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By Vicki Ruhga
Laura Meyer of the ACTION Party
announced her candidacy for ASUN
president Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. in the
Nebraska Union.
Meyer, a junior business and finance
major and member of the Kappa Kappa
Gain mo sorority, said the ACTION Party
will address issues common to all stu
dents and also issues affecting specific
groups, because ACTION is comprised
of a good cross section of the student
body.
Meyer is currently Union Board presi
dent, a non-voting member of the ASUN
Committee for Fees Allocation, and a
member of the Chancellor's Task Force
on the University Bookstore.
Her ACTION running mates are Greg
Krieser, candidate for first vice president,
and Kay Hinn, for second vice president.
Krieser, a junior mechanical engineering
major, is the current ASUN first vice
president. He said many ACTION party
members are active with the Legislature
and would continue to work for close
ties with state senators.
Hinn, a junior industrial engineering
major and member of Alpha Omicron Pi
sorority, said she is concerned about the
quality of education at UNL. specifically
in the computer science department. She
also is an ASUN engineering senator.,
chairwoman of the Campus Life Action
Committee, and a Parking Advisory Board
member.
The ACTION Party platform emphasi
zes that student Government can have an
effect on the issues it addresses, Meyer
said.
ACTION is calling for a task force to
study problems in the UNL Police De
partment, Meyer said. First, more revenue
from parking permits and violations
should be spent to improve and expand
parking facilities. Second. UNL students
need police to patrol the campus on foot
at night, she said.
Meyer said another ACTION priority
would be the train problem near the
Harper-Schramm-Smith residence halls. She
said ACTION would work with different
organizations, such as the Railroad Safety
Commission, the NU Foundation, or
other private funding sources to build
an overpass in the area.
In addition to continuing ASU.Vs
current sei vices, Mever said, ACTION
would set new goals and solve current
problems.
"ACTION sees the need to work with
all three governing bodies - the Legis
lature, administration and the regents,"
she said.
ACTION also will form a study group
comprised of ASUN senators, an econo
mic professor and an accounting profes
sor to study the university budget year
round and work with state legislators,
Meyer said.
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Staff photo by Craig Ancire&en
ACTION members: presidential candidate
Laura Meyer, right; first yice president
candidate, Greg Krieser; and Kay Hinn,
second vice president candidate.
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Editor's note: This is the first part of a three part series
on the Starkweather killings.
By Christopher Galen
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Mike Carper
It is said that, in time, all wounds heal. But even a
quarter century cannot erase the scars of one horrible
week in the life of a quiet Midwestern city, shattered by
the murders of 1 1 people.
He was a local boy, born and raised in Lincoln, a city
that seemed isolated from the cares of the rest of the
world. But when Charles Raymond Starkweather was
stopped, six men and five women were dead, and Lin
coln residents would never look at their community in
the same light.
The name "Starkweather" conjures up different .
images in people's minds. Most UNL students weren't
born when the murder spree occurred in January of
1958. But for others, his haunting spectre lives today,
25 years later.
For a few, Starkweather is almost a folk hero - a
reminder of the days of the past. Although many ques
tions about Starkweather's tragic trail arose as a result
of confusing and conflicting stories and testimonies, this
much is clear - 1 1 innocent people were viciously mur
dered. The following account of what happened 25 years
ago this week is drawn primarily from a factual novel,
"Starkweather," by William Allen. Allen got his material
from a variety of sources, including interviews with Lin
coln officials, relatives of those involved, reporters for the
Lincoln'Star an3 Lincoln Journal, and an extensive
examination'of Starkweather by the late James M. Rein
hardt, a former UNL crimonology professor, titled "The
Murderous Trail of Charles Starkweather."
In 1957, Starkweather, 19. was working as a garbage
collector for his older brother Rodney. Because the rent
for his small 10th Street apartment was overdue, he de
cided one night to make some money. He went to an all
night gas station on Comhusker Highway late the night
of Dec. 1 , 1957, when he knew it wouldn't be busy.
Wearing a mask and carrying a shotgun, Starkweather
robbed the station cash register of SI 08 and drove the
attendant, 21 -year-old Robert Colvert, to a dirt road
north of Lincoln.
According to testimony later given by Starkweather,
Colvert struggled when Starkweather pushed him out
of the car, and the gun went off. As Colvert tried to get
up, Starkweather shot him in the head and left him to
die on Superior Street.
Although an intensive investigation by the Lancaster
County Sheriffs Department ensued, no one was ar
rested for the Colvert killing.
Starkweather spent much of the S108 on his 14-year-old
girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. Both sets of pa
rents of the young couple disapproved of the relation
ship, but Starkweather and Fugate continued to see
each other.'
Soon after the robbery, Starkweather lost his job,
and his relationship with Fugate's step-father and mo
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Mayoral'candidate
Caspes: Government
by, for the workers
By Lauri Hopple
Being part of a nationwide awakening to the need for
government change is one light in which Lincoln mayoral
candidate Mike Carper sees his campaign. Carper
announced his candidacy Tuesday at Lincoln's Clayton
House Motel.
The Socialist Workers
Party candidate stressed his
belief in a government run
by and for the working peo
ple. "I am campaigning in
Lincoln because the current
government and the two
party system do not serve
the interests of the majority
- working people and farm
ers - in Lincoln or any
where else," Carper said.
The present system bene
fits the wealthy, banks and
corporations, he said.
If elected mayor, he said, changes "would not occur
overnight. It would have to be a more nationwide
change."
Carper favors increased worker control over companies
and their jobs by being allowed to review company
financial records. He also said unemployment benefits
should equal full wages.
Carper said the closing of the American Stores plant in
Lincoln that left 600 unemployed is an example of
Lincoln's unemployment crisis.
A Lincoln native, Carper said he has been laid off from
his job at the Burlington Northern car repair shop in Have
lock and will receive unemployment compensation until
next month.
Government-run banks and a moratorium on farm and
home foreclosures are Carper's solutions to the fore
closure problem.
"The farmers fighting to keep their land deserve the
support of all working people, but they can't get a fair
hearing from this government," he said.
As for changes in Lincoln's government, Carper said,
"any gains that can be made will have to be made not just
as my being elected mayor, but as far as an entire move
ment of working people to gain control of these systems,
to gain control of the way city planning takes place."
As an example of citywide planning changes, Carper
said that under his type of government, city utility
services would not be run by private owners as they are
now.
"It (the mayor's race) will be difficult to win. I think it
can be done, realistically, but whatever the case is - if we
win or not - I think the important thing is we'll be reach
ing a lot of workers with new programs and new ideas and
an program for fighting back against a crisis that they're
being forced to bear the burden of."