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CORRECTION
A headline in the Sept. 29 issue of the ON was incorrect. The space
shuttle Discovery was launched Thursday morning.
Friday, party sunny. 20 percent chance of show
ers, high in the upper 60s with SE winds 5-10
mph. Friday night, party cloudy, low around 50.
Saturday, party cloudy, high in the mid 70s.
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September 30,1988 University of Nebraska-Lincoln _Vol. 88 No. 24
RHA joins in support of ‘Do It Sober’
By Bryan Thomas
Staff Reporter
The Residence Hall Association voted
Thursday to donate $250 to the “Do
lt Sober’ program, which is a part of
Alcohol Awareness week Oct. 24-28.
After 45 minutes of debate, members of
RHA voted 10-5 to co-sponsor the program.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity President
Jerry Hoffmann told RHA members that a mis
understanding occurred earlier this week be
tween co-sponsors of the event
Conflict arose when AS UN President Jeff
Peterson vetoed a bill donating $500 to the
program because he said he thought RHA had
already agreed lobe a co-sponsor. ASUNvolcd
again on Wednesday to donate the money.
The co-sponsors include SAE, Pi Beta Phi
sorority, the AS UN, Residence Education and
University Health Cento-.
Each of these groups will donate $500, ex
cept. the health center, who will make up the
remaining costs.
According to Larry Koubsky, RHA presi
dent, a misunderstanding occurred this summer
while “Do-lt-Sober” was being planned. Each
of the groups co-sponsoring the event, except
RHA, had agreed to host the event.
The mix-up occurred because some mem
bers didn’t understand the role of Sherri Klip
penstein, RHA adviser. Klippenstein is also a
representative tor Residence Education. Uiner
representatives thought she was representing
both groups. She was there on behalf of Resi
dence Education only, Koubsky said.
RHA members were not aware of their
supposed involvement in the program at that
lime, Koubsky said.
On Friday, Sept.23, Hoffman contacted
Koubsky and he agreed to approach RHA with
co-sponsorship of the event.
Hoffman said RHA’s involvement was
desired in order to make it more of an all
university event. In previous years, “Do-It
Sober” has been an ail-greek sponsored event,
Hoffman said.
In other business, RHA approved $36,230
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Bnan Hill of the Government Liaison
Committee asked RH A for its help in recruiting
new members for the committee. GLC is a non
partisan student lobbying group, which serves
as a liaison between UNL students and .various
government committees, Hill said.
He also said GLC membership in the past
has been predominantly gieek, and that the
committee wants to involve people from the
residence halls.
Anyone interested in joining GLC should
stop at the ASUN office in the Nebraska Union,
Hill said.
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Area bookstores
blasting censorship
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
In an attempt to inform the public about
book banning, University and Ne
braska bookstores are participating in
“Banned Book Week 1988 — Celebrating the
Freedom to Read,” Sept. 24 through Oct. 1.
The bookstores have put up displays of
banned books to increase awareness.
“We want people to know this is going on,”
said Kathryn Kelley, general book manager of
Nebraska Bookstore.
Martha Hoppe, trade book manager of the
University Bookstore, agreed.
“I think people need to be aware of the ways
censorship can affect their reading opportuni
ties,” she said.
Nebraska Bookstore’s window shows about
75 banned books. Kelley said the display has
caused a lot of customers to inquire about the
banned books.
“It does generate a lot of interest — I think
a lot of people aren’t aware,” she said. “Overall,
the responses we’ve heard have been positive.”
Hoppe said, “I think the titles that have been
banned arc shockers to some people,” she said.
Books banned in some parts of the country
include classics such as “Of Mice and Men,”
“To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Are You There
God? It’s Me, Margaret,” “The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn” and “Catcher in the Rye.”
Nebraska Bookstore and the University
Bookstore arc members of the American Book
sellers Association, one of the week’s sponsors.
The week is in its 7th year.
Kelley and Hoppe said they aren’t influ
enced by criticism of books in the stores but that
people do complain.
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Students sigh with relief at successful launch
By Jane Hirt
Senior Editor_
A hushed stillness fell over
the crowd of more than
300 University of Ne
braska* Lincoln students as they
gathered in front of televisions at
the Nebraska Union Thursday to
watch the space shuttle Discovery
rocket into the sky.
Some applauded, some
breathed a sign of relief at the first
successful NASA launch since the
Challenger disaster more than 2 1/
2 years ago.
Andy Petersen, an undeclared
junior, nad a front row seat for the
event
”1 just wanted to see if it was a
success,” he said.
He said he saw the Challenger
shuttle explode on the union's tele
visions Jan. 28,1986.
“I was dumbfounded,” he said.
“I didn’t think anything like that
could ever happen.”
This time, Pc terser, said, he felt
relief at the successful launch. He
said his interest in space shuttles
prompted him to skip a class to
watch the event.
“I really enjoy this kind of
See DISCOVERY on 3
Lincoln professors, teacher
relieved by Discovery liftoff
By David HoHoway
Senior Reporter
incoln professors and
teachers said they felt a
i “sense of relier’ as the
Discovery space shuttle success
fully launched from Cape Canav
eral, Fla., on Thursday.
Jim Schaffer, Lincoln East high
school journalism teacher,
watched the space shuule Discov
ery launch in the school cafeteria
along with about 500 students.
Schaffer was one of two teach
ers chosen from Nebraska for
NASA’s “Teacher in Space” pro
gram two years ago.
Schaffer saul he felt a “sense of
thrill and excitement, but at the
same time extreme terror” as the
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shuttle lifted off.
“There was so much at stake,”
Schaffer said. “Not only for the
lives of the crew, but for the future
of our space program."
University of Nebraska-Lin
coln professor Don Taylor said he
hart a “real concern" for the shuttle.
Taylor, an associate professor
of astronomy and physics, said
since the shuttle had undergone so
many changes, it may have in
creased the chances tor another
shuttle accident wheu NASA was
trying to prevent one.
“Hopefully NASA is doing
tilings much more safely," he said.
“But is something would have
happened. 1 feel the space program
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Alicia Whitehurst, a freshman pre-med major, crosses her fingers lor a successful shuttle
launch Thursday In the Nebraska Union. _•