DN: Student records
should not be secret
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offense received a lesser penalty.
After lawyers for UNL and the
NU system reviewed the Daily
Nebraskan’s request, Judicial
Affairs Director Rosemary Blum
denied it in October, citing two
exceptions to Nebraska’s public
records law.
“After careful review of the
Nebraska open records statute, as
well as the Federal Family Rights
and Privacy Act (FERPA), I can
find no evidence to support
granting your request to view any
university disciplinary records,”
Blum wrote Oct 3.
On appeal, the state attorney
general’s office upheld die univer
sity's decision in a Nov. 13 letter.
But public records experts
with the Student Press Law Center
and Nebraska’s Society of
Professional Journalists question
the legal basis of the university’s
decision.
UNL journalism professor
and SPJ Project Sunshine
Chairman John Bender said the
attorney general’s argument was
rim liar.
Bender said that Assistant
Attorney General Dale Comer jus
tified the university policy of
keeping these records confiden
tial with the university policy
itself '
Access to information about
crime on campus has been an
issue nationwide since the pas
sage of FERPA and long before.
The federal law FEEPA which
is also known as the Buckley
Amendment, was passed in 1974
to prevent schools from releasing
a student’s educational records
without permission.
Many universities responded
by classifying any information
about crimes gathered either by
the campus police or judicial
affairs offices as “educational
records” and restricting access.
Those practices were criti
cized after some students fell vic
tim to crimes on campuses where
the universities had prior knowl
edge of similar crimes, but failed
to notify students.
A national lobbying group
dedicated to safe campuses,
Security On Campus, Inc., was
formed by the parents of a young
woman murdered on a university
campus.
The courts have held schools
civilly liable for crimes committed
against their students when the
school foiled to warn the student
body of the dangers of crimes
committed on campus, according
to the Student Press Law Center.
The University of Nebraska
has a history of being open with
its University Police records. The
UNL department furnishes a
copy of its 24-hour police log list
ing every incident each day.
But the results of Judicial
Affairs’ proceedings remain confi
dential.
In fact, the Chancellors Task
Force on Conduct Standards and
Behavior Standards recommend
ed in 1996 “that the results of
alleged student code of conduct
violations be made public on a
regular basis, within the legal
restrictions imposed.”
That task force was assembled
in the fall of 1995 by then Interim
Chancellor loan Leitzel to exam
ine UNLs disciplinary procedures
and standards about the same
time that several high-profile vio
lent incidents involving student
athletes dominated the news.
The Daily Nebraskan argues
that any legal restrictions that pre
vented the release of those
records in 1996 has been
removed. M
In October 1998, Congress
amended FERPA to show that
records of crimes of violence and
i sex offenses should not be con
sidered educational records and
could be released
In its refusal, the university
relies on an exception to
Nebraska’s open records law that
protects personal records of stu
dents.
That exception was passed by
the Unicameral in 1979, five years
after the federal law protecting
educational records was enacted.
Bush asks Gore not to contest Florida results
BUSH from page 1
closure," Baker said. “At some
point, the law must prevail, and
the lawyers must go home.
“We have reached that
point,” he said. “... It is time to
honor the will of the people.”
For all that, Baker said Bush
will “absolutely” go ahead with
his case in the U.S. Supreme
Court, challenging the state
supreme court ruling that led to
the extended certification dead
line and hand recounts of ballots
cast by machine in four disputed
Democratic-leaning counties.
Anticipating the certifica
tion, Gore was preparing a
speech to be delivered today,
explaining his case for the con
tinuing challenge.
Gore, who got 337,183 more
votes than Bush nationwide on
Nov. 7, said he has an obligation
to the people who supported
him and Lieberman, more than
for any Democratic ticket before
them.
In an interview with The New
York Times, he said “every vote
that is legally cast must be fairly
and accurately counted in accor
dance with the law...
“If at the end of this process...
if Governor Bush is successful, I
will spare no effort to help him
unify the country behind his
leadership,” Gore said, "and I
would expect him to do the same
if I am successful.”
• The votes were delivered to
Harris in line with a 5 p.m. EST
deadline set by the state supreme
court, which allowed hand
recounts through Sunday, 12
days past the date she had said
certification should be final.
Democrats question accuracy of count totals
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to wipe away pictures of GOP
celebrations in Florida,
Democratic vice presidential
candidate Joseph Lieberman
said: “This evening, the secretary
of state of Florida has decided to
certify what by any reasonable
standard is an incomplete and
inaccurate count of the votes
cast in the state of Florida.”
Gore knows his first order of
business is to convince the pub
lic that there is good reason to
continue legal fights and vote
counting.
That is why Lieberman
rushed to deliver his remarks
while Gore prepared for a speech
today outlining reasons for the
battle.
Sen. Bob Graham previewed
Gore’s address, stressing earlier
in the day that continued vote
counts would legitimize the next
president - whoever that may be.
House Minority Leader Dick
Gephardt and Senate Minority
Leader Tom Daschle planned a
news conference today in
Florida to carry the themes.
If the courts allow,
Democrats say they can reverse
Bush’s majority in Florida in this
fashion:
■ Winning court approval to
include final results from Palm
Beach County where election
officials showed Gore with a net
gain of at least 180 votes.
Because the recount was not
completed until two hours after
Sunday’s 5 p.m. deadline, Harris
ruled the entire recount was
invalid.
In addition, Gore attorneys
will argue that Palm Beach
County should be required to
apply a liberal standard for
approving votes - settling the
colorful controversy regarding
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Harris’ action, Gore's attorneys
estimate he could gain another
300 to 600 votes in the southeast
coast county under a lower
threshold.
■ Winning a recount in
Miami-Dade County where
thousands of votes are being dis
puted. Gore showed a net gain of
157 votes in the state's largest
county where hundreds of bal
lots were considered before elec
tion officials reversed field and
abandoned a county recount
Democrats believe Miami
Dade could yield Gore hundreds
of additional votes if the jurisdic
tion was ordered by courts to
open to a full recount. Some
10,000 ballots were kicked out by
a counting machine that couldn’t
read any mark in the presidential
column, according to Gore aides.
■ Subtracting 52 Bush votes
from Nassau County, where elec
tion officials decided to submit
Election Day vote totals instead
of a machine recount that had
inadvertently missed about 200
ballots.
Number-crunchers in both
parties say Gore could gain 1,000
votes or more if the courts
accepted the Democratic chal
lenges in all these jurisdictions.
“We’re not talking about big,
big numbers anywhere, but we
don't need big, big numbers,"
said Democratic spokeswoman
Laura Quinn. “If the reality was
n't that these numbers could
push us over the line,
Republicans wouldn’t be turning
to the Florida legislature to
appoint electors."
Yet there are big numbers
involved in Seminole County
where a Democratic activist has
gone to court accusing
Republicans of illegally handling
thousands of absentee ballot
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Democratk vice presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Liebennan makes a statement
Sunday in Washington moments after Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris
certified Republican George W. Bush as the winner of the state's presidential elec
tion. Sen. Liebennan called the certified votes'incomplete and inaccurate.'
applications. If successful, this count Democratic counties after
challenge would shift 4,700 votes dispatching lawyers across
away from Bush. Florida to help disqualify over
Republican officials argue seas absentee ballots that tend to
that Democrats only want to favor GOP candidates like Bush.
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Husker Link trail still has a few
roadblocks to tackle before it
becomes a reality.
The city of Lincoln, which
will own the trail, has not for
mally bought the tracks from
Union Pacific Railroad, she
said.
Loftis said she hopes to see
the railroad hand over the
tracks within the next couple
of months.
“We just have to wait and
see," she said.
But the issues won’t dis
solve when the city purchases
the area, she said.
Loftis said her group is still
trying to raise $400,000 to pay
for the project.
So far, she said, the Great
Plains Trails Network has
raised about $110,000.
The city of Lincoln and fed
eral matching grants will pay
for the rest of the project’s cost,
Loftis said. Estimates for the
cost of the project total about
$800,000, she said.
Trail enthusiasts will also
have to battle a few area busi
nesses along the trail that want
to use the trail space for their
own needs, she said.
Obstacles aside, Loftis said,
she expects to see students
commuting between City and
East campuses within one or
two years.
Parks Coble, a history pro
fessor at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, said he is
excited about the railroad
track abandonment and the
bike trail that will follow in its
place.
In a letter to the Daily
Nebraskan, Coble said the
Husker Link path will better
Lincoln's trail system and open
the downtown area to bikers
and joggers.
He also said the trail will
give bikers and joggers a safe
alternative to car-clogged
streets and narrow sidewalks
in the downtown area.
“As anyone who has tried to
run or bike along the sidewalks
on Vine or Y streets knows,
these are congested and dan
gerous,” he said.
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