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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.
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