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New KXSS-FM a "Kiss" of contemporary music
BY JOANNE YOUNG
There's a new radio station in Lincoln
KXSS-FM, at 95.3 on the dial, the "new
Kiss," as it is being billed.
New owners Sam and Tim Sabean, a
father and son team recently bought
KBHL-FM for $500,000, and changed the for
mat from country music to a "tailor-made"
contemporary music and personality for
mat. Tim Sabean, known as Tim Kelly on the
air, said the call letters KXSS were chosen
because KISS has been assigned to another
station.
"We wanted a slogan, something people
could identify with ... an everyday house
hold word," Kelly said.
Kelly said the music for the station is se
lected by him and based on extensive mar
ket research.
"We choose what sells," Kelly said. "We
find out what people like and don't like. The
station is programmed for the people, tailor
made for the Lincoln audience."
Kelly said the station's target audience is
the 25-10-49 year-old.
Sam Sabean, known as Sam Sherwood on
the air, said the target age group is "what
Lincoln is all about . . . the biggest part of
the audience,"
"We want to reach the residents of Lin
coln, to give impact for the people that ad
vertise," Sherwood said, "that's the method
in our madness."
Both Sherwood and Kelly have extensive
radio backgrounds. Sherwood has worked at
and managed stations in Minneapolis and
Denver, and has been the operating officer
for a corporation with stations in other
major markets across the U.S.
Kelly, who started in radio when he was
in high school in Minneapolis, has worked in
Seattle and most recently in Chicago, where
he was program director at WLS-AM and
FM, and vice-president of programming at
WLUP.
"We were talking on the phone one
night," Sherwood said, "and I said, why are
we doing this (working) for other people,
why not us?"
Kelly said he had a chance to become
station manager t WLUP, but "didn't feel
good about it."
"I was a nervous wreck," Kelly said. "It
was too grueling. I w as w orking 24 hours a
day."
'So they bought KBHL-FM.
"Now I gel up at 4 a.m. and get home by
9 or-10 at night," Kelly said.
Kelly said that as the new owners, they
are starting from the bottom with the new
station.
"This station has been very depressed
over the past year," he said. "We have a lot
of hard work ahead."
But Kelly said he expects the station to
blossom with time. He said they are starting
with the basics and will proceed cautiously
as they learn more about Lincoln and what
the listeners want.
"We want jxople to call the station," he
said. "We want to be a public service to Lin
coln" KXSS-KM is now about 80 percent music,
15 percent talk and 5 percent commercials,
Kelly said, but that may change, depending
on what Lincolnites say they want to hear.
The station is staffed by 10 to 15 employ
ees, five full time and three part-time, on-air
Maff. Kelly and Sherwood are on from 6to
10 a.m.
The station aired last week end with a
KISS promotion playing only two songs,
"Kiss is on my List" by Hall and Oates and
"Kiss You All Over" by Exile, from 5 p.m.
Friday through 6 a.m. Tuesday,
Kelly said the station is planning a get
acquainted party Tuesday night at Dins
dale's. "It's important to have contact," Kelly
said. "We're people talking to people. We've
got to be involved."
KXSS-FM is at 95.3 on the dial, and runs
24 hours a day.
Vet school awaits president's signature
BY DAVID TROUBA
It has taken a long time, but a regional
school of veterinary medicine in Lincoln
may soon become a reality if President
Reagan signs the Department of Agricul
ture's 1984 budget.
The House and Senate passed the US
DA's budget which included $12 million for
construction of the veterinary college. This
amount would match state funds and fulfill
one of Gov. Robert Kerrey's prerequisites
for constuction of the veterinary school. The
state will supply the other half of the money
over the next three years. In February, Gov.
Kerrey proposed $50,000 to match federal
money for designing the school. Later he
changed the amount to $275,000.
Gene White, program director for the
proposed school, says he expects the addi
tional $4 million to come next year.
Gov Kerrey's second prerequisite is that
at least two other states take part in the
program and pay 40 percent of the costs.
The deadline for a signed contract with the
other schools is December, 1986.
At least five other states are interested
in the school now, Smith said. Both North
and South Dakota have indicated interest,
and Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico say
ing they might participate in the school.
Some of those states have contracts with
other veterinary schools around the country
and won't make final decisions until they
are certain that Nebraska is going to build
the school, White said.
The prerequisites Gov. Kerrey placed in
the veterinary school bill have made things
difficult for proponents of the school, but
White says the governor's office has taken
an interest in making the school a reality.
While supporting the veterinary school in
the legislature, Gov. Kerrey has not always
favored the school.
Gov. Kerrey changed his view on the
school during his campaign. On April 15,
1982, then candidate Kerrey said he was "not
crazy about" the plan, that the school would
"draw resources away from other parts of
the University and is not likely to meet the
need for additional large animal doctors in
the state."
In response to a League of Women
Voters questionnaire in October, candidate
Kerrey changed his position, saying the re
gional school should be built.
The question of whether or not to build
the school has never been in doubt, accord
ing to White.
"I feel that the school should have been
built 50 years ago," White said.
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The school will provide continuing educa
tion for veterinary students and will help
keep veterinarians up to date on improve
ments in veterinary medicine, White said.
In addition, he said, building the school in
Nebraska will mean some Nebraskans will
find work and, of course, the main reason
for building the school is to save the state
money by keeping our veterinary students
here and providing more students the oppor
tunity to take advantage of the program.
Currently, Nebraska's budget includes
$1.7 million to send students to veterinary
schools, White said.
This year, Nebraska had contracts with
five other veterinary colleges-Kansas, Iowa
State, Minnesota, Missouri and Ohio State.
"We had 122 students attending those col
leges. That's a average cost of nearly $13,541
per student per year," White said. "We send
one million a year to Iowa alone."
Iowa State has the largest number of Ne
braska students (65) and the largest con
tract. "The state pays $910,000 by contract to
Iowa State. In addition to that, students pay
$149,500 in tuition. That's a total of $1,059,500
per year to Iowa State," White said.
Other veterinary schools get an average
of $2.3 million a year for research, he said.
Last year Nebraska received $110,000.
With completion of the school, the state
will be able to save all that money and give
more veterinary students the chance to
study. Some schools, such as Colorado and
Oklahoma, are turning Nebraska students
away, White said.
Local support for the school has been in
creasing, White said $1.7 million in private
money has been donated to the proposed
school.
This is one of the few projects that has
the support of all groups connected with
agriculture and livestock, White said.
Of those practicing veterinarians, White
said, about 50 percent favor the school, 25
percent strongly support the school, and the
final 25 percent strongly oppose the school.
Weekly calendar
Thursday, July 7: Graduate Voice Re
cital by Betty Galen, 119 West brook Music
Building, 3:30 p.m.
Sheldon Film Theater, "The State of
Things," 7 and 9:15 p.m.
Repertory Theater, "Godspell," Howell
Theater, 8 p.m.
National Roller Hockey Championships,
Pershing Auditorium, 6:30 a.m. till late eve
ning. Pinewood Bowl, "Man of La Mancha,"
Pioneers Pin k, 8: 30 p.m.
Antelope Park Band Shell, Northwynd,
folk music, near 30th and Sumner streets,
7:30 p.m.
Friday, July 8: General registration for
second summer school session, Nebraska
Union, 9 a.m.
Graduation Ceremony, Bob Devaney
Sports Center, 7 :30 p.m.
Sheldon Film Theater, "The State of
Things," 7 and 9: 15 p.m.
Repertory Theater, "The Good Doctor",
Studio Theater, 8 p.m.
National Roller Hockey Championships,
Pershing Auditorium, 6:30 a.m. until late
evening.
Pinewood Bowl, "Man of La Mancha,"
Pioneers Park, 8:30 p.m.
Antelope Park Band Shell, Lincoln Inter
national Folk Dancers, near 30th and Sum
ner streets, 7:30p.m.
Saturday, July 9: Sheldon Film Theater,
"The Slate of Things," 3, 7 and 9:15 p.m.
Reperatory Theater, "Godspell." Howell
Theater, 8 p.m.
National Roller Hockey Championships,
Pershing Auditorium, 6:30 a.m.to 5:30 p.m.
and from 7 to 11 p.m.
Pinewood Bowl, "Man of La Mancha,"
Pioneers Park, 8:30 p.m.
Hyde Observatory, South Road in
Holmes Park, sundown to 11 p.m.
Lincoln Center Farmers Market, west
side of Centrum Parking facility, 11th Street
between O and N streets, 9 a.m.to 2:30 p.m.
Police sketches realistic
BY ROBIN STANOSHECK
Bob Edmunds is man of a thousand
faces. Actually, 82 billion faces.
Edmunds, a special investigator for the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln police de
partment, uses a device called an Identi-Kit,
which can create 82 billion human like
nesses. Since the early 70's, UN-L's police de
partment has used the series of clear plastic
transparencies for identification of crime
suspects through composite drawings. The
Identi-Kit includes foils, which are outlines
of facial features, clear plastic pictures of
hair lines, eyes, noses, mouths, chins, lips,
eyebrows, beards, skin tones, age lines,
glasses, hats and a series of special abnor
malities such as buck teeth, crossed eyes or
broken noses. The features are layered to
" create the composite drawing.
A victim or witness describes the individ
ual involved in a crime, Edmund said. The
officer picks foils that best coincide to the
description. After the composite drawing is
finished, it can be copied for distribution.
Edmund cited one 1972 case in which one
composite drawing helped solve a rape, an
attempted rape and five robberies.
"There are numerous cases where com
posites have been instrumental in getting in
formation to the University community on
various suspects which resulted in arrests,"
he said.
One aspect of the Identi-Kit is that each
foil is numbered. With the aid of a teletype
machine, the composite code can be printed
and sent to all agencies in the nation.
"They could take the composite code to
their investigator and with the aid of their
Identi-Kit they could recreate the exact
image the originating agency had de
veloped. Time is not a factor with the develop
ment of the computerized teletype, he said,
which sends the code simultaneously.
The Identi-Kit was created in the 1960s
by two California policemen.
It is a very good investigative tool, he
said. The composite drawings give a vivid
picture of the suspect. Edmunds said he has
trained all UN-L police officers in the use of
the Identi-Kit.
"I think personally that if the kit would
be used more often, more cases would be
cleared," he said.