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COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SINCE 1901 VOL. 95 NO. 34 ---
__ _ _ _ _ _ October 6, 1995
Phillips’ return
subject to law
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Reporter
If Lawrence Phillips is allowed to
return to the Nebraska football field,
he will first have to jump through a
legal hoop.
Phillips remains under a court or
der to have no contact with NU trans
fer quarterback Scott Frost. Under
the protection order, the suspended
Nebraska 1-back is not allowed to
"talk in a significant way" or be in
Frost's presence, said Lancaster
County Attorney (iary Lacey.
“1 assume if the coach decides if
this person will be let back on the
team, his attorney will file a motion
to amend the no contact provision,"
Lacey said Thursday.
Phillips was suspended from the
team Sept, i 0 after being arrested on
charges of third-degree assault and
trespassing.
Police said the junior from West
Covina, Calif., climbed an outside
wall to the balcony of Frost’s third
floor apartment. Phillips was accused
of dragging his ex-girlfriend, Kate
McEwcn, down the stairs and beating
her while Frost called police.
Phillips pleaded innocent to the
charges on Sept. 12. One week later,
he entered a no contest plea and was
found guilty of the two misdemeanor
charges. He is scheduled to be sen
tenced Dec. 1.
Coach Tom Osborne has said
Phillips could return to the No. 2
Comhuskers as soon as Oct. 14. Be
fore Phillips could return, Osborne
said, he must receive medical treat
ment to control his anger. Phillips
has been evaluated at the Menninger
Clinic in Topeka, Kan., and Osborne
“If the coach, in his
wisdom, says Phillips
can go back to the team,
/ don't think I would
stand in his way.''
GARY LACEY
Lancaster County Attorney
I
said he would receive additional treat
ment.
Lacey said he would not object to
lifting the protection order so Phillips
could practice on the same team as
Frost. However. Lacey said he would
recommend that the protection order
reiyiam in effect off the field.
“if the coach, in ins wisdom, says
Phillips can go back to the team, 1
don’t think 1 would stand in Iris way.”
Lacey said.
Phillips also was ordered to have ;
no contact with McEwcn, a guard on
the NU women’s basketball team.
Lacey said he would insist that
Phillips continue to stay away from
the sophomore from Topeka, Kan.
“She wants that, and so do her
parents,” Lacey said. “It’s one of the
ways that we assured her safety.”
Frost transferred to LTNL from
Stanford University in January. He
practices with the team but will not
be eligible to play for the Huskers
until next season.
Lacey said his office was not aware
of any violations of the protection
order. If Phillips does contact
McEwen or Frost, Lacey said, his
$100 bond could be revoked or re
written.
Nebraska memories
sewn into AIDS quilt
By John Fulwider
Senior Reporter
Peggy Sorensen remembers her
son with love.
Eric Sorensen was 35 when he
died of AIDS in 1991. He had gradu
ated from the University of Nebraska -
Lincoln in 1983 with a bachelor’s
degree in fine arts.
His mother’s love, and that of his
many friends, is shown in a 3-by-6
quilt piece — part of the NAMES
Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
About 3 percent of the quilt —
roughly 1,050 pieces — is on display
Saturday and Sunday at the Omaha
Civic Auditorium, 1804 Capitol Ave.
The entire quilt is made up of about
30,000 pieces.
The quilt is open for public view
ing Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is free. Donations for
AIDS-related causes will be accepted
at the door.The display includes
Eric’s piece, a patchwork of 18
smaller squares — each made by a
friend or family member. His parents
contributed a design of the family
cabin on the Platte River. A design of
a bright yellow taxi cab comes from
friends in New York.
A wool mitten design holds memo
ries for Eric ’ s fri end Crystal. Sorensen
said her son gave a pair of mittens to
Crystal on a cold, winter day.
“I think the panel is very unique,”
“Mainly, I just tell them
to put love on it. ”
RON WILSON
Omaha Host Committee for the
NAMES Project AIDS Memorial
Quilt
Sorensen said, "because so many
people are represented who loved
him.
"He just had tons of friends who
were very good to him.... after he got
sick, they stuck by him.'’
The Nebraska AIDS Project helped
bring the quilt to Omaha.
Larry Bierce, education coordina
tor for NAP, said the quilt was a
powerful reminder about the effects
of AIDS, which has claimed the lives
of 400 Nebraskans, according to the
Nebraska Department of Health.
"It reminds us that it affects people
we know, love and work with,” he
said.
Ron Wilson, who works with the
quilt's Omaha Host Committee, tells
people how to produce quilt pieces.
The only rule, he said, is the size
— each piece must be 3 feet by 6 feet.
See QUILT on 7
Hangin’
Tanna Kinnaman/DN
Lincoln High School students hang out in a student parking lot across from Lincoln High
School Wednesday. From left J. A., 17; Brooke Chandler, 17; and Brian Durham, 15.
Teen crowd has under-age blues
By Jennifer Walker
Staff Reporter
It’s a high school caught be
tween college and the city. Its
students are caught in transition.
The scene is played out nightly
in downtown Lincoln.
When entering The Coffee
House, 1324 P St., one often must
push through a crowd of teen s mi 11 -
ing around outside the building.
The people who stand outside
arc mostly students at Lincoln High
School, 2229 J St. — the largest
high school in Nebraska. The brick
structure with its columns and over
sized “Links’ sculpture is close to
both downtown Lincoln and the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
City Campus.
Large numbers of high school
students frequent the downtown
hot spots along with college stu
dents. The result is increased in
teraction between the two groups.
Erica DeFrain, a Lincoln High
School junior, comes into The
Coffee House about three times a
week — sometimes alone, some
times with friends. DeFrain said
she thought that college and high
school students got along well.
“I have a lot of friends that are
college-age, but who don’t go to
school,” DeFrain said. “You can’t
really tell how old a person is, and
they (college students) don’t re
ally care, anyway.”
While the high school students
may have more opportunities to
experience what college is about,
they still have the tendency to be
have like high school students, said
Kristin Shriner, co-owner of The
Coffee House.
The younger customers have
come in without shirts and shoes,
she said, and are often rude to
employees and other patrons.
Shriner said she makes at least one
call to the police daily, trying to
control the group that gathers on
the sidewalk outside. While the
kids are pretty harmless, there have
been incidents that make Shriner a
little hot under the collar. Graffiti
defaces the sidewalks and walls in
front of the building. The bath
rooms, especially the men’s, are
covered with graffiti, she said.
Another problem is that the
young patrons sometimes steal
cups and other dishes from the
restalirant, she said.
“They don’t realize that if we
arc missing things from our inven
tory, it effects our prices," Shriner
said. “Our product cost is not more
at all, but we have to raise prices to
pay for the lost inventory." B u t
DcFrain said younger patrons are
treated unfairly.
DcFrain said teens arc often
singled out if they don’t buy any
thing at The Coffee House — and
kicked out. The same rule does not
apply to the older-age crowd, she
said.
About half of the cafe’s patrons
arc high school and college stu
dents, Shriner said. The other half
are business people who go to The
Coffee House mainly during the
day.
Shriner said she preferred to
serve business people, because they
are more likely to buy menu items
See LHS on 6
