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UNL Spanish professor Kay Nickel attaches a ribbon to an entry in the poster and name
tag competition of the Language Fair Thursday. The posters and name tags were
displayed in the Nebraska Union. Students from about 60 high schools and junior hiah
schools participated in the fair, according to Candy Bailey of the modern languages de
partment. In addition tothe poster and nametagcontest,tn£studentstook part in music,
drama and poetry-reading contests and language mini-lessons and demonstrations
and watched foreign films.
RHA’s landslide victories:
Candidates ran unopposed
By Heather Heinisch
Staff Reporter
The Residence Hall Association’s
race had predictable results Thursday
night as the three uncontested execu
tive candidates enjoyed a sweeping
victory.
Katherine Rush, a senior psychol
ogy major, was elected RHA presi
dent for the second year in a row with
400 votes.
Michael Lewis, a junior physics
major, was elected vice president with
400 votes.
Kevin Keyes, a sophomore actuar
ial science major, was elected treas
urer with 382 votes.
Belise Draper, a member of the
RHA Electoral Commission, said voter
turnout was about eight to 10 percent
of the University of Nebraska resi
dence halls’ members.
The percentage of voters was
generally higher than the past couple
of years. Draper said.
James VandeVcgt, newly elected
treasurer for Harper-Schramm-Smith,
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I’m excited and looking
forward to a new year.
Rush
RHA president-elect
said the turnout was low because of
voter apathy, and the number of un
contested races.
Rush, who was spending a quiet
celebration doing homework in her
room, said, “I’m excited and looking
forward to a new year.’’
Her first goal, she said, was to start
the new senate off on the right foot by
getting the members settled in their
new positions.
The two other newly elected offi
cers wer^ unavailable for comment.
Officials target Spring Break drinking
National project encourages
smart Spring Break partying
By Trish Spencer
Staff Reporter
Officials in two of the nation’s
leading Spring Break destinations are
advocating partying this year— party
ing smart, that is.
Party Smart, a national alcohol
education project from the Beer Drink
ers of America, has been adopted by
Daytona Beach, Fla., and South Padre
Island, Texas, to encourage respon
sible drinking among spring break
ers.
“We want people to see the sun
rise,” said Sgt. Bill Tillard of the
Daytona Beach Police Deparunent.
Nancy Olenick, the national edu
cation director for Beer Drinkers of
America, said Party Smart sponsors
fun, outdoor, non-drinking activities
for students.
One of these is a sand-sculpting
contest in which students compete to
win $4,500 in cash and scholarships,
Olenick said. This year, spring break
ers in both hot spots will have the
chance to participate in the event.
The contests will be judged by
celebrities such as movie personality
Clint Eastwood and National Foot
ball League quarterbacks Jim Kelly
and Steve Beuerlein.
As pan of the Party Smart pro
gram, literature also will be distrib
uted to restaurants, bars and hotels to
encourage drinking in moderation,
Olenick said.
In Daytona Beach, where the proj
ect was adopted last year, 66 percent
of students surveyed said they saw
Party Smart literature and 89 percent
said they partied smart, according to
Georgia Carter of the Daytona Cham
ber of Commerce.
Geri Wilson of the South Padre
Island Chamber of Commerce said
the island adopted the project this
year because it considered spring
breakers important revenue genera
tors and wanted them to return.
Olenick said Party Smart was started
four years ago in New Mexico by two
men “interested in drinking beer and
drinking it in moderation.”
The program now is used by law
enforcement officials and colleges in
almost all 50 states, Olenick said. The
program encourages designated driv
ers and adopting an alcohol-intake
limit, she said.
Professional sports organizations
such as the Dallas Cowboys and the
Atlanta Braves also have used the
Party Smart project to set up desig
nated driver programs at their stadi
ums, Olenick said.
Effects of beer sponsorship
on underage drinking debated
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By Angie Brunkow
Staff Reporter
The U.S. surgeon general recently
urged an end to Spring Break activi
ties sponsored by beer companies,
but law enforcement officials said
even that wouldn’t curb beach-going
minors’ habit of hitting the bottle.
Surgeon General Antonio Novello
said beer companies should quit spon
soring activities for college students
during Spring Break to help resuain
underage drinking. Novello also re
lated excessive drinking to the in
crease of sexually transmitted dis
eases among youth.
But some police officials in Day
tona Beach, Fla., and South Padre
Island, Texas, said beer company
sponsorship is not the impetus to
underage drinking.
“Where there is alcohol to be bought
and consumed, it’s going to be bought
and consumed, regardless,” said Capt.
Tommy Atkinson of the South Padre
Island Police Department.
Activities sponsored by beer com
panies, such as sporting events and
concerts, are not necessarily linked to
beer consumption, he said.
However, Atkinson said, beer
consumption isacommon stigma that
is attached to beer-sponsored activi
ties, even though activities usually
are not alcohol-related.
Sgt. Bill Tillard of the Daytona
Beach Police Department agreed that
less beer company sponsorship won ’ t
have an impact on the number of
drinkers.
In past years, Miller Beer of Mil- !
waukee has sponsored a welcome
center in Daytona Beach. This year,
Miller spokesman Dave Fogelson said
the lent has been taken over by the
city of Daytona Beach and Miller no
longer will be affiliated with it.
But the switch was made because
Daytona wanted to sponsor the city’s
official welcome center, not because
of concerns over beer company in- j
volvement with Spring Bre;ik activi
ties, he said.
In past years, the center was a
large tented area on the beach where
students could play video games or
watch movie trailers, Fogelson said.
A section of the center was de
voted to raise awareness for respon
sible drinking.
No alcohol consumption occurred
within the tent and the center did not
promote underage drinking, he said.
Spring Break
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under control.
The task force, which is made up
of merchants, local government offi
cials, hotel and motel managers and
police officers, closes the bars one
hour earlier during March, and re
quires different wristbands for mi
nors and those over 21, Tillard said.
Also, beach concerts are prohibited,
he said.
Tillard said Daytona residents
realize the Spring Break crowds br ing
revenue to the town, but the citizens
insist that police control the partying.
South “Party” Island, as it used to
be known, attracts more than 100,000
students in March, said Capt. Tommy
Atkinson of the South Padre Island
Police Department.
More than 80 percent of the arrests
South Padre Island police make in
March are alcohol-related, Atkinson
said.
Court
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The restraining order that Brine
gar violated prohibited him from threat
ening, assaulting or harassing Kruse,
entering premises occupied by Kruse,
imposing any restraint upon her or
attending UNL women’s athletic
practices or competitions.
Kruse contended that Brinegar sent
her a poinsettia and a note asking her
to enroll in a biology course with him
and to travel to Norfolk with him.
The defendants also claimed that
in February Brinegar tried to contact
Kruse and Stephanie Thater, another
member of the volleyball team, to
discuss the case.
In Kruse’s affidavit, she said Brine
gar also had harassed her by propos
ing marriage to her al ter a September
volleyball game, during a University
Judicial Board hearing in November
and in a Nov. 12, 1990, letter used in
his appeal to the University Appeals
Board.
Brincgar had been placed on pro
bation by the Judicial Board for alleg
edly harassing Kruse.
Defendants include Kruse, the NU
Board of Regents, the Lincoln Police
Department and 19 women who
claimed they had received unsolic
ited contacts from Brincgar.
Brincgar’s attorney Richard Goos,
a Lincoln public defender, said Brinc
gar couldn’t appeal the decision be
cause it was a civil contempt suit.
Goos said he didn’t know if Brinc
gar was going to comply with the
court order.
“He was not prepared to change
his position when we were in court
today,” he said.
-POLICE REPORT
Beginning midnight Wednes
day, March 20
1:21 p.m. — Coat stolen,
Neihardt Residence Hal 1, $ 170.
1:31 p.m. — Bike stolen,
Ferguson Hall, $900.
1:47 p.m. — Woman choking,
East Union, transported to Lin
coin uencrai Hospital, /3uu 5.
16th St.
2:46 p.m. — Auto scratched,
parking lot north of Harper
Schramm-Smith complex, $45.
6:55 p.m. — Window broken,
Activities Building, $30.
11:20 p.m. — Harassing phone
calls, Smith Residence Hall.
-MEWS BRIEF3
Speaker to address
Persian Gulf war
Robert Oberst, associate professor
of political science at Nebraska
Wesleyan University, will address
Wesleyan’s University Forum today.
Oberst will present his lecture,
“Conflict in the Gulf: The U.S. and
the Arab World,” at 10 a.m. in the
McDonald Theatre in the Elder
Memorial Speech and Theatre Cen
ter, 51st Street and Huntington Avc.
The lecture is free and open to the
public.
Student awarded
for volunteerism
UNL graduate student Craig Strong
was awarded a 1991 Gold Congres
sional Award for his achievements in
voluntary public service, personal
development, physical fitness and
expeditions.
Members of Congress presented
the award to Strong and 28 other 1991
recipients on Wednesday.
The award is one of the highest
given by Congress and recognizes the
voluntary community service and
personal achievements of youths age
14-23.
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