daily nebraskan
Wednesday, October 15, 1980
Succeeds on own merit'
Blind law student wins oral argument award
page 18
By Pat Carraher
Russell Bloemker, a blind law student from Fremont,
has been named the outstanding oral argument person for
the senior rounds at the UNL Law School.
Bloemker and his partner, Bruce Stephens, finished
first after competing in the tournament finals Sept. 29.
Bloemker said senior rounds are not a required activity,
but are open to any law school senior, lie said nine
two-person teams entered this year.
According to Bloemker, before teams started debate,
they submitted legal briefs based on their arguments. The
week-long competition consisted of a series of debates
with area attorneys serving as judges, he said.
Because of his blindness, Bloemker said he was unable
to prepare for rounds in the same way others did. He said
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he gathered evidence for his argument by having other stu
dents read material to him.
Bloemker said these "readers" are essential for him be
cause many legal works and texts change so often, making
it too expensive to produce up-to-date Braille editions.
Nevertheless, the use of Braille is still important to
Bloemker.
He said he uses Braille to take notes in class. To do
this, he uses a small device made of two pieces of sheet
metal. Called a "Braille typewriter," it punches Braille
letters into the note paper. These notes, Bloemker said,
along with some personal literature, make up most of his
Braille material.
Bloemker admits that his blindness has given him a
number of problems which he has had to overcome.
Bloemker said that during high school he made up his
mind to take up the challenge of learning to be a lawyer.
"I feel like I have received no special treatment while
in law school, I've been allowed to succeed or fail on my
own merit," he said.
As for the future, Bloemker said there is nothing de
finite waiting for him after graduation. He did say, how
ever, that he has no preference as to which direction he
will go.
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UNL law student Russell Bloemker recently won
the oral argument person award.
Better relations is fraternity goal
By Laure Perlinger
It has been said that tradition is big at UNL.
Tradition, however, ranges from wearing red to foot
ball games to continuing a feud with neighbors. Such is
the case with two UNL fraternities that have a reputation
of intense rivalry.
The two houses are Phi Delta Theta, 1545 R. St., and
Theta Xi, 1535 R St.
Dan Spellman, Phi Delta Theta president, and Mike
Morris, Theta Xi president, said they are trying to get
things resolved by getting the executive councils of both
houses together.
Spellman said there is no rivalry between the two
houses. Instead, it is just yelling back and forth and an
occasional broken window, he said.
Morris said he feels that it's the principle, not the
minor expenses that are important.
"This is my fifth year here and this is the worst it has
ever been," Morris said.
"The relationship between the two houses is poor.
They say it's tradition, but it can only go so far."
He said some Phi Delta members went into the Theta
Xi house and sprayed red paint in a pledge's hair and
shirt.
On Monday, Morris said,several Theta Xi members
participated in the Great Greeks exchange dinner. They
went next door to the Phi Delta Theta house but the
reception wasn't very hospitable, he said.
"I'd like to see it stop. SO would our guys and probab
ly some of their guys too," he said.
"The past couple of weeks have been pretty quiet.
Things are starting tp look better."
Spellman said he heard about the spray paint incident,
but wasn't sure it involved members of his house. He said
the Theta Xi pledges were going on sneak, so the Phi Delt
pledges got in on the fun and kidnapped one of them.
"The Phi Delts had nothing to do with the red dye,"
Spellman said, referring to the red dye dumped into the
makeshift swimming pool at the Theta Xi Driftwood
party in September.
"We've had a reputation for doing some pretty crazy
stuff," he said. "Yet, it seems like every thing gets blamed
on us.
"Sure, we deserve some of it. We deserve the same as
everybody else."
Spellman said in the last six or seven years Phi Delta
Theta members have become more conservative. If
damage is done to property, the individual responsible
must pay damages to the property owner and apologize.
"We really stress to people not to do anything to
anyone," Spellman said. The Interfraternity Council
stresses good relations between fraternities and also
helps to solve any problems that may arise between
houses on campus, he said.
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