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VOL. §9 V/vs y j!iAiiYix THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 69 turn Round II Nebraska vs. Texas moves into its second stage Saturday with the playing of the Big 12 Championship in San Antonio. PAGE 7 • £ . A&E Light the Lights Lincoln art galleries and the Haymarket are putting up the tinsel and preparing for Christmas with gift themed exhibits and holiday activities. PAGE 9 iast December 3, 1999 £ I I B ,4 Cloudy, high 49. low 40. Lane Hickenbottom/DN ABOVE: MALCOM FIREFIGHTER Brian Bashora pulls in a Nebraska Parks and Recreation boat while another boat takes an Federal Aviation Administration representative to a crashed Cessna 185 pontoon airplane in the middle of Branched Oak Lake. RIGHT: THE PLANE crashed when the pilot tried landing on the lake. The two people aboard, Clyde Peters and John Walters, were rescued and treated for minor injuries. The plane was completely submerged by about 1 p.m. i Plane sinks during landing ■ Two passengers rescued from Branched Oak Lake after sea plane’s failed landing attempt. By Jake Bleed Senior staff writer A seaplane trying to land on Branched Oak Lake capsized and slowly began sinking late Thursday morning, leaving die two men inside no choice but to stand in waist-deep water and yell for help. Clyde Peters, 62, of Lincoln, and John Walters, 30, of Eagle, were rescued after spending about a half-hour in the water, Lancaster County Sheriff’s Deputy Tom Brookhouse said. Branched Oak Lake is about 15 miles northwest of Lincoln. Brookhouse said the men suffered minor injuries and possibly hypothermia. A BryanLGH East representative said both men were treated and released Thursday afternoon. The Cessna 185 pontoon plane came in for a landing at about 11 a.m. but began to sink instead. A Federal Aviation Administration investigator examined the incident but did not state the suspected cause of the accident. Branched Oak Lake superintendent Dave Kinnamon said the plane capsized but remained floating upside down in about 12 feet of water. The men then climbed out on a wing of the aircraft and began yelling for help. “He yelled for quite awhile,” said David Harris of Lincoln, who was fishing about 300 y&rds away but said he did not see the plane go down. “He kept saying, ‘Hey, hey, hey,’” Harris said. He said he did not know the plane had gone down or that die men were in trouble. The plane went down between recreation areas 10 and four, which are on opposite sides of Branched Oak Lake. The plane was about 200 yards from shore. The men were finally rescued after a member of the Malcolm Search and Rescue diving team and another man took a small Please see PLANE on 3 Former RA charged with arson By Jake Bleed > f; ' Senior staff writer Lancaster County attorneys filed charges Thursday against a former Selleck residence assistant, accusing him of setting fires in Selleck Quadrangle on Nov. 14. Nicholas Bandemer, 19, faces a charge of third-degree arson. Ina Sivits-Luhring, assistant housing director for business and fiscal operations and residential life, said Bandemer was dismissed from being an RA after admitting to setting the fires. “Even the suspicion is serious enough in a community setting (to warrant being fired),” Sivits-Luhring said. Bandemer was also arrested temporarily after the fires because he tried to stop police from inter viewing his girlfriend, Sgt. Mylo Bushing said. The fires were set in trash cans in the men’s and women’s bathrooms of the 7000 building in &-Selleck at 2 am Nov. 14. An hour later, trash cans in two bathrooms in the 8000 building were set on fire. Bandemer’s room was on the second floor of the 8000 building. A bulletin board was set on fire at about 7 a.m., but fire investigators said they did not think it was connected to the earlier fires. Bandemer, a sophomore, is staying with his parents in Omaha. He was not available for com ment. The fires caused more than $100 in damage, court documents said. Deputy County Attorney Patrick Condon said Bandemer was not charged until Thursday because reports on the fires were delayed. State leaders support WTO ■ Despite protests, free trade still gets their commitment, say congressional representatives. By Jake Bleed Senior staff writer -^ Nebraska’s representatives remain strongly in favor of the World Trade Organization and free trade despite large protests outside the third WTO Ministerial Conference in Seattle. ^ Representatives Bill Barrett, Doug Bereuter and Lee Terry expressed their strong support of free trade Wednesday. Sen. Chuck Hagel also came out strongly in favor of the WTO. “My commitment to global trade is stronger today than it was yesterday,” Hagel said Wednesday. “Consider that Nebraska is now the fourth on the list of leading agricultural exporting states, and it is clear that we must do everything we can to open new markets.” Hagel is the chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Please see WTO on 3 Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at dailyneb.com