California students may
pay for late graduation
University system
debates charging fees
for those who stay in
school past four years.
From The Daily Bruin (UCLA)
(U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES—The
University of California system may
decide to offer an ultimatum to students
who don’t graduate in four years: get
out or pay up.
If a UC proposal is successful, stu
dents who have not graduated after four
years will face surcharges for addi
tional time spent in school — up to
$4,000 a year.
The surcharge proposal is currently
under review by the UC Academic
Council. It will be sent to the UC Presi
dent on Nov. 1 for review.
According to the proposal, the
charge could cost students who do not
graduate in four years up to an esti
mated additional $1,000 per quarter.
The proposal would affect next
year’s incoming freshman class. It
would not affect current students.
Sandra Smith, assistant vice presi
dent for planning with the UC
President’s office, said it might not af
fect anyone at all.
“Discussions have been ensuing,
and for the most part, the feedback has
been that this isn’t a good idea,” Smith
said. “As far as I can see, this isn’t go
ing to happen.”
Last week, the Undergraduate Stu
dents Association Council (USAC)
unanimously passed a resolution that
denounced a surcharge to student fees.
The resolution states that the proposed
surcharge, “would adversely affect
various student populations (i.e.
underrepresented students, nontradi
tional students, single mothers, etc.)
within the UC by penalizing them for
trying to finish their degree.”
USAC Academic Affairs Commis
sioner Max Espinoza explained the
reasoning behind the USAC resolution
as a protest against additional student
fees.
According to the proposal, a sur
charge would be an incentive for stu
dents to graduate on time, noting that
“... for the most part, institutional fac
tors, such as insufficient course avail
ability, have not been impediments to
graduation at UC.”
UC Student Regent Jess Bravin dis
agreed.
Students are in a “situation where
access to faculty, classes and academic
resources is declining,” Bravin said.
“One of the effects of this is where stu
dents have to take more classes, and
as a consequence are spending more
time in school.
“It’s the educational equivalent of
blaming the victim for the crime.”
Police get new information
to help identify dead body
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter
The Lancaster County Sheriff’s of
fice tapped into a wealth of informa
tion to help identify a body found in
north Lincoln two weeks ago.
A physical description of the
woman has been broadcast on a nation
wide law enforcement computer net
work so other police departments and
the FBI can aid the investigation, Sgt.
Owen Yardley said.
Forensic test results completed last
week showed that the woman had been
dead since early August.
Investigators think the woman was
white with brown hair, between 30 and
45 years old, 5 feet 4 inches tall and
weighed between 110 and 140 pounds,
Yardley said.
Two unusual characteristics will be
especially helpful in identifying the
woman, Yardley said. She had a pro
nounced overbite and a serious injury
to her middle toe on her left foot.
The injury probably would have
given the woman some difficulty walk
ing and running, Yardley said.
When police found the body, it was
clothed in a red flannel shirt, a white
thermal tank top, denim shorts and
white athletic shoes, Yardley said. He
would not say what other personal
items were near the body.
Investigators hoped fingerprints
would help identify the woman, but the
skin on her fingertips had deteriorated
too much to get a print, Yardley said.
Investigators will try to reconstruct
the woman’s face by filling parts of the
skull with modeling clay, Yardley said.
The sheriff’s office has determined
the body does not match the descrip
tion of any people reported missing
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By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa —
Don Ray says he’s an idiot.
But on Saturday, at least he had
a lot of company.
Ray was one of more than 150
beer-paraphernalia collectors who
displayed their wares at the 14th
Annual Midwest Breweriana Con
vention at Harvey’s Hotel and Ca
sino Saturday.
“All idiots. Crazy collectors,”
said Ray, who traded his marbles for
beer cans 25 years ago. “Well, I
shouldn’t say idiots — but they’re
all a little crazy.”
In addition to the exhibitors,,
more than 500 people walked^
through the convention, which be
gan Thursday.
Bill Baburek, who helped orga
nize the convention, said collectors
from 18 states came in for the event.
Before the public show on Saturday,
he said, convention goers went on
microbrewery tours in Omaha and
had a pub crawl.
“It was a little tough,” he said,
laughing.
Beer-paraphernalia collecting is
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BILL EATON of Overland Park, Kan. shows off a neon sign from the Rolling Stones’ 1994 tour.
More than 500 people came to the 14th Annual Breweriana Convention at Harvey’s Hotel and
Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
'Crazy’ convention
Collectors gather to trade beer steins, coasters
conventions such as this have
sprung up all over the country.
With the number of items on dis
play, it was easy to see why. Every
thing from beer steins and bottle
caps to coasters and neon signs were
for sale or trade.
Prices ranged from a 50-cent
coaster to a stein from the 1996
Olympic games for more than
$1,000.
“Anything that can have a beer
name printed on it is collectable to
someone,” Baburek said. “It’s just
a hobby. There’s a lot of people who
like to collect things.”
More than 75 percent of the
people who come to conventions,
which compare to reunions, are
regulars, Baburek said.
And beer has better drawing
power than stamps and baseball
cards, he said.
But Ray said he has had his fun,
and he thinks it’s about time to start
slowing down. He’s turning 70
years old and has been getting rid
of his can collection.
Ray’s collection started more
than 25 years ago, when he lived in
Cincinnati. In the process, he said,
he has collected more than cans. He
has made thousands of friends.
Friends like Craig Gockel of
Shawnee, Kan. Gockel has been
collecting since childhood, when he
worked in his father’s grocery store.
Gockel said the popularity of
beer-paraphernalia collecting is in
tertwined with history.
“The United States was bom on
beer,” he said.
Thomas Jefferson had his own
brewery, Gockel said, and he drank
beer with every meal.
When German immigrants came
to America, Gockel said, they
brought beer and brewing talents
with them.
Now, more than 1,000 brewer
ies are operating in America, most
coming with the microbrewery
craze that started in the 1980s,
Gockel said. And that, he said, has
renewed a lot of interest in beer.
Gockel seems more interested in
others’ collections than his own. He
constantly talks about $300 beer
cans and $400 beer steins.
But, Baburek said, beer-para
phernalia collecting doesn’t have to
be about ultra-expensive and rare
items. Someone with a pocket full
of nickels and dimes can start a
coaster collection.
“This hobby can be as cheap or
as expensive as you want it to be
for yourself,” he said.
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