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By Gozsane Tctea
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The Nebraska Union Board
Tuesday voted 6 to 5 to continue
selling Playboy, Penthouse and
Playgirl magazines at union in-
lormation gccxs.
About 20 people attended the
meeting. Several spoke during the
two-hour discussion.
Rebecca Chance, representing
Lincoln Women Against Porno
graphy, said her group objects to
the magazines because they ex
ploit women.
"it's a business that sells bodies "
she said.
Daniel Shattil, general manager
of the Daily Nebraskan, said the
magazines are not pornographi
by legal definition. If everything
were banned that could be con
sidered pornographic, he fdd, "a
lot of book? in the library wouldn't
be there anymore.
"This is a university," he said.
"People should be exposed to as
many ideas as possible. When you
say you can't see this, you narrow
that person's view."
Board member Todd Knobel
said he cant distinguish between
something that is considered art
at Sheldon Art Gallery and mag
azine photographs that are con
sidered pornographic.
Kate Moran, of the UNL Women's
Resource Center, said the union
chooses not to sell many ether
magazines. Therefore, the Union
Board has the right to decide
whether to continue selling Play
boy, Penthouse and Playgiri.
"I dent think they (students)
need the Nebraska Union selling
this pornography in order to en
sure that they'll be exposed to
pornographic ideas," she said. "I
don't think you're serving the
students by presenting this."
Curt Oltmans, ASUN first vice
president, said the magazines are
sexually exploitive. But the Sports
Illustrated swimsuit edition h ex
ploitive, he said, which also could
be banned.
"Where does censorship begin
and where does it end?" he asked.
"Once it begins, I don't see it
ending."
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By Bsny Trevors w
Both sides will have something
to gain when the United States
and Soviet Union begin new arms
negotiations Jan. 7 and 8 in
Geneva, Switzerland, two UNL
Soviet experts said.
The meeting represents the first
f&ce-to-face talks between the
superpowers on strategic and
medium-range nuclear weapons
in a year. It will be the first U.S.
Soviet negotiations on space
weapons since 1979.
The Soviets walked out of nu
clear arms talks last year in
protest ofU-S. deployment of new
missiles in Europe.
Secretary of State George
Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minis-
ter Andrei Gromyko will repre
sent their nations in the first
round of talks.
UNL's Hiromi Teratani, a visit
ing professor of Soviet studies
from Tokyo, said the Soviets have
depressed their econ omy by spend
ing so much on the military. There
is a "great struggle among the
Kremlin elite" over how to solve
the problem, Teratani said. The
arms talks, if successful, may offer
them a chance to change their
spending habits.
Teratani said the Soviet Union
also wants to find out as much
they can 'about the latest tech
nological advances in the Western
forces. He said they have parti
cular interests in computers and
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Next May, Mick Messbarger
will be in Paradise Island.
Messbarger, a UNL graduate
student won a trip for two to
the Bahamas, a Harley Sport
ster and a queen-size brass
bed just to mention a few of
the "big" things on NBCs
"Wheel of Fortune." He won a
total of $14,775 in cash and
prizes.
Two weeks ago, "Wheel of
Fortune" sponsored a "College
Week," when students from the
East, West, South and Midw est
United States competed.
Messbarger, a speech com
munications student from
Kearney, represented the Mid
west, along with three other
Nebraska students, UNL juniors
Frank Dufek and Tony Anton
of Omaha, and sophomore
Pamela Dykeman of Harting
ton. Messbarger said he had no
idea he would win as much as
he did.
"I thought the best I would
do would be to win a couple
thousand dollars," he said.
"Then to end up with almost
$15,000 was incredible."
As a speech communications
major, Messbarger said he is
used to speaking in front of an
audience.
"Oh, I thought I'd be pretty
cool and calm," he said. "But I
was as nervous as IVe ever
been in my life."
But, once the cameras started
rolling, and he took a few deep
breaths, things went smoothly,
he said.
Messbarger said he first
learned of the "College Week"
tryauts, which were held earlier
this semester, a week before
tryouts.
He started watching the.
show every night.
It paid oil.
Messbarger won $i,300 in
cash and the rest in prizes.
What will he do with the
money1? Pay the merchandise
taxes, of course.
Messbarger said he has not
yet received any of the prizes
or money the show has 90
days from the air date of the
show to get the prizes to the
winners.
"It's one thing to say you've
won $15,000 and another to
have your hands on it," he said.
As a team, the students from
Nebraska won almost $40,000
in cash and prizes.'
"As a concensus, it was a lot
of fun," he said for the group.
"It was an experience of a
lifetime, and they'd do it again
in a minute."
Messbarger said people are
allowed to participate on three
gameshews in their lifetime,
with a year off between shows.
Onee his year is up, Messbarger
said, he hopes to participate in
another gameshow.
The students had to provide
their own transportation to
and from Hollywood. The UNL
Alumni Association helped
them with their expenses by
giving the three $50 apiece,
Messbarger said. The Nebraska
Bookstore supplied the stu
dents with red Nebraska
sweaters.
By Llichclls Ildbili
People may say $16.50 cant buy a let
these days, but for Jill Hoffman, a 20-year-old
business administration student
at UNL, it bought the ticket to the chance
of a lifetime. Hoffman, who stood in line
for four days to get a ticket, was the lucky
recipient of a dance on stage with singer
Bruce Springsteen, during his Lincoln
concert Nov. 18.
In the television video of his song "Danc
ing in the Dark," Springsteen invites a
young woman on stage for a dance.
"A friend told me about the video, but I
never thought he'd really do it," she said.
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During an interlude to his "Dancing in
the Dark" number, Springsteen walked
across the front of the stage, looking out
on the crowd and exchanging smiles with
the audience, Hoffman said, -"
Tim Boughn, a friend standing next to,
Hoffman urged her up toward the stage,
but she said she never dreamt she would
be picked.
- Their eyes met, she smiled, he smiled
back With one thrust of his arm, she was
on the stage.. -
"I was nervous, but there wasn't enough
time to be really scared," she said.
Hoffman said the two smiled and laugh
ed during those 60 seconds and he asked
her if she was having fun. During a closer
step, he pointed at the dimple on the
right side of her fat and smiled, she said.
Hoffman said the loud music made it
hard to hear what Springsteen was say
ing. It happened so fast, it's hard to
remember exactly what he said, she said.
As the song ended, they exchanged a
bow and an extended kiss on stage.
"He's a very good kisser," she said. "He's
even better looking up close. His eyes
sparkle when he smiles."
Springsteen thanked her for the dance,
but she quickly replied, "No, thank you."
Hoffman said her brother, J. Hoffman,
who also was at the concert, recognized
her instantly. Other friends, seated farther
away, didn't know it was her until they
saw her later.
A co-worker of Hoffman's father was
talking about the incident at the office
the next day. Ron Hoffman, knowing it
was her daughter, let the co-workeriln-ish
his story without interrupting.
"You should've seen the kiss he planted
on that girl," the co-worker told him.
"Having that many people looking at
you at one time doesn't happen-very
often," she said, "and to be on stage with
(Springsteen) as well, makes it-even
better."
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