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Debate focuses on bills Panel argues law for homosexuals By Angie Brunkow Staff Reporter Two bills before the Nebraska Legislature are essentially battles for the social legitimacy of homo sexuals, a UNL law professor said Monday. Richard Duncan, who opposes LB 1270 and LB951, said no em pirical evidence existed to prove that homosexuals had suffered from discrimination. Instead, he said, gays and lesbi ans plan to use the bills to get the government’s “seal of approval.” The two bills were the focus of a four-member panel debate about gays’ rights versus religious free dom at McCollum Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus. LB 1270 would expand civil rights to include sexual orienta tion, while LB951 would prevent employers from making employ ment decisions based on the poten tial employee’s lifestyle. Rachel Foley, a Creighton Uni versity law student and contributor to the drafting of LB 1270, said many gays and lesbians were afraid to come forward to give empirical evidence because of fear of further discrimination. Foley said the bill was designed to give everyone equal access to employment, housing, health care and insurance in Nebraska. “We are just asking the state of Nebraska to protect its citizens,” she said. But Duncan said the govern ment had “no business” codifying the values of one group — homo sexuals. “What the gay-rights movement is trying to do is ride on the tails of the civil rights movement,” he said. Foley said LB 1270 was not a “gay-rights” bill, but an “individ ual-rights” bill. “What this bill is saying is you can’t discriminate against any in dividual in the state of Nebraska,” she said. However, Collins Mangrum, a law professor at Creighton Univer sity, said the bill discriminated against people who objected relig iously to homosexuality. 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As well as continuing to study her hometown’s history, Yost said she would like to carry on her work with underprivileged children through the Gamma Phi Bela summer camp after graduation next December, or work as a camp manager year round. Yost said she was slow in starting out volunteering. She said the first big step she look was when she joined a sorority. “The house opened doors for me,” she said. Yost was a Panhellenic delegate and then was elected Panhellenic president last year, she said. Influential people — her brother and her roommate — encouraged her to volunteer, she said. Seeing what good things volun teering did for people swayed her to get involved, she said. And it has all been worthwhile, Yost said. ... , “I thought if I was happy with what I was doing and making one individual happy, I am successful,” she said. If she was presenting a program at camp and everyone was bored except for one child, she said, it was all worthwhile. So far, she said, “it’s been worth it.” Rader Continued from Page 1 Rader said the idea to write a book on baseball’s history was conceived at a conference at Clemson Univer sity in Clemson, S.C., in 1989. At the conference, Rader had been talking with the director of the Uni versity of Illinois Press about pub lishing a series of books on individual sports. “We talked about who would write the book on baseball and maybe after too much wine, I volunteered,” Rader said. Rader said he began his research on baseball by studying newspapers at Love Library. He then proceeded to the New York City Public Library, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Coopcr stown, N.Y., and The Sporting News Library in St. Louis. “I was interested in baseball as a kid,” Rader said. “Playing ball at school was my introduction to it.” Rader said that Ken Bums, a filmmaker well-known for his docu mentary on the Civil War, would be creating a documentary on baseball within the next two years. “The book will help structure it,” Rader said. But Rader’s knowledge of sports extends far beyond baseball. He has been a professor at UNL since 1967. During that time he has taught a class on the history of Ameri can sports. “I discovered by teaching class there weren’t many scholarly books on sports,” he said. In 1976, Rader began his first book on American sports. He completed it in 1982, and has had a second edition printed. Rader said the book was trans lated into German and Japanese and might be translated into Spanish. Rader’s fascination with sports is not limited to just writing about them. “I have an obsession with tennis,” Rader said. “1 play tennis four times a week in the winter time.” Rader also bicycles and combines the sport with traveling. j “Last summer, my daughter and I bicycled across Brittany,”Rader said. “I’m a traveling fanatic. The past five years, I have been in Germany twice. France and Italy. “Traveling opens so many new perspectives on things,” he said. When he isn’t traveling, Rader said, he spends the majority of his time acting as chairman of the history department. Rader said he had specific ideas on how to improve the department. “We need more honors courses,” he said. “Too many large lectures don’t have enough experience writ ing. We need to revive a general education curriculum with an empha sis on writing.” Rader also said the department needed more faculty. 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