VOL. 96
COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901
October 1,
NO. 26
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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
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UNL POLICE OFFICER John O’Grady questions Joe Leazer about a mattress stolen
jjpi a truck outride Neihardt Hall Friday afternoon.