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Feedback
expected
on policy
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
A draft policy addressing discrimi
nation and sexual harassment has a
long, tough road ahead of it, officials
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
said Wednesday.
Eric Jolly, director of affirmative
action and diversity at UNL, distrib
uted the policy to many college fac
ulty and administrators this week.
Herb Howe, associate to the chan
cellor at UNL, said the document was
the beginning of a long process of
feedback, meetings and revisions.
Howe said Chancellor Graham
Spanier had set up a committee to
hear feedback from those on campus
reviewing the document. Howe said
the document then would be revised
based on the feedback, and the pro
cess would be repeated again before
a final document was released.
Names of the students, faculty and
staff that are to be on the committee
were unavailable on Wednesday.
Judith Kriss, director of the
Women’s Center at UNL, said the
policy was needed, but there were
flaws in the sections on relationships
with power differential, where one
person was in a position of direct
authority. She said the section could
protect the victim less than those in
power.
The document defines sexual ha
rassment as consisting of “unwel
come sexual advances, unwelcome
requests for sexual favors and other
unwelcome verbal or physical con
duct of a sexual nature when the con
duct has the purpose or effect of un
reasonably interfering with an
individual's academic status or ad
vancement in a university program,
course or activity.”
Kriss said the document called for
both parties in a power-differentiated
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UNL Frankenstein expert to be on TV
By JhI Itrmdi*
Senior Reporter
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
English Professor Stephen Behrendt
will be going “Eye to Eye” with
Connie Chung tonight in a monstrous
appearance.
Behrendt, who is an authority on
Maiy Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein,”
flew to New York last week for an
interview about the new Kenneth
Branagh film that stars Robert
DeNiro as the monster. The CBS-TV
show will be a preview to the movie
which opens Nov. 4.
The movie, which Behrendt hasn’t
seen, is loosely based on Shelley’s
novel about a scientist whose legend
ary attempts to create life went awry.
CBS selected Behrendt, one of
many Frankenstein authorities ap
preached for the interview, because
of his expertise on both the bode and
the author.
“I’ve taught the bode ever since I
started teaching,” he said. “It’s such
an important romantic document.
“It takes all the themes that poets
of the time are working with and
questions them.”
Behrendt said he had read the
bode about two dozen times and spot
ted something new every time.
“It’s such a complicated story ” he
said. “There are so many things go
ing on, and they all relate at different
levels.”
Behrendt was interviewed last
week by Bill Geist, an interviewer for
“Eye to Eye,” in the crypt of the
Church of the Intercession.
“The church was beautiful,” he
said. “It was located on most of a city
blode, and the rest of the block was a
cemetery.
“It would have been really kind of
creepy in bad weather.
“The basement was dark and
Gothic-looking,” he said. “There was
one wall full of cremated people stuck
into it ”
Behrendt said Geist was concerned
with previous Frankenstein films and
their accuracy.
“Most of them are full of miscon
ceptions like that business with the
wrong brain,” he said.
“He doesn’t turn into a monster
because he is given a criminal’s
brain,” he said. “He becomes a mon
ster because he is discriminated
against because he is different, and
no one gives him a chance.”
Behrendt said one of the few films
faithful to the bode was the 1974 Mel
Brooks movie “Young Frankenstein.”
“Mel Brooks understood what the
book is about,” he said. “The crea
ture ends up being civilized, and the
person responsible for the creature
takes responsibility for it.”
The interviewers also were curi
ous about the continual popularity of
Dr. Frankenstein’s creation.
The story has the essence of time
lessness, Behrendt said.
“The story is about a science ex
periment that could benefit the whole
human race,” he said. “And the last
time I taught it there was an article
about a cloning experiment.”
Behrendt said the popularity also
was caused in part by the feminine
aspect of the story.
“It’s about a man who is trying to
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Combs outlines reform plan
By IWaWww Tnwidtll
Staff Reporter
Patrick Combs, the Democratic
candidate for Nebraska’s 1st Con
gressional District seat, outlined
Wednesday his ideas to reform
Congress.
Combs, who spoke at the State
Capitol, said reform would be his
first priority as a member of Con
gress.
Legislation to improve the
country cannot be passed unless
Congress corrects “the institu
tional problems of Congress that
have led to the highest degree of
public cynicism and apathy in 40
years,” said Combs, who is run
ning against eight-term incumbent
Rep. Doug Bereuter.
Combs said members of Con
gress who were devoted to reform
should unite in what he called an
Alliance of Representatives to Re
form Congress.
Combs said he wanted reforms
in national finances, congressional
procedures and campaign proce
dures.
“We need to pass the balanced
budget amendment,” he said. “We
need to pass the recision line item
veto."
With such a veto, the president
can take single items out of bud
gets that Congress passes
Combs also supports freezing
congressional salaries, restricting
congressional use of military
planes, revising retirement pro
grams for members of Congress
and reducing the size of congres
sional staffs.
Combs said he would support a
constitutional amendment that
would lengthen representatives’
terms in office from two to four
years.
Two-year terms have created an
election bonanza, he said. Mem
bers of Congress are more con
cerned about their next election
than how legislation is going to
affect the people of their district,
Combs said.
Combs also said he favored
holding elections on Saturdays.
The high voter turnout during
China’s first free election occurred
partly because the election was
held on a Saturday, he said.
Combs also called for other
types of congressional reform.
All committee meetings should
be open to the public, except for
those that deal with matters of na
tional security, he said.
Representatives should take
turns at holding committee and
subcommittee chairs, Combs said.
Such changes will start crum
bling away some of the problems
caused by the “good ol’ boy net
work" in Congress.
Combs also wants to limit the
power of lobbyists and political ac
tion committees, he said. Groups
served directly by a committee
should not be able to contribute to
the campaigns of committee num
bers.
He called such donations the ul
timate conflict of interest and
vowed not to accept such contri
butions if elected.
Unless these types of reforms
are made within Congress, other
reforms, such as health care and
welfare policy, will never be made,
he said.
ASUJN supports bill
changing rental law
■y Wtolinlt Irwdwt
Staff Reporter
ASUN senators passed a bill
Wednesday that directs the Govern
ment Liaison Committee to write leg
islation recom
mending that
civil penalties
be doubled on
landlords who
refuse to return
deposits of Lin
coln renters.
The bill is
based on the
Landlord Tenant Act, which has been
in effect since 1974. The law was
designed to protect tenants who
wanted to get their deposits returned.
Landlords may charge renters for
damages to rental properties or take
money from tenants' initial deposits
on the property to compensate for
damages.
Andrew Loudon, president of the
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, said the bill was
important because it affected about
17,000 UNL students who live off
campus.
Loudon said he and a state sena
tor were working on the bill. He said
the senator would sponsor the bill
during the Legislature’s next session.
Dave Milligan, speaker of the sen
ate, asked Loudon why the bill was
not being introduced on the city level,
since the majority of UNL students
are Lincoln residents.
Loudon said the bill was being
presented on the state level because
the Landlord Tenant Act is a state
law. He also said Student Legal Ser
vices advised him to take that avenue
Graduate senator Charles
Hamilton said the bill would help stu
dents who have already filed civil
suits against their landlords for re
fusing to return their deposits.
“Right now, we don’t have that
many people who are going to go
through the process,” he said “The
doubling of the fines would cause
more people to think about what hap
pened to them and probably would
bring up more (suits).”
