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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1995)
TUESDAY | «C3>>M««:»>»4«C3>»«44<OmM««3>»M<tt3>»M<«}}»M«<3>»M WEATHER: Today - Mostly sunny. Mild. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Tonight - Mostly clear. Low in lower 40s. _September 26, 1995_ Clog it up llillnB ■ - Jay Calderon/DN Members of the Capital City Cloggers perform at St. Elizabeth Hospital Sunday afternoon. Dance club to host toe-tapping workshop oy Jennifer waucer Staff Reporter Olivia Harrison’s love for clogging be gan at a celebration where dancers performed. “It just looked like fun,” said the director of Lincoln’s Capital City Cloggers. “ ... the next thing I knew, I was taking lessons.” From then on, Harrison was a woman obsessed. Clogging is a lot like tap dancing. Cloggers wear a laced-up, oxford-style shoe. It’s like a tap shoe but has a loose metal piece, that makes noise when dancers shake their feet. Harrison describes clogging as her mis sion. She teaches every day at the Capital City Cloggers, 8030 O St., and has made clogging a family tradition. Her son, daugh ter, daughter-in-law and seven of her grand children all clog. The Capital City Cloggers will host the third annual “Clog Your Socks Off” clogging workshop and exhibition Oct. 6-7. About 300 registered cloggers from five states will gather in St. John’s Gymnasium, 7601 Vine St., for two days of toe-tapping fun, said Geri Lorenzen, a two-year member of the Capital City Cloggers. The public is welcome at an exhibition Oct. 7 at 6 p.m. A $3 donation is suggested. The workshop will be led by nationally recognized instructors Simone Pace of Lyman, S.C., and Chip Woodall of Augusta, Ga. Pace, a traveling instructor, leads work shops across the country. She also organizes the Miss America Clogger Pageant. The pageant works like the Miss America Pag eant, but all entrants clog in the talent com petition. - Woodall, another travel ing instructor, has taught clogging since he was 12 and now coordinates choreography for the National Clogging Convention. Clogging began in the United States and is influenced by international cultures. Ger man dance, the Scottish Highland Fling, the Irish Jig, Cherokee dances and traditional African-American dancing are the major in fluences, Harrison said. “As a result of all these ingredients,” she said, “this distinctive type of American dance See CLOGGERS on 6 Phillips seeks help in clinic By Jeff Zeleny and Trevor Parks Senior Reporters Suspended Nebraska I-back Lawrence Phillips sought medical help last week in Kate McEwen’s hometown. Phillips, who was found guilty of assaulting McEwen, received treatment in The Menninger Clinic, a world-renowned psychiatric hospital in Topeka, Kan., the Daily Nebraskan learned Monday. Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said during the weekly Big Eight Telecon 11^1 terence that Phillips com pleted some kind of an evalu Phillips ation, but a report regarding his condition had not yet been written and sent to Nebraska. “He’s been evaluated this past week exten sively, and he’s undergone some rather intense counseling,” Osborne said. “I haven’t gotten any reports back yet... We’ll kind of take it one step at a time, and we’ll see where he is in the next three to four weeks.” Phi 11 ips, who was considered a top candidate for the Heisman Trophy, was dismissed from the Nebraska football team Sept. 10, following his arrest. He later was charged with third-degree as sault on McEwen, a sophomore guard on the NU women’s basketball team. He also was charged with trespassing in the home oftransfer quarterback Scott Frost. Osborne has said Phillips could return to the team in as soon as one month if he got treatment to control his anger. Osborne declined to con firm Phillips’ whereabouts last week, but said the junior from West Covina, Calif., returned to Lincoln Friday night. Ifthat suspension were to end, Phillips could be back Oct. 14 for Nebraska’s game against Missouri. Osborne said that if Phillips did not return for that game, he may return the next weekend for the game against Kansas State. But a lot of things would have to fall into place for that to happen, Osborne said. “I’ve also saidjt’s important that he put certain things behind him,” Osborne said. “I don’t believe Lawrence is psychotic, but he did have that outburst and he has to deal with it.” Osborne also said that policies involving the UNL Student Code of Conduct would have to be examined. Also, doctors would have to state Phillips’ anger was under control. The Menninger Clinic is a non-profit hospi tal. It was named the best psychiatric center in the United States, according to U.S. News & World Report, a hospital spokeswoman said. Bill jeopardizes student aid By Paula Lavigne Senior Reporter ~ Next fall, some students may not have to wait in line for their Stafford Loans—because they may not have a loan to wait for. Federal financial aid, which ac counts for about 75 percent of all financial aid, is on the chopping block, and Congress holds the axe. Congress will decide Sunday on an appropriations bill that would cut $10.5 billion from the Stafford loan program. The proposal goes on to include cuts in Pell Grants, Federal Work Study, Perkins Loans and Supplemen tal Education Opportunity Grants. It alsocapsthe Direct Student Loan program at 40 percent of current bor rowing, without regard for inflation. For the 10,000 UNL students who rely on federal loans, the cuts may mean building up more debt, taking a second job, dropping out or not being able to attend college in the first place. Those who support the cuts say they will help balance the budget and relieve pressure on taxpayers. But John Beacon, director of schol arships and financial aid, said stu dents would bear an unfair burden of the cuts. And the reason is simple, he said. Congress members want to keep their jobs, Beacon said, so when they make cuts, they look toward the people who are less likely to vote them out of office, or “the path of least resistance.” That path leads to students who are in the 18 to 24 voting age group, which had the lowest voter turnout in the 1992 presidential election. “My concern is that this is going to sneak up on students,” he said. “By the time students realize it, it will be too late.” In the long run, Beacon said, stu dents may be able to stop the financial aid axe by writing their representative in Congress to protest. “I would stand on the top of the dome of the library and shout, ‘Con tact your Congressmen and tell them: Don’t cut federal aid,”’ he said — if that would make a difference. The cost of a stamp or a phone call to a Congress member will pale in comparison to a student’s tuition bill next year, he said, but students still aren’t listening. For the five students waiting in line Monday to pick up their Stafford See AID on 3 Financial Ai Cuts About 75 percent of all financial aid comes from the federal government A Congressional bill proposes these cuts: % Eliminate 6-month grace period for loan repayment. % Cut $10.5 billion from Stafford Loan Program. % Remove 280,000 students from the Pell Grant Program. % Increase the origination fee on new loans by one percent. % Eliminate the interest rate reduction scheduled for 1998. % Eliminate the Department of Education. % Cap Federal Direct Student Loan Program at 40 percent of new borrowing. % Initiate a Campus Gag Rule to cut all federal funds to universities that allow student activity fees to be used to fund campus-based groups involved in activities aimed at influencing public policy.