SPORTS
Image of consistency
Although a freshman, NU golfer Amanda
Sutcliffe paces the Huskers with patient, steady
play. PAGE 7
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1 A&E
Gay pride
« October is Gay and Lesbian History Month, and
the campus groups are planning a kaleidoscope
•of panels, shows and a film festival. PAGE 9
October 1, 1998
Sweaters and Jackets and
Partly sunny and cool, high low 45.
" VOL. 98 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901, NO. 29
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LYN JAKOBSEN, assistant director of UM. Housing Residential Education, listens to the long list of the awards
she won during her 15-year career at UNL. Jakobsen, who left UNL foraseminary, was honored at a reception
held in Seileck Residence Hall on Wednesday afternoon.
UNL bids Jakobsen farewell
Assistant director of housing to attend seminary, work as chaplain
By Ieva Augstums
and Jessica Fargen
Staff writers
Lyn Jakobsen remembers
leaving her Christian faith in
New Jersey at age 18 to lead an
atheistic, humanist and existen
tialist life.Now, a return to the
faith she once abandoned is lead
ing her away from UNL.
She once renounced Christ
ianity because it conflicted with
her interest in psychology and
the scientific method.
Jakobsen left home to pursue
a career in elementary education.
She graduated college with a
psychology degree, then
received a doctorate in psycholo
gy and a masters degree in col
lege student personnel. She
found herself educating and
working with students on five
campuses around the country
before coming to UNL.
Climbing up the professional
ladder, Jakobsen said, she
thought she had received her last
“calling” fulfilling the duties of
UNL assistant director of hous
ing for residential education.
Instead, she has one last des
tination - a “final completion,
fullness and expansiveness” with
God, she said.
She realized four years ago
Christianity needed to be a part
of her life, Jakobsen said. She is
leaving UNL with 15 years of
service, commitment and change
behind her.
“I got a nudging (from God)
that I should do some speaking
about theology,” Jakobsen said.
“Leaving is something that I
know is right to do.”
After abandoning her
Christian faith for 23 years,
Jakobsen began reading religion
and theological theories again in
1988. The 1990 and 1993 deaths
of her parents made her “surren
der (her) brazen autonomy” back
to the Christian faith.
“I just recently renewed my
faith in Christianity,” Jakobsen
Please see JAKOBSEN on 6
Picketers given
limited reprieve
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ByAdamKunker
Staff writer
Anti-abortion rights groups can
resume picketing a Lincoln
Presbyterian church after a U.S. District
Court judge granted a temporary
restraining order Wednesday against the
city of Lincoln.
The injunction, filed by members of
the anti-abortion rights group Rescue
the Heartland with its lawsuit against
the city, will prevent the city from
enforcing an ordinance against picket
ing on religious premises for the next 10
days.
U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf
said the injunction is limited to 10 days.
Another hearing is scheduled for Oct. 7
at 6 p.m. in North Platte.
“It’s a first step,” said Gene
Summerlin, an attorney for Rescue the
Heartland who delivered the plaintiffs’
arguments.
l nat s a victory tor tne plamtms.
We are very pleased that he issued the
temporary restraining order,7’ he said in
an interview.
Dan Klaus, the city’s defense attor
ney, said he could offer few details out
side the courtroom because the case is
still pending.
Despite Kopf’s ruling in favor of the
protesters, Klaus said, the city still will
have a valid case when arguments are
heard next week.
In statements delivered in court,
Summerlin and Klaus focused on the
concern over children being exposed to
graphic images displayed by protesters
outside of the Westminster Presbyterian
Church, 2110 Sheridan Blvd.
Protesters have been picketing
Westminster for 20 months because a
church elder, Dr. Winston Crabb, con
ducts abortions.
The City Council passed an ordi
nance Sept. 14 to outlaw picketing on
religious grounds during times of
scheduled religious activities.
Mayor Mike Johanns vetoed the
ordinance, but the council subsequently
The Constitution
is older than any
child. ...It is just
as deserving
ofprotection
as any child.”
Gene Summerlin
Rescue the Heartland attorney
overturned it Sept. 21.
The ordinance went into effect
Tuesday, but the injunction prevents the
city from enforcing it.
Klaus said the intention of the city
in passing the ordinance was two-fold:
protecting children from the images on
the signs and protecting the free exer
cise clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Klaus said the ordinance is content
neutral, meaning it is constitutional
because it does not outlaw what protest
ers’ signs say - only when, where and
how they can be displayed.
Klaus said the city is not putting a
ban on protesting but is limiting its
impact by moving protesters across the
street from the church, preventing them
from adding threatening action to their
message.
Much of that action deals with
thrusting large pictures of aborted fetus
es into the faces of passersby and intim
idating young children and their par
ents, Klaus said.
Judge Kopf asked Klaus if a church
would be able to keep people bearing
signs - regardless of content - on their
sidewalks if they wanted them there.
After debate, Klaus acknowledged that
even invited sign bearers would be
breaking the law.
“There are some weighty constitu
tional issues here,” Klaus said in court.
Please see PICKET on 6
Number of reported party complaints decreases
S’
By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
The number of disorderly party
complaints in Lincoln has decreased
over the past month, thanks to a special
enforcement project, police said.
In late August, the Lincoln Police
Department set its sights on large,
unruly parties, and statistics released
Wednesday show its efforts have had an
impact.
“These parties are really affecting
the quality of life in some neighbor
hoods,” Lincdn Police Chief Tom
Casady said.
So police created a special detail of
officers to respond to large parties on
weexenas wun a special empnasis on
the North Bottoms and Hartley neigh
borhoods, two problem areas near the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
“On any given night you could stand
on the comer of 1100 Charleston Street
(in the North Bottoms) in full uniform
and write tickets until your hand cramps
up,” Casady said.
Police have seen an increase in the
number of complaints during the last
few years, which they attribute, in part,
to the university’s toughened stance on
alcohol.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
James Griesen agreed.
“As we tightened more of our regu
lations, we pushed more of the parties
into the community,” he said.
un six nights ot enforcement spread
across the first four weeks of
September, the squad issued 91 cita
tions for party-related offenses.
And the number of party complaints
between Sept. Land Sept. 28 decreased
from 185 last year to 49 this year.
During that same tiipe period, the
number of disorderly party complaints
in Northwest Lincoln - defined as
everything northwest of 27th and O
streets—decreased from 49 to 17.
Casady said after the first couple
weeks of enforcement, officers started
to have difficulty finding big parties.
Police used a combination of under
cover and uniformed officers to catch
offenders.
“We are targeting wild parties and
the abusive drinking that happens
there,” Casady said.
Police targeted offenses committed
by the hosts of the parties, issuing 18
citations for the unlawful sale of alco
hol, 15 for procuring alcohol for minors
and six for maintaining a disorderly
house - a total of 39 of the 91 citations.
But the most common single
offense was minor in possession of alco
hol, which accounted for 35 citations.
The remaining 17 citations were
written for other offenses such as con
suming alcohol in public, urinating in
public, gambling, assaulting an officer,
giving false information to police, dis
Please see PARTY on 3
The number of complaints for disorderly
parties has dropped during September this
year compared with last year, especially in
the area around UNL’s City Campus. Multiple
residents may have called in complaints for
the same party.
Figures for the month of September
Source: Lincoln Police Department
JonFrank/DN
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