VOL. 98 ’ COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 150
I SPORTS
Stretch
The Nebraska baseball team faces a critical
weekend as the Comhuskers face Texas Tech in
Lubbock. PAGE 6
* & E
In color
The Nebraska Arts Council preserves culture
through the celebration of artistic heritage, and
hopes to fight racism through creativity. PAGE 12
April 30, 1999
Spring’s True
Sunny, high 70. Cleary low 45.
End of the line
Matt Miller/DN
ROBERT SANCHEZ, a junior history major, takes a nap in the stacks of Love Library on Thursday evening.
Sanchez said he went into the stacks because it was a quiet and an out-of-the-way place.
Police stress community relations
By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
On a landscape marred by school
shootings and an increasingly violent
and growing society, police depart
ments have had to adapt to meet their
community’s needs.
In Lincoln, die university and city
police departments have expanded
their role beyond enforcing the laws to
include many other services.
The local departments use com
munity-based policing, educational
programs and street officer-heavy
forces to meet the community’s needs.
Lincoln Police ChiefTom Casady
said his officers work to maintain a
safe environment and contribute to the
quality of life.
Of the 145,000 incidents Lincoln
Police responded to last year, only
14,000 were index crimes, those
crimes die FBI uses to determine the
crime rate.
Police handle many more acci
dents and disturbances than crimes,
Casady said.
University Police Chief Ken
Cauble said his department strives to
create an atmosphere where people
can live, learn and work with minimal
safety concerns.
“Our role is to provide a safe,
secure environment, services to peo
ple who need assistance and educa
tion,” Cauble said.
Much of the changes in law
enforcement nationwide ova* die last
three decades stem from the idea of
community-based policing.
The idea is that police need to
Please see POLICE on 7
State takes step
to exit compact
Senators wary of possible lawsuit
By Jessica Fargen
Senior staff writer
The prospects of Boyd County
housing a low-level radioactive waste
site are looking dimmer and dimmer.
Many Boyd County residents don’t
want their county to become a site for
low-level waste, and the state denied a
license for the site last year.
Lawmakers advanced a bill 39-8
Thursday to the final round that would
pull Nebraska out of the five-state low
level waste compact.
Debate centered on whether now
was a good time to withdraw from the
compact, and what the legal ramifica
tions of withdrawal would be.
Speaker Doug Kristensen of
Minden was in favor of leaving the
compact.
“What do you really have to lose by
getting out of the compact?” Kristensen
said. “That’s what this bill is about.”
Previous debate on LB530 drew no
opposition from senators, but this time
around lawmakers were more leery of
withdrawing.
That apprehension stemmed from a
recent U.S. District Court ruling that
said Nebraska may have acted in bad
faith when considering whether to grant
a license to US Ecology to build the
low-level radioactive waste dump in
Boyd County. The ruling had not come
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What do you really
have to lose by getting
out of the compact?
Thats what this bill
is about."
Doug Kristensen
speaker
out during previous debate.
A lawsuit has been filed by five
waste generators and the Central
Interstate Low-Level Radioactive
Waste Compact, which includes
Louisiana, Arkansas, Kansas and
Oklahoma. Nebraska was chosen to
house the site 11 years ago.
Senators feared that millions of dol
lars in litigation could result from the
lawsuit if Nebraska lost.
During previous debate, senators
advanced the bill with the security of a
law opinion that said the state acted in
good faith when denying a license to
build the site. According to the law
opinion, the state would be required to
pay $25,000 a year for five years,
Please see COMPACT on 7
Designers take trade
to artistic dimensions
By Dane Stickney
Staff writer
Sitting in a laid-back office listening
to bass-filled techno music, Clint!
Runge and Charles Hull matter-of-factly
share their triumphs in the field of
design.
At first glance, the two young men
look like average UNL students. But
despite their mellow wardrobes of blue
jeans and T-shirts, Runge and Hull have
risen to become two of America’s most
creative figures in the graphic design
industry.
In August 1997, the two men formed
a design business called Archrival Inc.,
with its office located in the Haymarket.
Over the past few years, the business
has grown into one of the most powerful
design firms in the country.
Runge, who is now working on an
advertising major, said the term “design”
is a general classification that loosely
describes a wide range of projects.
“To us, design means anything from
architecture to logos to Web pages,”
Runge said. “But we approach any kind
of design virtually the same way.”
Runge, 24, and Hull, 26, met while
both were architecture students at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They
were drawn together by their common
interest of using computers to show two
dimensional drawings in a three-dimen
sional space.
This state-of-the-art idea gained
Runge and Hull respect from many of the
nation’s top architectural firms, includ
ing three of the five most prestigious
firms in the United States.
“Most architects really embraced our
work because it made it easier for them
to communicate with their clients,”
Runge said. “People can realty relate to
Please see GRAPHICS on 7
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