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Vol. 86 No. 105
February 18, 1987
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
CoMdom giveaway
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By Eric Paulak
Staff Reporter
Despite an attempt by university
officials to get a court order preventing
condom distribution on campus, mem
bers of the GayLesbian Student Asso
ciation and other volunteers handed
out more than 700 pamphlets and con
doms to students and faculty Tuesday.
GLSA President Rodney Bell II says
the group plans a similar giveaway for
April, possibly in the residence halls.
Tuesday's distribution started at
11:20 a.m., 20 minutes behind sche
dule, after GLSA members and volun
teers learned the university's request
for the restraining order had been
turned down by Lancaster County Dis
trict Judge Donald Endacott.
Endacott said UNL attorneys failed
to present evidence that proved GLSA's
action was harmful to the university.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
Jim Griesen said UNL was trying to stop
GLSA from distributing commercial
products on campus without prior ap
proval. John Taylor, director of the Nebraska
Civil Liberties Union, said the universi
ty's attempt to stop the students was a
violation of the First Amendment.
UNL political science Professor John
Gruhl said GLSA was within its legal
rights because the university already
has allowed commercial products to be
distributed on campus, setting a prece
dent. Gruhl said GLSA was giving out
commercial items for an educational
reason, not a commercial one.
University officials originally tried to
stop distribution of the condoms be
cause of a 1937 state statute that pro
hibits condom distribution without a
license from the State Department of
Health.
However, the statute was declared
unconstitutional by Endacott in 1985.
Assistant Attorney General Marilynd
Hutchinson said that in 1981 the con
stitutionality of the statute was ques
'Dating Game 'part
By Linda Holmes
Staff Reporter
"What do you look for in a date?"
"Would you go on a blind date?" "What
are your goals after graduation?"
These are some of the questions
asked at auditions Monday for the
Residence Hall Association's "Dating
Game," scheduled for March 3 in the
Nebraska Union. More auditions are
scheduled today from 2 to 4 p.m.
"Dat ing Game," one of t he act hit ios
scheduled fur Residence Hall Week,
March 1 through 7, will be patterned
after the "Dating Game" television
game show.
Job guides free
for juniors today
Career guides will be distributed
free to juniors today and Thursday
at a booth in the Nebraska Union, in
residence halls and in fraternities
and sororities.
The 10-page guides, put together
by the Student Alumni Association,
include information on interview
ing, resumes, graduate-school test
dates and the Career Planning and
Placement Center.
The guides also are available at
the Student Information Center,
Wrick Alumni Center and the Career
Planning and Placement Center.
tioned by her office, and was presented
to the county court in the Douglas vs.
Bierman case.
Lee Lucke, assistant director of the
Bureau of Examining Boards, said the
Health Department quit requiring that
distributors of condoms be licensed as
soon as the attorney general's office
issued the opinion that it was uncon
stitutional in late 1981.
Although the statute was determined
unconstitutional in the courts, it re
mains part of Nebraska state law be
cause it has never been repealed.
An official in the office of the Clerk
of the Legislature said the statute will
remain law until it is appealed to the
State Supreme Court. University offi
cials would not comment on whether
they will pursue it that far.
Bell said, "I think this is evidence
that any more attempts by the adminis
tration to censure freedom of expres
sion, to censure education aspects
related to AIDS and other STD's (sexu
ally transmitted diseases) may require
action on the part of the Nebraska Civil
Liberties Union." The NCLU repres
ented GLSA in opposing the universi
ty's restraining order request.
UNL freshman Phillip Woll, who
handed out condom literature Tuesday,
said that most people had been recep
tive. He estimated that about 90 per
cent of the people he talked to took the
pamphlets.
Many students were somewhat
amused by the giveaway and TV crews
stationed in front of Broyhill Fountain.
"I think it's kind of funny," UNL
student Anne Stuneck said.
Another student, Linda Kinzie, said
students need to be aware of how to
have "safe sex."
Wendy Steinke, another student, said
that she hopes college students "are
mature enough to handle it."
Student volunteer Marc Frantz said
many people will take some pamphlet
suggestions as a joke. But even joking
will raise awareness, he said.
Susan Simon and Jill Light, co-chairmen
of RH Week programming commit
tee, and Russell Johnson, RHA trea
surer, are the "Dating Game" voting
panel.
Light said 16 students will be
selected for the game. From those
contestants, four couples will win
dinner at Grandmother's restaurant
and a movie of their choice. One
couple, chosen by the audience, will
win a limousine ride to Grandmother's,
Light said.
Johnson said they are looking for
people who are attractive, charismatic
and self-confident.
Each round will last 15 minutes.
NSSA
By Rob Fraass
Staff Reporter
The Committee for Fees Allocation
voted 8-2 Tuesday night to fund the
Nebraska State Students Association
and reinstated it as UNL's legislative
lobbying organization.
The committee voted on Feb. 10 to
disassocaite the university from the
state-wide lobbying organization in
favor of UNL's Government Liaison
Committee. The appeals votes gives
NSSA $17,553 that originally was taken
away from NSSA and given to GLC.
According to CFA chairman Rob
Mellion, the main reason the funds
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Phillip Wall, a freshman computer science major, volun
teered to help GLSA hand out literature in celebration of UNL
Condom Day Tuesday.
But freshman Tim Hoins said he
thought handing out the condoms was
"silly" and not morally right because it
"promotes sexual activities and homo
sexuality." Earlier, Union officials opposed the
distribution of some pamphlets because
they considered them too explicit.
Advice included in one pamphlet,
of RH Week agenda
Questions from the contestants will be
screened by the panel.
The idea of the "Dating Game" was a
group effort, Light said.
RHA also plans a "Foodfast for the
Homeless" March 4. For each student
who gives up a meal in the residence
hall that day, $1 will be given to the
Lincoln City Mission. Several downtown
restaurants will offer discounts for residence-hall
students that night.
RHA also has planned a dance and
fashion show in the East Union from 8
p.m. to 1 a.m. March 6, Simon said.
"This year's RH Week is greared
more towards fun and students rather
than programs," Light said. "We want
g approved
were reinstated to NSSA was because
of CFA's confidence in Steve Linen
berger, NSSA director.
"Steve has been doing a great job for
NSSA," Mellion said. "I think he's a 1 10
percent improvement over the previous
director."
Linenberger will be working with
GLC on UNL's legislative issues, Mellion
said. NSSA will be put on a one-year
probation period where an NSSACFA
sub-committee will govern it. After the
probationary period, the sub-committee's
report will be used as a guideline
to determine NSSA funding for the
1988-89 fiscal year.
In other business, CFA approved the
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"Condom Sense," says: "Condoms taste
terrible; granted it is sucking on a
piece of latex rubber. So get kinky . . .
spread a little jam or jelly on it, or some
maple syrup and pretend it's an ice
cream cone."
Amy Edwards and Jenny Deselms con
tributed to this story.
to pull attention towards RHA so
students will see it's something to have
fun with."
Admission to all the RH Week
activities is free, Light said. Programs
are carefully budgeted, she said. RHA
pays if the programs are not sponsored
by another source.
RHA funds come from a non-refundable
student fee in residence-hall
housing payments, Johnson said.
RHA budgets between $1,000 and
$3,000 for RH week. RH week will cost
about $2,500 this year, Johnson said.
"RH Week is not a profit-making
venture," Johnson said. ' It's just to get
people aware of the residence halls,"
he said.
by 8-2 vote
Campus Recreation budget through a
series of votes on several amendments.
Campus Recreation ended with a
$373,905 budget for the 1987-88 school
year. The budget is a $34,642 increase
from last year.
CFA approved increases of $21,000
for managerial staff, $6,260 for intra
mural staff, $7,538 for operating expen
ses and $5,000 for an increase in the
number of hours student employees
work.
Several CFA members said the
increases were justified because the
use of Campus Recreation equipment
and programs have gone up dramatically
in recent years.
Committee
kills vote
for UNL
students
By Michael Hooper
Senior Reporter
The Legislature's Education Commit
tee voted Tuesday to kill a resolution
proposing a constitutional amendment
that would have given student regents
a vote on the NU Board of Regents.
After hearing much testimony on
LR23, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Tim
Hall, committee members voted 5-1 to
kill the proposal. Sen. Dennis Baack of
Kimball was the lone supporter.
Sen. Vard Johnson of Omaha said
after the meeting that most of the
committee members felt "a vote should
not be given to a client community."
Johnson said students are not a
"special constituency" deserving a vote
on the NU Board of Regents.
Regent Margaret Robinson of Norfolk
told the committee that a student
regent vote would give students double
representation representation by
the student regent and the regular
regent from the students' district.
Although the board members appre
ciate student regent input, Robinson
said, student regents could not do
justice to their studies while being a
voting member.
ASUN president Chris Scudder coun
tered saying that just as students go to
class, the regents have jobs. And since
students are most affected by the
regents' decisions, Scudder said they
often know the issues better than the
regular regents.
Robinson said since only 2,988 of
about 24,000 eligible students at UNL
voted in last year's ASUN election, the
student regents would not represent
the whole student body.
Under Hall's resolution the student
regent vote would have rotated from
NU's three campuses yearly.
Sen. Hall said students are not fully
represented on the board because they
lack a vote. Their opinions mean little
without the power to vote, he said.
"We've already established that we
need their representation, but we
haven't legitimized it," Hall said.
Without a vote on the board, Hall said,
a student regent "is like a bastard
child."
Student regents are not fully account
able to their constituents because they
don't have a vote, said Scudder, a
former UNL student regent.
Because student regents are expected
to study the issues before the board
and have the same responsibilities as
the regular regents, they should have a
vote, Scudder said.
Not all eligible voters put the regents
in office, Scudder said. Sometimes only
5,000 voters put a senator in office, but
just because not all eligible voters
voted, doesn't mean the senators don'
get to vote in the legislature, Scudder
said.
"That's the beauty of democracy,"
Scudder said.
Dan Hofmeister, ASUN's first vice
president, said that since students'
tuition and fees make up more than 33
percent of the university budget,
student regents should be able to vote
on how it's spent.
Hofmeister said he was "overly dis
appointed" with the decision.
Student leaders now are considering
the possibility of taking the issue
directly to the voters through the
initiative and referendum process,
Hofmeister said.
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