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Skater’s ex-husband charged
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Tonya
Harding’s ex-husband has been
charged with conspiring to attack ri
val figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, au
thorities said Wednesday.
Jeff Gillooly was named in a war
rant issued Tuesday by Circuit Judge
Donald Londer. The announcement
followed a day-long meeting between
Harding and authorities.
Gillooly had not yet been arrested,
said Multnomah County Sheriffs Of
ficer Dave Bejarano.
An affidavit from a sheriffs depu
ty, released with the arrest warrant,
said Harding’s bodyguard signed a
confession admitting Gillooly’s role
in the conspiracy.
Harding divorced Gillooly in Au
gust, later resumed living with him,
but said on Tuesday that the two were
separating again. His arrest further
complicates the skater’s efforts to re
main on the U.S. Olympic team at the
Winter Games in Norway next month.
She and Gillooly have both denied
any involvement in the alleged plot to
injure Kerrigan. Olympic officials
have said Harding would be removed
from the team if implicated in the
attack.
The affidavit says Gillooly’s bank
records show he withdrew $9,000 in
three separate transactions between
- it
Please believe in me.
—Harding,
figure skater
Dec. 27 and Jan. 6.
The affidavit details wire transfers
Eckardt made to Derrick Smith, an
other man charged in the attack. -
The affidavit says Shane Minoaka
Stant, the accused “hit man,” traveled
to the Boston area, where Kerrigan
lives, on Dec. 29 and stayed until Jan.
3. It says telephone records show Stant
placed a call Jan. 1 from his hotel
room to the rink where Kerrigan con
ducts her practice sessions.
According to the affidavit, Stant
moved to a motel in Romulus, Mich.,
on Jan. 4. He received a phone call
there Jan. 5 from Gillooly and
Harding’s home phone in Oregon.
On Jan. 12, Smith confessed to FBI
agents in Phoenix, the affidavit said.
Smith said Stant was unable to carry
out the assault in Boston, so he trav
eled to Detroit a week before the U.S.
Figure Skating National Champion
ships where he assaulted Kerrigan fol
lowing a practice session.
Smith admitted driving the get
-ff -
away car after being paid $2,000 by
Eckardt for the job.
Stant said the decision to hit
Kerrigan in the right knee was reached
during planning meetings in Oregon
because “as it was explained to Stant
by Gillooly, this was Kerrigan’s land
ing leg and that by injuring it, she
would be unable to compete,” the af
fidavit said.
Harding spoke with the FBI and
local prosecutors for more than 10
hours Tuesday and reportedly denied
any involvement in the attack. About
eight hours into the interview she re
leased a statement announcing that
she and Gillooly were separating.
As she left the questioning, Harding
was asked by reporters what she would
say to her fans. Her voice trembling,
the 23-year-old skater said, “Please
believe in me.”
Asked if she still believed in
Gillooly, Harding said, “Definitely,”
then drove off.
Bike concerns aired before ASUN
Cyclists protest two
ideas restructuring
City Campus traffic
By Heather Lampe
Staff Reporter_
More than 30 people attended an
ASUN meeting Wednesday night to
protest suggestions that could restruc
ture pedestrian and bicycle traffic
throughout City Campus.
The suggestions,
presented to the
University of Ne
braska-Lincoln
Parking Advisory
Committee, include
various methods to
prevent unneces
sary interaction between pedestrians
and cyclists on campus.
One plan suggests creating dis
mount areas on the perimeter of cam
pus, banning bicycles, roller blades
and skateboards in the campus core. It
also recommends a $5 bike-registra
tion fee to aid in identification if the
bike were stolen.
I A second recommendation, a fea
sibility study designed by three UNL
students, does not suggest banning
bikes from the campus interior.
In an interview after the ASUN
meeting, Mark Petersen, one of the
study’s authors, said it would increase
bike riding on campus.
The study recommends initially
designating perimeter campus side
walks as bikeways. Phase two would
involve widening certain campus side
walks, both internal and on the perim
eter of campus, to be added to the
bikeways.
While these areas would be the best
and safest mode of bike travel on
campus, Petersen said, cyclists would
not be required to use them.
The study also suggests a $5 bike
registration fee, part of which would
contribute toward the construction of
the bikeways and better bike-parking
areas.
“I feel that the proposal is another
paternalistic issue of the university to
take away our rights,” said Don
Nelson, a junior anthropology major,
at the meeting.
Dean Waddel, chairman of the park
ing advisory committee, said after the
meeting that once committee mem
bers received a report from ASUN on
student reaction to the proposals, the
next step would be considered.
The committee would have the
option to pursue one of the proposals,
select points from each or drop the
subject entirely, he said. Any recom
mendation agreed upon by the com
mittee members would proceed to Jack
Goebel, vice chancellor for business
and finance, for further consideration.
Rosina Paolini, a junior physical
therapy major, said another fee wasn ’ t
necessary.
“If we’d already paid our student
fees, why are we looking at another
fee?” she said.
Sonya Lammli, a freshman in gen
eral studies, also questioned the pro
posal of bicycle-registration fees.
“I have my bike, but I don’t ride it
everyday. Do I still have to pay five
dollars?” Lammli said.
Keith Benes, president of the As
sociation of Students of the Universi
ty of Nebraska, said administrators
probably would consider student opin
ion when reviewing the proposal.
“It’s my sense that the administra
tion is in no big hurry to ram this thing
through. It is also my sense that they
are going to rely heavily on student
views.”
Spanier
Continued from Page 1
Knoll. UNL officials ruled Knoll was
injured in a hazing-related accident.
Matzke visited with the Knoll fam
ily shortly before taking office Dec.
10.
The senator said he hoped the bill
would be an incentive for alumni mem
bers of all greek houses to tell active
members that hazing was no longer
permitted.
Former Interfraternity Council
President Scott Bunz, who helped
Matzke draft the bill, said the bill was
meant to be a deterrent to hazing, not
an attack on the greek system.
“We’re not out on a witch hunt, by
any means,” Bunz said. “We’re not
out to prosecute. The incident last
semester put everyone on their guard. ”
Bunz said the Fiji incident was a
“strong wake-up call” for fraternity
presidents, many of whom supported
the bill.
Spanier questioned Bunz about the
accusation that IFC might have come
down hard on Fiji because one frater
nity could be blamed more conve
niently than the entire greek system.
Bunz said the accusation was un
fair because it assumed all fraternities
were involved in hazing.
Matzke, a Fiji and UNL alumnus,
said the fraternity system could be a
benefit for college students. The bill is
not intended to be a criticism of frater
nities, he said, but is aimed at the
ongoing problem of hazing and alco
hol abuse on college campuses.
David Bower, a drug education
coordinator at UNL, said on the show
that the university had programs to
combat alcohol abuse.
Peer alcohol educators and an or
ganization called Students Taking A
New Direction encourage low-risk
drinking on campus.
A caller on the show, Bob, who has
spent 28 years in law enforcement,
said he believed self-government did
not work without self-discipline. That
could have contributed to the hazing
problem at UNL, he said.
Ron, another caller, agreed but de
fended the greek system.
“I’ve been involved in fraternities
for 15 years and I agree wholehearted
ly,” he said.
But, he said, he was disappointed
with the media’s negative coverage of
last fall’s hazing incident.
He said the negative publicity ne
glected the good that fraternities and
sororities did for the community. It
gave a false impression that the Fiji
incident was a model of greek life as a
whole, he said.
Grades
Continued from Page 1
Paul Finkler, the physics and as
tronomy professor who brought the
idea of the more comprehensive grad
ing system to the committee, said the
40-point system carried the minus sys
tem proposal to its logical extreme.
“To me, if you don’t have all these
categories, you can’t be as accurate as
you would like to be,” he said.
Blaha said his committee believed
the 40-point grading proposal was an
improvement on the minus proposal.
“We wanted instructors to have the
ability to give grades that would allow
them to give any grade point average
a student can achieve,” he said.
Finkler said the nine-point grading
system distorted student grades at the
end of each semester.
Students who earn a semester-av
erage between 3.0 and 3.4 all receive
a B grade and 3.0 points toward their
grade point average, he said.
“I would like to give the student
what the student earned,” he said.
Benes, who plans to meet with
Academic Senate members to discuss
the issue, said professors had a tough
enough time giving students grades
based on the nine-point system.
Under the proposed system, pro
fessors teaching essay-based classes,
such as English, would have problems
deciding whether an “A" is worth 3.7
or 3.9 points, Benes said.
“It’s just too fine (of a distinc
tion),” he said.
But Finkler disagreed.
“That’s faulting the proposed sys-1
tern forgiving the professor the option
of being as accurate as he can,” he]
said.