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Wild 'n Western Weekend
Saturday, October 8 8pm - 1am
Benefit Dance
Featuring
Steel-n-Hearts
Airport Ramada Inn - Lincoln
$5 per person $4 with Student I.D.
minors welcome
Sunday, October 9 11:30am
Intramurals Rodeo
33rd & Leighton, East of Audio Visual
Events include:
Calf Tying*Dummy Roping-Steer Wrestling
Human Barrel Race*Goat Tying*Steer Riding
Wild Cow Race
no experience necessary
5 people per team 3 guys & 2 gals
$5 per person
event prizes & overall awards
$1 admission fee for non-contestants
Goat Roping directly following
$3 a man
Belt buckle to high money winner
I Coming Out Day to be Monday
By Angle Schendt
Staff Reporter
Activities to celebrate National
Coming Out Day will be Monday in
Lincoln.
As part of the event, an open mi
crophone will be at Broyhill Foun
tain. Students, faculty and staff will
have the opportunity to talk from 30
seconds to 15 minutes.
“People can sing, say they are gay
or read books or poetry by gay au
thors,” said sophomore Bill Schultz,
vice president of the Gay/Lesbian
Student Association at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Monday night, a panel of gay, les
bian and bisexual speakers will have
a question-and-answer session. The
two-hour session will be a walk-in,
walk-out affair, Schultz said.
Tuesday afternoon, Torie Osborne
will give a lecture titled “Being Gay
in the ’90s.” Osborne is a columnist
for the Advocate and a former mem
ber of the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force.
Schultz said this year’s events
would be different from last year’s.
“There were not very many activi
ties,” he said. “We had a booth in the
front of the Union. There was a lack
of money and organization.”
The events in Omaha are bigger
than last year’s also, Schultz said.
National Coming Out Day will be
held in Omaha on Saturday at the
Civic Auditorium.
A guitar signed by lesbian musi
cian Melissa Etheridge will be raffled
off, Schultz said. Other raffles and
booths from Omaha businesses and
groups also will be there.
After the events at the auditorium,
a dance will take place from 8 p.m.
to midnight. The group Lavender
Couch will play.
A few problems arose at events last
year, said Eric Jolly, director of the
Affirmative Action and Diversity
Office at UNL.
“In the past, there was at least
pushing and shoving, and sometimes
more difficult things,” Jolly said.
Some groups had problems with
the pink triangle stickers last year,
Schultz said. Jolly’s office distributed
the stickers to faculty last year.
The stickers were designed to be
placed on office doors to show that
faculty members were receptive to the
needs of homosexual students.
Controversy about the stickers re
ceived national attention. But the
stickers are available again this year,
Jolly said.
“Quite a few people who don’t
come out are too afraid to speak out,”
Schultz said.
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Changing health care
should protect values
By Rtbtcca Pitmans
Staff Reporter
Health care will change in the fu
ture, but it may not change for the
better, Dr. Charles Dougherty said
Thursday afternoon.
To judge whether any change is
an improvement, one must consider
ethics, Dougherty said in his speech
“Ethical Values at Stake in Health
Care Reform” at the Mary Riepma
Ross Theatre.
Dougherty, director of the Center
for Health Policy and Ethics at
Creighton University, served on
Clinton’s health care transition team.
But, he said, he did not come to
Lincoln to praise health care reform.
“There are fundamental values at
stake with the issue of health care,”
Dougherty said.
Universality, caring, protection of
the vulnerable, cost worthiness and
simplicity are some of the most im
portant values at stake, he said.
Universality, or the idea that ev
eryone should have health care, is in
question after a speech Clinton gave
recently, Dougherty said.
When asked if he would consider
covering only 95 percent of the popu
lation rather than 100 percent,
Clinton replied 95 percent was “kind
of universal,” Dougherty said.
“I don't think it's an option to just
wave 5 percent of the people away,”
Dougherty said. “The notion of hu
man dignity stands behind the idea
that everybody should have some
health care coverage.”
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that we sought out to work with us,
to help us and become our partners
were quick to abandon us," he said.
The language and cultural differ
ences caused by the growth of the
Hispanic community in Lincoln are
a “substantial problem” for police, he
said. But police are trying to address
the problem.
Casady said the department tried
to recruit officers who speak foreign
languages. Nine of the 17 applicants
accepted to the department in 1994
had studied a foreign language —
, II M.l.,—I — I.,
four of them Spanish.
There were 778 applications to
choose from, he said.
Records show 19 Lincoln officers
reported they had some knowledge of
Spanish; three were fluent. Four of
the 269 commissioned officers are
Hispanic. At UNL, there are none.
But dealing with members of other
cultures doesn’t require just having
minorities on the force, Casady said;
it requires training.
Sensing language barriers or dis
trust of police make a “tremendous
difference” in how police approach a
situation, Casady said.
Police are taught to recognize that
immediately, he said.
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NEBRASKA
Men's Tennis
HUSKER INVITE
FRIDAY
Oct. 7
9 a.m.
SATURDAY
Oct. 8
9 a.m.
Varsity Courts-Cather Pound
17th & Vine
Woods Park
33rd & J
Inclement weather: All matches will be
held at Woods Park.
Friday & Saturday: 8 a.m.
Free Admission
