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James Griesen, vice chancellor for student affairs, said UNL officials are not necessarily looking at adding a fighting words policy to the Student Code of Conduct but do want to ad dress harassment problems as a whole. Last year, UNL debated adding a fighting words policy to its Student Code of Conduct but abandoned the concept. Griesen said that although he had planned earlier this semester to put together a commit tee to consider a harassment policy, members won’t meet until next year. The postponement was because of a busy schedule, he said. Nationally, harassment policies now are being debated hotly in light of a Brown University student’s expulsion for violating a fighting words policy, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The constitutionality of policies that punish students for speech is in question. Griesen said it is important to safeguard students’ right to an education, yet protect their freedom of speech. “I’m not sure we can fmd the words to distinguish between illegal and allowable har assment,” he said. Fighting words policies, which punish stu dents for abusive language that is used inten tionally to provoke a violent response, have a negative tone about them, Griesen said. The policies are “definitely a hotly debated issue,” Griesen said. Griesen said he does not expect UNL to be on either side of the debate abou; fighting words policies, but rather somewhere in the middle. Greek system reevaluates party policies By Wendy Mott Staff Reporter UNL’s Interfraternity Council is putting the longstanding fraternity keg party tradition on ice, a fraternity spokesman said. IFC President Troy Bredenkamp said the University of Nebraska-Lin coln’s dry campus policy and insur ance restrictions are forcing sorori ties and fraternities to reevaluate their party policies and curb alcohol prob lems in the greek system. Many UNL fraternities belong to the Fraternity Insurance Purchasing Group, in part because other insur ance companies no longer cover them. High liability and accident rates have caused the insurance problems, Bre denkamp said. Of the more than 60 national fra temities, he said, at least half belong to F1PG, which has a set of mandatory guidelines to provide the fraternities’ accident coverage. One of the major guidelines is that “no bulk quantities of alcohol may be consumed” on the chapter’s property, he said. Bredenkamp said the current UNL fraternity presidents’ council is much more active in following these guide lines than councils in the past and he hopes the changes will continue after this council is replaced. Stacie Yost, president of Panhellcnic Association, said sorori ties have been working to curb alco hol use at their functions for more than a year, including mandating non alcoholic functions, cash bars at all sorority parties and strict abidance to the UNL alcohol policy. Director of Greek Affairs Jayne Wade Anderson said IFC and Panhellenic’s official policy on alco hol is the same as the university’s — dry. Anderson said there are alcohol problems in the greek system, just as there are in residence halls. These problems are handled in a judicial manner, she said, through the See KEG on 5 Paper pileup UNL’s recycling options reduced with closing of firm By Heather Heinisch Staff Reporter The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be flooded with waste paper now that Citizens for Environmental Improve ment has stopped its recycling rounds, a UNL official said. Wilbur Dasenbrock, UNI. director of Land scape Services, said offices that recycle paper in the past have few options now that CEI i$ out of business. Tim Johnson, CEI executive director, said that after 21 years of servicing city and UNL offices, a glut in the market for recyclable materials sent prices low enough to put CEI out of business. “Since Earth Day last year, recycling has almost quadrupled,” Johnson said. CEI’s biggest supplier of waste paper was UNL, he said, with more than 50 drop-off sites. Dasenbrock said it is too expensive for UNL to take over the collection, sorting and delivery of the recyclable paper and there are no plans for another recycling firm to take CEI’s place. A solution to the paper flood would depend on how serious office managers are about recy cling, Dasenbrock said. A central UNI- recycling center with a bin for office paper has been suggested if deliver ies could be made at minimal cost, he said. Currently, he said, newspaper, plastic milk jugs and liter pop bottles, tin, aluminum, and clear, green and brown glass are delivered for recycling to a center behind the Food Store. Dasenbrock said the biggest problem with setting up a recycling center is sorting. Materi als that are not sorted properly must be taken to the landfill, he said. And waste paper and recyclable materials other than aluminum don’t gamer a profit, Dasenbrock said. “It’s worthless,” he said. To make up for low profits, the city subsi dizes newspaper recycling at SI 5 a ton, Dasen brock said, and office paper is probably not worth much more. Waste paper is generated in every office, he said, but the trouble with recycling it is that it’s difficult to collect, sort and deliver. “There is no doubt that the university should continue to recycle wherever possible,” he said. Dasenbrock said he is willing to work with office recycling as long as it doesn’t cost “big money.” Correction: In a photograph on the front page of Tuesday's Daily Nebraskan, the subject incorrectly identified himself as Jeff Funke, a senior finance ma jor. His actual name is Shawn MacDonald. Postelec tion fighting in Albania leaves 3 dead, doz ens of pra te s t e r s wounded Page 2. Regional program to expose UNL stu dents to new levels of high-energy phys ics. Page 6. Huskers, Bluejays gear up for game, while coaches hope for peace. Page 7. INDEX Wire 2 Opinion 4 Sports 7 A&E 9 Classifieds 11 | Teaching at UNL lets ' professor pursue academic side of art By Bill Stratbucker Staff Reporter One of the reasons Christin Mamiya says she is so satisfied with teaching art history and so motivated to continue is that she knows how easy it is to fail at art. “I just looked at it and knew it wasn’t good,” Mamiya says of her creative attempts with painting and ceramics in a Honolulu high school. “It makes you appreciate the other artists and their talent.” Actually, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant professor says, a majority of art historians are not artists themselves but tend to be more academic. Mamiya, whose book “Super Market: American Pop Art and Consumer Culture” will be released next fall, fits that mold. See MAMIYA on 6