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Beavis and Butt-head T-shirts They Suck AVI VS Edge wood Plaza - 5400 S. 56 th St. 423-2584 Eastpark Plaza - N. 66th St. 467-2727 _ was NOW $429 Law could tap underage drinking By Jan Calinger Staff Reporter Law enforcement officials will have an easier time tracing beer kegs purchased for parties with underage drinking because of a new Nebraska law, a state senator said. Sen. Rex Haberman of Imperial, who introduced the legislation, said the law, passed by the Nebraska Leg islature in June, created a more thor ough system of registering beer kegs and their purchase. Haberman said the legislation, also known as the Nebraska Liquor Con trol Act, was intended to reduce un derage drinking. “You hear about people talking about keggers, young people being intoxicated,” he said. “You know someone’s buying younger kids li quor, and some stores have hundreds of false ID’s.” According to the law, sellers of kegs, classified as containers of at least five gallons, are required to record the date of the sale, the identification number of the keg, the purchaser s name, address, picture ID number and signature. The forms bearing this in formation are to be kept at the liquor store for at least six months after the purchase.^ The law further requires liquor stores to place Nebraska Liquor Con trol Commission identification labels on their kegs. These labels carry the information from the purchaser’s form, along with the name of the retailer. Tampering with these labels would be a Class III misdemeanor. Commission director Frosty Chapman said an emergency clause in the law allowed it to take effect upon passage. “Tne emergency clause forced us to get something going,” he said. The law also required the commis sion to establish rules specifying how the law would be implemented and enforced, Chapman said. The com mission has issued temporary forms for liquor distributors to use until it can meet to design permanent ones. Chapman said the commission had a good model on which to base the law. The Nebraska forms and legisla tion are similar to ones used in Wash ington, he said. “Rather than reinvent the wheel, we used Washington’ s form as a mod el, knowing that when we get some experience, we’ll change the infor mation on the forms before it’s over. “The rules and regulations will specify and provide detail on how the law will operate. It’s a power the Commission has. We have a whole set of rules and regulations.” Chapman said the commission had been hard at work coming up with Nebraska adaptations of the law. The commission has proposed hav ing special forms and identification tags required in the law, and also has suggested that keg purchasers sign a sworn statement saying they are of legal age to purchase alcohol and will not allow minors to consume it. Chapman said a public hearing on the proposal would be Oct. 14. Haberman said he believed the law would effectively stop underage drink ing if local authorities cooperate ful ly* The restrictions on kegs and cost of cans will make buyers reluctant to share their beer with minors, he said. “To start buying case beer is too ex pensive,” Chapman said. “And if someone wants to buy 10-15 cases of beer from a retailer, that should alert him something’s going on.” Haberman said Douglas County law enforcement officials had already contacted the commission asking for names of stores that sold beer kegs found in illegal situations. But some liquor store personnel dispute how effective the new law will be. Jeff Mapes, night manager of N Drive-In Package Liquor and Beer, 19th and N streets, said he believed keg sales would not be affected much. “I don’t think it’s going to reduce the keg sales,” he said. “I think people who purchase the kegs will under stand they have a greater responsibil ity when they buy the keg.” ASUN fails to pass rule on DIN personals • • i . t • t_l' l*«J - - CtlknAal/ PA fVia rac/\1nltr By Becky Becner Staff Reporter_ During the first ASUN meeting this school year senators of the Asso ciation of Students of the University of Nebraska debated a resolution sug gesting a ban on anonymous person als and other anonymous advertise ments in the Daily Nebraskan. The resolution, which one senator said was intended to give students or organizations “harmed” by advertise ments in the Daily Nebraskan a way to find out who placed the advertise ment, failed 17-4. The resolution said the Daily Ne braskan had printed “libelous adver tisements that would put the paper in legal jeopardy.” It would have required the pa per to keep on file the names of all advertisers. These names then would have been made public. Vice President Trent Steele said the resolution had been written during a time last school year when personals airCClCU al UIIU wcic puuiiaiiwu vvvij day for nine consecutive days. Although Steele was disturbed by the personals, he said he had nothing to do with writing the resolution. Arts and Sciences Senator Deb Silhacek said the main motivation behind the resolution was “to keep people from having negative things published about them.” ASUN President Keith Benes said he had hoped keeping advertisers names on record would have been a deterrent, keeping advertisements that hurt people out of the paper. KJ luiuvvn ow«v» **»v ivkiviuuuii wao meant to be a suggestion to the Daily Nebraskan, and if it had passed the paper would have been able to take it or leave it. Arts and Science Senator Zachary Moore said he wanted to “put teeth into the resolution** by adding an amendment. If the paper ignored ASUN’s sug gestion, Moore wanted the Commit tee For Fees Allocation to punish the Daily Nebraskan by refusing to raise the paper’s funding for the next aca demic year. LAWLOR'S SPORTIN • S£I£CTED MIN'S, LAMB', KID’S SUMMER SPORTSWEAR Rom Nke. Starter. The • SELECTED MEN'S, LADIES', KID'S WINTER SKI WEAR. • SELECTED BASEBALL & SOFTBALL GEAR. • SELECTED TENNIS & RACQUETBALL RACQUETS. • SELECTED GOLF SETS & ACCESSORIES. • 500 PAIRS OF MEN'S* LADIES' ATHLETIC FOOTWEAR. • ENURE STOCK WATER SKIS. • SELECTED LICENSED COLLEGE & PRO HATS. • SELECTED SOCCER BALLS & VOLLEYBALLS • SELECTED 1992 SNOW SKIS A BOOTS. • SELECTED IN-LINE SKATES • SELECTED ATHLETIC • SELECTED T-SHIRTS. • SELECTED SWEATSHIRTS SPORTING GOODS Crickets plaguing Lincoln s buildings By Mark Baldridge Staff Raportar Lincolnites are really being bugged. What’s bothering them? Crickets. Enormous numbers of crickets have been moving indoors since early this month. They’re everywhere ■— underfoot, crowding doorways, in vading homes and businesses all over town. Why so many crickets—and why do they all want to come inside? Leon Higley, assistant professor of entomology at the University of Ne braska-Lincoln, said the first question was more difficult to answer. “Usually, populations (of crickets) , peak with dry weather,” he said — just the opposite of what Nebraska has experienced this summer. “Why populations of insects go up and down is a big question,” he said. “It’s something entomologists spend a lot of time trying to figure out.” But the question of why they all seem to be moving indoors is easier to answer, he said. “Towards the fall many insects will move to over-wintering sites,” he said. “It's a mechanism that allows the insects to survive the winter.” Though it might seem a little too warm for crickets to worry about fall just yet, Higley said that’s not the case. “Insects don’t get fooled by tem perature,” he said. “The change is triggered by photoperiod.” Photoperiod is the measure of day light in each 24-hour period. Higley, who teaches a course on insects and their influence on society, said crickets also were suDject to ail ments that could affect their behavior. The crickets take in microscopic parasites that grow inside their bod ies, he said. When the organisms reach adulthood they drive the cricket to ward water, where they breed. In buildings, crickets may go to toilets, where the fully grown worms “burst out of the cricket,” he said. Humans finding the parasites may believe they are suffering from some kind of infestation, as the worms swim around the toilet bowl, he said. But the worms are strictly linked to crickets and are no threat to people, he said. “It’s one of the pinnacles of my entomological career—having some one come in ashen faced (from the bathroom) and being able to reassure them,” he said. College papers suffer string of thefts By Chris Hain Staff Reporter There is a new form of protest hitting college campuses that student newspapers are finding hard to deal with. On college campuses across the country student activists are stealing newspapers when they don’t agree with articles in them. More than IS student newspaper thefts have oc curred on college campuses nation wide in 1993 and as many as 15,000 papers have been taken at one time. Perhaps the biggest problem in dealing with the theft of student news papers is that the matter hasn't been addressed in a court of law, said Mark Goodman, executive director of the Student Press Law Center. The cen ter, in Washington, provides free le gal advice and information to student papers and journalists. “It’s an issue that hasn’t come up frequently enough,” he said. * Goodman said another problem is that most student papers were free and many people didn’t think that the taking of free newspapers was steal ing. But it was stealing, Goodman said. “They can still show the loss of papers that they paid to produce, and the presence of advertising,” he said. The Daily Nebraskan, the University ofNebraska-Lincoln’s newspaper, has i -44 We'll just have to deal with each case on an Individual basis. —Fitzpatrick Daily Nebraskan editor -ft - had a small taste of newspaper theft in the past, but it has created no official policy regarding the matter. A newspaper, though, could take several avenues to fight back, Goodman said, including both uni versity and legal channels. Pressing formal charges probably would be the most effective deterrent, he said. “I think people will sit up and take notice if they are charged with a crim inal action," Goodman said. The Daily Nebraskan has no spe cific policy to guide its reaction to a theft. The paper, though, could take legal action even though a precedent doesn’t exist, Dailv Nebraskan Editor Jeremy Fitzpatrick said. “It has happened in the past here, and has happened recently around the country, and it probably is something we’ll have to deal with in the future, he said. “We’ll just have do deal with each case on an individual basis." John Wiltse, associate general counsel for the University of Nebras ka, said that if such thieves were identified, the issue could be addressed through local law enforcement. “I think the police could handle it as a violation of state law,” he said. Shelley Stall, director of Student Legal Services at UNL, agreed that this form of protest could probably be prosecuted as a theft if a monetary value could be put on the stolen pa pers. Stealing newspapers also could be considered a violation of the First Amendment of the United States Con stitution, she said. “If you disagree with what some one says, does that mean you take away the medium for everybody to use?” Stall said. UNL’s newspaper thefts have been small-scale and have mainly occurred during student government elections when groups have thrown away pa pers that endorsed opposing parties, Fitzpatrick said. . . The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia recently had its own ex perience with this trend. In April, 14,000 copies of The Daily Pennsyl vanian were stolen by students who objected to a conservative colum nist’s article. ... Some of the students responsible for the theft were identified and have been undergoing judicial proceedings within the university.