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USC Continued from Page 1 one provost. At USC, Moeser’s title of provosl and vice president for academic af fairs in Columbia means he is the “number two man” and has jurisdic tion over the entire South Carolina system, said Debra Allen, public re lations director. There will be more than a differ ence in title when Moeser makes the move to UNL. Sheer demographics create many of the internal differences, including the number of minority students. Previously one of the South’s seg regated universities, USC now boasts the third-highest number of minority graduates in America, according to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Edu cation. About 19 percent of USC’s stu dents are minorities, and about 40 percent of South Carolina’s high school graduates are minorities. Meanwhile, about 14 percent of UNL’s students are minorities or un known (about 900 students refuse to declare an ethnic origin), and 5 per cent are international. The two universities have similar enrollment figures: UNL boasts 24,320 students, while USC at Co lumbia has 26,754. USC at Colum bia also has a higher ratio of gradu ate students. The student count breakdown shows UNL has 19,186 undergradu ates, 4,711 graduates and 423 profes sionals. Columbia has 16,028 under Profile: South Carolina Here are some facts about new UNL chancellor Jm Moeser's old school, the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. Financial State appropriations accounted for 38 percent of the $437 million 1994-95 budget. Academic Awarded 5,662 degrees in 1993-94. Has more than 400 degree programs. Honors College has 50 National Merit Scholars. Average SAT score for recipients of the Carolina Scholar award - 1,343. Athletic Had 15 All-American student athletes last year. Member of the Southwestern Conference. Defeated West Virginia in the Carquest Bowl last year under new head football coach Brad Scott. Soccer player Peter Duitsman was named the 1993-94 SEC Male Scholar-Athlete of the year. Accolades Money magazine named USC one of its Best Values in Higher Education. U.S. News and World Report ranked USC's International Business Department No. 1 in the nation for six consecutive years. The School of Medicine ranks 11th among the nation's top 20 medical schools in producing family care by the Association of American Medical Colleges. graduates, 9,629 graduates and 1,097 professionals. UNL has a higher percentage of in-state students at 89 percent, but 77 percent of Columbia’s student body is in-state. While NU’s system has four cam puses, the South Carolina system has eight; however, Columbia, like Lin coln, is the largest “flagship” cam pus and both are the premiere re search universities. Aaron Steckelberg/DN USC President John Palms over sees the entire system, but each cam pus has its own Board of Trustees, comparable to NU’s central Board of Regents. UNL wins out in athletics. While South Carolina averaged 70,470 fans at its home football games in 1994, Nebraska sold out its 76,000 seats for the past 208 home games. And, of course, the Nebraska Cornhuskers have the national championship. Peter files civil suit over leaked report By Melanie Brandert Staff Reporter Nebraska football player Christian Peter has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against the State of Nebraska, claim ing a state official unlawfully released Peter’s pre-sentence investigation re . port to the media. Peter was sentenced in May 1994 to probation on a charge of misde meanor sexual assault. According to the lawsuit, contents of the pre-sentence investigation re port ordered by the Lancaster County Court were revealed to Filip Bondy, a reporter for the New York Daily News. Bondy obtained an indepen dence center evaluation and copies of correspondence. Peter’s lawsuit was filed in Lancaster County District Court Monday. The suit claims the information was used in articles written by Bondy and was published nationwide in newspapers and on radio and televi sion programs. The report contained confidential medical evaluations and private cor respondence and statements from per sons that were unrelated to the mis demeanor charge, Peter states in his lawsuit. Steve Bums, a Lincoln lawyer rep resenting Peter, said information in the report never should have been re leased. Nebraska statutes provide that pre-sentence investigations are con fidential and they (state officials) can not disclose that information,” he said. “Somebody disclosed it.” Bums said he did not know who disclosed the report. “There are a number of officials who would have access to that infor mation,” Bums said. “It could be de termined, but it is not important to us”. Bums said the information prob ably was leaked between May 13, 1994, (the date of Peter’s sentencing) and early January. The sports column, “The Other Side of Husker Glory — Why Three Nebraska Women Couldn’t Share in the Celebration,” was published Jan. 8. It details three incidents involving Peter, including a May 1993 episode in which he twice put his hands be tween the legs of former Miss Ne braska Natalie Kuijvenhoven in a Lin coln bar. Kuijvenhoven filed a police report following the incident, resulting in a misdemeanor third-degree sexual as sault charge against Peter. Peter pleaded no contest to the charge and was found guilty. The article also reveals a 1991 in cident in which a former UNL stu dent, who was a freshman at the time, claimed Peter began to “talk dirty” to her and “unzipped his pants” in front of her and a friend one night at a campus courtyard. “I don’t know if he exposed him self because my friend and I turned away,” the student told Bondy. The student did not file a com plaint with police because she per ceived his alleged actions to be a prank, according to the Daily News article. In both incidents, the women al lege Peter had been drinking. Gary Fox, the Peter family lawyer, said Bondy’s article “breached his constitutional rights.” “It is property of the state of Ne braska,” Fox said. “It’s only allowed to be seen by the judge, the defen dant and the defendant’s attorney.” Fox, in a telephone interview from his Ocean, N.J., office, claimed Bondy misquoted Kuijvenhoven in the article. “Come on, I know you like that,” Bondy reported Peter as saying. That account is not consistent with Kuijvenhoven’s statement to police, Fox said. If Bondy had done his homework and gotten the police report, he would have known that The fact he didn’t do it makes him libelous.” According to the police report, when Kuijvenhoven confronted Peter, he asked, “What’s wrong, don’t you like it?” The lawsuit claims the state’s dis closure of information to Bondy re sulted in “significant and substantial damage” to Peter’s reputation, his ability to earn a living and his status as a prospective professional football player, and that it caused him “hu miliation and embarrassment.” “Peter is seeking damage to his reputation for the invasion of his pri vacy,” Bums said. “He also is look ing at the potential that it could ad versely impact the outcome of the NFL draft and the contracts.” FIESTA BOWL TOUR "National Championship" 12/31/95/ - 3/3/96 In Lincoln call 474-227Q 2900 MQ” Street Select Jackets by The North Feet, Solstice £ Moot-Bell on sn/o now/ Also lots of warm fleece headbands & mittens THE MOOSE S TOOTH 4007 "O’STREET 489-4849 Add it Up ■ HP-48G Scientific Calculator • Graphics with storage and recall* All 48S functionality including unit management and symbolics • Plot enhancements, differential equations $117. 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