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I---— —~ Partly sunny today with the high in the upper 40s and becoming windy later. To night, partly cloudy with the low 20-25. Saturday, warmer with the high in the lower 50s. Party to charge misconduct By Dionne Searcey Staff Reporter The HORIZN party plans today to accuse J. Matt Wickless, ENERGY presidential candi date, of mis temriintheResi- ** dence Hall As sociation senate two years ago, HORIZN sena Colin Theis said. The party will make the accusa tions against Wickless to “inform” students voting for leaders of the Association of Students of the Uni versity of Nebraska about the candi dates, Theis said. The election is Wednesday. HORIZN plans to state that Wick less was accused of “lying to RHA senate about his grade status” so he could be elected as RHA speaker in 1989, Theis said. A grade point average of 2.0 is required to hold RHA positions. John Gibson, campaign manager for ENERGY, said the allegation was “unacceptable.” A statement issued by the EN ERGY party Thursday said Wickless was above the required GPA until he returned from semester break and informed the RHA adviser that his GPA was below the requirements. When Wick less’ grade deficiency was corrected, he was elected RHA presi dent. Theis said HORIZN also planned to state that Wickless used RHA funds “to take out to dinner certain mem bers of his RHA senate committee which he chaired.” Gibson said $13.05 in RHA funds was used at Burger King when Wick less took members of the review rec ommendation board to dinner. Those funds were approved by the RHA treasurer and president at that time, he said. “There was no scandal involved,” he said. The ENERGY party said that none of the HORIZN candidates were members of RHA when Wickless served in the organization. “This information would be there fore no better than second-hand at best,” ENERGY’S statement said. ENERGY said that if HORIZN members wanted their opinions to be objective, they would have contacted Wickless for comment. The HORIZN party plans to en dorse the UNITY party’s executive candidates today. HORIZN has no executive candidates on its slate. “If the UNITY party, who claims to be attempting to run a clean cam paign, wishes to maintain their own integrity, the ENERGY party then challenges them to refuse the endorse ment of HORIZN,” ENERGY said. Eric Thurber, first vice presiden tial candidate for UNITY, said the UNITY party is not involved in making allegations. “We’re not a part of it. We’re not mudslinging .... We’ll keep our promise not to mudsling,” he said. Gibson said his party, ENERGY, has run a clean campaign thus far. He said ENERGY had heard rumors about members of other parties but chose not to publicize them. But Theis said the accusations are not mudslinging. HORIZN has scheduled a press conference for today at 3 p.m. in Room 216 of the Nebraska Union. Senators reword bylaws to erase minority quotas By Adeana Leftin Staff Reporter Following ASUN’s refusal Wednesday to pass racial affairs and sexual orienta tion subcommittees, some AS UN senators Thursday said they have devised another plan. The question of whether the proposal is constitutional, however, still looms. Several senators met Wednes day after the Association of Stu dents of the University of Nebraska meeting to compose amendments to establish a Racial Affairs Com mittee and a Gay/Lesbian/Bisex ual Affairs Committee. Business Sen. Shawn Smith, who co-authored the bylaw amendments, said the proposal essentially would remove the quotas outlined in pre vious legislation that the Student Court ruled unconstitutional. Last semester, AS UN set up two standing committees for racial af fairs and gay/lesbian/bisexual af fairs. Included in the bylaws were quotas requiring some committee members to be selected on the basis of race or sexual orientation. The Student Court ruled last week that the committees violated ASUN bylaws. Senators reworded the proposed gay/lesbian/bisexual bylaws to read: “The senate strongly encourages that the following sexual orienta tion perspectives are represented on this committee: bisexual, gay, heterosexual and lesbian.” The proposed racial affairs by laws were reworded to read: “The senate strongly encourages that the following racial perspec tives are represented on the com mittee: African American, Asian American, Caucasian-American, Latino-American and Native American.” College of Arts and Sciences See ASUN on 3 The process of bringing Kearney State College into the NU system moves to ward July 1 deadline. Page 2. Husker guard finds an attitude adjust ment improved his game. Page 7. Biues and the harmonica are this mu sician’s style. Page 9. INSIDE Wire 2 Opinion 4 Sports 7 A&E 9 Classifieds_H_ Law instructor waits for petition response By Lisa Donovan Senior Reporter AUNL law instructor said she will wait to sec how the College of Law responds to a petition that calls for a fair tenure and promotion review of her before moving ahead with her allegations of discrimination against the college. The petition was circulated by students after Emily Fowler Hartigan, an assistant professor in the law college, said she had been unjustly denied tenure in May and September 1990, then denied a promotion to associate professor in February. Hartigan said she thinks she is being dis criminated against because her counterpart, a male colleague at the law college, had received tenure even though he had less education and had been published less than Hartigan. Hartigan also contended she is being dis criminated against because she conducts re search within feminist jurisprudence and uses feminist teaching methods. “It’s discrimination, or at least what I per ceive to be discrimination,’’ she said. Harvey Perlman, dean of the law college, said that the law faculty would not make a personal discriminatory judgement. “The faculty would not make a personnel judgement... on the basis of a person’s . .. gender,” Perlman said. Perlman said he did not wish to further comment on matters of personnel. Hartigan, who has been an assistant profes sor at the 1JNL law college for four years, received her law degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1978. She practiced law for eight years before coming to UNL. Hartigan said she is keeping her options open but has planned to either file a lawsuit against the university or find a leaching job elsewhere. See TENURE on 6 1 inch » 350 feet C (t A I ■ —t ■©■ « Ji l B^ LbX ri L j. jfcl I 10thIfth121 th 14th © Richards and Mabel Lee halls - not accessible © CBA - accessible only on first floor © Avery Hall - difficult to enter; once inside OXj © Military and Naval Science - must enter through freight doors in back © Sheldon ~ must enter through back © Bancroft - only accessible in parts of the basement © Henzlik - only accessible on first floor and part of basement © Bessey, Oldfather, Burnett, Andrews and Architecture halls, and Nebraska Union - all accesible © Administration - south end accessible; only basement and first floor of north end is accessible © Lied Center for Performing Arts - accessible but must enter through Johnny Carson Theater Source: UNL Handicapped Student Services Amie DeFrain/Daily Nebraskan carrying things. Thomas says Purinaltnows 80 commands. Student cites faults in accessibility By Shelley Miller Staff Reporter* For most students, getting to class is the easy part — so easy it can be taken for granted. Joni Thomas does not take it for granted. As a post-polio paraplegic and a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, accessibility issues are important to Thomas. To her, an out-of-order elevator or a door with a latch could mean not making it to class. Thomas said problem areas on campus remain because some ad ministrators have the attitude that UNL has better accessibility than many schools, so students should be happy. “I don’t take that view, I never have. I don’t think it is a healthy one,” she said. Thomas said she has had difficulty with one class in particu lar this semester. The class originally was sched uled for Bancroft Hall, but because that building is not accessible to handicapped students, the class was moved to Walter Scott Engineering Center. The only elevator in Walter Scott is a freight elevator with a gale, so Thomas must wait until someone comes by to help her open it. “I don’t think anyone in a chair, even someone with a strong upper body, could open that gate,” she said. At night, all the doors in the building are locked except for one that opens into a stairway, so she See DISABLED on 6