Federal remains inquiry st rtain
■ The U.S. attorney’s
office has not confirmed
whether the investigation
wiUbe launched.
By Lindsay Young
Senior staff writer
The U.S. attorney’s office could
not confirm Tuesday if the office
would launch a federal investiga
tion into the university’s handling of
American Indian remains.
Mike Wellman, first assistant
U.S. attorney, cited policy and said
he couldn’t verify that his office
was investigating allegations that
the university violated federal law.
Wellman also would not con
firm that a report detailing a state
investigation was forwarded from
Lancaster County Attorney Gary
Lacey’s office in October.
Wellman did say, however, that
Lacey wouldn’t lie about forward
ing the state’s report. Lacey’s office
said in a late October press release
that it had forwarded the report to
U.S. Attorney Tom Monaghan in
Omaha.
The state investigation, which
began last summer, sprang from
dozens of allegations made by
ji ;American Indians and anthropolo
gy department; faculty members
•regarding th«- University of
-s
Nebraska-Lincoln’s handling of
remains.
They alleged the remains were
studied and stored in ways that vio
lated both state and federal laws.
In October, Laeey said he for
warded a report detailing the state
patrol’s investigation to Monaghan,
so he could determine whether the
university violated the federal
Native American (Graves Protection
and Repatriation Act of 1990.
The act makes it illegal to study
remains without tribal permission.
In October, a Nebraska State
Patrol investigation found no evi
dence of any violation of state crim
inal code, which includes the state
Unmarked Human Burial Sites and
Skeleton Remains Protection Act of
1989.
That act makes the failure to
report the discovery of human bur
ial sites within 48 hours of their dis
covery a crime.
Some members of a group of
American Indian tribal representa
tives, coined the Working Group on
the University of Nebraska
Repatriation, have contacted the
U.S. attorney’s office in
Washington, D.C., requesting a fed
eral investigation, said Pemina
Yellow Bird, a NAGPRA represen
tative for the Three Affiliated Tribes
in Kansas.
Tribal representatives have
expressed doubt on the validity of
the state investigation.
Group to discuss repatriation |
REPATRIATION from page 1
Tuesday.:
It involves more paperwork and
more discussion than would a
request for the repatriation of affili
ated remains. Naranjo said she
wouldn’t hypothesize as to the deci
sion the committee would make on
UNL’s case.
“Every case is interesting with
its various twists and turns,”
Naranjo said.
The review committee hasn’t
created a distinct policy about what
to do with requests to repatriate cul
turally unidentifiable remains, said
Laura Mahoney, National Park
Service NAGPRA Consultant in
Washington, D.C. \
The University of Nebraska
seems to have “pushed the case”
more than others have, Mahoney
said, which will make the results of
this week’s meeting more interest
ing.
Yellow Bird said the only major
obstacle she foresees in convincing
the committee to repatriate the
unaflfiliated remains is some of its
members connections to me scien
tific or museum industries.
The review committee is com
prised of seven members, six of
whom are nominated by tribes,
museums or scientific institutions.
The seventh is nominated by the
other six members.
Three on the committee were
nominated by museums or scientif
ic institutions. Three others were
nominated by American Indian
tribes.
Depending on Grew’s presenta
tion in Santa Fe, the committee
probably will make a decision at the
end of the meeting, Naranjo said.
From what she has heard,
Naranjo said she was happy with
the willingness both the intertribal
group and the university have had to
work together.
Naranjo said she is looking for
ward to hearing what UNL has to
say.
“I think that this one has long
been discussed between the tribal
groups and the University of
Nebraska, so I have some familiari
ty with it.”
But the working group, itself,
has not officially requested a feder
al investigation.
According to the NU general
counsel’s office, the university is
still awaiting the results of an inves
tigation by a Lincoln attorney who
was hired to look into whether UNL
violated university policy or state
law.
Global group
acquires
Cliffs Notes
NOTES from page 1 _
pie, including 35 in the Lincoln
office, and brings in an annual rev
enue of $ 12 million.
After starting in Hillegass’ base
ment, the company had played hop
scotch around several downtown
Lincoln buildings over the years
before coming to test in south
Lincoln about 10 years ago, Covolik
said.
Hillegass expanded the business
by making contacts through his job
buying back college textbooks for
the Nebraska Book Company.
Hillegass eventually asked college
bookstores across the country to
stock Cliffs Notes, Covolik said.
Now Cliffs Notes sit in almost
every college bookstore and in gro
cery stores, drug stores and discount
chains.
Letting go of a company you
spent most of your life working at is
tough, Covolik said, but Cliffs Notes
is not defunct, just transposed.
“I think the thing that we both
feel is that (Cliffs Notes) will be
ongoing,” he said. “That is the joy of
knowing that something you have
done will continue to exist and has
the potential to grow even more.
“The real reward is to have it
continue.”
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was run by the University,
the buyback of used
books was 60 percent of
the new book price. But
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of Elmhurst HI.,...
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percent of the price the
student paid for the
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Lincoln police arresting a man
for driving with a suspended license
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night.
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year-old man had a bench warrant
for his arrest and no valid driver’s
license, Lincoln Police Sgt. Ann
Heermann said.
When officers searched his van,
they found three small plastic bags
of marijuana, totaling 18 grams; one
2.3-gram bag of methamphetamine;
and a marijuana pipe.
The man was cited for possessing
a controlled substance, marijuana
and drug paraphernalia.
The warrant was for no proof of
financial responsibility, meaning no
proof of insurance.
Mother cited for neglect
Police cited a woman for child
neglect after she made her 4-year-old
daughter help her shoplift.
Monday afternoon the 37-year
old woman was shopping with her
daughter at Kohl’s department store,
401 N. 84th St., Heermann said.
The woman went into a dressing
room with her daughter carrying a
new pair of jeans.
When they came out of the dress
ing room, they tried to leave the store
with the daughter wearing the jeans.
The woman was cited for child
neglect and shoplifting.
Compiled by senior staff writer
Josh Funk
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