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voices heard at vigil VIGIL from page 1 As those numbers have increased, the judicial system has tried to be there to help domestic violence victims. County attorneys continue to work harder to make it possi ble for abusers to be prosecuted, even if the victim is afraid and fails to appear in court, said Jo Anna Koba Svoboda from the Lincoln Police Depart ment’s witness unit. While speakers spoke for continued reforms to make the judicial system harder on abusers, Svoboda said the courts were only part of the solution. ‘It doesn’t only take a crim inal justice system,” she said. “It takes all of us. “There are people in the audience who have heard the cry of their neighbor and have done nothing,” Svoboda said. The event also reminded marchers of another type of - abuse where cries are not always heard. Lee Kleve, program coordi nator for the Friendship Home, said emotional abuse is just as harmful as physical abuse. Though most of the news about domestic violence that makes the front page of news papers and is the basis of numerous made-for-television movies is about domestic abuse, emotional abuse is just as prevalent in homes, Kleve said. “He never has to lay a finger on her, but those threats will tear apart her soul as surely if she’d been beaten to death,” she said. Two survivors shared their experiences of physical and emotional abuse. As one read verses about the thoughts that run through the mind of a vic tim, the other laced the poem with facts and statistics about the number of women who were victims of domestic abuse last year. Kylee Dickey, a senior accounting major at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, said the poem moved her the most. “I thought one of the most important things that came out of it was the actual survivors speaking,” she said. Though the march to the Capitol focused predominantly on victims of domestic vio lence, Matt Zwick, president of Spectrum, used time before the march to remind marchers of another type of violence that strikes innocent victims - hate crimes against gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgendered people. “Hopefully we can stand together tonight in unity to sup port this, because what affects us could some day affect you,” Zwick said. 7TT\ \A Two arrested for crack Police observing the home of a suspected drug dealer Tuesday arrested both the deal er and one of his alleged cus tomers, police said. Around 4:30 p.m. officers began watching the home on the 1400 block of E Street where they thought crack cocaine was being sold, Lincoln Police Sgt. Ann Heennann said. Police watched one woman enter and leave the house, and they followed her into an alley between D to E streets, from 13th to 14th streets, where police made contact. A search turned up one rock of crack cocaine weigh ing 0.27 grams on the 33-year old woman. Police waited for the sus pected dealer to exit the house before making contact. The man also had an out standing warrant for driving with a suspended license, so police stopped him and searched him, finding six rocks of crack cocaine in his right sock. The 19-year-old man was arrested for possession of, sale of and the intent to deliver a controlled substance and the warrant. Police find crack in car 1 In a separate drug bust, a traffic stop led police to six rocks of crack cocaine in one man’s car Tuesday. Whenpblice'stopped the man near 24th and W'streets he gave the officer two different names, Heermann said. i .. Police cited the man for giving false information and searched his car where one rock of crack cocaine was found at the driver’s feet. In jail five more rocks of the drug were found in his pos session, totaling 2.6 grams. Police also seized $883 in cash from the man as evidence. As of Wednesday morning police were still trying to establish the man’s true identi ty Guns stolen from home Three 12-gauge shotguns were taken in a residential bur glary Monday night. Thieves took the guns, some gun cases and other mis cellaneous items from the home on the 100 block of Furnas Avenue for an estimat ed loss of$800, Heermann said. r ~" ■*' ' i *, Compiled by senior staff writer Josh Funk Senior check process may be sent to Internet By Jessica Fargen Staff writer Within the next few years, the six weeks or more it may take to get a senior check could be reduced to less than a minute with a new computerized degree checking program, university administrators said. The program will eventually allow stu dents to perform their own senior checks online, with more complete results, said Earl Hawkey, director of Registration and Records. The computerized checks, which any stu dent could use, would list degree require ments and indicate whether they’ve been met. If the requirements were not met, the computer would give suggestions of possible classes to make up the deficiency. Currently, five people are responsible for senior checks, which means a long, anxious wait for graduating seniors, Hawkey said. “That’s the whole thrust - better service to students and keeping up with what people have a right to expect,” Hawkey said. The College of Business Administration is the first college to test the automated pro gram, but it is being develqped in the Teacher’s College, the College of Engin eering and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Hawkey said all colleges will go th^iigh;; the test mode before the system is acra^|f^ implemented in a few years. He said he did not want to place a strict time line on die pro ject. -v “We are moving slowly on it, but we are trying to take everyone’s interest to heart as well so it’s a product that everyone is happy with,” Hawkey said. “It is a big investment of time on part of colleges.” Kim Sabatka, staff assistant in the CBA dean’s office for undergraduate programs, said the college has been checking the results of the computerized system against student records for accuracy. Although time consuming for employees, the program seems to be accurate and effi cient, Sabatka said. “The time that we’ve invested in it is going to be well worth it,” she said. The program will eventually allow stu dents to not only check their degree require ments, but to see what would hapgiehd) their academic progress if they changed their major, Sabatka said. But the program should be usd^aa&sup plement to advising, not a replacement, she said. "^ % V “I hope the reports do not take die place of students’ seeing an academic adviser,” she said. . £ “We still want to make sure the student is progressing. We need that contact.” Hawkey also said he saw some possible danger in the program. “I see it as an advising tool,” Hawkey said: “This should not be an excuse fcf stu s^t^snotd) see their advisers.” ’’* audit program is edfey die hldKStudent Informat program^ Which Was implemented ! ago and brought students services f NRoll system. Lid opponents call for Blue to MU’ uLitm irom page i community to wear blue. The board AS UN and Students Against she said. a different Russell said she is pleased to have some -support from athletic teams and organizations, including the football team, the women’s vol leyball team, the UNL marching band and toe UNL spirit squad. “We live in a democracy where people have to cnoose, Russeii saiu. dui we warn more blue in that stadium than red. I hope; people >se to display blue some way.’*^ ' ^ residence hall “Blue to. - individual greek houses and pe hall rooms this week, she said. “Hopefully we can make our statement vis ible,” Klein said. “(Initiative 413) doesn’t only hurt us, the students. It will harm die city and the state, alike.” -yfi’ -1 Is:* Is
