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! SPORTS Hortizculture At 215 pounds, Tony Ortiz is a unique type of linebacker. In fact, he was almost a running back for Penn State. PAGE 9 A & I I am third Hardly “Buzz Bin” band Third Eye Blmd takes cen ter stage at Pershing Auditorium, where it kicks off the MTV Campus Invasion tour Saturday. PAGE 12 FRIDAY JpLt JsL-JIL October 23, 1998 Partly Pleasant Partly sunny, high 70. Parly cloudy tonight, low 42. VOL. 98 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 43 Mammoth replica finds home at UNL By Jessica Fargen Staff writer The 5,000-pound bronze statue placed outside Morrill Hall on Thursday was not a part of Fred Hoppe’s sanctuary when he was a UNL student in the 1970s, but it was part of his vision. The lessons and inspiration he acquired while hiding out in the museum during those years motivat ed him to create the life-size sculp ture of Nebraska’s famous prehis toric mammoth. It was in Morrill Hall where Hoppe became interested in sculpt ing, thanks to zoology curator Harvey Gunderson. Hoppe returned to Morrill Hall on Thursday and joined about 100 people watching in awe as his sculp ture of Archie the mammoth was lifted by a crane from a flatbed trail er and placed on top of three pedestals in front of Momll Hall. The last time creatures resem bling Archie roamed the area that is now UNL’s campus was 10.000 years ago, when the 20,000-pound animals mysteriously disappeared from Nebraska. Bones of the mammoths have been found 100 yards from Momll Hall. Hoppe said. “So mammoths did roam the University of Nebraska campus for one million years,” said Hoppe, who now works as an artist in Lincoln. But the statue, which measures nearly 16 feet from tail to tusks, has a different past. Nebraska State Museum Director James Estes said Archie’s nickname was derived from the fos sil remains of an Archidiskidon I—I'll _—_____ Mike Warren/DN After arriving at Morrill Hall on Thursday morning, workers strapped Archie to a crane, and the 5,000 pound statue was lifted off of the flatbed truck that carried it from Cody, Wyo. ■ Mike Warren/DN STAN KIRK, an employee of Dickey & Burham Inc., helps steady the bronze sculpture of Archie, a mammoth elephant, while the crane oper ator brings the statue to rest on the ground in front of Morrill Hall. imperator maibeni, which has since dissolved into the grouping Mammuthus columbi. Archie's arrival at UNL came after five years of fund raising and planning, a four-day ride from Cody, Wyo., and years of time and effort by Hoppe and museum supporters. Beginning with bones Hoppe was approached 18 years ago by UNL Professor Patricia Freeman to create a giant replica of Archie to put in front of Morrill Hall. Five years ago the fund raising started, and three years later Hoppe started creating the massive mam moth. Then a year ago, the statue was sent to Cody, Wyo., where it was cast in bronze. Hoppe started by studying the remains of the original Archie, which was discovered in 1922 near North Platte and now sits in Elephant Hall in Morrill Hall. He also studied cave paintings to see how the hair on Archie would have laid. He looked at pictures of a frozen mammoth to see how big to make Archie’s ears. He used the Please see MAMMOTH on 8 Professor files suit against NU regents ■ Margaret Bolick says UNL employed unfair gender practices. By Lindsay Young Senior staff writer A curator of botany and associate professor at the University of Nebraska State Museum has filed a gender dis crimination lawsuit against the NU Board of Regents. Margaret Bolick, who has worked for the university since 1978, alleges UNL has paid her substantially less than her male co-workers, and that she has been unfairly denied a promotion to full professor twice since 1995. Bolick also alleged in the suit filed Oct. 15 that the University of Nebraska retaliated after she filed gender discrim ination complaints with the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission earlier this year. The retaliation came in the form of the denial of permanent support staff for her work, she said. In her lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, Bolick seeks unspeci fied compensatory and punitive dam ages. Neither Richard Wood nor John Wiltse, the university’s attorneys, would comment on the case because they said their office had not received a copy of the suit as of Thursday afternoon. Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission has supported Bolick’s allegations in a report released Feb. 20. In its findings, the NEOC stated it found “sufficient evidence” that Bolick was discriminated against, with regard to failure to promote her, difference in treatment and difference in pay. Bolick said the university ignored the NEOC’s conciliation agreement, which she said left her with no other option than to file a lawsuit. In 1995, Bolick received the go ahead from the museum's tenure com mittee to become a full professor, but was then turned down by NU adminis tration. Administrators said she had not done enough research to gain full pro fessor status. But the NEOC found that there was not a set standard for amount of research needed to become a full pro fessor. “No evidence was presented that shows the (university) has a set stan dard, or if this standard was applied to its previous applicants,” the report said. Bolick said she has been given more teaching and museum program respon sibilities than her male counterparts, which has left her with less time to pur Please see LAWSUIT on 6 Property tax issue heats governor race By Brian Carlson Staff writer Gubernatorial candidate Mike Johanns says that as mayor of Lincoln, he’s cut the property tax bill on the average home in Lincoln each of the past five years. His opponent, Democrat Bill Hoppner, says property tax rates not only rose during Johanns’ first three years as mayor, but rising property valuations have driven property taxes up despite lower property tax rates in the past five years. The answer, it seems, depends on whom you ask. “There are different ways of cal culating what seems to be the same thing, and yet they contradict each other,” said Steve Hubka, Lincoln city budget officer. “That’s because they’re comparing apples and oranges.” Johanns’ claim that he has con trolled spending and provided prop erty tax relief as mayor is a center piece of his campaign message of fis cal conservatism. But Hoppner’s campaign has challenged that claim. In recent advertisements, the Hoppner cam paign has cited a finding in its own poll that three out of four Lincoln homeowners pay higher property taxes now than in 1990, the year before Johanns was elected. The property tax bill on Johanns’ own house, for example, has risen 30 percent since he became mayor, according to the Hoppner campaign. The Johanns campaign did not dis pute that figure. Also, property tax revenues col lected by the city have risen more than 20 percent during Johanns’ Please see TAX on 6 Reminder... Remember to set clocks back one hour this weekend to adjust for Daylight Savings Time. /£ The official time change is 2 a.m. Sunday. I Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http:/ /www.unl.edu /DailyNeb
