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Division of money draws crowds
TOBACCO from page 1
Seventy-five percent of Nebraskans have
no public health services, he said.
Moreover, mental health and substance
abuse facilities are bursting at the seams.
Ann Schumacher, director of operations
for Alegent Health, told senators about the
plight of mental health professionals who
couldn’t find a single empty bed in all of
Omaha for a young woman who overdosed
on drugs.
These shocking stories and statistics
prompted the barrage of health-care bills
that the committees began to sift through.
Speaker Doug Kristensen of Minden
introduced one of the bills, LB615, on behalf
of Gov. Mike Johanns.
Kristensen’s bill allocates $16 million of
the tobacco cash for biomedical research,
and leaves $27 million to the Legislature to
spend as it sees fit
The research bucks would be spread
among private and public universities in the
state and would create a new research center
on the University of Nebraska at Omaha
campus.
Lt. Governor Dave Maurstad testified on
behalf of the governor and said the research
money would not be a waste because it
would eventually benefit all Nebraskans.
Richard Raymond, chief medical officer
for the state of Nebraska, also backed the
research proposal.
He recalled the polio crisis that occurred
more than 50 years ago to hammer home his
point.
Without biomedical research, polio
would still be plaguing the country, he said.
“Biomedical research will improve the
health of future generations of Nebraskans,”
he said.
The day’s other bills stuck to more tradi
tional health care concerns like hospital
funding and mental health services.
Sen. Nancy Thompson of Papillion intro
duced a bill that compliments the governor’s
plan.
Her bill, LB623, would not allocate any of
the $27 million the governor allotted to the
Legislature to existing programs, but would
fill in the "gaps” in mental health services,
Thompson said.
The bill would put particular emphasis
on developing community-based health
centers, she said.
Another bill, LB372, would bail out exist
ing and struggling hospitals that aren't
receiving enough Medicaid money.
Hospitals project their losses to be at
least $6 million dollars for the 2000-2001 fis
cal year.
Sen. Lowen Kruse of Omaha introduced
the bill and said it would increase the rate of
state aid it owes these facilities. 1
“I’m asking Nebraska to pay its bills,” he said.
Bill tries Juvenile system draws fire
to stop
bias at
work
EMPLOYERS from page 1
“Discrimination is not nec
essarily an ugly word,” Mills
said.
Cases of discrimination
should be dealt with on an indi
vidual level, she said.
“It doesn't mean that
because of remote instances (of
discrimination) you should
rewrite your laws,” she said.
Otherwise, Mills said, the
passage of the bill could open a
“Pandora’s box” of similar legis
lation.
"Eventually, it would all
become meaningless,” she said.
Although she can’t attend
the Feb. 21 hearing, Mills said
she planned to submit testimo
ny in opposition to the bill.
She now lives in Newport
News, Va., where she works for
Kerusso Ministries, a group that
works to “spread tire truth about
homosexuality.”
George Wolf, an associate
English professor, said he too
wants to spread the truth about
gay people and discrimination.
Wolf said homosexuals aren't
any different than other people;
they have to hold down jobs and
support their families.
But he said they have to deal
with unfair biases in the work
place.
In fact, Wolf said his partner
lost a job several years ago when
an employer suspected he was
gay
And Wolf said his partner is
not alone.
“It happens all of the time,”
he said.
Wolf said passing the bill
would also begin healing the
wounds of the 416 campaign
that Mills led.
The campaign whipped up
unnecessary hysteria and left
people from other states seeing
Nebraska as discriminatory
place, Wolf said.
“There’s a great deal of very
adamant homophobia in this
state,” he said.
JUVENILES from page 1
and minority juveniles in the system, which is
higher than the national average, said Carlene
Bourn, the executive director for the Nebraska
Commission on the Status ofWomen.
A December 1999 study found that Nebraska
girls are committed to juvenile correction institu
tions for less serious offenses than males.
The study also found that 27.1 percent of girls
in Nebraska were placed in Nebraska correctional
facilities compared to 12.8 percent in Idaho,
Nevada, Iowa, Montana, Utah and West Virginia.
Thompson said she hopes the bill will be able
to reduce the disparities that exist because of the
racial and gender overrepresentation.
But the concerns of the institute are already
required under state law to be conducted by the
crime commission, said Jeff Golden, executive
director the Children and Family Coalition of
Nebraska.
And it’s the lack of adequate funding that
makes the overrepresentation of female and
minority juveniles difficult to address, said
Golden, who testified neutral on the bill.
“The coalition I represent believes in putting
money into helping people and not into buildings
or institutes,” Golden said in an interview.
The bill was not made to repeat existing servic
es, Herz said, but instead to build upon them.
“We put a lot of effort into avoiding the dupli
cation of services,” Herz said.
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the university receives sporadic
requests for a switch to plus
minus, but the university’s
computers are unable to com
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averages.
One question the University
of Nebraska schools face now,
according to Academic Senate
members, is whether or not the
University of Nebraska at
Kearney and the University of
Nebraska at Omaha will switch
to the plus-minus grading sys
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“We took (the plus-minus
grading system idea) to the last
faculty senate meeting," said
Elsie Cafferty, UNK’s faculty
senate president. “There was
some discussion, but we tabled
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Although UNL senate mem
bers said they planned on con
tacting UNO about changing
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