Committee to consider adding
lighting words policy to code
By Shelley Miller
Staff Reporter
A special UNL committee again
will consider adding a fighting words
policy to the Student Code of Con
duct, the vice chancellor for student
affairs said.
James Griesen said he will appoint
between 11 and 13 student and fac
ulty representatives to the advisory
committee this week.
The committee will study changes
and additions to the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Student Code of
Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures,
including a fighting words policy.
The policy would set up punishments
for racial or sexual harassment.
Griesen said such a policy is needed
to “add some teeth” to the student
code to help prevent instances of verbal
harassment on campus. Currently there
is no penalty in the code for such
slurs.
Under the proposed policy, abu
sive language that is used to inten
tionally provoke a violent response
would be punishable.
A fighting words policy was intro
duced last spring and debated by the
UNL Student Code Review Commit
tee. In April, committee members
failed to include the policy in their
recommended student code revisions.
At that time, some of the commit
tee members said further study of the
policy was necessary to examine and
address all concerns, including free
dom of speech considerations.
Griesen said the new committee
will take into account protection of
freedom of speech when formulating
the policy.
He said he intends to bring ex
amples of what other schools have
done to prevent verbal harassment to
the first committee meeting, which
will be in about two weeks.
“We will look at what they have
done, incorporate our own thoughts
and fashion what we think is best for
UNL,” he said.
Griesen said he would like to see
the policy completed by the end of
this semester.
Ombudsman to settle artifacts dispute
By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter_
The decision of whether the Ne
braska State Historical Society should
return human remains and burial arti
facts claimed by the Pawnee tribe
rests in the hands of the state ombuds
man, an official said.
Steve Moore, staff attorney at the
Native American Rights Fund, said
the Oklahoma Tribe of Pawnee Indi
ans filed a grievance in September
with the Nebraska State Historical
Society because ihe society would
not return artifacts the tribe requested.
The tribe had asked for the return
of human skeletons and burial goods.
James Hanson, director of the
Nebraska State Historical Society, said
researchers found that the items were
not traceable to the Pawnee tribe.
But Moore disagreed.
“There’s solid evidence that they
(the artifacts) arc linked to the Pawn
ees. The tribe is not interested in
getting (human) remains that aren’t
traceable,” he said.
Nebraska’s Unmarked Human
Burial Sites and Skeletal Remains
Protection Act states that if two par
tics disagree about the transfer of
Indian artifacts, “a third party agreed
on by both original parties will assist
in the resolution of the dispute.”
Moore said it was agreed that the
state ombudsman would cast the
deciding vote of who is the rightful
owner of the artifacts.
Under the law, either party can
appeal the ombudsman’s decision to
the courts.
“The Pawnee tribe is not backing
off its claims,” Moore said.
The ombudsman will decide the
case by March 13.
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receiving abortions.
“I think statistics can tell you a
lot,” the Lincoln senator said.
“What we need is a profile of who
is getting an abortion,” she said.
Crosby said that LB478 would add
to the list of questions the state is
required to ask women having abor
tions.
LB478 would allow legislators and
state agencies to find out what the
real problems arc with abortion, she
said.
“If we get a better profile of the
women receiving abortions, it will
help us solve the real problem behind
abortions,” Crosby said.
In many ways, she said, society
turns its back on those dealing with an
unwanted pregnancy.
Members of society want women
to “have the baby and then they don’t
help” once the child is bom, she said.
“I have a great compassion and I
think it’s (abortion) a cruel answer to
a problem,” she said.
Worlds of Fun is conducting an audition tour in search of the best
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for the summer only.
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