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—SP0RTS— -*li- THURSDAY Men at play Jinkies! October 15,1998 The Nebraska goll team benefits from a solid Pat Stevens, a visiting professor at UNL, reveals supply of Australian golfers. Now. other teams are her mvsterious past — as the voice of Velma in UNDERCOVER BLUES starting to find out about NU's secret. PAGE 9 “Scooby-Doo." PAGE 12 Mostly cloudy, high 79. Breezy tonight, low 57. V0L 98 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 39 Nose job u«mcv uriuuiii .. , . . . SCOTT M('CU'RG/DN HARLEY NEWMAN, a self-proclaimed professional lunatic, clears his sinuses by working a drill into his nose Wednesday evening in the Nebraska Union Ballroom. Newman entertained university students by walking on swords, eating fire and hanging fishhooks from his eyelids. He has been performing such acts for 12 years, appearing on the Geraldo Rivera and Oprah Winfrey shows. UNL turns down Ponca request By Lindsay Young Senior staff writer The universitv has denied the Southern Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma's request for a new inventors of American Indian remains at the l niversits of Nebraska-Lineoln. Vice C hancellor for Research Priscilla Grew said in a letter to Southern Ponca repre sentative Rands Thomas on Tuesdav that the universitv is not required under the Native American (iraves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 to "engage in further research on or conduct additional inventories of human remains and associated funerars objects. ..." Thomas said the tribe would be appealing that denial by filing an objection. "Until we're satisfied with this inventors, we'll keep it in the courts." T homas said. Grew informally announced the response to the request Mondax at a meeting of the Working Group for the Umxersitx of Nebraska Repatriation. "It is the position of the Umx ersitx of Nebraska that the mxentorx of human remains and associated funerarx objects m control of the unixersitx is thus complete." Grew said in the letter. T he Southern Ponca Tribe requested last week that UNL redo its entire mxentorx of American Indian remains. Thomas said he had seen parts of the remains collection, which is housed in the Unixersitx of Nebraska State Museum, a few times, and each of those times Thomas said he saxx discrepancies between what he counted and \ lewed in boxes and xvhat the labels said. Grew said although the unix ersitx denied the tribe s request, it was trx mg to come up w ith a compromise to address the Southern Poncas' concerns. One way she suggested is to have the uni versity conduct an exit inventory. An exit inventory, which is done by most institutions before repatriation, is one of the final steps before the remains are returned. I homas said he did not trust an exit inven tory to do a thorough job. The tribe demanded a new mventorv be completed by Anthropology Department C hairman Robert Hitchcock, former State Museum Director .lames Ciunnerson. Anthropology Professor Martha McC ullough and university researcher Berkley Bailev. Thomas said he would accompanv the group and that the Southern Ponca trusted that group to do a complete and accurate job. Please see INVENTORY on 7 Official says harassment report stands By Lindsay Young Senior staff writer A facultx committee's decision that stated no hard evidence ot gender inequitv existed in the political science department will stand a umversitv official said Wednesday. ( hancellor James Moeser appointed the committee in the spring to investigate the climate ot the department alter an Academic Rights and Responsibilities committee on profession al conduct ruled the department tolerated sexual harassment. Seven recommendations were released luesdav m the chan cellor's ad hoc committee's report. Herb Howe, associate to the chancellor, said Arts and Sciences Dean Brian foster and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Rick hd wards will work w ith the department to carr\ out those recommenda tions The chancellor also j has reported the results to Patricia Kennedy. Acad emic Senate president, and Sally Wise, chair woman of the ARRC. The ARRC report from last semester made ivvv7iniiivii\aaiivjii3 iiiai included placing the political science department on a three-year probation-like period, when it would have been under the leader j ship of someone outside of the department. Howe said. The ad hoc committee's report rejected that recommendation. The chairman of the ARRC's professional conduct commit tee. Maurice Baker, an agricultural economics professor, did not offer an opinion on the ad hoc committee's ruling. ”1 teel we did ourjob." he said. "They obviously did their job.'' The two committees came to different, vet logical, conclu sions based on the ev idence they had. Baker said. hether we looked at the same set of ev idence. 1 don’t know." he said. Baker's committee found in the spring that charges brought against David Forsythe, former political science department chairman, were unfounded, but did implicate the department as a whole. It had been alleged Forsythe did not respond promptlv w hen a former professor reported sexual harassment within the department. f ormer Political Science Professor Valerie Schwebach. now of Houston, brought sexual harassment complaints against the department last year and has said the ad hoc committee's ruling proves UNL w ill not solve what she calls a serious problem. Howe said people who wish to challenge the universitv's findings must do so outside of the universitv. Fnc Brown, one of .Schwebach s attorneys, said Schwebach Please see REPORT on 7 a I feel we did our job. They obviously did their job." Maurice Baker chairman of AARC professional conduct committee Ah UN, UrL at odds over board member selection By Ieva Augstums Staff writer The question of power came between University Program Council and ASU'N on Wednesday, as members of both parties examined a 1994 bylaw that gives student government leaders authority over a student organization. "What we want is the ability to choose our ow n executive board again." Jamie Gaffney. University Program Council president, said. "Things are different now" In 1994. the Association of Students of the Univ ersity of Nebraska passed a by law empowering it to select UPC board members and event direc tors. The bill presented to the senate Wednesday would return the process of selecting UPC executive board mem bers to present council members. v ice v nancenoi ior acatiemic Affairs James Griesen said before the 1994 compromise, UPG members were selected by a committee of UPC gradu ating members or members not plan ning to seek a second term on the exec utive board. The compromise created a selec tion committee made up of three mem bers from each organization, allowing the groups to carry on with their univer sity duties. "It was a compromise no one was happy with," Griesen said. "It was a compromise they could live with. ASUN President Sara Russell she proposed the bill on behalf of UPC and fully supports its efforts. "I don't think it is ASUN s place to dictate to a student organization. Let them select their own members." Russell said. Student government leaders were div ided on the issue. ASUN Human Rights Committee Chairman Andv Schuerman said he supported the bill. "We don’t have the right to take ov er. Schuerman said. Paul Schreier. Committee for Fees Allocations chairman, said he would not support the bill. "This bill states that based on your relations with the (UPC) president, you can further your career within the orga nization." Schreier said. Russell said she was not going to pressure ASUN members either way. College of Business Administration Senator Tom Heacock mov ed to post pone the bylaw' change, which was later added to next week's agenda. Dead the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http: II www.unl.edu IDailyNeb
