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Knock knock i _ Scott Bruhn/DN A MAN SUFFERED minor injuries in this Thursday afternoon wreck at 856 S. 27th St. after he was struck broadside on the passenger side while trying to turn in to the Ideal Supermarket parking lot. Students still have time to donate goods By Kasey Berber Senior Reporter The Women’s Center’s food and personal-item drive will conclude to day, but students still have time to do nate goods that will help needy fami lies for Thanksgiving. Four drop-off boxes have been set up around the University of Nebraska Lincoln campus, at the Women’s Cen ter and the City Campus Student In volvement Office, both in the ,Ne braska Union, at Love Library and at the Student Involvement Office on East Campus. Students can drop off nonperish able food items or personal items any time today or early Saturday. Boxes will be picked up at an unspecified time Saturday morning, so students are recommended to make donations to day. LeNedda Esquivel, volunteer co ordinator for the Women’s Center, said personal items were especially needed. ... Personal items include soaps, toi let paper, toothpaste, aspirin, razorsand other bathroom necessities. Food items for tl boxed and canned goods. Esquivel said that or personal items w< ated, but not necfcSSaarjtr^ “We would just like anyone with extra items they’re not using to donate them tb the drives” Esquivel said. Esquivel said all donated items would be t^ken to Lincoln’* City Mis sion on Saturday. 1 On Sale now; \Whenmncedtiiaid_ Farley suspended after second arrest 'Sf:- '• 4. ‘ ’ FARLEY from page 1_ “We certainly want to wish the best for Terrell,” Bohl said after practice. “I am just really disappointed for him.” * Lincoln Police Chief Tom Casady said at a Thursday morning press con ference that the resisting-arrest ticket was written because. Farley ran from police, not because of any struggle. Casady described the arrest as fol lows: Farley was clocked going 61 in a 35 mph zone on westbound Hunting ton Street by a Lincoln Police officer, who was heading east. The officer turned around to pull the 1981 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight over when Farley made a hard‘right onto 35th Street. He missed the street and drove over the north curb and through a muddy field for 135 feet. Farley tried to get back onto 35th Street, but struck the front of a parked car, which hit th*car behind it. Each of the parked cars Sustained an esti mated $1,000 d^nage^^rafleyrs car After the crash, Farley got out of the car and started running. Six officers and the K-9 unit were called into the area, but two officers arrested Farley one block north of 32nd and Leighton streets after about 10 minutes. Officers on the scene reported Farley showing signs of intoxication. He was taken to the Lancaster County Jail — where he refused to take a chemical sobriety test — and was booked on the six charges. Farley posted bail and was released early Thursday morning. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs James Griesen told the Daily Nebras kan that Farley’s crimes would not normally fall into the student judicial process. However, Griesen would not rule out the possibility that Farley would face punishment under the Stu dent Code of Conduct. Osborne said in the statement that he would continue to help Farley. “Even though he may no longer play football here at Nebraska, we will continue to support him academically and personally,” the coach said. Panel: benefit policies hurt same-sex couples By Erin Schulte *gltj Senior Reporter -Wj^t InJ989, UNL adopted a ndhdis* crimiimtiop 90de that include#!^ promise not to discriminate on .tfceUp sis d¥*any “individual characteristic ” ManVjrndefstood that to include sexualdrientation. But because of its benefits policies, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is violating its own code, speakers at the UNL Community Conversations panel said Wednesday. Because same-sex partners of UNL employees receive no hard benefits, such as medical and dental care, those employees are not being paid as much as married employees and therefore are being discriminated against, said Pat Tetreault, sexual education coor dinator at the University Health Cen ter and co-chairwoman of the Univer sity Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns. Tetreault said the university needed to recognize that families do exist whether they are legal arrangements or not. Cafeteria-style benefits, where employees pick and choose benefits and who will receive them, were a pos sible answer to the problem, she said. John Taylor, a Lincoln attorney and former director of the Nebraska r ACLU, said the cost of extending ben efits to same-sex partners usually is about only two-tenths to three-tenths Mf 1 percent of total benefits costs. UNL does extend some soft ben efits to partners who are not legal spouses of employees, such as use of the Lee and Helene Sapp Campus Rec reation Center. In February, UNL’s Academic Sen ate voted against extending benefits and agreed to table the issue until le gal and social issues surrounding the topic had been resolved, said Agnes Adams, associate professor of librar ies and member of the Academic Senate’s benefit committee. No panel members could be found to speak out against same-sex partner benefits, Tetreault said. But one audience member took over that job. » Robert Nilson, a 1948 UNL alum nus and retired Lincoln minister, said the university had no right to redefine family, and that it went against bibli cal law. He later said he had no objec tion to extending benefits, only to re defining the family. “We don’t all have to agree on things, but that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be treated fairly,” Tetreault said. ROTC troop joins forces to oust invitational rivals By Kasey Kerber Senior Reporter Last weekend, the Huskers were destroying the competition at Iowa State — and not just on the foot ball field. UNL’s ROTC platoon beat out teams from Iowa State, Northwest ern, Marquette and Colorado to win the Iowa State Invitational. It was the first competition of the year for the ROTC drill, pistol and rifle teams, which just edged out Northwestern to win die cov eted Captain’s Trophy that was pre sented to the overall winner. Curtis Wolbert, assistant Marine officer instructor, prepared the pla toon for Iowa State with practice and encouragement daily. Wolbert said the practice paid off and he was still surprised by how well die platoon placed. “I thought third or fourth would be a pretty good showing,” Wolbert said. “When I saw that we had the lead overall, I said ‘My God.’” Wolbert, who took first as pla toon instructor this year, said die victory helped improve confidence, which had been lacking years past “I understood that this group had not had a lot of success,” Wolbert said. “But at this competi tion, we said we weren’t just going to show up — we were going to let them know we were here.” Drill Commander Art Arrieta called die victory at Iowa State a true team effort and said the pla toon definitely had gained confi dence from the win. “It’s opened the eyes of the unit,” Arrieta said. “This year, we really didn’t know what to expect” ROTC will compete next at a drill competition held Feb. 27 at Tulane University fh New Orleans.