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, _ ' ■*. ... . . ■ t • I-1 h-~T\-s—"__M---1 iH Drinks and I Strickland tries grades baseball, g a es I basketball 11 72/45 Sunny and pleasant today. Clear tonight, and a bit warmer tomorrow. \ - |_ _ Monday nigh*?01* 2°° at The Si<*etrack catches some of Murphy Brown’s political humor during the show’s sea^n-opene^ Quayle quips Democrats die laughing at Dan on ‘Murphy Brown’ By Chuck Green Senior Reporter Dan Quaylc never stood a chance. In fact, the vice president wouldn’t have made it through half of the fifth season opener of “Murphy Brown” Monday night without hearing the first calculated retaliatory jabs from the show’s cast. And he wouldn’t have made it through the first commercial break without hearing comments from the audience of about 2(K) people gathered at The Sidetrack, 935 O St., to watch the episode. The gathering was sponsored by the Nebraska Democratic Party, and was intended as a show of solidarity for supporters of the Bill Clinton-AI Gore presidential ticket, Tom Coyne, Democratic campaign coordinator lor Nebraska’s 1 si Dis^ trict, said. “We’re just here to poke fun at the vice president, and to gel to gether and reaffirm our support for the Clinton-Gorc campaign,” Coyne said. The episode countered Quay Ic’s attack last spring on the show’s title character, played by Candice Bergen, because of her decision to have a baby out of wedlock. Quayle singled out the charac ter as an example of deteriorating American values. The show featured an excerpt of Quaylc’s controversial speech, as well asaglimpsc ofPresident Bush later declining to answer questions on the matter. From there, the show’s charac ters took off. Among the one-line volleys fired al Quayle: • “Come on, Murphy, consider the source ... Dan Quayle.” • “Don’t worry about it. To morrow he’ll probably gel his head stuck in a golf bag, and you’ll be old news.” • (A newsroom clerk brings in the morning newspaper): “ . . . Most people in this poll not only think Murphy would make a belter mother than Quayle, but a better president, loo.” The crowning blow came al the end of the show, after Bergen’s character — a television anchorwoman — delivered a seri ous commentary attacking Quayle fordwclIingon her child and ignor ing national issues: A truck, in the early morning darkness, dumped a load of potatoes at the front gate of the White House, in obvious refer cncc to Quaylc’s unsuccessful at tempt to spell the name of the veg etable during an elementary school spelling bee last summer. The show’s next and final scene showed an aerial view of Washing ton, D.C., with a radiodisc jockey’s voice announcing the potato inci dent to an awaking city: “ ... Mr. Vice President, just be glad you didn’t misspell ‘fertilizer.”’ George Rhodes, 59, of Lin coin, agreed. “The vice president has taken some shots over this whole thing, but they ’re deserved,” Rhodcs said. “But if you’re the second most powerful man in the country, you should think a little longer before you speak. “Especially about a fictitious television character.” Students put grades on line by drinking, survey says By Shelley Biggs Senior Reporter . ^ " . > Students who choose drinking over studying may sacrifice their grades, a UNL official said. Janet Crawford, coordinator of community health education at the * University Health Center, said the link between drinking and a lack of academic achievement made com mon sense. StudcnLs who drink frequently have a harder time gelling lopfass,Crawford said, and once they arc there, their concentration levels arc lower than non-drinking students. “Hangovers do affect your ability to comprehend,” she said. Jay Corzinc, an associate profes sor of sociology at the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln, said he thought students’ academic ability depended on their drinking patterns. \ “It really depends on how much a person drinks and when they drink during the week,” he said. “It has to do See GRADES on 6 University volunteer arrested ^ Alleged assault being investigated By Shelley Biggs Senior Reporter A “man who was voluntarily working for the university in one aspect” will be arraigned Sept. 30 on charges of third-degree sexual assault, a UNL official said Monday. Ken Cauble, chief of police for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said the man was arrested in a university building last Wednesday. An investi gation is under way, he said. Cauble said he could not release the man’s name or position until the investigation was complete. No charges have been filed yet. According to a police incident re port, Stan Campbell, director of cam pus recreation, reported an alleged sexual assaultofastudenton Sept. 10. Police met with Campbell and Peg See ASSAULT on 3 Big Eight officials attack gender-equity issue Potential plans aim to improve male-female ratio By Mark Harms Staff Reporter BigEightofficialslhiswcck will tackle the problem of gender equity in sports, an issue that drew national attention when the NCAA released a survey last March showing disparities between men’s and women’s athletics. Athletic conferences across the country arc considering ways to deal with the problem, said James O’Hanlon, UNL’s faculty representa tive to the Big Eight Athletic Confer ence. The Big Ten Athletic Conference took the lead last May by setting a goal of having 40 percent of its ath letes be women by 1997. Nationally, 30.9 percent of Divi sion I college athletes are women. At the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln, 25.7 percent of the athletes are women. Football accounts for most of the disparity. UNL, for example, pro vides 92 scholarships for football, but provides only 77 scholarships for all women’s sports. To improve the ratio of female to male athletes, O’Hanlon said, the Big Eight will consider several possible solutions: • Increasing the number of women’s athletic scholarships. • Reducing funding and scholar ships for men’s sports. • Adding junior varsity squads to women’s sports. • Adding another women’s sport, such as soccer. • Combining certain sports, such as tennis and golf, to include both women and men. Most of these ideas will require NCAA approval, O’Hanlon said, and will be considered at the national convention in January. “All thcconfcrenccs arc looking at the same ideas and, from that, some kind of consensus is going to gel,” he See GENDER on i6 I Note: 30.9 percent of Division 1 college athletes are I women, 25.7 percent of UNL's athletes are women. <v ________ *SKLiJ