Two girls assaulted
in Lincoln back yard
By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
Two 15-year-old girls were sexu
ally assaulted in the back yard of a
Lincoln home Sunday morning.
After die girls passed out drunk,
they were assaulted by three men,
Lincoln Police Sgt. Terry Sherrill
said.
The two girls were drinking with
a 17-year-old boy in the back yard
of a house on the 2900 block of
Dudley Street.
The boy was the older brother of
one of die girls, though none of the
three lived at the house where they
were drinking.
By 2 a.m. Sunday morning the
two girls had passed out, and the
boy had gone to get help, Sherrill
%s
said.
When the boy returned to the
back yard he found a man sexually
assaulting his sister.
The boy started kicking the man
and chased him away from his sister
and out of the yard.
But when the boy returned to the
back yard he found two other men
trying to sexually assault the other
girl, Sherrill said.
The men had removed the girl's
clothes, but police could not deter
mine the extent of the assault
because of the girl's intoxication,
Sherrill said.
After police were called, they
found the 31-year-old man who
assaulted the boy's sister.
The man is being held in the
Lancaster County Jail and is expect
ed to be charged in court today.
High school officials
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Classroom hellions are using com
- puters to download porn, change
grades, swap passwords and send
threatening e-mail when the teacher
isn’t looking. Often, the brightest
students are doing the mischief, and
school officials are struggling with
how to discipline them.
The naughty students bring in
homemade programs to disable
school software, install point-and
shoot war games, make counterfeit
money and design scathing sites on
the World Wide Web.
“You’d be amazed at what they
can do,” said Jeannine Clark, assis
tant principal of Clarkstown High
School North in New City, N.Y.
“Clearly, a new set of guidelines is
needed” - guidelines Clark calls
“nerd discipline.”
Seventy-eight percent of the
nation's public schools today are
connected to the Internet, accord
ing to the National Center for
Education Statistics. Educators
nationwide have responded to
cyberspace antics with a patchwork
of Internet-use policies, outlining
the dos and don’ts of being online at
school
Some are strictly written with
harsh punishments for offenders.
Others have weak consequences or
use vague terms, such as “objec
tionable” or “offensive,” to describe
the kinds of Web sites that students
are forbidden to visit.
Often harder than writing the
policies, however, is punishing
offenders.
Routine suspension is often not
the best approach for bright stu
dents, Clark says. And some par
ents, who don’t want their children
sitting in a suspension room miss
ing honors English, think computer
experiments are good even if
Johnny breaks school rules.
“As one father told me, it’s per
fectly acceptable to allow his child
to experiment,” Clark said. “After
all, we didn’t want to squash his
curiosity, did we?”
> Suspending computer privi
leges, on the other hand, can be
counterproductive for students tak
ing courses requiring daily comput
er access. Grades can suffer.
Credits can be lost. Students can
drop in class ranking.
So an alternate punishment - a
“monitored probation” - was set up
to let students use computers, but
only in closely watched settings,
Clark says.
Nancy Willard, an information
technology consultant from
Eugene, Ore., advises school dis
tricts to take Internet privileges
away from computer abuserg and
make them earn them back.
Students who surf sexually
explicit sites, for example, might be
assigned to write a research paper
on victims of sexual abuse.
In Cashmere, Wash., six high
school students were suspended for
up to 10 days last school year for
posting a list of more than 300 stu
dents, and suggestions on how each
might die.
Five students apparently con
vinced the sixth, who had computer
expertise, to put the list on the
World Wide Web, according to
Gary Harden, who was student
body president at the school where
he graduated this year.
“They were all suspended, and
each of diem had to write an essay
about good uses for the Internet,”
Harden said, adding that he hasn’t
heard of any pranks since. “I think
our administration wanted to ham
mer down so it wouldn’t happen
again.”
Owner implements
changes at bookstore
By Lindsay Young
Senior staff writer
Students may not have noticed
any changes to the University
Bookstore yet, but according to its
director, the changes are there and
will continue to come.
Many of them will be imple
mented “as soon as we recover
from rush,” said Viann Schroeder,
director of the bookstore.
Follett College Stores Inc. of
Elmhurst, 111., took over manage
ment of the bookstore July 1. As
part of the agreement between
Follett and the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, many changes
will be made.
In the agreement, Follett will
manage the store, but the space
will still be owned by UNL.
The 10-year contract with
Follett is a way to both generate
revenue for the university and
upgrade inventory technology,
said Carl Hutchison, a member of
the Bookstore Outsourcing
Review committee.
The committee, consisting of
faculty members, staff and stu
dents, recommended the book
store chain to the NU Board of
Regents in June. The regents
approved the agreement at its June
20 meeting.
Four bookstores had been con
sidered, including Nebraska
Bookstore, Hutchison said.
The university will receive a
minimum of $ 1 million a year for
rental of the building space for the
first five years, and a minimum of
$1.5 million for the last five years
of the agreement, which expires in
2008.
In addition, Follett will con
tribute $50,000 annually to the
university to continue to support
organizations previously support
ed through bookstore revenues.
M
Somewhere along the line people realized
there s a limit to how much red you can
„ have in your wardrobe
VlANN SCHROEDER
University Bookstore director
It also will establish a program
in cooperation with UNL, where
Follett will provide $10,000 annu
ally in textbook scholarships to
students designated by UNL.
The only negative thing
Schroeder has seen with the agree
ment with Follett is the buyback
cost of used books.
When the bookstore was run
by the university, the buyback of
used books was 60 percent of the
new book price. However, under
management of Follett, it is 60
percent of the price the student
paid for the book, she said.
One change that already has
been implemented and has been
noticed by students is an extension
of hours.
When the university managed
the store, it was open 8 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. Monday through
Thursday and until 5 p.m. on
Friday.
Now, the hours are 8 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. Monday through
Wednesday and Friday, and 8 a.m.
to 8 p.m. on Thursday. Saturdays,
the store is open from 9 a.m. to 6
p.m.
For students such as Wes
Madden, a senior conimpnity
health major,- the added hours'
were a welCome change: - ^ ^ :
Madden said he does most of
his shopping in the evening, when
the lines aren’t as long. With class
es and work throughout the day,
evening is the best time to shop, he
said.
The bookstore has added and
diversified merchandise.
Schroeder said it has added some
clothing, gift lines and name
brands not offered in the past.
And, the store won’t offer only
Husker red anymore, she said.
“Somewhere along the line
people realized there’s a limit to
how much red you can have in
your wardrobe,” Schroeder said.
The store has added yellows,
blues and other colored clothing
that has the Nebraska logo.
Compact discs also have been
thrown in among the mix of books,
clothing and cards. So far, the
sales for the CDs have been “very
brisk,” Schroeder said,. - ; g - ) H
“The (music! company th$rt
Follett wdrks Withdoes tibthicfg
but the college market,” she said.
Also, the bookstore will be
selling the movie “Titanic” when
it comes out Sept. 1.
The new firm will spend up to
$1 million to redesign and reno
vate the existing facilities at UNL.
The renovation will begin in
February, and the grand opening
of the remodeled store will be in
fall 199£, Schroeder said. lt'4
open next to tMWdktfdiV'Nirt.
Other changes will include fre
quent buyer and frequent book
buyer programs, more author sign
ings and a low-price guarantee.
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