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April 20,1989 University of Nebra ^ka-LincolnVol. 88 No. 142
ASUN senators vote down
bill to distribute condoms
By Ryan Steeves
Suff Reporter
By a vole of 9 to 21, ASUN
senators defeated an appro
priations bill to distribute
condoms to students through the
ASUN office.
Under the bill, introduced by Sen.
Julie Jorgensen of the College of Arts
& Sciences, the Association of Stu
dents of the University of Nebraska
would have made condoms and
health information about sexually
transmitted diseases available in its
office. The office is located on the
first floor of the Nebraska Union.
Graduate Sen. Kevin Williams
opposed the bill, saying it is not
AS UN’s job to provide and distribute
condoms.
But Jorgensen said students need
protection against diseases such as
AIDS. Thus, she said, university offi
cials must make condoms more read
ily available to students.
Jorgensen said ASUN would not
be promoting sexual intercourse by
passing the bill.
i m sorry uus onenus you per
sonally,” Jorgensen told senators.
“But I think we have to look at this in
a more realistic view.”
Jorgensen said 69 percent of stu
dents who voted in the 1989 ASUN
elections voted yes to a referendum
asking if condom machines should be
installed in UNL buildings.
Sen. Patrick Wyattof the Teachers
College said senators should ensure
that university officials provide con
doms. But ASUN should not take part
in the actual distribution, he said.
“I really don’t see this as a role of
ASUN,” Wyatt said.
Sen. Rochelle Slominski of the
College of Arts & Sciences said that
only 12 percent of UNL students
voted in the elections. Sixty-nine
percent of student voters represents a
small number of students when com
pared to the student population, Slo
minski said.
The condom issue is very per
sonal, she said. ASUN shouldn’t act
on such an issue, she said, because
many students who didn’t vote could
have strong opinions on it.
General Studies Sen. Steve Th
ompson said senators should remem
ber that the referendum didn’t re
ceive 100 percent support from the
student voters.
ASUN members should be careful
not to alienate any students by pass
ing the bill, Thompson said.
Sen. Thomas Massey of the Col
lege of Arts & Sciences challenged
Thompson to find an issue that all
students support. Massey said a ma
jority of voters is sufficient evidence
that voters support the idea.
Massey spoke in favor of the bill,
saying STDs arc a glaring problem
that need such a bold step.
Thompson said he agrees with the
premise of the bill.
“But I don’t support (increased
distribution of condoms) through the
ASUN office,’’ he said.
Jorgensen, quoting from a study
done by the Office of Health Educa
tion at Brown University, said con
doms and STD information should be
widely distributed on college cam
puses.
Currently, the University Book
store and the Health Center have
condoms for students. Jorgensen said
the Women’s Resource Center re
cently decided to provide condoms.
“For maximum effectiveness,”
the study states, “a long term, com
prehensive approach enlisting the
support and involvement of the
whole campus community is a must
to promote STD prevention ....”
A majority of colleges already
have condom machines installed
throughout their campus, Jorgensen
said.
Statewide marijuana hunt
to be done by air patrol
By Brad Kundquist
Suff Reporter
The Nebraska Civil Air Patrol
will flv reconnaissance mis
sions this summer in efforts to
spotcultivated marijuana fields state
wide.
The air patrol will join forces with
the National Guard in the Nebraska
State Patrol's “war on drugs,*’ said
Col. Richard Anderson of the Civil
Air Patrol.
The Civil Air Patrol was created
during World War II to spot subma
rines in U.S. coastal waters. For about
three years, he said, the Florida Air
Patrol has been used to spot boats and
planes bringing contraband into the
country.
However, Anderson said, Ne
braska will be the first state to use the
air patrol in the war on drugs
within the continental United Stales.
The Orr and Bush administrations
decided it would be beneficial to
expand the reconnaissance flights in
search of drugs, Anderson said, to
within the country’s interior.
The State Patrol approached the
Civil Air Patrol with this idea, he
said.
“These new missions," Anderson
said, “will be done on request (of the
State Patrol) and are only for surveil
lance and reporting."
He said the pilots will not be au
thorized to pursue vehicles and will
not be armed.
Lt. Dean Flechs, public affairs
officer for the Civil Air Patrol, said
these programs “mean a great deal"
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Flip, a former Omaha gang member, discusses his past relationship with the Bloods and the
Crips Wednesday night at the Malone Community Center
It’s too late in Omaha
Speaker: Gangs may spread
By Davkl G. Young
Staff Reporter__
It is too late to stop gangs in
Omaha, and the problem
may spread to Lincoln if
proper measures are not taken, said
BienGray, host ofKETVV Kalei
doscope,” a program that focuses
on Omaha’s black community.
Gray served as moderator for a
panel discussion on drug and gang
issues Wednesday at the Malone
Community Center. The panel
included three former members of
Omaha gangs, representatives of
the Lincoln Poiice Department and'
Car! Washington, director of die
Car! Washington Boxing Club and
Say No to Drugs youth program in
Omaha.
“Lincoln has been fortunate
enough to recognize the gang
problem exists,” Gray said. ^We
have to make decent jobs available
and we have to stop racism. If we
are not willing to do these things,
Lincoln is eventually going to suf
fer the same fate as Omaha.”
Washington said a large part of
Omaha’s problems stem from poor
relations between police and the
community. In some cases, police
harassment can push a “border
line” youth over the edge and
. cause him to join a drug gang.
“It’s not too uncommon to sec
some of these guys making $1,000
t day,” he said. “These are just
some of die little guys, 14 or 15
(years old). If you have a good
corner, you can make even more
than that ”
Flip, a 20-year-old former gang
member, said he began selling
drugs even earlier.
“I got started when 1 was about
10 or 11,” he said. “If I wanted to
steal something, if I wanted to bom
down someone’s house, I did
that.”
Flip, who would not disclose his
last name, said he quit the gang
after being involved in the shoot
ing of “an innocent person.”
“Experience tells you, 4I gotta
pull out of this or something might
happen to me.’ A lot of gang
members (were) falling off,” he
said.
Washington said one of the best
ways to stop gangs in Lincoln is to
identify the groups by the colors
tliey wear.
“If you see a group of kids on a
comer with red hats and red shirts
and whatever - it’s a good bet
they're in a gang,” he said.
As soon as members are identi
fied. they can be approached and
confronted about the alternatives
available to them, he said. Wash
ington said one alternative it when
he tries to get the youths involved
in his boxing club, or other com
munity organizations.
I Legislature denies funding requests for Morrill Hall
By Eric Pfanner
Staff Reporter
After the Nebraska Legisla
ture’s Appropriations Com
mittee denied funding re
quests of more than $2 million for
Morrill Hall Tuesday, museum Di
: rector Hugh Genoways said he
doesn’t know where the museum will
get the money to maintain its exhib
its.
The funding requests were in
cluded in two bills.
LB645, introduced by Sen. Don
Wesely of Lincoln, proposed $ 1 mil
lion in both 1989-90 and 1990-91 in
funding for exhibit renovation in
Morrill Hall, said Tim Becker,
Wesely’s legislative aide.
LB525 proposed $168,500 in
funding for Morrill Hall operating
costs, in addition to $98,000 for plan
ning for a Trailside Museum at Fort
Robinson, according to Kathy Teno
pir, the program analyst for the uni
versity.
The committee approved funding
for the Trailside Museum, but dented
the money for Morrill Hall. LB525
was introduced by Sen. Sandra Scof
ield of Chadron.
A “major problem” for Morrill
Hall will be the lack of operating
expenses, Genoways said.
“This could put the accreditation
of the museum in jeopardy," he said.
The American Association of Muse
ums will consider extending the ac
• creditation of the museum in 1992,
Genoways said.
The museum will try to get fund
ing for exhibit renovation through
several sources, Genoways said, in
cluding private funds and federal
grants, as well as the UNL budget
Federal funds, he said, will be
difficult to gel, since most grants
require at least equal matching funds
from private sources.
The Friends of the Museum are
helping to raise funds, he said. The
museum also received a $50,000
pledge from the UNL graduating
class of 1987.
But, Genoways said, he will
“continue to pursue the Legislature,
so that we can finish what we
started.”
Regardless of whether a funding
request is made in a legislative bill or
by the NU Board of Regents, the
decision to fund Morrill Hall still has
to be made by the Legislature,
Genoways said.
Therefore, he said, it doesn’t mat
ter who requests the money, since
“it’s still the same hand that feeds
us.”
In the meantime, he said, some
exhibits will-suffer during the build
ing renovation.
“Everything will be coated with
dust when we get through here,” he
said.
The paleobiology exhibit, for ex
ample, will need major renovation,
he said. Many other exhibits need to
be updated for the museum to be
accredited, he said.
Genoways said the museum will
work on renovating exhibits until
money runs out.