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January 10,1996
Student earns trip to Fiesta Bowl
By Erin Schulte
Staff Reporter ’ v'"
Good football picks in an Internet contest
earned one UNL junior a free trip to Arizona
to be Gatorade’s “cyber-reporter” at the Fi
esta Bowl.
Chris Garry, a junior advertising major,
won a six-week Internet contest to predict
the top 25 college football teams in the USA
Today/CNN coaches’ poll.
As “cyber-reporter,” Gariy attended all
the press conferences in Arizona and also
interviewed Chris Fowler, anchor of ESPN’s
“College Football GameDay.”
While in Arizona, Garry tape recorded a
daily diary. Gatorade is making a home page
for his reports on the pre- and post-game
activities and both teams, he said.
“I’m a marketing minor. I got to see all the
PR (public relations) stuff,” he said. “I might
even try to get an internship out of it this
summer.”
In return for his reporting stint, Garry got
six days and five nights at Embassy Suites,
two First-class airplane tickets, $500 cash,
and various Gatorade clothing and promo
tional items.
Several thousand people participated in
the contest, and Garry beat the second-place
winner — a Florida native — by only Five
points.
Although point totals were shown every
week, Garry said he was not informed of the
final score until a few weeks after the contest
ended.
“They made me sweat it out for a couple
of weeks. I just Figured the guy from Florida
won it,” he said.
Gatorade is sponsoring another contest
on the Gatorade Cooler site on the World
Wide Web this spring and sending the win
ner to the NCAA basketball Final Four in
East Rutherford, N.J., Garry plans on enter
ing that contest, too.
“I told them, ‘I’ll see you in The Meadow
lands.’” he said.
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Chris Garry works in the computer lab at Pound Hall on Tuesday. Garry
won a trip to the Fiesta Bowl.
Nursing bill
advanced by
Legislature
By Ted Taylor
Senior Reporter
The Nebraska Legislature told nurse prac
titioners Tuesday afternoon that they still
have to get a note from the doctor before they
go to work.
-Senators advanced
IPIlielSItlirP LB414» which would al
LcyioldUliC jow nurse practitioners to
perform certain minor
medical procedures with
out a doctor’ s supervision.
But after debating for
parts of two days, an
amendment eliminating a
requirement for a nurse
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natures from doctors be
tore practicing, senators rejected it zy-lo.
Thirteen senators took the floor during
the afternoon to debate the amendment.
LB414 was initially a priority bill intro
duced by former Sen. Connie Day, Norfolk,
before she stepped down because of health
reasons.
Sen. Don Wesely of Lincoln took over for
Day on the bill Tuesday, answering sena
tors’ questions on the floor throughout the
day.
After the amendment was defeated,
Wesely said supporters of the amendment
were up against a powerful lobby.
“Physicians are a very powerful group in
Nebraska,” he said, “and when they get to
gether as a unit, it’s tough to overcome that.”
The Nebraska Medical Association, the
Nebraska Family Practitioners Association
and the Nebraska Pediatricians Associations
were a few of the larger bodies that opposed
the amendment.
Wesely said that because 65 percent of
the nurse practitioners are in rural areas,
those communities would be hurt most by
the Legislature’s latest action.
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UNL delays dial-up decision
By Kasey Kerber
Staff Reporter
OfT-campus students dialing into
HUSKERnct through the campus
modem pool may breathe a sigh of
relief— for now.
The University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln Information Services has decided
to delay its decision to choose a pri
mary service provider until late into
the semester. With the switch, off
campus students would have been
charged for the provider’s services.
A primary service provider was
being considered because of the in
creasing number of off-campus calls
and the inability to purchase addi
tional* modems and lines to keep up
with demand.
Kent Hendrickson, associate vice
chancellor for information services,
said the decision was postponed so
more information from the vendor
candidates could be obtained.
“We have requested additional in
formation from vendors on their pro
posals, but not all of them have re
sponded,” he said.
Another reason leading to the de
lay was a desire for student input. If a
primary service provider were cho
sen, off-campus students would be
charged for the provider’s services.
This brought concern fromoff-cam
pus students who felt their views were
not being reflected.
ASUN President Shawntell
Hurtgen said, “We’ve been asked to
provide input from students on this
issue, and we will discuss this issue at
our first meeting.”
Whether or not a a primary service
provider is chosen, the process to a
final decision will be a slow one.
“We have to look and see if a
vendor’s proposal meets our require
ments and then decide which vendor
would best suit our needs,”
Hendrickson said.
“Then we would have to run the
proposal by the vice chancellors and
chancellor for their approval. They
might have questions, making this pro
cess take even longer.”
Hendrickson said the final deci
sion would not be made until at least
March,^or possibly not even this se
mester.
UNL direct loan program endangered
From Staff Reports
Less than a year after the program
began at UNL, direct lending for fed
eral student aid could be eliminated
with the passage of proposed Con
gressional reforms.
The direct federal loan program, in
which Stafford loans come through
•the government rather than financial
institutions, was launched two years
ago at 104 schools.
John Beacon, director of scholar
ships and financial aid at the Univcr
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, said direct
lending began among incoming fresh
men last fall and is to be implemented
for all students next year.
UNL originally applied to be ad
mitted to the program as a second
year school, Beacon said, to leave
time for problems to be worked out.
But one current proposal to reform
funding for the U.S. Department of
Education would scale back opera
tion of the program to 10 percent of its
current level, he said.
Such a cut would eliminate direct
lending at UNL and all but the original
schools.
Beacon said the university had
worked hard to make the program
succeed, and he would like to con
tinue it at UNL.
“What’s a little frustrating,” he said,
“is that we went into this in good faith.
We were told this is the way it was
going to be. Schools like us have in
vested some time and money into gear
ing up for direct loans only to be told
it could be yanked from under us with
out really giving it a fair shake.”
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New marketing strategy
won’t replace Herbie
By Julie Sobczyk
Senior Reporter
The rumor mill surrounding the
fate of Herbie Husker as lINL’s
mascot has kicked into high gear
again over a faxed message from
an athletic department official.
9 But take heart, Herbie’s job is
still secure — except perhaps as
the Huskers’ main fashion model.
Rumors of Herbie’s replace
ment started when Chris Bahl,
director of licensing for the ath
letic department, recently faxed
licensing companies about a shift
in Husker marketing strategy.
Now, license requests for
Herbie merchandise will only be
granted if the ideas are new, Bahl
said.
“You can only have so many
T-shirts with Herbie Husker on
them,” Bahl said. “If someone
brings me a new idea with Herbie
Husker, I’ll use it.”
Bahl said the shift in emphasis
was not an attempt to subtly get
rid of Herbie.
“It ’ s not a ploy to phase Herbie
out,” he said. “We just want dif
ferent products out there; we want
to balance the market.
“Let’s start using ‘N’ with
Huskers,’ ” he said. “We have been
licensing Herbie Husker for years.
People just keep redoing ideas
with Herbie Husker on it.”
Bahl said he had received more
than 2,000 license requests for
Herbie T-shirts, but the designs
were too stale.
Instead, Bahl said, he would be
granting more requests for mer
chandise using a black “N” with
the word “Huskcrs” over it—the
logo he said he preferred.
The logo has sold better than
Herbie on merchandise such as
golf shirts, he said.
“I don’t know why Herbie
didn’t sell as well,” Bahl said.
“Maybe it’s just appeal. Maybe
‘N’ with Huskersjust looked nicer
on that type of merchandise.”
Other members of the athletic
department confirmed Tuesday
that Herbie was not being ousted.
“He’s staying, as of right now,”
said Renee Swartz, yell squad and
mascot sponsor. “I’m not speak
ing for the future. As of now, it’s
safe to say the rumors are false.”
Athletic Director Bill Byrne
said last fall that he had only tabled
the decision to replace Herbie.
He was out of town Tuesday
and could not be reached for
comment.
