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Sports
nusKers assistant Kevin
Steele leaves Nebraska,
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Arts & Entertainment
Le Cafe Shakes becomes Lincoln's
foremost all-ages venue, page 9
January 23, 1995
Crumbling buildings await attention
Asbestos, water
main concerns
for maintenance
of old buildings
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
Both Burnett Hall and Richards
Hall on UNL’s City Campus are po
tential nominees for the National
Register for Historic Places.
But their historic antiquity can be
a blessing and a curse. In a tour by the
Daily Nebraskan last week, the dark,
unlit comers of these historic build
ings showed evidence of deteriora
tion and needed repair.
Warped wooden beams bend un
der the weight of a sloping roof on
Richards Hall. A plastic bucket sits in
the middle of the attic to catch leak
ing water.
From ceiling to basement, asbes
tos hides safely suspended behind
panels, duct work and tiles of Burnett
Hall.
Burnett and Richards halls have
topped UNL’s Capital Construction
List for more than six years. Building
maintenance problems and other con
struction requests are submitted to
the list for funding approval.
This year both halls made it on the _
NU Board of Regents’ list, but only
Burnett Hall’s almost $6 million re
quest was included in the governor’s
budget to the Legislature. It awaits
approval in July.
Bob Carpenter, facilities planning
manager, said a shortage of funds had
made renovation impossible. Instead,
he said, the buildings have to be taken
care of in a piecemeal and costly
fashion.
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Damian Hoesing, a university custodian, takes care of trash in a Richards Hall bathroom Friday evening. Some students think
Richards Hall deserves immediate attention, especially the bathrooms. Hoesing said, “When we mention renovation, we laugh
until it happens.”
Walk draws opposing groups
Jon Waller/DN
Margaret Proskovel of Wahoo
holds an anti-abortion sign in
the Centennial Ballroom during
Attorney General Don
Stenberg’s speech during
Saturday s 20th Annual Walk for
Life.
Group strives to keep
anti-abortion protests
peaceful and poignant
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
The anti-abortion movement unequivo
cally condemns the violence occurring out
side abortion clinics, state Sen. John Lind
say of Omaha said during Saturday’s 20th
annual Walk for Life.
Lindsay, one of the keynote speakers for
the march, said the anti-aoortion movement
was gaining strength, but obstacles, such as
violence at abortion clinics, stood in its way
to banning abortions.
Counter demonstrators
say ‘anti-choice’ rhetoric
to blame for violence
By Brian Sharp
Senior Reporter
A woman stood silent, holding a sign
that read “Pro-choice, Pro-child,” while an
anti-abortion activist mocked her message.
Police cars marked the area, lights flash
ing, as an officer stood watching the scene.
Across the street, an anti-abortion activ
ist mirrored the woman. Her sign, however,
held the message “Abortion is Savage Mur
der.”
The 20th annual Walk For Life at the
State Capitol Saturday also attracted a
Lindsay said the media s portrayal of the
attackers as mainstream anti-abortion ad
vocates was another obstacle.
“We must not allow their ... rhetoric to
dissuade us from peaceful protest,” Lindsay
said.
The anti-abortion movement also con
demned the violence outside the abortion
clinics because it detracted from what was
going on inside, he said.
“Our message is simple ^—abortion kills
children,” Lindsay said. “We must not al
low people to detract from that message.”
Lindsay said the abortion issue tran
scended all political ideologies and reli
gion. He said anti-abortion activists needed
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counter demonstration of about two dozen
abortion-rights supporters. But while the
national debate over abortion lately has
been mired in violence, the weekend dem
onstrations passed, for the most part, with
out confrontation.
While speakers at the anti-abortion rally
disassociated the movement from the vio
lent acts of a few extremists, Kay Siebler
said separation was not possible.
Siebler, president of the Pro-Choice Coa
lition of Nebraska, characterized actions of
the “anti-choice” side as terrorism — both
in Lincoln and across the country.
“They cannot separate themselves from
the murders and violence that has been
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TV viewers
to trade soaps
for Simpson
LOS ANGELES (AP)—He will be on stage
as never before, millions of viewers focusing
on him worldwide, and across the room 22
pairs of eyes watching his every move.
How he’s perceived by jurors, and any alter
nates who may be called to duty, could tilt the
scales of justice for or against O.J. Simpson.
“He may very well not take the witness
stand, and if that is the case, the only thing the
jury will get from him is what they see on his
face,” said Loyola University law professor
Laurie Levenson. “If he acts appropriately it
could help him. If he acts inappropriately, it
could hurt him very much.”
in early court Hearings, outside tne presence
of jurors, Simpson rolled his eyes, grimaced,
muttered to his lawyers, turned to look at the
courtroom audience and once wiped tears from
his eyes.
“He has to present an attentive but stoic
attitude,” said Southwestern University pro
fessor Robert Pugsley. “The rolling of eyes can
only hurt him.”
While television viewers will see every
twitch, frown, smile and furrow of Simpson’s
brow captured by a zoom lens, jurors will see
him at a distance.
“A lot of the time jurors won’t even be
looking at him,” Levenson said. “But at times
they will be fixated on him.”
They will monitor his reaction when the
bloody slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman are described in gruesome
detail. They will see how he reacts to allega
tions that he beat and stalked his slain ex-wife.
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