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Rowing up
Ryan Soderun/DN
KERI ZAPPA, a Nebraska woman novice rower, holds on to a pair of spoons (oars)
as the team waits to load them on to the boat trailer and return home. Tbday and
Saturday, the team will be rowing in a 36-hour Erg-a-thon in Memorial Plaza to
raise money for charity and the club. Please see story on page 8.
Bookstores aft odds
over copyright laws
By Erin Schulte
Senior Reporter
Managers at the Nebraska Bookstore admit
that they may get their class packets to students
more slowly than the University Bookstore. But
unlike their competitors, they say, they take time
to make sure no copyright laws are broken.
Course packets that use material from other
books or journals must receive copyright ap
proval before they’re printed.
But this semester, the University Bookstore
printed and sold English 186 course packets two
days before receiving copyright permission.
Rushing to get packets to professors and stu
dents makes customers happy, said Martha
Hoppe, manager of Nebraska Bookstore’s Grade
A Notes, which competes with the University
Bookstore for the packets.
But breaking copyright laws to serve cus
tomers is a flawed practice, she said.
“They get impatient, and the instructors are
on their case — they assume they’ll eventually
get the copyright,” Hoppe said. “They’re trying
to satisfy their customer, but it’s illegal, and it’s
unethical.”
Even if the packet receives copyright ap
proval before it’s sold, the fact that it was printed
without approval is the key problem, Hoppe said.
“It’s like driving a car when you’re a week
from your 16th birthday,” said Jason Young,
another Grade A Notes manager. “Sure, you’re
gonna get (approval) eventually, but....”
A legal scrap in the late 1980s produced a
law commonly known as the “Kinko’s law” that
prohibits copy shops from reproducing copy
right materials without the permission of the
copyright holder, she said.
Kinko’s was ordered to pay $200,000 for
each past infraction of that law, Hoppe said, and
the incident has made copy shops more aware
of their copying rights.
“That’s why Kinko’s is no longer in the busi
ness of packets,” Young said.
Hoppe said both professors and the univer
sity were liable if unapproved copyrighted ma
terial ends up in their packets.
Young and Hoppe said the University Book
store was taking away business from Grade A
Notes, which makes about 75 packets a semes
ter compared to the University Bookstore’s 300.
Please see COPYRIGHT on 6
Kerrey predicts cooperation
with elected newcomer Hagel
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter
Nebraska’s lone Democrat in Washington
isn’t afraid to stand alone.
Although U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey will be the
only Nebraska Democrat in Congress next year,
he said he’ll work well with Republican new
comer Chuck Hagel.
Kerrey and Hagel’s senate business next year
won’t be a partisan conflict, Kerrey told the
Daily Nebraskan Thursday.
“It’s in Nebraska’s best interests for us to
work together,” he said.
Kerrey admitted that he and Hagel had some
obvious political differences, but said he
wouldn’t know how much they disagreed until
they started forming specific plans and casting
votes.
Sometimes the details of a candidate’s stands
aren’t worked out until that time, Kerrey said.
For example, Kerrey said he didn’t completely
understand Hagel’s plan to eliminate the Depart
ment of Education.
“That’s a campaign issue and that’s over
now,” Kerrey said.
He said he would decide if he-supports
Hagel’s plan after it’s all laid out.
If the department can be cut without lower
ing the nation’s high standards of education,
Kerrey said, he may vote for it. Kerrey said he
once supported plans to combine the Depart
ment of Education with another department.
“If it really is that he wants to cut 31 percent
out of education, I’m 100 percent against it,”
Please see KERREY on 6
Consultant to help UNL
improve climate for women
By Erin Schulte
Senior Reporter
A consultant hired by UNL to scru
tinize the climate for women athletes
on campus said she was not hired to
second-guess the university’s handling
of the Lawrence Phillips issue, but
rather to help UNL improve the over
all environment for women on campus.
‘1 want to make sure this is not a
regurgitation of a single issue,” Betty
Ledbetter said. “I didn’t come here for
the purpose of finding if the university
made a correct decision.
“You can’t change the past, what
you can do is learn from it”
Phillips, a former star running back
for the NU football team, pleaded no
contest in September 1995 to charges
of assaulting his ex-girlfriend, who was
a member of die NU women’s basket
ball team. He was suspended from the
team for six games, then reinstated.
Ledbetter, vice president and gen
eral counsel for Brown University in
Providence, R.I., has come to campus
to interview student-athletes about the
climate for women at UNL. Ledbetter
has worked on cases that deal with hate
speech and compliance issues for the
NCAA.
Ledbetter said she planned to look
at the university as an outsider.
“Someone from the outside may
look at issues in a broader fashion,”
she said.
Ledbetter said die randomly se
lectednames from sports rosters for her
first interviews, but that word was
spreading she was here to help fix any
possible problems.
All students are welcome to talk to
her, she said, if they have insight to
what’s going on for student-athletes, or
Please see CONSULTANT on 6
Victims of
Stalin, Lenin
remembered
By Pamela Storm
StaffReporter
Members of one of Lincoln’s
largest ethnic groups gathered
Thursday nightio remember ances
tors killed under the brutal regimes
of Josef Stalin and V.I. Lenin.
Marking the anniversary of
Russia’s 1917 Bolshevik Revolu
tion about 100 ethnic German Rus
sians from the Lincoln area came
together to remember relatives and
loved ones who suffered and died
in the Soviet Union.
Millions of German Russians
died under the rule of Josef Stalin
and V.I. Lenin, University of Ne
braska-Lincoln senior Samuel Sin
ner said. They were starved to death,
hanged, shot in die head and stabbed
in the back, he said.
Sinner told the crowd to remem
ber that the survivors of the geno
cide created a close-knit group
among German Russians and said
that bond needs to survive.
Please see GERMANS on 7
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ELMA KKHLING lights a candle Thursday night to remember Russian
Germans who were killed after the Communists took over Russia. Clara
Wertz looks on.