WEDNESDAY i«»u«c:»»««c3>»k«M WEATHER: Today - 80% chance of min. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph. Tonight - Rain changing to snow. Low in the mid 30s. OVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SINCE 1901 VOL. 95 NO. 52 -—---- “ —: __=__============:=^=====;;^=^=^========;_November 1, 1995_ Jammin’ Tanna Kinnaman/DN University students show off their dancing skills while making an interactive video Tuesday in the Nebraska Union. From left are Ormaun Lewis, a senior marketing major; Mikai Lovelace, a freshman fashion merchandising major; Kadia Kamara, an undeclared freshman; and Latroy Davis, a freshman journalism major. ASUN to protest proposed code changes By Kasey Kerber Staff Reporter ASUN President Shawntell Hurtgen will present a bill at tonight’s meeting protesting proposed changes to the Student Code of Con duct. The proposed changes, made by the UNL Faculty Women’s Caucus, would ban any student charged with or convicted of a felony or violent misde meanor from participating in UNL-sponsored extracur ricular activities. They also would require the student judicial board to meet within five working days after the student is banned. The board then would judge whether the student committed misconduct. If the board found the student not guilty of misconduct, the student could resume extracur ricular activities. If the student were found guilty, the board would decide what penalties to impose. If a student were convicted of a felony or violent misdemeanor in a court of law, he or she would be banned from extracurricular activities for seven years. “Extracurricular activities are not the an swer,” Hurtgen said. “Over 50 percent of stu dents are involved in intramural athletics alone. These activities are often a form of stress re lease and doing away with them will only cause more problems.” Hurtgen also will present a bill on advising. The bill calls for three proposals to be pre sented to the Admission and Advising Commit tee before its Nov. 8 meeting, at which it will vote on advising changes. The three proposals include developing a mandatory advising training session for faculty or printing a biannual publication to keep fac ulty up to date on advising. The proposals also include documentation of all formal advising and creation of universal waiver and substitu tion forms between colleges. The Association of Students of the Univer sity of Nebraska also will amend a bylaw that requires student organizations to attend an ori entation program. The new amendment allows information to be provided to the organizations by the Student Involvement office instead. A committee also will be formed to evaluate the results of a five-year projection report, a project that began in 1991 but no longer exists. Committee members wil 1 evaluate the report from 1993-1994 to see how much has been accomplished since then. They may use their findings to implement future goals. NU player Williams must stand trial By Jeff Zeleny Senior Reporter ~ Nebraska corner back Tyron e W i 11 i ams must stand trial on two felony weapons charges stem Williams ming from a 1994 incident, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. Williams, who was charged in Lancaster County District Court for violating the state’s drive-by shooting I law and using a weapon to commit a felony, had main tained that both charges were unconstitutional. The ap peals court declined to dis miss the charges before Williams case went to trial. The decision could be appealed to the state Supreme Court. Appeals Court Judge John Irwin wrote in the 3-0 opinion that Williams acted prematurely in alleging that being sentenced on both charges would constitute double jeopardy. “Before Williams can ever be punished for the two offenses, he will first have to be tried and found guilty of those offenses,” Irwin said. Police allege Williams, a senior from Pal metto, Fla., fired two or three rounds at a mov ing vehicle near the comer of 17th and L streets on Jan. 30, 1994. The car was occupied by a UNL student and New York Jets safety Kevin Porter. Three days later, Wi 11 iams pleaded not gui 1 ty to the felony charges. At the time, Nebraska coach Tom Osborne insisted the shooting was accidental. He said it was related to a fracas between football players and a group of local men at an east Lincoln motel. Authorities disagreed. for nearly a week, police searched tor the .22-caliber revolver that Williams allegedly used in the shooting. It was later discovered that an assistant football coach was holding the gun in his office. The Williams incident is the first in a string of violent episodes that allegedly involved Nebraska football players. Williams started throughout the national championship season last year and has started every game this season. Williams said he has not focused on the case this year. “I know it’s there, but I haven’t worried about it,” he said. “I know I’ll take care of it after the season.” The case has made little legal progress in 22 months. Williams’ attorneys in the Lancaster County Public Defender’s office have filed numerous motions in the last two years, including the See WILLIAMS on 2 Services make finding scholarships easier NAFA provides information on available funds ByTonya Cross Staff Reporter The road to success can be difficult, but the road to finding scholarships doesn’t have to be. More than 375,000 scholarships and grants are available to students. The money does not need to be paid back, and 80 percent of these scholarships don’t depend on family need or grade point averages. Steve Kowal, executive director of the Na tional Academic Funding Administration, said the scholarships were based on heritage, hob bies, age, students’ interests and parents’ occu pations. J “The bottom line is students may qualify from 20 to 50 sources,” Kowal said. NAFA is a private organization that pro vides students with information for scholar ships. According to the National Commission on Student Financial Aid, more than $6 billion in “ --scholarship money goes un Financial collected each year because people do not apply for it. Most students just don’t know about the money, Kowal said. Limited funds make it difficult to reach all of the graduating students each year. John Beacon, director of scholarships and financial aid, said there seemed to be confusion regarding scholarships and federal aid. Federal aid comes in the form of grants, loans and work study programs, he said. Uni versity scholarships are awarded to students See NAFA on 6 New Web site aids students’ searches for source listings By Kasey Kerber Staff Reporter Studentsnow may search more than 180,000 sources for scholarships without writing a single letter, picking up the phone or even leaving the comfort of their homes. All they need is access to a computer con nected to the World Wide Web. It’s all done with fastWeb, a free computer ized scholarship search service offered by the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid and sponsored by Bames and Noble Bookstores, Inc. and American Educational Services. FastWeb has been available to students since August, but widespread interest in the service has not surfaced until recently, when a letter was sent out to all student and faculty e-mail account holders. “There’s definitely been a response thanks to that mailing,” said Geri Larsen, outreach specialist and scholarship director at the finan cial aid office. FastWeb allows students to establish a mail box on the system, where scholarship possibili ties will be sent. Before searching the database for scholar ships, fastWeb requires each student to fill out basic information, such as name and student ID number, and more detailed information about future plans. “The whole process should take less than an hour,” Larsen said. “For those students who are at ease with computers, it might only take half an hour.” Students can access fastWeb by opening the World Wide Web browser and entering the address and then selecting “scholarship search program.”