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ASUN sponsors Unity Dinner
By Kasey Kerber
Staff Reporter
A potluck dinner will follow
tonight’s ASUN meeting at the Cul
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national organiza
tions have been in
vited to attend the
Unity Dinner, a
meal to bring to
gether cultural
ideas and tradi
ASUN nt Shawntell
Hurtgen said the dinner was an op
portunity for minority and interna
tional students to talk to the senate.
“We believe that this is a good
opportunity for those minority and
international students who may not
be heard as often by student govern
ment,” Hurtgen said.
Groups that have been invited to
the dinner include: the Malaysian
Student Organization, the Pakistan
Student Association, the Turkish
Student Association, the Singapore
Contact, the Muslim Student Orga
nization and the Vietnamese Stu
dent Association.
The dinner begins at 7:30 and is
open to all students.
In other ASUN news, the senate
will address its ongoing opposition
to the Faculty Women’s Caucus’ at
tempt to change the Student Code of
Conduct.
The Academic Senate will vote
Dec. 5 on a measure to make the
code tougher on students who com
mit violent crimes. Hurtgen said
senators will be encouraged to call
Academic Senate members and pro
fessors in their colleges.
Two bills will be introduced. The
first will thank Residence Hall As
sociation President Philip Cilliers
for his years of service.
The second will encourage pro
fessors to make clear to students all
requirements, standards, objectives
and evaluation procedures at the be
ginning of each semester.
Graduating students
with loan obligations
must attend session
From Staff Reports
Graduating seniors who have fed
eral student loans must fulfill one more
requirement before they can receive
their long-awaited diplomas.
Federal regulations require all
graduates to attend an exit presenta
tion if they have received one of the
following forms of assistance: a Fed
eral Stafford Loan, an unsubsidized
Federal Stafford Loan, a Federal
Perkins Loan or a Federal Supple
mental Loan for Students.
Sessions will be Dec. 4 in the Ne
braska East Union at 12:30 p.m. and 4
p.m. They will be Dec. 5-6 in the
Nebraska Union at 9 a.m., 12:30 p.m.
and 4 p.m. Rooms will be posted.
The presentations wi 11 include loan
repayment options, deferment provi
sions, grace periods and consequences
of default.
Ifgraduates don’t attend, holds will
be placed on academic transcripts,
diplomas and any future registration
at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln.
Funds approved for SCC
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
The Coordinating Commission
for Postsecondary Education ap
proved almost $1 million to pur
chase classroom space for South
east Community College.
The commission met Tuesday at
the Metropolitan Community
College’s Elkhom Valley Campus.
Southeast Community College
will use the first floor of the Energy
Square Building, formerly the Cen
trum, in downtown Lincoln.
About $750,000 will be used to
purchase the space, and about
|250,000 will be used to remodel
it. The space will be used for aca
demic transfer classes.
The commission also heard a
follow-up report on the two-year
community college’s academic
transfer courses.
Patsy Martin, communications
coordinator, said the commission
then turned its discussion to the
funding of higher education.
It heard a report from Dennis
Jones, president of the National
Center for Higher Education Man
agement Systems, on how col
leges and universities could ad
dress cutbacks in federal and state
funding.
Representatives of Sacred
Heart School in Omaha and the
Kiewit Foundation also gave a
presentation on a joint program
for minority students.
The program motivates and en
courages students to stay in school
and think about college, Martin
said, and teaches students to think
about how to be good employees.
The commission also:
• Heard a presentation on Met
ropolitan Community College’s
distance learning program.
• Reviewed the 1995 Inte
grated Postsecondary Education
Data Systems report.
• Reviewed existing programs
in business, business administra
tion and drafting and follow-up
reports on community college
welding programs.
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Schlondorf
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; , “I wanted the police to kill me,” Schlondorf
later told authorities.
More than one year after he was charged
with nine felony counts, his trial began Tuesday
in Lancaster County District Court. The former
UNL student pleaded not guilty and not respon
sible by reason of insanity.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys agree on
most of the details surrounding the Sept. 12
shooting of university police officer Robert
Soflin, who received minor wounds. But they
disagree on Schlondorf s intent.
“This case is about suicide,” said Keefe,
Schlondorf s attorney. “This case is about a
death order.”
Keefe painted a tragic picture of Schlondorf s
double life. He was a respected farmer in the
Platte river valley near Columbus, where he
lived for 27 years with his family. In 1991, he
abruptly sold his farmland and became a crimi
nal justice major at the university.
During the academic year, his life became a
tangled web of suicide attempts, drunkenness
and brushes with the law, Keefe said. When he
returned to the family farm in the summer,
Keefe said, he was a normal, hard-working
man.
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“It was obvious at this time that there was a
serious mental disorder at work here,” Keefe
said.
During Schlondorf s first two years of col
lege, he wrote in great detail about committing
suicide, Keefe said.
“Mental illness can affect the mind that noth
ing seems important about life,” Schlondorf
wrote in a freshman-level composition course.
“Nothing becomes enjoyable in life as much as
thinking about how to end it.”
However, prosecutors contend that
Schlondorf simply had a grudge against police
officers, and on the night of Sept. 12 he wanted
to settle the score.
Schlondorf is charged with nine felony
counts, including two counts of attempted sec
ond-degree murder, assaulting a police officer,
making terroristic threats and four counts of
using a weapon to commit a felony.
Schlondorf s father and brother were in the
courtroom during jury selection Monday and
Tuesday morning. When testimony began Tues
day afternoon, they were sequestered with other
witnesses.
i>cmondort s brother did not know he was
supposed to leave the courtroom and took notes
throughout the opening statements. During a
brief recess, he showed the notes to his father,
which angered prosecutors.
In a heated 15-minute argument without the
jury present, Colbom asked District Judge Ber
nard McGinn to restrict the Schlondorf family
from the entire floor where the courtroom is
located. Colbom said he witnessed the family
talking to members of the six men and six
women jury.
“If the father and son do not need to be in the
courtroom, why do they need to be on the third
floor?” Colbom asked. “They certainly don’t
need to have any contact with jurors.”
Keefe seemed furious with Colbom’s impli
cations and asked the judge to reprimand the
prosecution.
“He is trying to imply the father of the
defendant is going to come here and commit
some type of crime,” Keefe said loudly.
McGinn did not reprimand Colbom but or
dered the Schlondorfs to have no contact with
the jury during the trial. Testimony continues
today as Soflin takes the stand at 9 a.m.
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just need to find out how one goes about this.”
CBA Dean Jack Goebel said no one has
come to him with concerns about the Hall of
Fame.
“They’re certainly a small group that haven’t
shown themselves in this office,” he said.
The college’s decision to house the Hall of
Fame came about because the col lege wanted to
recognize “people who accomplished a great
deal on the part of the state.”
Women and minority representation was not
a part of the discussion, he said, but the college
has made other steps toward diversity and gen
der equality.
He cited the CBA Professional Women’s
Advisory Board, a gender and minority issues
committee, and plans for a mentoring program
as recent achievements.
Goebel will try to find out more about sub
mitting nominations, he said, and would give
the information to anyone who wanted it.
“Certainly, there are women in this state, by
way of example, who have the potential, and
who would be appropriate people to be nomi
nated,” he said.