doily nebraskan
thursday, november 2, 1978 lincoln, nebraska vol. 102 no. 39
New justice greets appointment with mixed emotions
By L. Kent Wolgamott
Norman Krivosha felt mixed emotions
when he heard Tuesday he had been named
Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme
Court, he said.
"I felt relief because it was over, delight
and excitement because I had been selected
and fear at the responsibility given to me
by reason of the appointment," the
Lincoln attorney said.
"I was scared when I suddenly recog
nized what I have been called upon to do.
But with the help of the other justices and
my own efforts, it will work out pretty
well."
Krivosha, who graduated from UNL and
the University of Nebraska Law School,
said he had "always had in the back of my
mind the notion of being an appelate court
judge" but he had not actively pursued the
goal.
Right place, right time
But when former Chief Justice Paul
White resigned, Krivosha said "a whole
host of things were in the right place at the
right time" and after discussing with his
wife he applied for the position.
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Lincoln attorney Norman Krivosha
was named Chief Justice of the
Nebraska Supreme Court.
Krivosha said he needed to visit with the
other justices and gain some experience on
the court before suggesting any changes in
the way the court operates.
He said the change from trial attorney
to Supreme Court chief justice will "not be
all that difficult" because "an experienced
trial lawyer is in the first instance a judge."
A lawyer must judge his own case, eval
uate the evidence and judge his opponent's
case during a trial, Krivosha said.
"The principle difference is a lawyer
starts out with a result and seeks to find a
way to establish that result. A judge is
presented with two conflicting results and
trys to arrive at the appropriate conclu
sion." Rewarding career
Krivosha said he had not thought of a
law career until he came to the university.
"I was in arts and sciences and got inter
ested in law school because a couple of
fraternity brothers of mine were going to
take the entrance exam.
"I went over and took the exam with
them. It turned out to be the thing I
should have done. God works in strange
ways."
Krivosha said he would recommend a
career in law for interested young people.
"A career in law is the most rewarding,
most challenging and most stimulating
career for a young person.
"It is the salvation of society. Without
the legal system we would have to resort to
force to settle differences. We have taken
justice out of the arena and into the court
room." Hard work
"The law is a demanding profession and
is "not for the faint of heart."
"You have to be committed to work
hard. You have to enjoy the investigation
and thought process ot law and you have
to like to live under pressure."
Krivosha said he remembers the trials of
his days in law school and provided this
ancedote.
"I distinctly recollect the first day of
constitutional law. Then Dean Fred Buetal
stood up in front of the class and said
Gentlemen, look to the man on your left,
now look to the man on your right. Six
weeks from today, one of the three of you
won't be here.'
"My freshman year was a continually
demanding experience."
UNL pumpkin carvers cut up spooky gourds for prizes
By Mary Fastenau
It was 9 a.m. on Halloween day, the
campus was deserted except for darkness
and a dismal drizzle.
They came single file out of Richards
Hall, one of them with long stringy hair
and smoke rolling from its ears, another
with hideous, green-tinted acne scars, while
another wore an old straw hat and had a
cigar hanging from its mouth.
It was too early for trick or treating but
too late for nightmares. They were the re
sults of the first Architecture College
pumpkin carving contest.
The pumpkins were part of a class
assignment for architecture students
enrolled in Design 235, according to teach
ing assistant, Greg "Gee" Wielage.
Wielage said the purpose of the class is
to encourage creativity and to force stu
dents to confront issues. He said pumpkin
carving fits the objectives of the class.
To add incentive, the teaching assist
ants contacted architecture faculty
members and asked them to donate prizes,
Wielage explained. He said the prizes were
"absurd" but made the contest interesting.
The prizes were awarded for largest and
smallest, scariest, the most unconventional
Halloween ornament, the best hat, the best
two-dimensional, the best legs and the
most "esoteric wit." Uniquely architectural
categories were the awards for the Corbu
look-a-like, (Corbu is the nickname for
famous architect Corbusier) and the Fat
Monk faculty look-a-like (Fat Monk being
a cartoon character in the College of Archi
tecture's newsletter).
The winners were chosen by architec
ture faculty members and were awarded
cash prizes, to compensate for the costs of
pumpkin and props.
Best Legs
The "Best Legs" division was won by a
large green gourd that looked like it had
acne.
Kurt Connell, 20, and George Suther
land, 19, both sophomore architecture
majors were the creators of the winning
entry.
The legs were small wooden dowels used
for support, but the lovely smile, cour
tesy of a yellow squash and the bulging
turnip eyes made the creation a winner,
with or without legs.
Sutherland claimed that pumpkin
carving has been passed down through
generations and their creation only came
after extensive research.
While viewing the "Best Legs" entry,
teaching assistant Joe Neuenschwander
compared carving pumpkins to cutting dia
monds. "You have to know exactly the right
place to cut or it will be worthless."
Doug Beals, 19, was a co-winner in the
"Best Hat" division.
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Winging their way along the Platte River, these honkers high -tailing it south means cold weather is following.
The sophomore architecture major said
he had a prototype to plan his creation.
The sketch and the actual product show a
helmet with a pumpkin rooster comb down
the middle.
He said he calculated the diameter of
the pumpkin by figuring his hat size which
was 7 14 and adding the diameter of the
pumpkin wall which he estimated at
1 14 inches.
"Besides," he said, "it was the only one
I could find."
The "Fat Monk Faculty Look-A-Like"
award went to Sue Irby, 20, for her large
cotton ball-covered creation.
Irby said she went to six stores before
she found a pumpkin so her prize money
will go to pay for the pumpkin and the gas.
Craig Thomas, 18, winner of the
"Corbu-Look-A-Like" award credits his
success to his Architecture 106 text book.
Yellow pepper
" Thomas's creation featured mushroom
ing ears (made of real mushrooms), black
horn rimmed glasses, a purple bow tie
and a yellow pepper, turned red, for a
nose.
The "Most Unconventional Halloween
Ornament" distinction went to Rick
LaRosa, 18, for his most unusual pump
kin creation.
His pumpkin made its mark; or its smell,
with the odor of punks which were stuck
in the creature's pumpkin ears. His eyes
were combination thumb tacks and con
struction paper and his hair was white
string hung at inch intervals around the
pumpkin.
Homer Puderbaugh, chairman of the ar
chitecture department, can take credit for
the original idea, he said.
He said the pumpkin carving was "cre
ative activity" and a nice change of pace.
"After all," he said, "noboby ever said
education had to be painful."
inside thursday
Male responsibility: Men should bear
half the burden of birth control . .
page 4
Halloween hijinks: Even college
students got into the spirit (and
costume) of the evening
page 8
Go west, young women: UNL's
volleyball team heads to California
for an invitational tournament . . .
page 10