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Monday, February 13, 1984
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 83 No. 99
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400 Germanize
and have a ball
By Mary C. ReiHy
Ronald Reagan, looking comfortable in west
ern wear, hotly pursued Richard Nixon, clad in
a dark conservative suit. The two met, shook
hands and loud smattering of applause filled
the ballroom.
Simply smashing describes Friday's Mardi
Gras Costume Ball at the Lincoln Hilton Hotel,
141 N. 9th St.
About 400 masqueraders attended the Ger
man festival in its fifth year in Lincoln, said
Keith Pretzer, coordinator of the affair and
president of Delta Phi Alpha, the German
honor society.
Pretzer, dressed as a debonair Matthew King
Ludwig II, said Fasching is held to have fun
and to bring some European culture to Lin
coln. -
"In the middle of winter, people need a
break," Pretzer said.
Sparkling winged angels wafted across the
floor, punk rockers bopped, pink ballerinas
pirouetted and overcoated old men boogied
into the night. Two mimes in black and white
communicated only in gestures.
The costumes are kind of secret," Pretzer
said. "People have spent a lot of time and
money on them."
The variety of disguises was a dazzling sight.
Flappers in feathers, fringes and beads, boys
dressed in drag, southern belles, cowboys, gyp-1
sies, Trojans and one lone conehead filled the
colorful ballroom.
-Ales Dlamini, a freshmaivarchitecture
major from Swaziland, dressed as a rather
convincing Darth Vader.
"I came to see how creative other people
are," Dlamini said.
"I carry the symbol of Great Britain," said
Shankan Shanmugam, a freshman computer
science major from Malaysia. "I always wanted
to be a cavalier."
Patrick Poehling, a junior accounting major,
came in a "normal" sweater andjeans, "to have
a good time and to meet some interesting peo
ple," he said.
"I came on inspiration and decided to go
with my friend in no costume," Poehling said. "I
came as myself pretty strange."
The Larson Brothers played a wide range of
music throughout the evening, including big
band, ballroomjazz, rock'n'roll, polka and con
temporary tunes.
All of the profits made on the costume ball
will go to next year's Fasching fund, Pretzer
said.
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Jim Rogers, left, and Dar Andrews sit in at the Model United Nations General Assembly meeting for
the United States.
Model U.N. talks condemn U.S.
By Jonathan Taylor
The Model United Nations General Assembly
passed resolutions Friday and Saturday condemn
ing the United States' actions in Grenada and South
Africa's racist occupation of Namibia and southern
Angola. The USSR also was condemned for acts of
aggression against Afghanistan.
Overall, the conference was outstanding, said
Randy Murphy, secretary general who began work
ing on the conference last March. Murphy said the
conference should be considered successful because
ofthe number of delegates participating from across
the nation and the organization and professional
ism displayed in the MUN.
Steve Arkfeld, head U.S. delegate, said he was
pleased with the conference, even though Western
Bloc nations were not united; Arkfeld won an
honorable mention in the most outstanding college
delegate category. Russian representative Patrick
Respeliers won the award.
Arkfeld said his delegation did a good job on the
Security Council and International Court of J ustice.
U.S. delegate Jim Rogers was recognized for out
standing case presentation to the court. The case
concerned whether or not the United States had
met treaty obligations with the Ogalala Sioux.
The Security Council, which met all three days of
the conference, passed resolutions calling for an
immediate cease-tire in Lebanon and continued
negotiations of national unification talks to with
draw troops from the country.
Other resolutions called for the USSR to leave
Afghanistan and also recognized the problems of
South Africa and of Cuban troops in Angola.
Arkfeld said the council also dealt with a hypo
thetical situation in which South Africa may have
exploded a nuclear device off the coast of Libya in
theGulfofSidra.
Parliamentary delay by the United States and the
USSR limited the number of resolutions passed,
Arkfeld said.
The General Assembly passed the final resolution
Saturday night to end the conference amidst plastic
machine guns, shoe-pounding delegates and the
skeletal remains of cattle, traditionally used by the
Burmese delegates to cast votes.
Although the incidents were not considered part
ofthe conference, Arkfeld said, each year delegates
use the final moments of the conference to release
tension. Someone usually introduces a joke resolu
tion or conducts a humorous attack against the
secretary general, he said. - :
TwiM dlelbafe mm in MMf - Seas
By Sallie Jo Simmons -;
UNL police endanger students, primarily women,
when they tow cars at night, said the president of
the UNL Student Watch Group.
Troy Lair discussedthe towing problems Friday in
an open session with the Parking Advisory Commit
tee at the UNL Police Department. ;
"People who walk on campus at night are taking
responsibility in their own hands," Lair said. "But,
someone whose car is towed has no choice in the
matter. They're unwilling victims."
Lair said the unpaid tickets do not outweigh the
risk of assaults that threatens students whose cars
get towed at night.
Kevin Goldstein, United Students ASUN presiden
tial candidate, and Troy Hilyard, US second vice
presidential candidate, presented the committee
with 2,000 student signatures opposed to night
towing. . -
Goldstein and Hilyard said students may be
irresponsible because they do not pay their tickets,
but night towing is a negative incentive "because it
decreases students' safety.
The Student Watch Group and US offered a solu
tion: Consolidate computers between the UNL admin
istration and the UNL police systems. They said joint
communication would help enforce parking regula
tions by blocking registration andor grades for
parking violations.
"I was brought up that if you broke the law you
had to pay for it," said committee member Andy
Carothers. "And you put yourself in that situation if
you do not pay the fine." -
He said he recognizes the problem of safety, but
students. have a responsibility to avoid impound
ment by paying tickets. ! '. ,
Goldstein rebutted an accusation that he gave a
sentimental argument.
"It may be sentimental, but we're balancing stu
dent safety against money," Goldstein said.
In contrast, committee member David Gaba said
the US proposal balances one student inconven
ience against another:" the night towing against
another means of collecting the money.
"The path that should be followed is the one that
most students would want, that causes the least
inconvience for most students," Gaba said.
Lt. John Burke ofthe UNL Police Department said
many people's cars get towed during the day but the
owners do not discover this until after hours.
"We're not insensitive," he said.
Most people have their friends to help them,
Burke said. However, he said, the department real
izes that some people need help, and the police give
it -
"We've taken people to grocery stores to write
checks or to bank boxes, or take them to Lincoln
land," he said.
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Rules
Running
Rampant
Rapid growth of the NCAA rule book has
caused athletics experts to question the effec
tiveness ofthe NCAA rules system.
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