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_September 26, 1995_
Clog it up
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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
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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
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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.
