UNL’s best to motivate students
By Jan Calinger
Staff Reporter
The bestof U NL brainsand brawns
will be working together to keep Lin
coln students in school.
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln Athletic Department and Golden
Key National Honor Society arc ob
serving American Education Week
by sending students to eight Lincoln
j un ior and sen i or h i gh sc hool s to speak.
Keith Zimmer, alhlclie/carccr
counselor for the UNL Athletic De
partment, said the university students
would speak about motivation in
school, selling goals anil committing
oneself to full potential. Alter the
speeches, the sessions will be open for
questions.
Isaac Cursory a .member of the
UNL track team, said Education Week
was a good opportunity to talk to
younger students about the impor
tance of education and athletics.
He said he believed the program
was the best way for high school
students to be reached about educa
tion.
“I think it’s a great program,”
Carson said. “When I was in junior
high, the only people who came to us
were adults. I think kids will look up
to us, because we’re going through
the same things.”
Carson said the program also had a
positive effect on him.
“(Zimmer) telling me that 1 was a
role model, motivated me to keep my
grades up,” he said.
Susan Doerr, a member of the
Golden Key National Honor Society,
echoed Carson s opinions about the
program.
“I thought it would be fun and good
for kids as well as a learning experi
ence for me,” she said. “I think the
kids will look up to us. They’ll really
listen to what we have to say. They’re
not just going to ignore us.
“We have to pass on our knowl
edge, so (students) don’t make the
same mistakes we did.”
Zimmer said American Education
Week was ideal as a community ser
vice project and was well-received
during its first year. He also said he
was expecting a good reception this
year.
“StudenLshave made brochurcsand
decorated the schools to prepare,” he
said. “It’s a really big deal to them.
There’s a lot of enthusiasm.”
RHA opposes guard tor parking lot
By Irish Spencer
Staff Reporter
A proposal to spend S16,000 for a
security guard in the Cathcr-Pound
Neihardt residence hall parking lot
met with opposition from members of
the Residence Hall Association at
Monday night’s meeting.
Mark Goldfcdcr, a student repre
sentative on the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln Parking Advisory
Board, said his informal proposal
would place a certified security guard
in a booth from at least 11 p.m. to 7
a.m. Funds to pay the officer’s salary,
about SI6,(XX), would come from re
allocation in the parking advisory
board’s budget, Goldfcdcr said.
I
Andrea Casart.Ncihardt president,
said the booth would be a waste of
money and that the money would be
better spent on paving lots.
Goldfcder said the booth would be
useful because
some students did
not think the new
security phones
were enough.
UNL police work
with a “skeleton
crew” of four of
ficers and one dispatcher at night.
Jodi Veylupek, Ncihardl senator,
said it was no secret that the parking
lots were unsafe. If residents come
home late at night, they call a friend to
ride with thenuo find a parking space.
she said, or they call the Lampus
Escort Service. She said she thought
the new security phones would in
crease safely.
Casart said she thought the new
phones would be more useful than one
security guard. One person couldn’t
cover the parking lot in the time it
wou Id take pol ice to respond to some
one who uses the phone, she said.
Goldfcdcr said the security guard
also would protect the cars in the lot.
There have been complaints about
cars being broken into, he said.
Goldfcdcr said students or faculty
who had suggestions or comments
should attend the UNL Parking Advi
sory Board meeting Thursday at 3
p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
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can males in the class.
“I truly believe the situation would
have been avoided if ibis information
gap had not been there,” Caublc wrote.
• The absence of an explanation to
the students of the objective of the
questioning.
“To begin questioning without
advising someone of the circum
stances being looked into and ensur
ing the individual is aware of the
possible results of any information
obtained in the interview is not stan
dard procedure,” he wrote.
• A line of questioning that had no
bearing on the situation being inves
tigated.
McGill asked each student if he
knew Harms was in the class, and
each one answered that he did not.
“From that point,” Caublc wrote,
“no subsequent questions relating to
Candice Harms were asked. The ques
tions were of a more personal type.
This should not have happened.”
The students said they were asked,
among other things, their heights,
weights, current and previous ad
dresses and social security numbers.
“Personal questions ... were not
appropriate in this instance,” Caublc
wrote.
• A demand by McGill to photo
graph the students, rather than a re
quest the students could have refused.
“Each of the students had a right to
decline the taking of a photograph,”
Caublc wrote. “1 do not feel this op
tion was properly presented to them.”
He also wrote that a photograph
was nQl necessary for the investiga
tion. * .
Caublc said McGill made errors,
but the chief said he didn’t think they
were intentional.
“I realize the pain caused (to the
African-American studcnls)can never
be removed,” he said. “But, in re
sponse to the incident, I have taken
several steps to prevent any similar
incidents from taking place.”
Those steps include soliciting in
formation from minority students and
I personnel at IheOfficcof Multicultural
Affairs about problems minorities
encounter with police. From there,
recommendations for solutions can
be made, he said.
Also, he said, UNL police officers
will receive training in cultural diver
sity.
Chambers said he wanted to know
wfio gave the orders to conduct the
“harassing escapade.”
“If they took orders from the Lin
coln Police Department, something is
drastically wrong,” he said.
Chambers said he had been dis
turbed with Gricscn’s behavior since
the incident occurred.
“Everything Gricscn has done has
muddied the water from the begin
ning,” he said. “His remarks have
been flippant, and he has attempted to
trivialize the situation.”
After the investigation began,
Gricscn said he thought the police
investigation was appropriate.
Chambers said that because
Gricscn already had said he thought
the police action was justified and
appropriate, he rendered himself un
suitable to conduct the investigation
with Goebel.
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Each of the students
had a right to decline
the taking of a photo
graph. I do not feel this
option was properly
presented to them.
-Cauble
UNL police chief
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In the report to Spanicr, Gricscn
and Goebel said the description given
of the man that Harms was allegedly
scaled beside was “an African-Ameri
can male of large build.”
Three of the five students ques
tioned by police were interviewed by
the Daily Nebraskan. Phil Bales, a
former fullback on the Cornhuskcr
football team, is 6 feet 2 inches tall,
260 pounds. Mitchell Strong, a fresh
man sprinter on Nebraska’s track and
field team, is 5 feet 11 inches tall.
Anthony Briggs is 5 feet 5 inches tall
and heavy-set.
Briggs said one of the other stu
dents questioned was light-skinned,
and did not look African-American.
“The description excluded some
of the students, yet all were set upon
by the UNL officer.”
Chambers said he thought Spanicr
was “very poorly served” by Gricscn
and Goebel, and that the two misrep
resented facts.
Neither Gricscn nor Goebel could
be reached for comment.
Dorms
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The major difficulty officials arc
facing, Morgcnscn said, is a lack of
cash (low to construct the student
housing.
Joe Rowson, director of public af
fairs at UNL, said residence halls
would be built on UNO campus only
if they were self-supportive through
room rentals.
But the traditional high-rise dor
mitory is not a feasible option at UNO
because of h igh construction costs, he
said.
Room rental, Rowson said, would
have to be about twice the amount
charged by either the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln or the University
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list of capital construction priorities
for state-run colleges and universi
ties, which was reviewed at the re
gents monthly meeting Saturday. The
commission’s priorities were at odds
with the regents.
The commission’s lop priority for
the list is universitywide compliance
with lire, safely and asbestos regula
tions. The regents had made the com
pliance projects 1 Ithon theirpriority
list.
The regents’ top priority — asbes
tos removal and renovation in Burnett
Hall at UNL — was relegated to 1 Oth
place on the commission’s list.
Martin said the commission had
set up an objective process for evalu
ation of projects where criteria was
weighted on a point plan that was
consistent with the statewide compre
hension plan.
Regent Don Blank of McCook said
he thought the use of a point system to
of Nebraska al Kearney lo be sell
supportive.
The only other option, he said,
would be to construct a series of one
or iwo-siory buildings lo house stu
dents.
“But they don’t have the room for
that,” Rowson said.
“Either way it Tdoks like a pretty
lough proposition.”
He said that Regent Charles Wil
son of Lincoln interviewed UNO stu
dents and found it was a major issue
on the campus. •
The regents, Rowson said, want
UNO officials to pursue all options lo
build housing.
“The subcomm i lice be I ic ves, based
on student input, that it isan important
issue,” he said. “The board is not
willing to totally forget it.”
make the project priority lists was a
frustrating part of the meetings with
the commission.
Blank said a lot of time and effort
went into pulling priorities together
for the NU system. To see it com
pletely “flip-flopped” at the meeting
was discouraging, he said.
“We need subjective thought on
capital construction; it can’t just be
from a point system — you have lo
look al needs and priorities,” Blank
said.
Herb Howe, associate to the chan
cellor of the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, said the frustrations con
cerning the commission were not par
ticular to the NU system. The amount
of time it takes to respond to the
commission’s requests is even more
of a burden for smaller institutions, he
said.
“This should not be seen as a NU
vs\ the commission issue,” Howe said.
“Other institutions don’t have the stall
in place or the institutional research
and planning functions of some other
institutions.
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