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THURSDAY
Septe
Sunny, high 76. low 46.
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JUDY DITniER smiles while listening to an appraisal of a penny bank she brought into an
International Toy Collectors Association show Wednesday. The toy show’s operators said
that anybody can bring their old toys in for a free appraisal while the show lasts through
Friday at the Best Western Airport Inn.
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Antiques available at show
ByGwenTietgen
Staff writer
It’s time to clean out the attic and look for that
old toy your grandparents gave you.
Then, take it to the Antique Toy Roadshow,
which will be in Lincoln until Friday at the Best
Western Airport Inn, 3200 N.W. 12th St
The show, sponsored by the International Toy
Collectors Association, runs from 8 am to 8pm.
through Friday.
According to the association, toy collecting is
one oi me nonest ana lastest-growmg noooies
nationwide. The association, based in
Champaign, 111., offers anyone a chance to have
their old toys looked at and bought by the associ
ation.
This is first time the International Toy
Collectors Association has been to Nebraska.
At the show, the group displayed toys such as
a tractor, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck toys,
toy cannons and Barbies.
The association is looking for items such as
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Police set sights on
sidewalk bicyclists
By Jake Bleed
Senior staff writer
“If you can’t stand the way I drive,” a com
mon bumper sticker says, “stay off the side
walk.”
But bicycle riders downtown must stay off
the sidewalk to avoid more than crazy drivers:
This week Lincoln police will begin posting
50 signs throughout downtown warning riders
to stay off the sidewalk or risk a fine.
Rollerskaters and skateboarders must also
avoid downtown’s pedestrian pathways,
including the south ride of R Street.
The city ordinance against riding on side
walks dates from October 1960, but recent
increases in bicycle-related offenses down
town triggered the posting of the signs, Police
Capt. Joy Citta said.
If a person rides on a sidewalk, city ordi
nance 10.48.170 states, he “shall do so at his
own risk and shall yield the right-of-way to
any and all pedestrians.”
Last year, police issued 202;bike offense
citations m the center team area, which
includes downtown and surrounding areas.
Officer Katherine Finnell said the majori
ty of the citations issued were against side
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walk riders. The remainder were against riders
violating traffic signals or for interfering with
Riders must avoid holding on to moving
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Memorial plans await
feedback from tribes
By Kimberly Sweet
Senior staff writer
Plans to build a memorial on the East
Campus site where American Indian remains
were incinerated more than 30 years ago are
on hold.
Instead of moving forward with construc
tion, members of a committee charged with
submitting a design feu: die memorial will wait
to get feedback from tribal representatives,
said Priscilla Grew, UNL’s Native American
Graves Protection and Repatriation Act coor
dinator.
The construction of a memorial was part
of an accord signed by UNL Chancellor
James Moeser and tribal representatives on
Sept. 1,1998.
The accord was signed after it was discov
ered that a former chairman of the anthropol
ogy department ordered graduate students to
destroy American Indian remains sometime
between 1965 and 1967.
The agreement stated that the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln would set aside and
enclose the areas where the remains were
incinerated and mark it with a memorial.
Since then, the campus NAGPRA com
mittee has worked with landscape services to
gather suggestions from American Indian stu
dents, spiritual leaders and others to come up
with a design to present to tribes.
The committee sent out a preliminary
design in February with a letter to tribal lead
ers asking for guidance on several aspects of
the memorial, Grew said. j -
fct
We ’re more concerned
about doing it right than
doing it hastily.”
Patricia Grew
UNL’s NAGPRA coordinator
“The Sept. 1 agreement states that the uni
versity will receive guidance from tribes who
were interested,” Grew said. “We wanted to
make sure people could respond before pro
ceeding.”
Six months later, the committee has
received one response in writing and another
response asking for more time to make sug
gestions, Grew said.
But some tribal leaders say that asking for
written suggestions is not enough. Instead, the
university should assemble tribal leaders to
work out a design.
James Riding In, who has served as the
NAGPRA representative for the Pawnee Tribe
of Oklahoma, said it is necessary to bring trib
al members to campus in order to work out the
details.
“I think it will be very difficult for the uni
versity to get a suitable memorial unless it is
able to bring representatives to campus,”
Riding hi said. “A forum would be better so
that a consensus can be reached.”
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