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Vol. 93 No. 103
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Mutton bustin ’
A young cowboy tries his hardest to hang on to the back of a sheep during a break from
the bull-riding action Friday night at the Wahoo Bull Riding Rodeo.
Authorities trap
people making
larassing calls
By Brian Sharp
Staff Reporter
The telephone rang in a Pound Residence
Hall room last December. The student
lifted the receiver and heard the voice of
an obscene caller.
Last week, that caller was arrested by Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln police after a trap
was placed on the telephone.
uavia luein, a uinl sopn
omore, was issued a misde
meanor citation for making
three calls to the Pound
Residence Hall room.
Sgt. Bill Manning said
UNL had its share of intim
idating calls, and police
weren’t taking them light
ly
“If you go to the trouble of
making obscene and threatening phone calls
and you start interfering with somebody’s life
he said, “we are going to come and visit
you.
Any phone call made with the intent to
harass, offend or threaten is a Class III misde
meanor with a maximum penalty of three months
in prison and a $500 fine.
The majority of such calls at UNL fall under
the offensive or obscene category, Manning
said, and are placed by other students.
But there are cases involving outside callers,
he said.
One in particular, a man from Colorado, is
known to call university campuses nationwide.
The obscene caller singles out meif, Manning
said, and has telephoned UNL students in the
past.
Aitnougnponce nave laentiticatne man, me
phone calls cannot be traced directly to him,
Manning said.
But in many local cases, identifying the
caller is much easier.
Manning said that with Caller-I D, the police
officer often arrived and was told the caller’s
number. Police then must simply call the num
ber back and ask for an address, he said.
“In cases like that they (the callers) don’t
even think before they do something stupid,” he
said.
When traps are used, Manning said, they are
operated through the phone company. With the
flip of a switch, a phone record can be kept of
times, dates and locations of calls.
Police later check phone company records
with times of disturbing calls. Manning said the
police then got a search warrant for the records
if the information was available.
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i Students earn priority in regent campaigns
Two candidates
vie for vacated
District 3 seat
By Jeffrey Robb
Senior Editor
Regent Rosemary Skrupa said
Sunday it didnrt matter “one
little bit" whether anyone ran
against her in the upcoming NU Board
of Regents election.
What does matter during this cam
paign, she said, is that students of the
University of Nebraska and taxpayers
of the state have their needs addressed.
That sentiment has been echoed by
candidates throughout the four devel
oping races.
“I think it’s a privilege to go to
where intentions and concerns arc
expressed to discuss them with the
people," Skrupa said.
Skrupa of Omaha, Robert Allen of
Hastings, and Nancy Hoch of Nebras
ka City are all planning to run for re
election, though none have filed.
Skrupa, the District 8 incumbent, said
she expected competition, although
no one has announced their inten
tions.
In District 3, two candidates, Keith
Vrbicky of Norfolk and Chuck
Hassebrook ofWalthill, are seeking to
replace Margaret Robinson of Nor
folk, who announced she would not
run again.
Allen, the District 5 regent, will
face John Klosterman of David City,
who declared in November. Hoch will
run against Drew Miller, a Sarpy
County commissioner, after she files
candidacy for the District 4 seat. Mill
er has been campaigning since Octo
ber.
With 11 days remaining for candi
dates to file, no race has the three
candidates necessary for it to be placed
on May's primary ballot.
Over the past few years, Allen said,
the university has ignored students’
needs by focusing on the wrong prob
lems. Allen said he wanted to help
NU Regent Race
Incumbent:
Margaret Robinson of Norfolk
will not run for re-election
Candidates*
Keith Vrbicky, Norfolk,
physician
Chuck Hassebrook, Walthill,
Center for Rural Affairs
Incumbent:
Nancy Hoch of Nebraska
City will run for re-election
Challenger:
Drew Miller, Sarpy County
Commissioner
Incumbent:
Robert Allen of Hastings will
run for re-election
Challenger:
John Klosterman, David City,
farmer and cattle feeder
Incumbent:
Rosemary Skrupa of Omaha
will run for re-election
Candidates:
No other declared candidates
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refocus efforts through his campaign
ing.
Controversyoverbuilding projects,
a commencement prayer, pink trian
gles supporting homosexuals and the
engineering debate, Allen said, have
all distorted NU’s No. 1 priority—its
students.
“We can’t win discussing homo
sexuality, abortion or prayer,” Allen
said. “We have the needs of the stu
dents that need to be met.”
The engineering debate has turned
into a public and political fight, Allen
said.
Members of the Omaha engineer
ing community want a separate col
lege for increased access to education.
Currently, the University of Nebras
ka-Lincoln has the only engineering
program in the NU system.
The problems stem from concerns
not being taken through the proper
channels.
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