DN editor picked in heated meeting
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Jeremy Fitzpatrick was chosen
Monday by the UNL Publications
Board as next year’s Daily,Nebraskan
editor.
Fitzpatrick, a junior political sci
ence major from Omaha, was elected
in a 5-4 vote by the appointed board
members.
After an initial vote on Fitzpatrick,
Alan Phelps and Sam Kepfield —
which ended4 -3-2—the board moved
to vote on Fitzpatrick and Phelps, the
top two vote-getters.
Publications Board bylaws state
that a candidate for DN editor must
receive a majority vote, or five votes,
to be elected.
Controversy arose when board
members Kirk Kennedy and Bryan
Martin — both of whom voted for
Kepfield — abstained from the
Fitzpatrick-Phelps vote.
After three closed sessions and a
fourth vote, Fitzpatrick was finally
chosen — but not before tempers
flared among board members after
the second closed session, when
Kennedy continued to abstain.
Board member Julie Jorgensen
called the behavior “ridiculous.”
“I think this little game is bullshit,”
Jorgensen said. “This is their lives and
the future of the Daily Nebraskan
we’re voting on, not your political
affiliations.”
Fitzpatrick, who began working at
the DN in January 1991, said the
biggest problem facing the newspa
per was its financial future.
“The financial losses must be
stopped,” he said. “The elements are
all in place to have a really great
newspaper.”
The board also selected Jeff Singer,
a news-editorial and political science
major from Covina, Cal if.,as the Sum
mer Daily Nebraskan editor.
Also, the board selected Jay Cruse,
a senior advertising major, as the DN’s
advertising department manager.
POLICE REPORT
Beginning midnight Friday
9:07 a.m. — Argument between
students, library in Engineering
College.
11:12 a.m. — Accident, parking
lot west of Nebraska Union, $400.
11:14 a.m. — Accident, parking
lot east of Interior Design College,
$500.
11:48 a.m. — Accident, parking
lot at 17th and Holdrege streets,
$500.
12:08 p.m. — Money stolen from
purse, Bancroft Hall, $3.
5:16 p.m. — Verbal disturbance,
Campus Recreation Center.
5:27 p.m. — Verbal disturbance,
Westbrook Music Building.
5:31 p.m. — Coat stolen, Bio
chemistry Hall, $70.
6:53 p.m. — Person with injured
knee, Devaney Sports Center.
8:38 p.m. — Person hit in eye,
Devaney Sports Center.
9:04 p.m. — Assault, Devaney
Sports Center.
Beginning midnight Saturday
1:08 a.m.—Accident, Miller Hall,
$100.
10:42 a.m. — Accident, parking
lot at Harper-Schramm-Smith,
$400.
3:58 p.m. — Radar detector/coat/
flashlight stolen, parking lot across
from Devaney Sports Center at 17th
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interpret the class, Dougherty said.
But the stenographers are an inad
equate replacement for interpreters,
because the stenography readout is
often two minutes behind the instruc
tor, she said.
“If I want to ask a question, the
professor must go back to what was
said earlier. I also cannot see what
people’s reactions are to the lecture,”
Dougherty said.
Sometimes cultural problems can
exist between the stenographers and
the deaf students, Dougherty said.
“Once a stenographer said, Til
raise my hand in class if yqp want to
ask a question.’
“I can raise my hand myself,”
Dougherty replied.
Because of the lack of interpreters
available, Schick said UNL should
offer a degree in sign-language inter
pretation. Presently, only Southeast
Community College offers degrees in
sign-language interpreting.
Pew universities in the United
States offer sign-language degrees
because signing is perceived as a skill
“like fixing refrigerators,” Schick said.
But to be qualified at the college
level, she said an interpreter should
have four years of training and at least
three years of experience.
Another way to help the shortage
would be to hire full-time interpret
ers, Schick said. The university hired
12 part-time interpreters, but most of
them work in public elementary and
high schools during the day, she said.
The federal govemmentpays them
to work in the public schools, so UNL
must compete with the public schools
for interpreters, she said. The public
schools hire full-time interpreters and
give them full-time benefits.
But because of its limited budget,
UNL will not hire full-time interpret
ers.
“It’s a vicious cycle. The federal
government mandates that we pro
vide interpreters, which is fair. But
then they don’t give us themoney to
do it,” she said.
With the state government’s bud
get problems, Schick said she doubted
solutions would be found to the short
age soon.
Hibler
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ever you want in whatever rhetoric
you warn”
“It’s important to train people the
knowledge of self — then teacn them
to put it in the context of what’s out
there” in a stylistically excellent man
ner, Hibler said.
Hibler said even the best insight
was not credible if it was grammati
cally incorrect and was no good if it
could not be understood by a broader
audience.
The article also argued that stu
dents who had no deeply rooted emo
tional crisis or experience such as a
rape in their background would not do
well in the class, and that women were
unfairly burdened in such a class
room.
Hibler called these arguments “pre
posterous and absolutely untrue.”
Hibler said this argument had no
foundation because die article im
plied that some people have “insub
stantial lives.”
“Every human t^eirtyg has some
valuable and worthwhile insight or
truth,” Hibler said. “Part of the
professor’s job is helping discover
what those those are... not someone
else’s reality, but your truth, your
reality.”