of other towns of its size. Senator seeks to regulate ‘Njst Opponents say preventing abuse would be difficult By Paula Lavigne Senior Reporter Legislation proposed by U.S. Sen. James Exon to regulate obscene ma terials on computer communications would be difficult to enforce, a UNL computer director said Wednesday. Last summer, Exon proposed an amendment to the Senate telecom munications bill that would extend regulation to cable, video and com puter communications, including the Internet and bulletin board systems. The bill passed in the House of Representatives last year and awaits Senate approval. Doug Gale, Computing Resource Center director, said trying to prevent people from putting obscene materi als on the Internet was almost impos sible. “Can you regulate it to prevent it from happening? No,” he said. “Can a pass regulations to make such vior illegal? Yes.” Gale said trying to police the Internet would be similar to policing regular mail. “The only way to stop that would be to read all the mail,” he said. Finding an Internet offender might be even more difficult, he said. “If someone is using the Internet for pornographic purposes in one of the public labs, and if you have some one with 20/20 vision and you look over and see it,” he said, “you have something.” Electronic mail messages also can be coded, he said. Although Internet users can elude regulations, Gale said, flagrant viola tions can be detected, and users can be punished. Greg Pallas, Exon’s chief of staff, said regulating the Internet was a solvable problem. Pallas said Exon did not know how the regulations would be en forced. That job, however, would be left to the Federal Communications Commission, he said. Exon has never been on the Internet at his office, Pallas said, but has con sulted with computer specialists. Pallas said Exon was worried about children being able to access obscene materials on any medium. “As a father of three and a grand father of eight, he’s really concerned about the kinds of things that are happening,” Pallas said. Any legislation would need fine tuning, he said, and would not rob the Internet from die private sector. “Nobody’s tryingto shut down the Internet,” he said. “Who are all these people who are trying to defend the ability to carry pom on the Internet? Sometimes the forest gets lost in the trees.” Internet regulation, in whatever form, should address more than ob scenity, Gale said. He said a more pressing issue at UNL involved Internet stalking and electronic mail death threats. The FCC laws were written in 1934, he said, and need to be updated. Someone who receives a death threat through regular mail can seek legal recourse under the current law, he said, but someone who receives a death threat over the Internet cannot. “For some people, it’s mined their lives,” he said. “I suspect this whole issue is broader than pornography.” Love the Huskers? Put it in writing From Staff Reports Students and staff who have yet to dress in their Comhusker scarlets for today’s campus-wide recognition of the football teams’ national champi onship still have a chance to show their support. All University of Nebraska-Lin coln students ana employees are in vited to include their signatures on large congratulatory cards that will be placed in the Nebraska Union and East Campus Union from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The cards will be presented to the football team at a later date and put on permanent display.