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VOL. 96 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 October 1, NO. 26 ■* * Mb MIKE PEWTHERS, left, and Jack O’Brien share a laugh while waiting to get their picture taken by the CSPAN bus. Bus gives students behind-scenes tour By Sarah Baker Staff Reporter Usually when a big yellow school bus pulls into a school parking lot, it’s no big deal. But when it’s the C-SPAN School Bus, it causes more of a stir. The C-SPAN School Bus stopped in Lin coln Monday to offer tours to selected area junior high and high school journalism stu dents. The 45-foot motor coach was parked at the Lincoln Public Schools District Offices. Its visit was in joint cooperation with Lin coin Cable Vision and Ventures in Partnership. The bus is touring to educate America’s young people about both local and national political races — as well as the C-SPAN po litical network. Ann Shrewsbury, Lincoln Cable Vision public affairs administrator, said students toured the bus to see what goes on behind the scenes at C-SPAN. Students watched audio-visual presenta tions on political candidates from around the world. Sara Sundberg, a C-SPAN representative, gave die students on the bus a look into C SPAN’s coverage. “C-SPAN shows all political events in their entirety, so that the viewer gets the full effect of what that candidate is saying,” Sundberg said. “We try not to be biased against any one side of an issue.” Sundberg also said that the original idea for the bus tour came from a college profes sor who took his history students out of the classroom and into the country so that they could “see” history happen. “We presented this idea to the people at C-SPAN, and they thought that it was a great opportunity for students,” Sundberg said. C-SPAN is available to Lincoln through Lincoln Cable Vision channel 18. C-SPAN is a public-service channel created by America’s cable companies. Nelson to students: Stay here By Chad Lorenz Senior Reporter Gov. Ben Nelson assured UNL students Mon day that they could have a secure future in Ne braska. While bragging about the state’s 2.6 percent unemployment rate, the lowest in the nation, and excellent economic growth, Nelson said Nebraska would be a good place to stay after graduation. “This state is on the move,” Nelson said. “We’re doing more than husking com. ‘We’re not going to ball-and-chain you here, but take a real good look at staying home, or if you’re from out of state, staying here.” Please see NELSON on 3 Fraternity man seen as suspect in alleged rape By Chad Lorenz Senior Reporter A member of Sigma Nu fraternity is a suspect in an alleged rape at the fraternity house Friday night, the UNL police chief said Monday. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Chief Ken Cauble said a female UNL student reported that a man she had just met sexually assaulted her at the fraternity house after 10 p.m. Friday. “We believe the person responsible is a mem ber of the house,” Cauble said. The woman went to a party at the house with Please see RAPE on 6 Night patrols increase security on campus Visibility of CSOs reduces criminal acts, makes residence halls, parking lots safer This Is part two of a five-part series about crime on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. By Matthew Waite Special Projects Reporter A J. Clifton has a good pair of shoes. He needs them for his job. Clifton is a com munity service officer for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. on duty late nights and early mornings. And he does a lot of walking. Nights cm patrol are spent walking around the different buildings on campus, checking doors to see if they are locked, shining a flash light into dark areas for someone who shouldn’t be there and watching over cars in the parking lots. But more importantly, Clifton said, he is out there for people to see him. “The more officers yew have out on the street, the more you are going to reduce crime,” he said, walking through a dark Nebraska Hall near midnight. Since 1993, the year die CSO program was started, the crime rate at UNL has gone down steadily, and some of the credit has been given to CSOs like Clifton. The CSOs patrol the residence halls, the greek houses, academic buildings and parking lots — all areas that are seeing a decline in crime. While university police would not comment specifically on patrol patterns because of secu rity reasons, trouble spots can be foundo? cam pus using 1995 and 19% police records. ‘ ^ * By far, UNL’s City Campus is more crime filled than East Campus. Police credit that sta tistic to the City Campus’s location near down town. Residence hall residents are far more likely to report crime than greek house residents. Po Please see CRIME on 6 Scott Bruhn/DN UNL POLICE OFFICER John O’Grady questions Joe Leazer about a mattress stolen jjpi a truck outride Neihardt Hall Friday afternoon.