Committee kills institute bill
Issue to go before Board of Regents Saturday
By Ted Taylor
Senior Reporter
A legislative bill that would have
bound the NU Board of Regents
into creating an institute of science
_ and technology
Legislature £U“T,!
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After more
I than three hours
| of testimony, the
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mittee of the Ne
braska Legisla
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not to advance
Omaha Sen. Chris Abboud’s
LB 1169.
The bill would have not only
provided for the institute at the Uni
versity of Nebraska at Omaha, but
for a separate vice-chancellor posi
tion as well.
The regents are still set, how
ever, to decide on a measure that
would create the Omaha Institute of
Information Science, Technology
and Engineering at their monthly
meeting this Saturday.
The proposal also would estab
lish the UNO College of Informa
tion Science and Technology and
would look at enhancing the cur
rent engineering programs offered
at both UNO and the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln.
James Mil liken, corporation sec
retary for the regents, said that
Tuesday’s legislative action would
in no way affect how the regents
voted Saturday.
“Abboud’s bill, while it had the
same name, created a different kind
of institute and radically changed
the administration structure of the
university,” he said.
“His bill would have transferred
administration of the engineering
college here at UNL to a new vice
chancellor at UNO,” he said.
“The institute that is being pro
posed to the Board of Regents
doesn’t change the administration
structure.”
Milliken, who testified on be
half of UNL, said he was pleased
that the bill was not advanced.
“This gives the board the best
opportunity to now move forward
with the institute being proposed to
them Saturday.”
Regents Chairwoman Nancy
O’Brien ofWaterloosaid she never
felt it was the Legislature’s place to
find a solution to the engineering
problem.
“I always felt it was up to the
administration, the regents and the
business community,” she said.
“One of the important aspects of
the proposed institute is that it was
developed jointly by UNL and
UNO,” she said. “I respect the pro
cess.”
During testimony supporting the
bill, Abboud told the committee
that the lack of engineering pro
grams in Omaha affected the eco
nomic vitality of the city.
“It has raised concerns from my
constituents and Omaha busi
nesses,” he said.
Omaha Mayor Hal Daub encour
aged the committee to advance the
bill, saying the bill would serve the
needs of all Nebraskans.
Daub said the bill was “a step in
the right direction for technology
education in our state.”
Council passes ordinance
to ban full-nudity businesses
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter
Businesses wanting to feature be
low-the-waist nudity will have to go
outside of Lincoln to do it.
The Lincoln City Council voted 6
1 Tuesday night to pass an ordinance
banning full nudity for business ser
vices or commercial establishments.
Cindy Johnson, council chair
woman, said the
ordinance would protect taxpayers’
investments in downtown property and
residential areas. Johnson and Mayor
Mike Johanns drafted the ordinance.
Lincoln’s liquor laws currently pro
hibit full nudity anywhere alcohol is
served. Strip bars in Lincoln are lim
ited to topless dancing.
Keeping the neighborhoods and
downtown area free from blight is a
struggle, she said.
Allowing establishments like Shak
ers, a full-nudity “juice bar” near
Waverly, could bring disturbances to
the Lincoln area and lower property
values, Johnson said.
Other cities that allow nude danc
ing and strip juice bars have suffered
from those problems, she said.
Johnson said she understood some
people thought they should have the
right to frequent such establishments
if they choose.
“Taxpayers also have the right to
have their investments protected,”
Johnson said.
Coleen Seng, counci lwoman for the
northeast district, said the ordinance
would prevent Lincoln from develop
ing a bad ipiagc.
“I think it puts a different flavoring
on the downtown area,” she said.
Linda Wilson, councilwoman for
the southwest district, said the ordi
nance would keep violence and distur
bances that plague Shakers from tak
ing their toll on Lincoln.
Wilson said she feared that busi
nesses failing to get legal liquor li
cences may start similar juice bars in
Lincoln.
“(Those are) some problems we
don’t need to add,” she said. “We’ve
got enough problems as it is.”
Ken Haar, who cast the lone vote
against the ordinance, said full-nudity
businesses don’t bring such troubles.
“The places that exist outside the
city aren’t a problem,” he said.
Haar said Lincoln didn’t need the
ordinance because no such establish
ments have sprung up in Lincoln.
Before the vote, Haar raised ques
tions about distinguishing full-nudity
establishments from nude artistic per
formances.
Lincoln City Attorney Bill Austin
said the court would have to decide
between the two.
“That’s going to be a difficult catl,”
Austin said. “That’s getting very close
to the First Amendment protecting ex
pressive activity.”
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the
case of Barnes v. Glen’s Theater gave
government the right to regulate pub
lic nudity, he said. That supreme court
decision could support the ordinance
where city liquor laws couldn’t, Aus
tin said.
Austin said he would be careful in
prosecuting cases in which nudity was
used for true artistic expression.
Jerry Shoecraft, councilman at
large, voted in favor of the ordinance
but said he didn’t think it was neces
sary, because potential nude businesses
weren’t coming to Lincoln.
Shoecraft said banning nudity was
a matter of political correctness and
community interest.
“When it comes down to it, it’s
something we don’t want in our com
munity.”
Buchanan
Continued from Page 1
American people,” Clinton said in a
victory statement, offering his view of
the Republican race.
New Hampshire’s results were
likely to winnow the GOP field, though
none of the strugglingcandidates would
immediately admit as much. Forbes,
particularly, had reason to be disap
pointed. He had been tied for the New
Hampshire lead a month ago, but his
effort to promote a flat income tax
wilted as moderate voters chose be
tween Dole and Alexander.
Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar was fifth
at 5 percent, and Alan Keyes had 3
percent. Illinois businessmen Morry
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He delivered a scathing populist cri
tique of the GOP establishment and
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women of Middle America.”
Alexander and Dole supported the
NAFTA and GATT free-trade agree
ments as critical to boosting American
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blames the deals for sending Ameri
can manufacturing jobs overseas, and
stagnating wages at home.
Buchanan is also far more outspo
ken than either Dole or Alexander on
social issues. He pledges to be the
“most pro-life president in history”
and vows that no avowed homosexu
als will serve in a Buchanan adminis
tration.
Clinging to hopes for a late-night
comeback, Dole did not concede. But
he was resigned to placing second in
New Hampshire, again.
“Now I know why they call this the
Granite State,” Dole said. “Because
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