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October 23, 1998
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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
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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...
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weekend to adjust for Daylight Savings Time. /£
The official time change is 2 a.m. Sunday. I
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