Judge grants protection order
Anti-abortion activists ordered to stop threatening, approaching doctor
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter
A District Court judge Wednesday
ordered members of an anti-abortion
rights group to stay at least 24 feet
away from a Lincoln gynecologist who
performs abortions.
In a protection order granted by
Judge Paul Merritt, members of Res
cue die Heartland and three specific
people were prohibited from threaten
ing or disturbing the peace of Dr. Win
ston Crabb and his wife, Millicent.
Crabb filed for the protection or
der last week after several incidents this
summer when Rescue the Heartland
protestors followed him from his home
and work and approached him at res
taurants, an automatic teller machine
and in his car at a stop sign.
Millicent Crabb testified that the
protestors came to her workplace and
yelled at ho*. She also said they took a
photograph of her face.
The protestors testified that they
weren’t threatening or harassing the
Crabbs, just trying to persuade Win
ston Crabb to stop performing abor
tions.
In his ruling, Judge Merritt said it
was not unreasonable for someone to
feel threatened or terrified by being
followed in a car several times, having
one s car surrounded at a stop sign,
being followed into eating establish
ments and having someone suddenly
shoot a photograph of them.
The order stated that the protestors
are not to follow or chase any vehicle
the Crabbs are driving or riding in.
They are also prohibited from
blocking or standing within 24 feet of
any vehicle the Crabbs are entering,
leaving or driving.
Violating a protection order does
not have a preset maximum or mini
mum penalty.
Attorneys for both sides were out
of Lincoln on Wednesday. Neither
Crabb nor members of Rescue the
Heartland could be reached by phone.
Grad assistants not forming unions
UNIONS from page 1
Graduate assistants have taken over
freshman composition, introductory
language and laboratory classes as the
demand for more professorial empha
sis on teaching increases.
Mike Evces, an Iowa graduate stu
dent of curriculum and instruction who
teaches freshman rhetoric, said that
although Iowa’s graduate assistant
salaries were ranked ninth out of the
Big 10 schools, benefits were a bigger
issue.
“When grad students first began
organizing three years ago, they offered
rather meager health care,” Evces said.
“They called it ‘Health Coverage for
Healthy People.’”
Among other things, Evces said,
treatment for many illnesses and physi
cal therapy procedures were not cov
ered.
“We wanted something more com
prehensive,” he said.
Graduate students voted to join the
union and negotiated salary and insur
ance changes with university adminis
tration.
Base salaries for teaching and re
search assistants rose from $10,500 to
$12,500 for each academic year, and,
more importantly, a new insurance plan
was added.
At UNL, stipends for graduate as
sistants vary among departments, but
can be as much as $12,000, said
Rosalind Carr, the university employ
ment officer for graduate students.
Graduate assistants at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln are not union
ized, Carr said, but they can purchase
the same student insurance available
to undergraduates.
Mary Sully, a UNL graduate stu
dent in management, is putting together
the 1995-96 National Survey of Gradu
ate Assistant Stipends, Graduate Fel
lowships and Post-doctoral Fellow
snips, ine study will snow graduate
student salaries at 123 comparable
graduate schools across the country.
Although the final numbers aren’t
in, UNL grad students do have sala
ries on par with students at peer uni
versities, Sully said. UNL’s student fees
are also lower than many peer univer
sities, she said.
There haven’t been any rustlings of
wanting to unionize at UNL, Sully said.
One reason, she said, is that graduate
assistants all operate under a rights and
privileges statement set up by die dean
of graduate studies. The statement en
sures teaching and research assistants
they won’t be putting in ungodly hours
at low pav.
Although joining a union is becom
ing more popular, UNL will probably
not jump on the bandwagon, Sully said.
^There’s no talk of unionizing, be
cause rights are recognized and stu
dents are pretty happy.”
Aitemfied Homicide
Police are investigating an at
tempted homicide involving a man
who allegedly stabbed his ex-girl
friend in the chest Wednesday
morning.
A Lincoln woman, age 26, is in
serious condition at Lincoln Gen
eral hospital after undergoing sur
gery for two stab wounds in her left
chest, Lincoln police Sgt. Ann
Heermann said.
The woman told police her ex
boyfriend broke into her apartment
Wednesday morning and stabbed
her in the chest and abdomen,
Heermann said.
When police arrived on the
scene, they found the suspect on the
porch of the house on the 1500
block of south 13th Street,
Heermann said. Officers arrested
Epefanio Arzpalo for attempted
homicide.
Police could not get a clear state
ment from the woman Wednesday
afternoon because she still was se
dated from the surgery.
Robbery
A 30-year-old woman was at
tacked in her car Tuesday night by
a man who tried to rob her of cash.
Sherry Bur back was giving a 23
year-old man a ride home at 12:15
a.m., Heermann said.
The two got out of the car near
11th and G streets and the man
asked her if he could borrow $20,
Heermann said.
When Burback told him no, he
grabbed her from behind and threw
her back into the car, Heermann
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said.
He attacked her, grabbed her
throat and demanded $40,
Heermann said.
Burback again refused so he
rummaged through her purse and
pulled out a wad of cash, Heermann
said.
Residents in the area heard the
commotion and called police. The
two still were in the car when offic
ers arrived, Heermann said.
Police arrested Frederick Cage
for attempted strongarm robbery.
Burglary
A woman woke early Wednes
day morning to find a half-dressed
burglar in her bed.
The woman found the strange
man masturbating next to her at her
home near 18th and P streets at
about 5 a.m., Heermann said.
When the woman screamed, the
suspect told her to be quiet and put
his hand over her mouth, Heermann
said.
A man living with the woman
heard the scream and came into the
room, Heermann said.
The man got up, said he had the
wrong house and' fled, Heermann
said.
The couple living there believe
the man entered through an open
window, Heermann said.
The woman described the man
as white with long strawberry-blond
hair in a pony tail. She told police
he looked to be in his late 20s, about
5-foot-9,135 pounds. He was wear
ing a yellow button shirt and boxer
shorts.
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