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.
Although LB 1270 is tolerant of
homosexuals, Mangrum said, the
bill is intolerant of people acting
out of religious belief. Debate fo
cuses on bills
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Volunteer receives GM award
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter
One University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln senior said she was not the kind
of person to sit back and complain —
she gets up and does something about
it.
And that kind of altitude has helped
Stacie Yost, one of three UNL Gen
eral Motors Volunteer Spirit Award
winners, to succeed, she said.
Yost, a senior history and English
education major, said most of her
volunteer work had been with chil
dren and collegians.
Last summer, she said, she volun
teered at a camp in Canada for under
privileged children through her so
rority, Gamma Phi Beta.
Yost also spent two summers
working with children through 4-H
camps.
Yost said she especially liked
working with children because of the
good feeling she got from knowing
the benefits they received.
“When you’re giving lime... and
attention (to underprivileged children),
you know you’re giving them some
thing they don’t get much of,” she
said.
Another contribution Yost said she
made was doing historical research
on her hometown of Plymouth for its
centennial.
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
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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. He said only
Five history classes did not reach
capacity last semester — four of which
were 400-lcvel courses.
“All the rest were filled,” he said.
Rader said he also wanted to offer
a history course on popular culture
and television’s relationship to sports.
Chances are that Rader will have
quite a bit of knowledge on that sub
ject. His next book is going to be on
the history of television.
“It will probably take about five
years,” he said.
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