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VOL. 99 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 27 SPOTS Raiola of Sunshine Nebraska sophomore center Dominic Raiola brings intensity and a positive attitude to the Husker offensive line. PAGE 10 _A & i_ Artistic Desires September 28, 1999 Patty Gallimore isn’t in art for the money; she’s in it for her own personal happiness. PAGE 12 PURPLE RAIN 4 Rainy, high 55. Cloudy tonight, low 37. Nebraska tied up in water rights case ByJoshKnaub Staff writer In the first year of her job, Norma Sitzman provided farmers in her irri gation district with enough water to cover each acre with 15 inches of water. In her 33rd year as manager of Frenchman Valley and H & RW irri gation district in southwest Nebraska, Sitzman has considerably less water to go around. For the past few years, despite having the same number of canals, acres to irrigate and physical source of irrigation water, Sitzman has been able to give farmers in her district only 4 inches per acre. “My irrigators are really feeling this,” Sitzman said. Sitzman said other irrigation dis tricts in the area - those that draw from Swanson Lake - have enough water for irrigators. But nearly 50 percent less than the creek’s historical average flow now runs in Frenchman Creek, which feeds Enders Reservoir - the source of irrigation for Sitzman’s district - and eventually drains into the Republican River. And, pressing as this figure is to Sitzman and the farmers in her dis trict, it is only a small part of the total water that flows in the Republican River basin. Russell Oaklund, division super intendent for the Nebraska Department of Water Resources, said the flows of many Republican River tributaries are below average. In fact, all Nebraska tributaries named in a 1943 water use compact between Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas have less water than their his torical averages. All told, 25 percent less Republican River water crosses the Nebraska border with Kansas, Oaklund said. In a Jan. 19, 1999, complaint to the Supreme Court, Kansas alleged the decreased flow is in part because of groundwater pumping in Nebraska. Kansas alleges Nebraska violates the Republican River Compact by allowing too many wells. Tiffany Ball, press secretary in the Kansas Attorney General’s office, said Kansas officials estimate they are short about 10 billion gallons of water annually because of groundwa ter pumping. In a brief filed Aug. 2, 1999, Nebraska claims groundwater was not part of the compact and should Matt Haney/DN not be considered when determining will argue that the compact does not if Nebraska has used more water than restrict groundwater use. it is entitled. Ball said Kansas restricts ground Attorney General Don Stenberg ~~ said in a press release that Nebraska Please see WATER on 7 Creative teaching methods • %a»-4 i i * 14 Barkley Center prepdf&£1 Students to teach deaf children By Jill Zeman Staff writer If a class full of drawing stick figures sounds easy, think again. Each year, students come to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Barkley Center for a more interactive form of edu cation, which includes learning sign lan guage and understanding the importance of stick figures in teaching. The students come to the center, locat ed on East Campus at 42nd and Holdrege streets, to be involved in its special educa tion and communication disorders classes and to leam what the center is best known for teaching - deaf education. The center’s main program prepares students to teach deaf and hearing-impaired children. Teaching deaf children requires instructors to get creative. Teachers find alternate ways to convey their message, said Malinda Eccarius, a professor in deaf education. Students learn the importance ot visu alization techniques because deaf students each have different learning capacities. Skills such as drawing stick figures can be monumental in educating deaf students, Eccarius said. Graduate students work outside the Barkley Center as student teachers and also work in the homes of deaf and hear ing-impaired students, Ramsey said. The center also has community ser vices such as a preschool communication group and a speech-language and hearing clinic. The Barkley Center attracts students from throughout the Midwest because nei ther Iowa nor Wyoming has deaf educa tion teaching training programs, said Claire Ramsey, an assistant professor of deaf education. Please see BARKLEY on 7 .'i liANE HiCKENBOTTOM/DN CHAIM L. SMITH, a UNL graduate student, teaches a sign language class Monday morning at the Barkley Center, a training ground for students preparing to teach deaf and hearing-impaired children. City Council extends bar’s liquor license By Sarah Fox Staff writer After denying a special liquor license for The N Zone twice this year, the City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday to approve the bar’s request. Councilwoman Cindy Johnson was the only member who voted to deny the license. The license will allow The N-Zone, 428 Q St., to have an extended beer garden in a parking lot north of the building from 9 a.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday. Nebraska will play Oklahoma State at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. The council denied The N-Zone’s Aug. 30 and Sept. 13 requests because undercover Lincoln Police Department officers visited the bar in July and saw' patrons dancing on tables. Police tested patrons and determined they were above the legal drinking limit Charges have been filed against the bar with the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission. Since the council’s Aug. 30 denial, The N-Zone’s employees have completed several training programs, N Zone owner Mike McCarty said. Councilman Jerry Shoecraft voted in favor of The N Zone all three times. He said he had spoken to City Council members after the Sept. 13 vote. “I put them on notice the last time we denied it that (The N-Zone) finished all their checks and passed and had no violations,” Shoecraft said. “I’m happy they got their request.” In other business, the City Council also listened to concerns from Lincoln resident Robert Valentine about ^ the Community Health Endowment board. The board oversees $41 million in assets, which is used for community health programs. Valentine asked why the board planned to have a meeting at Platte River State Park. He said the site was inconvenient for Lincoln resi dents who would want to attend the meeting. He also said the public should know what the endowment will do with the money. Please see COUNCIL on 7 Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at dailyneb.com