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Goalpost looting a rite of passage for fans
By Jtfftty Robb
Senior Editor
Scott Vhcck and Kory Koenig
are experienced in the art of
goalpost snatching.
Minutes after Nebraska’s 24-7
victory on Saturday over the Colo
rado Buffaloes, a crowd of Husker
fans wrestled the greased goalposts
to the ground.
\fecek of Omaha and Koenig of
Lincoln said they were among the
thousands of other fans who
stormed the field. But they weren’t
among the people climbing on the
goalposts, Koenig said.
“Now that we re graduated, we
let the students do the work and
stand back and watch,” he said.
Swanns of fans went their sepa
rate ways with the prized sections
of the posts. The crossbars had to
be broken from the uprights so
posts could fit through stadium
exits.
UNL Police Chief Ken Cauble
said that unlike past years, no dam
age was done as fens took the posts
from the stadium. Still, he said, the
athletic department would have to
cover the $4,000 cost of replacing
the goalposts.
Cauble said Sunday that sta
See VICTORY on 2
Chief doesn’t
want media
trying police
By Brian Sharp
Senior Reporter
UNL Police Chief Ken Cauble said
Sunday that he was angered by the
release of a report detailing his
department’s role in the circum
stances surrounding Francisco
Renteria’s death.
The report’s release will cause
problems for everyone, Cauble said,
by trying police in the media instead
of in the court system.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chancellor Graham Spanier, who re
leased the report on Friday, told the
Daily Nebraskan on Sunday he saw
no problems in releasing the report.
It is always better “to err on the side
of openness,” he said.
Renteria died on Oct. 1 following
a struggle with UNL and Lincoln
police officers. Spanier released the
findings of a committee charged with ^
reviewing UNL police policies rel
evant to the incident.
“I disagree with some of it (the
committee’s report) being released,”
Cauble said. “Not because I’m trying
to hide anything. But once it appears
in the newspaper, it’s no longer ru
mor but fact.
“And that’s what the grand jury is
supposed to decide.”
The report called the amount of
training that officers received at the
state training center in Grand Island
“woefully inadequate.”
It discussed UNL Police Officer
Charlotte Vfeskrna’s actions during
the incident and recommended
Cauble go over the use-of-force policy
with her.
Cauble said it wasn’t proper to
release that information before the
grand jury and justice department in
vestigations were finished, because it
denied officers their right to a fair
trial.
But Spanier said he promised the
report would be made public.
“We had said that before knowing
what the report would entail,”
Spanier said. “(The committee) did
See POLICE on 3
Students remember
Halloweens of past
By J«fT Randan
mnd Chad Urm_
Staff Raportara
Silly costumes, scary movies and
all the candy you can eat. That’s what
many students said they remembered
about celebrating Halloween as chil
dren.
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All u meant
to me as a kid
was free candy,”
said Katherine
Sweeney, a
freshman politi
cal science ma
jor.
Sweeney
tried to cel
ebrate last Hal
loween when
she was a for
cign exchange student in Switzer
land. She didn’t get any candy.
“A friend and! went door-to-door
in Switzerland, saying Trick or treat’
and asking for candy, Sweeney said.
’"Most people would open their doors
and say something like, 'Who the hell
are you?’ They dudn’t really under
stand what we were doing.”
Sophomore pre-medicine major
Ramneek Bhogal said he had a
stranger Halloween experience on
American soil when he was a fifth
grader in New Jersey.
“I was going door-to-door in an
apartment building, and a woman
came to the door half-naked,” Bhogal
said. "So, I went and got all my
friends to come back there with me,
but when she opened the door the
second time, she was unfortunately
dressed.”
Bhogal said Halloween still meant
“lots of free candy, but no more na
ked women.”
Erik Skaden, an economics gradu
ate student, said as a child, Hallow
een meant staying up to watch “Fri
See HALLOWEEN on 3
Spence not out, but admits
Nelson likely to win election
By Matthaw Walt*
Senior Reporter
Gene Spence is not giving up.
And neither is Gov. Ben
Nelson.
Spence, Republican candidate
for governor said he was the long
shot candidate, and low campaign
funds would make catching up dif
ficult.
He told newspapers this week
end that he was not a good candi
date, failing to prove leadership to
Nebraska voters.
But the remarks don’t signal the
end for Spence.
His campaign manager, Brent
Rose, said Sunday that the cam
paign would continue, and Spence
would be on the ballot.
“Not once in the articles does
Gene say he’s quitting," Rose said
from the Spence for Governor of
fice in Omaha. “He’s in the race
and we’ll see where the cards fall
Nov. 8.”
Spence’s comments won’t slow
down Nelson’s campaign either,
the governor said.
Rose said Spence’s supporters
always knew he would be the un
derdog. Nelson out fund-raised
them 10 to 1, Rose said.
The Spence campaign, he said,
had spent all its money on the pri
mary and had to start over with
fund raising. Nelson had four years
to raise Rinds for his campaign,
Rose said.
The Spence campaign plan this
week, Rose said, was to end up
with enough money to pay the
campaign’s bills.
“The whole idea with cam
paigns is you end up with zero,’’
he said. Rose said Spence planned
to buy some TV ads, but not as
many as Nelson.
Nelson’s campaign said he
would continue to campaign for
votes.
“We’ve been out working hard
like the Nebraska football team,”
Nelson said. “When the game day
came, they were prepared and they
won.”
Nelson said Spence’s remarks
would not affect his campaign
strategy. He said he would not pull :
any ofnis advertising efforts.
The concern now is to make
sure people turn out to vote, Nelson
said.
“I just want to be sure that no
body lets their guard down and
thinks this race is over,” he said.
The Aasoclated Prras contributed to
this report.
