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Bill makes defaulting costly By Ted Taylor Senior Reporter Nebraska lawmakers advanced a bill Monday making post-secondary -education insti Legislature tutions more ro ll sponsible for student loan de fault fees. Senators ad vanced Sen. Jerome Warner’s LB29 with little dc . bate early Mon day evening. Warner’s bill stems from legisla tion enacted by Congress two years ago that punished institutions with default fees of 20 percent or higher. That bill holds the state respon sible for the funds needed to reim burse the government. The state would then have to take the money from its general fund to pay the de faults. The congressional bill is stalled with rules and regulations debate, however, and has not yet been en acted. “This puts a process in place should Congress proceed with the process they enacted,” Warner said. An amendment was added to the bill that said the institution that had the 20 percent default fee would be forced to pay its share back to the government, plus 200 percent as a penalty. The amendment said the institu tion also would be subject to a hear ing that could result in the revoca tion or suspension of the school’s license. “This encourages institutions to be a little more guarded with the dis tribution of their student loan pro grams,” Warner said. Before the bill advanced, an amendment was added calling for the reimbursement to be taken from state funds given to the particular institution that had the high rate. Warner contended that student scholarship funds would ultimately be taken away. Registration Continued from Page 1 Abboud said if an individual had been convicted of any of the above crimes two or more times, he or she will have a lifetime obligation to be registered. Registration would occur when the individual attempts to obtain a Nebraska residency driver’s license. Failure to register would result in a Class IV felony, which carries a possible five-year jail term, a $10,000 fine or both. Abboud said the information would be held by the local county sheriff and would not be made pub lic. Tuesday’s passage of the bill also guarantees Nebraska will not lose 10 percent of the state’s fed eral crime control money — which totals more than $350,000. States who do not pass such leg islation by 1997 are subject to such a penalty. Currently Vermont and Massachusetts are the only two states who do not have some sort of sex offender measure. While Abboud’s bill will require all sex offenders to register with the state, its main focus was monitor ing those who have sexually abused children. “This legislation is meant to pro tect the youngest people in our so ciety who cannot protect them selves,” Abboud said in a statement. ‘This is a very important piece of legislation,” the statement read. “We are talking about bringing to justice people who victimize the most vulnerable members of our society.” In a related note, Sen. Dan Fisher of Grand Island spent the morning passing out blue ribbons to sena tors. Fisher asked his colleagues to wear the ribbons during April in support of Child Abuse Prevention Month. “It’s very important that we passed this bill,” Fisher said. Fisher echoed Abboud in saying the bill was another tool for law en forcement. “It’s important to know who these sex offenders are,” Fisher said. Playboy Continued from Page 1 woman can contribute to society,” Berens said. Seeing the problems with pornog raphy is easy, said Judith Kriss, direc tor of UNL’s Women’s Center. Know ing what to do about it is not, she said. “There are some issues of free speech and censorship I don’t particu larly want to get into,” Kriss said. “I certainly believe a woman has the right to do this if she sees it as some sort of honor or achievement.” But one small step for woman could mean one giant leap backward for womankind, Kriss said. That’s why she and other staff at the Women’s Center have offered to help any students who would like to stage a protest. “At the risk of giving the magazine more exposure, we want to create some tension,” she said. “We want to create a situation where anyone who purchases the magazine has to think about it and ask, ‘Am I going to buy into something that may contribute to the degradation of women?’” Along with photos, Playboy will run biographies of the women who appear in its pages, Ring Borgstrom said. Those biographies will include each woman’s major in school, hob bies, hometown, interests, ambitions and measurements. “It’s not just skin,” Ring Borgstrom said. But the biographies aren’t what sells the magazine, Bcrens said. “I think it’s a token,” she said. “It says, Oh my gosh, look! She goes to college! She’s got a brain!’” Rnthpr thrm incnltino ’c telligence, Ring Borgstrom said, the college conference issue would give readers a new perspective on beauti ful women. “Instead of'I’ll never sec women like that around here,’ it’s 'Gee, look, she’s sitting right there next to you in history class,”’ she said. But finding “women like that” in history class just might be part of the problem, Bcrens said. “This stuff appeals to men’s sexual instinct,” she said. “Not to their minds. Not to their sensitivity. There’s a lot more to men than that ” Not all men view women as objects to be ogled, Bercns said. “I don’t think either men or women are well-served by stereotypical role images,” she said. Posing for Playboy probably \yill not help serious Students reach their serious goals, Berens said. But the women who choose to model for the magazine probably will have no regrets, Ring Borgstrom said. “If someone wants to be president of the United States, they shouldn’t pose for any magazine, nude or semi nude,” she said. According to Berens and Kriss, however, the damage is already done. The detrimental effects of such things as pornography are not always easily identifiable, they said. “Change is not going to occur un til people start questioning these things,” Berens said. “If women want to be treated equally, they have to be taken seriously. 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