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Quayle blasts Clinton in Omaha appearance Candidate targets ‘ozone man,’ media By Alan Phelps Senior Editor OMAHA — Vice President Dan Quayle, aided by almostl ,300 enthu siastic supporters, pulled no punches Friday night in a spirited attack on Bill Clinton at Omaha’s Epplcy Air field. “We’re not going to let a Dcmo □ cratic president team up with the lib eral, greedy Demo cratic Congress,” It was a message that Quayle re peated often during the short speech, and one that went over well with the sign-waving, cheering crowd in the Sky Harbor building. Quayle stopped briefly in Omaha as pan of a swing through the West and Midwest. He stayed the night in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Clinton, Quayle said, has posted a “sorry, sorry record” as governor of Arkansas. “Let us take a pledge we will never let Bill Clinton do to the country what he has done to Arkansas.” Quayle said Clinton would raise taxes and increase government spend ing. Democrats, he said, have planned S895 billion in spending proposals. “Who is going to pay the bill?” Quayle asked. Quayle urged the crowd to remem ber what life was like under the country’s last Democratic president, Jimmy Carter. “Remember where interest rates were?Twenty-one percent. The farm ers don’t like it. The students don’t like it.” >■* • America had hostages in Iran, he said, the Soviet Union was in Af ghanistan, “and we had a president who blamed ilon the American people. . . . Let us not repeat that mistake again.” Quayle also hammered on Sen. Al Gore of Tennessee, Clinton’s running mate. “I don’t think we want the ‘ozone man’ running the country,” he said, referring to Gore’s reputation as an environmentalist. “We want the - 44 American people want to trust their president. Would you trust Bill Clinton to be presi dent? Would you trust him to take care of the family? How about the family farm? - Vice president Quayle -ft “ American people running the coun try.” “Ozone man, ozone man,' the crowd chanted. The Republicans, Quayle said, have ideas for the future, and George Bush is “the one who is turning the country around.” “I hope the media in the back of the room (arc) listening very carefully,” Quayle said, pointing to photogra phers and camera operators on the press riser, “because we arc going to win this election.” Later, Quayle blasted the press again. “A lot of pundits have said the election is over. Do you want the media to decide on how this election is going to be?” He asked the crowd if they thought the media had been fair to either him self or Bush. They yelled “no.” “Then let’s annoy the media and elect George Bush,” he said to a re newed roar from the audience. Quayle said that, despite what the media would have Americans believe, “character is an issue in this cam paign!” “American people want to trust their president. Would you trust Bill Clinton to be president? Would you trust him to lake care of the family? How about the family farm?” To each question, Quaylc’s sup porters yelled “No!” “Maybe I’m being too hard on Bill Clinton,” Quayle said to a another resounding “No!” from the crowd. “Hit ‘cm again, hit ‘cm again, harder, harder,” they chanted. A “wafllc, wafllc” chant started after the vice president, to the delight of the audience, said not only that Clinton “waffled” on the Persian Gulf war, but that the Arkansas governor had “pulled a Clinton,” a phrase the Republicans have used to mean com ing down one way on an issue, only to change later. “You can’t pull a Clinton and be president of the United Slates,” he said. _I Julia Mikolajcik'DN “Let us take a pledge we will never let Bill Clinton do to the country what he has done to Arkansas,” Quayle said to supporters Friday during his stopover in Omaha. Education teleconference yields few proposals By Andy Raun Staff Reporter Systemic change was the subject of the day Friday as politicians and educators from across Nebraska participated in an educational plan ning teleconference. During aclosing panel discussion, U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey, Gov. Ben Nelson and other educa tion leaders and politicians expressed concern for change in education. However, few con crete proposals arc forthcoming. The teleconference, called “A Nebraska Town Meeting to Develop a Common Vision ■ for School Transformation," originated at Ne braska Educational Television headquarters in Lincoln. Teachers, adm inistrators, school board members and others watched and interacted in the program from the Lincoln studio and at 50 down-link sites connected by satellite. Craig Christiansen, an Omaha teacher and president of the Nebraska Slate Education As sociation, said more authority should be given to classroom teachers as part of the quest for educational excellence. He said teachers needed more latitude to design curricula and decide how to implement technology in the classroom. Kerrey said he agreed with Christiansen but thought teachers could not be given more au thority until they were provided with financial incentives for being innovative and designing effective programs. Kerrey decried the use of standardized test scores as the sole use for evaluating school systems’ effectiveness. He said schools would have to teach students better problem-solving skills instead of belter test-taking techniques before the real-life benefits of public education could increase. Joe Luljchar ms, the Nebraska comm issioncr of education, said teleconferences like Friday’s were effective for defining the agenda for edu cational change. He said the state needed to research the likely effects of various kinds of educational reform. Policy decisions such as changing to a 12 month school year need to be made at the local level, Nelson said. Bulcfforts like the Nebraska 2(XX) comprehensive study arc useful and need more promotion and wider participation, he said. Capi. R J DaSilva, 1-800-524-212(>, Omaha, NE -- I Plan may upgrade ethnic studies By Heather Sinor Staff Reporter___ A proposal lo improve ihc Institute for Ethnic Studies and Area Studies could make Nebraska the leader in Native American Studies, an official said last week. John Peters, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said a new pro gram would attract more minority faculty to UNL, bring in external re search funding and enhance curricu lum. Due to the recent success of the Healing the Hoop Conference, Peters said Nebraska was in a unique posi tion to become the leader in Native American Studies. He said the institute and area stud ies programs needed lo be changed. Peters said the programs now oper ated under insufficient funding, re stricted resources, limited visibility, unclear research goals and under graduate major programs that needed revision. He will discuss with faculty in his college his proposal to create three new programs: Native American stud ies, Latino and Latin American stud ies and African and African-Ameri can studies. These programs would revise and improve the existing ethnic studies, African studies and Latin American studies programs and would have sepa rate budgetary, administrative and curricular entities, he said. Peters’ goal is to generate faculty discussion. He said he anticipated strong support and some individual concern for the proposal. If the faculty did approve the plan, Peters said, he would include funding for the program in his budget meet ing, Nov. 19. “I’m prepared to do it,” he said. Perot Continued from Page 1 While Perot said he was against gun control laws that would ban weap ons from law-abiding citizens, he said the country needed "harsh” penalties for using firearms in crime. He said if a “dumb, drunk, high on-drugs” criminal was contemplat ing robbing a convenience store, “I want something in his head that says, 'll just ain’t worth using a gun.’ “We’ve had periods of time in our country where things got pretty law less. You jusi have to lighten down. Remember Dodge City?” he asked the crowd. But Perot said that any major pro gram must have the massive support of the people before it was set in motion. He said that if he was elected, “I go as your servant. I work for you. “You’re the boss, and I’m Ross.” Perot called on the audience mem bers to ignore the polls that show him trailing in third place and work for victory. “Each one of you gel five more people, and it’s a slam-dunk, home run, 50-statc win,” he said. “Let’s go for it!”