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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1991)
1™^ *'!| f §j \T I_ Q MM W Today partly sunny and mild jjWk I i§ / H with the high in tne low to B k I fci , -- *_ Jp ™ ^ ^ mid 60s and a northwest I l|k I 15^ 1 Wind 10-20 mph. Partly ^Wk 1 SfeJiS 3| Si fif JB8 Uj/T ..JB HT yjj cloudy tonight with the low ^08 «k 18 mm MrB JSfTil 8 £ around 30. Friday, partly J- ^ JL ULv^JL^ULJL H_k,uwn?^idhsose high inlhe Abortion bills heat ud Judiciary hearing By Lisa Donovan Senior Reporter Sparring emotional discussion, proponents and opponents cried, tesufied and justified their opin ions Wednesday on abortion-related bills before the Nebraska Legisla ture’s Judiciary Committee. More than 100 people gathered in the allery as the Judiciary Commit tee opened the hearing with LB78, a bill that would require “informed consent” before an abortion could be commissioned. State Sen. John Lindsay of Omaha,, the bill’s sponsor, urged the commit tee to pass LB78, which would re quire women seeking an abortion to be given a description of the anatomi cal and physiological characteristics of the fetus. The bill also calls for a 24-hour waiting period. The bill “protects and enhances.. . a fair, safe and informed choice,” Lindsay said. In a somewhat tearful summary of her experience, Joy Ohl of Norfolk said she terminated her pregnancy because she was not married and feared rejection from her employer, her family and the community. At the time, Ohl said, she didn’t realize that she had the option of r. going to counseling and getting addi tional help with her decision. Ohl said that if she would have been given more information on the abortion and waited 24 hours, she could have made a more informed decision about her unwanted preg nancy. Now that she has four sons, Ohl said, it is still difficult to think about her abortion. “Our first son was born to us six years ago. My first thought was when I saw him, I killed a baby that looked just like him,” she said. “As we look at our four young sons now, we grieve for our fifth son.” Had she known that she could have been counseled about her fears of reprisal for being single and preg nant, she said, she might done things differently. Ron Cathcart began testimony opposing LB78 by saying that certain sections of the bill could be unconsti tutional. Cathcart, a Lincoln attorney rep resenting Planned Parenthood of Lincoln, said the 24-hour waiting period on abortions was declared unconstitutional by Judge Warren Urbom in 1979. See ABORTION on 5 Joe Heinzle/Daily Nebraskan Sen. John Lindsay of Omaha introduces a bill Wednesday to change informed consent provisions for abortion at the State Capitol. H Rare Shakespeare folio donated to Love r—j—mu- — --- s Is HAKES Vi \ R 1. S f <V» H^ IOKIK\ A { I « A * - t HU S. Michelle Pauimen/Deily Nebraskan The title page of the Shakespeare folio donated to Love Library. By Jeremy Fitzpatrick Staff Reporter A 368-year-old William Shakespeare First Folio, donated to the Univer sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, is a “Nebraska showpiece,” the associate dean of Love Library said. Joan Giesecke said the folio, donated by Lincoln resident Sidney Johnsen Sheldon on Tuesday in memory of her father Johnny Johnsen, will be part of the library’s perma nent collection and will be available to “serious” researchers. The folio is one of 2CQ existing volumes remaining from the 1,000 that were origi nally published in 1623. “Gaining this manuscript helps in con tinuing to put UNL on the map as a research library, which is part of the university’s mission,” Giesecke said. She said she thought the English depart ment would use the manuscript extensively. UNL English Professor Emeritus Robert Knoll, a Shakespeare scholar, said ihe book was the only existing original folio in the United States between the Mississippi River and the West Coast. He described the gift as “very precious and quite remarkable," and valued it at about $300,000. He said the First Folio was the only source of 17 of Shakespeare’s 36 plays. “This is the source of the plays of the greatest writer in the language. “It is certainly the most valuable gift the library has ever received," he said. Knoll said that Shakespeare’s original picture is in this folio. “All other pictures of Shakespeare are apparently derived from this one,” he said. Sheldon said she gave the folio to UNL because her family is from Lincoln and her father owned the Nebraska Bookstore. Donating the book to UNL was consis tent with her father’s philanthropic actions, she said. “I know it will be very well used,” she said. Conference looks at racism roots By Kim Spuriock Staff Reporter Racism has been one of the most destruc tive forces on Earth, panelists agreed at a teleconference shown live via satellite in the Nebraska Union on Wednesday. “It’s hard to believe that today over 25 percent — that is one out of four minority college students in America — cannot get through an academic year without experienc ing a racially motivated incident,” said televi sion personality and lecturer Julian Bond, the teleconference moderator. University of Nebraska-Lincoln freshman , broadcasting major Linda Morgan, one of about 85 students who attended the program on the rise of campus racism, agreed. ‘‘I have experienced a lot of racial incidents since 1 have been here at UNL,” she said. See TELECONFERENCE on 6 Diversions takes a look at natural health and living. Page 7. ' Huskers fall hard to Tigers Page 15. Wta iJiii5i 2 Opinion 4 Diversions 7 Sports 15 Classifieds 18 New cult rises: Easy to ente*. difficult to leave By Wendy Navratil Staff Reporter She was searching for a new church. Lin coln Christian appeared to have all she wanted. When members of the group invited her to a Bible study, she enthusiasti cally accepted. At the Bible study, a member told her that the group was made up of 40 people from the Denver Church of Christ. The group had elected to call itself Lincoln Christian after discovering there was already a Lincoln Church of Christ — no relation to the group — estab lished in Lincoln. . When she casually asked a member if the Denver group was associated with the Boston Church of Christ, a group that she recalled hearing of — a group that had been identified as a cult by the Chicago Cult Awareness Net work — he answered, “Yeah. Does that annoy you?” It didn’t. The woman, a resident of Lincoln who wished to remain anonymous, decided that on the basis of the Bible study, during which everyone was “very friendly and cor dial,” the group deserved further exploration. “When they told me, ‘Come to church on Sunday and wear your dress’ — and that’s exactly how they said it— that didn’t sit right with me. 1 don’t do dresses,” the woman ex plained. Nonetheless, the woman gave them her phone number and told them where she worked. See CULT on 6 ASUN parties pledge to avoid mudslmging * ... ^ - . . _- i * ¥ j »* r mi 4 irnr By Carissa Moffat Staff Reporter Students’ belief that AS UN doesn’t have any credibility stems from negative cam paigning, UNITY presidential candidate Andy Massey said at a press conference Wednes day. Massey called the conference in reference to posters displayed on campus Monday night advertising the CHANGE party s candidacy for Association of Students of the University of Nebraska elections. Massey and the two other ASUN presidential hopefuls, including CHANGE’S Malt McKeever, agreed that the posters were not put up by CHANGE. Electoral Commission Director Ban Vitek said the posters were in direct violation of the commission’s time line slating that posters cannot be put up before next Wednesday. The posters did not have the official ASUN logo, which is another guideline, Vitek said. Vitek said electoral commissioners decided Wednesday that CHANGE would not be fined because there was reasonable doubt as to whether the party put up the posters. Massey said that there needs to be an under standing between the parties that no one wants negative campaigning. If the negative campaigning can be headed off now, the parties might be able to save some credibility for ASUN, he said. McKeever said his party also did not want to engage in mudslinging, but would run a cam paign that would highlight actions or inactions of this year’s ASUN. “Tilings will be brought up about this year’s ASUN — what they did do, and more impor tantly what they did not do,” McKeever said. McKeever disagreed that ASUN’s lack of credibility was a result of negative campaign ing, saying the lack of credibility stemmed more from ASUN’s conduct this year. However, McKeever said CHANGE doesn't plan to attack other parties. “Granted, there might be skeletons down mere, oui i uon i mintt anyone irom cn/\rsun, will bring them up,” he said. ENERGY presidential candidate J. Matt Wickless said he thought all the parties were trying to get away from the mudslinging that plagued last year’s election. He said he would like the election to move on and have the parties run on their own merits. Massey and Wick less agreed that CHANGE probably did not commit the violations. ‘‘I don’t believe CHANGE put those posters up; there were too many blatant violations,” Wickless said. McKeever said that party members and supporters had been contacted about the post ers, but no one had said they made them.
