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October 11, ■ ' : . JSPW® MattMhj.br/DN TRISHA NENEMAN, a junior interior design major, of the NU dance squad performs Thursday night at the Homecoming Pep Rally See story on page 8. * By Chad Lorenz Senior Reporter After a three-month delay in a Cali fornia court on drunken-driving charges, former Nebraska football star Lawrence Phillips postponed proceed ings to revoke his probation in Ne braska. Instead of appearing in Lancaster county court fra: arraignment Thursday, Phillips was allowed to file for a de lay. A new arraignment date has not yet been set. Phillips was sentenced to a year of probation in 1995 for assaulting his ex girlfriend during his final year as a Nebraska football player. In June, he was arrested for drunken driving in California. Lancaster County Attorney Gary Lacey said the arrest was a violation of Phillips’ probation. Lacey asked county Judge Jack Linder to revoke Phillips’ probation last month, citing the drunk-driving arrest. Part of Phillips’ probation or dered him to avoid tangles with the law. -- Lacey wanted Phillips to be ar raigned quickly, fearing that legal de lays in Los Angeles county would push the case past Nov. 29, when Phillips’ probation would end. 'But Phillips is allowed to wait un til he is convicted on the drunken driv ing charge before he has tp face ar raignment on revoking his probation, Lacey said. ... Because Lacey has already asked to revoke the probation, the proceed ings do not have to end on Nov. 29 when Phillips’ probation does. If Lacey proves Phillips broke some part of the probation terms, the current St Louis Rams running back could be resentenced for last year’s assault. Possible penalties include an other probation term, a fine or jail time. By Erin Schulte Senior Reporter The Nebraska American Civil Lib erties Union should not interfere with die long-standing precedent against nude theater performances at the Uni versity of Nebraska at Kearney, uni versity administrators said Thursday. The ACLU threatened to intervene last week after UNK Chancellor Gladys Styles Johnston ordered nudity removed from two scenes of the play “Tis Pity She’s a Whore.” Originally, Jack Garrison, director and UNK theater professor intended to use partial nudity in the play, which is scheduled to run Tuesday through Oct. 20. Gene Wubbels, UNK senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the play originated in the 1600s when juvenile male actors portrayed women’s roles. - . It did not traditionally use nudity, Wubbels said, and Garrison’s interpre tation of using nude actors was not necessary to present the play. “There’s a clear precedent that we have not had nude performance by stu dents at this university,” Wubbels said. “The same thing is true of the Univer sity of Nebraska at Omaha.” There is no such precedent at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. UNL Chancellor James Moeser, along with Tice Miller, director of the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and Rich ard Durst, dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts, said they would not have interfered. But Wubbels said the no-nudity precedent at Kearney has held for more than 90 years. Garrison, a tenured professor, de cided to bow to the precedent and run the play without the nudity. The scenes were kept — with the actors clothed—and the script was not Please see UNK on 6 •'v ' * 'V-t1 '* 'v . By Erin Gibson StoffBeportpr Homeless patients finishing a sub stance abuse and mental illness treat ment program will get their new start in apartments near Sixth and J streets beginning Jan. I. - The apartments will ease the pa tients’ transition between a structured residential treatment program and in dependent living, a program director ■ . " Tbpher Hansen, director of devel opment and legal council for Lincoln/ Lancaster Chug Projects said about 20 apartments would be provided at re duced or no cost to graduates of the center's treatment program. . Apartments will be scattered in a 2 to 3-mile radius around the project’s Although patients admitted to the We already have a % lot of people with drug and alcohol problems. The pa tients will have little impact ” Ed Beranek Everett Neighborhood Association program have both mental illness and substance abuse problems, they are not dangerous, Hansen said. “These folks are not a threat to so Please see HOUSING on 6 Combs says opponent s incumbency a minus, not a plus Former senator Eugene McCarthy gives support for the Democratic candidate for the House. By Erin Schuus Senior Reporter Patrick Combs, the Democratic fiandidate for die District 1 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, knows his opponent, Rep. Doug Bereuter, gets free mail, easy press coverage and has a lot of money. And that, he said, is exactly why he's running against him. “People say ‘(Bereuter’s) got all that name recognition, he’s got half the billboards in the state, he can have $5,000-a-plate fundraisers and people actually showup,’” Combs said. ‘Isay; ‘You have not told rae one reason he should be re-erected.”* * ■ § Combs pledged to UNL’s Young Democrats group Tuesday night that, if elected, he would serve only four terms. Lifetime politicians spend gov ernment money to get re-elected, are self-serving and lose touch with then constituents, he said. Bereuter has been a congressman since 1978. While Bereuter can get thousands for a plate of roast beef and new pota toes, Combs had trouble Thursday night bringing in more than 20 people for a $75 plate of brie mid bacon cheesecake at a Lincoln fundraiser. ; ^Former Minnesota senator and 1968 Democratic presidential candi date Eugene McCarthy was on hand to meet guests. The low turnout didn’t bother Combs,^who said they usually bad better attendance at“sraaIl-dollar fundraisers.” McCarthy will be mak ing a few more appearances at Comte’ fundraisers while he’s in Lincoln on a hectic speaking schedule. Combs said he didn’t have muchin common with unrealistic McCarthy ; plans like legislating a six-hour work day, a plan reminiscent of legislating eight-hour work days in the ’ 30s. McCarthy said parents would then havetime to commute, spend time with their children mul avoid social prob lems the rat-race culture has elicited. But what he does have in common with McCarthy, Combs said, is a re- 5 freshing perspective and no desire for Please see COMBS on 3 ^77--?— m.j .i i j MarnI SpECK/DN FORMER MINNESOTA SENATOR Eugene McCarthy appeared^! a fundraiser Thursday for Patrick Combs, congressional candidate.