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Conceptual Anarky Party candidate for second vice president Tom Mockler, left,
first vice presidential candidate Beth Berigan and presidential candidate Joni Jacobs.
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By Marcia Warkentin
Saturday night may have seemed like
any other night to most Lincoln residents,
but, to the more than 250 Chinese living in
Lincoln, it was the most important night of
the year.
Saturday night was the eve of the
Chinese New Year, which is as important
to the Chinese as Christmas is to Ameri
cans. More than 300 people celebrated the
holiday at the Malone Community Center,
2040 U St., at a banquet sponsored by the
Free China Association and the Chinese
Student Association.
The aroma of sweet-and-sour pork, fried
rice and six other dishes filled the room.
Celine Robertson, a teacher at Everett
Junior High who helped organize food
preparation, said 20 students and 35
families helped to cook for the banquet.
She said they tried to pick "safe" dishes
that both Americans and Chinese would
enjoy. Many of the people started prepar
ing the food last week, she said, and spent
most of Saturday cooking.
Children from Lincoln Chinese class, a
group of second-generation Chinese who
meet informally with adults to preserve the
Chinese language, sang Chinese versions ot
such songs as "Are You Sleeping?" and
"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." But when
they started to sing "Hong Tsai Mae Mae,"
a popular Chinese folk song, the audience
clapped and sang along.
Four of the children played violin solos.
Entertainment also included martial arts
demonstrations and Chinese folk songs.
More than half of the people attending
were ethnic Chinese, from countries such
as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and
Indonesia. Americans, many of whom are
"host families" to Chinese students, and
students from other countries also attend
ed. Although he is not Chinese, Syed
Mohamed, a UNL sophomore from
Malaysia, said he enjoyed celebrating New
Year's Eve at the banquet.
"I think Chinese are the greatest cooks
in the world," he said.
Syed said the Chinese New Year is a nat'
ional holiday in Malaysia because of the
many Chinese living in that country.
Gunawan Lucas, a Chinese Indonesian
who is a UNL freshman, said this is the
first time he has been away from home
during the Chinese New Year.
He said the holiday is a special time for
the family and he missed his family this
year. Most Chinese students call home on
New Year's Ever, he said.
Nai Chen from Taiwan said that when
she called home at 5 a.m., she had to dial
about 20 times because all the telephone
lines were busy. She and her husband,
Dean Hwang, a UNL student, spent almost
$40 on phone calls to their families.
Nai said the Chinese traditionally stay
up all night on New Year's Eve. The next
day they celebrate by shooting ot t lire
works, eating special foods and visiting
friends, and children look forward to the
hung pao, or little packets of money, they
recc! from relatives.
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By Bill Allen
The Conceptual Anarky Party
announced its candidacy for ASUN offices,
before a small audience Sunday.
Dressed in gaudy clothes and dark
sunglasses and standing in the snow-filled
Broyhill Fountain, Joni Jacobs,
presidential candidate, revealed, or rather,
refused to reveal the party's "Master
Plan."
Jacobs, a senior English major, said in a
prepared speech that the plan could not
be revealed yet for "obvious security
reasons." Those reasons being, she said,
that "our enemies would secretly ally to
subvert it."
A party platform given by Jacobs said
plans will be released "in due course of
events, once the existing order is over
thrown." Jacobs did, however, release three
"previews" of the "Master Plan." The party
platform states:
- Nebraska State Student Association:
A nice idea, but tactics are a bit lame.
Blackmail of state legislators is
recommended. If that fails, we may be
forced to resort to strong arm tactics.
- Trains: No problem. Just remove the
rails
- Tuition Surcharge? Reach's printing
of play money is cute, but it would be far
more effective for ASUN to print up real
United States currency and hand it out to
students."
Jacobs introduced Beth Berigan, the
first vice presidential candidate.
Berigan, a junior pre-medicine major,
was a 1982 Homecoming Queen finalist,
and is a student assistant at the Selleek
Quandrangle residence hall.
When asked if there would be any
reaction from the UNL Housing Office
for her association with the Anarcky
party, Berigan said, "I can't answer that."
Tom Mockler, described as the "token
male on the ticket," is the second vice
presidential candidate.
Mockler, a junior economics and
political science major, said, "You can't
believe everything you read in the papers,"
and denied he was ever president of the
Residence Hall Association.
However, RHA President Melba Petrie,
said Mockler once was president of the
association, but resigned in October of
last year, making her the new president.
When asked what the ultimate goals of
the Anarky party are, since the name
implies absence of government, Jacobs
said, "We can't answer that."
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Staff photos by Joel Sartore
From top left : Shih Hong-Yee, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, awaits
his chance to perform at the Chinese New Year celebration; guests at the party signed
a list as they arrived; Chu Hengyue, 6, performs a violin solo at the banquet. He
was one of four children that performed during a short recital.
