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. IS Cuts throw curve in sports budget Sports, page 10 Cafferty band fills rockin' Royal Grove Arts and entertainment, page 16 Weather: Partly cloudy and warmer today. Southeast wind3 5-15 mph with a high of 90. Partly cloudy tonight with a low of 66. Sunny again on Wednesday with a high near 92. Barb BrandaDaily Nebraskan OaMv Iv r i LLJlLGc Li August 28, 1985 University of Nebraska-Lincoln ASIMto Vol. 85 No. 4 By Jen Deselms Staff Reporter A non-discrimination bylaw passed by the ASUN Senate in a 13-12 vote last spring and vetoed by ASUN President Gerard Keating will be voted on again tonight. Senate members will meet in the Nebraska Union. Twenty-two out of 33 senators must support the bylaw to override Keating's veto. The bylaw states that neither ASUN nor any student organization can dis criminate in the selection of members or appointment when discrimination is defined as denying people membership or appointment on basis of physical or cluallenge veto of miHTOit bylaw cultural characteristics, where such characteristics include but are not limited to age, race, color, gender, creed, sexual orientation or place of residence. Keating said the phrases "but are not limited to" and "sexual orienta tion" would have to be removed in order for him to support the bylaw. The phrase "but are not limited to" does not clearly define who is not to be discriminated against, he said. Keating maintains that sexual orientation is something that cannot be proved. "How are you going to prove it; anybody can come forward saying, 'I'm gay or lesbian.' "I'm not the one to judge whether gay or lesbian is right or wrong," ha said. "I'm trying to pass a piece of legislation that is fair and equal to all students and can be enforced." In a letter to Keating, Michael Manske and Mathew Millea, members of the Nebraska Civil Liberties Union and UNL law students, said, "As the responsible organization representing all students of the University of Neb raska, ASUN has a mandate to pass this landmark anti-discriminatory legisla tion." One of the purposes of a university is to expose people to new and different lifestyles and teach a greater tolerance for others, Millea said. Rodney Bell, secretary of the Gay Lesbian Student Association, said there is no valid reason why the bylaw should not be passed. Bell said the only reason senators would not pass the bill would be because of homophobia, a fear of homosexuality. The passage of the bylaw would create an awareness of sexual orienta tion and protect the civil liberties of people such as homosexuals who have no choice, Bell said. "We are what we are," Bell said. "Before sexual orientation can become unimportant it has to be important first. What I mean by that is for sexual orientation to cease to matter, it has to be brought out into the open so people recognize that differing sexual orienta tions are a reality." Bell estimated the organization has about 10 members, but this does not represent the true size of UNL's gay population, he said. Of the 2,200 U.S. colleges and uni versities, about 12 have non-discrimination laws that include sexual orientation, Keating said. He said he did not feel a need to contact them. He said UNL should not compare itself to other campuses around the country. Until the case is decided by the U.S. or Nebraska Supreme Court or the city of Lincoln, "I'm not going to raise the issue here," Keating said. "I don't think it's our main concern." Committee to review policies of Women's Resource Center By Stephanie Zink Staff Reporter The UNL Women's Resource Center will be scrutinized next week when a committee meets to review the center's policies. The WRC Review Committee was formed to" examine allegations that the center served only lesbians and not other UNL women, said Gerard Keating, ASUN president. " Suzanne Brown, assistant to the vice chancel lor of student affairs, said ASUN members were concerned with fee allocations for the program. Keating said the committee also will review the center's financial aspects. The committee will plan the guidelines for the center, he said. The group will develop recom mendations and possible changes that should be made. Janet Krause, former interim vice chancellor of student affairs, appointed the committee at the end of the spring semester. Brown said the committee didn't meet when it was appointed because it was too close to the end of the semester. Luann Larsen, WRC coordinator, said the committee may look at statistics showing how many people use the center's library and how many people visit the center daily. In May 1983, an evaluation of the WRC was released. It gave several recommendations for each WRC program. The three general recom mendations said the center should be main tained, that services should be only for students and that the center should "adopt a more syste matic, continual method of evaluation for some of its programs and services." "As far as I know, we are in accordance," Larsen said. Program evaluations are made within the WRC, including costs and number of people attending each project. 7 years of control dampens rowdiness at Husker games By Ann Harrell Senior Reporter Leaders of student groups are being reminded again to warn their members against rowdy and destructive behavior during the football season. For the seventh straight year, David DeCoster, dean of students, sent memos to the Residence Hall Association president, ASUN president, president of the Panhellenic Association and other student leaders to discourage street dis turbances, bonfires and orange tosses at football games and impromptu pep rallies. The annual memo has been a big help in reducing rowdiness, DeCoster said. "I would attribute much of the positive change in fan behavior to the support we receive from student groups on campus," he said. "We've been getting widespread distribution (of the memo), and more importantly, the support of student leaders." DeCoster said the memo is discussed at stu dent meetings, then distributed to members. Rowdy fan behavior has declined sharply in recent years, he said. "We haven't had a serious display of irrespon sible behavior in five years," he said. "That's wonderful." Five to 10 years ago, he said, UNL often had large, spontaneous gatherings, especially when the Huskers played the University of Oklahoma. Because these gatherings were unplanned and unsupervised, thousands of dollars of damage often was done, he said. "The potential for very serious injury was. there," DeCoster said. Such behavior also was bad publicity for the university, he said. DeCoster attributes the decline in rowdiness to increased communication and administration student cooperation and response policies de signed five years ago by officials and police. In this memo, DeCoster outlined five specific policies designed to prevent and respond to des tructive behavior. The policies include imme diate arrest and removal from Memorial Stadium for anyone caught throwing oranges; preventing fans from bringing oranges, alcohol or large coolers and containers into the stadium; photo . graphing and later arresting participants in street disturbances, and plainclothes crowd controL "I think that type of coordinated quick response to any information we receive that a spontaneous rally is underway is very helpful," he said. DeCoster said he thinks fans appreciate tougher stadium rules, even though some initially resented the ban on coolers. When some fans are too rowdy, they can rain the game for others, he said. 1 frTl ill i j tut) ! ' ' Ho f ..via iiiiiiin.wr MMMMMMMMlMMaM I f I V - J Dan DuianeyDaiiy Nsbrsskan Telephone etiquette? Cathy Campbell, a senior recreational management major, calls her boyfriend in Connecticut from a pay phone on 17th Street Monday. The phone in Campbell's apartment had not been hooked up yet so she used a nearby pay phone.
