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Weather: Weather: Monday, partly cloudy and warmer, high in the mid 30s. Monday night, partly cloudy, low in the mid- to upper teens. Tuesday, partly cloudy, high in the low to mid 20s. A&E: Bearly news — Page 7. Sports: Nebraska splits with Kansas State men — Page 8. Cather 7 helping to teach condom sense By Eve Nations Staff Reporter Residents of Gather Hall’s seventh floor arc teaching themselves and other University of Ncbraska-Lincoln students to use their condom sense. Safe-sex awareness programs sponsored by the seventh floor of Cather begin today — the first day of the floor’s Condom Week. Greg Keuter, student assistant on Cather 7, planned a week-long program to raise the awareness of safe sex among the residents on his floor. “Last year, a guy on my floor noticed that there was a week in February that was National Condom Week,’’he said. “I had a program with Planned Parenthood called Condom Sense. This year I decided to do a week-long thing. “I also decided to start the program the week prior to Valentine’s Day, because everyone’s thoughts turn to love,” Kcuter said. Condom use is the theme behind the pro gram aimed at males. Students nctfd to be aware ol the practices of safe sex, Kcuter said, because “sexually trans mitted diseases are a big issue. Anything that can help with awareness is good.” Three different stages of activities are planned for Condom Week. The first activity includes a campuswidc eff ort to make students aware of the issues. “We will have a personal (classified adver tisement) in the paper every day to make stu dents aware of the programs,” Kcuter said. Some students from Cather 7 will be wear ing shirts with a condom message, Kcuter said. Students who wish to get a shirt can buy one for $8 from floor residents. Other activities planned on Cather 7 include a Condom Sense program on Sunday. Fliers on the program will given to floor residents. The fliers’ topics range from safe sex to the different available methods of birth control. A graffiti board will be placed in the floor bathroom so students can write down questions or thoughts. Activities are also planned for the entire Cathcr-Pound-Ncihardl complex. On Sunday, the ll(K)r w ill sponsor a program with Planned Parenthood in the Cather television room. “We will discuss dating, male and female attitudes, contraception and how to bring the subject of contraception up,” Kcuter said. I he activities of the program will be adver tised on table tents in the cafeteria, Kcuter said. Two other student assistants — Susannah England, Irom Pound Hall, and Gail Hadwiger, Irom Neihardt — will help Kcuter promote the programs. ” I hey are helping to b<x>sl attendance,” Keutcr said. “We would like to get opinions from females, too.” Questions taken from a fish bowl can be answered by anyone. Keutcr said females would add a lot to the qucstion-and answer session. “1 think any input from the females would help a lot,” Keutcr said. “It will help to get opinions from them.” Keutcr hasn’t decided whether he is going to distribute any condoms. “I may make them available to the guys on the floor, but I haven’t decided yet,” Keutcr said. “The health center sells them for a small price.” Keutcr said floor money is used for the personals and for the floor officers’ shirts, and may also be used to buy condoms. Babbitt and Dole lead in Iowa button poll By Victoria Ayotte Staff Reporter DES MOINES, Iowa — Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas and former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt lead in an unconventional poll that can be read on the lapels of caucus-goers on the eve of the 1988 Iowa Cau cuses. Jim Warlick, presidcntofPoliti cal Americana, is taking a presiden tial button poll in the skywalks above downtown Des Moines. W a r 1 i c k ’ s company sells campaign materi als and the buttons with photos of the 13 candidates. Warlick said hiscompany has sold campaign mate- < rials for seven years, but this is the 1 first year he has done a poll based on the button sales. 1 “People have asked us if there was l any correlation, and we’re finding it’s amazingly the same (as the final polls),” he said. The button poll shows Babbitt leading the Democratic race with 27 percent. Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois in second place with 24 percent and Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri coming in third with 21 percent. The Dcs Moines Register poll re sults, which were released Saturday, show Gephardt in the lead with 25 percent, Simon second with 19 per cent and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis third with 15 percent. The button poll shows Dole lead ing the Republican race with 45 per cent and Vice President George Bush OO ~m I Brtton Poll Th* oes Babbitt.27% Gephardt. 25% Simon .24% Simon . 19% Gephardt.21% Dukakis. 15% Dukakis.15% Babbitt. 9% Jackson. 6% Jackson. 9% Hart . 4% Hart. 7% Gore. 2% Gore .«... 1% Undecided. 15% Dole.45% Dole. 37% Bush .21% Bush . 23% du Pont .21% Robertson. 13% Robertson. 5% Kemp. 11% Kemp. 5% du Pont. 7% Haig. 4% Haig. 1% Undecided.8% Sources: Political Americana & The Des Moines Register ind former Delaware Gov. Pete du *0111 tied for second with 21 percent. According to the Register’s poll, )olc leads with 37 percent, followed >y Bush with 23 percent and former television evangelist Pat Robertson with 13 percent. Warlick said he thought the button sales made a reliable poll, although, he said, he probably would have sold more if he didn’t take the poll. He said he thinks his sales have been hampered because caucus-goers would have bought all 13 buttons for collector items. Instead, they are buying only one button for the poll’s sake. Warlick sells the buttons in a lim ited edition of 1,000 each, so they’re a collector’s item. The button design is changed as they button sells out. The buttons cost $3 for one, S5 for two or S25 for all 13. ouiiu.i started Friday morning and more than 700 had been sold as of Sunday after noon, Warlick said. Warlick ex pects he will probably sell all of the buttons by tonight, then he will move on to New Hampshire Feb. 16 for the primary and At lanta for Super Tuesday. Warlick said he supplies the media with peri odic updates trom the poll ligures. These results are analyzed and help identify trends in candidate popular ity, he said. “It gets a lot of attention,” he said. Singing an artful aria. Mellisa Wilbur, of Wayne State College, sings at a competition in Westbrook Recital Hall. Elizabeth De Grazia, a Nebraska Wesleyan University student, placed first; Wilbur placed second; and Jennifer Wells, a University of Nebraska-UncoTn student, placed third. The Nebraska Mothers’ Association sponsered the solo competition. Stassen to run for 8th time in GOP race By Victoria Ayotte Staff Reporter Although he is 81 years old, Ha rold Stassen keeps on running. Stasscn has run for president more limes than any other candidate. This year’s race marks Stassen’s eighth attempt to gain the Republican nomi nation for president. While reporters and candidates fill Des Moines, Iowa, for the cau cuses today, Stassen is in his home state of Minnesota preparing to campaign in New Hampshire. Stassen is not considered a major contender for the 1988 nomination. Butin 1948, his first try for the presi dency, he won the Nebraska primary. At that time, he was considered a top candidate for the Republican nomination. Stassen also ran for president in 1952, 1964, 1968, 1976, 1980 and 1984. Stassen said he is running this year because the 13 candidates who an nounced their candidacy early had not brought out four programs he said he thinks the country needs right now. . Stassen said he thinks the country needs a new child care program be cause many families have two work ing parents. This new program would take the place of the Aid to Dependent Chil dren program. Stasscn also said there needs to be a Depraiment for Child Care on the cabinet level. Stasscn said he wants a strong program to stabilize the family-oper ated farm and ranch. The family farm is the “social fabric and cultural base” of America, he said. Major financial equity, averaging $50,000 per family, needs to be avail able for families wanting to keep iheir farm or ranch. All other pro grams would be readjusted to fit that objective, Stassen said. Stassen said he believes the United States should require all other countries to share the burden of de fense. Thiscould be accomplished by a 30 percent import tax that would bring in $100 billion a year, he said. A world defense fund would be created, he said. Stassen said he thinks the United States needs to take leadership for a better United Nations. The United Nations needs a thorough revision, he said. Stassen was at the founding con ference of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. Stassen said he has also been a “pioneer in the limitation of arms.” Stassen said he strongly backs limiting nuclear arms. During his career, Stassen prac ticed law, was elected to county at torney, was governor of Minnesota, served as mutual security secretary on Dwight Eisenhower’s cabinet and was president of the University of Pennsylvania. ™SSEN°n5 \