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Wednesday, September 12, 1973
lincoln, nebraska vol. 97, no. 8
UNL police blamed
in break-in attempt
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An aborted attempt was made In Aucjust by
UNL Campus Security officers to copy
confidential information from the office of
UNL Ombudsman James Suter, the Daily
Nebraskan has learned.
The Daily Nebraskan also has learned that
the attempt was suggested after a security
officer apparently stumbled onto a list of 12
officers' names while he was making a
telephone call from Suter's office.
Suter said the men whose names were on the
list had come to him with grievances against the
Campus Security office. He said the officers
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Campus Security Chief Gail Gnde
had complained about promotion practices and
low salaries. Security officers start at $5,644 a
year.
Suter said the list was left lying on his desk.
The nffir.iMS had come to him while
negotiation'; between the officers and the patrol
wet e in pi ogress.
He also said he believes that finding the list
led to insti notions for an attempted break-in.
Gail Garle, chief of Campus Security,
disagreed. He said the officer who saw the list
was not later ordered to break into the office.
He said the officer's superior had only
suggested the officer who found the list go back
and copy it.
"When the officer noticed the list, he didn't
have any idea why the list was there, but he was
curious," Gade said. "He then went and asked a
sergeant what was going on. The sergeant, also
curious, asked the officer if he had a chance to
stop and copy the list.
"The othcer was not ordered to do this. It
was si i idly a suggestion on the sergeant's pait,"
Gad'i said,
Me said the officei decided not to return to
Pu'.er's office and that the matter was not
pur sued by the M'i geai it.
Using iIt: telephone in the ombudsman's
office apparently was a loutine procedure.
"On! officers must call in to the switchboard
operator at Nebraska Hall following their patiol
of (.act i building," Gade said. "It's not unusual
for oi fleets to use that particular loom (Suter's
oi i'lcej in making phone calls."
Gade said his officers usually used the
telephone in Suter's office after chocking
Burnett Hall.
Gade said his first impression upon hearing
of the affair was that the sergeant used "poor
judgment." But the sergeant will neither be
fired nor demoted, he said.
Gade refused to identify the sergeant and
the oilier who was asked to enter Suter's
olf ice.
Since enly August, Suter said, he has
inst .tiled new locks on his office doors. He said
the (iiiipn'.e behind the new locks is to keep the
poire; out. I here now ate only four keys that
can be used to enter his office, he said.
Gade said that Suter's office is now "out of
iMiiiidai ies" lor security officers. "We want to
pieveui a tragic misunderstanding like this from
occui i mg in the Inline," he said.
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Waning war sounds taps for draft veteran
By Andy Riggs
Lee LiggrMt is an assistant to the president of the
National Bank of Commerce. He woiks at a big
wooden desk and sits in a soft green chair. He is the
smiling, hiendly man who used to dncct the
Nebraska Selective Service.
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"I wouldn't have left tin; post as director unl"ss
the Vietnam situation had ended," Liggett said. "I've
Inen with tin' Selective Seivicc lot ?b years and I've
always had .i stionrj desire to do something beside-,
winking in the government. I like a challenge. I
became- din-ctor in May, 1969, when the situation
was a li.nl one, but I Icel that someone had to do the
job and I'm not soi i y that I was the one in ch.nge."
Some sit it. 1 1 ions that con 1 1 on led L igget t dm n ig ills
tenure as rlitei toi weie not enjoyable ones, Liggett
said most o! bis time was spent talking with young
men oi then p.nent'i about tlie dialt. He he.iul many
(a 'i II !nn i! ',.
"I don't feel th.it it was Liggett, die man, that
diafted the young men -it was the U.S. Congress that
passed the law that young men aged IB to 20 would
be selected to be drafted for the Army. I was m
ch.nge of the State of Nebraska Selective Service and
I'm just pait of tin; administrative setup," he said.
I iggeit said he was happy that the diaft was oyei
ami lh.it the government had leplaced i) nib
vohniieri aimed seivices, He said he thought the
public was disillusioned by the Vietnam vv.n and that
tic-re wasn't the Mippoit for the, war as in pievion-,
conlln !-,
I be Vol' II I hi ! Sel V II eS de-,e VC' .'I ( hall! C' to 1 1' 1 1 I -l I,
I erg"! I ,.nd
"As I n a-, the stand by Selective Si-ivce goe-,, n i
I ! i . r hni eaily to I'll I I ie Al my e, not vsbeie Un ,
u. lie a, I, ii as peiMiiiiic-l goes, but 1 1 icy ha." r, i
1 1 ir.y lag tluijiile yi-t," I l''l' 1 1 said "I e , a
don't think they have hail a fail chance of
accomplishing what they want to do."
Liggett repeated that he was happy doing the.
disagreeable job of being director. According to him,
9 out of 10 people that came into his office had a
complaint about the draft in Nebraska. But he said he
was more than satisfied when the 10th came in
because occasionally he liked to talk to someone
other than the governor who thought he was doing a
good job,
"I ii. ally didn't feel comfoitable from nine in the
moiuiii'i until I went home at night. The government
C iii)', id pe vi y ligid about theii policy, and it
;noi jcs tiiiih 'imity, and that leads to pioblems.
I hne e, no way that evei yonc can be the same,"
Li gg- it lelated a story that he thinks leflects what
Hi,, maionty ol diatt'-es might have thought of him,
"I having coffee vvith some of the olhei officials
hen, .'hen one icmail'ed that he had an employe in
ir, iei,n imciil that didn't like me. Of couise I had
i iei the young man, but he happened to have
h,., ! ii, ,!'() I be, goe-; to show that the only (food
!i.:li law is the one' th.it you oi I luck out on."
I ignett said that working as Selective Service
dnecior probably took a few years off his life. He
aid he lias Ins roots in Lincoln and gives a
i oinpliment to the state, and the young men in it.
I Hj.jeit lias been iccngnied lor his job as Selective
:,. i.nre 'Ineiloi He was picsented with the
! . i iitumal Sei vn e A.vaid on AiK), 1, by national
' ,, I. I I ' ei lit ' I I II CC tot I it y oil I 'l ' )! I one1.