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Happy to be here Keep it short April 24,1997
NU backup quarterback Frankie London wanted The Masquers will present its annual one-act play
to leave Lincoln. Now, after a good spring, Lon- festival starting tonight in the Temple Building’s All F06GED Up
don said he is glad he stayed. PAGE 9 Studio Theatre. PAGE 12 Fog early, high 60. Cloudy tonight, low 40.
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| VOL. 96 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 145
\ Nebraska Wesleyan officials warned
of possible serial rapist weeks ago
By Erin Gibson
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has in
creased some security measures to protect the
campus from a suspected repeat rapist, UNL Po
lice Chief Ken Cauble said Wednesday.
But some members of the UNL community
said they are upset students were not warned of
the threat sooner.
Cauble said police have evidence that one
suspect may be responsible for a string of rapes
this spring in the Midwest. Those possibly con
nected rapes occurred at Union College in Lin
coln, the University of Nebraska at Omaha and
at four small colleges across Wisconsin, Minne
sota and Illinois. As a result, University of Ne
braska-Lincoln police have changed some of
their schedules and ways they make their rounds
on campus, Cauble said. Police also have alerted
university staff who work during the night and
evenings to the situation, he said.
‘We’ve made what we feel are contacts im
portant to heighten the safety of campus as far
as this individual is concerned,” he said.
Cauble said he now plans to contact Judith
Kriss, UNL Women’s Center director, and put
together fliers for distribution around campus
and information on the UNL police department’s
web site to better alert the entire campus com
munity to the threat of a repeat rapist.
But other campuses may have done more,
faster, to caution their members about the pos
sible safety threat.
Nebraska Wesleyan University distributed
fliers Tuesday to update its campus on the threat,
and included a police composite sketch of the
suspect in the rapes on the fliers.
The flier said the suspect was described as a
black male in his mid-20s to early 30s, between
5 feet 8 inches and 6 feet tall.
Mike Tobias, Wesleyan news services direc
tor, said the university has been alerting its stu
dents and staff for two weeks that the suspected
rapist may be in their area. Lincoln police warned
university officials of die threat about two weeks
ago, he said.
Please see ALERT on 6
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THIS POUCE COMPOSITE SKETCH of a man
suspected in several local tapes will be on fliers
to be distributed across campus soon.
ASUN alerts
students about
serial rapist
By Brad Davis
Staff Reporter
Informing students of the possibility of a se
rial rapist being in the Lincoln area was a prior
ity at Wednesday’s meeting of the Association
of Students of the University of Nebraska.
Campus Life Committee Chairman Kelly
Hoffschneider was told Wednesday afternoon
that a man suspected of raping college women
in Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa might now be in
the Lincoln area. The chairman immediately took
action, putting members of ASUN in charge of
informing students of the possible dangers by
word-of-mouth and with fliers posted around
campus.
A flier produced by Nebraska Wesleyan Uni
versity that includes sketches of the suspect
based on victims’ descriptions will be re-made
Please see ASUN on 7
Fair celebrates
Earth Day with
food, fan, booths
By Amy Keller
Staff Reporter
Aluminum cans, a three-foot-long wooden
mallet, hemp T-shirts, free bagels, bikes for sale
and bags of trash cluttered greenspace Wednes
day.
From 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday,
• environmentally concerned groups put up booths
for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Earth
Day festivities.
Aluminum cans flew across the lawn as about
170 students took turns smashing them through
i out the day with a huge mallet at the Student
Opportunities and Services project booth.
For a dollar, anyone interested could have
w two swings with a mallet to smash a can flat
enough to fit through a slit in an Earth-shaped
piece of cardboard and win a prize.
The money collected from can-smashing
went to SOS, a new UNL organization for low
income students and those who are the first in
their family to go to college, said Diane
Podolske, an SOS Advisory Board member.
Sixteen Lincoln businesses who advocated
Earth Day donated the prizes, including Jiffy
Lube, Taco Bell, the Tanning Zone and the Hair
Care Place.
Further down the lawn, members of UNL
Norml/Hemp, a group that informs the public
about hemp and its uses, sold hemp products
and literature as they talked with students about
die Earth’s environmental future.
Food Not Bombs, an organization in Lincoln
that provides food for those in need, passed out
free bagels and information sheets about the
Please see EARTH DAY on 8
DANIEL LUEDERT/DN
.jgislative chambers Wednesday. A tribute to
Senators pay tribute to Warner’s life
By Brian Carlson
Staff Reporter
Colleagues of the late Sen. Jerome Warner
remembered him Wednesday night as an en
ergetic but prudent public servant committed
to the best interests of his state.
The Legislature paid tribute to Nebraska’s
longest-serving senator in a ceremony in the
Senate chambers of the Capitol. Warner, a
Waverly farmer who represented the 25th dis
trict for 35 years, died of prostate cancer Sun
day at age 69.
Spectators watched solemnly as Warner’s
casket, draped with a Nebraska flag, was car
ried into the chamber under full military es
cort.
Speaker of the Legislature Ron Withem
of Papillion spoke of Warner’s monumental
accomplishments and passion for tackling dif
ficult issues.
Please see WARNER on 6
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