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inside onday Sports Huskers to play Georgia in first round of NIT, page 9 Arts & Entertainment The Flying Karamazov Brothers land at the Lied Center, page 12 March 13, 1995 Clinton to congratulate Huskers! By Jeff Zeleny and Jeff Haller Senior Editors WASHINGTON — Nebraska’s delegation in Washington today will undoubtedly be the biggest and stron gest of any state in the country. Nebraska’s usual delegation offive senators and congressmen will be joined by the national champion Comhuskers, who will be honored today by President Clinton in a White House ceremony. Clinton is scheduled to congratu late the Huskers at 11:30 a.m. in the East Room of the White House. After the presidential ceremony, the team will meet with members of the na tional and Nebraska media on the White House’s north lawn, said White House spokeswoman Laura Schwartz. The Comhuskers defeated Miami 24-17 in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1. Nebraska finished the season 13-0 and was rated No. 1 in both The Associ ated Press writers’ poll and CNN/ USA Today coaches’ poll. Since the Huskers were named na tional champions,they have been hon ored and awarded by the governor, the Legislature and fans from across the country. Nebraska football coaching staff, university administrators and 89 mem bers of the team who suited up for the Orange Bowl left the Lincoln Munici pal Airport on a chartered flight this morning. The group is scheduled to arrive at Dulles International Airport in Vir ginia at 9:30 a.m. EST. The team will then be bused to Arlington Cemetery and arrive at the White House at 10:45 a.m., said NU Sports Information Di rector Chris Anderson. After the brief White House cer emony, the Huskers will eat lunch at the Occidental Grill at 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Anderson said. A 75-minute bus tour of Washington, including stops at several monuments, will follow lunch, she said. Nebraska Sens. James Exon and Bob Kerrey will be the hosts for a reception for the Husker contingent at 3 p.m. in the Russell Senate Office Building. Nebraska’s three congress men %lso are scheduled to meet with See WASHINGTON on 3 How the day in Washington will go for the national champion Cornhuskers. ■ 11:30 a.m. - Get congatulated by President Clinton in the East Room of the White House. Afterward, meet media. ■ Take a 75-minute bus tour of Washington including stops at several monuments. ■ 3 p.m. - Go to a reception at the Russell Senate Office Building with Nebraska Sens. James Exon and Bob Kerrey. ■ Take a walking tour of the Capitol after the reception. Learning to lose Travis Heying/DN Cambridge player Tyler Shifflet concentrates in the locker room hallway Thursday before his team won in the first round of the state tournament. Top: Margaret Verraneault, a player's grandmother, is upset about a call Thursday. Cambridge boys toppled in tourney, still emerge champs By PePra Janssen Senior Editor Victory threatened to slip away. Three minutes and 22 seconds remained on the clock. The sea of black and orange on the east side of the gym was still as the Fremont Bergan Knights recovered from an 18-point deficit at halftime to bring the score to within three points. Cambridge was at the free-throw line. Swoosh. The sea stirred excitedly for a moment. Swoosh. Waves erupt in the sea now. As the clock ticked down to zero, the waves became a storm. When the buzzer pierced the air, only eight points separated the Cambridge Trojans, who would advance to the semifinals in the state boys’ basketball tournament, from the Knights, who would go home. The second-ranked Trojans had to win. They had to win because no boys’ basket ball team from Cambridge has been to the tournament since 1988. They had to win because no boys’ basket ball team from the southwest Nebraska town of about 1,100 has made it past the first round of the tournament since 1977. They had to win because in Cambridge, winning is everything. Almost half of the town’s residents made the 200-mile journey to Lincoln for the tour See CAMBRIDGE on 6 Micron plant decision to be today From Staff Reports Micron Technology Inc. will announce where the company will locate its computer-chip plant today at 9:30 a.m. Micron has said it would build a $ 1.3 billion, 3,500-employee plant in Omaha, Oklahoma City or Utah County, Utah. The company — based in Boise, Idaho — trimmed their list of potential locations down to three in February. The final announcement ini tially was to come at the end of February, but Micron has delayed its selection several times. Nebraska legislators have passed three eco nomic incentive laws aimed at luring Micron to Omaha. The University of Nebraska also has offered benefits for the company. Oklahoma and Utah have also offered several incentive packages to Micron. Joe Jenkins, executive director of the Utah Department of Community and Economic De velopment, told The Associated Press that Utah was “in the No. 1 spot” for the Micron plant. SCC offers more courses for summer By Angie Schendt Staff Reporter The Beatrice and Lincoln campuses of South east Community College will offer 50 classes this summer that will transfer to UNL. The courses are cheaper than university courses: $35.25 per credit hour at the Beatrice campus compared to $68.50 at UNL for resi dents, and $42.75 compared to $186.50 for non-residents. The Lincoln SCC campus offers slightly cheaper prices because it is on a quarter system. But Earl Hawkey, director of registration and records at UNL, said he hadn ’t noticed a big movement toward community colleges for sum mer classes or for full-time students. “We don’t see this as a trend,” he said. Hawkey said an advantage that universities had over community colleges was course offer ings. Two-year colleges are more restricted, he said. Richard Ross, dean of general education at Southeast Community College, said records on the number of students dropping out of univer sities and coming to Southeast Community College were not kept. “There is always traffic back and forth,” Ross said. • rw In addition to the amount of classes offered, the levels are of a broader range at UNL. South east mainly offers entry-level courses, while 100- through 400-level classes are taught at UNL. See SCC on 3