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6 en to 10 am
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Eating Disorders Education Group J
Group discussions/presentations
offered each week!
Topics include nutrition, exercise,
and the psychological and emo
tional aspects of eating disorders.
Open to students,family or friends!
UHC Counseling & Psychological _
Services, 472-7450.
Two Sessions Offered!
Session 2: Feb. 27-Apr. 2
Tuesdays, 3:30-4:45 p.m.
UHC 213, $25 for students
$50 for others, Register at
the UHC Business Office!
vs. Oklahoma State
SATURDAY, February 17 8:05 p.m.
The first 500 full-time UNL Students through'the gate will
receive a free Lincoln Sports & Rec t-shirt.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Nebraska
vs.
New Mexico
&
SUNDAY,
February 18
7 p.m.
ADMISSION:
General Admission - $4.00
Students (7-18) - $2.00
UNL Students - FREE
Children 6 and under - FREE
Federal judge blocks
Internet indecency law
PHILADELPHIA — A federal
judge Thursday banned the govern
ment from enforcing a new law that
punishes anyone who makes “inde
cent” material available to minors over
computer networks.
But in a ruling that seemed to per
plex lawyers for both the government
and the coalition of civil rights groups
that sued to block the law, the judge
upheld a separate section of the statute
aimed at “patently offensive” mate
rial.
U.S. District Judge Ronald L.
Buckwalter said his temporary re
straining order would remain in effect
at least until lawyers present their ar
guments before a panel including him
self and two other judges. No date for
that review was set.
The request to block the law was
filed by the American Civil Liberties
Union and 19 other groups on Feb. 8,
immediately after President Clinton
signed the Communications Decency
Act into law as part of the wide-rang
ing telecommunications reform bill.
Buckwalter said the term “inde
cent” was unconstitutionally vague as
defined in the new law, but he left the
government free to prosecute those
who make available to minors any on
line communication that “in context,
“This is an enormously
hopeful signal to our
clients and hopefully a
wake-up call to those in
the federal government. ”
STEFAN PRESSER
ACLU legal director in
Philadelphia
depicts or describes in terms patently
offensive as measured by contempo
rary community standards, sexual or
excretory activities or organs.”
Stefan Presser, the ACLU’s legal
director in Philadelphia, said that he
believed the distinction between inde
cent and patently offensive was so
small as to be difficult for the govern
ment to enforce.
The judge’s decision can be ap
pealed by either side immediately to
the U.S. Supreme Court under provi
sions provided by the act itself.
The judge made no ruling on a
segment of the Communications De
cency Act which makes it illegal to
use computer networks to provide in
formation about how to obtain an abor
tion. The Justice Department has said
that it will not enforce that provision
of the law.
“This is an enormously hopeful
signal to our clients and hopefully a
wake-up call to those in the federal
government,” Presser said.
“The word indecent’ simply does
not give the (computer user) enough
information to avoid being sent to
jail,” Presser said.
The ACLU argued the law would
violate privacy rights and strangle free
speech by authorizing the government
to prosecute people even for the pri
vate messages they send about AIDS,
abortion, politics and science — any
subject involving sex.
Supporters say the law, which car
ries fines up to $250,000 and prison
terms of up to five years, will protect
children from pornography.
They denied the ban would affect
general information about abortion and
AIDS.
The judge also let stand a provision
that allows the government to pros
ecute those who transmit material that
is considered obscene on the Internet
—an aspect of the law the ACLU did
not challenge.
GOP candidates exchange
fire in heated debate
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Bob
Dole and Pat Buchanan had several
crackling exchanges over taxes and
trade Thursday night as eight Republi
can presidential hopefuls offered com
peting conservative agendas in a de
bate five days before New Hampshire’s
pivotal primary.
Looking to revive his troubled cam
paign, multimillionaire publisher Steve
Forbes said he had made a mistake
airing negative ads. Yet in the next
breath he labeled Dole a tax raiser and
raised ethical questions about the fi
nancial dealings of former Tennessee
Gov. Lamar Alexander.
Firing back, Alexander demanded
that Forbes release his tax returns.
“That is a diversion,” Forbes said,
refusing to comply.
Campaign tactics also were a hot
topic, beginning at the outset when
Buchanan and Alexander lashed out at
Dole for launching ads critical of their
views. Later, when Forbes was lament
ing his negative ad barrage, Dole joked
that he knew the reason: “too much
money.”
While they sparred over the tone
and tactics of the campaign, the candi
dates were in broad agreement over
why a Republican president would be
better than a second Clinton term: the
budget would be balanced, taxes cut
and reformed, more power shifted to
state and local governments.
With New Hampshire’s primary
looming Tuesday, Dole and Buchanan
are in a tight race for first place, and
some new polls suggest Alexander’s
third-place showing in Iowa last week
tias him inching up. Forbes has fallen
in recent days from challenging for
first to fighting for third, and hoped the
debate would halt his slide.
There was a spat over negative tac
tics at the outset, and them a period of
calm as the candidates said replacing
President Clinton was critical to en
acting a conservative GOP agenda.
But when the subject turned to the
economy and trade, Buchanan and
Dole had several short but pointed
exchanges.
“Pat is off on this isolationist kick,”
Dole said at one point. At another, he
said, “Pat has gotten carried away to
night” and turned to his rival and said,
“Had a bad day?”
Earlier Thursday, Buchanan ’ s cam
paign chairman took a leave of ab
sence because of a report linking him
to white supremist and militia groups.
Returning fire, Buchanan said Dole
had supported tax increases, a point
raised later by Forbes, too.
In the trade fight, Dole got plenty of
help. Alexander, Forbes, and Indiana
Sen. Dick Lugar warned Buchanan’s
protectionist views would kill many
more jobs than they saved. The last
time such views were popular, “We
got a Great Depression.”
When the candidates were asked to
defend their advertising, Dole said he
was under a negative assault from
Forbes more than three months before
responding.
“We’ve got a right to defend our
selves,” he said.
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Cop killers
Continued from Page 1
said looking intently at each commit
tee member. “Are you out at three
o’clock in the morning when a woman
screams for help and a officer pulls up
and somebody steps out and blows
him away?
“Does a doctor respond to that?
Does a garbage man?” he asked.
Omaha Police Chief James Skinner
informed the committee that since the
agency he now commands began 109
years ago, 22 officers had been killed
in the line of duty — three during his
tenure.
Skinner said the common theme he
hoped the committee considered re
garding the bill was that the officers
were acting as representatives of the
state government.
“They are enforcing state laws, he
said. “The laws that all of you deter
mine are appropriate for us to live
under in this society.
“And when someone assaults or
murders a police officer, it is an assault
on our very form of government.”
A similar bill, LB963, was intro
duced by Sen. Curt Bromm of Wahoo,
and Bromm sdid he would support
LB990.
Scott Wesely of Nebraskans
Against the Death Penalty was the
only person to testify against the bill.
“LB990 and 963 do nothing to stop
cop killers,” a written statement said,
“and nothing to punish them that life
without parole can’t do more consis
tently, and with fewer negative conse
quences.”
The committee did not conduct an
executive session and took no action
on the bill.
Board halts
live racing
at Aksarben
OMAHA, Neb.—The Dou
glas Racing Corp. voted Thurs
day to suspend live horse racing
for the 1996 season at the
Aksarben race track.
It would be the first time in 65
years horses have not raced at
the track.
The board voted to suspend
racing after it failed to reach an
agreement with a pair of Omaha
businessmen, who had offered
to borrow the county $1 million
to fund the races.
Board members said they will
consider their options and look
for other ways to restart the track
in the future.
Horse racing at the financially
troubled track was expected to
begin May 3.
However, the board did agree
it would continue to provide si
mulcast races at the track.
The Horsemen Benevolent
Association has offered
$600,000 to fund simulcast rac
ing.
If racing at the Omaha track
had continued this year, offi
cials had estimated the shortfall
would have been as high as $ 1.6
million — including operating
losses and payments on the bonds
that financed the county’s 1992
purchase of Aksarben.
Nefciraskan
Editor J. Christopher Haln
472-1766
Managing Editor Doug Kouma
Assoc. News Editors Matt Waite
Sarah Sea let
Opinion Page Editor Doug Peters
Wire Editor Michelle Gamer
Copy Desk Editor Tim Pearson
Sports Editor Mitch Sherman
Arts & Entertainment
Editor Jeff Randall
Photo Director Staci McKee
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