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Animal experts argue
need to ban pit bull dogs
By Loren Berthelsen
Staff Reporter
Despite a national concern about pit
bull terrier attacks, local animal experts
say the dogs should not be banned in
Nebraska.
‘‘Other dogs bite too,” said Bob
Downey, executive director of the
Capitol Humane Society. "You don’t
see people trying to ban cocker span
iels and just a couple of years ago they
were the number-one source of dog
bites.”
Minden recently passed an ordinance
banning the ownership of pit bulls
within the city.
In Lincoln, however, under the vicious
dog ordinance, any dog can be ordered
destroyed if a severe attack places
someone’s life in jeopardy or if the dog
has attacked three times in a 12-month
period.
There have been seven attacks by pit
bulls in the last three years in Lincoln,
said Dave Churilla, field supervisor for
‘The problem
isn’t with the
breed of pit bulls.
The problem is
whether or not the
owner is a respon
sible owner.’
—Dave Churilla
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the Lincoln Animal Control Center.
Nationally, 12 out of 18 deaths from <
dog attacks have been attributed to pit <
bulls in the last 18 months, Churilla I
said. ]
While some pit bulls tend to attack '
without warning and will not give up 1
the attack, these characteristics have I
. been purposely bred into the pit bulls,
Churilla said. I
“The problem isn’t with the breed of i
pit bulls,” he added. The problem is
whether or not the owner is a responsi
ble owner.”
Some owners do not train the dogs to
be aggressive toward people.
One pit bull owner described the
nature of his dog. "The only thing that
Tyson (his pit bull) attacks is furni
ture,” said James Davis III, owner of a
10-month old pit bull.
Tyson is a "pretty casual dog,” said
Davis, a senior chemistry mjyor at
Nebraska Wesleyan University, who has
had Tyson since he was a puppy. He
said the dog is afraid of people and is
shy at heart.
Davis said he doesn’t understand
why people want to ban pit bulls. Any
dog can be dangerous. And like a gun,
Davis said, the responsibility is with
the owner.
"Pit bulls aren’t dangerous unless
they are trained to be an attack dog,”
Davis said.
Dick Young, Minden city clerk-treas
urer, said the Minden City Council’s
actions were in response to swelling
public opinion against pit bulls.
"What the council did was to pre
vent an incident from occuring,” Young
said.
Churilla said he doesn’t favor “spe
cific breed” laws like the one passed in
Minden. In most cases where a city has
passed a law banning pit bulls, the law
las been overturned when it was chal
enged, he said. Churilla said he thinks
t vicious-dog ordinance, if properly
mforced, will effectively reduce the
lumber of dog attacks.
Churilla said certain characteristics
if the pit bull breed do make it danger
ius in an attack situation. The biting
lower of a pit bull is 1,400 to 1,800
jounds per square inch, compared
vith the 800 to 900 psi jaw power of a
Doberman pinscher or a German shep
lerd.
Bob Downey, executive director of
he Capitol Humane Society, agrees
vith Churilla.
Doug Carroll/Dally Nebraskan
James Davis and his pit bull, Tyson. Although pit bulls
have a reputation for being vicious, Davis said Tyson
will turn and run If a stranger approaches during one of
their walks.
“We are opposed to ordinances that
discriminate against a breed," Downey
said.
Six people have died this year in the
United States of pit bull attacks. Dow
ney added that these figures still don’t
convince him that pit bulls in particu
lar should be banned. Good laws that
are properly drawn up and enforced
will address the problem of all vicious
dogs who attack people, Downey said.
Lancaster County Commissioner Jan
Gauger said the commissioners are
discussing a resolution that deals with
vicious dogs.
"Certainly the incidents concerning
pit bulls have brought the need of an
ordinance to mind,” Gauger said. "I
personally wouldn’t want to go in the
direction of a ban against pit bulls."
Sun and suds
Doug Carroll/Dally Nebraskan
Pranksters dumped soap into Broyhlll Fountain sometime Friday morning and the result was drifts of suds. Early
risers who walked past the fountain were treated to a billowing art form. Officials said the prank will cost $2,200 to
reE? 55 wl*1 two workers a day’s work. "It looks like snowdrifts,” freshman psychology major Charles Goodwin
said, I think It’s pretty neat." .7i
Gazers view stars
from tap of Ferguson
By Amy Edwards
and
Linda Holmes
Staff Reporters
People who want to wish upon a star
can see the balls of fire close up at a
variety of places in Lincoln.
Don Taylor, associate professor of
physics and astronomy, said elemen
tary astronomy classes at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln meet on Mon
days and Thursdays to look at the sky
from the roof of Ferguson Hall.
Taylor said the sessions are similar
to a laboratory. Students look through
telescopes positioned by graduate stu
dents and undergraduate teaching as
sistants and fill out a detailed question
naire about what they see.
Students can bring friends to the
sessions, but telescopes are limited,
Taylor said. As long as students can
complete their studies, no one will be
turned away, he said.
Taylor said September is a good
month to view Saturn in the early
evening and Jupiter around 11 p.m.
Taylor said there are no public ses
sions at Ferguson since viewers must
be supervised by a member of the
astronomy department. Taylor also said
Ferguson is not an ideal location for
viewing the sky because it is downtown
and the sky is too bright to allow view
ing of anything other than the brightest
planets.
The physics and astronomy depart
ments are building a lens for indoor
skygazing at Ferguson. Taylor said the
Minnich lens, named after the man who
donated the money and lens for the
telescope, will be mounted in the Min
nich astronomy resource center in Fer
guson.
The telescope has a 6-inch refracting
lens that will allow people to view the
southern sky without going outside.
Taylor said the telescope should be
—)
completed sometime this fall.
People who are not taking astron
omy courses won’t be left in the dark.
Jack Dunn, the planetarium coordi
nator for Mueller Planetarium and a
volunteer at Hyde Memorial Observa
tory in Lincoln, said September is a
good time to watch the sky because the
weather is ideal and the planets are in
a good position.
Dunn suggested using a sky calendar
to help locate the planets and constel
lations. Free calendars, issued by
Michigan State University, are availa
ble at the planetarium.
Dunn said he hopes to see an elec
tronic version of a sky calendar in the
Nebraska Union for students to see
what is in the sky any time of the year.
Mueler Planetarium shows stargaz
ing films monthly. This month, “More
than Meets the Eye" brings the sky to
an amateur’s level, showing what is
visible with binoculars or with the unaided
eye.
The show is presented at 2 p.m.
Tuesdays through Fridays in the domed
theater at the museum. In the domed
theater, the images appear three dimen
sional through laser beams or a series
of electronic impulses.
Hyde Memorial Observatory, one of
150 to 200 public planetariums in the
United States, will start its fall hours in
September, Dunn said.
The observatory, free to the public,
will be open from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturdays
and is run by volunteers. For a general
update of what is in the sky, call the
observatory at 471-7094.
FarmAid food sales
to pay for repairs
From Staff Reports
Profits from concession sales at the
Sept. 19 FarmAid III concert will pro
vide the basis for an estimated $1 mil
lion Memorial Stadium repair job, said
Gary Fouraker, athletic business man
ager for the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln.
Stadium repairs, such as fixing water
leaks from the balcony and replacing
expansion joints, have been needed for
a long time, Fouraker said. The athletic
department will have to raise from
other sources money to complete the
project, he said.
Fouraker estimated concessions pro
fits at $100,000.
“This is so different, we really don’t
have a lot to go on. We have no idea how
soon people are going to come or even if
the concert is going to start at 10
o’clock,” he said.
Some money from concessions will
go to FarmAid. Profits from concession
items donated to the concert will go to
FarmAid instead of UNL.
So far, ConAgra has donated between
8,000 and 9,000 pounds of hotdogs.
Wrap for the $10,000-worth of hotdogs
also was donated. Revenue from hotdog
sales will go directly to FarmAid.
The contract between UNL and Farm
Aid gives UNL full charge of con
cessions.
Both Fouraker and FarmAid officials
said they have no plans to encourage
other businesses to donate conces
sions.
Benson to become
interim director
of UNL research
John Benson, associate director of
institutional research and planning at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will
become interim director of the office
Sept. 1. The announcement was made
Wednesday by UNL Chancellor Martin
Massengale.
Benson will succeed Harry Allen,
UNL’s first director of institutional
research, who will retire today after 22
years as the university's research and
planning director.
During the 1986 fall semester, Ben
son was acting director of institutional
research while Allen was on leave serv
ing as an adviser to the Israeli Council
on Higher Education.
Benson has been a member of the
UNL faculty since 1962, first as assist
ant professor of architecture and then
associate professor since 1970.
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