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MONDAY WEATHER: Today - Partly sunny. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph. Tonight - Partly cloudy. Low in the lower 30s. COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SINCE 1901 VOL. 95 NO. 55 -—---^ n „ -- ■ . ~ November 6, 1995 Jay Cald'eron/DN l-back Lawrence Phillips returned to the Cornhusker football team Saturday amid much fan support. NU fans react to Phillips’ return By Jeff Zeleny Senior Reporter It had been one day short of a year since Nebraska I-back Lawrence Phillips ran into a chaotic Memorial Stadium filled with red screaming Husker fans. But on Saturday, the controversy that has surrounded the one-time Heisman Trophy candidate disap peared. As Phillips dashed onto the field side-by-side with quarterback Tommie Frazier, he held up his hand and showed Nebraska fans that he was back — like it or not. “We’re glad he’s back. In this sta dium, he’s part of the team,” said Husker fan Pam Pcrsing of Omaha. Phillips had not worn a Husker uniform in a Memorial Stadium game since Nov. 5, 1994. After the second game of this season, NU football coach Tom Osborne suspended Phillips for assaulting former girlfriend Kate McEwen, a sophomore NU basket ball player. Phillips will be sentenced Dec. 1 on misdemeanor assault and trespassing charges. “I appreciate Coach Osborne giv ing me another chance to come out here and play, all my teammates sup porting me and staying with me and the people in the community that sup ported me and thought I should get a second chance,” Phillips said after Nebraska’s 73-14rout over Iowa State. In his first meeting with the press since the Michigan State game, Phillips said he was attending counseling to get his anger problems under control. “I’m sorry that that incident had to take place, and hopefully something like that will never happen again.” In the last two months, Nebraska’s squeaky-clean football image has be come nationally scrutinized and tar nished. But on Saturday, most Husker fans interviewed supported Phillips and his return to the defending na tional championship team. “Because this is such a clean pro “We’re glad he’s back. In this stadium, he’s part of the team. ” PAM PER8ING Husker fan gram, they find a speck of dust and turn it into a big dust bowl,” Persing said from the top row of the South Stadium, “Quite frankly, I don’t care what others think about the Nebraska football program.” Other fans weren’t as quick to ac cept Osborne’s decision to reinstate Phillips to the team. “I think it’s ridiculous,” said Tammy McChesney of Omaha. “It’s sendinga bad message across the coun try that beating women is OK.” McChesney stood among many fans who lined a tunnel for the players to run through. She raised her camera into the air and snapped pictures of “any player she could.” As Phillips ran past in his No. 1 uni form, she shook her head, but insisted that she had lost no respect for Osborne. “It’s a national phenomenon. He’s going with what the public wants,” McChesney said. “That’s what keeps the money rolling in. It was a business decision.” Opinions about Phillips were over heard throughout the stadium before and during the game. The only visible See PHILLIPS on 2 Israelis grieve for Rabin JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis, many weeping, many bearing flowers, silently filed past the simple wooden coffin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Sunday, in a final salute to the assassinated sol dier, statesman and man of peace. The parade of mourners came from all over the country to a courtyard in front of the Israeli parliament. The procession was expected to continue all night until the start of a state fu neral today attended by dozens of world leaders, including President Clinton. Even as Israelis mourned the 73 year-old slain leader, they tried to grasp the enormity of the upheaval thrust upon their country when a Jew ish opponent of Rabin’s peacemaking gunned him down. Rabin’s assassination at a pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday night stunned a nation that, despite increas ingly bitter divisions over peacemak ing with the Arabs, had somehow de nied such violence could happen. The suspect, Yigal Amir, a 27 year-old law student with links to the Jewish extremist fringe, told interro gators he wanted to stop Rabin ’s peace policies. He reportedly said his ac tions were based on rabbinical rulings that permitted Jews to kill people who gave away parts of the biblical Land of Israel. Rabin’s death raised immediate questions about the future of Middle East peacemaking, especially the Is rael-PLO autonomy agreement on the withdrawal of Israeli troops from most West Bank towns and villages by the end of the year. Some delays were possible as Rabin’s successor, Shimon Peres, puts together a caretaker government. Dubbed “Mr. Security,” Rabin was the one politician Israelis trusted enough to take the risks involved along the rocky path toward peace. But the political climate had turned unprecedentedly venomous in recent months, and Rabin had become the target of increasing vitriol by Israel’s right wing, which called him a traitor and compared him to a Nazi. Tens of thousands stood silently Sunday at the site of the assassination. A sign in Hebrew read, “Why?” “Rabin was looking to the future. He was looking out for us, the younger generation,” said Amir Shavir, an 18 year-old from Tel Aviv. “They killed him. They killed my hope.” In Lebanon and in Iran, militants See RABIN on 2 ——, Rape suspect in court today By Jeff Zeleny Senior Reporter A 25-year-old Lincoln man will be arraigned today in Lancaster County Court in connection with the Friday morning rape of a UNL student. Dwayne A. Greer, 920 F St., was arrested Saturday on suspicion of first degree sexual assault and burglary, said Lincoln police Lt. Steve Imes. Police allege that Greer came into the 19-year-old female student’s apart ment at 17th and B streets about 4:40 a.m Friday, while another female roommate was sleeping in another room. Police believe Greer entered the two-story apartment through an un locked door and attacked the woman while she was sleeping. Police said he later dragged her up a flight of stairs, bound her with a telephone cord and stabbed her twice in the leg. The stab wounds were minor, po lice said, and she was treated and released Friday from Lincoln General Hospital. Imes said a police officer noticed a man matching the rape suspect’s de scription running near Ninth and F streets around 5 a.m. Friday. Police canvassed the area, Imes said, and received additional information that led them to suspect Greer in the rape. Police obtained enough informa tion throughout the days Friday and Saturday to get a search warrant, Imes said. After police searched his apart ment, Greer also was arrested on sus picion of an Aug. 10 burglary at the victim’s apartment, Imes said. Police retrieved items in Greer’s home Saturday that were reported sto len from her apartment. Police said Greer was convicted in an unrelated misdemeanor domestic assault this summer. First-degree sexual assault is a Class II felony. If convicted, the charge car ries a minimum of one year in jail and a maximum of 50 years. Agreement ensures transfer of credits py leg layior Staff Reporter Twenty-five public and private state colleges in Nebraska signed an agreement Thursday to smooth transfers from two-year to four-year colleges. The Nebraska Transfer Initia tive will give students who have earned associate of arts degrees from any of the 13 community col leges more flexibility in earning credit at the state s four-year insti tutions. Crei ghton University is the only four-year university in the state that did not sign the agreement. In the past, credits were trans ferred on an individual basis, de pending on each student’s major, said John Gruber, Southeast Com munity College dean of student ser vices. See TRANSFER on 2