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Fight interrupts Saturday evening showing of‘Empire’ at the Stuart. By Erin Gibson Senwr Reporter A Lincoln man struck back dur ing the “Empire Strikes Back” when he lashed out at a talker Saturday night at the Stuart Theatre. David Dillow, 29, attacked a 16 year-old boy who was talking loudly and using profanity with two friends about 90 minutes into the movie, said Lincoln Police Capt. Steve Imes. He was arrested and jailed for assault and disturbing the peace. The boy and his friends sat in the upper balcony of the theater, within earshot of Dillow and his three chil dren, wife and a friend. Dillow first confronted the boy in the balcony of the theater, and the teen responded by taunting him, Imes said. Dillow then grabbed the talker by the neck and squeezed. Imes said the boy broke away from Dillow and ran out into the lobby. Dillow followed, knocking over a table in the lobby while chasing the teen. The 16-year-old tried to escape through the front doors of the theater, but found the doors locked and sought refuge in the theater’s ticket booth, Imes said. Marilyn Hallinan, theater man ager, said Dillow continued to pound on the booth’s locked door and pur sue the boy. Another customer tried to inter vene and stop Dillow from hurting the boy, Hallinan said. She said Dillow threw the thijd party into the wall be fore fleeing the theater. A Stuart employee called the po lice, she said. The police told Dillow’s wife to turn him in when he returned to the theater to retrieve her, his friend and his children. Hallinan said the unusual fight in the balcony greatly disturbed audience members. Dillow “hadn’t complained to any body” about the annoying talkers, and no other audience member had asked an employee to quiet the trio, she said. “He just took it upon himself,” Hallinan said. 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The amended 1996-97 budget totaled $46,662. About $23,000 goes to hall gov ernments for educational and so cial events. The other half goes to executive expenditures including the campus escort program, movie contracts, welcome committees and other programs and costs! RHA’s funding comes from residence hall students’ room and board fees. RHA also passed another pro posed bill that called for free voice mail services for the entire senate, including committee members. RHA members said they thought that the service would be a great benefit. _■ , . • Survival skill taught in self-defense class By Jonathan Houghton Staff Reporter The best way people can defend themselves is to be prepared, a self defense instructor said, before they become the victims of a violent crime. Self-defense classes offered through Campus Recreation are de signed to give students the skills and confidence to be prepared. Instructor Steve Olson said the class is not a martial arts course. He said students learn simple techniques that have been proven to be effective. “What we’re doing is giving them something they can use but not some thing that requires a large commit ment of time,” Olson said. Olson said these skills are impor tant for people to learn because of the dangers in society. Although students are given one credit hour for the class, many say they take it to learn how to protect them selves. “I thought it’d be a good thing for me to know with everything going on in the world right now,” said Heather Stoneall, a sophomore architecture major. As a woman, Stoneall said she feels particularly vulnerable. “Society has told us that women are more apt to be attacked,” she said, Olson said the class is about 90 percent women, but men can also ben efit from it. He said the class size, around 50, is larger than las! semester’s, when the class was origi nally offered. We had more of a demand than originally anticipated,” he said. In the five-week class, students learn how to defend themselves against several kinds of assaults, in cluding a bear hug, a choke hold and a prone assault. Students are taught four parts of resisting an attack, Olson said. They are taught to verbally and physically distract an attacker, to stun the at tacker and then to get away, he said. “The key is to do what you need to do to escape,” Olson said. But Olson said these techniques should be viewed as a last resort. The class is designed to teach students to protect themselves from attack, not to fight. One of the worst things people can do, he said, is to get into a dan gerous situation believing that they can handle it. “The only guarantee is not to be there,” he said. “Nobody wins a fight.” To make this point, Olson does not teach any self-defense techniques in the first class session. Instead, he lec tures students on attack prevention. An important aspect of attack pre vention is a confident attitude, Olson said. 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