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Veteran encourages votes By Brandon Loomis Staff Reporter Gary Parrott says he has been apolitical all his life, but he’s making up for it now. Parrott, a com mercial oil field diver from Wash ington state who fought s.^e by side m Vietnam with U.S. Senate candi- ' date Bob Kerrey, i has spent the past l three weeks in Parrott Nebraska communities try ing to get people fired up about politics. Parrott and four more of Kerrey’s wartime friends have been traveling around Nebraska for the past tlirec -MM MM ^M MB MM MM Mi ^M ■ weeks, talking about how important the voice of the individual can be, he said. “The primary message is to get out to vote,” he said. Parrott said he has been working toward that goal at Kerrey’s cam paign headquarters making phone calls, sending out mailings and mak ing sure everyone who needs a ride to the polls has one. Last week, Parrott spoke to a Lin coln East High School social studies class and a University of Nebraska Lincoln foreign relations class about America’s political system and about his experiences in Vietnam. He said although he thinks voting is one of the greatest powers an American has, he also told students See PARROTT on 15 I Perm $25 «. j ! or Relaxer S I I Long hair and I 11144 Belmont Avenue • 476-0305 ^P'ra* wraPs J 1 blk. east ol Belmont Shopping Center On^r R E M Listening Party 8 pm • Ionite * 14th & O St. Twisters Drawing tor FREE REM Posters, T-Shirts, Cassettes, Albums and Compact Discs r---—-Bulcti kwcne/Daily Nebraskan Duane Hickenbottom, a junior electrical engineering major, helps build a playground at the Cedars Home Project, 6601 Pioneers Blvd. Students begin playground construction By Kari Mott Staff Reporter _ Some University of Ncbraska Lmcoln students arc getting a chance to take what they have learned in their engineering classes one step further. About 50 to 75 UNL students have started construction on a playground they designed, called the Cedars Home Playground Project. The stu i _ ■ _ denis began digging up an old swing set Oci. 22 to begin construction of phase one of the project. The project began last year when a local child care and counseling center needed to expand its playground fa cilities. The Cedars Home for Chil dren, 6601 Pioneers Blvd., needed a larger playground to provide for the growing number of children, accord ing to Karen Anderson, project direc ~T.~ ~ ^ fUNIVERSITY FLORAL University Floral offers you fresh, long stemmed roses at wonderful prices. tor. Cedars Home asked the UNL chapter of Tau Beta Pi, a national engineering society, to help with the project because the group had worked with Cedars Home previously, An derson said The total cost of the project is $40,000 and will take three to four years to complete, she said. The money will provide play ground equipment; a nature hike. (bicycle and tricycle paths; trees and bushes; sand and gravel; and storage sheds. LR 390 opponent calls it dangerous MONEY from Page 1 who can’t attend any school without it,” Hill said. ‘‘Because we have lim tied resources, our priority has to be to assist those who have no other means.” Joe Bird, assistant vice president for the Nebraska Student Loan pro gram, said Friday that he is concerned about providing students with a choice of colleges to attend. ‘‘I think it’s fairly obvious that there is a substantial unmet need in Nebraska,” Bird said. The purpose for financial aid, he said, is to provide accessibility and choice, and “choices are being lim ited.” “We need to recognize there’s always going to be a segment of our population that’s disadvantaged,’ he said. “We need tochallengc ourselves to be innovative.” Bird is concerned about rising costs for all colleges and parental expectations about paying for col lege. in an iniormaiiuii unci picM^um at the hearing, education committee chairman Sen. Ron Withem of Papil lion presented four approaches for encouraging parents to save for their childrcrrs college education. The first approach was to create a state trust that would try to forecast future tuition costs and merge pay ments in a centralized pool which would be invested to meet tuition costs. An educational savings account which would work like an Individual Retirement Account was another plan, along with an approach that allows parents to buy tuition certifi cates which would be equal to a cer tain fraction of current tuition. The last approach uses savings bonds or zero coupon bonds. Hill said he is looking at all of these approaches, but has not yet decided which to support The brief also provided informa tion on current unmet financial aid need and slate assistance ata majority of Nebraska private and public col leges. UNL had the most unmet need at more than $7 million. The education committee will get further input on LR390 Dec. 2 at a public hearing in Kearney. Hill said he hopes to testify at the meeting. / / / / Both Doug and his wife, Louise, Doug’s views and actions for are graduates of UNL and proud of it. quality education in Nebraska is just Doug also taught here, and his work one more important reason to keep in the Nebraska Legislature funded him working for us in Washington, more than forty undergraduate Let’s re-elect Doug Bereuter “Bereuter Professorships” and a to Congress. tacuity award program for excellence in the classroom. Then and now, his voting record and help with Federal grants for UNL demon strate consistent support for education. * • V Doug will appreciate your vote on November 8! | Re-elect DOUg Berevter CONGRESS Paid tor by Qortmar lor Congrtu Commute* 502 Sou»12!h St Lincoln NE 68506