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Assault A man who hid in the back of a woman’s car, which was stopped at a gas station Saturday morning, left the vehicle after assaulting the woman with a steak knife. Lincoln Police Sgt. Ann Heermann said that about 4 a.m. Saturday, a woman stopped at the U-Stop on 27th and E streets for gas. She went in to pay, left the ve hicle running, came back out, en tered the vehicle and started driv ing, Heermann said. A man came up from the back seat and put what appeared to be a steak knife in her face. He cut the left side of her neck several times and slashed both fore arms and her upper chest. The woman stopped for a traf fic signal at 21st and E streets and the man left the vehicle. She described the man as a white male of medium build, wear ing a black stocking hat, black shirt and black pants. Burglary Officers recovered almost $10,000 worth of goods stolen from Culler Junior High School Sunday morning after an officer saw a ve hicle with its lights off enter the west parking lot at a high speed. Heermann said the officer searched the vehicle and found one of the school’s bank bags and a hacksaw. The officer found the school’s southwest door unsecured and discovered audio/visual equip ment and computers stacked by the door. The officer also found several classrooms broken into. Heermann said the three sus pects had entered the school through the courtyard where a piece of plywood was covering a broken window. About $600 in damage was done to the school. Jacob Nelson, 20, of209 Dawes St., and two male juveniles were cited and/or arrested for burglary. Officers recovered six televi sions, one videocassette recorder and several computers and print ers. NU groups heighten diversity awareness By Erin Gibson Senior Reporter A wooden cross and spray-painted racial slur found at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Monday could mean another crushing blow to NU diversity efforts. University officials reported that a black UNO employee found a wooden cross stuck in the gas tank of his ve hicle and a racial epithet spray painted across his windshield. NU President Dennis Smith quickly condemned the incident as “deplorable.” “I feel compelled to emphasize that overt and .implied acts of racial hatred and bigotry will not be tolerated at the University of Nebraska,” Smith said, and also used the opportunity to con demn Sigma Chi’s cross burning. The racist nature of the UNO van dalism works against many positive efforts made toward cross-cultural understanding in the past weeks, said other university members Monday. Many University of Nebraska-Lin coln campus members and student organizations have said they turned their anger over the cross burning into action by holding meetings, as well as prayer vigils. A workshop to develop solutions to racism is planned for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Nebraska Union by the Ethnic Minority Affairs Commit tee of the Teachers College, followed by a separate speech on unity by New Jersey pastor Buster Soaries at 7 p.m. Looking in Many campus and organization members, including Brent Karstens, president of the UNL Interffatemity Council, said the incident forced them to take a critical look at their own work toward diversity. “A lot of people knew there was a little barrier on campus, but no one wanted to do anything,” he said. That will change now, he said. IFC has always supported diversity efforts, Karstens said. But, after the Sigma Chi incident, he said, the IFC realized a gap remained between the mostly black and mostly white frater nities. As a result, last Thursday the fra ternities came together through IFC to reaffirm their commitment to cross cultural understanding with a state ment. “This incident really could have turned sour,” Karstens said. “It’s a start to a new beginning.” The new beginning includes an IFC declaration that it will denounce racism and “emphatically deplore any action which widens the ethnicity gap on campus, in our community and across America.” Under the cross Brett Yohn, state director of the Christian Challenge and Baptist Stu dent Union, said university church leaders also are finding the incident has spurred more thought and recog nition of racism among UNL students. The Association of Campus Reli gious Workers at UNL adopted a state ment Feb. 6 that condemned the “ex pression, condoning or minimizing of racism, an insidious disease and vio lation of persons created in the image of God.” Misunderstandings between the university and black community mem bers were ironed out in a meeting that included university officials, the NAACP, the Afrikan People’s Union and Sigma Chi members. Closed door But some students, including members of the Mexican American Student Association, said they were upset that off-campus and community members were excluded from the meeting. Jose Bustamante, vice president of MASA, said no one in the organiza tion was invited to the APU meeting. Many MASA members also were of fended by the cross burning and wanted to help with healing in its af termath, he said. “That’s a sign of hatred, not only against blacks,” he said. “We were left out of further discussion.” Bills would toughen policy on alcohol sales in state LIQUOR from page 1 of non-compliance?” But opponents of the proposal ar gued that liquor outlets in violation of their licenses were only part of the problem. Mike Kelley, a private lawyer and a lobbyist for United Retailers Liquor Association of Nebraska, said it was difficult for businesses to ensure their employees would avoid selling to mi nors in every case. The General Affairs Committee took no action on LB 17. Members also delayed decisions on LB482 and LB249 pending legal consultation. LB482, sponsored by Sen. Doug Kristensen of Minden, would return the authority of regulating liquor li censes to city councils. 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