SPORTS
Here’s the beef
The Nebraska offensive line is developing into
another solid unit after three games in the 1998
season. PAGE 9
A&E
Horror at the Joyo
Lincoln’s only family owned theater, the Joyo,
shows a mix of old, new and horror. The “Rocky
Horror Picture Show” runs weekly. PAGE 7
TUBS IAY
September 15, 1998
The Sun Will Come Out?
Partly sunny, high 78. Partly cloudy tonight, low 57.
■L
-fitlillfc,....
w3:«SSSSI»g
.v-S&s WiilflSIlli.
• - . - . - • • 1 _ >
VOL. 98 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 17
Math faculty nets
presidential honor
By Kim Sweet
Staff writer
Amid the disconcerting news that
flowed from the White House last week,
the UNL math department was respon
sible for some good publicity from
Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
Judy Walker, an assistant professor
of mathematics and statistics at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
accepted the 1998 Presidential Award
for Excellence in Science, Mathematics
and Engineering Mentoring on behalf
of the math department.
The department was among 18 insti
tutions and individuals that received the
award. The department was recognized
for their efforts in mentoring female
graduate students since 1990, said Jim
Lewis, professor and chairman of the
mathematics and statistics department.
The award, which recognizes the
department’s efforts m creating a more
friendly environment for female gradu
ate students, was presented in the Oval
Office of the White House Thursday.
After shaking the president’s hand
and posing in two pictures with him,
Walker and the other recipients moved
into the Roosevelt Room.
Walker said Clinton reaffirmed the
importance of science and technology
during the presentation and told the
audience about his commitment to
increase mentoring in related subjects
for women and minorities, she said.
Walker accepted the award on behalf
of the math department 10 years after
Lewis said he realized how underrepre
sented female graduate students were.
During the 1980s, men earned 23
doctoral degrees, while not one went to
a woman.
“It struck me that ‘Wow, we're
doing really badly,”’ Lewis said. “We’re
going to finish the decade with no
Ph.D.s going to women.”
In 1989, a commitment was made to
recruit female graduate students as well
as retain them, Lewis said.
The department set a goal in 1989
that women would eventually make up
30 percent of its graduate program.
Since 1992, 42 to 52 percent of the
department’s graduate students have
been women, Walker said.
Fourteen women have obtained
«
By focusing how to
be successful with
women, we have
been successful with
everyone”
Jim Lewis
math department chairman
their doctoral degrees since 1990,
which beats the national average.
The success by female math gradu
ate students has not come by giving
them special treatment, Lewis said, but
by making them feel they aren’t the
minority in the classroom.
That attitude is what has made
women successful, Walker said. She
pointed to a nomination letter written by
graduate student Theresa Strei.
“I have felt at home ever since I
came to UNL,” Strei wrote in the letter.
“To a great extent, it is because being a
female student in this department is
nothing unusual.
“I don’t feel the pressure of havmg
to represent my entire gender as an iso
lated female in a sea of male mathe
maticians,” she wrote.
While the department strives to
make the atmosphere for woman gradu
ate students more pleasant, Lewis said,
male graduate students also benefit.
The number of both men and
women seeking their doctoral degrees
has increased in the math department
over the past 10 years, Lewis said.
“By focusmg how to be successful
with women, we have been successful
with everyone,” he said.
A $10,000 grant accompanies the
award. Walker said the department
hopes UNL will match the grant. If it
does, the department will sponsor a
research conference for undergraduate
women in mathematics, she said.
The award also will increase the
department’s ability to recruit students,
Walker said.
“We have to try to look at this as not
just a pat on the back but something to
use.”
Dawn Dietrich/DN
CITY COUNCIL MEMBER Cindy Johnson explains why the picketing ordinance should be tabled Monday after
noon. The ordinance passed 4-3 after the council discussed issues such as abortion arguments and constitu
tional rights.
Picketing restrictions
OK’d by City Council
By Adam Klinker
Staff writer
The Lincoln City Council voted Monday afternoon to
restrict “disturbing” picketing at religious sites, though
Mayor Mike Johanns has pledged to veto the decision.
The ordinance was in response to an anti-abortion
group's picketing of a Lincoln church, a senior member of
which performs abortions.
The 4-3 vote to amend Chapter 9.20 of the Lincoln
Municipal Code came after 20 months of Rescue the
Heartland’s protesting of the Westminster Presbyterian
Church.
The new ordinance will make it unlawful for protesters
to organize disruptive demonstrations at certain times, in
certain places, in a certain manner.
Carl Horton, an associate pastor at Westminster, 210
Sheridan Blvd., said the anti-abortion group has been
protesting against Dr. Winston Crabb, a church elder who
performs abortions.
Larry Donlan, director of Rescue the Heartland, said
regardless ot the vote, his group will continue to picket at
Westminster.
“We want to be there as often as we can,” DonJan said.
“We’re there basically to be educational. We are an infor
mational organization.”
Much of the controversy over the protesting relates to
the graphic content of signs displayed by Rescue the
Heartland members and the effect they may have on chil
dren, said Alan Peterson, a Lincoln lawyer representing the
church.
Some of the signs held by the anti-abortion supporters
depict aborted human fetuses.
Donlan said he was not surprised by the Council deci
sion.
“Emotion trumps reason,” he said.
City Councihvoman Cindy Johnson offered a motion
to postpone the vote and reword the bill to avoid any possi
ble legal challenges, but the Council went ahead with the
vote.
Lincoln city attorney Bill Austin said restrictions could
Please see COUNCIL on 6
Bereuter calls for Clinton’s resignation from office
By Todd Anderson
Senior staff writer
Rep. Doug Bereuter called for
President Bill Clinton to resign
Monday, saying the Kenneth Starr
report presented to the House of
Representatives Judiciary committee
shows the president committed per
jury.
While Bereuter said other charges
made against Clinton are less certain,
he concluded that Clinton had
responded to the counsels questioning
“in a fashion that’s simply not truthful.”
“I have read the Starr referral to the
House and believe that nearly all
judges and fair-minded persons would
conclude that President Clinton has
committed peijury to conceal his adul
terous affair with Monica Lewinsky,”
Bereuter said.
He said bipartisan cooperation
would be important while further
investigating the allegations of
obstruction of justice, abuse of execu
tive power and negligible conduct.
Because he does not expect Clinton
to resign, Bereuter said he believes the
House Judiciary Committee will rec
ommend a full impeachment investiga
tion based on the evidence in the Starr
report.
He said Congress would stay in
session long enough to approve the rec
ommendation and that such an investi
gation probably would begin in
October.
Members of the Judiciary
Committee currently are reviewing the
Starr report, along with 36 boxes of
additional materials that have not been
released because of concern for pro
tecting related witnesses and testifiers.
Bereuter said the challenge of
reviewing the report has not over
whelmed Congress, but he was con
cerned Clinton has become ineffective
as president following the allegations
and reaction.
“I do see it as affecting the presi
dent’s power and his ability to use it
wisely,” he said.
Bereuter joins Omaha Rep. Jon
Christensen in calling for Clinton’s res
ignation.
Sens. Chuck Hagel and Bob
Kerrey and Rep. Bill Barrett could not
be reached for comment Monday.
Hagel said in a press conference
Friday that Congress should act care
fully when considering censure, a
demand for resignation or impeach
ment.
“It’s not in the interest of this nation
or the future of our country to have
some of us arbitrarily decide that the
president must go by dictating his res
ignation or by any other form,” Hagel
said.
Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http:/ /www.unl.edu/DailyNeb
