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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
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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
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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.
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