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Center’s learning areas, said Kim Schellpeper,
director of the tutorial program and an academic
counselor at the Hewit Center.
For places to work on their homework, athletes
have options which include dining areas, quiel
study areas or a computer lab.
They can also take part in supplemental
instruction or, with special permission, study with
groups elsewhere on campus.
“What we do is to have our students as active
ly involved in the learning process as possible,”
Schellpeper said. “That’s why we provide them
with so many choices.”
One-on-one tutoring is another option for stu
ucm auucics.
To find tutors, student athletes use the Hewit
Center’s computer database system that contains
the names of about 80 tutors, along with subjects
the tutors are qualified to teach and their phone
numbers and e-mail addresses.
Student athletes are responsible for getting in
contact with the tutor they select, Schellpeper said.
Qualifications for student tutors include junior
standing and a 3.0 grade point average.
Tutors go through a hiring process, which
includes an interview and a review of a tutorial
manual. The tutors are introduced to NCAA rules
and regulations and die university’s student code
of conduct.
Experienced teachers, retirees and tutors from
Lincoln Public Schools are also available to help
athletes.
Athletes who work individually with tutors say
one-on-one sessions allow them to understand
subject material better.
Victoria Ridge, a freshman on the women’s
rifle team, said studying with tutors at the Hewit
Center while other athletes are around helps her
feel comfortable.
Paul Gomez, a senior NU wrestler, agreed.
“That’s a big help,” Gomez said. “I think it’s
cool that everyone’is in there - you see all your
friends in there.”
All sessions between student athletes and
tutors take place at the Hewit Center, Schellpeper
said, for a couple of reasons, which include payroll
purposes and protection against any possible alle
gations of social or academic misconduct
Misconduct might include doing the athletes’
FRESHMAN SOCCER PLAYER Leah LaMoily and her Spanish tutor, Viviana Larsen, correct a paper for Leah’s Spanish Composition class. Kim
Scheiipeper, Coordinator of the Learning Development Programs, said the tutoring program is for any student who wants some additional
instruction.
work or typing papers as they dictate.
Schellpeper said academic counselors super
vise all tutorial sessions at the Hewit Center.
A major portion of a tutor’s orientation is
devoted to academic ethics, Schellpeper said.
Tutors sign an honesty statement after each tutori
al session.
Paul Durbin, a math tutor at the Hewit Center,
said he uses several techniques to help student ath
letes learn and think independently.
“The students put the work on the board,”
Durbin said. “I’ll fire questions back. That’s how I
tread the line (of academic dishonesty).”
Academic dishonesty can destroy an entire
program, and sometimes an entire athletic depart
ment. For example, recently at the University of
Minnesota, the men’s basketball team was put on
probation, and the coach and athletic director were
fired for allegations that included significant tutor
misconduct.
So UNL must pay careful attention to the
actions of its athletes and tutors.
“That’s an effort for us to exercise as much
institutional control as we possibly can,”
Schellpeper said.
Each spring, tutors are sent letters that remind
them ofNCAA rules and regulations and universi
ty academic policies.
Eric Johnson, a former NU football player,
said the tutoring system at UNL played a large part
in his staying on track to graduate.
Johnson was a Proposition 48 athlete his fresh
man year.
Proposition 48 is an NCAA rule that initially
prevented him from playing football because of
his grades.
Players who do not meet the NCAA
Proposition 48 requirement are declared ineligible
for sports that year.
Johnson, who has a learning disability, said the
tutoring system helped him overcome his situa
tion.
“When I got here I was a Prop 48, so I had to
go to school for a year even to (play),” Johnson
said. “Everything worked out because we had one
on-one with the tutors and stuff like that”
“Honestly, I don’t think I would have made it”
Mary Karel, a UNL student who tutors ath
letes in math and Spanish, said the tutoring system
also benefits tutors.
“It’s good teaching experience, and it’s a good
refresher course,” Karel said.
Julius Jackson, a former NU football player,
said the tutoring system at UNL has helped a num
ber of his peers.
“Every university, every corporation, every
job should have some kind of program where
you’re taught what to do,” Jackson said “If we did
n’t have the people there to force us to do things,
we wouldn’t have got anything done.”
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Gun collection, cash stolen
from Lincoln home
A total of $4,700 worth of guns
and cash was taken from a home
between 7:30 and 8:45 a.m. on
Monday.
Two witnesses who observed the
break-in reported two suspects kick
ing in the door to the house, 912 N.
Eighth St., Lincoln Police Sgt. Todd
Beam said.
One suspect was described as a
white man in his 30s or 40s, around 5
foot-6 to 5-foot-10. The other was
described as a black man in his 20s,
around 6-foot-3 and wearing a black
coat with a hooded sweatshirt.
The men took 12 guns from the
house, including shotguns and a muz
zle-loading black powder rifle. Six
hundred dollars in cash was also
taken.
The men were reportedly driving
a maroon vehicle with in-transit
signs.
The incident was called in later
Monday although the police report
does not say why the witnesses wait
ed.
UNI freshman cited for MIP
at Abel Residence Hall
Lincoln Police officers cited
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
freshman Drew Gottula for minor in
possession of alcohol Saturday night
at Abel Residence Hall.
Mylo Bushing, assistant chief of
police services for the University
Police, said a community service
officer saw Gottula carrying a bag
weighed down by what looked like a
heavy, square-shaped object into the
north entrance of Abel Hall.
When the officer approached
Gottula and asked about the bag’s
contents, Gottula said that it con
tained clothes, Bushing said. The
officer then asked to see the contents
of the bag, but Gottula again said that
the bag had clothes in it, Bushing
said.
Lincoln Police officers arrived
and searched the bag and found 23
cans of Busch Light beer.
Second suspect arrested
for two burglaries
After arresting one man who they
believed to be involved in two bur
glaries Monday, police took a second
suspect into custody Tuesday.
Brad H. Geller, 21, of 2125 A St.,
was arrested for burglary Tuesday.
Police said he broke into Jiffy Lube,
1520 Pioneers Blvd., and Rent-A
Van, 1530 Pioneers Blvd., and took
money from the cash registers, Beam
said.
A Mini Maglite flashlight that
was reported missing from the Jiffy
Lube was found in Geller’s car.
Police took Derek Scott
Breazeale, 21, of 1534 E St., into cus
tody Monday on a previous warrant
for his arrest, but Geller was let go.
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