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COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-EINCOLN SINCE 1901
Faculty talks
toMoeser
on diversity
By Erin Gibson
Staff Reporter
Faculty and staff urged Chancellor James
Moeser to pressure departments to hire more
women in senior-level positions during two
open forums Tuesday.
They also called for improvements in the
campus climate for minorities and women, and
asked to continue campus safety efforts.
Ann Mari May, associate professor of eco
nomics, said women still faced discrimination
by faculty, and that most women did not report
offenses to department heads.
This year, one male professor complained
to students about “all these bitches taking away
our jobs,” May said. The professor apologized,
but already alienated female students, she said.
“These problems are not 10 years old,” May
said. “They’re still happening. I think we’re ex
periencing a backlash against women.”
Helen Moore, chairwoman and professor of
sociology, said many departments have few fe
male faculty members to provide professional
leadership for women.
The chancellor responded by citing 44 per
cent of positions at UNL filled by women in
the last year.
But Moore said women were concentrated
in the lower staff and faculty positions.
Moeser brought up evidence of progress,
including the campuswide sexual harassment
policy the university approved last year and a
reduction in campus crime.
In the wake of an alleged rape at the Sigma
Nu fraternity, audience members at the forum
expressed concern that sexual harassment and
discrimination crimes still pervade the campus.
“We know that people’s lives here are pen
etrated by harassment whether verbal or physi
cal,” Moore said.
The chancellor said he and his committee
worked on many fronts to reduce such offenses.
For instance, many greek houses have signed
alcohol and drug-free contracts, he said.
Moeser said several fraternities still adhere
to an “Animal House” situation, however.
“I’m told that rape was almost predictable
in terms of the behavior taking place in (the
Sigma Nu) house that night”
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CHUCK FEILMEIER, a senior computer engineering major, takeaadvantage of Tuesday’s weather and studies outside Wore
class. Feilmeier said he likes to study outside “whenever it’s nice enough.”
Colleges learn to deal with violent crimes
From The Collegian
Pennsylvania State University
University officals say
counseling helps students
handle the crimes.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The shooting at
State College almost two weeks ago was not
the first time the peace and safety of a college
campus exploded in gunfire.
Campuses across the country have had simi
lar experiences in the past five years—the most
recent at the University of Northern Colorado.
Joseph Gallegos, 18, took his ex-girlfriend
and four other students hostage less than two
weeks ago in their dormitory. The man alleg
edly shot his three roommates less than 24 hours
earlier, then drove across the state to see his
girlfriend.
He shot his girlfriend in the foot. Hie other
students were unharmed when the gunman was
shot by police as he stuck his head out of the
dorm room window.
Representatives from several universities
sent their thoughts and sympathy recently to
Penn State, remembering how they dealt with
their tragedies.
On Sept 18, Jillian Robbins, 19, shot and
killed Melanie Spalla, 19, and injured Nicholas
Mensah, 27. Spalla and Mensah were students,
but Robbins (fid out attend the college.
Rick Moore, director of university relations
at San Diego State University, said counseling
needs to be made available for everyone to deal
with the incident.
“You need to be aggressive with counsel
ing, otherwise scone people who really need it
may not get it,” said Moore.
Last sprang, San Diego State University pro
vided counseling after a graduate student, who
was defending his doctoral dissertation, shot
three professors at a committee hearing.
- In 1993, at Weber State University in Ogden,
Utah, a student who was at a disciplinary hear
ing shot and injured three people — including
a police officer, before the officer shot and lolled
him. v
Lisa Allen-Hogensen, head dispatcher at
Weber State University, agreed counseling is
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This is part threegfn five-part series about
crime on the University of Nebraska
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By Matthew Waite .
Special Projects Reporter
CpL Doug Petersen hasn’t missed a home
football game since he joined the University of
Nebraska Police Department 18 years ago.
He’s worked every game, dealing wife fans
too drunk to cheer or too rowdy to stay in the
stands. ’■ p'v.'" . ■£*?,.:
Home-game Saturdays are busy for police
officers all over Lincoln, but in terms of cam
pus crime, game days are no busier than other
days — even with more than 76,000 extra
people on campus.
Peak times for police activity, in terms of
reported incidents, are between midnight and 1
a.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Police officers say the hours between 4:30
p.m. and 7 p.m. are when students and faculty
leave campus and find their cars vandalized or
bikesstolen. After midnight, they say, it’s usu
ally problems with people coming home from
the bars.
But Sgt Bill Manning, operations officer for
the campus police department, is quick to point
out that the database of police records does not
include calls for service.
UNLPD fielded 60,000 calls for service in
1995 and filed more than 2,000 reports. Calls
for service can include people locking their keys
in cars and buildings and assisting motorists.
The vast majority of calls for service come
during the day shift* Manning said, during low
reporting hours. During the evening and night
shifts, he said, calls for service go down, and
more serious calls go up.
Manning said when it comes to timc of day,
the repeat file does not tell the whole tale. Day
shift officers have more total calls than the
evening and night shifts combined.
Day shift incidents that require reports are
few, but calls for service are many. Evening and
night shifts, Manning said, are dispatched to
incidents that require more than one officer on
the scene, such as assaults and domestic distur
