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COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SINCE 1901 VOL. 94 NO. 149
April 26, 1995
Brothers charged with conspiracy
From The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — Two
brothers were linked in conspiracy
charges Tuesday with Oklahoma
bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh,
as the death toll rose to 96.
Meanwhile, a Kansas motel man
ager said he recognized the man in a
new FBI sketch of “John Doe No. 2”
as a nervous guest with a foreign ac
cent.
In Michigan, federal prosecutors
charged James Nichols, a41 -year-old
farmer, and his brother, Terry, 40,
with conspiring to make explosive
devices.
They were accused of conspiring
with McVeigh, the 27-year-old Array
veteran charged in the explosion that
destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah fed
eral building.
The FBI also released an enhanced
sketch of the most wanted man in
America, a square-jawed individual
linked to the nation’s deadliest do
mestic terrorist attack.
It shows a man wearing a baseball
cap and is otherwise similar to the
original picture of “John Doe No. 2.”
In Junction City, Kan., the manager of
the Great Western Inn was watching
television with two reporters when the
new sketch flashed on the screen. He
said he recognized it as the man who
stayed in Room 107 on April 17.
The manager, who requested ano
nymity for fear of retaliation, said the
man gave a foreign name and was
driving a Ryder rental truck.
“He was scared. He didn’t want to
talk to me too much,” the manager
said on Tuesday.
In Omaha, composite drawings
were made of two suspicious men who
were in an Omaha federal building,
but people who saw the sketches dis
agreed on whether they matched the
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Nurse from Oklahoma gave
heart, life to saving others
By Sharon Cohen
Th® Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY—Nobody
ordered Rebecca Anderson to run
for the door when her house shook
fromthe force of the blast. No one
demanded this nurse leave her new
husband and four children and rush
to the heart of chaos, where the
injured needed her.
She just had to do it.
So she raced downtown, where a
4,000-pound package of terror had
just tom apart a nine-story federal
building, burying hundreds of
people in a tower of rubble. Rebecca
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Study time
' <3erik Parmele/DN
Laurie Baker, a senior business administration major, studies near the Lied Center at 12th and R streets Tuesday
afternoon.
Board to hold
forum on new
student code
By J. Christopher Hain
Senior Reporter
Students will be given a chance Saturday to
stop the Student Code of Conduct from heading
in a direction many oppose.
The NU Board of Regents will hold a hearing
on proposed changes in the code. Much atten
tion has already been directed by student lead
ers toward a change in UNL’s gun storage
policy.
Currently, guns can be stored in a locked
storage area in each residence hall or greek
house. The change would require all guns on
campus to be stored at the University Police
Station.
Both the Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska and the Residence Hall
Association have come out against the new gun
policy.
RHA passed a resolution supporting all the
changes to the Student Code of Conduct except
the change concerning guns.
However, newly-elected RHA President
Philip Cilliers said residence administrators were
going ahead with the proposed gun policy for
next year. The policy is included in the 1995-96
residence hall handbook, “The Good Life,”
Cilliers said.
Cilliers said he would speak at the regents
meeting because RHA still opposed the policy.
He said many students felt checking guns in
and out with University Police would be an
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Students borrowing for dreams
Editor's note: This is the third in a
five-part series about the rising costs
of higher education
By Brian Sharp
Senior Reporter
Tylonda Sanders came to the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln in Au
gust 1991 with dreams of becoming a
lawyer.
Unfortunately, dreams cost money.
When Sanders
leaves UNL in De
cember, she will
COST OF
jJ take with her a
bachelor’s degree
in English and
more than
$10,000 in debt.
To achieve her
dream and attend
law school at
Howard Univer
sity, Sanders expects to borrow more
than $ 15,000 from the federal govern
ment. i '
“UnnecessarySanders said. “Ifl
Loans, loans, loans
W In the past five years, federal and university assistance to UNL
students has increased 70 percent, totaling more than $61.8 million,
ft* Unsubsidized Stafford loans have increased from $648,000 to more
than $6.7 million in three years. Meanwhile, grants have decreased by
$2 million.
p UNL students take on an average of $13 million in subsidized Stafford
loans every year.
p Federal funds for Nebraska’s State Student Incentive Grant declined
by more than $65,000 for 1995.
■ UNL has raised tuition an average of 5.56 percent each year for the
past five years.
■ Among Big Eight schools, UNL ranked second-highest, with costs,
totaling 10.84 percent of wages. Missouri was most costly at 14.02
percent. Source: Higher education officials
have to get three or four jobs to pay it
all off later in life then that’s what I’ll
have to do.
“I see it as an investment in myself
— and I’m worth it.”
In the past five years, federal and
university assistance to UNL students
has increased 70 percent, totaling more
than $61.8 million.
Unsubsidized Stafford loans have
increased from $648,000 to more than
$6.7 million in three years. Mean
while, grants have decreased by $2
million.
Sanders worked all four years dur
ing college. Her scholarships stopped
two years ago and her Pell Grant has
fallen to a dismal $275 a semester—
not enough to cover books.
The stories are all too common, but
solutions are not. As UNL enrollment
continues to slide, officials are look
ing to answer the question of whether
students are being shut out, losing
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Debated child support bill
would revoke licenses
uyjetTKanaau
Staff Reporter
No action was taken by the Legis
lature Tuesday on a controversial bill
that would revoke the licenses of par
ents delinquent in
their child support
payments.
The child sup
port bill, intro
duced by Sen.
Connie Day of
H Norfolk and Sen.
Chris Beutler of
LEGISLATURE
on the number of non-custodial par
ents who are delinquent with tneir
child support payments.
. It would achieve this by revoking
drivers’ and professional licenses if
child support payments fall three
months behind.
Legislators spent most of the mom
ng amendments to
tne Din s commmee amenumenis,
which would change the bill to in
clude interference with court-ordered
visitation rights as a reason for license
revocation.
Sen. Cap Dierks of Ewing said he
was against license revocation because
courts should be able to make non
custodial parents pay under the cur
rent system.
“What has happened to our courts?”
Dierks said. “Why aren’t they enforc
ing these laws?”
He also said a parent whose license
was taken away would be unable to
make child support payments.
Day rebutted Dierks’ argument,
saying the legislation was designed as
a threat to make delinquent parents
think twice before skipping payments.
“If a large number of licenses do
end up being revoked, then this legis
lation isn’t working,” she said.
Staff Reporter Joha Falwider contrib
uted to thb report