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VOL. 96 ““COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 81
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Drag arrests on campus rise In ‘96
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
Drug arrests on campus in 1996
reached the highest they have been
since 1993, when University Police
were required to start keeping statis
tics.
University officials said national
trends were the cause of more drugs
on campus and named better reporting
as the cause for the rise in arrests.
In 1996, University Police reported
21 drug offenses, up from 17 the year
before and eight in 1994. Only four
drug offenses were reported in 1993.
Sgt. Mylo Bushing said the major
ity of the drug cases were in the resi
dence halls. The cases resulted in mis
demeanor charges of possession of less
than an ounce of marijuana and pos
session of drug paraphernalia.
Bushing said there were more drugs
on campus, but there were also more
officers patrolling the campus.
“I’d like to think it’s just better re
porting,” he said Wednesday. “It’s re
ally hard to determine if there are more
drugs. It’s not like we can just go door
to door without any probable cause.”
The majority of Cases University
Police are involved in are students ar
rested for small amounts of marijuana,
Bushing said. He said it was very rare
that officers encountered anything
more than a personal stash.
One cause for a rise in drug arrests,
Bushing said, was community service
officers walking the residence hall
floors. The CSO program, started in
1993, is made up of noncommissioned
officers who do not have the power of
arrest, but are armed with radios.
Deb Mullen, the Abel-Sandoz Resi
dence Hall complex program director,
said instances of drugs in the halls were
on the rise from 10 years ago.
“But that is reflected in the high
schools,” she said. “We just get that
same population.”
When a student is caught with drugs
in the residence halls, the police are
called, Mullen said. The student is then
the responsibility of the court system.
But, she said, that is not the only
punishment. At the same time he or she
is in criminal court, the student is re
ferred to either judicial affairs or a
meeting is held in the hall.
Most drug busts in the residence
halls end up injudicial affairs, Mullen
said. In judicial affairs, a student can
face revocation of privileges, suspen
sion or expulsion.
With drug use among college stu
dents on the rise, Mullen said residence
hall administrators have stepped up
training for student assistants.
More training to help recognize a
student with a drug problem, to rec
ognize signs of drug use and interven
tion techniques to help students have
been added to student assistant train
ing, Mullen said.
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savings plan
By Josh Funk
Staff Reporter
A promotional offer that guaranteed long
distance savings from 15 to 50 percent on state
to-state calls won’t ring through for Lincoln.
A flier recently mailed out by the Long Dis
tance Wholesale Club promised these savings
to Nebraska customers, but those using Aliant
Communications in Lincoln and Southeast Ne
braska can’t take advantage of the offer. The
flier doesn’t say Aliant customers are excluded.
The club is a part of the Dial and Save com
pany, which is part of the Telco Communica
tions Group Inc. based in Arlington, Va.
This firm buys up large blocks of long-dis
tance phone service from phone companies, and
offers them to customers at discounted rates.
Because these long distance middle men use
existing phone companies, consumers do not
need to change their phone company. To use the
service, customers just dial an additional five
digit code before the number they are dialing.
The Long Distance Wholesale Club has re
cently begun serving Nebraska. It negotiated
contracts with US West and Sprint United tele
phone companies but did not make a deal with
Aliant, which serves 157 exchanges in Lincoln
and Southeast Nebraska.
A customer service representative for Dial
and Save said the company did not deal with
small companies at first.
To advertise its service, Dial and Save sent
out a bulk mailing to several zip codes in Ne
braska, including some serviced by Aliant.
“I don’t think they realized where they were
sending it, but this is the second letter they have
sent to our customers,” said Lela Kellaher, Aliant
Communications communications specialist.
“And we notified them both times.”
According to the Better Business Bureau,
callers have inquired about the service; however,
the company has a satisfactory record.
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'brave the Rock
By Anthony Caskey
Staff Reporter
ESTES PARK, Colo. — In each of his
hands, the UNL alumnus clutched an ice axe
hammered into the frozen waterfall. He used
his legs to push two crampons — inch-long
spikes strapped to each of his boots — into
• the ice so he wouldn’t fall.
A harness around his thighs and waist se
cured him to an 1 lmm-thick safety rope run
ning through a metal loop anchored to a tree
above. The harness trailed down 30 feet to a
belayer with a safety rope.
- The alumnus, eight other participants and
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three leaders braved the slippery frozen wa
terfalls at Rocky Mountain National Park in
Estes Park, Colo., Jan. 5-10 during the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln Outdoor Adven
tures’ Snow and Ice Climbing Seminar.
As the man descended from the top of
the waterfall, an experienced ice climber
called out to him: “Lean back a little farther
so you can get better balance.”
He leaned back farther but kept his feet
planted while the safety rope attached to his
harness was lowered by the belayer. He ended
up sitting vertically on the ice with his feet
facing the top of the waterfall.
He regained his balance and was lowered
down so he could detach from the ropes. He
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MATT BAUMEISTER, a URL freshman, is
lowered down by the belayer after climbing
most of Hidden Falls, Jan. 7 in Rocky
Mountain National Park.
lay for two hours on a rock—safe from fall
ing ice — to recuperate.
The next day, the group climbed a more
technically difficult frozen waterfall called
Hidden Falls. Brad Martin, UNL Outdoor
Adventures graduate assistant and seminar
leader, estimated the waterfall to be 75 feet
high.
For the climbers who reached the higher
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