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silting next to her that day, police
would have come and talked to me.”
Nevertheless, Chambers outlined
four major concerns about the inci
dent in his letter to Spanicr:
• UNL police had no business
making “such an outrageous, racist
call” to Bates, who was implicated
“solely because of his race,” Cham
bers said.
Chambers called the manner in
which the contact was made “highly
inappropriate and unprofessional.”
• More than 180 students arc en
rolled in the anthropology class, he
said, and several different ethnic
groups arc represented.
“Was every member of each racial
group — including each white stu
dent— subjected to the same insult
ing, heavy-handed police procedure
as Mr. Bates?” Chambers asked, r
“Were all of their names linked to the
disappearance of Ms. Harms solely
on the basis of their ethnic back
ground?”
• Chambers contended that UNL
and Lincoln police were “barking up
the wrong tree” by going after Bales,
who was the starling fullback for the
Comhuskcr football team from 1979
81.
Bates is working toward his
master's degree at UNL and works for
the Nebraska Department of Correc
tional Services.
“He’s a law-abiding citizen,”
Chambers wrote in the letter.
• “Implications of obvious viola
tions of privacy” surround the inci
dent, Chambers said, adding that he
was try ing to find which UNL person
nel provided the police with names of
African-American male students in
the class.
Also, he said, Bates’ telephone
number is unlisted.
“Did they get it from the phone
company by asserting that he is the
subject of some type of criminal in
vcstigation?”Chambcrs asked. “If so,
they sullied his name in addition to
invading his privacy.”
Bates’ number is listed in the 1992
93 UNL Student Directory.
Griesen said gender and race infor
mation of all students had been stored
in computer banks in the Registrar’s
Office, and officials released the names
of African-American students en
rolled in the class only after they
determined the information formed a
“necd-to-know” scenario.
“I think it was appropriate,”
Griesen said. “When the police de
partments arc trying to find a missing
student, you need to give them access
to any i nformation avai lable that m ight
speed up their investigation.”
Copies of the Chambers’ letter also
were sent to Bates; Massengale;
Gricscn; Eric Jolly, director of UNL’s
Office of Affirmative Action/Diver
sity; George Garrison, chairman of
the University of Nebraskaat Omaha’s
black studies program; black UNL
administrators and faculty members;
legislators; and news media.
Chambers called the incident “rac
ist and inappropriate,” and said he
wondered if the tactic of interviewing
students based on their race had be
come widespread at UNL.
“If (Harms) was talking to a white
male, would they round up all the
white males on campus?” he said.
“Like I said in the letter, I’m sure she
talked to other people from other eth
nic groups, too.
“B ul they only do this sort of trashy
investigation when a black person is
involved.”
UNL Police Chief Ken Caublesaid
he would continue his own investiga
tion of the incident, but had not yet
received enough information to com
ment.
Chambers said the incident con
cerned him because it could be prece
dent-setting, and other students could
be targeted for future questioning
solely because of their race.
He cited another incident, which
occurred last month at New York
Stale University in Onconta, N.Y., in
which university officials compiled a
list of names and addresses of every
black male student for police who
were searching for a crime suspect.
According to an article in Newsday,
the officials’ action stemmed from a
Sept. 4 burglary in which a 77-year -
old woman received stab wounds.
She said the suspect was African
American, and the local sheriff’s de
partment put out an alert for a “col
lege-age black male,” giving no fur
ther description.
Chambers said there were striking
similarities between that incident and
the one involving Bates.
If all of this can be done on the
basis of your being black ... the
university’s policies need to be
changed.
Gricscn, however, said there were
noparallclsatall'between thccascs.
Spanicr could not be reached for
comment.
Gricscn said he and other UNL
officials would continue to investi
gate the matter, and would decide
later how to respond to Chambers’
charges.
Chambers said he was optimistic
about the possibility of meeting with
Spanicr and other UNL officials.
I m bringing this matter up not
Dnly as a black man who is outraged
and offended by this action, but also
as an elected member of office,”
Chambers said. “If this kind of thing
goes on and the university tolerates it,
he university will gain an implacable
'nemy in the (Nebraska) Legislature
— namely, me.” __
