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Wednesday, November 7, 1984 Page 10 Daily Nebraskan Never too late UML senior ca By Ann Rasmussen Dally Nebraskan Staff Reporter A UNL senior has shown it's never too late to run for public office, even if you begin campaign ing the day of the election. Tom Plotts, a speech commun ications major, began his rally for support as a write-in candidate for an NU Board of Regents seat Tuesday, by soliciting votes from passers-by. Simple flyers and eagan re-elected. . . Continued from Page 1 "A few minutes ago, I called the president and congratulated him... He has won. We are all Ameri cans. He is our president and we honor him tonight." The crowd in a packed hotel ballroom booed the reference to the president but Mondale hushed them and said: "Although I would have rather won, tonight we rejo ice in our democracy...We accept the verdict." In a quavering voice, he told his mm mm, um Buy 1 Pitcher Get 2nd for 1' every Wednesday Nite ) OGBBBFEHTBEBS mm m 6. 6 v'fj.'- t Ifc tMIM Miff " v Show us your student I D .00 ShampOO S2b $11.00 Cut & Blow Dry Regularly $15.00 With Mary Kahn & David Walking distance from campus 17 & R Mon-Sat 9 am-7 pm . Nw Sunday walk-in hours 1-4 pm Exp,re$ Nov" 21 1984 CALL HEADS TOGETHER 475-4902 i ii im hi y ftlox ITIiliar ( t l iDDDODDOODDDDDQ hand-printed stickers were dis tributed as part of his "spur of the moment, low budget campaign." "I don't believe in the use of any significant amounts of money for campaigning," Plotts said. The poorest people in the political sector should be allowed to cam paign." Plotts said the fact that he has been in school 21 years should qualify him for a spot on the board. followers: "Do not despair" and added: "With every defeat can be found the seeds of victory. Let us fight on. My loss tonight does not in any way diminish the worth or importance of our struggle. The America we want to build is just as important today as it was yes terday...Let us continue to seek an America that is just and fair... I am at peace with the knowledge that I gave it everything I got." The Democrat then exited to cheers. Democratic vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, 48, took the news of her defeat in U.O.'s 1228 "P" St. m 3 eads Together' WE'VE CUPPED STUDENT PRICES II and receive a reduced price. 8t Cut Regularly $11.00 Doss It Again! TX135-36 2199 (DOWNTOWN STORE ONLY) We do the bulk loading ourselves so you can save your cash. max miLLER CflfllERRS 1434 "O" 475-FILfn ignis for regent seat "My platform, if elected, would be to propose minimum qualifi cation requirements for members of the board," he said. These requirements would include either five years experience in the school system or a master's degree in education." Plotts said that within the re gent system, he would like to see the focus taken away from the business arena and put into a pragmatic situation with the cri teria centering on what would stride. She smiled and joked with her family in a New York hotel suite as TV sets with the volume turned up relayed reports of the Reagan landslide. Her husband, businessman John Zaccaro, made the only comment to reporters allowed in for a few minutes. "Geraldine Ferraro is the winner," he said, clapping his hands. Later, before an emotional crowd in the ballroom of a New York hotel, she officially conceded "1 y t A ) v And the winner is... Nebraska Secretary of Stsle Allan Beermma explains election results on Tuesday to Long Xi&ng Zh&ng, left, cf China, and several Moroccan govemers who all were in Nebraska since Sunday to ob&erFe state Mid national elections. Long is the president of Peking University. t tt.f.finnn. TfYiir.M. Continued from Page 1 In another important race, Helms, an arch-conservative Republican, defeated moderate Democratic Gov. Hunt in a close race in North Carolina where both sides together spent a record $21 million. The Helms victory was impor tant because, if coupled with a possible loss by Illinois Republi can Sen. Charles Percy, Helms would be in line to be chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Percy contest with Democratic Rep. Paul Simon was too close to call early today. Non-network Continued from Fe.ge 2 In Darien, Conn., which is an overwhelming pro-Reagan area, two lonely Democrats turned up to vote about an hour after the polls opened. A registrar said they were the seventh and eighth Democrats to turn up. Some 1,200 Early-rising Republicans already had been there. The two ex better education. Although he does not expect to win the election, Plotts said, the purpose is to show people there are other options to consider when going to the polls, besides incumbancy and power. "Our goal is to get enough votes to get people thinking," he said. "All students and faculty should take more seriously the educa tion system in Nebraska. We have been too complacent for too long." victory to Reagan. Bounding to the podium for her last hurrahs of her three-month campaign, she said Mondale was the first presi dential candidate in U.S. history to choose a woman for running mate. "He opened a door which will never be closed again," she said. That is a victory of which every American can be proud. My candidacy has said the days of discrimination are numbered. American women will never again be second class citizens." Reagan's victory was one of the most impressive in U.S. history. f ;n1 'I J Democrats also held onto their seats in Alabama, Arkansas, Del aware, Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Montana and Nebraska. In a hotly contested race in Michigan, Democrat Rep. Carl Levin defeated former astronaut Jack Lousma. Democratic Gov. Jay Rockefeller won a seat vacated in West Virgi nia by veteran Democratic Sen. Jennings Randolph. In Massachusetts, former anti Vietnam War activist John Kerry defeated conservative Republican businessman Raymond Shami for the U.S. Senate seat of retiring changed "horror" stories about pinstripe-suited thieves who tore Mondale-Ferraro bumper stickeis from their cars. At Chuckles, a woman's bou tique in midtown New York, slickly printed window signs proclaimed: "Election Day Sale Landslide Savings." v A "Andrei HoyDay hbriakan Tom Plotts At 73, he became the first presi dent since Richard Nixon to win a second term and his victory meant the Democrats have lost three of the last four presidential elections by landslides. Industrial states like New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania fell like ninepins to Reagan. He easily swept the South, even taking Geor gia, which he lost in 1980 to native son Jimmy Carter. ABC TV interviews with voters as they left polling places showed Reagan win ning a majority of support from virtually every income, age and ethnic group. Den t)ul,inyDa!ly Ntbratkan Democrat Paul Tsongas. Republicans held onto Senate seats in Kansas, Maine, Missis sippi, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Virginia, South Dakota, Minnesota, New Mexico, Wyom ing, Oregon and Colorado. In Texas, former Democratic Rep. Phil Gramm, who turned Republican two years ago, de feated Democrat Lloyd Doggett for the seat being left vacant by retiring Republican Sen. John Tower, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Clear skies ruled across most of the nation and that turned some polling places into mina ture street fairs. Campaigning is illegal within 75 feet of polling stations but outside that ring, hawkers were out in force, beg ging for last minute votes and selling everything from pastries to peanuts. ii f jj i l t i e Y i 11 n