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Sports: Schlesinger wins
Nissen —Page 13.
Orr rejects stipend bill
UNL and regents should review it, she says
By Lisa Donovan
Staff Reporter
and Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Gov. Kay Or Wednesday pocket
vetoed LB 1226, a bill that would have
paid stipends to University of Ne
braska-Lincoln football players if
four other states in the Big Eight
conference adopted similar bills.
In a letter to the president, speaker
and members of the Legislature, On
said she was returning the bill without
her signature and objections.
“I think the university and the
regents need to review it,” Orr said.
Doug Panott, Kay Orr’s commu
nications director, said the governor
thinks UNL officials and the regents
need to decide whether the bill should
be presented to the NCAA.
“She thinks it should be done
through the university and shouldn’t
be done through state law,” Parrott
said. “At least, that’s how I interpret
it.”
“They (regents) haven’t done
anything in all these years,” “said
Sen. Ernie Chambers, sponsor of
LB 1226. “They’re not going to start
now.”
Chambers said he thinks On
yielded to pressure from the NU ath
letic department
“I’m undaunted,” Chambers said.
“and I’ll be back next year.”
Chambers said he was upset with
Nebraska football coach Tom
Osborne and athletic director Bob
Devaney because neither said any
thing about the bill until its reconsid
eration.
“They thought if the bill was en
acted it would be unfair to the other
athletic programs,” Chambers said.
‘They thought if the
bill was enacted it
would be unfair to
the other athletic
programs.’
—Chambers
Chambers said he wanted to sec if
the university gives the same benefits
to the football team, women’s athletic
departments and other athletic de
partments.
“I’m going to be a moral broom
over there and clean up some of the
dirt in the current programs,” Cham
bers said.
_ Chambers called Osborne
“wimpy.”
“He was one of the original people
who thought the players should get
additional compensation besides
room, board, books and et cetera,” he
said.
Osborne said he supported Orr’s
decision on the bill.
“Ultimately, she’s got all the facts
at her disposal,” Osborne said.
“There’s all kinds of factions, all
kinds of things to consider, and I’m
sure she’s made a good decision.
“If it had gone the other way, we’d
say the same thing.”
Osborne said the main problem in
getting this type of legislation ap
proved by the NCAA is gaining uni
fied agreement among the 101 Divi
sion I colleges and universities across
the country.
“The thing we’ve got to under
stand is that the NCAA is us,”
Osborne said. “We keep talking about
fighting, the NCAA, but it isn’t like
the NCAA is a group of people down
in Kansas City thinking up a bunch of
crazy rules.”
Osborne said Wednesday after
noon that he hadn’t spoken to Orr
about her decision, before or after it
was made.
“I felt like she had enough on her
mind without getting into that,” he
said.
“I know the governor — and 1
think she’s a wise person, and I cer
tainly respect her decision,” Osborne
said. “I didn’t want to make her life
any more difficult than it already is.”
AS UN names student lobbyist, GLC chairman,
resolves to thank those raising faculty salaries
By Lee Rood
Senior Reporter
Members of the Association of
Students of the University of Ne
braska approved the 1988-89 Gov
ernment Liaison Committee Chair
man and student lobbyist Wednesday
night.
Bryan Hill, a sophomore political
science and pre-law major, was
named GLC chairman.
Hill, a member of Alpha Tau
Omega fraternity and former ASUN
senator, was a page at the Nebraska
Legislature this year and an intern for
state Sen. Gary Hannibal of Omaha
last year.
Hill said his goals for GLC next
year include increasing membership
within the student lobbying group and
the number of students in contact with
their state senators.
Debbie Fiddelke, a sophomore
advertising and political science
major, was elected student lobbyist
for UNL.
Fiddelke, a member of Alpha Chi
Omega sorority, was elected vice
chairman of GLC in February. Fid
delke is also secretary and treasurer of
the College Republicans and a cam
paign worker for Hal Daub in his race
for the U.S. Senate.
In other business, senators passed
a resolution thanking Gov. Kay Orr,
the Legislature, members of the Uni
versity of Nebraska Board of Regents
and the students of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln for their efforts
and success in raising UNL staff and
faculty salaries.
Keeping with a campus-wide
trend, senators also voted to prohibit
smoking in ASUN meetings.
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Libby
York representing the College of
Journalism, said smoke in the meet
ings bothers people who wear con
tacts and makes others in the room un
comfortable.
York said UNL administrators will
prohibit smoking in meetings in July,
unless a group votes to allow it.
CB A curriculum will remain intact
By London Bridge
Staff Reporter
Jerry Petr, associate dean of the
College of Business Administration,
said he supports the move to a core of
liberal- and general-education
courses for University of Nebraska
Lincoln students.
Although the business college is
not planning to change its current
curriculum, it supports the work of the
seven subcommittees that are work
ing on models for proposed courses,
Petr said.
Because business is not a targeted
area of concentration in the seven
subcommittees, the current courses in
the business college will not change.
Petr said he is enthusiastic about
the development of a common educa
tional experience for students in the
business college as well as other col
leges.
As chairperson of the culture and
society subcommittee of the
Chancellor’s Commission on Gen
eral and Liberal Education, Petr said
the committee is attempting to de
velop an interdisciplinary, broad
scale, multidepartmental concentra
tion in social sciences.
Within three semesters, Petr said,
the committee would like to offer
pilot courses in social sciences on a
trial basis. At this point, these courses
have not been developed, he said.
Although business students cur
rently must take 36 credit hours in
math, composition, and social and
natural sciences to satisfy their lib
eral-arts requirement, Petr said, they
can choose from many classes.
“Instead of picking from a large
cafeteria of courses, we’d (committee
members) like students to pick
courses soon to be generated by the
seven subcommittees,” he said.
Petr said a general education could
create an academic community
where people will have the opportu
nity to talk about a curriculum that
many share.
Ideally, he said, he would like
engineering, business and agriculture .
students, for example, to be able to
share their academic experiences
through interdisciplinary education.
“Every student should have a
strong liberal-arts component to their
education. I hope general education
will strengthen that,” he said.
It will be a richer college experi
ence if all students take interdiscipli
nary courses, he said.
Petr said he likes the idea of a
shared educational experience be
cause “it provides a greater focus for
a student's education and replaces the
scattered diversity that now exists for
the students.”
“We don’t want to put students in
an academic straitjacket,” Petr said.
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Eric Gragory/Daily Nabraskan
A Lincoln police officer removes evidence from a car perked
at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house. The woman was found shot
in the car.
Woman in good condition
after self-inflicted wound
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
and Jane Hirt
Staff Reporter
A young woman attempted sucide
by shooting herself Wednesday after
noon and was taken by ambulance to
the hospital after a man transporting
her stopped in the Sigma Phi Epsilon
parking lotto phone in the injury, said
Lt. Allen Soukup of the Lincoln Po
lice Department
The woman, 28, sustained a
wound to the front of her chest, said
Lt. Ron Bruder of LPD. The woman
was in good condition after surgery
Wednesday night, he said.
Police would not release the name
of the woman Wednesday night, but
said she was not a University of
Nebraska-Lincoln student
The weapon used was a small
raliber handgun that was later found
in the car, he said.
Bruder said the Lincoln police
took the call at about 3:15 p.m. The
woman was found in the passenger
seat of a 1974 white Ford Mercury
parked in the Sigma Phi Epsilon fra
ternity parking lot, 601N. 16th St, he
said.
The woman, who was still con
scious, was taken by ambulance to
Lincoln General Hospital, he said.
Glen Thomas, staff associate of
the Lutheran Student Center, said he
was sitting in his office at about 3:15
p.m. when a man walked in and said
he needed an ambulance.
When Thomas asked why the man
needed an ambulance, Thomas said
the man replied, “A girl shot herself.”
Thomas said he called 911 and left
the building with the man and walked
up to the car.
The woman’s eyes were open and
she looked dazed, Thomas said. The
woman had a small bullet hole on the
shoulder and blood was dried around
the wound, he said.
The man went with the police
willingly immediately afterward,
Thomas said.
Scott Miller, a freshman member
of Sigma Phi Epsilon, was also a
witness. Miller said he was playing
catch in the driveway when die car
pulled up.
Miller said he and another member
of the fraternity were going to tell the
man not to park in the fraternity’s
private lot, but the man said he would
‘‘just be a second.”
Miller said the man got out of the
car and went into the Lutheran Stu
dent Center. Miller said he saw the
woman in the car, and she was sitting
upright. Fire trucks and police arrived
soon afterward, he said.
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