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By Vicki Ruhga
The KLIN Pep Band Party members musically
announced their candidacy for ASUN offices Thursday
morning at 8:30 in the Nebraska Union main lounge.
Presidential candidate Jeff Rushall, a senior math and
music major, used a combination of pep band tunes and
American history to introduce his party's platform.
All the party members are band members who have
had experience with the administration, Rushall said.
They also represent a wide variety of majors, he said.
His party running mates are Scott Messier, a sopho
more music major and candidate for ASUN first vice
president, and Tod Barnard, a senior music education
major and candidate for ASUN second vice president.
KLIN Pep Band Party members running for the ASUN
senate are Jim Kimball, a sophomore music education
major; Greg Miller, a senior business major; Willie
Kearney, a junior music education major and Joel
Schnoor, a senior computer science major.
Rushall said the major objectives of the party are:
- to create student interest in the elections and draw
students to the polls.
- to draw attention to the tyranny of the administra
tion. - to have a good time doing the .above objectives.
"If elected, we promise to spend no time whatsoever
on a nuclear arms policy," Rushall said.
The KLIN Pep Band Party does not plan to work to
build a friendly relationship with the administration, as
past student governments have, Rushall said.
Attempts at establishing communication between
students and administration have never been successful,
and UNL is going downhill anyway, he said.
"We do not want to be friends with the administra
tion. They are fiends, not friends," he said. "What changes
the word 'friends' to the word 'fiends?' The letter R' -
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Members of the KLIN Pep Band Party: Joel Schnoor, left, Willie Watkins, Willie Kearney, Jim Kimball, Greg Miller,
Jeff Rushall, Tod Barnard and Scott Messier.
the administration is not listening to what 'R' students
have to say."
The party's campaign strategy is to perform in
residence hall cafeterias or at sororities and fraternities
that invite them, he said. He added that tomorrow the pep
band is going on a cross-state tour to Scottsbluff to make
people aware of the election.
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Schnoor said the KLIN Pep Band Party also is
concerned with the way money is being spent by the uni
versity, especially in the computer science area.
Watkins said he believes the administration should
rechannel spending to a wider variety of programs. -
Watkins said that if more students were involved in
ASUN, the group would have a bigger impact.
Radial Corridor's,
history reveals
changes, changes
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Editor's note: this is the final part of a three part series
on the Starkweather killings.
By Christopher Galen
It could have happened in any one of a hundred similar
cities, but it didn't.
Charles Raymond Starkweather was born and raised
in Lincoln and he ultimately died here. During his 20
year life, he left a mark on this city that hasn't disappear
ed. "There's a strong association of Lincoln with Stark
weather," said Leo Scherer.who reported on the murder
spree 25 years ago for the Lincoln Journal.
"Anytime someting sensational happens in a
community, it's going to leave that image on some
people."
Former Lincoln Police Chief Joe T. Carroll noted that
the loss of 1 1 lives was felt deeply.
In 1958, Lincoln was growing rapidly, and economic
prosperity gave many good reasons to be optimistic,
said Gilbert Savery, managing editor of the Lincoln
Journal.
Savery, who was the Journal's news editor in the late
'50s, recalled that Lincoln was "something of a boom
town."
"Lincoln was an educational town with several univer
sities. It was a town where the kids said there wasn't
enough to do.
It was relatively law-abiding, relatively quiet," said
Marjorie Marlette, now a member of the Nebraska Parole
Board, who also wrote for the Journal 25 years ago.
The peace and prosperity Lincoln felt then suddenly
was shattered late in January 1958, Savery said.
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By Chris Welsch
For more than a quarter of a century, the Northeast
Radial right-of-way has been kicked around the political
channels of Lincoln.
Like some oversized awkward soccer ball,' the North
east Radial Corridor bounces from one end of the political
field to the other, never reaching a set goal.
The ball was set in motion in 1952, when the radial
was proposed in Lincoln's Comprehensive Plan. The
radial was to provide access via a diagonal expressway
between northeast and downtown Lincoln. The proposed
corridor extended from 17th and Holdrege streets to 48th
and Fremont streets.
In Lincoln's 1961 Comprehensive Plan the proposed
radial was revised, extending the proposed roadway south
on 17th Street to P and Q streets. The plan was revised
again in 1966, this time extending the eastern section
of the roadway on Fremont Street from 48th to 84th.
One year later, a design for the roadway was com
pleted. The city began to acquire property along the
corridor in 1969. The acquisition continued until 1974,
when the Lincoln City Council decided to halt the buy
ing because of continued controversy over the validity of
the project.
According to the Conceptual Plan for Reuse prepared
by the Radial Reuse Task Force, the city acquired about
297 pieces of property, comprising about 83 acres.
Thirty-three acres were acquired west of 27th Street.
Fifty acres were acquired east of 27th Street. After the .
property was acquired, about 71 percent of the struct
ures were demolished. The last was used as rental proper
ty. In 1977, the city's current Comprehensive Plan was
finalized. The plan shortened the Radial plan to extend
from downtown to North 27th Street. On Nov. 17,
1980, the city council adopted a "no-build" resolution
that recommended cancellation of the expressway.
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