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MONDAY WEATHER: Today - Mostly sunny and cooler. Northwest wind 15 to 25 mph. Tonight - Fair. Low in the COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SINCE 1901 ~ VOL. 95 NO. 65 mid 2 °S'___ —:— --- ■ ■ _- • > O A 1 HOw -— - ----—---—------ |___x t waiil/va jl y y j Shutdown ends; both sides claim victory WASHINGTON (AP) — The Clinton ad ministration and Republican congressional lead ers ended a six-day budget standoff Sunday night, sending federal employees back to work after the White House committed to speedy negotiations to balance the budget in seven years, “Tomorrow the government will go back to work and now the debate will begin in earnest,” President Clinton said, appearing in the White House press room shortly after the deal was announced. By voice votes, the Senate and House adopted identical one-day measures to reopen the gov ernment. The Senate also approved a bill fund ing the government through Dec. 15 and the House planned to follow on Monday. President Clinton signed the resolution at 10:10 p.m. The 24-hOur measure “permits all government employees to return to work tomor row,” White House spokesman Jim Fetig said. I Both sides declared victory — Republicans because the deal reflected their seven-year time table and Clinton because it spoke of protecting programs he considers important. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M., said, “I hope in the next three or four weeks we will produce a balanced budget with the president on board.” In the four-week spending bill, the White House and Republicans agreed the balanced budget legislation would “protect future gen erations, secure Medicare solvency, reform welfare, provide adequate funding for Medic aid, education, agriculture, national defense, veterans and the environment.” The bill docs not, as the White House had sought, raise the government’s $4.9 trillion borrowing ceiling. However, private experts agree the Treasury Department can avoid the ceiling for months by tapping retirement trust funds set aside for the civil service. The agreement followed a long day of nego tiating against a backdrop of restlessness among federal employees and the public. Forty percent of the federal work force — nearly 800,000 employees — have been on furlough. In a compromise key to the agreement, the two sides said the Congressional Budget Office will measure whether or not any eventual bud get deal eliminates deficits, but only after con sulting with the White House and other govern ment and private economists. The argument over whose technical and eco nomic assumptions are used is important be cause the White House budget office’s forecast would permit nearly $500 billion more in spend ing over seven years than the congressional office’s prediction. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., and House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and their chief deputies held a news conference where they could barely contain their euphoria. J “All I can say is, Yes!”’ House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich, said, thrust ing two clenched fists in the air. Republicans credited Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., for the key compromise. A reporter asked Dole, “Who blinked?” He responded with a smith and two words: “Seven years.” But Clinton said the agreement “represents the first sign of their (Republicans’) willingness to move forward without forcing unacceptable cuts... on the American people.” Senate Democratic Leader Thomas Daschle and the White House chief of staff, Leon Panetta, said the Democrats would be able to protect Medicare, Medicaid, education, the environ ment and a tax credit for working poor families. Clinton said he would veto a seven-year budget that failed to provide protections in these areas. “It preserves all of our options,” Daschle, D S.D., said. Arctic tents warm up in Morrill By Paula Lavigne Senior Reporter Karl Kuivinen wouldn’t nor mally have beads of sweat on his forehead while setting up an arctic camp. Kuivinen, director of the Polar Ice Coring Office, usually works in below-freezing temperatures, but lie set up tents in the more temper^ ate zone of Morrill Hall Sunday. Although there wasn’t any snow or ice, museum patrons explored the polar world of an arctic re searcher during a one-day exhibit called “Living and Working at the Ends of the Earth.” The exhibit opened in conjunc tion with the “Paintings from the Antarctic Wilderness” display in the museum’s Cooper Gallery. Children climbed in and out of tents, tried on oversized boots and gloves and watched an ice-coring drill demonstration. The exhibit interested more than children, though. Laura Ortmann, a freshman bi ology major, went to the exhibit because she wants to work in the arctic. She said the exhibit showed a more temporary research site, whereas she would like to work at a permanent research station. Her triend, Dana Packard, a freshman biological systems engi neering major, said she wanted to work in Alaska but didn’t know if she could handle the below-zero temperatures. Freezing temperatures would be no problem for Rick Clark and Eric Grclson, graduate geology students. Clark and Grelson work with Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln scien tists compiling data gathered at the. poles. Both are of Swedish and Norwe gian descent, they said, and would welcome a chilly summer. “I have nothing good to say about summer, and I never will,” Clark said. Kuivinen said the exhibit was designed to give people an under standing of what it was like work at the poles. Kuivinen has spent 33 seasons working in the inland areas of either Antarctica, Greenland or Alaska. Setting up the tents, he said, was like “setting up an old home.” “I’ve lived in all these tents,” he said. A summer day in Greenland has temperatures ranging from 20 be low zero to 20, he said, so the tents are designed to trap body heat. . . Scott Bruhn/DN WftA\«^^#ho9cilJSl?*wC,2th^,W0m by researchers in the arctic at the “Living and Working at the Ends of the Earth exhibit Sunday at Morrill Hall “A good day in the Antarctic or Greenland is like the worst day of winter here,” he said. The Scott Tent, designed for cold, dry conditions, could “save your life in almost any situation,” he said. The Arctic Oven is used for cold, wet conditions, he said, and has an impermeable outer layer and insu lation that make temperatures about 50 degrees higher than the outside temperature. “You could really seal yourself up in there,” he said. On the other side of the room, Clint Rowe, a climatologist study ing the effects of climate change on the Greenland ice sheet, demon strated a hand-held drill. The small drill is used to collect ice cores about 10 meters deep, he said. Some of the larger drills can collect ice cores about 2 miles deep. The ice cores are used to find two types of oxygen isotopes, he said, which can give an indication of what the temperature was like during a specific time. Kozak stresses teamwork By Paula Lavigne_ Senior Reporter Departments need to work together within a university if they want to succeed, said John Kozak, a candidate for chancellor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kozak, provost at Iowa State Uni versity, was the first of three candi dates to visit the university. He spoke at a press conference Friday. He stressed the importance of fac ulty members working in disciplines other than their own and doing re search with faculty of other disciplines. A workinguniversity is like a well tuned orchestra, he said. “You have a violin here, a tuba there, an oboe over here and a harpsi chord over there,” he said. “Each of these instruments can be played with marvelous ability and dexterity, but if you bring them together you have an orchestra. “You have everyone together to make beautiful music.” See KOZAK on 3 Caucus upset by lineup By Paula Lavigne Senior Reporter The chancellor search committee should have looked for qualified can didates outside those serving in top administrative positions, the chair woman of the UNL Faculty Women’s Caucus said Sunday. Caucus members were angered over theall-malelineupofthree chan cellor candidates at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The caucus issued a resolution Fri day stating it was “shocked and dis mayed the search committee could not see fit to include even one woman among its three finalists.” Caucus Chairwoman Mary McGarvey, associate economics pro fessor, said the committee should have made an attempt to include more women members in itscandidatepool. See CAUCUS on 3
