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Shooting some hoops
Blaine Blad, head of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln agricultural meteorology department, warms up for a basketball
game Thursday in the Activities Building on East Campus.
HORIZN
announces
candidacy
By Michael Hannon
Staff Reporter
Pledging to make accomplishments
rather than talk about them, the
HORIZN party announced Thursday
its entrance to the
Association of
Students of the
University of
Nebraska cam
paign race.
College of
Arts and Sci
ences senatorial
candidate Colin Theis said in the
Nebraska Union that HORIZN is
running 12 senatorial candidates but
does not have any candidates for
executive office.
The party’s platform calls for ra
cial minority recruitment and involve
ment in campus organizations, an end
to sexism on campus, a more equi
table campus alcohol policy and a
non-politicized, positive AS UN sen
ate campaign.
Theis said HORIZN has worked
with student minority leaders and
Reshell Ray, the Campus Activities
and Programs coordinator for Ethnic
Minority Programs and Services, in
formulating its minority program.
In the area of women’s rights,
HORIZN is formulating its policy
that will be in a report to be released
Tuesday.
HORIZN will state its formal pro
posals for alcohol policy March 8.
Theis said 52 percent of the student
body is of legal drinking age, and it is
ridiculous not to let those students
drink.
POLICE REPORT
Beginning midnight Wednes
day, Feb. 27
9:35 a.m. — Hood ornament
taken, loop east of Memorial
Stadium, $25.
1:24 p.m. — Car windshield
broken, between Q and R streets
on 18th Street, $140.
8:07 p.m. — Bicycle taken, Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity, 1548 SSL,
When: Tucs., March 5
Where: City Union
Time: 3:30-5:00
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Bill allowing Sunday liquor passes
> By Lisa Donovan
Senior Reporter
Lawmakers gave a thumbs-up
Thursday to a bill allowing liquors to
be added to the
list of beers and
wines that may
be sold by retail
establishments
on Sundays in
Nebraska.
LB354, intro
duced by state
Sen. Tim Hall of Omaha, was passed
by the Nebraska Legislature 26-11
and sent to the governor’s desk for
final approval.
llie Legislature also passed an
amendment offered by Hall that places
an emergency clause on the bill, making
it effective as soon as the governor
signs the legislation.
Under the provisions of the bill,
local governments would have the
power to allow the retail sale of liquor
or liquor by the glass from noon on
Sundays until 1 a.m. Mondays.
Current liquor laws allow only beer
and wine to be sold from noon to 6
p.m. on Sundays.
Sen. La Von Crosby of Lincoln said
she opposed adding liquor to the list
of alcohol that may be sold on Sun
days before 6 p.m.
Crosby said that with a growing
alcohol awareness and tougher laws
on drunken driving, such legislation
encourages alcohol abuse.
“It seems to me we keep offering
incentives” to drink and abuse alco
hol. she said.
Hall said he thought the rest of the
citizens and businesses should be
afforded the same right as the Vetcr
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ans of Foreign Wars and American
Legion clubs, which are exempt from
current law. All types of alcohol may
be sold and purchased there on Sun
days.
Hal! said neither he nor the bill
advocates drunken driving.
“There is no love in my heart for
drunk drivers,” he said.
Hall said he appreciated Crosby’s
comments but the bill did not extend
the hours alcohol may be consumed
or purchased. It just allows all types
of alcohol to be sold during those
hours, he said.
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Iraqi seat attracts applications
from Model U.N. participants
From Staff Reports
The most sought-after seat in this
year’s Nebraska Model United Na
tions was Iraq, the event’s secretary
general said.
Stephanie Neill said the war in the
Persian Gulf made Middle East coun
tries, especially Iraq, the delegate seats
that received the most applications
this year.
The NMUN conference began
Wednesday and ends Saturday at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
NMUN Undersecretary-General
Denise Scholl said getting people
interested in international issues at a
young age is the idea behind the 24 th
annual conference, which is an exact
model of the United Nations.
This year, about 250 delegates
represent about 50 countries, Scholl
said. Delegates apply for countries
and are assigned based on experience
in NMUN, speaking experience and
interest.
Neill said some of the delegates
are natives of, or have lived in, the
countries they represent, including
two men from Saudi Arabia.
Delegates meet in four commit
tees of the General Assembly —
Political and Security; Social, Hu
manitarian and Cultural; Special
Political; and Legal. Other delegates
will meet in a special commission on
human rights, the Security Council
and the Economic and Social Coun
cil.
Each committee deals with spe
cific topics for the first day and a half.
Committee resolutions arc debated in
the General Assembly for the last half
of the conference.
Scholl said delegates participate
in NMUN year after year because
there is no maximum age limit. Par
ticipants must be no younger than
high school age.
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it ahead of time.”
Coope said she had thought
America’s superior technology
would keep the war short and casu
alties low, but Ambrosius agreed
with Forsythe.
“I think most people feared casu
alties would be high. Actually, they
have been very heavy really on the
Iraqi side,” Ambrosius said. “It
would appear militarily the war is
over. Politically, we don’t know
what results will be.”
Forsythe said the allied coali
tion probably will keep a military
force in the region for a while,
followed by some sort of Arab
military force.
Coope said she thought the
l[nited Slates would invest in the
reconstruction of Iraq, but Forsythe
said that is unlikely.
“I don’t expect to see U.S. and
Western economic aid to Iraq as
long as (Iraqi President) Saddam
(Hussein) remains in power,” For
sythe said. “I expect to see contin
ued economic sanctions to try to
force the removal of Saddam
Hussein and to provide some sort
of leverage for the remaining po
litical and economic issues.”
Forsythe said that although he
thought the United States wanted
Saddam out of power, America
probably would not use force to
achieve the objective.
“I don’t think we have any plans
to go into Baghdad overtly. If one
of his military colleagues wanted
to hand him over, I’m sure we’d
lake him and create a U.N. tribunal
for war crimes,” Forsythe said.
Coope also thought a trial could
be in store for Saddam.
“It wouldn’t surprise me if we
gave him the same treatment as
(former Panamanian leader Man
uel) Noriega and actually put him
on trial. Maybe that is what we do
now with people who we used to
support until they did something
we didn’t like,” she said.
Senators advance education compact
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska Legislature advanced
to the final round of debate Thursday
a bill that would establish Nebraska
as the sixth state to enter the Mid
western Higher Education Compact.
LB209, sponsored by Sen. Ron
Withem of Papillion, was passed 27
0.
If the governor signs the bill,
Nebraska will work with the five slates
already in the compact to coordinate
and strengthen postsccondary educa
tion services and reduce costs of higher
education.
Withem said earlier in the session
that the compact could help in such
areas as reducing or waiving non
resident tuition.
The five stales currently in the
compact arc Ohio, Kansas, Michi
gan, Minnesota and Missouri.
Senators also advanced LB209A,
which would appropriate funds to aid
in carrying out the provisions of LB209.
The state would pay $58,(XX) an
nually for membership in the com
pact.
