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THURSDAY
September 3, 1998
Bacon in the Sun
Sunny, high92. Fair tonight, low 63.
Student smuggles Bibles
to Beijing, exports faith
By Brian Carlson
Staff writer
As Melissa Trembly approached
customs services in Beijing this past
May, she was concealing a stash of
contraband: 100 Chinese-language
Bibles.
Although not prohibited in China,
Bibles are rare and cannot be imported
legally. Trembly, a junior secondary
English education major at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was
participating in a program to smuggle
Bibles to underground religious lead
ers defying the Chinese government's
restrictions on the freedom to worship.
Customs officials waved Trembly’s
group through its checkpoint without
i searching the luggage and carry-on
• bags that had been stuffed with Bibles.
But it was a tense moment, she said.
“We prayed really hard.” she said.
Trembly’s trip to China was spon
sored by China Harvest, a ministry
based in Virginia Beach, Va. She heard
about the program at a religious con
ference in Urbana. 111.
In addition to smuggling Bibles
into the country. Trembly and about 10
other participants met with religious
leaders and learned about their strug
gle to worship freely in a society that
has ffequentlv persecuted Christians.
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Government’s grip
To legally practice Christianity in
China, worshippers must attend a
church registered with the government.
The government appoints a minister
for each church, prohibits people under
age 18 from worshipping and unposes
other restrictions on worship.
But many Chinese Christians,
refusing to compromise for official
recognition of their faith, worship in
“underground” house churches out of
authorities' sight.
Dawn Dietrich/DN
MELISSA TREMBLY, a junior secondary English education major, spent
two weeks in China to bring Bibles into the country.
After arriving in Beijing via South
Korea, Trembly’s group traveled by train
through northeast China to Shenyang.
Along the way, group members met
with several house church leaders, often
in inconspicuous locations to avert sus
picion. Those leaders then distributed
the Bibles throughout the country.
Please see BIBLES on 3
Work-release prisoner flees
By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
A prisoner escaped from a commu
nity corrections work crew in south
Lincoln on Tuesday afternoon.
Michael Corliss did not check in
with the corrections officer supervising
his work crew at 12:30 p.m. after the
crew’s lunch break, and a search was
then launched.
But at 2 p.m., when corrections
officers could not find Corliss in the
area around the State Department of
Roads materials yard, Highway 77 and
South 14th Street, the state patrol was
notified of the escape, said Rex
Richard, superintendent of Nebraska’s
community corrections program.
Alter Lornss railed to check in, cor
rections officers found a 12-inch
machete and a work shirt missing,
Richard said.
State patrol officers gave all their
units a description of Corliss, said Jeff
Hansen, a spokesman for the state
patrol, and warned that he may be dan
gerous, though corrections officials
said work crew prisoners are generally
not dangerous.
Corliss, 24, is white, 5 feet 11 inch
es tall, weighs 168 pounds and has
blond hair, blue eyes and several tat
toos.
Since being sentenced to communi
ty corrections for theft by unlawful tak
ing, Corliss had been living in a com
munity center and working on work
crews for various state agencies such as
the roads department, parks and natural
resources departments, Richard said.
“These are (low-risk) inmates,”
Richard said. “They live in a communi
ty center, and they can have passes into
the community with a sponsor.”
Through their work, the prisoners
use many different tools, depending on
the job at hand, Richard said.
“The machete is just a tool used for
a task,” Richard said.
Corliss would have been eligible for
parole in February 1999, and he would
have completed his sentence in April
1999.
Richard said the last time a prisoner
escaped from community corrections
was in May of 1997. That prisoner did
not return after a pass into the commu
nity.
ASUN opposes
union proposal
ByIevaAugstums
Staff writer
After what was supposed to be a
simple piece of legislation Wednesday,
a two-hour discussion over discrimina
tion led ASUN members to oppose
UNL Union Board s proposed policy to
exclude non-students from the
Nebraska Union.
“The proposal by Union Board is
blatantly discriminatory,” Senator Kara
Slaughter said. “There can be no sys
tematic way of enforcing how
Community Service Officers will
check student IDs.”
The Union Board proposal, stated
by Nebraska Unions Director Daryl
Swanson, would restrict the use of the
Crib, the unfinished northwest study
lounge, the unfinished basement bil
liard room and television lounge to
University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
dents, faculty and staff.
Community Servjce Officers
would have the discretion to check stu
dent IDs and ask those who failed to
produce a valid identification to leave.
The Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska President Sara
Russell acknowledged the Union
Board s concern for student and build
ing safety, but said if the policy passes,
the university is discriminating against a
public institution and public property.
“Public means everyone,” Russell
said. “We are not a private institution.”
Senator Jeff Woodford disagreed.
“Not everyone has the right to use
public property,” Woodford said. “If we
did, I could sleep in the governor’s man
sion tonight.”
Paul Schreier, committee for fees
allocation chairman, said people need
to realize UNL already discriminates
between students and non-students.
“Every time you use your student
ID you are using a student service - the
Health Center and Recreation Center,”
Schreier said. “Student services, includ
ing the student union, are for UNL stu
dents only.”
Senator Jed Christensen said the
union is a building commonly used for
other activities including conferences
and alumni activities.
“You can't let those people in if
you're not going to let transients in -
they're all non-UNL students,”
Christensen said.
Second Vice President Eddie
Brown said it was embarrassing to him
as a student and member of ASUN that
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Fund honors Cockson
By IevaAugstums
Staff writer
A memonal scholarship promoting
alcohol education and awareness is
being created to remember a UNL stu
dent who died in an April car crash.
Laura Cockson, a junior pre-occu
pational therapy major and member of
Gamma Phi Beta Sorority, was killed
when a drunk driver sped through a red
light and hit her.
“When I first heard about the
memorial, I cried - I’m crying right
now,” Eva Cockson, Laura’s mother,
said. “It’s sad to think that your child
would have to have a memonal scholar
ship.”
Cockson said having a scholarship
in her daughter’s name would help oth
ers remember Laura as “a truly great
person, student and leader.”
Laura Lessley, Gamma Phi Beta
president, agreed.
“Laura was committed to scholar
ship and academics,” Lessley said. “She
would have liked it this way.”
One goal of ASUN this year is to
work together with students to promote
alcohol awareness and education cam
puswide.
ASUN President Sara Russell pro
posed the Cockson Memorial to the
Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska on Wednesday.
Senate members passed the proposal by
acclamation.
The scholarship will be given annu
ally to a student who actively promotes
alcohol education and awareness.
“The scholarship is good way to
encourage the continuation of alcohol
education on campus,” Russell said. “It
will reinforce the efforts of people who
do an effective communication of alco
hol awareness.”
Russell said ASUN will donate
$300 to the Cockson scholarship fund.
Lessley said she could not comment
on whether Gamma Phi Beta will
donate money to the memorial.
Russell said she wants campuswide
support and would like to see other
groups actively work to raise money for
the scholarship fund.
“Cockson was a greek member. But
this tragedy affects everyone,” Russell
said.
ASUN is in contact with other stu
dent organizations considering to
donate money to the scholarship fund.
“If this is one way the world can
help be reminded of this tragedy, I’m all
for it,” Eva Cockson said. “It will help
save the life of another - one life that
can be lived.”
Organizations interested in donat
ing money to the Laura Cockson
Memorial Scholarship should contact
the ASUN office, 115 Nebraska Union,
(402)436-2581.
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