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SPIITS HE ^ Planting The Seed ' Beyond the Basics Witha 5-1 victory over No. 18 Missouri on Sunday, This year’s Gay/Lesbian Film Festival features the NU soccer team maintained position to earn the flicks that go beyond coming-out-of-the-closet top seed in die conference tournament PAGE 9 issues. PAGE 12 VOL. 99__COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 41 Council to appeal picketing ordinance By Jake Bleed Senior staff writer The Lincoln City Council voted 5-2 on Monday to ask the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear arguments on a city ordinance dud the court ruled unconstitutional last week. The ordinance, which banned polit ical protests outside churches before and after services, had been ruled unconstitutional Oct 14 because it was too broad. The St. Louis-based three judge panel voted 2-1 against the ordi nance. The ordinance came after a series of controversial anti-abortion protests out side the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lincoln, where Winston Crabb was an elder. Crabb performed abortions at an Omaha clinic but has since quit. Councilwoman Coleen Seng, who voted to ask the court to review the ordi nance, said one reason the council asked for reconsideration was to set a prece dent for dealing with similar situations. Seng also said economics played an important role in making the decision. Not asking the appeals court to review the ordinance would force the city to pay the legal fees of opposing parties, Seng said. Seng did not know the exact cost of the opposing parties’ legal fees but said they were probably much more than the $500 cost of asking the appeals court to review the ordinance. The city Is attorney, Dan Klaus, said the city will first ask the three-judge panel that originally ruled against the ordinance to reconsider it. If those judges refuse, die city will ask the nine 8th U.S. Circuit Court judges to review the city law. Fueling the City Council’s decision was the 2-1 vote by the appeals court against the ordinance. “The fact that at least one judge agreed with us, we think, is enough to ask a nine-judge panel to reconsider (the ordinance),” Klaus said Klaus also said the 9th Circuit Court M The fact that at least one judge agreed with us, we think, is enough to ask a nine-judge panel to reconsider (the ordinance).” Dan Klaus City Council’s attorney of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a San Francisco city ordinance prohibit ing all political activity a certain dis tance from churches. The San Francisco ordinance was somewhat different because it restricted all types of political protest, and it allowed protesters to remain closer to churches than Lincoln’s ordinance, Klaus said. Please see COUNCIL on 3 Group rejects new garage fending piair ByEricRineer Staff writer Wife a 6-3 vote Friday, fee Parking Advisory Committee opposed a motion that would have recommended using just permit fees to fend fee proposed parking garage at 17th and R streets. The failed motion would have recommended that UNL increase its permit rates for students, staff and faculty until 2001 to pay for fee first of three garages proposed by university officials. The proposed rates would continue to increase incrementally each year until at least 2004 in order to fend the other two proposed garages. The proposed 2001 rates include a $21 monthly fee for blue-lot permits, which are non reserved lots, and a $29 monthly fee for faculty and staff. Reserved, or yellow-lot permits, for stu dents would increase to $50 per month in 2001 and to $7 per month for perimeter permits. James Specht, Parking Advisory Committee chairman, said the committee’s recommendation would be presented to Chancellor James Moeser by early November. Last month, members voted to recommend building the garage, which would give the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1,200 additional spaces. Most of the members at Friday’s meeting weren’t shy about showing their concerns for per mit hikes. Tom Myers, representing Academic Senate, said he felt the university was rushing the com mittee to find a reasonable solution for funding the garage. “The only reason we’re in this time crunch is because the university created this,” Myras said. “We are not going to come up with a rationale cm how we’re going to pay for this in one or two meetings.” At earlier meetings this semester, some mem bers suggested looking to the Legislature and University Foundation for extra funding. “Surely this university can not expect the sup port staff to pay $600 to $700 just to wodc here,” said Sandy Lineberry, representing the University of Nebraska Office Personnel Association. - Lineberry was critical throughout the meeting. Please see GARAGE on 3 : ; :---7.-: Lane Hickenbottom/DN ANDREI DZENIS runs laps around Cook Pavilion on Tuesday. Dzenis, a former UNL student, was on military leave from Ills naval position in Grotton, Conn. Financial aid official says office prepared for Y2K By Derek Lippincott Staff writer Thanks to an early Y2K test at UNL, stu dents worrying about losing their financial aid money and records when the year 2000 hits can rest a little easier. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid in June passed a Y2K compatibility test issued by the U.S. Department of Education. The test indicat -• ed that university financial aid and records, as well as scholarships, were safe from the Y2K bug. Although some UNL students hadn’t realty thought about how Y2K would affect their financial aid, they said they were glad UNL was taking care of it. George Krueger, a sophomore management information systems major, said he thought it was the university’s responsibility to ensure Y2K didn’t wreak havoc on student financial aid. — “We are paying people to do this stuff, so they should get everybody’s grades backed up or whatever else needs to be done,” Krueger said. Jaclyn DiGiacomo, a sophomore general studies major, said although she didn’t expect any problems with Y2K, if something did hap pen, she would be in trouble financially. A system failure would make it nearly impossible for her parents to afford her educa tion at UNL, she said. “1 would be a huge financial burden to my parents if my scholarships were lost,” DiGiacomo said. “They have two students here, Please see Y2K on 8 Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at dallyneb.com