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September 15, 1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 87 No. 14
Legal action pending against sorority
By Kip Fry
Staff Reporter
Legal action is pending against a
University of Nebraska-Lincoln sorority
for allegedly reneging on a verbal
agreement to participate in a fund
raising project, said the owner of a
local plant store.
Joseph A. Lococo, co-owner of Green
Fingers Greenhouse, 1544 Comhusker
Highway, said he had a verbal agree
ment with Kappa Alpha Theta sorority
to supply all the plants and split the
profits for the annual Plantasia sale
today in the Nebraska Union.
Last week, however, Lococo was not
ified that the sorority had decided to
use Oak Creek Plants and Flowers,
10th and Van Dorn streets, to do the
same job, Lococo said.
Green Fing, rs has about $5,000 in
‘Green Fingers
just assumed that
we would keep
them.’ — Cowan
vested in the project Lococo said,
including three truckloads of plants.
“We’re sitting here with our necks
stuck out,’’ Lococo said.
John Christenson, co-owner of Oak
Creek Plants and Flowers, said the
store will supply the plants for the sale,
but he said he did not know the details
of the controversy.
Lococo said that when he and his
partner, Edward Lococo, bought Green
Fingers last February, the previous
owner gave them the impression that
the Lococos would supply the plants
for Plantasia. Lococo said they learned
of the changes last week.
However, the Kappa Alpha Theta
president said the problem stemmed
primarily from a lack of communication.
‘‘There was no contractual agreement,”
said Patrice Cowan, president of Kappa
Alpha Theta.
“When we first contacted Green
Fingers, they seemed to be very unor
ganized, and didn’t have any idea what
it was,” she said. “So we decided to get
someone else."
Lococo maintains that when the sor
ority contacted them in June, they said
that nothing was needed in writing
because Green Fingers had always
supplied plants for the project.
But when Lococo tried to get back in
touch with the sorority during the
summer, no one ever returned his calls,
he said. He made all the arrangements
with the Nebraska Union where the
event was to be held, he said. Lococo
said the sorority offered to let them
share the responsibilities with Oak
Creek Plants and Flowers, and he
reluctantly agreed. He then received
word last Wednesday that Kappa Alpha
Theta had decided to work entirely
with Oak Creek.
In the process of negotiations, Lococo
said that he repeatedly tried to contact
Cowan. When he finally did contact
her, Lococo said, Cowan told him that
she had never promised to call back.
“At that point I realized I was deal
ing with juveniles,” Lococo said.
Presently, Lococo said that he is
attempting to mediate the situation so
that Green Fingers can be involved in
the project to some extent.
Cowan said the sorority sought legal
counsel in the case, and was told that
no owner can pass on something which
has been done solely with a verbal agree
ment, such as the case with Green
Fingers.
"Green Fingers just assumed that we
would keep them,” Cowan said, "but
we’ve never said ‘yes.’”
Half of the profits from sales will be
sent to the Institute of Logopedics in
Wichita, Kan., which helps hearing and
speech-impaired children. The other
half will be kept by the business supp
lying the plants, she said.
GLSA faculty adviser Crompton
says lack of leadership stifles group
By Lisa Twiestmeyer
Staff Reporter
A lack of leadership is the main problem
facing the Gay/Lesbian Student Association, the
group’s faculty adviser said.
Louis Crompton, professor and graduate chair
of English and GLSA adviser, said the lack of a
strong leader for the group may be the reason few
students have shown an interest in GLSA.
Former GLSA president Rodney Bell III was a
unique leader with much energy and devotion,
Crompton said. Since Bell graduated in May,
other students have not been able to devote
much time to leading the group, he said.
“Strong leadership is rare anywhere,” Cromp
ton said, “but here it will be especially rare. It
takes courage to be a leader of this group."
Crompton said he estimates there are at least
1,000 homosexuals on campus. But of this
number, he said, only a handful are willing to
take an active part in the group. Many are shy or
intimidated and would be afraid to put their
names down as officials of the group, he said.
But even though only four people attended the
GLSA organizational meeting, Crompton said he
does not feel the group is in danger of folding.
“This really isn’t a new problem," Crompton
said. “I’m sure there will be students around to
keep the group going. It’s still quite early in the
year."
In the Lincoln-Omaha area, 39 groups provide
support for homosexuals, Crompton said, includ
ing religious, social and AIDS support groups.
With such a broad spectrum of activities, there
will always be groups for homosexuals to turn to,
he said.
Lincoln area resources include:
• Gay/Lesbian Alcoholics Anonymous
• Capital City Couples
• Gay/Lesbian Information and Support Line
• Lambda Resource Center
• Lesbian Support Group, Women’s Resource
Center
• Lincoln Legion of Lesbians
• Ministry in Human Sexuality
• New Directions Center
• Open Door Ministry
• Parents/Friends of Lesbians and Gays
• Third Culture
GLPC chairperson needed
By Chris Allerheiligen
Staff Reporter
A University Program Council search for a
chairperson for the Gay/Lesbian Program Com
mittee has been put on hold because no applica
tions have been received.
Tentatively, UPC was to announce the chair
person last Friday, but no applications were
submitted for the position, said Kim Hobson,
UPC spokesperson.
Hobson said there was not a lack of interest in
the position, because applications were picked
up, but, since the idea of GLPC was formed last
November, Hobson said, interest has declined.
Hobson said some of the students may not
have had the time to be chairperson.
Advertisements for the position ran two or
three days in the Daily Nebraskan this fall, Hob
son said, but they may have come out too close to
the application deadline or some students may
have not seen the advertisements.
When GLPC was presented to UPC by the
Gay/Lesbian Student Association, the idea met
with student criticism. Some students argued
that GLPC would cater to a small number of
students but would be using student fees.
Although GLSA brought the idea for the com
mittee to UPC, Hobson said, they are two separ
ate organizations.
UPC approved GLPC in January 1987 on a
one-year basis. The committee would provide
programs on gay and lesbian topics and bringgay
and lesbian speakers and artists to campus.
The committee was given $882 from UPC’s
1987-88 budget.
The position is open to all University of
Nebraska Lincoln students. The chairperson
would be responsible for planning activities and
appointing committees within GLPC.
“There are no qualifications regarding gender
or sexual preference or lifestyle or year in
school,” Hobson said.
Hobson said UPC has to decide what it wants
to do about the committee.
"It is undecided and undetermined where it
(GLPC) will go. . . It’s too early to know,” Hob
son said.
Doug Carroll/Daily Nebraskan
Around and around
A grounds department worker makes his way through Memorial Stadium
stands Monday morning. Groundskeepers were working to clean the
stadium after Satuday's football game.
John Treves, a graduate pre-med major, said ROTO cleans the big stuff
up the Sunday after a football game, but it usually takes the grounds
department until Thursday to get the stadium clean.
“There's a lot of peanuts,” he said.
Law College professor supports Bork, says attacks unfounded
By Amy Edwards
Senior Reporter
Robert Bork, who begins facing the Senate
Judiciary Committee today, is a conservative
who has followed precedent in all of the cases he
has presided over, according to a report released
Monday by the Center for Judicial Studies.
In response to attacks on Bork, the center
studied Bork’s record and found that he has
supported the majority views as a judge on the
Washington l).C. Circuit Court of Appeals, said a
a contributor to the report.
The contributor, Richard Duncan, a professor
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of
Law, said attacks on Bork by liberal groups are
unfounded.
Bork has written more than 100 nuyority deci
sions and voted with the majority in more than
400 cases, Duncan said. Ninety percent of the
cases Bork worked on were decided with a major
ity vote, Duncan said. None of these decisions
has been reversed, he said.
Bork has been the focus of many attacks from
liberal groups since he was nominated to the
Supreme Court by President Reagan.
Bork has been opposed by the American Civil
Liberties Union, the National Women’s Law Cen
ter, People for the American Way and many other
liberal organizations.
The American Bar Association said Bork was
“well qualified" for a position on the Supreme
Court.
Members of the ABA’s standing committee
made the rating after a divided vote in which 10
members voted Bork to be “well qualified," four
members said he was "not qualified" and one
voted "not opposed."
The threat Bork poses as a nominee is not that
of an extremist, Duncan said. Left wing organi
zations that are "making a lot of noise" about
Bork cannot support their accusations, he said.
Bork's record speaks for itself and supports his
nomination, Duncan said.
Although Bork is conservative, Duncan said,
his appointment to the Supreme Curt would not
sway the court’s decisions to conserv at ive views.
"It is not possible for one person to sway
views," Duncan said. "1 think what we’ll see is a
balanced court relumed to interpreting laws
instead of crediting new ones."