Event aims to increase
campus health, safety
By Sarah Fox
Staffwriter
If you have a bad back, can’t see
your computer screen or have a ten
dency to ride your bike like a maniac,
there’s something for you at the UNL
Health and Safety Awareness Week.
The health and safety education
week for University of Nebraska
Lincoln students begins today and
continues through Thursday.
The week is designed to make
students more safety-aware by giving
CPR training, cholesterol screenings
and back-care guides. A massage
certificate and ergonomic supplies
also will be given away.
Environmental health and safety
office employees will also give out
red stress-relieving balloons, demon
strate fire extinguisher use and check
offices for safety hazards as part of
the week.
It is sponsored by the
Environmental Health and Safety
department, the Campus Recreation
Center and the University Health
Center.
Students need to be more aware
of physical safety, Holli Hudson,
health and safety specialist, said. For
example, many students who use
their own computers may not face the
monitor correctly, she said.“We’re
not seeing carpal tunnel (synarome;
in college students, but we’re trying
to prevent that,” she said.
“Prevention is key.”
Bike safety is another problem
Hudson has noticed, mostly on City
Campus. She said some students
rode their bikes quickly among
crowds of people. The pedestrians
may not know the hand signals the
bikers use to turn and get in the bik
ers’way.
The awareness week is an expan
sion of last October’s health and safe
ty fair, which lasted one day each on
City and East campuses, Hudson
said. She talked to UNL’s 32 safety
committees and several students and
expanded to a week of activities.
The daily events alternate
between City and East campuses.
They include lunch seminars and a
health and safety drive from 11:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday and Thursday
in the Nebraska Union. The drive,
which is an informational booth, will
also be in the East Campus Union
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The awareness week may be held
yearly, Brenda Osthus, director of
UNL’s environmental health and
safety department, said.
“We’ll kind of see how this one
goes,” she said, “but if people find it
appealing, we’ll continue to do it.”
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Ethnic Albanian refugees’
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Balkans, the United States also said it
temporarily would provide shelter for
up to 20,000 ethnic Albanians fleeing
Serb assaults while European nations
took in as many as 100,000 - but just
until they can return home under inter
national protection.
“These people have to go back, oth
erwise there are no people in Kosovo,”
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
said.
In opening its doors to the victims
of Milosevic’s effort to clear Kosovo of
its ethnic Albanian majority, U.S. offi
cials did not say where refugees might
go, but suggested it would be outside
the 50 states.
But Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.,
said he was told the plan is to airlift
them to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
in Cuba, once used to house thousands
of Haitians fleeing violence in their
homeland Bacon said no decision had
been made and that there were appro
priate U.S. facilities in Guam as well.
More than 350,000 ethnic
Albanians have fled since NATO
airstrikes began on March 24, and the
exodus continued Sunday.
Albright, appearing on NBC’s
“Meet the Press,” blamed the refugee
crisis on Milosevic, whose forces have
continued attacks on ethnic Albanians
and forced them by bus and on foot out
of Kosovo, a province of Serbia.
She dismissed the suggestion that
the air campaign led to the crisis.
“He has systematically brutalized
his population,” she said. “To say we
are responsible for the refugees and the
atrocities is really like saying the police
force is responsible for a serial killer.”
■ Former Secretary of State
Warren Christopher, writing Sunday in
an opinion piece in The Washington
Post, urged using “whatever force is
necessary” to crush Milosevic’s drive to
control Kosovo and to ensure NATO
does not fail in its first offensive fight in
its 50-year history. “We should position
strong, mobile forces in Macedonia and
Albania to protect those fragile nations
and to make it plain that no option has
been foreclosed,” Christopher wrote.
■ Several prominent congressional
Republicans and Democrats urged
President Clinton to make the use of
ground troops in Kosovo an option.
Administration officials insisted no
American ground forces would be
deployed for combat
“The diplomacy won’t start until
our president stops saying no ground
troops,” declared Sen. Richard Lugar,
R-Ind., chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. Democratic
Sens. Charles Robb ofVirginia and Joe
Biden of Delaware also urged Clinton
to keep the possibility of deploying U.S.
forces in Kosovo as an option.
The Clinton administration contin
ued to rule out using U.S. ground forces
in Kosovo, despite criticism by mem
bers of Congress and military experts
that the option should be kept open.
“Fighting village to village, there
would be thousands of casualties,”
Berger said. “We do not believe it is
necessary to achieve our objectives.”
Heart attack claims life of
State Sen. Schellpeper,; 65
By Brian Carlson
Staff writer
Stan Schellpeper, a Stanton state
senator known for his advocacy on
rural issues and his work on state tax
reform in the past decade, died Sunday
of a heart attack. He was 65.
Schellpeper’s widow, Faye, said her
husband died at the family farm outside
Stanton, where he was spending Easter
afternoon with his family.
Schellpeper was elected to the
Legislature in 1986 and was re-elected
in 1990,1994 and 1998. He was chair
man of the General Affairs Committee
and a member of the Agriculture and
Revenue Committees.
Speaker Doug Kristensen of
Minden, who called Schellpeper a
close personal friend, recalled their
years together on the Revenue
Committee. The two senators worked
with Sen. Jerome Warner and other
committee members to initiate major
changes in die state’s system of tax col
lection and school finance.
“Stan is obviously going to be
remembered by the Legislature as
someone who was a good committee
chairman and also a very strong advo
cate of rural Nebraska,” Kristensen
said. “His knowledge and experience
are going to be missed.”
Ken Winston, legal counsel for the
General Affairs Committee, said
Schellpeper was a strong advocate for
rural Nebraskans. He was especially
interested in rural health care, success
fully urging the creation of the Office of
Rural Health in the Department of
Health and Human Services and an
expansion of loans for doctors willing
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to practice in rural areas.
“He always wanted to represent the
working people of the state,” Winston
said, “the farmers and the people that
go to work every day and run a business
or Hold a regular job. He just tried to
lower their tax burden and represent
them and take care of their interests in
the Legislature.
“He was a great guy, and he’s going
to be missed”
Kristensen said the Legislature on
Monday would discuss ways to honor
Schellpeper’s life and service.
“We obviously miss our colleague
and want to have a period to pay our
respects.”
Schellpeper was born Jan. 27,
1934, in Hoskins. Along with his wife,
he is survived by three children, Jeffrey,
Thomas and Nancy Morfeld and eight
grandchildren.
Staff writer Shane Anthony con
tributed to this report
Cash, drugs seized
Lincoln Police seized a large sum of cash and an assortment of drugs with a
search warrant Thursday night.
Around 9 p.m. police stopped a 44-year-old man for a traffic violation after
observing him leave a home on the 5500 block of Benton Street, Lincoln Police
Officer Kathy Finnell said.
Police said the man had 9.56 grams of methamphetamine in several plastic
bags, so they arrested him and obtained a search warrant for the house.
When they searched the house around 11 p.m., police found $ 1,300 cash, 23.8
grams of methamphetamine, 12 hits of LSD, 2.5 grams of marijuana and 3.8 grams
of hallucinogenic mushrooms along with several items of drug paraphernalia.
The 36-year-old woman who lived at the house was arrested.
Both the woman and the man arrested earlier were cited for possession of a
controlled substance and possession with the intent to deliver that substance.
Additional charges could be filed by the county attorney this week.
Man cited for three other exposure incidents
The Lincoln man arrested for laying his penis on an Express Money counter
during a transaction last week was cited Thursday for three similar incidents.
A manager of a Colby Ridge Popcorn outlet called police after reading news
reports about the indecent exposure, Finnell said.
The manager said that on three separate occasions the man came into Colby
Ridge stores and fondled himself while in the store.
Police said on last Monday night the man came into the 233 N. 48* store and
placed his penis on the counter while still in his shorts, ordered ice cream and then
went to a booth where he ate the ice cream and rubbed himself through his shorts.
Then he returned to the counter, placed his penis on it and ordered popcorn to
go
The man, who was still in jail Thursday, was cited for three counts of disturb
ing the peace for two February incidents at the 5540 Holdrege Streets store and last
Monday’s incident.
Compiled by senior staff writer Josh Funk