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a 8P0BTS ABE Minister of defense Inspired retiree September 4,1997 NU soccer goalie Rebecca Hombacher is look- ' The Gallery of the Department of Art & Art ing for All-American honors this season after History displays a retrospective of former UNL SWEET’l’ SlIMY recording 82 saves last year. PAGE 6 art professor Dan Howard. PAGE 15 Partly sunny, high 77. Partly cloudy tonight, low 58. VOL »7 COVBRIHO THE UNIVERSITY OP HEBBASKA-UNCOLH SINCE 1901 v: ’ i r ■ Deputies fired upon him after verbal communica tions failed, Wagner says. By Ted Taylor Assignment Reporter Bryan Hoover pointed a loaded weapon at twti sheriff’s deputies Tuesday night before being fatally shot, authorities said Wednesday. Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner said that the two deputies - one with six years experience the other with one - shot Hoover, 23, after he refused to comply with verbal com mands to drop the weapon. It is still unknown how many times Hoover was shot or where he was shot, Wagner said. An autopsy should be completed today, Wagner said, but it may be more than a month before the findings are rek|iji|^ pendihg a grand jury investi Deputies were called to the home of Hoover’s grandfather at 4303 W. Mill Road just before 9 p.m. Tuesday UNL CHANCELLOR JAMES MOESER drives through the ceremonial red rlbhea during the openii^eleS^ftte new parking garage Wednesday afternoon. The garage win triple the amennt of parking available on 10th and T streets. Former director will keep in touch By Sarah Baker Assignment Reporter Leaving fraternity and sorority members behind is something for mer UNL Greek Affairs Director Jane Wade Anderson doesn’t plan to do during her retirement. Anderson, who was the Greek Affairs director at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for 35 years, retired this semester. She has had health problems the past two years and said she was ready to retire. “I am really going to miss the daily student interaction that I had as director,” Anderson said. “The stu dents have already made an effort to keep in touch with me through phone calls and visits to my home.” Anderson said she was going through a transition when the greek system changed from two leaders, one for the Interfratemity Council and one for the Panhellenic Council, to one leader. “The combining of the systems was a big change in the greek orga nization,” Anderson said. Anderson said she also would miss the contact that she had with university organizations. “I had the chance to work with the executive boards of all die chap ters as well as the alumni advisors,” Please see GREEK on 3 after police had received two calls from family members living in Denver who said he was making suicidal threats. The three deputies who were sent to the scene also were informed that Hoover had threatened to kill a Lincoln police officer who arrested him Aug. 25, Wagner said. During the August incident, he said, Hoover had pointed his finger like a gun toward police and “indicat ed he would kill a cop.” Hoover was arrested for making harassing phone calls to a Lincoln ; woman, going to the house and firing a pistol, Wagner said. Pepper spray was needed to restrain him at the time, he said. He was charged with making terroristic threats and the use of a weapon to commit a felony. Hoover was scheduled for his first court appearance Tuesday morning regard ing the August incident, but it was postponed. Later that night, three deputies arrived at the scene just after 9 p.m. and began establishing a perimeter around the house. A fourth deputy arrived when Hoover, who was alone in the house, walked outside brandish ing a combination shotgun and rifle known as an “over-under,” Wagner said. At 9:24 p.m., 12 minutes after the deputies arrived, Hoover was shot, Wagner said. The two deputies who shot Hoover have been placed on paid administra tive leave until the investigation is completed, Wagner said. The deputies names have not been released. The Associated Press con tributed to this report. JN ew garage officially opens rr-^By Erin Gibson Senior Reporter - ■ ■■ ■■ ■ ~ --—__ . '■ . _ Chancellor James Moeser planned to officially open the parking garage west of Memorial Stadium on Wednesday afternoon by driving his red sedan through the symbolic red ribbon at 120 mph, he said. ^AlthoughMoeser’s actualspeed didn’t top 5 mph during the event, his car broke through the red ribbon stretched across the garage exit. And as Moeser drove away honking and wav ing, the 600-stall parking garage offi cially opened for business. The garage first opened to the pub lic Tuesday, although Athletic Department boosters parked in the garage during Saturday’s football game. Public parking in the garage costs 35 cents each half hour for the first hour, and 50 cents for each hour thereafter. Daily parking costs $3.75 per day. The garage, which tripled the num ber of parking spots available on 10th and T streets, is open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays. Tad McDowell, manager of Parking and Transit Services, said about 100 cars parked in the garage Wednesday but traffic should increase as more stu dents, faculty and staff find out about the available parking. But Moeser said the garage offered “a lot more here than some concrete and some parked cars. This place is going to be a gathering place.” In addition to Huskers Authentic, a new store that opened Saturday selling University of Nebraska athletics mer chandise, the garage will have a cli mate-controlled waiting area for cam pus shuttles, Parking and Transit Please see PARKING on 3 I Law college dean resigns By Erin Gibson Senior Reporter Harvey Perlman, dean of the University ofNebraska College of Law, said Wednesday he would resign his 15 year position as dean after the 1997-98 school year and return to a full-time teaching and research position with the college. “The deanship has been a very exciting opportunity for me, and I’ve enjoyed the things that I ’ ve done,” Feriman said. “But I’ve been demg this for 15 ye^, and itfs time that I return to the part of the job that I love, which is teaching and playing with legal puz zles.” When he took his position as dean in 1983, Perlman said he intended to ; return to teaching and researching full « That he is loved by his faculty is itself an extraordinary fact.” James Moeser chancellor time in the law school and in his special ty - intellectual property law. While serving as dean, Perlman also taught in the law school during all but two semesters, including this fall, he said. He plans to teach this spring. The Nebraska native taught at die University of Virginia Law School before returning to Nebraska as dean of the college. He also taught on die NU law faculty for six years after receiving his degree frond^e law school in 1966. In 199S-9&^riman saved famine ■ ' .. ... ^ ' . '7' ' months as the University of Nebraska Lincoln’s senior vice chancellor for aca demic affairs. Chancellor James Moeser said in a statement that he was pleased Perlman would remain (Hi the faculty. “That he is loved by his faculty is itself an extraordinary fact,” Moeser said. Richard Edwards, UNL senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, said he sochi will appoint a committee to begin a national search for a new dean. Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http:/ / wwvi.unl.edu /DadyNeb