NU president promotes brain power boost
By Sarah Baker
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska presi
dent Dennis Smith Tuesday told the
1997 Academic Senate what will fuel
the future. ^
“NU is at the forefront of a new
economy. Employment after college is
no longer based on capital assets, it is
based on brain power,” Smith said.
Assessing the year’s challenges at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
was the theme of Tuesday’s senate
meeting.
Smith said the new brain power
industry is flourishing. The university
must provide its graduates with the
skills necessary to handle the new in
dustry.
Students must re-leam information
once they enter the job market, Smith
said.
“Employers are looking for stu
dents who have learned how to learn
and are able to move ainead in today's
global competition,” he said.
Other issues discussed at the meet
ing included the Academic Planning
Committee, the Teaching Council, and
also short speeches by both Smith and
Chancellor James Moeser.
Smith addressed other money mat
ters when forecasting NU's three main
budget priorities. Topping the list were
the College of Information Sciences
and Technology, the operating budget
and renovation projects at the Univer
sity of Nebraska at Omaha and the
University of Nebraska at Kearney.
“The money that is put toward the
renovation will benefit UNL as well
as UNO and UNK,” Smith said.
Smith said the projects would reno
vate a total of 16 buildings on all three
campuses.
Moeser also stressed the impor
tance of approaching budget propos
als.
“The process that we go through
should be looked at with a critical
view. Our major priorities are propos
als having to do with multi
interdiciplinary topics and crossing
the boundary walls between depart
ments,” Moeser said.
Later in the meeting, Helen Moore,
sociology professor, spoke about the
Teaching Council’s 1997 plans.
“The Teaching Council is working
on cross-college team efforts that in
clude some innovative ideas.”
Bill to reform punishment for sex crimes
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sex offenders have a recidivism rate
of 98 percent, said Dr. Sanat Roy, who
works for the Lincoln Regional Cen
ter sex offender program.
Eighty-six percent of sex criminals
receive no treatment in jail.
Lincoln Police Chief Tom Casady,
who testified in support of the bill, said
that was no surprise to him.
“I know names, I know addresses
of people who simply should not be
released,” Casady said. “There are re
peat sex offenders going about their
business as we speak... they may live
across the street from elementary
schools.”
The point system would enable
judges to sentence repeat sex offend
ers to longer terms in jail.
“We’re taking away from the judi
ciary the power to give a sentence that
will not protect society,” Lancaster
County Attorney Gary Lacey said in
support of the bill.
The bill could also help prevent
more serious crimes, Lacey said.
“(Sexual crimes) are often the pre
cursor to a homicide,” he said.
Wesely said measures such as the
registration of paroled or released
sexual offenders were not good
enough.
“It lets the public know when
someone is released so they can pro
tect themselves,” Wesely said. “If this
person is a danger, why are we releas
ing them in the first place?”
Freeman considers herself lucky.
She said sometimes she will acciden
tally leave her door unlocked, and the
wind will blow it open.
A paralyzing rush of emotion
comes, but if Freeman turned to look
at the door, she would see nobody. Her
stalker is locked up tightly and will
not be eligible for parole for 35 years.
Burglary
Two Lincoln high schools were
broken into between Friday and
Monday, resulting in more than
$5,000 in damages and losses.
Burglars entered Lincoln East
High School, 1000 S. 70th St., be
tween 1:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.
Monday morning through an un
locked door.
The perpetrator went into the
drama room and smashed all the
makeup lights, damaged a com
puter and stole a videocassette re
corder, police reports said.
In the auditorium, they broke
four stools, 20 spotlight bulbs and
a microphone. A table also was
found in the swimming pool.
Lincoln Police reported $2,380
in damages, $420 in theft losses.
Lincoln Northeast High School,
2635 N. 63rd St., was broken into
sometime between Friday and Sun
day.
Burglars broke a lock on a win
dow and entered three portable
classrooms, police reports said. A
computer and two printers were
stolen. Officers reported $2,550 in
losses.
Burglary
Two burglars at 3081 Vine St.
couldn’t avoid a neighbor’s eye,
and one couldn’t avoid arrest Mon
day night.
Neighbors in the 3000 block of
Vine Street reported seeing two
men removing an air conditioner
from a window and entering the
house.
When police arrived, one man
fled, leaving the other man — and
all items the two had removed from
the house — behind.
Police set up a perimeter around
the house and the man, 19-year-old
Terrance Ice, 3243 Orchard St.,
soon walked out the front door,
where he was arrested.
The two had removed $340 in
items, but had left them all outside
the house.
Officers are still looking for the
other man.
Vandalism
A rash of vandalism downtown
over the weekend became a self-ful
filling act.
Vandals wrote “deface” on four >
buildings, three with a white pen
and a fourth by scratching the
words into a glass door.
In all, $425 damage was done
to the LES building at 11th and O
streets; Radio Shack, 1024 O St.; a
mailbox on N Street between 13th
and 14th streets; and Security Fed
eral Bank, 1330 N St., which sus
tained $350 in damages from the
scratched door.
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NU will pay $10,000 for Renteria lawsuit
From Staff Reports
The University of Nebraska will
chip in $10,000 for its share of the
settlement of wrongful death lawsuits
filed against it and the city of Lincoln.
Monday, the Lincoln City Council
approved a $200,000 settlement in the
suits, filed by the family of Francisco
Renteria. Renteria died Sept. 1,1994
— one day after a struggle with uni
versity and Lincoln Police.
Jose Renteria, Francisco Renteria’s
brother, filed the wrongful death suits
against the Lincoln Police, the Lin
coln Fire Department and the Univer
sity Police Department after the ac
quittals.
Joe Rowson, an NU spokesman,
said Tuesday that the $10,000 would
come from a trust fund.
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