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Senators debate youth concerns AMERICA'S LARGEST FAMILY CLOTHING. CHAIN Nebraska state senators gave first-round approval Wednesday morning to a bill which would lower the state's age of majority from 20 to 19 years old. Introduced by Kearney Sen. Gerald Stromer, LB 1086 would have initially called for lowering the age to 18. However, a committee amendment changing the proposed drop to 19 yews was easily adopted. Waverly Sen. Jerome Warner offered an amendment which would have kept the age for the consumption and purchase of aichoholic beverages at 20. Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers, a long critic of drugs of all type, moved to amend Warner's amendment to age SO. Chamber's action was believed to have been taken in jest but his motion was adopted 19-11. The entire Warner amendment was then defeated 11-23. Barely surviving a kill motion of 20-22, Stromer's bill was advanced from general file on a 25-18 vote. By amending the bill to read age 19, it was believed a compromise was reached between senators urging a change to 18 and those wanting the age of 20 retained. In other action Wednesday, state legislators advanced from general file a bill which would require color photographs to be attached to drivers licenses. The fact that licenses are being used for identification purposes was the main reason given for the need to adopt such a provision. An increase of $1 would pay for the cost of the picture. Presently a four-year license costs the driver $6. During Monday morning's legislative session senators considered a bill which would have, permitted colleges and universities the option to sell beer and liquor . on campus. Calling alcohol the "most abused drug in the country," Chambers led oppostion to LB 1 092 introduced by two Omaha senators. The bill was killed on a 30-12 vote. One of the bill's sponsors, Omaha Sen. ' Sam Klaver said that 33 states permit bars on campus. Had the bill survived the kill attempt, several senators were planning on trying to amend it to permit the sate of only beer. Creighton University had made the original request for the bill's introduction. University officials said they wanted to install a rathskeller on campus for students and faculty. Senators Tuesday requested that a bill delivered to the governor's desk for his approval be returned to the Legislature. Warner urged senators take a second look at a bill passed Monday which would authorize examhiation and treatment of minors for drug addiction or venereal disease without parental consent. The bill, LB 1302, passed without a vote to spare on final reading 25-21 . Speculation is that the bill as written could possibly legalize the prescribing of birth control pills to women under the age of 20 without parental consent. Tuesday's request to retrieve the bill from the governor in no way affects the passage of Lincoln Sen. Wally Barnett's LB 1096. Barnett's bill permits minors to be examined and treated for venereal disease without parental consent. It was passed on final reading last week with the emergency clause making it effective as soon as the governor signs it. I tarns mutt be tubmittad to tha Daily Nebraska, 34 Nebraska Union, no latar than two working ' days prior to tha desired data of publication for Insertion in Short Stuff. The Home Economics Chapter will meet at 4 p.m. Thursday in 111 Food Nutrition Building. Annette Marquez of the League of Women Voters will speak. Rap-in with Regent Edward Schwartzkopf at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Abel Hall Lounge. a Garry Karr, double bass virtuoso, will perform with the UNL Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. Thursday in Kimball Recital Hall. , The biography of Charles Dickens, English author and early social critic will be presented at 7:30- p.m. Thursday on PBS (Channel up a Thursday '12:30. p.m. Nabratka Union Nabraska Fraa University (NFU "Fraa School Philosophy" 2-4 p.m. Union-Rap with Daan May arson 3:30 p.m. Unlon-Bullders-College Day 3:30 p.m. Union-Phi Chi Thata 5 p.m. Unlon-CSL Studont Faa Commlttaa 6:30 p.m. Union-Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia 12). Young Republicans meet at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Nebraska Union to elect new officers. Young Democrats will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Union. Dick White, Democratic lobbyist in the Nebraska Legislature, will speak. Interested citizens will have an opportunity to present their views concerning the Lancaster Office of Mental Retardation ( LOM R ) and mental retardation service in the county at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the County Commissioner's Hearing Room on the second floor of the County-City Building. John McClendon, president of the Lincoln Chapter of Zero Population Growth will speak at the Hungry Id at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. The Makers Dozens will be performing at the University Lutheran Chapel at 8 p.m. Friday. The U.S. Navy Officer Information Team from 6:45 p.m. Union World in Revolution Commlttaa ' 6 p.m. Union All University Fund (AUF) Executive Committee 8:30 p.m. Unlon-AUF 7 p.m. Union Christian Science Organization - 7 p.m. Union-Movie "Patton" 7 p.m. Union Young Democrats 7 p.m. Union Parking Appeals Board 7 p.m. Unlon-UPC Play." Antigone" 7:30 p.m. Union -(math counselors 7:30 p.m. Union Physical Therapy Club 7:30 p.m. Union Nebraska Public interest Group 8 p.m. Union Flying Club-Red Barons 8 p.m. Union Young Republicans 8 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall-NU Symphony Orchestra 8:30 p.m. Union-NFU "Rock Music" Omaha will be in the Union Placement Office March 6 and 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Reinhold Baer, professor at the Institute of Mathematical R esea rch in Zurich, Switzerland, will lecture March 3-4 at UNL. He will speak at a mathematics department colloquium at 3 p.m. Friday and will lecture at 10 a.m. Saturday. Paul Gilles of the University of Kansas will speak on "High Temperature Vaporization and Thermodynamics of Refractory Materials" at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the chemistry department seminar in 104 Hamilton Hall. c CONTINUOUS FROM 12:30 DAILY ENDS THURSDAY MEYER'S BEST YET! 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