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Sports ■ McCartney calls It quits after 13 years at CU, Page 7 Arts and Entertainment ■ UNL Dance Department on solid footing, Page 9 PAGE 2: Gordon winds down Hastings man dies in crash By Bilan Sharp Senior Reporter Jeff Soucie was going home. He had planned to spend Thanks giving with his family in Hastings. But his parents and two younger brothers will spend the holiday with out him. Soucie died in a car accident on Saturday morning in Lincoln. The 20-year-old was a redshirt sophomore football player at Iowa State Univer sity. Many who knew Soucie have brought questions and grief to the Rev. John McCabe of St. Cecilia’s Catholic Church in Hastings. McCabe was superintendent of St. Cecilia High School when Soucie played football there. “Everybody wants me to tell them why,” McCabe told the Daily Nebras kan on Sunday. “I don't have an an swer to that question. Nobody has the answer to that question. “If God knows why, then only he knows. Maybe we’ll know someday. We'll see him again.” Soucie's father, Doug, said his son was coming home for Thanksgiving and had stopped in Lincoln to visit a friend when the accident occurred. The Cyclones were in Boulder, Colo., on Saturday morning when Jeff Soucie got into the 1988 Honda Ac cord with four other friends. Abel Santos Jr., 20, was driving. Soucie was seated in the right rear passen ger scat, Lincoln Police Lt. Steve Imes said. Santos had been dnnking. Imes said, but police reports do not indi cate to what extent. Police said Santos made a left turn at 23rd and Vine streets in front of a 1978 Plymouth Fury driven by Claude Epting, who also had been drinking. Police reports state Epting's car struck the right rear passenger side of the Accord at 1:16 a m. on Satur day. Soucic was pronounced dead at Lincoln General Hospital. Another passenger in Santos' car, Victor Atenity, was hospitalized, treated and released. Atchity, origi nally from Hastings, is a sophomore at the University of Nebraska-Lin coln. Santos and two other passengers in his car, all Nebraska Wesleyan • University students, were not seri ously injured. Police said Epting left See SOUCIE on 6 Powwow .. j«ff HaMw/ON Louie Thundar Hawk af Uncoln, a maaibar af tha Rasa Bud Sioux Triba, dancaa In NabraakaUnlan Saturday at tha fifth annual UMTS pawwaw. Below, Marcalla Gilbert, a UHL aanlar community haalth acbacatlon adaadaiMa bar af tha Lakata triba, shares a laugh with frfands and fans liarsatf with dollar Mils aha received after dancing. Drums set tempo of Indian celebration ■y John Fulwldf Staff Reporter The second floor of the Ne braska Union shook this weekend to the beat of the American Indian culture during the fifth annual UNITE Powwow. American Indians from 24 tribes gathered to celebrate their cultures and enjoy traditional dances and drum music in an event sponsored by the University of Nebraska Inter-Tribal Exchange. Originally, the powwow was a ceremony to conjure the cure for a disease. American Indians also used the ceremony, which involved feasts and dancing, to help them succeed in war. Although feasts were missing from this weekend's powwow, dancing was abundant. The powwow began with the grand entry, a procession that hon ors the American Indian dancers, said Helen Long Soldier, an edu cational specialist in the Multi cultural Affairs office. Grand entry participants, dressed in homemade traditional costumes, entered the Centennial Ballroom from the cast side, a tra dition that is symbolic for Plains Indians. Colleen Flores, an internation ally known Indian artist, said the Plains Indians customarily enter the powwow from the cast “be cause that’s where we come from.” Steven Tamayo of the Rose Bud Lakota tribe led the procession. He carried an American Indian flag made of eagle feathers. The group of about 70 danced to the drum beat of the Wakiya Singers from Porcupine, S.D. The singers played a song to honor the flag and then a victory song to honor American Indian warriors who have fought in the wars. The dancers formed a circle as they marched into the room. Us ing the circle, the dancers drew at tention to the great spirit, Long Soldier said. . Drums are an integral part of the powwow, Scott Means of the Lakota tribe said. “The drum is like the heartbeat of the people,” Means said. Means, a member of the Wakiya Singers, said drumming was im portant to him. “I sing for enjoyment and also as a responsibility to my people,” he said. Means said his forefathers taught him to play the drums and sing the American Indian songs, so he must teach the next genera tion. Drumming takes patience and humility, he said. “The young guys mess up some times,” he said. “It’s a real hum See POWWOW on 6 Several Lincoln engineers opposed to new college ■y PaPni Jaw—n__ Senior Reporter A Lincoln engineer said the creation of a second engineering college at the University of Nebraska at Omana would not affect the firm for which he works. Tom Thclen, senior vice president of HWS Consulting Group Inc., said a new college might even benefit the firm, which has offices in both Lincoln and Omaha. But, he said he opposed the creation of a second engineering college because the over all cost would hurt the state. “The bigger issue is what is the cost to ev ery industry and business in the state of Ne braska to duplicate a college already estab lished in Lincoln,” Thclen said. The benefits for his firm, however, would be twofold, he said. “There would be some advantage in creat ing a second college only from the standpoint that there would be more students in Omaha to draw from,” he said. “But, to be honest, that has not been a problem for our company.” A second college in Omaha also would al low the firm’s Omaha staiT to take courses to keep them up-to-date with new technologies, Thelen said. But that, too, is not a problem for the com pany, because employees take classes in Lin coln — only 55 miles away, he said. “The impact for us would be relatively in significant, he said. Other Lincoln engineers echoed Thclcn’s views. Although the creation of a second col lege at umana wouia not aircctiy anect tncir firms, many said, they opposed the proposal because of its possible cost. David Hayes, owner or E H Engineering LTD in Lincoln, said creating a second col lege in Omaha would not afTcct his five-man electrical engineering firm, but he was against the proposal “I don’t think there’s that much of a mar ket in Omaha,” he said. Hayes said his firm would be unalTcctcd by the creation of a second college in Omaha, because he rarely hired employees right out of college. The University of Nebraska’s engineering resources would be spread too thin if the rc {»cnts authorize the creation of a second col ege, Hayes said. More bureaucracy also would Omaha engineers react to a proposed engineering college at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. be added, he said. Hayes said the university should take ad vantage of its current engineering resources. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln college should offer more evening courses, he said. “There are a lot of courses I'd like to take, but they are only offered in the day,” he said. The Omaha program should offer core clcc See ENGINEERING on 0