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Officials ponder inquiry LAWSUIT from page 1 consecutive, two-year term on the board, said he understood the Daily Nebraskan's argument, but his board is bound by uni versity policy. “I see (the Daily Nebraskan’s) point entirely,’’ Hanson said. “If (the newspaper) takes that point to (Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs James) Griesen’s office and pressures him, I’m sure the procedures could be changed.” Neither Griesen nor Blum was available for comment Monday This fall the campus newspa per asked UNL officials to release the names of students, the violations they were charged with and any disciplinary actions taken under Nebraska’s open records law. In 1998, Congress amended die Higher Education Act to clar ify that disciplinary records per taining to violent crimes and sex offenses should not be consid ered part of a student’s confi dential educational record. UNL and the state attorney general’s office refused the cam pus newspaper's request. Attorneys for the university and the state cited an exception to Nebraska's open records law that does not require the release of a student’s personal record. Faltin said that he would be concerned if information con cerning students charged with violations of the student code were released before Judicial Affairs ruled on their cases, but after the outcomes, he would support a release of the decision. “I would have to say in that case I totally agree with (the Daily Nebraskan),” Faltin said. Student Press Law Center staff attorney Mike Hiestand compared UNL’s Judicial Affairs system to England’s court of the . Star Chamber, which handled cases arbitrarily and in secret “Nowhere in America are secret judicial systems, such as that on the University oi Nebraska-Lincoln campus, allowed to exist,” Hiestand said. Public accountability is the only way to ensure that the sys tem is operating fairly, Hiestand said. “It is important that the stu dents governed by the (Judicial Affairs) system have confidence in the system,” Hiestand said, “and the only way to do that is to have public accountability." Hiestand also rejected the university's argument that disci 7t is important that the students governed by the (Judicial Affairs) system have confidence in the system, and the only way to do that is to have public accountability, Mike Heistand Students Press Law Center staff attorney plinary proceedings should be kept confidential for education al reasons because the office of Judicial Affairs has extended its authority beyond academic matters to crimes. The Arlington, Va., Student Press Law Center is a national legal advocacy group for student media. Former Judicial Board mem ber Faltin also questioned the university’s commitment to maintaining a student’s privacy. "They don’t seem to care about people’s privacy off cam pus, why do they care about it now?” he asked. Bookstores flooded after win ■ It wasn't the holiday season but the Colorado game that brought hoards of people in. BY VERONICA OAEHN The University Bookstore was busy Friday, but not because of shoppers hitting after Thanksgiving Day sales. Unlike other stores across die state, shoppers weren’t lined up outside the doors at 7 a.m. But they did pile in before and after the Husker’s home-game victory against Colorado, said John Beane, director of the bookstore. “We were busy Friday, but it wasn’t too much to do with Christmas shopping,” Beane said. Stan Vala, general manager of Nebraska Bookstore, said the same was true for his store. “We were very busy Friday, particularly after the game,” he said. “There were long, long lines.” Both bookstores offered a promotion Friday where cus tomers received a 1 percent dis count for each point the Huskers won by. Vala attributed the 2 percent discount to the increased busi ness after the game. Beane said Christmas season was busy at the University Bookstore but not any more so than any other time. The bookstore doesn’t have promotions for the holiday, he said. “We don’t need to push (cus tomers) that much to come in,” Beane said. “They do that as an automatic” Both bookstores are gearing up for Book Buyback, which begins Monday. The University Bookstore offers up to 60 percent of the purchase price for used books. Nebraska Bookstore has done the same in the past. Vala said there was a food drive in the works for the Nebraska Bookstore. Starting later this week or next week, customers can bring in a canned food item and receive 20 percent off a piece of Husker clothing, he said. But the big pull for the Nebraska Bookstore is following and promoting the Huskers, Vala said. Future promotions will depend on the Husker’s bowl game bid. Vala said sales were strong lately. Hot selling items are polar fleeces and ceramic Santa Husker statues. The University Bookstore is looking forward to Customer Appreciation Days, which will be Dec. 4-5. Holiday items will be 25 percent off on those two days, “We were busy, but it wasn't too much to do with Christmas shopping. We don’t need to push (customers) that much to come in.n John Beane University Bookstore director and customers spending more than $10 will get a free Hallmark card. ' The University Bookstore’s top sellers are sweatshirts, T shirts and baseball hats, Beane said. UNL alumni want items like that around Christmas time, he said. Erin Alzuri, cashier supervi sor at University Bookstore, said the store was always more busy on gameday. After the game on Friday, the store was especially busy, she said. “We had six or seven regis ters open,” Alzuri said. “We planned ahead, so there weren't more than three people in a line at a time.” The rush wasn’t unusual for a gameday, she said. "It probably wasn’t because of Thanksgiving or Christmas.” Infant son of 16-year-old mother found dead A Lincoln woman awoke Sunday morning to find her 6-week-old son had stopped breathing. Later the boy was pronounced dead. The 16-year-old mother called paramedics just after 9:30 a.m., Lincoln Police Ofc. Katherine Finnell said. The mother told police she fell asleep on the couch on the 4600 block of Stockwell Drive with her son lying on her chest early Sunday morning. When she awoke, the boy was not breathing, Finnell said. An autopsy was scheduled for Monday to determine the cause of death, but the Lancaster County Attorney’s office did not receive any pre liminary results. Two freshmen ticketed for drug possession and paraphernalia University Police ticketed two students for drug offenses in Harper Residence Hall on Sunday night after a resident assistant reported the smell of marijuana smoke. The resident assistant called police after smelling the smoke during a floor check about 10:45 p.m., University Police Assistant Chief Mylo Bushing said. When the officer arrived, he smelled a mix of marijuana smoke and air freshener in the 10th floor hallway. Five people were in the room. The officer got permission to enter the room, and on request, one of the students produced a small bag of suspected marijuana, and another pulled cigarette-rolling papers out of his pocket. TWo freshmen, both from Omaha, were cited. Patrick Prendergast, 18, was cited for possession of marijuana less than an ounce. Michael Iacabazzi, 19, was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia. Fan caught with marijuana, hemalia at football game exas man was ticketed for drug possession at the Nebraska-Colorado game Friday after police spotted him smoking marijuana. A community service officer stopped the 25 year-old man after he was seen smoking a small pipe on one of the stadium ramps near gate 24 at 11:30 a.m., Bushing said. Police escorted the man out of Memorial Stadium and found the pipe and a film canister containing suspected marijuana, Bushing said. Tadd Balfour was ticketed for possession of less than an ounce of the drug and drug paraphernalia. Pipe sets off courthouse metal detectors, spurs arrest Lancaster County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Lincoln man Wednesday after he tried to pass through the county court metal detectors while carrying a small metal pipe and narcotics. Sheriff Terry Wagner said the 20-year-old man, Nathan Anton, was trying to make a court date but set off the metal detectors on the way in. When deputies swept over the man’s body with a hand-held metal detector, they found a small pipe in his back pocket, Wagner said. After the man emptied his pockets, deputies found small amounts of suspected marijuana and methamphetamine concealed in a hard pack of cigarettes. Anton was jailed last week. Compiled by Josh Funk Constitution reform on horizon CONVENTION from page 1 tionZ he said. - The only prerequisites for the people chosen is picked randomly from a list, said Public Affairs that they be able to make the set meeting times - Sen. Elizabeth Elliott. 6:30 p.m. on Fridays - for the convention. “Basically it will be pull-out-of-the-hat spot,” To be put on the list of names to be picked she said. from, students should go to the ASUN office in Gamez said he wants people who put their Nebraska Union, Elliott said, name on the list to be knowledgeable about After the bylaw passes, ASUN won’t be tied up ASUN’s current constitution. with the remodeling of the constitution, said “Hopefully they already have an idea about “As a body, the only part ASUN will have in the what they want to change in the ASUN constitu- convention is passing the bylaw,” he said. Trees won t smell like holidays ■UNL's Landscape Services uses fox urine to deter thieves from campus'Christmas'trees. BY VERONICA DAEHN Those hoping to save money this holiday season by chopping down a University of Nebraska Lincoln evergreen tree for Christmas won’t like what they find-or smell. UNL’s Landscape Services sprayed almost 150 “Christmas” trees with fox urine last week to deter would-be thieves. Kirby Baird, City Campus manager for Landscape Services, said the university has been spraying the trees with fox urine for the past 10 years. But despite the smell, trees are still stolen just about every year. “I don’t know what else we can do,” Baird said. A Landscape Services team sprayed all pine, spruce and fir trees under 25-feet tall with the fox urine, glycerin and water mixture. On an average winter day, the smell isn’t detectable. But when the temperature reaches 50 degrees, the urine really starts to stink, he said. Inside a warm house, the smell would be terrible. There haven’t been any problems with missing trees this year, Baird said. But there’s still time for thieves to act “It can happen any time before Christmas,” he said. “It just depends on when people get in the spirit of cutting down a tree.” Baird didn’t want to blame just students. It could be any one, he said. In fact, on-campus students aren’t likely culprits because they have no place to put the tree, he said. About 12 to 15 years ago, two students who lived in Abel Residence Hall were caught chopping down a 20-foot tree, Baird said. The two had brought the top eight to nine feet of the tree into the residence hall and were caught by the residence director. The students worked to pay off the expense of the tree'. Anyone caught stealing a tree will be prosecuted, Baird said. UNL isn’t the only place that protects its trees by spraying them with fox urine. The Lincoln Parks and Recreation Department uses it on some of its trees, Baird said. Kathy Smith, an employee at Turkey Creek Furs and Recycling in Crete, where UNL buys its fox urine, said the sub stance was a big seller with golfers, farmers and hunters. "It’s popular with people 71 ca/7 happen any time before Christmas. It just depends on when people get in the spirit of cutting down a tree ... I don't know what else we can do." Kirby Baird City Campus Landscape Services. who need to keep things away," Smith said. A gallon of fox urine from Turkey Creek Furs and Recycling costs $21, she said. This year, UNL used a little more than a gallon, Baird said. “It goes a long ways," he said. Jeff Culbertson, East Campus manager for Landscape Services, said he checked on Sunday and didn’t see any missing trees on that campus. He said he would look again today. It doesn’t make sense to steal UNLs trees, Baird said. “They don’t get to enjoy the tree after they do it anyway," he said. “You wouldn't want to have that in your house very long.” Attention December 2000 Graduates The DEADLINE for the return of your yellow Commencement Attendance form is December 1,2000 Return it to the Graduation Services Office, 109 Canfield Administration Building. II ftfdl E. N. THOMPSON I_IiuIa forum on world issues A cooperative project of The Cooper Foundation and the University of Nebraska-Uncoln Justice After Injustice: What Response After Atrocities DAVID P. FORSYTHE Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor, Political Science, University of Nebraska-Uncoln Forsythe suggests that there is no one form of justice appropriate for all situations; one must tailor the response to atrocities in order to fit the situation. The future protection of human rights may in some cases be best served by avoiding judicially mandated punishment. A world authority on human rights, Forsythe has received numerous research and teaching awards and is the author of more than 75 publications on different aspects of international law, organization and human rights. His most recent book is titled “Human Rights and International Relations” (Cambridge University Press, 2000.) For more information, contact our website at<dcs.unl.edu/acpp/thompson/> TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,2000, 3:30 P.M. 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