Correction:
Charlotte Black Elk
Is a member of the
Lakota tribe. She
was misidentified in
Monday's story. The
Daily Nebraskan
regrets the error.
February 1. 1994
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
<4 AM
Concert
The Yings finish
their quartet
tour making a
stop in Lincoln.
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chance of light
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Vol. 93 No. 94
Special Report
■ This week:
Campus consumption
■ Today:
Life on a wet campus
For ISU, wetter is better
Shaun Sartin/DN
Tonya Peckosh, a senior chemistry major, lands bar at The Maintenance Shop in the Iowa State University Memorial Union.
As part of the university's policy, tnose who are of legal drinking age may drink on campus.
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor
AMES, Iowa—; Students and
locals line up at the bar in the
basement of the Iowa State
Memorial Union to get a bottle of
beer before the band Pleasure starts
its set.
Five men on the seventh floor of
the Willows Residence Hall sit
around a table sipping beer from
their Budweiser longnccks as they
play a hand of cards.
Fraternity an4 sorority members
carry beer and Hfine coolers into a
party at the Alpna Tau Omega Fra
ternity house.
Iowa State University students
partied at these three, and many
other, campus venues last Friday
night without hiding it from ISU
administrators.
So goes a typical weekend night
on a wet campus.
Since 1978, alcohol has been
allowed on the Iowa State campus.
And after 16 years, most officials
say because alcohol is out in the
open, there are fewer problems.
“We have permitted it for so
many years," said Charles
Frederickson.directorof residence.
“Arc there problems? Of course
there are. There were problems when
we didn’t permit it,too.”
The wet campus law allows al
cohol to be consumed in rooms of
legal age residents. Individual floors
vote on the alcohol policy for their
lounges.
John Ingraham, a resident assis
Campus Consumption
This week, the Daily
Nebraskan takes an in-depth
look into the issue of alcohol
on campus. Wednesday's
story will focus on the issue of
drinking in the residence halls.
See ALCOHOL on 3
Huskers
athletes
in fight,
shooting
By Jeff Griesch
and Jeffrey Robb
Senior Editors
here is no reason to believe
dent’s car early Sunday,
allegedly by an NU football player,
were accidental, the Lincoln Police
Chief said.
However, Nebraska coach Tom
Osborne said Monday the gunshots
were an accident and not aimed at
anyone.
Police also are searching for a
suspect in another incident. Ne
braska redshirt freshman Ramone
Worthy and wingback Abdul
Muhammad were injured in a fight
early Sunday, Police Chief Tom
Casady said.
The gunshot incident, which
occurred at about 2:50 a.m., alleg
edly involved Comhusker defen
sive back Tyrone Williams.
shots fired at a UNL stu
University oi Nebraska-Lincom
student Brooke Bohac reportedly
was stopped at a light while driving
west on 17th street. Casady said a.
car filled with people Bohac recoe
nized pulled up behind or along
side her. A man she identified as
Williams walked up to the passen
ger’s side and smashed a window
with a handgun, Casady said.
Bohac drove off and heard two
or three gun shots, Casady said.
Police found two bullet holes in the
right, rear panel of the car.
“There is no reason to believe
the shots were accidentally fired,”
Casady said.
Casady said police attempted to
talk with Williams, but the defen
sive back declined.
“We know who shot the gun
according to the victim’s state
ment,” Casady said. “We were not
able to talk to others as witnesses.
We’d like to do that. We have more
investigating to do.”
Bohac declined comment.
Connecting this incident with
an earlier one the same morning
involving Nebraska football play
ers would be speculating, Casady
said.
Sunday morning at 1:20, two
officers were dispatched to a fight
at the Residence Inn motel, 299 S.
68th St., Casady said, where there
was a party that included Nebraska
football players.
Casady said three men and two
women came in two separate cars to
crash the party. Three men from the
party and the three men who ar
SeeHUSKERS on 3
Combs advocates changes in election bid
By Jeffrey Robb
Senior Editor.
Saying it is time for a new generation of
leadership in Washington, Lincoln busi
nessman Patrick Combs announced
Monday he would run as a Democrat
for the U.S. House of Representatives' first
district seat.
Combs, 28, a University of Nebraska-Lin
coln graduate, said youth was his asset. Though
he has not held political office, Combs said his
experience in the business and political com
munities had prepared him to serve.
Combs classified Rep. Doug Bereuter as
nice, competent and well-educated, but said it
was time for a fresh perspective.
. “He (Bereuter) has not been, in my opinion
and in the opinion of the people of this district,
an active representative for the needs of this
district,” Combs said.
Bereuter, who plans to announce his run for
re-election later this month, said he didn’t know
much about Combs yet.
“But, if he should win the nomination of his
party," Bereuter said, “I look forward to the
campaigning this summer and fall.”
Comb* said the district wanted true repre
sentation, not someone who constantly suc
cumbed to special interests.
He said he would be a congressman whose
“number one priority is not getting re-elected
but doing what he was elected to do—represent
the interests of the people that put him there.”
Combs currently is a general partner in his
father’s auto business and a professional con
sultant on motivation, sales, human resource
development and time management.
He said he understood both basic economic
principles and the workings between small
business and government.
Combs also said he was expenenced around
politics, working as assistants to Secretary of
State Allen Beermann and former Lt. Gov. Don
McGinley.
In foreign affairs, Combs said he led a U.S.
delegation to Taiwan for the International Youth
Culture and Study Tour. He also acted as a U.S.
observer for China’s 1989 two-party election.
Combs said he believed in “an America
where newcomers to the political arena can
compete on a level playing field when challeng
ing a well-financed incumbent.”
Combs said campaign reform would be one
of the major issueshe would work on. Elections
should be based on principles, not money spent
by a candidate or names noticed from a bumper
sticker, he said. He said he would work to
implement a campaign spending limit.
Campaign reform would also help the disen
chanted voting population, Combs said. To
raise the low voter turnout, Congress should
See COMBS on 3