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September 10, 1986
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Vol. 86 No. 12
NU players eligible
NCAA takes away complimentary tickets
By Bob Asmussen
Night News Editor
The NCAA Council Subcommittee on
Eligibility Appeals Tuesday restored
eligibility for 60 Nebraska players who
had been suspended last week for at
least one game. The suspensions were
the result of the players' misuse of
complimentary game tickets.
The subcommittee ruled that the
guilty Nebraska players will lose their
pass-gate tickets this season.
The subcommittee also said all NCAA
Division I football and men's and
women's basketball programs will be
asked to review their athlete's use of
pass-lists for the 1985-86 school year.
"Obviously, we're very pleased, very
relieved," Nebraska coach Tom Osborne
said Tuesday night. "We think it was an
equitable solution."
Osborne said the loss of pass-gate
privileges will be hard on some of the
players.
"Most players that I've talked to
would rather play than have passes,"
Osborne said.
Osborne said he was happy with the
hearing and said he thought the uni
versity was dealt with fairly.
"I was very pleased with the appeal
process," Osborne said. "We felt they
at least heard everything we said."
Osborne said the decision by the
-subcommittee will have ramifications
on other institutions.
"I really think it will be good for
college athletics in that matters of eth
ical conduct will be put mainly in the
province of the institution."
Osborne said he agreed with the
NCAA decision that there was ethical
misconduct in the use of the tickets.
"We just disagreed with the severity
of the penalty," he said.
Nebraska linebacker Kevin Parsons
said Tuesday night that the decision
was a good one for the team. He said
not having pass-gate privileges the rest
of the season will be difficult for him.
"My dad's not happy that he might
not get to watch me play this year,"
Parsons said.
Parsons said he was anxious on
Tuesday while awaiting the subcom
mittee's decision.
"You never know what the NCAA is
going to do," Parsons said. "It's kind of
like giving a child a loaded revolver."
Parsons said he thought the suspen
sions were too severe of a penalty.
"I don't think that they (the NCAA)
had any right to say I could or could not
have people watch me play footbll. Par
sons said that if the subcommittee had
not come back with a favorable ruling
Tuesday, some of the affected Nebraska
players would have filed suit against
the NCAA.
"I think there would have been guys
filing suits, definitely," Parsons said.
"I know I wanted to do it. We weren't
given the right to refrain from self
incrimination. I would have refused to
answer their questions."
Smaller GSL checks
Federal legislation reduces student aid
By Shawn Hubbell
Staff Reporter
Due to a federal government plan to
save money, students will find that
their Guaranteed Student Loans this
semester are only half of what they
expected.
On April 7, President Reagan signed
reconciliation legislation which allows
for changes of certain laws to meet
demands set by the budget process.
One of the changes agreed to in this
legislation was the multiple disburse
ment of GSLs.
See GSL on 3
Special salary increase
tabled by Faculty Senate
By Michael Hooper
Senior Reporter
The UNL Faculty Senate voted
Tuesday to table a motion that
would oppose any proposal for a
special 10 percent salary increase
for 25 percent of UNL faculty.
The motion is in response to the
NU Board of Regents decision to
seek additional funds for 25 percent
of UNL faculty. The funds would be
in the sum of 10 percent of total
faculty salaries and would be a
warded to faculty deemed outstand
ing. UNL Professor of History John
Braeman, who recommended the
motion, called the Regent's prop
osal "an unjust and invidious reflec
tion upon the majority of this faculty."
"To declare three-fourths of the
faculty shall be deemed expendable
will undercut, rather than promote
efforts to obtain adequate funding
for this institution," Braeman said.
Braeman's motion may come up
for discussion at the Senate's next
meeting.
Also at the meeting, Gerry Mei
sels, College of Arts and Sciences
Dean, told the Faculty Senate that
general liberal education at UNL
needs modifying.
Referring to a report made by the
Chancellor's Commission on Gen
eral Education, Meisels said gen
eral education should be taught
recognizing students' level of prep
aration and stage of intellectual
development.
The Chancellor's Commission on
General Education's report is cur
rently a proposal, on which the
Faculty Senate will make recommendations.
Andrea HoyDaily Nebraskan
Jill Hoffman admires "Diana," a bronze statue, while in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery for
her Arts Today class Tuesday.
DeCamp files suit
Pappas, Labedz arraigned
LINCOLN (AP) State Sens. James
Pappas of North Platte and Bernice
Labedz of Omaha were arraigned Tues
day on felony charges connected with a
failed lottery petition drive.
Lancaster County Judge Gail Pokorny
scheduled a Sept. 25 preliminary hear
ing for Labedz and a Sept. 26 hearing
for Pappas.
Arraignments on felony charges also
were held for lobbyists Walter Radcliffe
of Lincoln and Marleen "Mardy" Mc
Cullough of Grant, who was a coordina
tor for the petition drive.
Radcliffe pleaded innocent to mis
demeanor charges of illegally spending
more than $50 in cash and failing to
report the expenditure in violation of
the state's accountability law.
At their preliminary hearings, attor
neys for Pappas and Labedz can move
to dismiss the charges. Each lawmaker
would have to be bound over to district
court before entering a plea.
As he left the courthouse, Pappas
shook his head to indicate "no" when
asked if he was considering resigning
from the Legislature. All four defend
ants remained free on personal recog
nizance bond.
Charges were filed against the de
fendants Monday in Lancaster County.
Also charged in Lancaster County was
Marc Fellman of Fort Calhoun, an
officer of Lottery Consultants of Ne
braska. Two Omaha men have been charged
in Sarpy County in connection with the
case. William Katzman and Joseph A.
Monastero, officers in Lottery Consul
tants, were charged with five counts of
falsely swearing on an initiative petition.
On Monday, Pappas was charged in
Lincoln County Court at North Platte
with two felony counts of falsely swear
ing to the signature of a circulator,
County Attorney Charles Kandt said.
Bill Hord of North Platte, who is run
ning against Pappas for the 42nd Dis
trict seat in the Legislature, said his
campaign plans will not change because
of charges against Pappas.
"We will deal with the issues. The
indictment will be a matter to be
worked out in the courts," Hord said.
Labedz is not up for re-election this
year.
Radcliffe said in a written statement
that he is innocent of any crime and
intends to fight the charges.
"I do want it known that I have
cooperated voluntarily with the inves
tigative authorities and, subject only to
restrictions on attorney-client priv
ileged matters, have answered every
question and every area of inquiry put
to me," he said.
Sen. John DeCamp of Neligh, who
was a member of the Nebraska Taxpay
ers Lottery Committee, said the charges
are ridiculous.
"The state has just gone mad," he
said. DeCamp has not been accused of
any wrongdoing in the lottery case.
DeCamp, a longtime lottery suppor
ter, accused Attorney General Robert
Spire and Heavican of "using this
issue, in the most flagrant and ridicu
lous way, for their own political
purposes."
"Bob Spire is a weak attorney gen
eral and everybody knows it," DeCamp
said. "He hopes this will help him
politically."
DeCamp and Labedz have filed a suit
contending that the laws governing the
lottery process are unconstitutional.
DeCamp said he filed the suit because
Pappas and Labedz are his good friends.
