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December 1,1997
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VOL. 97 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 67
Claims won’t
save Williams
■ Judges called the electric
chair-bound inmate’s
arguments ‘frivolous.’
By Ted Taylor
Senior Reporter
Death row inmate Robert E.
Williams last week may have lost
his last bid to keep him out of the
electric chair Tuesday.
Last Wednesday, the U.S.
Supreme Court decided not to hear
a claim by Williams that his 1978
trial was tainted by a juror wl^
looked at a road map that was not
entered as evidence.
And Friday, a panel of three fed
eral judges affirmed U.S. District
Court Judge Richard Kopf’s ruling,
which denied WilliamsJ argument
that the electric chair'was cruel ami
unusual punishment.
The three judges were from
Kansas City, Mo., Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, and Little Rock, Ark.
They agreed unanimously with
Kopf’s finding Nov. 21 that
Williams’ civil rights claim this late
in the game was “frivolous.”
With the two appeals denied last
week, Williams’ only chance to
stop the execution is if the U.S.
Supreme Court decides to hear the
case or if Williams decides to
appeal to the full 8th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals.
But as of Sunday, Williams had
no pending appeals.
Williams, 61, has been on death
row since 1978, a year after he con
fessed to the murders of two 25
year-old Lincoln women, Catherine
Brooks and Patricia McGarry. He
was sentenced to die in 1978 for
shooting to death and raping
Brooks in McGarry’s northeast
Lincoln apartment.
^ If there is no furffitfMlMon
the case, sometime after 1ft a m.
Tuesday Williams will become the
third person in four years to die in
Nebraska’s electric chair.
Fund would raise
minority recruiting
By Erin Gibson
Senior Reporter
While students headed home for
Thanksgiving break Wednesday,
Chancellor James Moeser unveiled
a draft proposal to allocate the
$530,000 Targets of Opportunity
fund to recruit more women and
minority faculty and graduate stu
dents to UNL.
The proposal sets specific goals
for the recruitment and retention of
faculty by the year 2002, and sug
gests spending $400,000 to recruit
minority faculty members and
$130,000 to recruit minority gradu
ate students during the next two
years.
“We’re moving past the rhetoric
of diversity to the act,” Moeser said,
adding that he welcomed campus
debate over the draft proposal.
Under the proposal, the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
would hire at least 25 new black,
Hispanic or American Indian facul
ty within five years. Women would
comprise about 45 percent of all
faculty hired.
Richard Edwards, senior vice
chancellor for academic affairs, said
32 minority faculty now work
among UNL’s 140 faculty members,
and women make up 37 percent of
all new faculty hired.
The proposal, created by UNL’s
Office of Academic Affairs, would
expect all UNL colleges and depart
ments to make increased diversity a
goal. Those units could apply to
spend portions of the fund to pay the
starting salaries of minority faculty.
The money also could.be used to
negotiate their employment condi
tions by offering summer research
funding, assisting with moving
expenses or start-up costs and pay
ing a graduate research assistant.
The proposal calls for the uni
versity to spend less than one-fourth
of the fund during this fiscal year,
but all of the fund before fiscal year
1999-2000.
The fund is part of a $708,000
permanent fund committed to
increase campus diversity through
the budget reallocation process ear
lier this year. UNL colleges that use
the fund must later repay the Office
of Academic Affairs.
An annual report would keep
tabs on the fund’s effectiveness by
listing new hires by gender and race.
■ Moeser said the proposal would
not result in hiring discrimination
against qualified faculty who
weren’t black, Hispanic or
American Indian because it doesn’t
contain quotas. The university will
only hire the most qualified appli
cants for faculty positions, he said.
Although the proposal would
meet requirements for more diverse
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ADDS Day brings reminder of risks
By Sarah Baker
Assignment Reporter
Attempting to make every student a
little more aware is the focus of the
World AIDS Day activities on the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln cam
pus.
Pat Tetreault, sexuality coordinator
at the University Health Center, said the
activities were based on educating stu
dents.
“We want to make students aware
that AIDS is still a worldwide epidemic,
and that every one of those statistics
they hear represents a person,” Tetreault
said.
The activities, sponsored by Peers
Educating Responsible Sexuality at
UNL, include a panel discussion called
“Positive Living: Living with
It
... AIDS is still a worldwide epidemic”
Pat Tetreault
University Health Center sexuality coordinator
HIV/AIDS” in the Nebraska Union
tonight at 8.
The panel consists of a physician
and two people who are living with HTV
or AIDS.
“We hope the panel helps students
understand they are at risk for AIDS.
This is a time where people tend to think
it’s not going to happen to them,”
Tetreault said.
PERSUNL isrgoing to have a booth
in the Nebraska Union today from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. The group will be handing
out safety packets, red ribbons and
AIDS information.
Carol Ash, health promotions and
marketing specialist at the UHC, said
PERSUNL would receive an award this
morning from Mayor Mike Johanns.
“The group is being recognized for
the various ways in which they educate
their peers at UNL about both HIV and
AIDS,” she said.
Tetreault said she hoped students
think about the issues at hand concern
ing AIDS.
“They need to keep thinking about
protection for themselves, and also
remain compassionate to those people
who already have AIDS,” she said
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