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Daily Nebraskan
Tuesday, March 16, 1982
Regents race attracts 19 candidates
Tfie deadline to file for scats on the NU Board of
Regents ended Friday with 19 candidates vying for the
four district scats.
In the 3rd District, Kermit Wagner is not seeking re
election. Running for the scat are State Sen. Don Dworak
of Columbus, who owns an insurance business; Jerry
Schiermeyer, a Fremont banker; Margaret Robinson of
Norfolk, president of Norfolk Iron and Metal Company;
and Judy Larsen of Hooper.
In the 4th District, Robert Prokop of Wilbur is seeking
his third six-year term as a regent. Opponents for the
position are James W. Billups of Nebraska City; Clifton N.
Foster of Bellevue, an education consultant; Nancy
DeLong Hoch of Nebraska City, a housewife and past
president of the NU Alumni Association; George P. Miller
of Papillion, publisher of the Papillion Times; Lee Polikov
of Bellevue, an attorney and chief administrative officer
of the Sarpy County Sheriffs Office; and Willard H.
Waldo of DeWitt, a farmer and former member of the
State Board of Education.
The incumbent in the 5th District is Robert R.
Koefoot of Grand Island. His opponents are Leon E.
Langemeicr, a banker from Fremont; and James N.
Norton, an attorney from David City.
Attorney James Moylan of Omaha is seeking re
election to the 8th District seat. He is being challenged by
four candidates, all from Omaha. They arc Sharon
Donnermeyer Jackson; Arthur F. Montmorency, a Mutual
of Omaha executive; Richard J. O'Brien, who works for
an insurance agency; and Dr. Edgar H. Smith, a patholog
ist. Four of the 19 candidates are women. According to
Jim Raglin, NU director of public affairs, a woman has
never been elected to the board of regents. However, he
said, women have been appointed to finish unexpired
terms.
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Ejection from rink
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struggle for rights
By Willis Gray
Gary Doty is like most other young men. He
likes to fish, walk and roller skate, like any other
young man. However, Gary Doty is blind.
The 27-year-old Lincoln resident said that just
because he can't sec, he shouldn't be prohibited
from doing what he wants if he does it well.
Case in point: roller skating. In January 1980,
Doty and his girlfriend went to the Holiday Skate-,
world North to go skating.
He was asked to leave right after he entered the
building. According to Doty, the rink's manager,
Dennis Runyan, told him his white cane would be a
safety hazard to others skating. After about 20
minutes of tense discussion, Doty put on a pair of
skates and went out on the floor. He said the
manager then called the police and he was soon
ejected.
Doty said the manager was "hostile" and tried to
intimidate both him and his girlfriend.
For Doty, the ejection from the roller rink was
the first time he encountered discrimination because
of his blindness. He decided to seek help. He event
ually brought his case to the Lincoln Commission
on Human Rights.
Finally, after a week delay and public hearings,
the commission voted in Doty's favor. The roller
rink's manager has appealed the decision to U.S.
District Court.
Doty is pleased with the decision because it
means he gets to skate, a hobby he has enjoyed
since age 6. However, he also criticized the decision
because it only affects him, and Doty said all blind
people should be allowed to roller skate or do any
thing they want to.
Doty said most people know little about dis
crimination against the blind. He said this is because
discrimination against the blind usually occurs in a
different form than other types of discrimination.
Discrimination is usually shown in a patronizing
attitude, lie said.
"It's like they're saying, 'Let's look out for the
poor blind person.' "
Doty attended UNL for 1 Vz years as a philosophy
major, but quit school when he married, lie now
builds waterbeds at Land and Sky watcrbed
company in Lincoln.
He said he went skating about three weeks ago at
the same rink he was thrown out of. There were no
incidents, he said, which surprised him.
Doty considers himself an "activist." He is presi
dent of the Lincoln chapter of the National Assoc
iation for the Blind, a group Doty said "speaks out
for the rights of all blind people." i
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