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
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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
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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.
Kriss agreed.
“The only way to change cultural
attitudes that objectify, degrade and
exploit women — and to a certain ex
tent, that’s what Playboy is all about
— is to stop the demand,” she said.
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