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_January 16, 1996_
Jay Calderon/DN
Yohance Christie, a seventh grader at Irving Junior High, makes the “I Have a Dream” speech of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., as part of the Federal Holiday Commission’s march and presentation Monday.
Jay Calderon/DN
More than 300 people braved cold
weather Monday to march from the
Lincoln/Lancaster County/City
Building to the Nebraska State
Capitol.
Marcmng masses
Youth gather to celebrate King’s
message of unity, non-violence
By Ted Taylor
Senior Reporter
More than 300 people — most of them
youth —- braved cold weather and took a
“day on” to march from the Lincoln/Lancaster
County/City Building to the State Capitol for
Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
“A day ON, not a day OFF,” read a banner
the group carried to the Nebraska Legisla
ture, where they gathered Monday to cel
ebrate King’s birthday and message of non
violence.
Lincoln NAACP Director Rick Wallace
was surprised by the large number of people
who braved the weather to participate.
“I’m tremendously pleased,” he said.
“With 9 degree weather, we thought the
* turnout would be low.
“But that just goes to show the need for
interest and concern young people have for
themselves and the community, too.”
In the town-forum style rally in the East
Chamber of the Capitol, adults and children
took the microphone to tell what the slain
civil rights leader’s birthday meant to them.
“To get strength is to leam history,” Jay
Jeffers of Lincoln said. “Learn what your
ancestors and your relatives went through.”
And as King strived toward a nation undi
vided and non-violent, Jeffers stressed the
same point.
“There is nothing wrong with being in a
gang because that means you are in a group,”
he said. “That’s good.
“The only negatives come when you re
sort to violence.”
Becca Walker, a sophomore at Lincoln
Northeast High School, told the Daily Ne
braskan she attended the rally to show people
she cared.
“It’s a day of celebration,” she said. “He
helped make it possible that we could all be
here.”
Wallace said the rally — sponsored in
part by the Lincoln Youth Advisory Counci 1,
Consortium for Children and Youth and Sen.
David Landis of Lincoln—was the work of
the children.
“The youth were very instrumental in
putting this together,” Wallace said. “We
only guided them.”
He spoke on behalf of the Lincoln
NAACP, saying the organization was in
spired to see youth of all colors gathering on
the special day.
“It’s just a continuation of our mission
since 1909 — the year the NAACP was
founded,” he said. “It gives us inspiration to
know that we’ll be able to see this continue.”
Clinton speaks from Dr. King’s famed pulpit
From the Associated Press
ATLANTA—Preaching racial unity from
Martin Luther King Jr.’s pulpit, President
Clinton said Monday the slain civil rights
leader would find his dream unfulfilled to
day.
“He would say to us, 'You’ve still got a
ways to go,”’ the president said.
“We have to continue to heal the racial
divisions that still tear at our nation.”
Clinton waited three hours to speak, vis
ibly enjoying the memorial to the civil rights
activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who
would have turned 67 this year. King was
killed April 4,1968.
Linking arms with King’s son, Dexter,
and wife, Coretta Scott King, Clinton sang
“We Shall Overcome” and “Lift Every Heart
and Sing.”
Clinton laughed as comic Dick Gregory
poked fun at House Speaker Newt Gingrich
for complaining last year about having to
leave Air Force One from the rear door.
“You made him a Negro for a day,” Gregory
quipped.
In Indianapolis, GOP presidential candi
date Sen. Dick Lugar of Indiana recalled the
night Robert Kennedy told a crowd in the
state capitol that King had been killed.
“Crisis came in an awesome, horrible way
that night,” said Lugar, who was Indianapo
lis’ mayor at the time.
Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, front-runner
for the Republican nomination, issued a state
ment denying that U.S. society isracist, but
urging Americans to “swing open the doors
of opportunity” for all.
“As we begin the second half of the last
decade in this great American century, let us
dream a dream together, once again,” he
said.
Companies bid
to broadcast
Husker games
By Julie Sobczyk
Senior Reporter
Three companies have tossed their hats into
the ring for the exclusive rights to radio broad
casts of Nebraska Comhusker athletic events.
Learfield Communications from Jefferson
City, Mo., Great Plains Media from Elkhorn,
and Henry Broadcasting of San Francisco, Ca
lif., all entered bids to the University of Ne
braska by Monday’s 2 p.m. deadline.
Henry Broadcasting is the parent company
of KFAB in Omaha, the flagship station that has
broadcast Husker football and men’s basketball
games for more than a decade. The company’s
current contract, which began in 1992, expires
in July.
KFAB has held exclusive rights to the games
since 1983.
The university is asking a minimum of $1
million per year for five years to broadcast
football, volleyball and men’s and women’s
basketball.
Paul Carlson, UNL interim vice chancellor
for business and finance, said a committee of
seven people would review the proposals this
week.
The committee will rank the proposals and
present them to the NU Board of Regents for
approval, probably no sooner than March.
Although UNL was hoping for more bids,
Carlson said he was not disappointed that only
three proposals were turned in.
“I’m not upset by the number,” he said. “It
would be more difficult if we only had one. We
had thought there would be more based on
interest.”
If the university is not interested in any of the
bids, Carlson said NU could set up its own
network.
Commuters
must wait for
parking permits
By Melanie Brandert
Senior Editor
Commuter students who still need parking
permits this semester will have a hard time
getting them.
Tad McDowell, manager of UNL parking
services, said commuter permits for Area 20
and 21 lots sold out last Monday. He said 850
permits for this semester had been sold since
last month.
“We had a pretty high demand for those,” he
said.
A majority of students were buying permits
for the spring semester to replace their expired
fall semester permits, McDowell said. Others
purchased permits for both the spring semester
and summer.
Because of the heavy demand for commuter
permits, McDowell said, the parking office
started a waiting list for those who still wanted
to purchase a permit. McDowell didn’t say how
many students were on the list, but he said he
expected it to fill up quickly by the end of this
week.
Sales for other permits have been slow, he
said. Compared to last semester, when 1,200
students were turned down for permits, the
overall demand for permits this semester de
creased.
“The initial demand for spring isn’t as high
in the fall, due to people quitting school, gradu
ation and other factors,” he said.
A change also was made this semester re
garding shuttle bus transportation.
McDowell said a new shuttle bus stop was
temporarily added at Husker Hall, 23rd and U
streets. Residents indicated, through a survey
conducted by the housing office, that they would
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