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eloping after
midnight.
January 31, 1994
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 93 No. 93
Special Report
■ This week:
Campus consumption
■ Today:
UNL administrators take stand
Alcohol consequences harsh
By Adeana Left in
Senior Editor
Alcohol has become commonplace
on university and college cam
puses nationwide, and so have the
consequences.
Drunk driving, sexual assault, fights, date
rape, vandalism and accidents all can be
linked to irresponsible consumption of alco
hol. And all occur at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln.
“Every single case of date rape I’ve dealt
with has involved alcohol,” said James
Griesen, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Judith Kriss, director of the women ’ s cen
ter, said women needed to use their heads to
protect their bodies, and they couldn’t do
that if alcohol impaired their judgment.
“Assuming every one in four women will
be sexually assaulted sometime in her life ...
most of those sexual assaults are alcohol
related, not all.”
Kriss said people didn’t mix drinking and
driving, and shouldn’t mix drinking and re
lationships.
“If I can know that getting drunk is a
behavior with a possible consequence of
sexual assault, maybe I can modify that be
havior.
“Women and men have to figure it out for
themselves.
Last November’s Jeffrey Knoll incident
is another example of the serious conse
quences of irresponsible drinking, Griesen
said.
Knoll, a Phi Gamma Delta pledge, fell
from a third-story house window. The Uni
versity Judicial Board found hazing and al
cohol were involved in the accident.
“The real thing that caused Jeffrey Knoll
to fall was that he was intoxicated to the point
of impaired judgment,” Griesen said.
This incident wasn’t the first of its kind.
Students also have fallen from balconies
and fire escapes after having too much to
drink, Griesen said.
According to the University Health
Center’s spring 1993 survey, which sur
veyed 306 students, 73 to 74 percent of UNL
students drink alcohol.
Forty percent get intoxicated on a regular
basis and 36 percent consume five or more
drinks in one sitting at least once every two
weeks.
Other studies show alcohol use increases
the likelihood of unplanned sex and multiple
partners over time and reduces the likelihood
of condom use.
David Hunnicutt of the Alcoholism and
Drug Abuse Council of Nebraska said while
alcohol consumption on university and col
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Because students are not allowed to drink on campus, they inundate the taverns of downtown Lincoln. Despite frigid
temperature, lines are common on weekends as last call approaches.
lege campuses had become the norm, it was
not healthy.
The leading cause of death for young
adults under the age of 24 is alcohol-related
traffic crashes, he said, followed by alcohol
related suicides, alcohol-related homicides
and alcohol-related drowning and diving
accidents.
Besides upholding state law and univer
sity rules, UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier
said he felt responsible for students’ safety
and education in enforcing the university’s
dry-campus policy.
“I do feel responsible for the social devel
opment of students who are in that transi
tion to adulthood,” he said. ‘‘And I feel we
have a general social responsibility in terms
of societal values and education about alco
hol use and abuse.
‘‘What everybody discovered last semes
ter after the Phi Gamma Delta incident is that
alcohol use is especially institutionalized in
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Campus Consumption
This week, the Daily Nebraskan takes
an in-depth look into alcohol on cam
pus. T008(13/8 story win explore life on
Iowa State University’s wet campus.
American Indian leaders work for identity at council
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Rtoorttr__
Before America was occupied by English
colonists, several Indian tribes inhabited
the land. Hundreds of years later, a small
percentage still exist.
Remaining members of these tribes gathered
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Friday
and Saturday for the Winter Council. Their
purpose was to discuss issues important to their
survival in today’s society.
The event was based on the tradition of using
the slow days and long nights of winter for tribal
leaders to discuss issues important to their
culture.
The council featured two sovereignty panels,
a multicultural education workshop, teaching
circles and a traditional banquet.
UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier began the
panel discussion with a greeting.
“We are honored so many national promi
nent leaders of the Native American communi
ty would come to Lincoln to share their culture,"
he said. He stressed the importance of diversity
and multiculturalism at the university.
The panel was also the premier live broad
cast of the American Indian Radio on Satellite
— a nationwide network of community and
Indian-owned radio stations.'
Panelists Frank LaMere, Winnebago; Linda
Anfuso, Mohawk; Charlotte Black, Cherokee;
and John Snowden, UNL law professor, fielded
questions on American Indian sovereignty is
sues.
“I think that it is of prime importance to
establish a culture to identify ourselves," Anfuso
said. “In order to establish a national identity,
we need to participate with the U.S. government
and deal with these issues on an open forum."
Anfuso said every question asked could have
been the spinoff to another forum.
“People were seeking answers," she said.
“We need to bring this out of the legislative
rooms and into the community."
She said the debate centered on indepen
dence versus coexistence.
“Does sovereignty mean handouts?” she said.
“Is this allowing (the U.S. government) to pass
off guilt?"
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We are objects. We are things. We are disposable. Until we are
outraged enough to demand this to cease, we will never
achieve social sovereignty.
— Anfuso
panelist
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Social, political and economic issues face the
American Indian when discussing sovereignty,
she said. Discrimination is at the forefront of
social reparation.
“The Washington Redskins are as offensive
to Native American people as nigger would be
to African-American people,” she said. “It’s
like having a team called the Chicago Niggers,
where people would paint their faces brown and
wave watermelons.”
Another example Anfuso cited was a
Playskool toy that featured objects beginning
with letters of the alphabet. Indian was under
the letter “I.”
“We are objects. We are things. We are
disposable,” she said. “Until we are outraged
enough to demand this to cease, we will never
achieve social sovereignty.”
Political sovereignty would include the right
to self-rule and separate police, government
and court systems, she said. She said economic
sovereignty would come in the private sector.
A workshop on multicultural education fol
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