ASUN president spends summer in Washington, D.C.
Editor's note: This is the third in a
five-part series on how UNL stu
dents spent their summers.
By Julie Sobczyk
Staff Reporter
Brushing shoulders with some of
the nation’s most influential politi
cians was all in a day’s work this
summer for ASUN President An
drew Loudon.
Loudon, a senior political science
major at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, was selected to take part in
the Lyndon B. Johnson internship
program in Washington, D.C. The
internship required him to work for
five weeks in the office of U.S. Rep.
Doug Bcrcutcr, R-Neb.
“This was definitely the most ed
ucational thing I could have done,”
he said. “I fulfilled college credit and
childhood dreams at the same time.
“I love Washington and politics,
and the excitement of being there
never wore off.”
Loudon’s typical day on the job
included researching political issues
for both the environmental and agri
cultural legislative assistants and
writing responses to constituent mail
Bereuter received.
“I constantly did constituent
mail,” he said. “Bereuter gels hun
dreds of mail everyday. People wrote
about everything from pesticides to
their gas prices rising.”
Running into famous politicians
was not uncommon for Loudon.
“I’d walk through halls and sec
the famous people we see on TV,”
Loudon said. “I could walk by and see
people like Sen. Ted Kennedy.”
Listening to experienced politi
cians speak, such as Treasury Secre
tary Lloyd Bcntscn and Vice Presi
dent Al Gore, was educational,
Loudon said.
Loudon said his hectic schedule
left him little time for the usual Wash
ington sightseeing.
“We worked 9 to 6 every day, and
we’d stay late a lot of the time,” he
said. “I realized how hard the con
gressional staffers work.”
But the highlighlofhis internship
was writing a speech that Bcrcutcr
del i vered on the floor of the House of
Representatives.
“The neat thing is that it’s in the
House records, and they were my
words,” he said.
The speech deal l w i th risk assess
ment, or how the government as
signs the risk involved in a given
situation.
Loudon said the internship
changed his views about Washing
ton.
“Before I left, I was very awe
struck about meeting famous peo
ple,” he said. “But I came away with
a more cynical attitude about the
federal government and how big it is.
Washington spends way too much
money.”
Loudon also said the politics of
Washington were not like the poli
tics of the Association of Students of
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Shaun Sartin/DN
ASUN president Andrew Loudon was selected to take part in the Lyndon B. Johnson
internship program in Washington D.C. this summer. Loudon spent five weeks working in the
office of U.S. Rep. Doug Bereuter, R-Neb.
the University of Nebraska.
“Here the issues arc fun most of
the time. I like dealing with the
students, and we get to see results
right away,” he said. “In Washing
ion, we don’t see the results as quick
ly”
Looking back on the five-week
experience, Loudon said he enjoyed
the closer look at government opera
lions.
“Even though I missed Nebraska,
my girlfriend, family and friends,”
he said, “I have to admit I wasn’t
quite ready to come home.”
2 men arrested after shooting incident
From Staff Reports _ _
Officers intending to arrest a Lin
coln man Monday night ended up also
arresting his roommate after a shot was
fired, Lincoln police reported.
Police arrested Arthur Rutherford,
21, on charges ofdischarging a firearm,
carrying a concealed weapon and pos
sessing a defaced firearm.
Officers heard a shot Monday night
from the apartment of 24-year-old
Calvin Brown, whom they had planned
to arrest on a warrant for disturbing the
peace after he failed to appear in court.
When the four officers arrived at
Brown’s apartment, 877 N. 26th St., the
windows were open, and they heard
people talking iasidc.
Officers had been standing outside
for five minutes when they heard the
gunshot, which was fired from a .380
semiautomatic gun, the police report
said.
The door then llew open, and pol ice
found Brown inside, the report said.
The bullet went into the kitchen
floor, the report said, and there was no
apparent reason for the shot. No one
was injured.
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