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Local abortion activists prepare to battle
By Jana Pedersen
Staff reporter
Both pro-choice and pro-life activists are
preparing for a lengthy battle during
next year’s session of the Nebraska
Legislature.
The recent Supreme Court ruling on a Mis
souri abortion law has created an opening for
new restrictions in Nebraska abortion statutes,
and at least one pro-life senator plans to pursue
the issue.
“I’m very pleased with the ruling,’’ Sen.
Bernice Labedz of Omaha said. “I think it was
a victory for the unborn child.’’
Currently, Nebraska state law allows a
woman to have an abortion in either the first or
second trimester of her pregnancy.
The recent Supreme Court ruling could
limit second trimester abortions by allowing
states to require certain tests after 20 weeks of
pregnancy . Doctors would give the tests before
an abortion is performed to determine if the
fetus could survive outside the mother’s
womb.
Labedz said she was encouraged by the
Supreme Court decision but thought its impact
won’t be felt in Nebraska,for some time.
Christine Font, director of Planned Parent
hood of Lincoln, agreed that the issue will not
be resolved quickly.
Font said she was angered arid disappointed
with the Supreme Court decision because it
conflicted with the 1973 Roe vs. Wade case,
which legalized abortion.
Sen. Dave Landis of Lincoln, who said he is
pro-choice in his political outlook, said he
wasn’t surprised by the decision and expects to
see a lot of legislative time devoted to the issue
next year.
“I’d expect that the anti-choice force will
have a bill pushing to the limits state regula
tions over abortions,’’ he said.
But Font said a newly organized Nebraska
pro-choice coalition could make changing the
Nebraska abortion statute difficult
Labedz said she already is working with
volunteer attorneys to develop some type of
restrictive legislation that she will introduce in
January.
Another abortion-related bill, LB769,
which Labedz sponsored this year, will be
brought up again early in next year’s session,
she said.
The biil, which failed to pass before the end
of this year’s session, would require parental
notification before an abortion could be per
formed on a minor.
Labedz said one of three abortion cases the
Supreme Court is scheduled to look at in Octo
ber deals with the parental notification issue.
Labedz said she hopes a decision on that
case will relieve some senators’ concerns
about its constitutionality and allow the legis
lature to pass LB769 next year.
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Spire challenges
legitimacy
of KSC transfer
By Cindy Wostrel
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska Supreme Court
will decide if the already
passed LB247 would legally
add Kearney State College to the
University of Nebraska system.
Nebraska Attorney General
Robert Spire petitioned the court
June 30 to consider whether the trans
fer of KSC’s governance to the NU
Board of Regents from the Nebraska
State Colleges Board of Trustees
would require a constitutional
amendment.
Spire said the issue is strictly a
legal one, not a matter of fact. Spire
said he believes KSC eventually will
become part of NU, but said the inte
gration must be done legally.
Spire maintains that since the state
constitution says that KSC is to be
governed by the Board of Trustees, it
would require a constitutional
amendment, not simply an act of the
legislature, to strip KSC’s govern
ance from the board.
On the other side of the issue, he
said, are those who contend that this
is too literal an interpretation of the
law, and that a legislative act would
be sufficient to transfer KSC’s gov
ernance to the NU regents.
Kearney State College will be
come a part of the University system
by July 1, 1991, as provided for in
LB247, if the court decides an
amendment is not required or if a
constitutional amendment is ap
proved by that time.
If the Nebraska Supreme Court
decides that the transfer requires a
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Arlen Heider appears to be surrounded by a galaxy of
lights as he sands the racquetball courts in the student
recreation center. Heider said the courts should be
finished in two or three weeks.
UNL salary increases
split by administration
B-line employee says expectations not met
By Emily Rosenbaum
Suff Reporter
Some managerial/professional
staff members at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln will
receive lower than expected salary
increases, said Marlon “Buster”
Griffing, editor on the curriculum
development staff within the Depart
ment of Independent Study.
“I have a problem with the way
the increase is being presented to the
public,” Griffing said.
Salary guidelines presented to the
NU Board of Regents included an
8.22 percent increase for all manage
rial/professional employees.
The administration conducted a
study of managerial/professional
employees to assign classifications to
various jobs. Salary' deficiencies
were determined by assigning mini
mum and maximum salaries for these
jobs.
Griffing said all managerial/pro
fessional staff members with satis
factory job ratings will receive at
least a 4 percent increase. Those de
termined to have salary deficiencies
will receive more.
According to a letter sent to staff
members by Chancellor Martin Mas
sengale, 2.81 percent of the 8.22 per
cent increase will be used to correct
deficiencies in managerial and pro
fessional staff members’ salaries.
Deans and directors will distribute
the remainder based on a staff mem
ber’s performance.
The average increase for manage
rial/professional employees is actu
ally S.41 percent, Griffing said.
Griffing said that not much atten
tion has been given to the raise for El
line (managerial/professional) em
ployees because their jobs often are
overlooked.
B-line employees do not have the
high visibility of A-line employees
(faculty and administration), he said.
As a result, Griffing said, many
people might assume all B-line em
ployees are receiving a 8.22 percent
pay increase.
‘ ‘The adjustment (2.81 percent) is
being made at the expense of all B
line (managerial/professional) em
ployees,” he said.
If the legislature had approved a
larger salary increase for UNL em
ployees, then the UNL administra
tion would not have had to cut the
expected salary to 5.41 percent,
Griffing said.
He added that the UNL admini
stration is not to be blamed for the
lower-than-expected raise.
Attempts to reach Chancellor
Martin Masscngale by phone for
comment were unsuccessful.