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Tk "T" "fl | WEATHER index B^Ak ■ Eh H Thursday, winter storm watch advisory, blustery I ^^k I 1 mgm iHf atfBBl) m J9"1 and cold with snow and blowing snow, 3-6 inches News.2 ^Bk B gm n 8Wr^Bk w ^Bk «T I fjffl rim possible, high in the low-20s, northwest wind 15- Editorial.4 iBk 1 BB" " m am sm -JEBl bBUBL JB BB Is 25 miles per hour and gusty. Thursday night, Diversions.5 l|Sk§* BR SI Jp $S BMpMBjk BB ■ blustery with diminishing snow, low around 10 Sports 17 ^Rn UV mlL By IB m M ■ Wm ^Hk MB JH fi|| BR Triday, blustery with morning flurries, decreasing Classifieds.18 ^R| gdHki ^BBkiBBl^BL»gflL» HL j Clouds and wind in the afternoon, high around 20. February 15,1990_University of Nebraska-Lincoln_Vol 89 No £& Student leaders support right to serve alcohol By Jennifer O’Cilka Staff Reporter Student leaders Wednesday night passed a resolution to urge the university to allow student organizations to serve alco hol at on-campus events and func tions. After considerable debate, the Association of Students of the Uni versity of Nebraska passed senate resolution 12, supporting student groups’ rights to serve alcoholic bev erages. College of Business Administra tion Sen. Bart Vitek said current University of Nebraska-Lincoln pol icy states that any private organiza tion or group may apply to serve alcohol. James Griesen, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the alcohol pol icy doesn’t speak specifically to stu dent organizations. Under the current policy, Griesen said he thinks university administra tors would not discriminate against a student organization. Griesen said administrators would consider time and building restric tions, and the ratio of those of legal drinking age who will attend the func tion. Also, Griesen said there is the question of which student groups should be considered private organi zations. According to the resolution, UNL allows alumni groups, fund-raising groups and private parties to serve alcohol at their functions. It states thatxthe university has a history of denying student organizations this privilege, although more than 50 percent of UNL students arc of legal drinking age. ASUN sees the policy as unfair and discriminatory, the reso lution states. General Studies Sen. Scott Hat field said he thinks UNL should give students the chance to be responsible. “We’re not going too far, (we’re) not saying let us put kegs in the BroyhUl Fountain,” Hatfield said. The original resolution stated that ASUN sees the current situation as “hypocritical.” ASUN SpeakerCor rey Trupp amended the bill to remove “hypocritical,” because he said he didn’t think it was necessary. Teachers college Sen. Marc Shkolnick said he thinks it should have stayed in the resolution, because the current situation is hypocritical. He said the final resolution was worded well except for that missing provi sion. In other business, ASUN passed senate resolution 19, which addresses a differential parking rates proposal submitted by a student member of the parking advisory committee. Doug Oxley, chairman of the park ing advisory committee, said differ ential rates would lead to long-term parking improvement He said he thinks faculty and students would have a more equal parking system under his proposal. Also, the proposal would eliminate feelings of animosity to ward the parking department, Oxley said. Oxley said his proposals are an example of an efficient differential parking system. His system would have five grades of parking, includ ing “incentive parking” in the outly ing areas of campus for cheaper rales; a “hunting permit” which most campus students have now; two lev els of “hunting permits” closer to campus; and a reserved lot priced at or above the current rate. Oxley said that because some fac ulty and students would pay more than current rates, some money could be saved for other improvements. These could include a parking garage, a shuttle bus service as a security sys tem and paving of gravel lots. Oxley said the system allows stu dents and faculty to choose which rate they will pay. Students could choose to pay about $ 10 to park near the Devaney Center or about $ 150 for reserved lots in the “congested” areas of campus. College of Business Administra tion Sen. Francine Thacker said dif ferential parking is not a long-range solution, but it will allow all parking lots to be used efficiently while park ing committee works on a solution. Oxley said the Parking Advisory Committee will be considering his proposals and ASUN’s resolution at its next meeting. Testimony heard on bill to create drug ^boot camps’ By Sara Bauder Staff Reporter The Nebraska Legislature’s Judiciary Committee on Wednesday heard testi mony on a bill that could establish drug boot camps ’ ’ and one that would create drug free zones around any school or playground. LB 1205, sponsored by Sen. Jerry Chizek of Omaha, would let the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services create a lifestyle similar to that of military boot camps for prison in mates. It would include marching drills, calis thenics, a dress code and drug-rehabilitation programs. The bill would allow judges to sentence to the program any offenders they feel would benefit from it. The bill also requires that anyone arrested for a misdemeanor with a penalty of a year or more in jail, or anyone arrested for a felony would be tested for drugs and alcohol right after the arrest. The results of those tests would be admis sible evidence and could be used by the court for any purpose, according to the bill. LB 1205 would make the purchase or at tempted purchase of controlled substances as serious a crime as the manufacture and distri bution of them. Another provision of the bill stales that anyone sentenced to jail could be given the opportunity to serve all or part of the sentence under house arrest. House arrest means a convicted offender is restricted to a residence and only can leave for authorized reasons. Exceptions would include work, medical and educational reasons, in addition to others approved by the court. House arrestcan be monitored with electronic surveil lance. U.S. Rep. Peter Hoagland of Nebraska, tes tifying in support of the bill, said boot camps for drug offenders are one way to combat the problem of drug abuse in American society. Hoagland helped with the drafting of LB 1205. Boot camps, he said, give offenders three to four months to develop discipline and self esteem. He said 10 states have set up boot camps, including New York, which has three. Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha questioned Hoagland about the bill’s provision for drug testing after arrests. “Have these people been convicted of a crime when they arc drug tested?” Chambers asked. “Do you feel Nebraskans who are ar rested should be deprived of their civil liber ties?” Dorothy Walker, representing the Nebraska Civil Liberties Union, said the drug-testing clause of the bill would not stand up to a constitutional challenge. Drug tests taken at every arrest would be illegal searches, she said, because police offi cers only can conduct searches if there is rea sonable cause to believe a crime was commit See DRUG on 3 National gun control advocate favors bill By Emily Rosenbaum Senior Reporter Gun control advocate Sarah Brady spoke Wednesday at the State Capi tol in support of a bill that would require a seven-day wailing period before buying a handgun in Nebraska. Brady is the wife of Jim Brady, the for mer White House press secretary who was shot by John Hinckley Jr. in the 1981 assas-_b sinauon attempt on former President Re agan. According to Brady, chairwoman of Handgun Control, Inc., LB642 would help to *4 keep handguns out of the wrong hands. ’ ’ The bill, which was introduced by state Sen. Brad Ashford of Omaha, would require any Nebraskan selling a handgun to send notification of the intended purchase to the county sheriff. A statewide computer check then would be run on the potential buyer. The investigation would check for fel ony records and mental disorders, Ashford said. 4 ‘It is time to act -- before more and more families suffer the kind of pain which my family has had to endure," Brady said. Brady said Hinckley bought the handgun he used to shoot Reagan, two law enforce ment officers and Brady from a Dallas pawnshop. Hinckley lied on a federal form needed to buy a handgun, she said. A “reasonable gun law” such as Ashford’s bill would stop felons from buying hand guns, Brady said. Current Nebraska law allows handguns to be “sold over-the-counter to anyone who fills out a federal form swearing he’s not a felon or fugitive," she said. “The form is filed away in the gun store and never checked," she said. Ashford said opponents’ charges that his bill is the first step to banning handguns altogether is “absolutely not correct. He said the bill’s goal is to prevent con victed criminals from buying guns. “This bill does not lake guns away from anyone," he said. In addition to preventing felons from See BRADY on 3 Al Schaban/Dally Nabraskan Sarah Brady, wife of former White House Press Secretary Jim Brady, answers questions regarding the seven-day handgun bill Wednesday in the State Capitol rotunda. Going to the hattlefront Childs: Greenpeace works to improve world By Emily Rosenbaum Senior Reporter A national spokesman for Greenpeace summed up the worldwide organiza tion’s strategy — “be in the way.” (Christopher Childs spoke about the organi zation and its work to improve the world before an audience of about 150 people Thursday night in the Nebraska Union. In efforts to protest actions such as whaling operations, Greenpeace members have sue cccdcd in halting the process by placing them selves in front of Japanese and other ships, he said. Childs said the group’s trademade often is regarded as “put yourself directly in the line of fire of the harpoon.” The group has also photographed events to focus attention of on their causes, he said. “It gives people a window on the truth,” he said. Since Greenpeace began protesting whaling operations in 1975, the number of nations har pooning whales has dropped from 17 to three, he said. “We have a lot to learn from living whales and really next to nothing to learn from dead ones,’ * he said. Members also have worked to stop the kill ing of baby harp seals by placing their bodies over the seals to protect them from the hunters, he said. Others have sprayed a green dye on the See CHILDS on 3
