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__ WTTH A REAL ROCK BANK UCOLNS WIDEST l MOST EXPERBCB) BAND SH*THOOK EVERY THURSDAY NGHT ONLY AT. 1412 0 St. *474-3543 Thursday Madness . Come to Friday's on Thursdays tor zuc cnicKen wings att day, an night (lounge only). Order all the wings you can eat (in orders of 10). Enjoy the best Long Island Iced Teas in town every Thursday for $2 from 11am to lam. Weekends always start on Thursday at: I f \ 2 : .' . ■ v We’ve heard enough about what’s wrong with our communities. Now it’s time to get things done. AMERICORPS*NCCC IS YOUR CHANCE TO: mSKMiKmlmmU Restore parks and endangered habitats. Teach children to read — and to love learning. Build homes for the homeless. Keep teenagers in school, off drugs. Immunize infants. Turn gang battlegrounds into kids’ playgrounds. Get things done. Colorado man charged in highway motor battle By Chad Lorenz Staff Reporter An attack on a Lincoln man led to a brutal battle between motorists on Cornhusker Highway Tuesday evening. Mark Meyers of Arvada, Colo., repeatedly rammed his ’94 Chevy truck into an ’87 Plymouth Sundance driven by Robert Thomas, 2932 N. 52nd St., Lincoln Police Lt. Lee Wagner said. Police gave the following account of the incident. The auto assault began on westbound Interstate 80 just before 7 p.m. when Meyers began tailgating Thomas. Thomas exited the interstate at the Waverly exit and headed west on Cornhusker Highway. Meyers con tinued to follow Thomas closely. Meyers allegedly hit Thomas’ Ply mouth from behind three or four times as the two vehicles headed toward 56th street, causing Thomas to stop his vehicle. Meyers’ truck rammed Thomas’ car again after he stopped and pushed it through the intersection, Wagner said. Thomas drove across the median and began traveling east on Comhusker Highway. Meyers then crossed the median ahead of Thomas. He began traveling west on the eastbound lane of Comhusker and hit Thomas’ car head on. Thomas then left his car and ran to another stopped car on Comhusker Highway. Meyers rammed his truck into that car and stopped to get out. He pursued Thomas on foot when police appeared on the scene and took him into cus tody. Meyers was charged with second degree assault, reckless driving, felony vandalism, suspicion of driving while intoxicated and refusal to take a chemical test. High-tech classroom to make debut in Hamilton 'N By Beth Narans Staff Reporter Some students taking classes in Hamilton Hall next semester will ex perience more than just a talking head. Hamilton’s room 110 will be reno vated into a high-tech classroom by August 1 for $99,330. The classroom will have multimedia access using a 3-gun projector that will receive sig nals from VCRs, computers, video discs and visual presenters, said Joe Goodwater, the project manager. The projector will allow movies, slides and animation on a big screen at the front of the classroom. The teacher will be able to control all the functions from one spot, he said. Installation of multimedia is go ing on around the university. Henzlik Auditorium, Bessey Auditorium and Architecture Hall have similar equip ment, Goodwater said. The univer sity also hopes to install a system in Love Library’s large lecture hall and in the Plant Sciences building on East Campus. Charles Ansorge, professor of health and human performance, said that to keep up with programs at other universities, the University of Ne braska-Lincoln needed multimedia renovations. Today’s students have grown up with technology, he said. They are much more demanding and require a lot more to stimulate their interest. Pictures, sound and motion in lec tures help meet the needs of today’s students. “It’s bringing Hollywood into the classroom in a positive sort of way,” he said. In addition, these classrooms help meet the different learning styles of students. Some leam better by hear ing the information, he said, while others benefit more by seeing the information. “Students really like taking these classes,” he said. About 800 students who had taken the classes with high-tech multime dia were surveyed, and the results were positive, Ansorge said. Faculty also think this communi cation is needed, he said. It allows them to be more than just a “talking head” and more than just a lone source of the students’ information. “We’re getting some pretty fancy classrooms,” Ansorge said. “It’s al lowing the teachers to provide a much more stimulating lecture.” Nelson pledges support for disability programs From The Associated Press While it appears he did a complete about-face on developmental dis ability programs, Gov. Ben Nelson said he has never faltered in his sup port for them. Nelson said he has found a way to bolster, rather than abandon, a pro gram for those with developmental disabilities. Many eligible people have re ceived services like job training, re spite care, rehabilitation and support to help them live away from home after they are too old for public edu cation. About 1,500 mostly adult, mentally retarded or otherwise dis abled people have been on a waiting list for the services. Nebraska was one of the first states to provide care from birth to age 21. “We agree that it makes no sense to invest in services for the first 21 years and then have few services available, risking the gains that have been made,” Nelson said at a morn ing news conference. “This is a wonderful day for a lot of people,” said Sen. Don Wesely of Lincoln, chairman of the Legislature’s Health and Human Ser vices Committee. “This is a very ambitious proposal and one of the most positive I’ve seen,” Wesely said. The senator had criticized Nelson in January when the governor pro posed to save money by scuttling the program. “I can see why some people thought that I had reversed my posi tion after I had offered a bill (LB726) to end the program,” Nelson said in an interview after the hearing before Wesely’s committee. He said the bill was a vehicle to promote a thoughtful and honest dis cussion of ways to meet the needs of these people in a responsible manner. Nelson said he never had an adversarial relationship with advo cates of the programs, but he didn’t want to play a cruel hoax on them if the money wasn’t going to be avail able. At his request, the committee killed the measure. Research gave American Heart him a future w**rs=