Students get lost in their Days’
without dose of soap opera drama
By Jessica Fargen
Staff Reporter
It may be hard enough for students
to plan their class schedule around
their busy lives, but, for some, they
have to plan around the “fake” lives
of others.
From 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., they
tune into Erica and Taylor, Sammie
and Austin, Jake and Laura, Matt and
Brenda and Belinda and Jacob.
From the “Bold and Beautiful” to
“Young and the Restless,” many UNL
students admitted to trying, at least
once, to schedule classes around their
favorite soap opera. They said they
made time — at least three times a
week — to catch up with who was
cheating on whom and who was car
rying whose baby.
Sophomore dietetics major Kim
Becker said she planned last
semester’s schedule around “Bold and
the Beautiful.” Becker said she
watched the show because of the good
looking men and because it was so
“fake that it was funny.”
Jackie Matulka, a junior commu
nications major, planned her class
schedule around “The Young and the
Restless” because the story lines were
so “messed up.”
She usually knew what was going
to happen on the show, and the slow
pace of the plot lines was convenient.
“You could not watch it for a
month, but still know what was going
on,” Matulka said.
Freshman Nicole Denton’s class
schedule worked out to fit around “The
Young and the Restless.” Five times a
week, she waits in anticipation in front
of the television at the Nebraska Union
to see what bizarre situation each char
acter will face.
While many soap fans said they
have been keeping up with their show
for up to 10 years, Sabrina Canero, a
junior broadcasting major, started
watching soap operas when she came
to college.
Jeff Swanson, operations manager
for Lincoln’s ABC affiliate KLKN
TV, said soap operas are on Channel
8 weekdays from 11:30 a.m. to 3 pan.
“These are ongoing stories that ap
peal to women,” Swanson said, “and
women make up a large portion of
soap-opera viewers.”
Swanson said college students also
make up a large portion of soap-opera
viewers.
But all of the female college stu
dents interviewed said they noticed an
increase in the number of men who
watch soap operas.
Junior Aaron Dauel has been
watching “The Bold and the Beauti
ful” for three years because he said it
was a break from the daily routine, and
it’s only a half-hour long.
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Dauel, an agriculture busines!
major, said that at his fraternity, A1
pha Gamma Sigma, “over half of oui
house is connected to the TV at 12:3(
p.m. for ‘The Bold and the Beauti
ful.’”
Even if students can fit their show
in between classes, some still neec
time to study.
Other students said they would
tape their favorite soap if it conflicted
with homework or classes.
When Becker misses “The Bold
and the Beautiful” because of class,
she checks out that day’s story line and
video clips on the World Wide Web.
When Jenny Hough, a junior mar
keting major, misses “All My Chil
dren,” she calls the Aliant Finger Tips
Directory to get a summary of that
lav’s show.
Denton, a general studies major,
calls her mother, who tapes the show
every day, or she finds enough people
at the union who had seen the show
and can fill her in.
“Somebody always knows.”
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Juvenile justice
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sions committed during their service
except for misconduct, negligence
or bad faith—was dangerous.
“Immunity encourages careless
ness and neglect,” he said.
Another bill introduced to the
committee would allow for media
tion between juvenile offenders and
their victims in nonviolent crimes.
LB236 was introduced by Sen.
Don Wesely of Lincoln. In media
tion, the juvenile offender and the
victim would mutually agree to
meet with a trained mediator.
The juvenile would make resti
tution for his or her crime or par
ticipate in community service.
The bill says that mediation al
lows juveniles to make amends for
their crimes and take direct respon
sibility for their actions and there
fore reduces recidivism.
Death penalty bill moves forward
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska Legislature ad
vanced a bill Thursday that would
i make the killing of a police officer
punishable by death.
The bill advanced to second
round debate 27-2, with Sens.
Ernie Chambers of Omaha and
Dave Landis of Lincoln voting
against the bill.
Debate on LB422 had contin
ued for nearly eight hours over
three days, mostly because of
amendments proposed by Cham
bers, who is opposed to the death
penalty altogether. Chambers said
during debate that the death pen
alty is too arbitrary. He said the
death penalty is carried out only on
a small number of those on death
row, and those put to death are usu
ally the poor or minorities.
Near the end of floor debate,
Chambers withdrew all his amend
ments but said he would bring them
up during third-round debate.
UNO may expand security
after recent rape on campus
OMAHA (AP) — University of
Nebraska at Omaha faculty have con
demned the rape of a female instructor
in a computer laboratory and asked
university officials to improve security.
Instructors questioned the training
of the campus police force Wednesday
during a Faculty Senate meeting.
“What we have is a campus secu
rity force, not a police force, and I think
that’s a problem,” said Jeremy
Lipschultz, associate professor of com
munications.
Public relations director Louis
Cartier said campus police officers call
in the Omaha police if a crime merits
extra attention.
“There is room for individual judg
ment,” Cartier said: “Rape, yes; a
eouple of students fighting in the park
ing lot, probably not.”
The March 5 rape is under investi
gation. The victim was communicat
ing with a person in Connecticut on the
Internet at the time of the rape. After
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she was attacked, the woman sent a
computer message to the person in
Connecticut because there was no
phone in the computer lab. That per
son contacted campus security.
The victim, a part-time instructor,
decided not to continue her classes this
semester.
Faculty members discussed three
other incidents that occurred on cam
pus in recent weeks. A black
employee’s car was vandalized with
racial epithets, a black student found a
note with racist overtones on his car
windshield and a fight after a pick-up
basketball game sent one student to the
hospital.
“This could be something that is
happening just by chance, but I think
that somebody ought to be looking at
the overall situation,” said Shelton E.
Hendricks, psychology professor.
Chancellor Del Weber said he is
forming a group to review campus se
curity.
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