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Administrators, student criticize ioke issue
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
An April Fool's Day Daily Ne
braskan joke issue has sparked con
cerns from several University of
Nebraska-Lincoln administrators and
one student, but DN editors said the
criticism won’t affect the newspaper.
The annual joke issue caused three
state senators to write letters com
plaining about the issue. Doug Engh,
a University of Nebraska-Lincoln
graduate student, said he had thought
of starting a petition to get the DN
kicked out of the Nebraska Union.
But instead, Engh said he has
talked to several UNL administrators
about his concerns,The DN should be
kicked out of the union because it is
not serving the university community
in a responsible way, he said.
“The Nebraska Union is a real perk
for you guys. It keeps you on campus
Student considers petition to move DN offices
in a good location,” he said.
Engh said he has read the joke
issue since 1975, and this year’s was
the worst.
“It’s just not funny anymore,” he
said. “The joke issue has outlived its
time.”
John Peters, associate to the chan
cellor, said UNL Chancellor Martin
Massengale has expressed concern
about the propriety of the joke issue.
The chancellor’s office has received
15 to 20 complaints regarding the
issue, he said.
Peters said the DN Publications
Board should have a public hearing
on the issue.
DN Editor Mike Reilley said the
Board of Regents, UNL administra
tors and the Publications Board have
no control over the paper’s content.
Student editors are in full control, he
said.
“They cannot regulate the edito
rial content of our paper,” Reilley
said. “If they do, they’ll wind up in
court.
‘The bottom line is
that 23,000 stu
dents loved it.’
—Green
“There are no strings attached to
my wrists. 1 am no puppet.”
Joke issue editor Chuck Green said
he expected the issue to cause some
problems, but too much has been
made of it.
“The bottom line is that 23,000
students loved it,” he said.
Janies Griesen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said his office has also
received complaints about the issue.
Griesen said he plans to talk to DN
adviser Don Walton about the issue
and wants to gain a better understand
ing of the Publications Board’s role in
respect to the DN.
Walton said he is meeting with
Griesen in his role as liaison for the
DN with the chancellor’s office and
will report Griesen’s thoughts to
Reilley.
Union director Daryl Swanson
said he didn’t see the relationship
between criticism of the joke issue
and having the DN’s office in the
union.
“The Daily Nebraskan qualifies
for use of the union in the fact that it
is the student-fee-funded newspaper
of this university. They have as much
sanction as any other student organi
zation on campus,” he said.
“I perwnally disagree that the
space the Daily Nebraskan occupies
should in any way be held in ransom
for the editorial policy of the Daily
Nebraskan,” Swanson said.
Next year’s DN editor, Curt Wag
ner, said he plans to publish a joke
issue no matter how much pressure is
brought on him.
“I’m already starting to save things
for next year’s joke issue,” he said.
UNMC official suspended;
disruptive behavior charged
By Ryan Steeves
Staff Reporter
Gregg Davenport, director of
Minority Student Affairs at the Uni
versity of Nebraska Medical Center,
filed a second complaint with the
Nebraska Equal Opportunity Com
mission Wednesday after he was sus
pended from his job.
Davenport read a letter he received
Wednesday from Arnold Menning,
director of Student Services, staling
that Davenport was suspended be
cause of his disruptive behavior on
Tuesday. The brief letter that Daven
port read gave no mention of the
specific behavior that resulted in his
suspension.
Davenport said he has no idea what
behavior got him suspended.
“Really, 1 can’t explain what I did
that’s so disruptive,” he said.
Menning; Martin Callaghan, in
terim director of Human Resources at
UNMC; and Charles Andrews, Chan
cellor of UNMC, would not comment
on the suspension.
On Jan. 6, UNMC officials found
Davenport guilty of harassing his
secretary, Jennifer Hayes. Hayes al
leged that Davenport overworked her
after she told Davenport that she
would no longer type his resumes.
Davenport filed a grievance on
Jan. 8, 1988, to get harassment
charges against him dropped. Since
then, Davenport alleges that UNMC
officials have falsified information
pertaining to the grievance. UNMC
officials lack information to build a
case, Davenport said. As a result, he
said, they have to fabricate it.
Davenport said a harassment
complaint made last week by
Vivyonnc Ewing, coordinator of stu
dent activities within Minority Af
fairs, and recently fabricated student
complaints are two attempts to build
a case against him.
Davenport said he thinks he was
suspended to provide UNMC with a
stronger case.
“It doesn’t surprise me,” Daven
port said about the suspension. “If I
walk in a room I’m disruptive.
They’ll pick anything.”
Davenport said he filed the com
plaint with the EOC because he was
not informed of specific disruptive
behavior that resulted in the suspen
sion and because of a recent low
evaluation of his work.
Davenport said he received an
evaluation of his work Tuesday that
was considerably lower than his pre
vious evaluation. He said the low
evaluation was unwarranted because
his work has been satisfactory.
Fred Franklin, Davenport’s attor
ney, said he and Davenport will pro
ceed with the next step of the griev
ance process rather than take the case
to court. He said the suspension, like
the previous charges, lacks founda
tion.
“There are no facts made known to
me that would justify the suspen
sion,” Franklin said.
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Jons Notes receives criticism for poor quality
By Anne Mohri
Senior Reporter
Jon’s Notes needs more quality control and
the typists need more supervision, said Bob
Hitchcock, visiting assistant professor of an
thropology at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln.
Although the qual ity of the notes depends on
the note-takers, Hitchcock said, part of it also
depends on the typists. There have been com
plaints of misspellings, incorrect information
and disorganized notes.
Jon Donlan, owner and founder of the note
taking service, said he is confident in his note
takers. He said his note-takers have taken the
classes they are taking notes for, and they know
what material is important.
Margie Osborne, anthropology graduate
student and note-taker for Anthropology 110,
said students pay for Jon’s Notes and they
should get quality and accuracy.
“They’re getting neither,” she said. “Not
consistently.”
The typists do not always organize the notes
correctly, she said, making the notesconfusing.
Osborne said she underlines words when the
professor does and often they are not under
lined in the Jon’s Notes.
Sometimes there are blank spaces in notes
where diagrams were supposed to be, she said.
And when diagrams are included in the notes,
they are sloppy, Osborne said.
Last semester, she said, important material
was randomly left out of the notes so additional
pages would not be needed.
“That sort of pissed us off,” she said.
Osborne said she had a long talk with Donlan
and told him she was not happy with the quality
of the notes sold to students.
The poor quality, Osborne said, makes her
look like a fool and it doesn’t make the profes
sor look good either.
“It reflects back on us like we’re bad note
takers,” she said.
Donlan said there are errors in Jon’s Notes
just as there are errors in newspapers.
“It is virtually impossible to be error-free all
of the time,’’ he said. “We cannot guarantee 100
percent accuracy all of the time, but for the most
part these are quality notes.”
There were two instances where the notes
were incorrect, he said. He said the notes were
retyped and distributed to the students free.
Mistakes are going to occur, Donlan said,
but he has received very few complaints.
“We haven’t had any complaints from any
students,” he said.
For some students, Donlan said, Jon’s Notes
are better than their own notes.
Osborne said Donlan has made an attempt to
make the quality better by hanging signs in the
office telling typists to be more careful. But
nothing has changed, she said.
Osborne said when the note-takers give their
notes to Donlan, they lose all rights to them.
That they have lost rights to the notes does not
give Donlan the right to leave information out,
she said.
Osborne said she spent four hours rewriting
some anthropology notes she had taken in class
because they were messy. The retyped notes
produced by Jon’s Notes were completely in
correct, she said.
She said she uses dashes and indentions
instead of numbers and letters in outline form.
The typists typed the notes in outline form,
making them unclear, Osborne said. Donlan
said these were the notes that were retyped and
redistributed for free.
Osborne said Hitchcock, whose class she
takes notes for, likes her work.
She said she consults Hitchcock’s notes and
talks with him after class toclarify questions on
material or to fill in statistics or quotes.
Stan Parks, an anthropology research assis
tant, said he has had similar problems with
Jon’s Notes. Parks lakes notes for Anthropol
ogy 110, taught by assistant professor Douglas
Bamforth and instructor Nancy Hamblin.
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