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Students analyze candidates’ performances
Gbllege Republicans take 8-hour trek
to vocalize suooort for Bush ticket
By Alan Phelps
and
Dionne Searcey
Senior Editors_
Trent Stcclc, bom Dec. 16,1971,groaned
when he read his horoscope Sunday:
“Avoid political discussions today, no
matter what candidate you back.”
“It’s ironic,” said Steele, president of the
UNL College Republicans. “I hope Bill Clinton
is a Sagittarius.”
Steele and 56 other College Republicans
from Lincoln, Kearney and Crete traveled to
the presidential debate Sunday in St. Louis.
Before the crack of dawn, the Republicans
armed themselves with Bush/Quayle stickers,
posters and ideology and climbed aboard two
chartered buses.
The trip, paid for by the national Bush/
Quaylc campaign, took the Republicans eight
hours away from Lincoln. Students passed the
lime playing cards, sleeping and trying to per
suade the bus driver to vote
for Bush.
Despite the monotonous
bus ride and astrological
warning, Steele said the trip
was worth it.
“U sual 1 y young people arc
•asked tostuff envelopes and
make phone calls, but it’s
really nice to cut loose once in a while and
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Clinton, Perot supporters say Bush
non-threatening in presidential debate
By Shelley Biggs
Senior Reporter
ith hopes of their favorite candidates
taking the winning ticket Nov. 3, stu
dents supporting Bill Clinton and Ross
Perot watched them square off against Presi
dent Bush Sunday night in the first presidential
debate.
J.P. Caruso, national vice president of the
Young Democrats of America, said he thought
Bush was trying to defend himself and his
administration throughout most of the debate.
“Bush is in denial,’’Caruso, a junior political
science and history major at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, said. “He is acknowledging
that there are no problems out there.”
John Hiffeman, a student volunteer for the
Perot campaign, said he saw Bush as “timid”
next to the other two candidates.
“I think it went about as I expected,”
Hiffeman, a junior history major at UNL, said.
“Clinton did a good job, Bush was timid, and
Perot was straightforward.”
Both Hiffeman and
Caruso agreed that Bush
appeared non-threatening
during the debate.
Caruso described Perot as
a “nonentity” in the debate
and as an “unknown quan
tity” in the race for president. He said he
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Protesters march from Broyhill Plaza to the State Capitol Friday in an effort to make people aware of the plight of
Native Americans since Christopher Columbus came to America. Today marks the 500-year anniversary of his
landing in the New World.
Columbus Day legacy goes on trial
Native American students
protest traditional holiday
By Jeff Zeleny
Staff Reporter
Native American students marched to the
State Capitol Friday to educate people
about the 500-ycar lie centering on
Christopher Columbus, a student leader said.
Marcella Gilbert, vice president of the Uni
versity of Nebraska Inter-Tribal Exchange
group, said the rally, which started at Broyhill
Plaza, was organized to make people aware of
the plightof Native Americans since Columbus
landed in America.
“The focus (of the rally) is on education,”
said Gilbert, a sophomore education major.
“We need to start telling the truth. We need to
be recognized for our contributions.”
Today marks the 5(X)-ycar anniversary ol
Columbus’ landing in America. Many histori
ans credit him for discovering America, but
Native Americans disagree.
Helen Long Soldier, a multicultural affairs
counselor at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln, said Native Americans discovered
America.
And Colum bus wasn ’ t a great person; he was
looking for gold, not a country, she said.
“History is based on untruths,” she said.
“People need to be told that.”
About 40 people, some carrying signs say
ing “Ban Columbus Day" and “Pul the Colum
bus Legacy on Trial,” listened to speakers from
the Sioux Falls Reservation and UNL officials
before marching to the Capitol.
“There has been much hatred and guilt that
has made up the last 500 years,” said V inccTwo
Eagles, a member of the Sioux Falls Reserva
tion.
“Today we arc struggling with the results ol
a good idea gone bad,” he said. “The Europeans
came, maybe with good intentions. Now it is up
to us brothers and sisters to practice teachings;
we can’t just talk about them.”
Native American students arc angry about
Columbus Day celebrations, Long Soldier said,
and should not be expected to participate in
them.
“Asking Indian people to celebrate Colum
bus Day is like asking Jewish people to cel
ebrate the Holocaust,” she said.
Eric Jolly, assistant to the chancellor and
director of diversity and affirmative action at
UNL, said a lack of education existed about
what Native Americans represented.
“Our culture hasn’t stood still the way it has
been portrayed,” said Jolly, a member of the
Cherokee Nation.
Efforts arc being made to better educate
UNL students on Native American history, he
said.
For example, Jolly said, the College of Arts
and Sciences is considering a proposal to create
classes focusing on Native Americans as well
as other minority groups. Discussion on the
proposal will begin Nov. 2, he said.
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Regents approve
purchase of UNL
computer system
By Andy Raun
Staff Reporter
The NU Board of Regents gave UNL the
go-ahead Friday to purchase a com
puter student information system se
lected by central administration.
The regents voted 7-1 to authorize James
| Van Horn, NU interim vice president for busi
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ness and finance, and Jack Goebel, UNL vice
chancellor for business and finance, to negoti
ate a contract with Systems and Computer
Technology Corp. of Malvern, Penn., for the
purchase of the I A/SIS Plus system.
James Gricscn, vice chancellor for student
affairs at the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln and chair
man of a campus task force
set up more than two years
ago to select a student infor
mation system, told the re
gents they should choose a
different system.
Gricscn’s group had recommended the pur
chase of a system manufactured by American
Management Systems of Arlington, Va. UNL
Chancellor Graham Spanicr had endorsed that
committee’s recommendation.
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Regents accept
proposed KFAB
radio contract
By Andy Raun
Staff Reporter
Live radio broadcasts of Nebraska foot
ball and men’s basketball games will
likely continue originating from KFAB
AM radio in Omaha after a Friday vote of the
NU Board of Regents.
The regents voted to approve a proposal
from Henry Broadcasting Co., KFAB’s parent
company, for a new three-year contract. KFAB
has been the flagship of the Nebraska Football
and Nebraska Basketball networks since 1983.
The San Francisco-based
company’s proposal calls
for the company to pay the
University of Ncbraska
Lincoln $825,(XX), plus 10
percent of its gross receipts
in excess of about $2 mil
lion, for next ycar’-s broadcasting rights. The
amount of the rights fee and revenue-sharing
percentages will be adjusted in the other two
years according to the Consumer Price Index.
UNL will have the option to renew the
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