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WEATHER: Monday, windy and
colder with a 70 percent chance of
showers. High in the lower to middle
40s Monday night, a 50 percent
chance of rain turning into light snow
Low around 30. Tuesday, partly
cloudy with increasing cloudiness
and wind later in the day High around
40
November 16, 1987
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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I News Digest.Page 2
I Editorial.Page 4
I Sports.Page 6
I Entertainment.Page 8
| Classified.Page 11
Vol. 87 No. 58
ASUN
may rejoin
NSSA
By Dorothy Pritchard
Senior Reporter
ASUN representatives attended
the Nebraska State Student Associa
tion meeting this weekend in Wayne
and will vote — possibly at
Wednesday’s ASUN meeting —
whether the University of Nebraska
Lincoln will rejoin the organization.
Mike MeMorrow, chairman of the
NSSA Board of Directors, said mem
ber and non-member schools were
invited to the meeting to provide their
input on changing the name and
constitution of NSSA. The only
member schools who attended were
the University of Nebraska at Omaha
and Wayne State College. Peru State
College withdrew its membership in
NSSA last week, and representatives
from the only other member school,
Chadron State College, didn’t attend
the meeting. Representatives from
Kearney State College and UNL at
tended the meeting as observers with
no voting power.
MeMorrow said that although
NSSA will retain its previous mission
— lobbying for students across the
stale — the organization is different.
The name of the organization will be
changed to the Nebraska Student
Interests Coalilion/Nebraska State
Student Association to reflect its
internal changes.
unc oi me cnanges, proposed Dy
lobbyist Shawn Ilg of the Association
of Students of the University of Nc
braska-Govcmmcnt Liaison Commit
tee, is to replace the Legislative As
sembly with an cxecutivccommission
to examine and recommend policy to
the Board of Directors.
The commission will consist of
four students from each school, re
gardless of the size of the school.
Under the old guidelines, the number
of students involved depended on the
size of the school.
“From the smallest to the biggest
school, everybody wanted the same
thing — equal and fair representation
for the student,” Me Morrow said.
Me Morrow said another change,
also proposed by the UNL delegation,
involves financing for NSIC/NSSA.
Because only two schools at the meet
ing had voting power, the group de
cided not to vote on a set student-fee
amount but to let each school decide
for itself.
Me Morrow said that there may not
be a fee.
Each school that decides to join
NSIC/NSSA will decide how much
money they want to spend on the
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Public Works employee Tim Young, sprays trees in front of the State Theatre, 1415 "O" Street. The cleaning efforts
preclude chemical spraying that will lessen the torment of starlings roosting in the trees along "0" Street.
City wants birds to roost no more
ms
By Gretchen Boehr
Staff Reporter
City employees added some
spray of their own to the mist Sun
day night to get rid of starlings and
sparrows downtown.
City employees and off-duty
firefighters used high pressure
hoses to spray Bradford pear trees
lining both sides of O Street.
Jim Johnson, city arborist, said
the object of the washing was to get
rid of the birds* scent, along with
their droppings, so they won’t
roost in the trees anymore.
A few spectators watched while
the firefighters on both sides of the
street sprayed the trees and part of
the sidewalk.
The hoses were attached to a
fire truck parked in the middle of O
Street. A street cleaner removed
the mud and wet leaves washed
into the street by the power hoses.
During the power washing, O
Street was closed between 16th
and 9th streets from 6 p.m. until 9
p.m.
About five patrol cars rerouted
0 Street traffic during the wash
ing.
Weather permitting, city em
ployees today will apply a chemi
cal called Roost No More to the
trees, said Sgt. James Thoms of the
Lincoln Police Department.
Johnson said Roost No More is
a chemical which burns the birds’
feet when they roost on the
branches. The chemical won’t
harm the birds but will make them
relocate, he said.
Last year the birds became the
focus of many complaints by
downtown businesses and shop
pers. This year there seems to be
fewer complaints.
Linda Justice, an employee at
Avant Card, 1325 O St., said the
sometimes noisy birds leave their
feces all over cars and bikes in the
area.
But representatives from other
businesses, such as Osco Drug,
Lillie King and Nooner’s, said the
birds are not a problem.
Johnson said people com
plained about the birds last year
because there wasn’t much snow.
“Since we didn’t have snow
covering the sidewalks,” he said,
“the droppings were more notice
able.”
Some downtown businesses
cleaned the sidewalks in front of
their property and some did not,
Johnson said. The Downtown
Lincoln Association is in charge of
cleaning (he sidewalks.
Roost No More costs $21 a
gallon and last year the city pur
chased 140 gallons, Johnson said.
Enough Roost No More was left
over from last year to use this fall,
he said.
Roost No More is scarce be
cause many other cities are using it
to solve similar bird problems.
Last year Lincoln had to order the
repellent from Chicago, Johnson
said.
Johnson said the repellent
worked last year, but the birds re
located to branches or buildings
where the spray had missed. Since
the city is spraying earlier this
year, before many birds migrate to
downtown trees, Johnson said the
chemical will be more effective.
The city spent $2,710 to spray
the trees with repellent last year, he
said.
Complaints about the birds..
from the public as well as down
town businesses resulted in city
action.
Before applying the repellent
city employees tried to scare the
birds away by placing fake owls
and aluminum octopi in the trees,
he said. But the birds roosted on
top of them.
The city wants the birds gone by
the Dec. 5 Star City Parade,
Johnson said.
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AIDS forum recommends compassion
By Amy Edwards
Senior Reporter
If a child in Nebraska gets AIDS, and his
behavior doesn’t threaten other students, the
child has the right to attend public schools, said
Dr. Gregg Wright, director of the Nebraska
Stale Department of Health, at an AIDS forum
Friday night.
Richard Shugrue, a Creighton University
law professor who also spoke at the forum, said
parents arc understandably concerned, but il a
child has been shown to be medically safe, he
has a right to an education.
“There is no right in the Constitution which
protects hysteria, Shugrue said. “However,
there arc rights which protect education and
discrimination.”
The program, “AIDS — Living Through the
Epidemic,” was broadcast live on the Nebraska
ETV Network. It gave Nebraskans the opportu
nity to express their fears and concerns about
the social and ethical issues that Nebraska is
facing with a growing number of AIDS pa
tients. The program, at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln College of Law, included vide
otaped segments.
A panel of experts representing health,
education, government and medical views
answered questions about the availability of
health care for people with AIDS, who will pay
for it, confidentiality issues, education about
the disease and public views of AIDS patients.
The Rev. Ginny Wagcncr; Shugrue; Wright;
Joanne Owcns-Nauslar, stale health and physi
cal education director of the stale Department
of Education; Dr. Stephan Carveth, a Lincoln
cardiovascular surgeon; and Sen. Don Wcscly,
chairman of the Nebraska Legislature’s Health
and Human Services Committee, presented
their views and exchanged ideas with the audi
ence.
Wright said there arc 39 reported AIDS
eases in Nebraska, and the number is doubling
every 15 months. By 1991, the state will have
3,(XX) to 6,000 AIDS eases, he said.
Wcscly said state health statutes need to be
updated to protect confidentiality so that
people arc willing to be tested voluntarily for
the AIDS virus. If a mandatory testing law were
passed, people would be “driven underground"
and the epidemic would spread further, he said.
Carveth disagreed. He said the disease is
spreading because of confidentiality and ano
nymity. He said people need to be honest w ith _
their doctors to ensure they get good medical
care. Ifdoclorsdon’t know patients have AIDS,
they can’t properly treat them.
“An AIDS carrier who donates a pint of
blood is guilty of first-degree murder,"Carveth
said.
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