Party members debate platform
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter
Samc-sex marriages, abortion, V
chips and defense spending were
among the platform topics discussed
at the Lancaster County Republican
Party’s platform hearing.
About 20 people attended the hear
ing where the county party’s platform
committee listened to public opinion
on the county and state Republican
platforms. No action was taken on
platform planks.
Participants wanted the party to
take a platform stand on same-sex
marriages.
Dan Howell, 31, said homosexual
marriages hadn’t been discussed
enough because people haven’t con
sidered another possible outcome:
homosexual divorces.
“How do you divide property in a
same-sex marriage? How do you de
cide child custody in a same-sex mar
riage?” Howell said. “There seems to
be societal issues that someone needs
to address.”
Patricia Smith, a former commit
tee member for the National Republi
can party, said the party should neu
tralize or remove its stand on abortion
because it had divided the party.
“We, as a party, are taking a sui
cidal approach to this whole question,”
Smith said.
The party had lost support from
Republicans who were pro-choice
advocates, she said, and changing the
platform would bring them back.
Dick Buntgen, 38, said the party
was right to hold its position.
“I think the party should stand on
its principles and pro-life is a prin
ciple.”
Kip Murphy, who was a former
Cuming county party chairman, said
Republicans believed government had
a right to decide on the issue.
Betty Anderson said she thought
the platform plank ran contrary to the
Republican belief that government
shouldn’t meddle in people’s lives or
mix religious beliefs with state mat
ters.
“The government was always and
will always be involved in people’s
lives,” Murphy said. “Government
cannot get out of all personal issues.”
Program gives money
for cameras to police
By Kasey Kerber
Staff Reporter
A foundation in memory of slain
Omaha police officer Jimmy Wil
son Jr. has put Nebraska law en
forcement vehicles 100 video cam
eras closer to a goal of one camera
for each vehicle, Gov. Ben Nelson
said.
In memory of his son, James C.
Wilson Sr. is heading the founda
tion, which soon will make a
$450,000 donation to the City of
Omaha to purchase 100 video cam
eras for law enforcement vehicles.
“We’re well on our way toward
our goal,” Wilson said. “One day
we hope it will be the entire state.”
With the donation, officials es
timate that 300 cameras soon will
be in use in Nebraska. The ultimate
goal of the program is to have ev
ery call-for-scrvice law enforce
ment vehicle in Nebraska equipped
with a video camera.
The foundation has not yet de
termined how many cameras will
be needed.
“It would make Nebraska the
first state to have a video camera in
every vehicle,” Nelson said Mon
day at his weekly teleconference.
The program is a joint effort of
the Department of Motor Vehicles,
the Nebraska Office of Highway
Safety and the James B. Wilson Jr.
Foundation.
Nelson said the video cameras
would improve police reporting ac
curacy, deter criminals from com
mitting violence against police of
ficers and encourage officers to fol
low procedures more closely.
He said the program also would
honor Jimmy Wilson Jr., who was
shot in his police cruiser.
“This program will honor the
memory of your son,” Nelson said
to Wilson, “and of every fallen of
ficer.”
Weather delays
station’s debut
until April 1
From Staff Reports
Complications with the broadcast
ing tower and the arrival of new stu
dio equipment prevented KLKN,
Lincoln’s soon-to-be newest television
station, from going on the air Mon
day as planned.
Randal Stanley, KLKN news direc
tor, said the station’s debut had been
delayed until April 1, in part because
rain, snow and cold weather had
slowed work on the station’s tower.
Also, the station received new stu
dio equipment last week, so anchors
and crew had to make some adjust
ments. The extra week will give the
news team time to fine-tune its news
cast, Stanley said.
In the meantime, viewers soon will
be able to watch a 25-minute continu
ous presentation on channel 8 that in
troduces them to the news team and
the station, Stanley said.
Richard Bates, operations director
for CableVision, said the preview
would begin airing sometime this
week.
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fungi in the ventilation system
somewhere that’s giving a person
problems,” he said. “It’s just a mat
ter of finding uniform factors that
point to a particular problem.”
Phillips said about 15 percent to
20 percent of the United States’
population had either allergies or
asthma, and those conditions could
worsen depending on the climate in
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“Nebraska is notorious for be
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ing syndrome, a term for illness
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lutants in the workplace, is carbon
monoxide poisoning, he said. Vic
tims can suffer from dizziness, nau
sea or even death.
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration standards say fewer
than 50 parts of carbon monoxide
per million parts of regular air is
safe for a work environment.
Phillips said that guideline had been
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“One of the good things about
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steam,” he said. “That cuts down on
a lot of the potential problems we
could have with carbon monoxide.”
Phillips said any complaints con
cerning air quality in campus build
ings were dealt with immediately.
Sometimes it is difficult to iso
late a single factor responsible for
an illness, he said. The agent can
range from something as insignifi
cant as dust mites to much larger
problems, such as multiple chemi
cal sensitivity (MCS).
According to Nebline, MCS vic
tims react to mixtures of several dif
ferent chemicals in their work en
vironments. This contact often
comes in long-term, low-dose ex
posures to toxic compounds, mak
ing it difficult for even the victims
“A lot of times there’s a
mold or fungi in the
ventilation system
somewhere that’s
giving a person
problems. It’s just a
matter of finding
uniform factors that
point to a particular
problem. ”
RON PHILLIPS
environmental health specialist
to realize what is making them sick.
Victims often suffer from nau
sea, rashes, diarrhea, respiratory
problems and frequent incidences
of common allergic reactions.
Phillips said there had been rela
tively few instances of environmen
tal illnesses at UNL, considering the
number of people at risk every day
in places such as laboratories and
office settings.
Even in the residence halls,
where hundreds of students are
crowded together in close quarters,
he said, it is doubtful that the risk
of infectious or environmental ill
nesses is higher than it would be
anywhere else.
“Students are going to come in
contact with other students,” he
said, “but that doesn’t necessarily
mean they have a better chance of
getting a disease. In that situation,
it all depends on the hygiene and
susceptibility of the people in
volved.”
Phillips said he didn’t like to
blame too many work-related ill
nesses on environmental or chemi
cal factors, simply because so little
was known about the true nature of
such afflictions.
“There’s a risk involved for ev
ery person working at an institu
tion,” he said, “and things like MCS
are really recent. There’s still a lot
to learn about the ramifications and
diagnosis of it.”
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