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February 6, 1996
COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SINCE 1901
VOL. 95 NO. 99
Smith asks
for increase
in salaries
By Ted Taylor
Senior Reporter
NU President Dennis Smith testified Mon
day before the Nebraska Legislature’s Appro
priations Committee, asking again for funds to
increase employee salaries.
Smith told the committee that the University
of Nebraska was committed to raising salaries 4
percent each year during the current biennium.
The Board of Regents’
Legislature
policy, which is consistent
’ i with state law, is not saying
we want to be at the ton of the
rtiSiit&i
I list of peers’ salaries,” Smith
II said.
“We are seeking what is in
my view a reasonable goal—
the mid-point of each cam
pus’ peer institutions.”
A year ago, Smith testi
— fled for the same increase—
which the committee and full Legislature ap
proved.
But Gov. Ben Nelson vetoed the increase,
allowing an increase of 3 percent.
A similar veto by Nelson this year, Smith
said, would “result in a $7 million mid-bien
nium cut — plain and simple.”
That cut would have the university looking
See FUNDING on 2
Clinton
subpoenaed
in new trial
By James Jefferson
The Associated Press —
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — President Clinton
was ordered Monday to testify at next month’s
Whitewater trial for James and Susan McDougal,
his partners in a failed northern Arkansas land
deal. The White House said it wanted the presi
dent to testify by videotape rather than in per
son.
Susan McDougal is accused of receiving a
$300,000 loan that a former Little Rock busi
nessman and municipal judge, David Hale, says
Clinton pressured him to make. Clinton, who
has not been charged, has denied the accusa
tion.
U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr. ap
proved the subpoena on behalf of the
McDougals, directing their lawyers to proceed
See CLINTON on 2
v Scott Bruhn/DN
UNL Chancellor James Moeser greets the local media at a Monday afternoon press conference. Monday was
Moeser’s first day as chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Husker vision
Moeser begins chancellorship at UNL
By Erin Schulte
Staff Reporter
First decisions and first impressions were
on James Moeser’s agenda Monday as he
took the office of UNL chancellor.
In one of his first administrative deci
sions, Moeser opted to assign a new search
committee to find a director of affirmative
action and diversity at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
The committee will start fresh in a search
for candidates, he said. Three finalists had
been vying for the position.
Moeser said the position was critical to
the university, and he thought the right per
son had not yet been found.
The right candidate would have full sup
port from the university community, he said.
Moeser also talked about his impressions
of UNL and his goals as chancellor.
UNL seems to be a well-run university
now, after some years of trouble before Gra
ham Spanier was chancellor, Moeser said.
Major corrections in policy or staff should
not be needed.
“This is a university that’s on a very solid
course. This is not a university in crisis,”
Moeser said.
The focus on sports at the university should
be seen as positive, he said, although some
think it detracts attention from academic
strengths.
Attention gained from sports attracts stu
dents to the university, Moeser said.
Sports don’t outshine academic achieve
ments, he said, they bring acclaim to the
university and add to the spotlight on aca
demies.
Honors programs, undergraduate student
concerns and faculty research were impor
tant issues Moeser said he hoped to deal with
later this semester.
Close relationships between faculty and
administration should be strived for during
his term as chancellor, Moeser said. He also
wants faculty members to regard him as their
colleague, not as a “CEO,” or chief execu
tive officer.
Moeser said his associates and college
deans were capable, but there should be a
“positive tension” between staff and admin
istration officials when they work together,
he said.
“I do not expect to do anything single
handedly here,” he said.
Council looks at ban of tiul-nudity chibs
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter
Full-nudity strip clubs, such as
Shakers near Waverly, may never
reach Lincoln if an ordinance debated
Monday passes a City Council vote.
The ordinance would prohibit
people from showing their genitals,
pubic areas or buttocks while provid
ing any services, products or enter
tainment in any business or commer
cial establishment in Lincoln.
The city allows only topless danc
ing at places where alcohol is sold.
Topless dancing still would be al
lowed if the ordinance passes.
Duringapublic hearing, LisaBulin,
26, of Lmcoln, told the council the
ordinance was brilliant and should be
taken one step further.
“If we’re going to cover up their
rears, let’s cover up the rest of them,”
she said.
Bulin said she would be embar
rassed to live in a city that had full
nudity strip clubs because she had
strong personal feelings against pub
lic nudity.
“It should be unlawful to slut your
self around like that,” Bulin said.
But Ellis Knox, 7011 Lincolnshire
Road, told the council the ordinance
wouldn’t keep people from seeing
nudity if they wanted.
People could see the other 95 per
cent of the human body at topless bars
and adult video stores, he said.
Knox said the human body, naked
or otherwise, shouldn’t be regulated
as an indecent object. People should
remember that their bodies are beauti
ful creations, he said.
The ordinance only confuses
people’s feelings about their own bod
ies, he said.
Merv Goodrick, who supported the
ordinance, said full-nudity clubs would
attract unwanted elements to the city
and make police work harder.
Strip clubs of any kind hurt mar
riages and devalue the family,
Goodrick said.
“Anybody who thinks there’s a part
of the body that shouldn’t be covered
up is devoid of morality,” he said.
Dan Robinson, owner and operator
“If we’re going to cover up their rears, let’s cover
up the rest of them ...It should be unlawful to slut
yourself around like that. ”
LISA BUUN
Lincoln resident
of Shakers, said some people would
always oppose nude entertainment.
Robinson, who didn’t speak at the
hearing, said he thought a similar law
wouldn’t pass at the county or state
level because his business didn’t cause
any problems.
Robinson said he didn’t plan on
expanding into Lincoln, so the ordi
nance wouldn’t affect him.
“I think it’s fine if that ’ s what people
want,” he said.
The City Council is scheduled to
vote on the ordinance at its Feb. 12
meeting.