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September 2, 1998
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VOL.~98 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 9
University agrees to return remains
By Kim Sweet
Staff writer
* The university will turn over
American Indian remains to Great
Plains tribes after a decision Tuesday
, that was called historical by tribal
leaders.
Tribal representatives presented
i a resolution to UNL Chancellor
James Moeser that would return the
remaining unaffiliated bones to
American Indian tribes.
The resolution states that the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln will
$ turn over all bones unattached to cer
: tain tribes to Great Plains Indians.
The remaining bones will then share
a group identity.
During the next four weeks, UNL
also will arrange for the examination
of records of the burial remains that
some American Indians say are affil
iated to certain tribes, though univer
sity records list them as unaffiliated.
Tribal and university leaders
must agree on a date for repatriation
to begin, after which the remains will
be claimed within 30 days. Tribal
representatives said they thought the
process would begin today.
A new enclosed area and memor
ial will mark the spot on East
Campus where, in the 1960s, UNL’s
anthropology department incinerat
ed and spread American Indian
bones, the resolution states.
The agreement came just a few
hours after Moeser presented the
first formal apology for the mistreat
ment of American Indian bones
housed in the university.
During a morning talk at the NU
Tribal Meeting on Repatriation at the
Nebraska East Union, Moeser
expressed his personal regret to the
audience over the mistreatment.
“I want to apologize personally
and on the behalf of the University of
Nebraska for the insensitive and
grievous treatment of physical
remains on Native Americans done
in past decades in the name of sci
«
This is the beginning of the end of this
painful period in the university's history."
James Moeser
UNL chancellor
ence,” Moeser said.
In his remarks Moeser said
researchers at the university were
careless in excavating American
Indian cemeteries and burial
grounds.
“Many have been destroyed,
damaged or lost,” he said.
But after a day filled with emo
tionally charged discussion with trib
al leaders, the chancellor announced
to the Academic Senate that the talks
had been productive.
The Academic Senate, which was
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DOUG ABBOTT, professor of family science, warms up for his daily game of basketball Tuesday at the East Campus
Activities Building. A small group of faculty members and students plays a pick-up game every day at noon.
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Academic Senate
extends deadline
By Jessica Fargen
Staff writer
The deadline was extended for
UNL departments to turn in post
tenure review criteria after
Academic Senate members said
Tuesday they did not have enough
time to finish them.
Senate president-elect Gail
Latta said miscommunication
between the vice chancellor’s
office and deans resulted in some
faculty members thinking criteria
should be based on minimal, not
satisfactory, standards and that cri
teria were due within a month.
Latta said the senate wrote a
post-tenure review policy last
September. The NU Board of
Regents passed the policy - with
few changes - this April.
She said the vice chancellor’s
office sent the deans a May memo
asking the department to identify
criteria for post-tenure review.
Professors already are
reviewed annually, but post-tenure
review kicks in when a faculty
member receives two years of
unsatisfactory review.
Criteria for determining
whether a faculty member's work
is unsatisfactory were at issue
Tuesday.
Faculty members expressed
concern to Senior Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs Richard
Edwards that they were being
asked to identify minimal stan
dards for faculty evaluation.
Edwards said this was not the
case.
English Professor James Ford
said that, in an effort to be as clear
as possible, some deans may have
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Bork: Morals change courts
By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
A nationally recognized legal
scholar and former Supreme Court
nominee spoke to UNL law students
Tuesday about America’s “moral
decline.”
Judge Robert Bork talked to stu
dents and the media about current
events and some problems with the
legal system.
Bork said the politicizing of
judicial decisions and the moral
decline of society have challenged
the courts’ standards.
“When we start finding new
constitutional rights after 200 years,
I become suspicious,” Bork said.
“It’s not likely we overlooked some
thing.”
Bork is best known for Ijie
debate surrounding his nomination
to the Supreme Court by President
Ronald Reagan in 1987 and his
involvement in the Watergate scan
dal.
The Senate held lengthy and
heated debates about Bork’s conser
vative ideology and judicial philoso
phy before rejecting his nomination.
And, in the early 1970s, Bork
served as legal counsel and solicitor
general for the President Richard
Nixon’s administration.
In 1973 when Watergate special
prosecutor Archibald Cox insisted
Nixon turn over tape recordings
made in the White House, Nixon
refused and ordered Cox fired.
Bork's superiors resigned
instead of firing Cox. But Bork fol
lowed Nixon’s order, later known as
the Saturday Night Massacre.
Before his speech, Bork dis
cussed President Clinton’s actions
and their legal implications with the
media.
Bork said Clinton has commit
ted impeachable offenses by lying
under oath and said the possibility
of impeachment is increasing.
“The reaction is setting in
against (Clinton),” Bork said. “I’ve
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Matt Miller/DN
FEDERAL JUDGE ROBERT BORK speaks to a standing-room-only audience
at the NU College of Law on Tuesday morning. Bork said the United
States’ “moral decline” has challenged court standards.
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