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I WEDNESDAY >4«e:»>k4«e3}»M4«c3»>M4«e3»>M4<c::>»M4«e3»>M4«e3>»M«<e3>»ii WEATHER: Today - Sunny. Light southwest wind 5 to 15 mph. Tonight - Partly cloudy. Y •11 J S\ M*a»*tM»M4««m>M4<«8»»»44<t Low in the lower 4us. _October 18, 1995_ Phillips moves toward return to team By Jeff Zeleny and Mitch Sherman Senior Reporter and Senior Editor The door opened a bit wider Tues day for Lawrence Phillips to return to the Nebraska football team. But it will be at least one week before he returns to the practice field and two weeks before he carries the ball in a game. Coach Tom Osborne said Tuesday. Before Phillips puts on his No. 1 jersey, the former Heisman Trophy candidate must clear a number of hurdles, including sanctions from the student judicial review board. The Cornhuskers play Saturday against No. 8 Kansas State and next week against ninth-ranked Colorado. The earliest Phillips could return, Osborne said, is Nov. 4, when the Huskers play Iowa State at Memorial Stadium. “I hope for his sake he returns this season,” Osborne said. “So far, he’s held up his end of of it.” Phillips was suspended from the team Sept. 10 after being arrested on suspicion of assaulting his ex-girl friend, Nebraska basketball player Kate McEwen. Police said Phillips climbed into the apartment of NU quarterback Scott Frost to reach McEwen. Phillips pleaded no contest on Sept. 19 and was found guilty of third-de gree assault and trespassing. He is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 1. The junior from West Covina, Ca lif., also was ordered to have no con tact with McEwen or Frost. Prosecu tors have said they would be willing to waive the no contact provision with Frost for football purposes. Phillips undergoes counseling twice a week and sees a psychiatrist once a week in addition to attending classes, Osborne said. “There will be many groups who want his head on a platter, but that doesn’t solve anything,” Osborne said. “That doesn’t make it better for Lawrence Phillips.” Vice Chancellor for Student Af fairs James Griesen confirmed Tues day that Phillips had been charged with violating the Student Code of Conduct. His sanctions could range from a warning to expulsion. However, Griesen said it was unlikely that Phillips would be removed from the university. His status on the football field will be determined by athletic department officials. See PHILLIPS on 3 Student judicial process Lawrence Phillips has gone this far in the student judicial system. incident • I Director of Student Judicial Affairs 1 administrative hearing to decide on sanction The following actions could happen next to Phillips. accept reject sanction sanction University Judicial Board T appeal decision accept to University sanction Appeals Board uiN urapnio Homecoming spirit Jon Waller/DN Travis Brady of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity staples chicken wire on the fraternity’s homecoming display Tuesday night. By the end of the week, the float will resemble Herbie Husker. See story on page 6. Programs need more mentors for boys By Paula Lavigne * Senior Reporter Lincoln volunteer programs are looking for a few good men. But they’re hard to find. Women volunteers for mentor programs are plentiful —in some cases, too plentiful — but a shortage of male mentors leaves a lot of Lincoln boys out in the cold, program directors ! said. Julie Cervantes-Salomons, director of the i Heartland Big Brothers/Big Sisters program, said she had boys who have been waiting for more than two years for a mentor. “That’s too long if you have a child who has needs,” she said. “We can’t wait two years for things we need. We don’t wait to get our tires rotated.” Cervantes-Salomons said the number of male and female volunteers was about even; how ever, there arc more boys than girls who need mentors. “After awhile, you get a huge backlog of little boys,” she said. About 100 boys are waiting for a mentor compared to only seven girls, she said. The waiting list for boys is so long because the majority of the families in the program are “It 's hard to get men involved, but I’m sure there are positive role models, as far as men go, out there. ” TANYA SMITH Coordinator of Lincoln Action Program iingle-parent female households, she said. The mothers can provide a role model for ' heir daughters, she said, but need a male role model for their sons. Tanya Smith, coordinator of Lincoln Action Program, said recruiting male role models took more effort. “It’s hard to get men involved,” she said, ‘but I’m sure there are positive role models, as laoas men go, out there.” Jan Kauffman, associate director of the Ne braska Human Resources Institute, said she also had an influx of women volunteers but was trying to find more men. Traditional stereotypes may be to blame for the male shortage, the directors said. “They’ll think of one-shot deals,” Cervantes- > Salomons said. v She said she talked to a director from United Way, which also has a shortage of male volun ecrs, who said, “Men will do a project, but they Jon’t want a commitment.” Kauffman agreed that men may have shied away from volunteering because of stereotypes, ro some, she said, being a mentor may not be ‘macho” enough. 1 “I think women tend to talk about it more “I think women tend to talk about it more amongst themselves than men do,” she said. The NHRI program requires at least a three year commitment, she said, for which some men might not be ready. Regardless of the reason, the shortage has prompted a man hunt. All programs are expanding their recruit ment through public advertisements, letters to residence halls and greek houses and word of mouth. ____: . See MEN on € Committee recommends more parking By Erin Schulte Staff Reporter The Parking Advisory Committee voted Tuesday to recommend construction of a multi level parking garage on UNL’s City Campus to the NU Board of Regents. The proposed garage would be built on half of a current Area 10 lot0west of Memorial Stadium, said Tad McDowell, parking man ager. It would hold about 600 cars and cover an area about half a city block long, McDowell said. Kim Todd, interim director of physical plan ning, said an urban university with a parking problem had two choices: build up or restrict a certain group from parking on campus. At many universities, the freshmen’sparking options are restricted, she said. “I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be the one to tell a big group of freshmen that they can’t bring their cars to campus,” said Viann Schroedcr, acting assistant to the vice chancellor for business and finance. McDowell said about 300 faculty and stu dent parking spaces in city lots would be lost in the next few years because of the construction of new buildings and the rebuilding of a bridge west of the stadium. With growing freshman classes and shrink ing parking areas close to the university, the time has come to build a parking garage, McDowell said. The proposed project would cost about $5.4 million and would take about 15 years to pay olT, McDowell said. Parking revenue received from the garage would be split between parking services and the athletic department, which would rely on the garage for visitor parking at athletic events. McDowell said a shuttle system might run continuously from the garage to the middle of campus, near the Nebraska Union. The committee plans to introduce the plan to the Board of Regents in December. In other business, Shawntell Hurtgen, presi dent of the Association of Students of the Uni versity of Nebraska, and other senate members recommended the installation of more parking meters on East Campus, particularly near the Activities Buildingand the Nebraska East Union. Hurtgen said many students had strongly suggested the addition of meters on East Cam pus, where only about 20 metered parking stalls exist. The committee also discussed a new system for residence hall parking. The system would issue one general permit for all residence hall students instead of a different permit for each See PARKING on 3
