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friday,noverr.bsr5, 1978 vol. ICO no. 37 Uncoln, nebrsska
Police cfttef to offer feenDi?ffVs to rvfvy fcoord
By Larry Lctz
The Lincoln Police review board's existence may have
begun and ended with its first meeting on Oct 12, accord
ing to an aide to the chief of the Lincoln Police Depart
ment (LTD).
Gerald Fisher, legal adviser for LTD, said Thursday
Chief George Hansen decided after the meeting that the
board "is cot at all effective"''. He added that Hansen will
soon offer :he City Council some proposals to change the
board.
The board, as defined in dry ordinance, is to review
complaints of police procedures and policies. It also is
supposed to create better police-community relations and
maintain community police services.
Fisher said Hansen has not completely abandoned the
idea of a review board because he thinks the goals of the
board are good, but its methods prevent any real success.
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To change that, Hansen is considering two alternatives,
which he will offer to the CounciL Fisher said he has
drawn up a rough draft of the alternatives, but Hansen has
not seen it Fisher said Hansen may be ready to submit it
Monday at the Council meeting.
One alternative is to abolish the ordinance and let LFD
handle grievances, he said. The other would be to insert an
intermediate step in the review process. With the plan,
Hansen would recommend a negotiation step, when police
officers and the complaintant could discuss the grievance
before reporting to the board.
' One or two board members would observe the session
"to act as neutral witnesses, so the citizens wouldn't think
we're pulling something over them, Fisher said.
If no settlement was reached during the 'scussion, the
review board still could meet and act as a final arbitrator,
he said.
The present system doesn't give the "board much
power, he said. Because of its structure, the seven-member
citizen board, appointed by Mayor Helen Boosalis in the
autumn of 1975, is little more than a rubber-stamp
organization, he said.
Fisher dritical
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citizen's complaint to the department, adding that the
department can maintain its services without a review
board.
After a citizen files a complaint with the city clerk,
copies of the complaint are sent to Hansen and all board
members, along with a notice of the meeting date. Prior to
this meeting, the department's internal affairs division
conducts an investigation and makes a recommendation to
Hansen.
Hansen then makes a decision on whether action is
needed. By this time, the issue is a moot question. Fisher
said.
Pclky changes now are made as" needed without the
review board, he said, and waiting for the board only
slows the process.
- Besides reducing the board to nothing mere than an
ineffective adviser, the present system is bad for police
morale and leaves bom parties unhappy, he said.
Individual officers are upset because "their names are
bantered about in the public hearing," he said. The
complaining party is unhappy because the board doesn't
really do anything about the problem, he added.
This has created bad feelings between the citizens and
the department, he said, which may never be overcome.
Faculty workload
study results told
. NU President D. B. Vainer has made pubic the results
of a faculty workload study measuring an average faculty
work week during the 1975 fsS semester. "'";;..
Known as the Faculty Activity Survey , legidalive man
dates of LBS10, the 1975-76 university budget bH,
requested the study- The completed report records the
time sped for various activities categorized as instruction,
public service and extension, and creative, scholarly and
research activities. ' - : "' " "
- The report lists average hours worked per week by fac-
lihy rank, campus and college. ; "
UNL listed an average work week of 5632 hours while
the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) listed 59.49
hours a week and the University of Nebraska Medical
Center listed 56D3 hours.
UNO :ieported 4255 hours spent on instruction while
UNL listed 33X1 and the medical center listed 3436
hours. .
The medical center devotes 13J01 hours to public
service and extension work while UNL lists 9 JI hours
. 2nd UNO lists 6-SS hours. , . . r -. r r: -
UNL leads the hours spent in creative, scholarly and
research activity, It reported 13.49 hours while UNO
reported 96 hours and the medical center S.46 hours.
Exchange professor is
first UNL F
tin.
. Fer the first time, a Fulbrht scholar from a fbreiga
country w3 teach at UNLnal asmester.
Orlando Ssndovd, tfearrssa of the Political Science
Dept. and dean of academic cocrdinstion at fJathnlic
University ia Quito, Ecusder, wi3 teach two courses.
Ee is comrrj to UNL under the Frijil4Iys Sdstisl
Eschar Prcaa financed by the State Education DepL
Ssadatsl Is s respected scholar of political science,
bimiarafet, economics, plUssciy and thsolqy, aecosd
fg to TH2ara Avery, a UTX political idexxe profesa.
mlwZlht teschhs a pcsl science cctsse.
ssa m i-g America, rtyi sa ecrmcmies class.
ffZT.Aavri fo? said he wants to live close to students,
preferably in a residence haS, Faquenazi-lisyo said. IIow
ecr, residence JsaHs are crowded, but the umversiry will
attempt to place him near the campus.
lie has written several books, artides and essys on the
tiHrgi tssmosmc life in Latin America and the UJ5--riesssrdi
projects include work ia economic integration,
w-jrrratirffl of the economies of Latin America, the
trrns?aigtira of hjcr education ia Ecuador, and sever
al rthrr grp" ftf gyjsl trimttt.
He has targht ia Chile, Mcaxsaa, Q Salvador, Custe-
umngniieMom
mala, Cost Kica, Ccuria a Europe, ard 1 lectnred
The rfnrrp tm Itm hrsnssn stags si UNL sgg-
the brfs cf his diingiiLd
sdwlsrfzip and ids teadir xepirtstka, Eajseaszillayo
cn.1. The trarm W2S sdsZZASsd tD tbs CoUSCl 03 IsJST-
xstiassl Ex3sss cf Sdiolars iaaiirgtoa, T. Et
far Ox honor, he added.
One UTJL profesor, Edward Nemeth, associate pro
ferss of history and philosophy of edecstioa was sslected
Economic Vrstkn
:rn ta UJXnnt crJvis aa honor far . U U Wii WW E444J a II Lr4
fiir iLe Esissrsrv. Aisry aid. The FuSr?-ht
pcrem a ccrrpiitive, sslakii iadlsdusls aacomp
2d ia il-ilr Jlls as wtl as isstitutions with strocg
prrpsnrs ia Hies fiilis, Asrry adJ.sd.
l i a i 5."- - :Ti a V a '! j -5 7-2 t. f I
'oviL 42. hells corses from the University of
C-fnT-r-a at Los Arbs, the School of Thsclcy ia
Fmlfnrt, T. Gernssy, tad from the Catholic Unrscr-sL-y
ia Qlo. lis doctorsl drgrees are ia pcZiicd scfer.ee.
Tr-f:.-t asj economics, ana sa piiuosopny ana inso-
Isy-
la addilba, Sasdarsl is a Jesuit priest, wLirh shoiild
add aa interesting dimensoa to his political science. teach
irg," Avry ncted-
Ecberi Esqsenazi-I'ij'o, director cf Use UNLIastituts
far Litcmsliassl Studri, cdmsd Avery's praia for
"It isa rare crrcrtcrity f tt:t.?rts ard Uc!y to t e
atle to work a diriicd fid-la who is at
t! tl-ie, ra eaxHl Izzjx he siii.
The maa is very acctrile arJ very mtrrsstcd a the
as&isinic life cf his students."
Fsrmsn Abnssssc is predicting a warm winter for the
Ididlaads this year, but don't count on iL
iebraa can expect at least one month cf extremely cold
weather and five months cf varied weather.
la addition, Kebxsska can expect 30 to 39 inches cf
siow this winter, he tsid. The normal saowfi3 for Ne
braska is 23 iaches. . .
A L'h pirsare systcra ia the western United States
w3 cause the tmperalure to -Hcp,- Dot'as said.
Formal Atnsnsc ssys Deceisher and January w3 be
seven depress warmer than normal, but 2 larch will be five
d-mees colder than corraaL
n i - t " : -
tnirpcratures are: Kovember 39; Dccenier, 27; January,
22; Fctruary 27;and tlardi,35.
A ccr.1 ticn cf warm waters ia 1ht Kcrlh Atlantic
Ocsaa and October's cold trrr-erstrrrs create the
hii pressare rj'stem, DoeIss said.
He add fhs hi prsssre rysim wZl cau nsssson
ahly warm weather ia the western UJL, and tmseasonzily
cold weather ia the eastern US. V.'cxtier ia areas ia be
tween w3 depend on how the system moves, he added.
The closer the fcia pressure system is talJehraska the
warmer it wZl be, he said. One cf She factors that wZl
determine how close the hia pressure tZzzx gets to Ke
bssSa w3 be the u-ster around the cassia:'.
Dccs said wanner than usual wster at the equator
w3 csua the Lrh presure system to move to the west
and cause. lower temperatures ia the liiilands. lie ssid the
tvatrr at the equrtor now is very warra.
The last time the wesih-r ccniitbns were IT:e they are
jtctw, Dcras said, was b 1972. lie Jild irra is ia the
erne situation now that it was the year the trrrreratrre
drcrpsi to 33 dejjees below zero ia Lectin.
lie said he couldn't predict what month the extreme
ccli w3 come ia, hut said it wH be at ksst et-t drrsss
colder thaa nonrL