The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, February 07, 1994, Image 1
SPORTS Kansas nips Nebraska Sparked by Steve Woodberry, the Jayhawks used a late second-half rally to down the Cornhuskers, 94-87. Page 7 Monday 21/9 Today will be cloudy with a chance of light snow. Freezing drizzle is possible by late afternoon. February 7, 1994 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 93 No. 98 Police recover gun allegedly used by player By Kara G. Morrison S0nior Reporter_ Lincoln Police Chief Tom Casady said Sunday that authorities had recovered from athletic department officials the gun allegedly used in last weekend’s shooting incident. Casady said police believed the gun to be the one used by Comhusker defensive back Tyrone Williams in the Jan. 29 shooting of a car occupied by two people. Williams was charged Wednesday with the unlawful discharge of a firearm and the use of Osborne a weapon to commit a fel ony in the shooting. He pled not guilty to the felo ny charges at his arraign ment Thursday. Two or three rounds were fired at University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Brooke Bohac’s vehicle near the comer of 17th and L streets last Sunday morning. New York Jets safety Kevin Porter was a passenger in Bonac s car. Casady said a comment NU coach Tom Osborne made to an officer during a visit to the police department Tuesday made police think the athletic department had the gun. Osborne had made an appointment to sec the car that was struck by the bullets allegedly fired by Williams, Casady said. Casady said when Osborne was viewing the car Tuesday, he remarked to an officer that the gun was the type that had to be cocked. Casady said the officer, who was not in volved in the investigation, made note of the comment in a report that Casady read Wednes day morning. Casady said he sent an investiga tor to the athletic department Wednesday. The investigator questioned Osborne, who said he thought inside linebackers coach Kevin Steele had turned the weapon over to UNL police. Casady said Steele was out of his office at the time the investigator was at the athletic depart ment. When Steele returned, Casady said, he pro duced the weapon and said he had received it from a Comhusker player Monday night. See INVESTIGATION on 6 Residence assistant hired for Fiji house By Angie BrunKow Senior Reporter____ A Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity alumnus has been chosen as the residence assistant for the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity house. James Griesen, vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said Steve Zatechka, a UNL graduate student, soon would be moving into the house. The university is requiring an RA to live in the Fiji house as part of an agreement that allows the chapter to remain on campus. Fiji was sanctioned in December after pledge Jeffrey Knoll fell from a third-story window of the chapter house. Hazing and alcohol were in volved in the incident. Two university-approved individ uals applied for the position of RA, Griesen said. One applicant, howev er, withdrew. Griesen said he was pleased Zatechka accepted the position. “I’m delighted that we finally got this worked out,” he said. Zatechka will monitor house activ ities to ensure the Student Code of Conduct is enforced. He also will ad vise members and officers on building a strong organization. Zatechka will report weekly to Jayne Wade Anderson, director of greck af fairs at UNL, Gricsen said. Zatechka will be taking the job, which pays tuition, room and board, fees and a monetary stipend, on a temporary basis, Griesen said. “This is a short-term solution,” he said. The national fraternity and the lo cal chapter will use this semester to search for Zatechka’s replacement, he said. As a result of another sanction, the number of active members in Fiji has been reduced by about half, Griesen said. Alumni interviewed members to fulfill the sanction requiring them to reduce chapter membership to a qual ity core group. Of the chapter’s nearly 70 mem bers, he said, 40 chose to take alumni status when they returned to school this semester. Fiji alumni interviewed the remain-» in§ active members last month. Griesen said, and gave alumni status to three more members. Griesen said members who didn’t think they would survive the selection process or who didn’t want to live in the house under university sanctions voluntarily took alumni status instead of interviewing. Decimal system lacks benefits, Benes says By Angie Brunkow Senior Reporter _ The cost of implementing a pro posed decimal grading system outweighs its benefits, ASUN President Keith Bencs said Friday. Bcncs said the confusion on tran scripts and between University of Nebraska campuses would negate any supposed benefits. “What’s the point of putting people through all the confusion?” he said. At its Feb. 8 meeting, the Univer sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln Academic Senate will consider switching to the decimal system. The system would allow professors to assign students any grade between 0.7 and 4.0. Under the current half-step sys tern, professors can assign students one of nine letter grades that translate into increments of 0.5 for a student’s grade point average. Bencs said the change would cause disruptions for at least the next five years. Grades on some student transcripts would show two separate grading sys tems, he said, and would have to be explained to graduate schools and potential employers. The change also would cause dis ruption within the NU system, he said. All Nebraska campuses are using the half-step grading scale. “1 think that most people arc going to agree that it’s not necessary to See GRADE on 3 Gerik Parmele/DN May I have this skate? Carol Swigart, 27, (left) and Jamie Lillis, 28, skate at Oaklake Sunday afternoon. The couple said they had just started taking ice skating lessons a few weeks ago and skate on the weekends to relieve cabin fever. Official hopes new containers spark interest in recycling By Todd Neeley Stsff Rtxxler_ Recycling is on the rise at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The number of UNL buildings with recycling containers for office paper will in crease from six to 19 next month, said Dale Ekart, recycling coordinator. Some offices on campus already are recy cling computer paper on their own, Ekart said.* Eventually, all buildings on campus will have the containers. Ekart said he hoped the addition of the containers would generate more campus inter est in recycling. “We’re trying to involve more people and make it so convenient that it will not be a problem to do,” he said. The containers also will be placed in cam pus libraries, student unions and other high traffic areas. Those who have the containers will be re quired to dump the paper in outside recycling dumpsters. Ekart said he wasn’t sure how much it would cost for the extra containers, but in the long run the project would pay for itself. The money received for recycling the paper will be reappl ied to the project and may help pay for more containers. “It will cost a little to get it rolling," Ekart said. Currently, about five or six tons of garbage, including computer paper and newsprint, arc taken to local landfills from campus. Ekart said if all went well, about one-tturd to one-half of that garbage could be recycled. See RECYCLE on 3