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■ Lawsuits, claims and
accusations follow the
discovery of American
: Indian remains in UNL’s
Bessey Hall.
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By Lindsay Young
s Senioreditor
c Since American Indian remains
subject to federal and state law were
found in Bessey Hall in 1997, a snow
ball effect has ensued, with the
unearthing of other incidents that have
caused unrest inside and outside of die
university community.
People have alleged UNL may
have violated the Native American
Graves Protection and Repatriation
Act by studying and storing bones
without tribal permission.
NAGPRA, signed into law in
1990, required museums, federal
agencies and institutions to take an
inventory of human remains and asso
ciated fimerary objects and report it to
the National Park Service by
November 1995.
After that date, any additional
remains found are inventoried and
reported. At the request of tribes,
remains and objects are returned.
Talk on the subject of die universi
ty’s handling of American Indian
remains has continued to increase
since the university agreed to repatri
ate mote than 1,700 remains Sept 1.
A group of unaffiliated remains
are a part of the 1,700 that UNL
agreed to repatriate. That means
researchers are unable to tell what
tribe they are related to, but they can
tell the remains are American Indian.
A national committee said it
would recommend the repatriation of
the unaffiliated remains to the U.S.
Secretary of the Interior. It is unknown
who will accept those remains after
repatriated.
Although many allegations of
mishandling against the university and
its faculty members were exonerated
by two reports - one by a State Patrol
investigation and one by a university
hired attorney - people both inside
and outside of the university have said
they were still skeptical of UNL’s
actions.
Some of the skepticism has been
fed by the discoveries of additional
bone fragments in Bessey Hall. All
remains found have been inventoried
and stored with other remains subject
toNAGPRA.
Other actions or revelations this
year regarding the remains included:
■ In August, the university
announced an anthropology depart
ment chairman incinerated remains on
East Campus in the 1966s. J
■ A group of American Indian
tribes filed a formal complaint last
semester with the university against
Anthropology Associate Professor
Karl Reinhard. The group asked for
the suspension of Reinhard, who has
been accused of performing illegally
destructive analysis on remains.
■Reinhard filed a suit last semes
ter against Stan Parks, a research assis
tant in the anthropology department,
for comments be made to media about
Reinhard’s allegedly illegal activity.
Allegations include charges that
he illegally stored bones in a lab at
Bessey Hall, ordered a graduate stu
dent to falsify records and conducted
unprofessional forensic investiga
tions.
Robert Grimit, a university-hired
attorney, exonerated Reinhard from
many of those charges.
■ The College of Journalism and
Mass Communications received the
latest hit April 21, when Reinhard
filed a claim stating its laboratory
newspaper, The Journalist, defamed
him in a story published more than a
year ago.
If the university doesn’t agree to
his claim of $200,000 in general dam
ages, a suit will be filed.
■ Grassroots American Indian
activist Randy Thomas, of Lincoln, is
threatening suits against the university
and Reinhard, and has said several
area tribes are doing the same.
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ASUN elections went into runoffs
By Veronica Daehn
Staffwriter
and Focus party candidates were ready
for the final outcome on election night
Or so they thought
, Because no candidate received a
majority of total votes cast, a runoff
election was necessary for next year’s
Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska executive
offices.
Candidates had another week of
campaigning before a runoff election
for die offices of president, first vice
president and second vice president was
held.
f According to election guidelines, an
executive candidate must receive a
majority - at least 50 percent - of the
total votes cast No candidates garnered
50 percent of the vote the first time
around.
If a majority is not achieved, the
candidates are victorious only if their
vote total is higher than their opponents’
by at least 10 percent of the total number
Of votes cast
Voice party executive candidates
Andy Schuerman and Rachelle Winkle
received 1,320 votes in the original elec
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tion, while Focus candidates Paul
Schreier and Jon England obtained
1,163.
For second vice president, Focus
cahdidaie'Trisha Meutet secured 1,212
votes, while Vernon Miller received
1,034 for the Voice party.
In the runoff, Schuerman and
Winkle won by 20 votes — 1,237 to
1,212 -- while Meuret won 1,289 to
1,124.
The last runoff election between
two parties’ candidates for president and
first vice president occurred in 1990,
after that year’s Vision party garnered
34 more votes in the general election
than the Today party’s 1,405 votes.
That year, a third party called Stand
got 646 votes - about 23 percent.
With the third party gone for the
runoff, Vision party candidates won by
five votes March 21,1990.
This year, however, there was no
official third party.
The runoff election was similar to
the original, except write-in candidates
weren’t allowed, Electoral Commission
President Ryan Fuchs said.
Marlene Beyke, ASUN director of
development, said the runoff may have
affected voter turnout.
“Typically, it’s been harder to get
students to come out a second time,”
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Beyke said.
Contrary to the first process where
ballots were run through a machine, the
final votes were counted by hand.
'■ Fuchs said a close vote required‘a
hand count.
“With a vote this close, students
obviously have a vested interest,” Fuchs
said. “This is a big deal.”
Beyke said a runoff had not been
expected.
“There weren’t any signs that I saw,”
she said. “I knew it’d be a close race.”
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Legislature remembers
late Sen. Schellpeper
By Jessica Fargen
Senior staff writer
The Nebraska Legislature said
hello to 10 new senators this year, but
had to say goodbye to a longtime friend,
a 12-year senator and dedicated farmer.
Sen. Stan Schellpeper of Stanton
died of a heart attack April 4 on the
farm that he grew up on 11 miles north
of Stanton. Family farmer Bob Dickey
of Laurel was recently appointed to fill
Schellpeper’s post.
Last month Schellpeper was hon
ored by colleagues and family during a
tribute that brought unusual calm to the
normally clamorous floor of the
Legislature.
Some remembered Schellpeper as
the man who used to ride around the
county fair on a golf cart and hand out
free fair tickets to children.
Others remembered him as the man
who ruled the General Affairs
Committee with an even hand or
argued tough issues on the
Legislature’s floor such as legalizing
concealed weapons and stiffening
liquor laws.
He was a good farmer who
worked all day on civic projects and all
night on the tractor,” Speaker Doug
Kristensen of Minden said.
Bellevue Sen. Paul Hartnett shared
his memories of years spent sitting next
to Schellpeper on the Revenue
Committee. Many afternoons were
spent sharing views on the law, as well
as life in Nebraska.
“Stan always used to remind me
that the No. 1 industry in the state is
agriculture,” Hartnett said. .
In the 65 years that Schellpeper was
alive, he gave back to his rural commu
nity holding posts such as secretary
manager of the Stanton County Fair
Board, president of the State Fair Board
and president of the Nebraska Rural
Electric Association.
As General Affairs Committee
Chairman, Schellpeper was diplomatic
and attempted to include all members
in decision-making, Hartnett said.
Schellpeper’s kind, fair and caring
character was behind his success as
chairman for the last eight years, Sen.
Cap Dierks of Ewing said.
“He was a gentleman,” Dierks said.
“He was also a very gentle man.”
Dierks also reminded senators of
Schellpeper’s pride of the unicameral
system, and belief in the effectiveness
of a nonpartisan legislature.
Hebron Sen. George Coordsen,
who joined the Legislature the same
year as Schellpeper, read a resolution
that senators passed Friday, which
extended condolences to Schellpeper’s
family and praised the senator for his
work and dedication.
Schellpeper, who was a farmer and
a livestock feeder, left behind his wife,
Faye, three children and eight grand
cmldren.
bchellpeper represented District
18, which includes Stanton, Pierce and
Cedar counties, as well as parts of
Wayne, Dixon and Knox counties.
Whether it was senators, his family
or the citizens of Nebraska, those pre
sent at last month’s tribute remembered
Schellpeper as a man to look up to and
a man to be honored.
Said Hartnett: “He always took care
of people.”
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