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VOL. 96 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 October 3, NO. 28 % Photo Iu-usTwaioH by Jay Caldebon/DN NINETEEN- TO 20-YEAR-OLD MALES make up the largest group of crime victims at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Men reported 67 of the auto larcenies in 1995, compared to women who reported 27 percent of the auto larcenies. Six percent were unclaimed. GAm victims often young, male This is part four of a five-part series about crime on the University of Nebraska-Lin coln campus. UNL police officers are focusing crime-prevention education efforts on younger students. By Matthew Waite Special Projects Reporter Chad Kudym was just going to a study session for chemistry. It was dark, but he parked his bike in a well-lit area outside the front doors of Hamilton Hall. When he came back outside to ride home, his seat was gone, taken by thieves. Kudym was a 20-year-old junior at the time. He didn’t report the incident because he didn’t think he would ever see the seat again. Had he reported the crime, he would have been part of the second-largest age group of victims on campus. Nineteen- and 20-year-old men are meet ing campus police more often than any other age group — both as victims and perpetra tors. Younger students are victims more than older students, according to the data. The data shows traditional college-aged students are the most victimized. The largest group of victims were 19 year-olds, with more than 420 victims. Next were 20-year-olds, with more than 400. The numbers slowly decrease as age in creases but remain fairly constant from age 30 to age 50. After age 50, the numbers drop to fewer than 10 victims. The numbers do not surprise University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Chief Ken Cauble. Students are the largest group on campus, he said, and younger students are more vulnerable. “College students are very trusting when they get here,” Cauble said. “They leave their rooms unlocked and don’t report anything until they are victims.” University police focus much of their edu cation efforts on younger students, especially freshmen. This year, Cauble said, community Service officers have been assigned to resi dence hall complexes to direct crime-preven tion education efforts. Please see CREME on 6 Campus jobs hardly affected by wage hike ByKaseyKebber Senior Reporter The minimum wage may have just gone up, but major student employers on campus are not going to go belly up as a result. The Office of Campus Recreation, UNL Li braries, Nebraska Unions, and UNL Housing all reported that they have been affected but not badly hurt by the recent 50-cent increase in mini mum wage to $4.75 an hour. But problems may arise next year, campus employers say, when the minimum wage hike’s second stage takes effect and minimum wage is increased an additional 40 cents. Some campus employers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln were not financially hurt by the first minimum wage hike, because their employ Please see WAGE on 8 UNL graduate assistants not /* • rormmg unions By Erin Schulte Senior Reporter They look like professors. They talk like pro fessors. They do the same work as professors, although for fewer hours a week. •v But the pay isn’t the same, and neither are insurance benefits, which is why graduate assis tants at some universities are demanding a change. At the University of Iowa in Iowa City this fall, graduate assistants joined a union and won 19-percent base-salary raises and better insurance benefits. Before they unionized, the graduate assistants’ salaries and benefits weren’t cutting it. The as sistants were teaching 40 percent of the classes at the university and publishing much of the re search. Please see UNIONS on 3 Video on HuskerVision aims to raise abuse awareness By Stacey Range Staff Reporter A 55-year-old man jumps from his seat in the north stadium yelling “KILL!” Three rows down, a young father stamps his foot and raises his fists shouting“HURT‘EM!” The little boy, mimicking his father, screws his face and screams “DE STROY!” On Nebraska game days, seeing red describes more than the sea of red-clad fans, but during the next two home games, football players will be telling die fans to keep their anger in check and stop the violence. In recognition of October as Na tional Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Nebraska Athletic Depart ment has agreed to broadcast a public service announcement on HuskerVision. The announcement features college football players asking men to refrain from relationship violence and from tolerating it of others. The 30-second announcement tar geting men was developed by Liz Claiborne Inc. and Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society. It will be aired in 12 other Division I college stadiums and during syndicated regional television coverage of college football games. The purpose of die announcement is to increase awareness of domestic violence and make the issue a men’s issue, said Dot McPherson, director of the Mentors in Violence Prevention project at the center. As fans glance at the HuskerVision screens, they will see a crowded sta dium with various messages flashing on the stadium scoreboard. The first two appear harmless. One wishes a happy birthday and another informs of a car with its lights on. Then comes a shocker as fans and players view the message: “Greg Niel, Sec. 829, Seat 12, beat up his girlfriend last night.” Close-ups of fans and players show their disgust. A player on the field ad dresses the camera, ‘If you think hit ting a woman makes you a big man, you won’t mind if we let70,000people see what kind of a man you really arc.” A voiceover intones, “Every 12 sec onds a woman in this country is abused. Isn’t it time to speak out? Getinyolved. find relationship violence. Love is not abuse.” 1 The announcement end& with the telephone number of the National Do mestic Violence Hotline. ' ^ McPherson said there was no bet ter way to reach men than though foot ball, which happens to be one of the most violent sports. ■ . . . ^ ■_ « We’re trying to put responsibility on men whose fathers, sons, brothers, uncles, teammates and friends are domestically violent.” Don McPherson director of Mentors in Violence Prevention ,r ■ However, while die connection be tween football and violence exists, McPherson said, the announcement does not focus on violence in sports. Rather, he stud, it uses sports to grab men’s attention. “Athletes me icons of masculinity in our society,” he said. ‘‘We’re using them asaway to reach men on the is sue and get them to stand up against it.”*: - Judith Kriss, director of the Women’s Center, applauded the see VIOLENCE m 6