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Nebraskan Stalking bill passes as session closes UNL sees few bills during past session By Cindy Kimbrough Senior Reporter _ Bills before the 1992 Nebraska Legisla ture concerning the University of Ne braska-Lincoln were few and far be tween. One of those bills, which would forestall an alleged clash between a state law and an NCAA financial aid policy, was killed prematurely by the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee Feb. 25, one senator said. Sen. Chris Beutler of Lincoln proposed LB963 to delay implementation for two years of a new law he said might cause the uni versity to violate an NCAA rule. Originally proposed by Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha, the new bill, LB69, ensured that students who qualified for any Forum pushes church approval of homosexuals By Kristine Long Staff Reporter Christianity should focus on the idea that people should love one another an ac cept their differences, including homo sexuality, forum panelists said Tuesday night. At the forum, sponsored by the Gay/Lcsbian Student Association, Nancy Erickson of Lin coln Urban Ministries said the church had room for diversity. “As a person with a disability, I feel like a voice crying in the wind a lot,” Erickson said. “I feel the church needs all of us,” she said. “They need me in there screaming about ramps going to the pulpit, and they need homosexuals screaming about not feeling welcome.” Erickson said she had blessed many homo sexual marriages because she wanted them to feel welcome in the church. Bob Brctsch, senior pastor of Seventh-Day Adventist Church at Union College, 3800 S. See PANEL on 3 Sower looks at AIDS and the lives it has touched See supplement Nebraska baseball team seeks re venge today in game at Omaha against Creighton. Page 7 Nine members of Scarlet and Cream choral group plan summer tour of the Mediterranean. Page 9 ur INDEX Wire 2 Opinion . 4 Sports 7 A&E 9 Classifieds 11 federal or slate need-based aid received the full amount. The Nebraska law, however, runs counter to established NCAA policy that limits the amount of financial aid colleges can award to student athletes, and the number of athletes in each sport who can receive financial aid, Beuller had said. But an announcement Feb. 18 by NCAA’s executive director that he expected Division I schools to approve legislation next year to allow financially needy athletes to keep their full Pell grants killed LB963, Beuller said. A! Papik, assistant athletic director for administrative services and compliance coor dinator at UNL, supported Beuller by saying the NCAA legislative services office told UNL it still may be in violation. Because student-athletes, including individu ally recruited walk-ons, can receive all the federal or state need-based aid they are eligible for, UNL may surpass the allotted number of scholarships the NCAA allows them, Papik said. Chambers said the university could avoid See ROUNDUP on 6 Concerns raised over stalking prosecution By Cindy Kimbrough Senior Reporter Despite concerns that LB 1098 would not accomplish its intended goal, state leg islators Tuesday approved the bill that would make the act of stalking a criminal offense. Before senators voted on the bill, Sen. Chris Bcullcr of Lincoln proposed that it be brought back for second reading. Bcullcr said stalking, as defined by the bill, would be loo difficult to prose cute. “What you arc about to vote into law will not be used by prosecutors in 100 years,” he said. LB 1098, sponsored chiefly by Sen. Jennie Robak of Columbus, defines stalkers as those who “harass or willfully, maliciously and re peatedly follow another person or make a cred ible threat against that person.” Beutler said ihc prosecutor lirst must snow that what the accused was doing was willful and malicious—a high standard of proof. The prosecutor then must show the accused has done it repeatedly, and that the action involves following or harassing. The bill does not go any further to protect stalking victims than existing third-degree assault provisions, he said. “What we are doing is perhaps deceiving ourselves,” he said. Robak said she opposed calling the bill back for second reading because the third-degree assault provision, which had been in effect for 15 years, had not stopped stalking. But, Bcutlcr said, if the current stalking bill was to pass, it would be more difficult to prosecute stalkers than it was through existing law. Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha also sup ported the bill being brought back for second reading. Passing the bill, he said, would not solve the problems of harassment and stalking that docs not involve bodily harm, such as continuous calling or following. The motion to bring the bill back to second reading failed, and senators approved LB 1098 by a vote of 44-10. . 1 Staci McKee/DN Keith Jacobshagen, an art professor at UNL, recently received the Outstanding Research and Creativity Award, an honor reserved for professors who have made extraordinary contributions to their field. ‘Luxury’ of landscapes Professor savors nature scenes, commitment to art By Jill O Brien Staff reporter Keith Jacobshagcn, a professor in the art and art history department, has been painting Midwest landscapes for 25 years. His landscape pictures arc divided by a low horizon line between one-fifth and one-third of the way from the bottom. Above the horizon is an expanse of Nc m bra ska, Kansas or, perhaps, Missouri sky, layered with darkening sunset colors or wispy while clouds — skies unencumbered by mountains or tall city buildings. Below the horizon line, he may paint a gentry sloping hill, a highway or farm house, hay bales in a Held or hardwood trees dotting the horizon. Often Jacobshagcn docs not sign his paintings — he summarizes them in a line or two of journal writing. On one of his oil paintings, “North of Ashland,” he wrote, “smell of rain — light N.W. wind and sound of a train — K. Jacobshagcn 1989." And his painting of “Farm Lights and Power Poles Near . Nebraska City,” bears the inscription “Platte River Valley in the Afternoon ... hot cocoa from a thermos — aroma of food cooking in the evening air (1988).” The works of contemporary artists Charles Birchficld and Edward Hopper have influenced Jacobshagcn. Nineteenth Century painters John Constable and J.M.W. Turner have inspired his land scape painting, he said, “more in spirit than style.” Raised in Wichita, Kansas, Jacobshagcn came from a sympathetic family who encouraged his drawing as a child, he said. His father, an avid art museum-goer, had friends who were serious painters and photographers. Seeing adults immersed in art confirmed his feelings about drawing, he said. Jacobshagcn attended Wichita Stale University and spent a year at the Art Center College of Design, in Pasedena, Calif. He received his bachelor’s of Fine arts from the Kansas City Art Institute and his master’s from the University of Kansas, Lawrence. An instructor told him once to think about doing something other than paint ing, he said. The instructor’s evaluation was not based on Jacobshagen \s lack of talent, but rather his lack of productivity, he said. That incident, forever etched in his mind, taught Jacobshagen that “criticism should be a learning experience” — a lesson he passes on to his students. “It was a real catalyst for me to commit myself to the idea of becoming an artist instead of just playing at it," he said. After reading some letters that Vincent Van Gogh had written to his brother, Jacobshagen said, he started to think more seriously about art. “Art is a luxury, and a large percentage of artists teach or drive cabs to make it while working,” he said. Jacobshagen teaches. He came to the University of Ne braska-Lincoln in 1968 to update the graphic design program. His courses now include studio problems, 100-level drawing classes and graduate drawing and painting classes. See JACOBSHAGEN on 3 * ' i '
