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SPORTS Wiles thing After recieving a baseball scholarship last sum mer, NU sophomore Chad Wiles gave up his foot ball career to concentrate on pitching. PAGE 7 A&E Liquid art Charles E. Burchfield an artist who is best-known for his work in watercolor painting, is the subject of an exhibit at the Joslyn Art Museum. PAGE 9 FRIDAY April 3, 1998 Got Rain? Rain likely, high 45. Clearing tonight, low 27. UNL race policy will go on trial By Josh Funk Senior Reporter Officials from the U.S. Department of Education will be on campus this month to review the university’s racial harassment policies. The Office for Civil Rights sched uled a partnership review for April 13 to 17. where federal authonties will share their expertise with university officials. Two OCR officials from the educa tion department's Kansas City. Mo., office will meet with the people who deal wuth disciplinary, diversity and minority-support issues. UNL Affirmative Action and Diversity Director Linda Crump said. They also will rev lew incidents that happened on this campus within the last two years, such as Sigma Chi Fraternity’s cross-burning or English Professor David Hibler’s allegedly racist e-mail. “.Any kind of insight they could give us would be great.” Crump said. OCR developed the partnership review two or three years ago to help institutions strengthen their policies and procedures. Crump said. “They want to do some proactive things to avoid problems,” she said. Each year OCR selects a topic to focus on and randomly selects colleges « This review is not based on any specific complaint. ... Linda Crump Affirmative Action and Diversity director to review. Crump said. “This review is not based on any specific complaint or concern." Crump said. Steve Stratton, associate director of the education department's regional office, said no formal complaints have been filed to prompt the review. Yet, he said there have been allega tions of discriminatory treatment of black students by campus security guards and a cross burning at the school. Administrators will work together with OCR officials to find ways to improve in closed hearings. James Gnesen, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, said the process should be beneficial. “We want to develop a better cli mate for students on campus." The Associated Press contributed to this report. 1 t 1 “I Education bills advance auicklv By Todd Anderson Assignment Reporter During a rush to send some big bills to the governor's desk Thursday morning, the Legislature passed three bills targeting Nebraska's education. Hastings Sen. Ardyce Bohlke’s Quality Education Accountability Act (LB 1228) passed into the final round of debate with minimal discussion. A related bill to support accelerated edu cation and a bill to control school spending also passed. Under LB 1228, Nebraska schools that meet statewide educational stan dards would be eligible for a portion of up to S8.2 million in Nebraska Lottery Funds. Large schools would receive $50 per student, while small schools would be given about $100 per student. The Department of Education will establish not only the standards used to measure curriculum programs, but also a test to monitor progress. The bill will cost about $2.4 mil lion over a period of three years. It advanced with a vote of 40-6. J. 1/ Senators also gave approval to LB 1229, which would give money to schools that have or create gifted edu cation programs. The bill will cost $6 million each year, with an increase in spending fig ured into fund allocations for the pro gram. The governor would be responsi ble for allocating grants and incen tives, which would be used to develop gifted education programs and educa tional technology services. LB 1229 also will allow kinder gartners to begin school if they turn 5 between Oct. 16 and Feb. 1 of the cur rent year. Finally, the Legislature passed LB989, which would create a 2.5 per cent cap on school district spending increases. The bill was sponsored by Sen. George Coordsen of Hebron. Another bill, still in select file, is intended to lessen the shock of the budget lids once the spending increase limits are in place. Lane Hickenbottom/DN JACQUE RICO, freshman general studies major, has “got milk” - all over her upper lip - Thursday afternoon in the Nebraska Union. Rico was participating in a 100-city nationwide milk campaign. Contest milks creativity By Anne Heitz Staff Reporter More than 150 students walked away from the Nebraska Union on Thursday afternoon wiping their upper lips and licking their fingers clean. They had just downed a milk shake while trying to don the one per fect white mustache that could win them a spot in a national milk adver tisement. Creativity abounded. John McNally, a sophomore political science major, saw his big, toothy grin in the milk contest as a « I m hoping this might be my claim to fame” John Mcnally UNL sophomore great opportunity for stardom. “I'm hoping this might be my claim to fame,’’ McNally said, adding he wanted students to see what their future governor looked like. Another spunky contestant wore a white doctor’s lab coat and safety goggles while holdmg a beaker filled with milk, said milk campaign spokesman Bill Hyland. And another wore a bold Superwoman costume, spokesman Brooke Shepard added. “You can tell when someone’s havmg fun.” Hyland said. The milk campaign is on a 100 Please see MILK on 3 Zoo Bar faces ADA complaint By Lindsay Young Assignment Reporter The walls of the Zoo Bar’s women’s bathroom serve as a forum for those who aren’t able to use it. “No one should have to go to the back of the bus or to the alley.” “Is a bathroom worth a federal dis crimination lawsuit?” to which some one responded, “NO!!” The scrawls showed up in response to a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Justice that says the bar’s bathrooms do not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The complaint, which has drawn attention only recently though the com plaint has been filed for more than a year, said the bathrooms were not acces sible to people with disabilities. It was filed by Bill Crawford, a Lincoln resi dent who uses a wheelchair. Despite what many believe, small businesses that receive these com plaints, including the Zoo Bar, are not forced to close, said Jeanne Walter, Disability Rights and ADA specialist at the League of Human Dignity. Walter helped Crawford, 35, file the complaint. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Donovan is handling the complaint, which is not a lawsuit, in Omaha. Most complaints don’t merit a law suit, Walter said, though people are free to file civil suits for such reasons. Zoo Bar owner Larry Boehmer said he did not know if alterations would need to be made to the Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St., yet. The alterations would be expensive, he said. Modifications to comply with the ADA could cost the Zoo Bar as much as $40,000. The bar packs in as many as 250 patrons for shows in its 90-by-20-foot space. The two bathrooms are in the back of the bar next to the stage. The ADA, however, works with small businesses to ensure the business es will not have to close, she said. “In an older building, they realize there are some things that are able to be Please see ZOO on 3 Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http:/ /www.unl.edu /DailyNeb
