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“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.”
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