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September 17, 1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 87 No. 15
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Past FarmAid preparations different
Organizers of other FarmAids say Lincoln had more time to prepare
By James M. Lillis
Senior Reporter
FarmAid III preparations have dif
fered from the two previous benefit
concerts, said Tim Moore, University
of Nebraska-Lincoln coordinator of
FarmAid activities.
FarmAid officials are helping to
organize the security, crowd control,
and health and emergency services in
cooperation with university and city
police, State Patrol, deputy sheriffs,
the American Red Cross, and Lincoln
and UNL medical services, Moore
said. FarmAid Inc. also will handle the
concert’s insurance, Moore said.
Tom Parkinson, former arena as
sembly hall director at the University
of Illinois, said he had to organize
security,crowd control, and health and
emergency services during the first
Farm Aid concert.
Ray Slade, manager of the Manor
Downs racetrack in Manor Downs,
Texas, said the track “didn ’ t have to do
anything except provide the venue” at
FarmAid II. He said FarmAid officials
look care of everything else.
FarmAid III also will be different
because the university has had more
than two months to get ready for the
concert.
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Parkinson said he and his people
learned about the concert five weeks
before it started.
“We prepared rapidly,” Parkinson
said.
He said that within the first two
weeks, he met with state, county, city,
university and FarmAid officials;
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KSU concert no aid to Far mAid
By Amy Edwards
Senior Reporter
A Willie Nelson concert at
Kansas State University in Man
hattan, Kan., on Sept. 5 did not
raise money for FarmAid because
of unexpectedly low ticket sales.
Mike Jones, Kansas State ath
letic business manager, said $2
from every ticket would have been
given to FarmAid after the first
20,000 tickets were sold.
But only 17,000 tickets were
sold for the concert, which took
place after the Kansas State vs.
Austin Peay football game.
The concert was sponsored by
the Kansas State athletic depart
ment, Wrangier and Projects Wcsl,
an entertainment promotion com
pany.
Jones said the concert was a way
to bring more people to the game
and provide entertainment for the
students. After the opening game
of the 1986 season, the rock band
Starship performed, he said.
The Starship concert also raised
little money. Since both concerts
took place over Labor Day week
end, people weren’t as interested in
going to a football game and con
cert, Jones said.
“It wasn’t a big drawing card,”
Jones said. “We got paid, Willie
got paid, and the promoter got one
third of the money expected.”
Individual farmers who sold T
shirts al the concert were the only
people related to FarmAid who
made a profit.
However, students seem to
think the concerts are a good idea.
Jones said positive input from stu
dents will give the promoters a
chance to try it again. He is negoti
ating a contract with the Beach
Boys for the Kansas State-Louisi
ana Tech game on Oct. 1.
The concert tickets are sold w i th
the football tickets. Because Kan
sas State doesn’t sell all the tickets
for football alone, it isn’t hard to
sell tickets for the concerts, Jones
said.
wrote up the contract that has been the
model for concerts since then; and
finally made changes in the contract
until it was agreed upon by all in
volved.
Slade said Manor Downs had even
less time to organize FarmAid II —
about one week.
Not only that, but the second Far
mAid concert was the largest concert*
ever at Manor Downs, Slade said.
“We’ve had several Grateful Dead
concerts here with the crowds reaching
16,000 people,” Slade said. “But the
FarmAid concert crowds reached
about 42,000.”
Damages to Memorial Stadium’s
astroturf will be minimal, Moore said.
The turf will be covered with fire
resistant plastic tarps and plywood
sheets where needed, he said.
Parkinson said the University of Illi
nois used similar materials to protect
the turf — porous plastic material, a
large tarpaulin and plywood sheets.
Damage was minimal at the first
two concerts, Parkinson and Slade
said.
ASUN votes to lobby for faculty salary increases
By Lee Rood
Staff Reporter
AS UN senate members voted last
night to lobby the Board of Regents,
the Unicameral, and Gov. Kay On in
pursuit of further increases in salaries
for University of Nebraska-Lincoln
faculty.
The bill, intended to maintain high
morale and help provide incentives for
faculty members to stay at UNL, di
rects ASUN President Andy Pollock
and the Government Liaison Commit
tee to make known to government
officials the importance of adequate
wages.
After Faculty President Allen
Blczck reported the lowest faculty
morale in several years last fall, fac
ulty members received a small break in
August when the Board of Regents
awarded UNL $S90,(XX) for pay in
creases in supplementary funds.
Gerry Meisels, Dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences, said in August
that that increase was not enough to
make a difference, but it was good for
the faculty psychologically.
Senate members a! so voted to begin
airing their meetings tri-weekly on
NETV, provided the College of Jour
nalism approves an internship to tape
the meetings.
If the intern is approved by Nea/c
Copplc, Dean of the College of Jour
nalism AS UN meetings are tenta
tively scheduled to air prime lime
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thurs
days.
In other issues examined by the
student government, members re
solved to support the efforts of the
orgam/ers of Farm Aid 111 and, after
recent incidents of cup throwing at.
UNL football games, agreed to con
duct themselves “politely and ma
turely” at all UNL functions to serve as
role models for the student body.
Farm rally
‘opens eyes’
for Meister
Event spurs involvement
in farm crisis, action groups
By Sharon Gies
Staff Reporter
Although she grew up on a farm near West
Point, Barb Meister didn’t think much about the
farm crisis when she started college.
It wasn’t that she didn’t care. She just wasn’t
the type who got involved in such things.
But her outlook changed alter she and a
friend, who also grew up on a farm, went to a
farm rally in Ames, Iowa, “on a whim.”
The rally “really opened up our eyes to what
the farm crisis is all about,” said Meister, a
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln senior.
‘It’s not our parents
who will be facing the
impacts of this issue.
Ten to 20 years from
now, it’s going to be us.’
— Meister
“We realized how much we did not know,’
she said, and how important it is for students to
become involved in the farm movement.
Students must realize that “agriculture af
fects everyone,” she said.
“It’s not our parents who will be facing the
impacts of this issue. Ten to 20 years from now,
it’s going to be us.”
So, out of a desire to become more educated
and spur this student involvement, she and a
Butch Ireland/Daily Nebraskan
Barb Meister lobbied this summer in Washington, D.C., for farmers rights.
friend, Jerry Rocmcr, started Farm Action
Concerns Tomorrow’s Society.
That was in February 1983. Since then, the
21-year-old political-science major with an
agricultural economics minor hasn’t looked
back.
Currently, FACTS is preparing for the sec
ond National University Rural Crisis Confer
ence. The event, which begins today and con
tinues through Sunday, will include work
shops, an agricultural-policy debate and a rally.
The program is financed with a $2,300 Far
mAid grant, Mcistcr said.
At last year’s conference in Iowa, Mcislcr
learned of two student groups like FACTS. To
support each others’ efforts, they formed the
University Rural Action Network. The groups,
both from Iowa, arc helping FACTS with this
year’s conference, Mcistcr said.
During the school year, FACTS also pres
ents seminars,one of which givcscollcgccrcdil
through independent study, she said.
But FACTS is just the beginning of
Mcister’s work for the farm movement.
This summer she was an intern for the
National Save the Family Farm Coalition in
Washington, D.C. There she edited hearing
testimony, did research and office work, helped
with lobbying — all dealing with farm credit
legislation.
Kristine Jacobs, national coordinator for the
coalition, gave Meistcr high marks for her work
at the coalition. She d id the clerical jobs and the
‘more interesting” work with equal “profes
sionalism.”
“We consider her a tremendous asset to the
farm movement and a future leader,” Jacobs
said.
Yet another way Meistcr is helping with the
farm crisis is through the Washington-based
Youth Action Project. The project, which just
began, promotes and cultivates youth activism,
Meistcr said. She said she was chosen for the
group’s advisory board because she could offer
a “rural perspective.”
Tom Swan, the project’s director, said he
chose Meistcr not only because she has a rural
background, but because “she had already
worked hard to gain respect.” And, he said, he
was impressed with the work she had done with *
FACTS.
Meistcr also has worked with the University
Program Council since her freshman year. She
is one of five students representing 11,(XX)
schools in a national campus activity associa
tion.
But lor all the responsibility, Meistcr seems
relaxed and unfa/ed.
“It’s lough trying to balance everything,”
she said.
But, she added, “I 'm a person who can't ignore
what’s happening.”
Val Wetzel, Campus Activities and Pro
grams-East coordinator, said Meistcr is not
“satisfied with herself if she’s not learning or
being challenged.’’ ^
Wetzel, whom Meistcr has called her
“mentor,” said she thinks Meistcr is motivated
by “a strong personal need to make a difference
in the farm situation.”
Jacobs echoed that thought: “Barb is very
loyal to her parents’ way ol life and v\ ill proba
bly dedicate her life trying to preserve it.”
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