Harassment
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ligated, she said.
The process docs not clearly sepa
rate its consulting, investigative and
adjudicative roles, Conoley said. The
officer who receives the complaint
also may make recommendations to
the chancellor about possible sanc
tions.
“Targets have complained that
they’ve been discouraged from filing
formal grievances,” Conoley added.
Brad Munn, the UNL Affirmative
Action officer, said the office follows
the NU Board of Regents policy in
handling any discrimination com
plaints, of which sexual harassment is
one.
But he said the regents policy could
probably be strengthened.
“I know the chancellor is looking
at procedures,” Munn said, “but they’re
Board of Regents procedures.”
Victims of sexual discrimination
who file grievances through the Af
firmative Action office may be frus
trated about the process if they feel
their complaints weren’t resolved
properly, Munn said.
“With everyone who comes for
ward with a sexual harassment com
plaint, it would be impossible to pre
vail,” he said. “It may make you (a
victim) disappointed and unhappy.
“It’s difficult if you (an affirma
tive action officer) are an advocate
for women, but the evidence doesn’t
support the charge,” Munn added.
“Arc you an advocate or an adjudica
tor?”
Because of such potential conflicts,
Conoley said the Affirmative Action
office should be restructured so the
person who consults with the victim
is not the same one who investigates
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chancellor and director of commu
nity and human relations, would be
the best one to handle sexual harass
ment complaints.
Any route UNL chooses must lake
into account the victims of sexual
harassment, Howe said. Victims lend
We can’t give them five or six options — people
need to know, ‘here’s what you do.’ And people
need to know that their complaints will be handled
confidentially and sensitively.
v Spanier
UNL Chancellor
the complaint.
If the investigator finds that the
complaint has substance, then the
matter should be handed over to a
panel composed of faculty, staff and
students for adjudication, Conolcy said.
“I feel like we could get on a team,
and create a partnership between the
Affirmative Action office and the
sexual harassment committee,” Cono
ley said.
Munn said UNL could perhaps
experiment with a new process for a
one- or two-year period.
“Maybe that would be the way to
go,” Munn said.
Howe said Spanicr is considering
whether the person who will fill a
new position, the associate to the
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to be undergraduate female students,
he said, so the system for filing com
plaints must be something that’seom
fortable for people in that age group
to use.
Conolcy said that victims, includ
ing faculty, staff and students, need
to have a number of access points to
insure that they will find at least one
they feel comfortable sharing their
complaint with.
And educating students, staff and
faculty, both Conolcy and Munn said,
is critical in eliminating problems
with sexual harassment.
Conolcy said that public reporting
of the number of complaints, the na
ture of the complaint and the result
ing sanction, would help alert people
to sexual harassment problems at UNL.
NU Press celebrates
its 50th anniversary
Public book display
held at Love Library
By Taryn Gilster
Staff Reporter_
The University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln’s presses are still rolling after 50
years.
Last week marked the 50lh anni
versary for University Press with a
public display of old and new books
at Love Library.
Director Willis Regicr said the press
also is commemorating its anniver
sary by issuing more books than in the
past.
Located in Nebraska Hall, the
second largest state university press
in the country produces 100 new books
a year and has about 2,000 books in
circulation.
Publications include a commemo
rative edition of John G. Ncihardt’s
“Cycle of the West,” which contain
new illustrations and other Ncihardt
works.
One of University Press’s books,
“Feeding the Crisis: U.S. Food Policy
in Central America,” by Rachel Garst
and Tom Barry, recently received the
World Hunger Year Judge’s Award
for best book coverage of poverty and
hunger.
Regier said the University Press
has kept up with changes in the schol
arship world and has created new and
innovative forms of publishing. It has
promoted books by prominent Ne
braska authors and works on Ameri
can Indian culture and the history of
the Western frontier, he said.
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We’re proud of the
press. We feel that
what we are doing can
only be done here in
Nebraska.
Regier
University Press director
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The press has worked closely with
the UNL music faculty to create a list
in musicology, Regier said.
University Press and IBM also have
jointly created an interactive video
on “Black Elk Speaks” by Neihardt.
Regier said a compact computer disk
contains an enhanced color text that
allows the operator to make inquiries
about the book.
“We’re proud of the press. Wc feel
that what we arc doing can only be
done here in Nebraska,” he said.
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they can improve communications
lines.
“It was dealing with mechanical
issues and personalities and how wc
can improve communications among
the campuses and legislature liaison
people — not to discuss policy,” he
said.
Wood said that the regents try to
have open subcommittee meetings
whenever possible.
Wood said the open meetings law
prevents full bodies from declaring
themselves subcommittees just so they
can close a meeting. That was not
what happened last week, he said.
Regent subcommittees generally
have three but no more than four
voting members of the board, along
with the non-voting student regents,
Wood said.
“In other words, not enough to
take action,” he said.
Steward
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Associates in Bryan, Texas; White
and Steward Architects in Associa
tion in St. Louis; and Nall, Ramsay,
Steward Associates in Texas. He
also has worked as a consultant
since 1981.
His activities outside of architec
ture include backpacking, skiing,
handball, racquctball and wood
working.
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is photography.
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which a former AIA president
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lands, Japan and Australia for the
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lure and society.
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architects will need to become more
culturally aware and know more
foreign languages.
Future architects also will need
to work less independently, he said,
and become more environmentally
sensitive to the impact of building
materials on its occupants.
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