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thursday, october 10, 2013 volume 113, issue 034

Inside Coverage

Thinking out loud

Career fair moves online

University Theater opens with ‘Silence’

Virtual job hunt caters to students with disabilities

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Wrestler to speak on gay athletes in collegiate sports Hudson Taylor will discuss his nonprofit Athlete Ally in the Memorial Stadium auditorium staff report DN Three-time NCAA top wrestler Hudson Taylor will speak about Athlete Ally, his nonprofit advocacy group for gay people within collegiate athletics, at the west Memorial Stadium auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The Columbia University wrestling coach founded Athlete Ally to promote the inclusion of gender and sexual identities in college athletics. The talk is free. “I think that it’ll be a really useful talk for anyone who has never really thought about these types of things before,”

said Amy Vanderpool, undergraduate assistant to the LGBTQA Resource Center. “Anybody who thinks the LGBTQ community or their concerns might not apply to them should really come to the talk just because LGBTQ issues are really a campus-wide concern that applies to everyone”. Athlete Ally is a nonprofit organization that focuses on ending homophobia and transphobia in athletics through public awareness campaigns, educational programming, tools and resources to foster inclusion in sporting communities, and most importantly by recruiting and educating “allies.” An ally is any person regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity who takes a strong stance against homophobia and transphobia and works to bring the message of respect, inclusion, and equality to his or her own athletic program. Taylor, who is not gay, saw

ally ship: see page 3

Shutdown will not affect 2013-14 financial aid funds Jacob Elliot DN

to do that, we have to have Pell Grant payment tables which are based on appropriations and A little more than a week into the budget, and with each passing government shutdown, Univer- day, it becomes more likely that sity of Nebraska-Lincoln admin- we will experience some severe delays in our ability to begin the istrators are assuring students it process.” won’t affect their financial aid in Other minor problems face the short term. However, while the current aid is not an issue, the system. For example, if a the student aid for next year is late application student needs to document his or her fambeginning to be a problem. ily’s financial income, the Inter“Well, I think with every passing week it becomes in- nal Revenue Service can’t help them because of creasingly a conthe shutdown. cern,” said Craig With every Staff at the finanMunier, director cial aid office are of the Office of passing working with Scholarships and week it becomes those students to Financial Aid. minimize such Aid for the increasingly a inconvenience, current school Munier said. year has already concern.” Another worbeen approved craig munier ry comes from the and is currently director of financial aid prospect of fuenacted by the ture students, as government. But a number of stusoon, Munier said, it will be time for the fed- dents rely on financial aid. “The students who rely most eral government to determine Pell Grant appropriation for the on these programs are very easily negatively affected by de2015-2016 school year. lays,” Munier said. “Not know“While that seems like a long way off, we start making esti- ing, for example what your mates to start awarding financial financial aid eligibility maybe aid for next year in February and March,” he said. “And in order shutdown: see page 2

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Nebraska Union custodian Steve Waltham checks out a system on Tuesday that regulates the Nebraska Union’s temperature. Waltham is retiring after working about half his life at UNL.

‘an enjoyable speed’ O University custodial workers plan to spend time with family, relax in retirement

n Nov. 1, maintenance manager Steve Waltman plans to wake up at 5 a.m. and promptly roll back over to sleep in. He predicts his internal clock will wake him up in time to get to work by 7 a.m., but after 34 years working for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Waltman will wake up on the first of next month a retired man. “I know one big thing I will be doing is more of a ‘not doing,’” Waltman said. “I’ll wake up early, I’m sure, but I’ll be able to scratch the cat’s back and say, ‘Nope, not getting up yet.’” Mike Leupold still wakes up before dawn as well, though he retired in January after 34 years as the maintenance manager for Cather-PoundNeihardt and then the assistant director for Nebraska Unions operations. At 65 – though he jokes that his leap year birthday only makes him 16 – Leupold is still busy. Three days a week, Leupold mows fairways at Wilderness Ridge Golf Course. On the mornings in between, he is out working on his car – a 1972 Chevy Blazer. Waltman also plans to continue restoring a car he is passionate about – a 1951 Studebaker truck. Studebakers have always been Waltman’s favorite. His family had one when he was growing up, and he’s restored two others in the past. His dad even joked that Waltman was almost born in a Studebaker when a snowstorm nearly prevented his pregnant mom from getting to the hospital.

story by Mara Klecker photos by Morgan Spiehs

Steve Waltham calls another Nebraska Union worker on Tuesday about a problem with a temperature gage in the basement of the Nebraska Union. maintenance: see page 3

UNL sees rise in trespassing incidents Current trespassing policy allows for 2 offenses before the person is banned from campus Colleen Fell DN University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police have received more than 15 trespassing calls since the beginning of August. This is an increase from August 2012 to early October 2012, when UNL Police received 10 trespassing calls. Reasons for a trespassing call can include drunken behavior, sleeping on campus property, an attempt to contact someone affiliated with the university or a previous ban and bar letter. UNL’s current trespassing policy allows for two trespassing offenses. After the first instance of trespassing, the offender will receive a notice to make them aware of the situation and the campus trespassing policy. The majority of offenders do not return after their first offense, according to UNL Police Chief Owen Yardley.

“Most of the people who get that, we don’t hear from them again,” Yardley said. After a second offense, the people will be issued a trespassing letter from the university, notifying them that they are banned from campus. If a person is issued a letter, he or she has up to five days to appeal, which is heard by the vice chancellor, Yardley said. Aside from appealing, Yardley said the only other way to be “unbanned” is to wait it out. Trespassing letters are in effect for four years after they are sent, after which time the person may return to campus. If the person trespasses again after the four years’ time, he or she goes through the original two-strike process. Yardley said there are not additional repercussions for a repeat offense, but it will be recorded in police records. According to UNL Police, the trespass policy extends to all buildings on campus including those used for classrooms, laboratories, faculty and staff offices and any buildings used for University Housing. These buildings are not open to the general public and any person who is not authorized to be in one of these buildings may be cited for trespassing. Offenders may also be subject to criminal prosecution, which would be handled by the Lincoln Police Department. Only those who are associated with the university can be on univer-

The idea would be to see where the person goes and then let police handle it from there.” keith zaborowski

associate director of residence life

sity property from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. This includes students, faculty, staff, tenants, licensees, agents or contractors and their guests. Trespassing notices do not apply only to those unaffiliated with the university. Students can also be subject to being banned from campus. If students are banned, they may not attend classes on campus. “We would have to be very comfortable with having these students on campus,” Yardley said. Residence halls currently don’t have lists posted of those individuals who are banned from campus. When a disturbance call is made to police, records are checked to see if the individual has had previous offenses. However, not having the trespassers photos posted is not a significant issue, according to Yardley. He also said university employees, such as those who work at the front desks of buildings, are made aware if there is a person who is constantly trespassing.

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Typically, those who work in the residence halls are told to contact university police if they see someone who has been banned or looks suspicious, according to Keith Zaborowski, associate director of residence life at University Housing. “The idea would be to see where the person goes and then let police handle it from there,” Zaborowski said. He said typically university employees won’t know if a person has been banned because photos are not posted. If students see a suspicious person in their residence hall, they should call the 24-hour desk, and then the person working the desk will decide how to solve the problem, according to Zaborowski. “That worker would usually page an on-duty residence director,” he said, “and they will take care of it from there.” news@ dailynebraskan.com


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