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Sen. Simpson to speak
on decreasing subsidies
By fonya uross
Staff Reporter
U.S. Sen. Alan K. Simpson will
speak at UNL today about cutting
subsidies for entitlement programs.
Simpson is the featured speaker
for the 17th annual Faulkner Lecture
Scries. Fie will speak in the Centen
nial Ballroom at the Nebraska Union
at 2:30 pan.
Robert Sittig. professor of politi
cal science at UNL. said Simpson
probably would speak about federal
subsidy program.', such as Medicare
and social security.
Simpson, along with Nebraska
Sen. Bob Kerrey, has been trying to
decrease funding for entitlement pro
grams, he said.
"The federal cuts have stemmed
from the programs that have become
too expensive to administer,” Sittig
said.
He said Simpson would attempt to
convince the audience that subsidy
programs need to be decreased.
Simpson is well-known for his
involvement with other government
programs. He was co-sponsor of the
Clean Air Act and helped enact leg
islation providing for permanent dis
posal of nuclear waste.
Simpson remains on the forefront
ofenvironmcntal issues. Heisamem
ber of the Judiciary Committee and
Finance Committee and chairman of
the Special Aging Committee.
The series is named after the late
E..1. Faulkner, who was executive
officer for Woodmen Accident and
Life for 44 years.
The lecture is free and open to the
public.
The naked truth
on first juice bar
By Jeff Zeleny
Semo" Wepcrte'
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fruit juice w i dark, '\crow earn near Lincoln,
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totally mule bodies ami shine or me gi anting
faces of men.
W hen Shakers Nebraska's firs; bare-.il!
juice bar — opened west of Waver!y two
months ago, eager customers flocked to an
attraction that is a rarity in the Midwest but
commonplace on the coasts.
Several county officials, while stressing
they have nothing against the alcohol-free
Shakers, hope the appeal eventually fades awav.
"There are people who aren’t too 'boded
with it being here," said Lancaster Lowry
Sheriff Terry Wagner. "They say 'Let it die on
its own :f that's what's going to happen.""
On an ordinary w eekday y is.it shortly after
midnight, about i5 young gym sat around the .
catwalk and sipped rvrr on, -orm mm.mum.
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juice after payng a S' _-o\C" cn.aige.
fancy. IM^yyoud icdecs sywmm me p'ramed
juice b.r. Dwwem vform u-r abom a tmec
song so: anc .utcir.ute. Oll-d ry ii.m-. r vt by
the bar and Imcr to Mooiads ", i; : -we d • i:..
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control m er bus -as the cm "e" si ore, A agner
said. "When you remm c m, iiqao: I icons
tnreat, the enance or regulation is yere dittn
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Desp te public concern, the Lancaster
Mounts Sheriff s Department has responded to
See SHAKERS on 6
Town forum may join groups
by lea layior
Staft Reporter
UNL student organizations and
administrators may soon meet to
discuss campus issues in a town
meeting forum.
The meeting will be sponsored
by The Rev. Larry Doerr of Cor
nerstone and Peg Blake, assistant
vice chancellor for student affairs.
“Larry and I have been discuss
ing this idea for the past two or
three years," Blake said. “But we
never got around to doing any
thing about it until last spring."
Doerr and Blake sent 25 letters
to various student groups and fac
ulty offices asking them to take
part in an initial planning meeting
scheduled for Oct. 25. Eleven have
responded.
Blake said she felt the students
needed something like this.
"A university is a place where
people have the opportunity to ex
plore issues and have dialogue on
a variety of subjects," she said.
Members of the Association of
Students of the University of Ne
braska. the Residence Hall Asso
ciation and the Office of Student
Involvement have expressed in
terest m the meeting.
A SUN President Shawntcll
Hurtgcn said she thought this would
be a one-of-a-kind opportunity for
student groups.
"1 don't know of anything that
mvolvesal! groups." she said. "This
w ill invite anyone to be a part of a
campus discussion."
Hurtgcn also said the meeting
would benefit smaller student
groups as well as the student gov
ernment.
“We will be able to listen to the
opinions of students and maybe
make some changes." she said, I
"and it would especially help build
the smal ler groups by helping them
branch out"
Jeremy Vetter, a junior history
and philosophy major and chair
man of RHA's student action team,
said a town meeting would be bet
ter than current discussion oppor
tunities available to students.
"Tins will give us an organized
chance to rationally discuss issues
going on around campus."
Doerr said he saw tins as a dial- 1
lenge to UNL students.
"If a campus can’t create a
model forum +br discussion, how
can we expect the public to?"
Both Doerr and Blake said they
hoped to hold the first town meet
ing before the end of the semester.
"Titis shouldn’t be all that hard
to set up," Blake said.
