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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 . ^
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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
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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
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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
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I Note: 30.9 percent of Division 1 college athletes are
I women, 25.7 percent of UNL's athletes are women.
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