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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1994)
Sports ■ NU ranked # 1 In both polls, Page 8 Arts & Entertainment ■ Dead Eye Dick will be seen in Lincoln, Page 9 PAGE 2: Regents clarify decision on project NO DOUBT ABOUT WHO'S No. 1 Travis Hsylng/DN Nil quarterback Break Barringer enters Memorial Stadium an Saturday with the rest ef the Cemhusker football team. Behind Barringer’s 267-yard passing performance, Nebraska defeated the Kansas Jayhawfcs and took the No. 1 position In bath college football pells. Member voted out of 4-H committee ly Brin thwp Senior Reporter Ray Massey didn’t think a pro posal striking sexual orientation from an amendment to a 4-H camp’s non discrimination policy would draw much attention. He certainly didn’t expect it to cost him his committee position. But Massey said a letter he re ceived Wednesday stated that he was removed from the committee of Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty and staff that oversees the camp. The letter came from Ken Bolen, director of the cooperative extensions office, Massey said. The office over sees the ad-hoc committee, which will be dissolved as soon as a new direc tor for the Southeast Research and Extension Center is found. Bolen could not be reached for comment. “I have been removed because ol my expressed views,” Massey said Sunday, reading from a prepared statement. “I have not been accused of any discrimination. I have been censored because of my views instead of my actions.” Massey told the Daily Nebraskan on Tuesday that he proposed strik ing sexual orientation because expos ing children to a homosexual lifestyle could put them at risk. Massey had been on the board since it was formed six months ago. The committee was working to amend the constitution and bring it into compliance with the UNL non discrimination policy. Sexual orien tation was included in the proposed amendment but was removed. The amendment passed 20-15. Since receiving the letter, Massey, who is an assistant professor of agri ' cultural economics, said he had filed a complaint with the affirmative ac tion office. Attempts to reach those officials were unsuccessful. Massey said he didn’t plan to take any legal action. Massey said he had spoken with several UNL officials last week, Bolen included, who said they were upset with his actions and thought he had given the camp the go-ahead to discriminate. Massey said he saw the amend ment as granting camp officials the freedom to choose who their counse lors and staff would be. UNL officials also were upset that his proposal went against UNL policy, he said. Massey said he had never dis criminated against any of his students for any reason, and officials he spoke with confirmed that no complaints had been filed against him. The letter stating he was dismissed was the first indication that any ac tion would be taken against him, Massey said. Officials said last week they would only work to enforce the nondiscrimination policy. The proposal was seconded by a voice vote, but Massey said he didn’t know if that member of the commit tee had been contacted. The voting was done by secret ballot. Massey said he had made many attempts to be reinstated to the com mittee. He said he had spoken with Bolen; Eric Jolly, director of affirma tive action and diversity; Linda Crump, associate director of affirma tive action; and had someone contact Irv Omtvedt, vice chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. All attempts failed, he said. Homeless man dies in Union By Brian Sharp Senior Reporter A man found dead in the Nebraska Union on Saturday apparently com plained of severe stomach pains the night before, one of his friends said. David M. Ball, a 47-year-old homeless man, was discovered by a Nebraska Union employee around 7 a.m. Ball apparently died of natural causes, a Lincoln newspaper re ported. No autopsy will be conducted. Brian Parish, another homeless man who frequents the union, said he saw Ball holding his stomach and moaning Friday night. That was the last time he saw him, Parish said. When he returned to the union on Saturday, a custodian told him Ball had died. Jason Wyant, assistant night man ager, said he was walking through the building around 6:30 a.m. Saturday, turning on the lights, when he saw Ball lying in the south vestibule area. See DEATH on 2 Regents - to get petition ly Mm Sharp Senior Reporter 1 In the debate about whether to cre ate a separate engineering college in Omaha, one voice has been forgot ten. It’s a voice that Andrew Loudon, president of the Association of Stu dents of the University of Nebraska, said he wanted the NU Board of Re gents to remember — the students’ voice. Loudon announced Saturday that a petition, which contains the signa tures of more than 500 engineering students at the University of Ne braska-Lincoln, would be sent to the regents. Loudon made the announcement in front of Broyhill Fountain. “This is to show that we really ' need to focus this argument on stu dents,” Loudon said. ASUN engineering senators and members of the UNL College of En gineering and Technology executive See PETITION on 3 Court not likely to rehear amendment case, officials say Senior Reporter A motion to reconsider striking five consti tutional amendments from the ballot probably will go unheard, state offi cials said. Secretary of State Allen Beermann filed the motion for rehearing late Friday, after the Nebraska Su preme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision that the five pro posed constitutional amendments must be taken off Tuesday’s ballot. Sen. 71m Hall of Omaha said that because the court released its decision at such a late date, it probably would not rehear the case. Hall is chairman of the Executive Board of the Legislative Council, which was responsible for sufc~’"’ the proposals to Beermann. usick, a Grand Island attorney who argued against the amendments before the court, said he saw no reason to rehear the mo tion because it would raise nothing new. The court’s decision stated it “determined that the filing deadline was not met.” The pro posals, which were submitted to Beermann on July 8, were one day late. State statute requires that they be submitted not less than four months prior to the election. “For a filing of July 8, we begin computing the four-month period,” the majority opinion stated. “Applying our general definition of the term calendar month,’ we determine that a four-month period beginning July 9 ends on Nov. 8. That is not prior to the election.” Beermann had cited a past ruling in 1968 in which the court allowed a filing of July 5 for a Nov. 5 election. The court stated, how ever, that “the language of the time deadlines differs” In that case, the language stated that the election was to be held not less than four months after the petition filing date. The court also stated that case didn’t apply because the time line was set by the Nebraska Constitution. In the case on the five amend ments, the deadline was set in statute. “This was a terrible decision on the part of the court,” Hall said. “They basically make new law here and overturn themselves *’ Bccrmann’s motion, submitted to the court by Attorney General Don Stenberg, stated the court erred twice in its decision. The motion contends the court made its first mistake by not following a past ruling that stated constitutional amendments should not be pulled if they were filed with substantial cor *’ance with the law. _ motion states that “such an egregious penalty of the people of the State of Nebraska for one man’s delay should not be implied or assumed by this court. This court has repeat See AMENDMENTS on 2
