Neihardt votes against
reauest for ‘safe snace’
ALLIES from page 1
floors, he said.
“Neihardt Council had every
right to do what they did,” Allies
President Justin Fisher said.
“Neihardt has over 500 students -
it would be wrong not to hear
everyone’s input and opinion about
the covenant.”
Allies Programming Chair Jill
Matlock agreed and organized
floor presentations throughout the
hall.
“We only attended floor meet
ings that requested our presence,”
Matlock said. “Some felt they
understood, others didn’t.”
Matlock said after Allies fin
ished discussions, they learned
students were willing to accept the
covenant; however, some of the
wording was the main reason they
felt uncomfortable signing.
“The reason my floor voted
against it was the wording,” said
Love 3 proxy Senator Katie Harr.
“Rather than being tolerant and
accepting, it would be an affirm
ing atmosphere.”
Matlock said their covenant
works for some student organiza
tions but not for residence halls.
“Residence halls are a diverse
population of students that only
have once thing in common - they
go to UNL,” she said.
Matlock said Neihardt students
thought a covenant supporting
homosexuals on campus was
unnecessary.
“The UNL climate does say it’s
all right to be a minority on campus,”
Matlock said. “But it does not sup
port gays and lesbians on campus.”
Fisher said Allies would like to
make UNL a safe place for every
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We are not
out to change
beliefs
Jill Matlock
Allies programming chair
one and the “residence halls were a
starting point.”
Fisher said Allies approached
UNL residence halls and asked if
each would hold a presentation
about making UNL a safe place for
all students.
Matlock said Allies’ reasons in
addressing residence halls was to
let people know there is homosex
ual diversity on campus.
“We are not out to change
beliefs,” Matlock said. “We just
want to raise awareness and pro
claim that people are people, regard
less of their sexual orientation.”
Matlock said the organization
is heading in the right direction
even though it has encountered
road blocks.
“We will just try again in the
fall,” she said.
Fisher said the organization is
planning to revise its covenant and
approach the residence halls and
greek houses again in the fall.
“This has been a learning expe
rience for all of us,” Fisher said.
“We are disappointed that it did
not come out in favor, but we still
have a pretty positive outlook.”
Staff reporter Amanda
Schindler contributed to this
report.
Entrepreneurs to compete
From Staff Reports
More than 200 students from J
nearly 20 schools around the ]
Heartland and Canada will converge
at the Comhusker Hotel tomorrow to
begin the 13 th annual
Entrepreneurship Conference.
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln Center for Entrepreneurship
and Students In Free Enterprise are
holding the conference, said Constant
Percosky III, a free enterprise club ,
member.
The conference consists of four
main competitions:
■ The Donald Duncan/ ,
Duncan Aviation Business Plan i
Competition. (
■ The Promodel Corp. \
Productivity Improvement
Competition. (
■ The Nebraska Young '
Entrepreneurs Contest. ]
■ The Collegiate <
I
Entrepreneurship of the Heartland.
Each competition is designed to
est students’ knowledge of entrepre
leurship and their skills in small busi
less management
Competitions continue through
Yiday.
On Saturday morning, the stu
ients will receive business plan com
letition awards, including a $5,000
)rize for first place and $3,000 for the
~irst runner-up.
Students also will receive $ 10,000
vorth of productivity improvement
competition awards at this time.
Later Saturday, local entrepre
leurs will share their business stories
vith students, said Tyler Wolford,
Jniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
lent and coordinator of speakers for
he event.
The conference ends with a lun
cheon where 10 scholarships to UNL
vill be presented to finalists in the
Nebraska Young Entrepreneurs essay
competition.
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I ‘Brain Gain’ bill is still alive
BILL from page 1
lenge.”
Legislators voted 26-7 Tuesday
to advance the bill from general file
to select file. LB 1176, a $2 million
proposal known as the Quality Work
Force Academic Loan Program Act,
would provide scholarships of up to
$5,000 per year for top Nebraska
scholars who agree to attend college
in Nebraska, complete an internship
with a participating in-state busi
ness and work in Nebraska for three
years after graduation.
The bill would allow the
Coordinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education to choose
the criteria used to select scholar
ship recipients. Under amendments
adopted during floor debate, the
commission would be required to
use financial need as a criterion in
addition to academic merit.
Several senators, including Sen.
Chris Beutler of Lincoln, said they
want to see financial need included
as a criterion.
Beutler said the government
should provide scholarships to those
with financial need before expand
ing programs for those who don’t
need them. Including financial need
as a criterion does not change the
bill’s purpose of retaining top stu
dents, he said, because statistics
from the state’s universities show
the need for financial aid is greater
than ever - including need among
top scholars.
Even with the amendment
requiring the consideration of
financial need, merit is still the pri
mary criterion in the bill’s present
form, Beutler said.
Beutler also said he thought the
process by which businesses select
interns could be unfair.
“It’s the kind of a program that’s
subject to favoritism and corrup
tion,” he said.
The passage of LB 1176 could
start an unproductive cycle, said
Beutler. Other states could pass sim
ilar legislation, making it harder for
Nebraska to attract bright out-of
state students and more difficult for
bright Nebraskans to find jobs else
where.
Sen. Bob Wickersham of
Harrison, chairman of the Revenue
Committee, said he has fundamental
questions about the bill’s concept.
Supporters have failed to pro
vide the Legislature with crucial
statistics relating to the brain drain
issue. As a result, nobody is quite
sure of the impact of Nebraska’s top
students leaving the state, he said.
“I think it’s a bunch of money in
search of a problem,” he said, “and
I’m not sure it’s the solution even if
there is a problem.”
Regardless of the Legislature’s
actions, bright students from
Nebraska will go where the jobs are
- whether in Nebraska or across the
country, Wickersham said.
Bruning said he was open to
changes in the bill that will make it
more acceptable to his colleagues.
He said he was hopeful that, with a
few changes, the bill would be slat
ed for debate next week by Speaker
Doug Kristensen.
“The main goal is keeping the
best and brightest students in the
state,” Bruning said.
Because this is the second year
the Legislature has considered brain
gain legislation, the bill must either
pass this year or start from scratch
next year.
ASUN convenes for final meeting
■ Senators approve a
commendation for former
Coach Tom Osborne.
By Jessica Fargen
Assignment Reporter
ASUN senators met for the last
time Wednesday and voted to com
mend Tom Osborne, former NU
head football coach
ASUN President Curt Ruwe
said this commendation was dif
ferent from past ones because it
contained the signatures from the
past 25 presidents of the
Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska.
“It would not be a funny April
Fool’s joke to oppose it,” Ruwe
told senators. The commendation
passed unanimously.
The commendation, complete
with signatures, was in the form of
a plaque and will be given to
Osborne, who retired after 25
years of coaching this year.
Osborne was recognized for his
dedication to the football team,
Athletic Department and entire
university.
ASUN also recognized
Osborne’s high ideals of integrity,
hard work, moral and spiritual
leadership and community service.
“Your action here is speaking
for 25 years of students,” Ruwe
said.
In other ASUN news:
■ The student organization
Millennium Discussion Group was
approved.
■ Appointments for the
Nebraska Union Board and the
Campus Recreation Advisory
Board were approved.
Milk contest:
It will do the
winner good
From Staff Reports
Don your wackiest duds and
your thickest milk mustache.
It’s picture day.
Today between noon and 2 p.m.
in the Nebraska Union, representa
tives from the Milk Processor
Education Program will photo
graph students with milk mustaches
for their national milk ad contest.
The contest is part of a 100-city
nationwide milk tour visiting most
major universities.
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln student photographed with
the best milk mustache will appear
in a large milk ad in the Daily
Nebraskan and on the national milk
World Wide Web site at
http://www.whymilk.com.
One student will be chosen
among all universities’ entrants to
appear in a milk ad in a future issue
of “Rolling Stone” magazine.
Bill Hyland, spokesman for the
Milk Processor Education
Program, said that the judges of the
contest will look for creativity.*
The winner must look like he or
she is saying: “Yes, I’m drinking
milk. And I’m having fun.”
Although a professional pho
tographer will take official mus
tache contest photos between noon
and 2 p.m., students can get
Polaroid souvenir pictures taken
between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Students also can have their pic
tures taken with life-size cutouts of
supermodel Tyra Banks and Denver
Broncos quarterback John Elway.
Jones case dismissed
Claims said to be unworthy of trial
JONES from page 1
harmed emotionally or in her career.
“The plaintiffs’ allegations fall far
short of the rigorous standards for
establishing a claim of outrage under
Arkansas law,” Wright wrote.
The political jeopardy for Clinton,
if the trial had gone forward, was evi
dent in the last few weeks, when both
sides in the lawsuit waged a sensational
war of words in court filings that
included details of alleged relation
ships between Clinton and a half-dozen
women.
While a final decision hadn’t been
made, the Rutherford Institute, which
paid legal costs of Jones’ lawsuit, said it
would support an appeal - even if
means going to the Supreme Court.
Wright’s ruling comes more than
three years after Jones alleged that
Clinton, as Arkansas governor, made
an unwanted sexual advance.
Clinton’s lawyers had said even if
he had asked Jones for sex on May 8,
1991, the case against him was
“veneer-thin” because there was no
proof she suffered in her job.
Jones’ records showed she received
regular raises. Clinton’s lawyers point
ed out one of her claims of ill treatment
was she didn’t receive flowers one
Secretary’s Day.
The judge took note that Jones con
tinued to work at the Arkansas
Industrial Development Commission
for another 19 months after the alleged
incident and never filed a formal com
plaint or told her supervisors of the
incident.
She also dismissed the portion of
tiie lawsuit against state trooper Danny
Ferguson, who allegedly set up the
meeting during a state economic con
ference Clinton attended.
Excerpts from the opin
ion by U.S. District Court
Judge Susan Webber
Wright:
■ “The plaintiffs’ allega
tions fall far short of the rig
orous standards for establish
ing a claim of outrage under
Arkansas law.”
■ “The court has deter
mined that her quid pro quo
and hostile work environment
sexual harassment claim are
without merit and warrant a
grant of summary judgment.”
■ “Although the gover
nor’s alleged conduct, if true,
may certainly be character
ized as boorish and offensive,
even a most charitable read
ing of the record in this case
fails to reveal a basis for a
claim of criminal sexual
assault.”
■ “While the court will
certainly agree that plain
tiffs’ allegations describe
offensive conduct, the court
... has found that the gover
nor’s alleged conduct does
not constitute sexual assault.”
■ “Absent an underlying
violation of federal law, there
can be no actionable claim
alleging a conspiracy.”
■ The alleged conduct
“was brief and isolated; did
not result in any physical
harm ... did not result in dis
tress so severe that no reason
able person could be expect
ed to endure it.”