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■m T i Daily -« 40/28 I I Today, rain and fog. Tonight, I B_JB B^ *^B B 1 B *^B ^B^^B 40 percent chance mr^ B B B || IB BB B B B Saturday, becoming partly X 1 ^|J|V(1 I B |_sunny w„'h high ,n the fowerj — Vice chancellor creates harassment committee Group will revise student conduct code By Jeremy Fitzpatrick Senior Reporter A committee is being created to explore the formation of a harassment policy for UNL, vice chancellor for student affairs James Gricsen said. The University of Ncbraska-Lincoln’s Stu dent Code of Conduct and Disciplinary Proce dures does not currently have a policy relating to harassment. Gricsen said that one was con sidered when the code was revised in the spring of 1990, but abandoned because of time con straints. “We feel this is a serious issue,” he said. “We want to address that deficiency.” Griescn said he was assembling a commit tee of about seven to nine faculty members and students to research a harassment policy for UNL. Dick Wood, the University of Nebraska general counsel, will advise the committee. Gricsen said the committee would attempt to devise rules which would define “harass ment to the point of a person not being able to function in our society and get an education” as a violation of the code of conduct. That will not be an easy task, he said. “Harassment policies arc very hard to write,” he said. “We don’t want to write one that limits freedom of speech, for instance.” Griesen said the committee would consider harassment policies, not “fighting words” poli cies. Fighting words policies punish students for the use of racist or sexist language. The difference, he said, is that a harassment policy would make it punishable to carry out a scries of actions, which themselves might not violate the student code, but taken as a whole would. He said a student who participated in an “organized campaign” to harass another stu dent could be found in violation of a harass ment policy. Griesen said he hoped the committee would finish its research by the end of the school year. When the committee finishes its proposal, he said, it must then be approved by the student senate, the chancellor and the NU Board of Regents. COMMIT party promises changes in student issues By Cindy Kimbrough Senior Reporter A second party threw its hat into the ring Thursday for the 1992 student govern ment elections, promising commitment to the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska. The three candidates of the COMMIT party presidential candidate Andrew Sigcrson, first vice presidential candidate Trent Steele and second vice presidential candidate Eliza beth Healey — said they were proud of the platform they had formed. The platform is represen tative of all students’ concerns, Steele said, because party members went to 30 residence hall floors, half the fraternities and sororities and several off-campus students for input. Sigcrson, a junior economics major, said he chose the platform based on problems that students had long accepted could not be changed. With student involvement and commitment, he said, these issues can change. “Why can’t we have better parking, teach ers committed to leaching, 24-hour visitation and a wet campus?” he asked. Sigcrson said that if elected, he would work with the Parking Advisory Board to reduce the overselling of lots to less than 15 percent, keep parking l ines at their present levels and estab lish more metered spots in the East Campus parking lot. In addition, he said he would work to dc | velop a long-term plan for a parking garage for students.and research a long-term plan for cstamisnmg a maintenance iunci toproviac lor better university lighting and general safety conditions. Sigerson said he thought it was important to also develop a partnership with the Ne braska Legislature to write legislation stu dents need, instead of only reacting to what others senators propose. He said that addressing sexual harassment, rape and other women’s issues also was im portant. Steele, a sophomore in the Teachers Col lege, said that residence hall concerns were one of his priorities. “It’s time the students at the residence halls arc treated more as adults,’’ he said. He said that if elected, he would push for 24-hour visitation hours, entitle students to more flexible meal plans and increase com munication between the Residence Hall Asso ciation and ASUN presidents. Healey, a junior business administration major, said she would bring a unique perspec tive to her office, because she was never previously a member of ASUN. Healey said she would be dedicated to women’s and minority issues as well as cam pus safety. She said she also was committed to pro moting safety awareness through a Rape Awareness Week and the RHA Campus Es cort Program. I Icaley said she would work to create a pro active student government, asking for ideas and involvement from the student body. Sigerson ended the announcement w ith a pledge from the three candidates that they would “never knowingly initiate any cam paign lactic that could be considered dirty or in any way offensive to our university.” But they would reserve the right to defend themselves if faced with such tactics, Sigerson said. - CT Jeff Haller/DN Members of the Lincoln Early Music Consort, from left, Paul Burrow, Pattie West, Richard West, Carol Goebes and Bob Haack, practice their renaissance-era music Wednesday at the St. Francis Chapel, 1145 South Street. <? Melody makers Recorder inspiresquartet’s music By Sarah Scalet Staff Reporter < — ■ ■ 2 Paul Burrow has simple criteria for music that sounds right. t “If it sounds good to me, I gel goose s flesh on my arm,” said Burrow, who leads an early music quartet. “That’s the kind of thrill ) that you work for.” < However, Burrow, a physics and astron- > omy professor at the University of Ncbraska Lincoln, doesn’t claim to know as much t about music as the other members of his < group. i “We have a lot of people in this group who really know music,” he said. "Mostly 1 ; object if 1 don’t like the way it sounds.” Other members arc Carole Goebes, an as- 1 sistant professor of libraries, Richard West, a | staff piano technician for the School of \ Music, and his wife Patty. t Goebes is a professional flutist, and Mrs. West is a professional clarinetist. s Robert Haack, a librarian in the music li- - brary, plays percussion for the group. The group, which mainly plays recorders, alls itself, with some reservation, Burrow aid, the Lincoln Early Music Consort. “We go around in circles about names, but hat’s kind of the name of last choice,” he aid. “It’s a little stuffy.” The quartet came together two or three 'cars ago, when the members played for a Christmas tour of Lincoln homes, Burrow aid. “We formed ... to do something for hem, and we all liked our styles of playing md decided to really try to get serious about t,” he said. As a child, Burrow said, he was serious iboul becoming a professional pianist. “I thought I was going to be a superstar,” ic said. “Gradually, I kept running into icoplc who were a lot more talented then I vas, and I realized that there was not going o be a future in music.” But Burrow said he didn’t think it was trangc for a scientist to lead a musical See MUSIC on 6 bpamer says agenda to be set by committee By Virginia Newton Staff Reporter UNL Chancellor Graham Spanicr said Thursday that his ideas should nol necessarily influ ence the Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Minorities in decid ing the future of minorities on cam pus. “We have a very large and com plex university community here,” he i said. “I don’t want what we do in this area to be Graham Spanier’s agenda.” Spanicr spoke at the commission’s monthly meeting at the Nebraska Union. “The most important thing the commission can be doing is assisting the university in establishing its di rections, creating that vision, dealing with policy issues, spreading the word, however you want to pul it,” he said. “I think this commission should steer very clear of dealing with indi vidual grievances.” The chancellor discussed the im portance of the commission on cam pus and its role in regard to the stu dent body. Spanier mentioned the different responses he had received from the public recently about his feelings on the minority situation on campus. “I haven’t been feeling any resis / lance,” he said. “I’ve been getting two kind of reactions. I’ve been get ting a tremendous amount of positive feedback from a lot of people. There’s a lot of people that arc being very supportive. “Then on the other side, I’m not gelling resistance,” Spanier said. “I’m getting warnings. People saying be careful, we want this agenda to suc ceed.” Nebraska men pull ahead at conference swim meet. Page8 Wayne and Garth hit the big screen Page 11 INDEX Wire 2 Opinion 4 Sports 8 A&E 11 Classifieds 13 T