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Paramilitary Continued from Page 1 hold toward government and people of other races and nationalities,” he said. “I don’t put anything beyond the realm of possibilities.” In the past six years, Casady said, the Lincoln County-City building has received several bomb threats, in cluding some that led to arrests. One incident involved a 16-year old who brought a bomb into the building, he said. The bomb was deto nated by the bomb unit outside the building. Two other incidents involved a fake device put on top of an elevator and a cardboard box placed in front of the building, he said. “I think that everyone is on edge about the ways in which the crime was committed and the readability of materials to make a very powerful bomb,” he said. “Everyone in the Midwest is taking bomb threats more seriously.” The Lincoln Police Department has a heightened sense of awareness and alert after the incident in Okla homa City and the rise in extremist groups and hate-motivated crimes, he said. “I think it’s very concerning when we have people whose life is domi nated by paranoia,” he said. “Whether that is fear of the government or fear of another race or ethnic background.” But regardless of how unusual those people’s views might be, he said, they were protected by the Con stitution. “There is nothing illegal or wrong with someone stockpiling guns or ammunition,” he said. “There is noth ing illegal to have extreme views and to express those views.” DropOut Continued from Page 1 “But there are always options.” Those options are limited by the current system, said NU Regent Chuck Hassebrook of Walthill. Contrary to Beacon’s statements, Hassebrook said students would drop out because they feared loan debt or other financial pressures. Loan debt in Nebraska has doubled in the past five years, he said, and students will be driven by debt when they make career decisions. “The notion that cost doesn’t mat ter because you can borrow money is the most short-term, ill-advised think ing that you can imagine,” Hassebrook said. “When tuition gets too high, stu dents with limited means see it as an insurmountable barrier and stay away.” The size of a bank account should not be the deciding factor in where a students goes to school, he said. As a land grant institution, he said, UNL should concentrate on making higher education affordable for ordinary people, not limited to people with high incomes. He said the solution lay in getting a handle on the rising cost of educa tion in Nebraska. Although flat figures put Nebraska at the bottom of the cost bracket for Big Eight and peer universities, Ne braska actually ranks near the middle or top when tuition is compared to wages at the same universities. Another option, he said, could be forgiving some students’ loan debts if they agreed to work in Nebraska. Though every situation is differ ent, he said, UNL and the United States had to offer students like Delgado better options. Now, Delgado is living with her father in northeast Omaha, working 40 hours a week at Osco Drug at 90th and Maple streets. She also works at the Omni Reservation Center. Although she misses Lincoln and UNL, Delgado said she was glad she dropped out. Her financial woes gave her an excuse to drop out, she said. “I wanted to escape. I had no good classes,” she said. “On the day I left, I felt free. I was itching to get out of there.” Delgado’s attitude is common, Beacon said. Many students use fi nancial woes to justify dropping out for a different reason, he said. “It’s something like a freshman who says he’s really homesick but doesn’t want to admit that,” he said. “It’s hard to get to the real problem without looking at the whole picture of the student.” Delgado admitted she needed time off from college to think about her future and what she really wanted out of life. “You learn that college is not ev erything,” she said. “It depends on your priorities. College is high-rated. We go to school for 12 years and then four more not even caring about where we’re going.” According to the U.S. Department of Education, about 51 percent of college freshmen never complete their degree programs. Delgado said she 7 wanted to escape. I had no good classes. On the day I left, I felt free. I was itching to get out of there. ” ■ NICHOLE DELGADO Former UNL sophomore would not be part of that statistic. She said she did not doubt her resolve to return to UNL, but it both ered her that her friends and family did. “I hate other people who think that I won’t go back and that I dropped out because of superficial reasons,” she said. “I’m career-obsessed. They think I’ll do things on a whim and not come back.” The cost of education at UNL is worth the wait and the work, she said. “The tuition is reasonable,” she said. “It’s a really good school. “I miss hanging out at the foun tain. I miss being in the union on cold days,” she said. “I miss going to the Sheldon and being there so long they think you’re going to shoplift.”. 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