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Vol. 89 No. 40
[Nebraska football
|pay-per-vie\v offer
Hends up profitless
•y Jana reaersen
Bfcnior Reporter
lthough charging fans to
watch Nebraska football on
jjll cable TV hasn’t been profit
|fcle this year for area cable compa
• flies, a representative from Ca
Blevision said the local company
jiants to continue providing the serv
t “We’d still like to do it,” Ca
blevision general manager Dick
Bates said. “We went into it knowing
the first year would be a losing propo
sition.”
Bates said Cablcvision needed to
sell at least 1,900 pay-per-view three
game packages to break even. The
jhree-game package included Nc
|raska against Missouri, Oklahoma
. HState and Oklahoma.
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‘People will sup
port live pay-per
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Cablevision sold about 400 pack
ages, he said.
He attributed this year’s poor re
sponse to a lack of information about
pay-per-view television and the poor
selection of games available.
h Because NCAA sanctions prohibit
live broadcasts of Oklahoma State
and Oklahoma football games, two of
the three games in the pay-per-view
package only could be broadcast tape
delayed. Bates said.
That means those games can’t be
replayed until after 10:30 p.m., he
4$said, long after most fans know the
, Results of the game.
Mike Kohler, communications
||pnanagcr for Cox Cable in Omaha,
^ J$aid Cox Cable decided not to air
EjgSaturday’s game against Oklahoma
5iatc because only about 50 subscrib
e;s oracrca pay-per-view tor the
game.
About 2,700 Cox Cable subscrib
ers ordered pay-per-view for the live
broadcast of the game against Mis
souri, Kohler said.
“That clearly indicates one
thing,” he said. “People will support
live pay-per-view, not tape delay.”
Because Cox Cable focuses its
pay-per-view promotions on individ
ual broadcasts, he said, only 100 to
150 multiple-game packages were
ordered, aJIowing the company to
cancel Saturday’s broadcast with few
complaints. After the game was can
celed, he said, the cable company
offered single-game refunds for
package subscribers.
The game was canceled because
the company would not have made a
profit from airing it, he said.
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shares subscription profits with the
company providing the broadcast,
Kohler said, the NU football pay-per
view agreement requires the com
pany to pay programming costs up
front before collecting revenue from
subscribers.
When not many subscribe, he said,
it’s not profitable for the cable com
pany to pay the up-front costs.
Bales said that in addition to offer
ing three-game packages, Ca
blevision also sells the games indi
vidually.
He said only 17 individuals or
dered pay-per-view for Saturday’s
Oklahoma State game. But because
there was a larger number of package
orders, he said, Cablevision decided
to air the game anyway.
Unlike last week’s broadcast,
Bates said Cablevision didn’t have
any problems Saturday night with
bars showing the broadcast illegally.
He said violations probably were
lower because of last week’s ‘ ‘crack
down” on offenders and because the
game wasn’t live.
The game’s late starting time also
meant that the bars probably closed
before it was over, he said.
UNL Anthropologist gets involved
By Pat Dinslage
Staff Reporter
nobert Hitchcock takes on
the world --‘60s style.
“In some senses, an
thropologists are political mili
tant-type people,” Hitchcock
says. “A lot of anthropologists
don’t like the perspective I outline.
They feel we
should not be
involved in
change, just
study the
process.
“I person
ally think that
that’s a naive
. . . impossible position, because
just by your very presence, you’re
having an impact on that society,”
he says.
Hitchcock., a visiting assistant
professor of anthropology at the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln,
radiates intensity and enthusiasm.
He starts softly, slowly, outlining
his main points.
He is soft-spoken, even when
most excited. He focuses his gaze
on his listener and makes one
understand why the Bantu-stands
in Africa arc the same as the Native
American reservations here in
America, and why neither system
wonts.
“It’s taking a group of people
on the basis of their ethnic affili
ation, and assigning them a desig
nated piece of land, depriving
them of the rights they would have
otherwise at the national level,”
he says.
Hitchcock specializes in the
field of development anthropol
ogy, a subdiscipline of cultural
anthropology.
“I’m a lot more active in politi
cal issues than most anthropolo
gists. I’m a lot more outspoken,”
he says.
“There are certain elements,
whether the South African govern
ment, or the American govern
ment, or other governments, that
may not like the political positions
I take,” Hitchcock says.
Although he has never person
ally felt at risk in his fieldwork,
there have been times when he
could have been imprisoned for his
political views. One such time was
William Lauar/Daily Nebraskan
Robert Hitchcock, professor of development anthro
pology, specializes in African culture. Pictured are
bushman throwing sticks used for hunting and wooden
carvings from West Africa.
when he visited the African coun
try of Somalia this summer, he
says.
‘‘I wasn’t very happy about
seeing food diverted to the use of
the military, for example,” he
says. ‘‘And I made that known.
The government was not very
happy with that position. Had I not
been about to leave, I suppose I
could have been detained for that
position.”
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Joke computer message slows
1 homework in Nebraska Union
| oy jerry uucniner
9h Senior Reporter
A Halloween computer virus message
m that appeared on computer screens
I ajL in the user room of the Nebraska
I Union late T hursday night and Friday mom
K ing was a prank and not a real virus, a
University of Nebraska-Lincoln official
w said.
Gerald Kutish, associate director of the
I UNL Computing Resource Center, said
I someone replaced the start-up file that nor
I mally welcomes users to the Macintosh
I computer system with a message that read,
I “Beware of the Halloween virus.”
Kutish said the prankster also drew a
8 moon, cat, pumpkin, bunny rabbit and tree
I stump that appeared with the phony virus
IK message.
Besides replacing the start-up message,
I the prankster also removed the file that
I allows documents to be printed, he said.
Ail of UNL’s computer software pro
■ grams contain checks for viruses that warn
?[ the user if viral penetration has occurred, he
■ said.
Kutish said he was notified Friday mom
IWIII.
Computing Resource Center workers
immediately responded and corrected the
problem that morning, he said, v
Kutish said he doesn’t know who pulled
the Halloween prank, but said he has alerted
computer consultants in all of UNL’s user
rooms to be alert for other such problems.
“The point is that unauended labs are
vulnerable to this sort of mischief,” Kutish
said.
Mary Nell Westbrook, a senior news
editorial major, said she and about five
others were in the union user room when the
message first appeared Thursday evening.
“That was a good-looking screen tor
whoever did it,” she said. “It was kind of
v*mav«
Westbrook said no computer consultants
were in the room at the time, and nobody
could be reached at the computing center to
examine the computers.
The prank prevented her and other stu
dents from printing their work, Westbrook
said.
Kutish said the Halloween prankster is
not the first to engage in such “malicious”
See PRANK on 3
Crowd cheers and jeers
speeding 17th-St. drivers
By Lisa Donovan
Senior Editor
About 100 people cheered and jeered for 2
1/2 hours Sunday night as Lincoln Police offi
cers stopped speeding motorists on 17th Street
between R and Vine streets.
According to Sgt. Dave Hamly, 82 viola
tions were issued between 4:30 and 7 p.m. as
onlookers stood on the northeast side of Cather
Hall applauding the police’s efforts.
Eight officers set up a radar detection unit,
complete with a scoreboard-type screen flash
ing the cars’ speeds, just outside Lot G, a
parking area north of Cather-Pound-Neihardt
Residence Complex.
The detection unit was connected to a radar
gun that clocked ihc speed and fed the informa
tion into the display screen.
Hamly said display units usually attract
crowds.
“I think a lot of it has to do with the display
that goes up -- people can actually sec the
speeds we’re clocking,” he said.
Although the detectors with display units
have been used in this area three limes before,
this is the first time they’ve used the MPH K15
model radar.
Sgt. Tom Towle said the crowd applauded
and cheered every time a speeder was pulled
over.
“And then we’d miss a few and they’d
kinda boo that we didn’t get them,” he said.
Hamly said he wasn’t surprised by the pub
lic support.
4 ‘They ’ve always gotten into the idea of it -
there were even people who had gotten tickets
(Sunday) that were in the crowd.”
Towle said this stretch of road has a reDuta
lion for low compliance with the 25 mile-per
hour speed limit
‘ ‘This stretch of road is a concern because of
the pedestrian (traffic),” Towle said.
The radar ‘‘is an educational tool to motor
ists and others,” Towle said, ”... to watch
their speed. A lot of people don’t realize how
fast they’re going.”
But Towle said most violators took their
punishment “pretty well.”
“We do this to get everybody to think about
speed and think about what area of town
they’re in,” he said.
