Inside Monday
COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SINCE 1901 VOL. 94 NO. 20
Sports
■ Nebraska sails over UCLA, Pages 6-7
Arts & Entertainment
■ Nine Inch Nalls perform In Omaha, Page 9
PAGE 2: Haiti invasion averted through agreement
September 19, 1994
The (veal) Big Apple
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A band marc has Saturday past a window painting on a business In downtown Ne
braska City. The band played during the annual Applejack Festival parade.
Apple celebrated in weekend festival
By Pauli Lavlgw
Senior Reporter
NEBRASKA CITY — Ferd
“Grandpa’* Lintel stood over a
steaming, copper kettle stirring a
mixture of gooey brown liquid. A
man approached him, bent over the
kettle and asked why he was mix
< ing baked beans.
“It ain’t beans," Lintel said,
► grumbling. “Beans in apple coun
try? It’s apple butter.”
Lintel’s apple butter demonstra
tion at the National Arbor Day
Farm in Nebraska City was part of
the festivities surrounding the 26th
annual Applejack celebration.
Lintel said during the three
hours it takes to mix apple butter
— a combination of apples, sugar
and spices — people kept assum
ing he was mixing beans.
“Yeah, it’s crazy. It makes me
mad when they think it’s beans or
even chili,” he said. “Sometimes I
don’t even answer them if they’re
gonna be that dumb.”
Lintel and his wife, Delores,
own Grama's Jams and Jellies in
Lincoln. They’ve been selling their
products at the Applejack festival
for 14 years.
Randy Garlipp, assistant or
chard manager at the Arbor Day
Farm's Morton Orchard, said
people purchase more than S0,000
apples during the two-day celebra
tion.
“The star of today is the apple,”
he said.
The first Applejack celebrations
started off small. The local or
chards ran sale specials on apples
and apple-related products,
Garlipp said. With the city’s sup
port, he said, the celebration blos
somed.
The celebration now includes a
parade, Go Kart races, water bar
rel fights, pageants, craft and an
tique shows, live bands and street
dances. The festival draws 30,000
to 40,000 people.
The real celebration began Sat
urday at I p.m. with the Applejack
parade and marching band com
petition.
Thousands of people lined Cen
tral Avenue, which runs through
the heart of downtown Nebraska
City, as a flood of marching bands,
politicians and floats went by.
Jennifer Thompson adjusted her
tiara while finding her seat on the
royalty float. Thompson, a senior
at Nebraska City High School, was
crowned Miss Applejack during
the annual pageant on Sept. 11.
“I feel very excited to be Miss
Applejack. It’s hard to believe I'm
the queen of the Applejack festi
val,” she said.
Thompson, 18, has been a na
tive of Nebraska City since she was
bom. She said she'd been coming
to the Applejack festival ever since
she could remember.
During her reign as Miss
Applejack, Thompson will attend
various events throughout the year,
including city council meetings.
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UNK chancellor
focuses on faculty
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
Gladys Styles Johnston is the new
kid on the block.
Formally inducted Friday into the
University of Nebraska system, the
new chancellor of the University of
Nebraska at Kearney has some things
10 say aDoui ner
school.
Ready or not,
here we come.
Johnston
said Sunday
from her home
in Kearney that
she felt person
ally responsible
for improving
her campus.
. She said under
Jonnaton her |eadership
UNK would build a strong faculty and
would increase the amount of finan
cial aid to attract the best students to
UNK.
That responsibility, she said,
would shape her goals for the future.
Johnston said she was currently
hitting the road, trying to drum up
financial support for students at
UNK. She said one of her short-term
! goals was to help hstudents work less
and study more.
“When you have to work to com
pletely support yourself, that’s too
much,” Johnston said. “Some of them
(students) have more than one job.”
Working your way through school
is not bad, she said, but neglecting
studies to work is.
Johnston said she would also try
to recruit the best possible faculty to
give students the best possible edu
cation. A strong faculty would attract
the best students to UNK, she said.
Johnston, who was named UNK
chancellor in August 1993, a few
months before Dennis Smith was se
lected as the new NU President, said
she and Smith agreed on the impor
tance of a strong faculty.
She said that could only help her
and the students of UNK. At UNK,
all classes are taught by faculty, she
said.
UNK is also a new kid on the NU
block, Johnston said, but the school's
future is wide open with a new leader,
new agenda and new procedures.
UNK was inducted into the NU sys
tem in July 1991.
With a new chancellor, a new
president and a new place in the NU
system the best way for UNK to make
its mark is to excel, Johnston said.
“You can do all the talking you
want,” she said. “If you are good, then
that sells itself. There is no substi
tute for quality.”
Adding a fourth school to the NU
system gives students better options,
she said.
Johnston said UNK would not try
to replace the other schools, but
would have a unique niche in the sys
tem.
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln is the flagship campus, focus
ing on research, she said, and the
University of Nebraska at Omaha is
an urban, commuter campus. But
UNK, Johnston said, has a rural at
mosphere and focuses on teaching.
“One day, you’ll send your kids
here,” Johnston said. “If you want
them to be taught and advised by fac
ulty, you’ll send them here.”
75,000 fans see
HuskerVision
By Chad Lofnz _ _
Staff Reporter
More than 75,000 fans came to
Memorial Stadium on Saturday and
watched television ... sort of.
HuskerVision screens made their de
but at the Cornhuskers’ first 1994
home game, which was against
UCLA.
HuskerVision broadcast the foot
ball games on two 17-by-23-foot color
screens at the northwest and south
east comers of the stadium.
The screens are placed so that at
least one can be seen from any seat
in the stadium. They showed every
play, followed by an instant replay.
HuskerVision also included pre
produced features such as defensive
and offensive players of the week,
Armour Hot Dog of the Game (the
wildest looking fan) and audience
clips from the “fan cam,” said Jeff
Scnmahl, HuskerVision production
director.
The colossal video system was in
stalled this summer by Mitsubishi at
a cost of $3.8 million, which was
funded by sponsorships from Coca
Cola, FirsTier Bank and Chevrolet.
Memorial Stadium is the only college
stadium that does not share such a
system with a professional team.
The HuskerVision crew consists of
three camera operators, three student
assistants and a production crew of
three broadcasting students and five
professionals, who work in the stu
dio beneath the west side of the sta
dium.
For the first game testing of
HuskerVision, Mitsubishi consultants
assisted the crew, but they will hand
over future productions to Schmahl.
HuskerVision was tested before a
crowd of 36,000 on Friday night for
the “HuskerVision Kickoff Celebra
tion,” during which pre-produced
features and game clips from the
1993-94 season were flashed on the
mammoth screens.
In preparation for its first game
production, Schmahl invited Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln fraternities
to play their flag football games in
Memorial Stadium last week. The
HuskerVision crew practiced replay
ing the action on the system.
The crew was we 11-prepare^ on
game day. Melissa Kehoe, a junior
broadcasting major and member of
the production crew, said the produc
tion went better than expected. The
only complication was editing first
half tapes during halftime for the
highlights footage, she said.
Kehoe said her favorite
HuskerVision moment was the “tun
nel walk,” when the Huskers took the
fjeld at the beginning of the game.
She said the crew could hear the thun
derous crowd reaction from the stu
dio beneath the stadium.
HuskerVision’s purpose is to
please the fans, Schmahl said.
“It makes the game more enjoy
able, more entertaining. We’re giv
ing something back to the fans."
