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Student regents want
to go to Orange Bowl
UNO, UNK representatives
call process discriminatory
By Sarah Scalet
Staff Reporter
Although a final decision has yet to be
made, two NU student regents arc con
cerned about a break in tradition that
could prevent them from joining other regents
at this year’s Orange Bowl.
-* UNL Chancellor Graham Spanicr said a
secretary from his office had contacted all four
student regents last week to wam them that he
was re-examining who would make the trip to
Miami.
Spanicr said he wanted the student regents to
be “prepared for the possibility” that they might
not be attending the Orange Bowl along with
other university officials.
To stay within the budget that NU isgiven by
the Orange Bowl Committee, Spanicr said he
was cutting back on the number of people
traveling to Miami.
He emphasized it was too early to guess who
would be attending and said the final announce
ment would be made at the regents’ meeting
Saturday.
However, Natalie Olson, student regent from
the University of Nebraska Medical Center,
said she was notified by Spanier’s office last
Tuesday that she and student regents from the
University ol Nebraska campuses at Kearney
and Omaha were “prohibited” from attending
the Orange Bowl.
She also said she was informed that Andrew
Sigcrson, student regent from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, would be the only student
regent traveling to Miami.
Olson said Spanicr’s office told her the
decision involved a “policy change.”
Although Olson said she understood the
expense of sending students to Florida, she said
she was frustrated with the decision because it
singled out certain members, when the regents
should represent the university as a whole.
Being told she was “prohibited” from at
tending the Orange Bowl almost made her feel
as though she had done something wrong, she
said.
Also, the decision would separate NU’s four*
campuses, Olson said, when they should be
working together as one university.
Mike Farquhar, student regent at the Univer
sity of Nebraska at Omaha, expressed concern
about the precedent that could pc set by inviting
only certain regents to the QraTrgcr Bowl. He
said cither all or none of the 12 regents should
be invited.
Aside from the lack of voting privileges, he
said, student regents have the same job as other
regents and should be treated equally.
“There’s no kiddie table in the comer some
where,” Farquhar said. “We’re not second
class citizens.”
In addition, Farquhar and Olson both said
the announcement should have been made ear
lier so they could make plans for the semester
break.
Olson said she had re-arranged a flight home
so she could attend the Orange Bowl, and
Farquhar said he had changed plans for a skiing
trip.
Kevin McCully, student regent at the Uni
versity of Nebraska at Kearney, could not be
reached Wednesday.
Friends, family remember
Harms’ faith at Pius Mass
By Erik Unger
Staff Reporter
Stan Harms said Wednesday that his daugh
ter Candice Harms had spoken to him in
a dream and assured him she was OK.
Stan Harms, speaking at a Mass in memory
of his daughter at Pius X High School, 6000 A
St., said she assured him God was real and
heaven was much better than earth.
Although her mur
der was gruesome,
Stan Harms said, his
daughter told him she
had help getting
through it.
“She said even
though she suffered
some pain, guardian
angels were by her
side and helped her
endure,” he said.
“She wants us to make God the most important
part of our lives.”
Harms said his daughter wanted her former
schoolmates to have fun, but without drugs,
alcohol, premarital sex and cigarettes.
“She wants them to think of God first, before
other vices,” Stan Harms said.
Harms repeated his daughter’s message to
about 7(X) high school students, friends and
Jamily members.
Ben Ashman, a 17-year-old senior at Pius X
and a friend of Candice Harms’, said her mes
sage put him “more in touch spiritually,” and
her cigarette warning brought back memories.
“I remember her telling me to throw my
cancer sticks away,” he said.
Despite the somber occasion, some of Harms’
former classmates remembered happier times.
Alison Mizerski, an 18-year-old senior at
Pius, said she remembered working with Harms
on the Pius Players, Pius’ drama group.
“I just remembered she was always back
stage wailing with a big smile on her face and
words of encouragement,” she said. “She was
always there with the hugs.”
During a recent performance of “Ok lahoma,”
the Pius Players wore yellow ribbons, dedicat
ing the production to Candice Harms. Stan
Harms said he was grateful for this and all the
support Pius had given the family.
“The Pius students’ wonderful support,
thoughts and prayers have uplifted us,” Stan
Harms said. "Without you guys, I don’t know
what we would have done ...
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Tina Patterson, a junior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, recently began
her reign as Miss Black UNL. Patterson is the first woman to wear the title
since the last competition in 1988.
Miss Black UNL
Diversity to reign under Patterson
By Corey Russman
Staff Reporter
One University of Nebraska-Lincoln
student will navigate previously
abandoned territory as Miss Black
| UNL.
Tina Patterson, a junior from Olathe,
Kan., is the first woman to be crowned
Miss Black UNL since 1988, when the
university last had such a pageant.
Patterson graduated in May with a
bachelor’s degree in sociology, and now is
working on a nursing degree.
Because no one nas oecn crowned in
recent years, Patterson said she wasn’t
quite sure what her duties would be.
“I’m setting the standards,” she said. “I
carry an enormous weight on my shoul
ders.”
Patterson said she wanted to focus on
diversity during her reign as Miss Black
UNL.
One of her goals, she said, is to explain
certain questions that whites have about
blacks.
“When (whites) ask me ‘what does ‘dis’
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By air; land, Husker fans to trek to Miami
Scott Maurer/DN
By Shelley Biggs
Senior Reporter
It’s that time again.
The Huskcrs have earned an
other trip to the Orange Bowl,
and fans following the team to sunny
Florida will have lodig deep into their
pockets.
Ron Thomas, travel agent for
World Travel Center in Omaha, said
the agency was offering two different
Orange Bowl packages this year.
About half of the 180 available pack
ages already have been sold, he said.
The deluxe package contains all
the extras for a vacation in Florida,
Thomas said, including round-trip,
non-stop flights from Omaha to Or
lando, four nights at the Orlando Hyatt
airport hotel, Orange Bowl tickets, a
day’s admission to Sea World, Uni
versal Studios and Epcot Center or
Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, a
trip to Sawgrass Mills’ 250 stores and
restaurants and a New Year’s Eve
dinner.
The package’s price for a single
reservation is $1,129, Thomas said.
The price, per person, is $979 for two
reservations, $949 for three reserva
tions and $939 for four reservations.
Taxes, gratuities and all transfers to
attractions arc included.
The second package docs not in
clude New Year’s Eve dinner, admis
sion to Sea World, Universal Studios
and Epcot Center or the Magic King
dom, Thomas said. The price is $969
for a single reservation and $819, per
person, for two reservations, $799 for
three reservations and $789 for four
reservations.
The packages arc sold on a first
come, first-serve basis, Thomas said,
and people who cancel will receive a
full refund.
If fans prefer the open road to the
friendly skies, they better set aside
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