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—— • • ;: - • • ■ '■- ■-- ....... — —-— . •' ——— —ft ■ — ~— J.' ■ ; . _ , ■ 1 ■ '— Tk y «| Doily 1 LATER IX\Cn\ITC\Ck Cl JL xtCLJJL CLuJxdJL L 1^^ . . Erik Ungpr/DN “I’m crazy, and everyone that supports me is crazy. I guess we’ve got a bunch of crazies here tonight, right?” Perot said to supporters during nis speech in Kansas City Saturday. Campaign crazy Perot pitches attacks against Bush, Clinton at campaign rally Vice President Dan Quayle visits Omaha. See story on Page 6. By Alan Phelps Senior Editor_ Kansas city, mo. — Seven thousand crazy people turned out here Sat urday to sec a fiery Ross Perot in a rare campaign trail appearance. “We’re crazy again now,” Perot told the crowd, referring to Presi dent Bush’s recent assertion. “I’m crazy, and every one that supports me is crazy. I guess we’ve got a bunch of crazies here to day, right?” The uncon ventional inde pendent presidential candidate ver bally charged again and again at both his Republican and Demo cratic rivals, likening himself to a “stray dog” up against the pam pered establishment. Supporters holding alofla forest of “Perot” signs in the Bartlc Hall downtown convention center roared continually, stomped their feet and intermittently chanted “three more days” and “we want Ross.” *. “All you crazies kind of settle down a little bit,” the Texan bil lionaire said at one point. Perot said he hoped the president was watch ing the spectacle. “If ol’ George Bush is watching this rally, he’s running back to where the pollsters are and saying, ‘Why didn’t you tell me that?’” Perot charged that neither Bush nor Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton knew anything about business or economics, what he called the most pressing issues lacing Americans. “If you asked me to do brain surgery, I wouldn’t do it. If you asked one of these other cand idates to do business, they couldn’t do it.” Perot said Clinton had always been in politics,and Bush had only managed a “small” oil company. “If George Bush understood money, he never would’ve run up a S4 trillion debt,” he said. Clinton and Bush, Perot said, don’t know “just simple, little stuff that every businessman walking down the street knows.” Perot derided the state of the economy and said the solution to paying off the counlry’sdcbtlay in Americans’ willingness to support “shared sacrifice” and a national ability to create an expanding job base. “Nobody docs it better... the only way out of this mess is to work our way out,” he said. “It’s fun lobe the best— let’s be it! “I’m sick and tired,” he said, “of Americans being out of work and Germany and Japan being out of workers.” Perot said that if elected, he would have plans before the Amcri - can people by Chrisunas to solve the country’s woes. “The rest of the world is going to say, ‘Oh my gosh, here they come again.’” Not only business but the mor als of the country as well could be influenced effectively from the “bully pulpit” of the White House, Perot once again contended. “I can’t live with being in the most violent, crime-ridden society in the world ... we will never be a great nation unless we havea strong moral, ethical base.” See PEROT on 6 Election impossible to predict By Neil Feldman Staff Reporter Tomorrow’sclcction still is dif ficult tocall, political analysts say. With the latest CNN tracking poll showing Gov. Bill Clinton and Presi dent Bush at*i virtual dead heat, po litical experts arc far from reaching a consensus on the probable outcome. David Gcrgen, an analyst on the “MacNcil/Lchrcr Ncwshour,” said Friday evening that he still was not confident as to ws which candidate would win theclec lion. “Most polls arc showing Bush and Clinton lied,” Gcrgen said, “so it ^4L^' really could swing cither way.” All three candidates — Bush, Cl inton and Ross Perot—campaigned hard over the weekend, indicating none of them were confident they would win. See ELECTION on 7 Citizens call I privilege key election issue By Kristine Long Staff Reporter Privilege is a fundamental ques tion in this year’s election, concerned citizens said at a town hall meeting over the weekend. About 20 citi zens with varying political views dis cussed the upcom ing election and tried to find com mon ground Sun day at the Red and Black Cafe, 1819 0 St. Meeting organizer Ron Kurtcnbach, a graduate student in English literature at UNL, invited sup See DEBATE on 7 Masters program draws successful alumni By Susie Arth Senior Reporter_ ichacl Koehler, one of U NL’s success stories, hopes to find old friends and — —solid valucsduring his return this week to the UNL campus. Koehler, an author, counselor and football coach at Deerfield (III.) High School, will be making his first return trip to Lincoln since he graduated in 1963. He will be oncof five guests returning to campus for the University of Nc braska-Lincoln’s Master’s Week. The Master’s Week program began in 1963 64 and has drawn about 165 prominent alumni from across the country to UNL. It is sponsored by the chancellor’s office, the Student Alumni Association, Innocents Society and the Black Masque Chapter of Mortar Board. The program’s goal is to bring successful alumni in contact with students through class visitations, campus tours and meetings with clubs and organizations. Deans and department heads nominate alumni each winter for the next year’s program. Masters arc then selected by a committee ap pointed by the chancellor. . This year’s Masters include Kochlcr.Paul., Englcr, chief executive officer of Cactus Feed ers in Texas; Marjic Lundstrom, city editor for the Sacramento Bee; Jack Rychccky, financial analyst for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and William Splinter, air traffic con trol supervisor for the Federal Aviation Admin istration. All of the Masters will be speaking in vari ous classes this week. Koehler, the grandson of athletic star Jim Thorpe anda former fullback forihcComhuskcr football team, said he hoped to visit his friend and former coach Bob Dcvancy during his visit. He also said he hoped to be reintroduced to the strong work ethic and values he witnessed during his two years in Lincoln, as opposed to his hometown Chicago. “The values are more pronounced and used more as guidelines to behavior,” he said. Despite the difference in values, Chicago was almost successful at keeping Koehler when Marquette University offered him a football scholarship after he finished high school. Later; Marquette dropped its football pro gram, and Koehler transferred to UNL on an other football scholarship and redshirted his first year. But during the first week of practice for the Huskers, he suffered cerebral hemorrhaging and doctors told him he could never play foot ball again. Although Koehler had dreamed of playing professional football, the news did not crush him, he said. “When one door closes, another one opens up,” he said. Writing was the door that opened up for Koehler, he said. Koehler, author of seven books and several scholarly articles, credits UNL English profes sors for teaching him to write. “The University of Nebraska was a very positive experience for me,” he said. “The university did a marvelous job of preparing me for what I’m doing right now.” Koehler, who received his bachelor’s de gree from UNL' in 1963, said he was always interested in writing, but his professors at Marquette never pushed him to learn the craft. The first paper he wrote at UNL, he said, received a “big fat F.” “They provoked me into developing the discipline to refine a craft,” he said. “I always had an interest in writing, and they taught me I had a whole lot more work to do.” UNL also instilled in Koehler a love for education, he said. This love, he said, has enabled him to remain a teacher and counselor for nearly 25 years. Alter graduating from UNL, Koehler went on to gel his master’s degree from Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, and a doctorate from the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City. Koehler said the message he hoped to bring to UNL students during his visit was to pursue their goals. “My message isThat you can accomplish most anything in life if you really putyour mind to it,” he said. “Thai’s been a very big parlof my life.” «