Art gallery added to picture at Richards Hall
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BY LAUREN ADAMS
Art students will soon be enjoying a new
atmosphere in which to realize their creative
geniuses.
Richards Hall, which has been under
construction since early last year, is sched
uled to open in December of this year.
Construction on Richards Hall, the art
and art history department building, began
in March 1999.
Barry Shull, manager of architecture and
engineering services at Facilities
Management and Planning, as well as the
Richards Hall project construction manager,
said that construction started because the
facilities had deteriorated.
Shull said the building was built in 1908
and had been a priority on the list of campus
construction projects.
Parts of the building were without air
conditioning, and classrooms were in need
of remodeling.
The renovations include new class
rooms, new offices, air conditioning and
new heat and plumbing.
Shull said the building was “gutted,” and
with the completion of construction, the
building will have an entirely new interior.
The hall was partially occupied as of
August, but the renovated hall is expected to
be open by December.
The construction has taken one year, but
the changes were necessary and will serve as
a boost to the art program, Shull said.
“As the second-oldest building on cam
pus, the building was basically really due for
an overall renovation,” Shull said.
The renovated hall includes an art
gallery, which will be run by Joseph Ruffo,
chairman of the art and art history depart
ment.
Ruffo said the first exhibition is tenta
tively scheduled for March 2001.
The new gallery will be called the
Eisentrager/Howard Gallery and will be on
the first floor of the hall.
“This gallery will simply be a replace
ment for the old one,” Ruffo said.
“As the second-oldest building
on campus, the building was
basically really due for an
overall renovation."
Barry Shull
manager, architecture and engineer
ing services at Facilities Management
and Planning
Richards Hall art has been displayed in
the Nebraska Union Rotunda Gallery.
Karen Wills, supervisor of the Rotunda
and the assistant director of Student
Involvement, said the gallery is used to dis
play art by faculty, staff or students associat
ed with a university department.
Departments may also bring in traveling
shows to be exhibited in the Rotunda.
In contrast, the Eisentrager/Howard
Gallery will be used to display only student
art.
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SPEAKING OUT: Students listen as traveling Pastor Jim Wiebhus shares a message of Christianity. The briefcase, emblazoned with stickers and bumper stickers, belongs to
Wiebhus and Tom Short.
Study finds disparities
in death-penalty cases
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Wide
racial and geographic disparities
exist in the federal government's
requests for death penalties,
according to a Justice
Department study released
Tliesday. The White House called
the findings troubling.
The report, requested by
Attorney General Janet Reno, was
certain to provoke renewed calls
from Congress, civil rights and
legal groups for a moratorium on
federal death sentences.
Reno imposed a new system
in 1995 requiring U.S. Attorneys
to get her approval for all death
sentences after a review of each
case by a team of senior Justice
officials.
Neither she nor the review
team members are told the race
of defendants but defense attor
neys sometimes tell them in the
course of arguing against the
death penalty.
Reno’s goal was to achieve a
more uniform system, but the
report found the first five years of
experience with the system were
not uniform.
The numbers did show, how
ever, that Justice Department
recommendations for death sen
tences in federal cases roughly
reflected the racial percentages
of the pool of defendants
charged with capital crimes.
Between 1995 and July of this
year, U.S. attorneys forwarded
for review the cases of682 defen
dants who faced capital charges,
of which 20 percent were white
and 80 percent were minorities.
U.S. attorneys recommended the
death penalty be sought for 183
of them, 26 percent of them
whites and 74 percent minorities.
Reno approved seeking death
penalties for 159 of them, of
which 28 percent were for whites
and 72 percent for minorities.
Ultimately during this period, 20
defendants have been sentenced
to death, of which 20 percent
were white and 80 percent
minorities.
Many cases are resolved dur
ing this process before trial or
sentencing by guilty pleas,
altered charges and other outside
events. Other cases are pending.
“We’ve seen the numbers,”
White House deputy press secre
tary Jake Siewert said.
“At first glance, those num
bers are troubling. We need to
know more about exactly what's
behind the numbers.” Siewert
declined to discuss a possible
death penalty moratorium.
University Bookstore Sidewalk Sale
Enjoy the last days of summer while browsing our giant book sale.
We’ve made a special purchase from the University of Nebraska Press,
publishers of Bison Books, and are offering irresistible bargains.
Thursday & Friday
September 14 & 15 from 9AM-5PM
lbook $3
3 books $8
5 books $12 **
io books $20
All of this takes place on the 14th
Street mall, of the Nebraska Unit
DON'T MISS!
GOP denies callinq Gore crew'RATS'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — A GOP
commercial that subtly flashes
the word "RATS” across the
screen is coming off the air amid
allegations the Republicans were
trying to send a subliminal mes
sage about A1 Gore.
George W. Bush called the
notion "bizarre and weird,” and
his campaign made light of it all.
The GOP ad-maker said he was
just trying to make the spot visu
ally interesting.
But Gore’s campaign and
experts in political advertising
said the word choice - as an
announcer was denouncing
Gore’s Medicare plan - could
hardly have been an accident
“I’ve never seen anything like
it,” the vice president said
Tuesday in Middletown, Ohio.
Running mate Joseph Lieberman
called the ad “very disappointing
and strange.”
“I’m sure the public will be
puzzled by it as we are and want
an explanation,” Lieberman said.
Bush noted that the word
appears only fleetingly - for a tiny
fraction of a second. Played at full
speed, it’s barely noticeable, par
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Dress: Casual
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ticularly if the viewer isn’t looking
for the word.
“One frame out of 900 hardly
in my judgment makes a conspir
acy,” Bush said Tuesday in
Orlando, Fla. “I am convinced
this is not intentional. You don’t
need to play, you know, cute poli
tics.”
Gore aides reveled in the
story, which they leaked to the
press after being alerted by a
careful viewer in Seattle.
“Ad graphics don’t pop up out
ofthinair. Someone sits down at a
computer and creates them,”
said Gore spokesman Doug
Hattaway.
The ad, which has been run
ning in several states for more
than two weeks, touts Bush’s plan
for adding prescription drugs to
Medicare, arguing that senior cit
izens will have more control over
their health care under Bush’s
proposal. Gore's plan, the ad says,
will be run by bureaucrats.
Words flash on the screen to
echo the announcer’s message:
“The Gore prescription plan:
Bureaucrats decide.”
But just as the announcer
says “bureaucrats decide,” the
word “RATS," in large, white capi
tal letters, fills the black screen.
Alex Castellanos, who made
the ad for the Republican
National Committee, said he
flashed the letters - the tail end of
“bureaucrats” - so the ad would
look more visually interesting
and it was just a coincidence it
came out “rats.”
“It’s a visual drumbeat,” he
said. “People get bored watching
TV You’re trying to get them inter
ested and involved.”
White House spokesman Jake
Siewert said President Clinton
had not seen the ad but was look
ing forward to it. “I’ll leave it to
you to judge whether that is an
accident or a dirty trick," he said.
Outside analysts said they
found it hard to believe the word
was not deliberately placed.
"The word ‘rats’ is so carefully
superimposed. It's not like it just
randomly appears on the screen,”
said Darrell West, an expert on
political advertising at Brown
University in Providence, R.I.
“It's cheap and manipulative.
It certainly takes the level of polit
ical discourse down several
notches,” said Loyal Rue, who
studies political deception at
Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
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Thursday, September 14, at 12 o’clock
University of Nebraska Press author William S. E. Coleman will read
from and sign his new book, Voices ofWounded Knee.
This book not included in the sale.
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