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Meeting sheds light on issues facing women
By Kathryn Borman
Staff Reporter
The climate for women on campus hasn’t
yet warmed up, but progress is being made, said
the chairwoman of the Chancellor’s Commis
sion on the Status of Women.
Mary Beck met Wednesday with about 40
faculty, staff and students from City Campus to
get a feel” for issues regarding women on
campus. She will have another meeting today
on East Campus.
Beck will use input from the meetings in her
report to the NU Board of Regents later this
month.
The first report to the Board of Regents in
1991 described the climate for women on cam
Dual-career policy causes concern
pus as “chilly” and identified key areas in
which improvements needed to be made.
Suggested improvements included appoint
ing an associate to the chancellor for women’s
issues, addressing salary inequities between
men and women and devising family-friendly
policies at UNL, Beck said.
“I certainly think that a number of good
starts have been made,” Beck said.
She said people who attended the meeting
expressed concerns, however, that UNL’s dual
career policy designed to help find campus
employment for spouses or partners of new
faculty members was ineffective for partners
who were seeking non-faculty positions.
“It appears the family-friendly policies arc
not quite friendly enough,” Beck said.
At a recent Academic Senate meeting, mem
bers of the Chancellor’s Commission on the
Status of Women requested support from fac
ulty for inclusivcncss of women and women’s
issues in classroom instruction, Beck said.
Some faculty opposed the proposal because
they thoughtthc request infringed on their right
to control their own teaching, she said.
“It is not a matter of trying to tell people how
to teach — just to be sensitive,” she said.
Beck said some faculty members suggested
that education programs be designed for faculty
who did not know how to include women in
their teaching. Some facul ty also recommended
that sanctions be imposed when faculty were
uncooperative with and hostile toward women
in academic departments and in classrooms.
The meeting Wednesday assured confiden
tiality to participants, which attendccsal today’s
meeting also will receive, Beck said.
“People need to believe they’re not going be
told on, because there’s a lot of fear.” she said.
McElroy’s arraignment delayed
Student's lawyer
says charges
are ambiguous
From Staff Reports
The arraignment of University of
Nebraska-Lincoln graduate student
Arthur McElroy, who allegedly
pointed and attempted to fire a loaded
semiautomatic rifle at classmates in
his actuarial science class, was de
layed Wednesday.
McElroy, who was arrested at his
home in Bennct shortly after the inci
dent, is being held in the Lancaster
County Jail on charges of attempted
second-degree murder, making ter
roristic threats and two counts of use
of a weapon to commit a felony.
Deputy Lancaster County Attor
ney John Colbom said McElroy’s law
yer, Deputy Public Defender Scott
Helvie, filed a motion to quash the
charges.
Helvie is challenging the constitu
tionality of the state’s terroristic threat
statute and asking that victims be
identified for the second-degree mur
der charge, Colbom said.
Helvie claims the two charges are
vague, Colbom said.
Helvie’s motion will be heard at 9
a.m. Dec. 16 in Lancaster County
Court.
McElroy has filed a civil suit in
U.S. District Court in Lincoln alleg
ing .that university faculty and stu
dents interfered with his education.
No date has been set for the civil
hearing.
Section ot 14th Street
to close for sewer work
By Matt Woody
Staff Reporter
Many University of Nebraska-Lin
coln students will have to find a new
route to campus when 14th Street near
the Harper-Schramm-Smith Complex
closes next week, an official said.
Paul Carlson, interim business
manager at UNL, said the section of
14th Street between the entrances to
the complex's two parking lots would
be closed beginning Monday until
around Christmas.
The city will be installing a storm
sewer adjacent to the railroad tracks
near the complex, Carlson said, to
pave the way tor a new road that will
be built there next spring. The road
will connect 10th and 14th streets, he
said.
Closing the road will be inconve
nient for motorists, Carlson said, but
there is no way to keep the road open
during construction.
Although construction may cause
possible traffic problems, parking will
be unaffected, Carlson said. He sug
gested that motorists use either 1 Olh
or 16th streets as alternate routes.
The work should fail to disrupt
students walking to classes, Carlson
said. The only inconvenience, he said,
may result when students have to
cross 14th Street at a different spot
than they usually do.
The installation of the storm sewer
is the beginning of a series of projects
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that will result in the replacement of
the 1 Oth Street viaduct by a bridge on
Ninth Street, Carlson said. All of the
projects are aimed at rerouting traffic
away from campus, he said.
ASUN lifts election spending limits
Senators oppose
adding minuses
to grading system
By Angie Brunkow
Stan Reporter_
AS UN voted Wednesday to allow
presidential candidates to spend un
limited amounts of money during next
semester’s student government elec
tions.
The Electoral Commission pra
) ago,abolished the
previous S3,5(X)
limit, raised the
number of signa
tures students
need to get on the ballot and length
ened the election campaigning pc
riod.
The senate reconsidered the pro
posal Wednesday and passed it 13-11
with one abstention.
David Stcinke, an arts and sci
ences senator who originally voted
against the proposal, said he decided
to support lifting spending limits be
cause the Electoral Commission had
problems tracking campaign spend
ing in the past.
“There’s always loopholes,” he
said.
Chad Higgins, business senator,
said he also decided to vote for re
moving the limits. He said he changed
his vole because of a letter from Rich
ard Wood, general counsel for the
University of Nebraska, which said
spending limits were unconstitutional.
Higgins said it was pointless to
pass a rule that would later be “shot
down.”
Stcinke said passing the new rules
would allow student election groups
to organize before the spring semes
ter.
Andrew Loudon, speaker of the
senate, said about 80 students already
had shown interest in organizing for
the Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska spring elec
tion.
In other business, ASUN voted
unanimously for a resolution that
urged the Academic Senate’s Grad
ing and Exam Committee to oppose
adding minuses to the grading sys
tem.
Senators said minuses would di
minish students’ opportunities to get
jobs and scholarships, because mi
nuscsprobably would lower their grade
point averages.
Loudon said the unanimous deci
sion gave ASUN representatives on
the Grading and Examination Com
mittee “powerful ammunition” to
oppose the proposal.
Japan
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director for business affairs at UNL,
said the trip — including transporta
tion, room and board — was paid for
by Coca-Cola.
“fie said UNL and Kansas State also
would receive about $2(X),000 for
playing the game.
Fourakcr said 88 Huskcr players
and 56 athletic department personnel
made the trip, as well as nine non
athlclic department representatives.
He said he thought Kansas State’s
travel party was about the same size.
The athletic department’s roster
includes coaches, trainers and student
managers, sports information person
nel and members of the UNL video
crew.
Jack Goebel, vice chancellor of
business and finance at UNL, and NU
President Marlin Massengale left
Monday with Gov. Nelson on a (light
that wasn’t paid for by Coca-Cola,
Fourakcr said.
Massengale will return from To
kyo with the NU party, Fourakcr said,
while Nelson is leading a two-week
trade mission to Japan and Taiwan to
promote Nebraska beef.
George Sullivan, the head athletic
trainer, also lelt Monday, Fouraker
said, to ensure that the hotel accom- j
modations were in order. *
Regents making the trip include .
Robert Allen of Hastings, Don Blank J
of McCook, Nancy Hoch of Nebraska
City, Nancy O’Brien of Waterloo,
Margaret Robinson of Norfolk and
Rosemary Skrupa of Omaha, as well 1
as student regent Andrew Sigcrson. *
Regents John Payne of Kearney '
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Fouraker said the spouses of some :
of the athletic department personnel
had gone to Tokyo at their own ex
pense on separate flights.
Police have no leads
in rash of vandalism
From Staff Reports
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
police arc investigating vandalism
and theft that caused about $1,600
damage to 14 cars parked in a cam
pus parking lotat 19 th and T streets
over the weekend.
Sgt. Mylo Bushing of the UNL
Police Department said the break
ins were reported late Sunday night
and early Monday morning.
So far, Bushing said, police hav$
no leads.
The thieves entered the cars by
smashing the driver-side or rear
windows, he said.
Bushing said the thieves took
car stereos, and some miscellaneous
items such as radar equipment and
compact discs also were taken.
He said police believed the
thieves were aware that students
were just reluming from Thanks
giving break with their cars full of
belongings.
Baldwin
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xjlice officer Sept. 5 during what
loclors called a psychotic episode —
lis second in 10 months.
Baldwin was found not guilty by
eason of insanity in the Jan. 18 beat
ng of Gina Simanck Mountain, who
vas leaving home to walk her dog
vhcn Baldwin attacked her.
Doctors will immediately start as
sessing Baldwin lo determine how to
treat him, she said.
Smith would not comment on the
details of Baldwin’s treatment, but
said the duration of his stay could be
from “overnight to indefinite.”
Merritt said Baldwin’s next re
view had been set for April 23,1993.
The purpose of the review, Merritt
said, w ill be to decide whether Bald w in
still is dangerous lo himself and oth
ers. An earlier review could be granted
on request, he said.
Diversity
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Chicanos, Hispanics and Latinos
nust become more vocal on issues
hat concern them — not just when
heir organizations need money, he
aid.
“Every time something comes up,
(James) Griescn gives us money to
shut us up,” Flores Palomo said.
After the symposium, Gricsen, vice
;hancel lor for student affairs, dec I i ned
to respond to negative comments
about the administration. But Griesen
aid it was good that students were
speaking out.
Andrea Juarez, student chancellor
lor the Commission on the Status of
Minorities, said one problem was that
tanly a fraction of Chicanos, Latinos
and Hispanics were willing to recog
nize the problems and be vocal. These
groups must work together to achieve
tthangc, she said.
Carranza said that in 1989, the
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Every time something
comes up, (James)
Griesen gives us
money to shut us up.
Palomo
President for the Coalition of
People of Color
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administration promised to prepare
annual status reports on minority fac
ulty, students and staff, but no reports
had been prepared.
Jolly said that after spending eight
weeks on campus, he believed that
almost everything he heard at the
symposium could be validated.
In an effort to increase diversity,
Jolly said he collected statistics on the
number of minorities employed at
U N L. H iring freezes w i 11 be placed on
departments in which more minori
ties arc needed, but few attempts have
been made to hire them, he said.
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