This year, a quiet sequel to immigrant tuition controversy

[quote]BY ART HOVEY / Lincoln Journal Star
Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 12:33:47 am CDT

It’s a strange blend of notoriety and anonymity, of bright lights and shadows.

A year ago, Tom Osborne, one of the state’s best-known citizens, endorsed in-state tuition for the college-bound children of undocumented immigrants living in Nebraska.

A year later, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is citing privacy concerns and declining to name the first four students who have quietly enrolled for classes under the new state law that made it happen. Alan Cerveny, dean of admissions at UNL, said six more students who fit the same profile will be among the new faces on the university’s Kearney campus this fall.

“I think everybody was a little uncertain what we would see the first year,â€