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David Corbin, a University of
Nebraska at Omaha health educa
tion professor, said vendors weren’t
doing their jobs as responsible
adults.
“Vending machines make it too
easy for minors to purchase tobacco
products, and vendors have a poor
history of exhibiting vigilance in
monitoring vending machine sales
of tobacco products,” he said.
Opponents of the bill say they
feel they arc complying with 1993
legislation that prohibited vending
machines in areas frequented by
minors and only allowed them in
businesses with liquor licenses.
Walter RadClifle, a lobbyist for
the Nebraska Automatic Merchan
dising Council, said he believed his
industry was keeping up its end of
the law.
Radcliffc disputed Omaha Sen.
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Ernie Chambers’ claim that some
“il legal” vendors possibly put ciga
rettes where minors could steal them
in hopes of getting them addicted
and leading them to buy more.
“1 don’t know of any retailer in
the world who is going to enhance
shoplifting,” he said.
Art Ncppl, an owner of a vend
ing machine company in Omaha,
said the elimination of vending
machines would not lead to fewer
users.
“Ifthey want them, they will get
them,” he said.
Chambers asked i f the proposed
ban would put Ncppl’s company
out of business. Earlier, Ncppl said
that 16 percent of his clients were
from the tobacco industry.
“No, it would not,” he replied.
The committee took no action
on the bill Friday.
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Regents accept offer
for broadcast rights
By Julie Sobczyk
Senior Reporter —
Aflcr 13 years as the tlagship sta
tion of the Nebraska Sports Network,
KFAB no longer will have the cxclu
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fcin DAMAn»A cast Cornhusker
NU Regents athletic events.
ThcNU Board of
Regents approved a
proposal by Great
Plains Media Inc. of
Elkhom on Satur
day for the exclu
sive ri &ftts to
Husker football,
volleyball and
men’sand women’s basketball games.
Great Plains offered the University
of Ncbraska-Lincoln an $8.6 million
five-year eon tract for the broadcasting
rights. The contract begins Aug. 1.
Regent John Payne of Kearney said
- the proposal was good for UNL and
, Lincoln.
“That $8.6 million probably puts
the university in the top five radio
contracts in the country,” Payne said.
“It’s a tremendous situation for Lin
coln.” ^
Paul Aaron, president of Great
Plains, said he was glad the wait for the
regents’ approval was finally over.
“It ’sa bigrelief,” Aaron said. “Now
we can try to recover some of that $8.6
million through advertising.”
Aaron said lie would try to keep
KFAB’s Kent Pavclka as the play-by
play announcer for Husker football
and men’s basketball games. No for
mal contract with Pavclka has been
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made yet, he said.
Now, Aaron said, he and his part
ner, Dale Jensen of Lincoln, would be
accepting bids from radio stations to
broadcast Husker games.
So far,hcsaid, four radio stations in
Omaha and Lincoln, including KFAB,
have put in bids to be local affiliates.
Aaron would not say if he had ne
gotiated with John Mitchell of KKAR
in Omaha, and declined to say what
other stations had requested bids.
The network will not have a flag
ship station, he said.
Many of the 27 Nebraska stations
on the network have requested to re
main aboard, he said.
Other stations in California, Ar
kansas and South Dakota also have put
in bids to Great Plains about broad
casting Husker events, Aaron said. He
would not say which stations contacted
him.
In other business, the board ap
proved:
—a 5.2 percent increase for 1996
97 UNL residence hall room and board
rates for students choosing a double
room with 20 meals per week. The
current cost for that plan is $3,350
each year. With the increase, the cost
will be $3,525.
—a 4.4 percent increase for 1996
97 for students choosing a double room
with 14 meals each week. UNL now
offers a double room with 13 meals
each week for $3,295. The new cost
Tor 1996-97 will be $3,440.
—a request from the University of
Nebraska Medical Center to add two
floors to its transplant center at a cost
of $5.7 million.
Friendship should hinder
use of violence, poet says
By Todd Anderson
Staff Reporter
B.F. Maiz left his audience con
founded and awe-inspired.
Maiz recited his poetry and spoke
for a short time Friday evening at the
UNL Culture Center.
His role as a poet, he said, was to
“articulate the pain and hope of the
people and to find somewhere in that a
recurring theme of beauty .”
Maiz, whose poetry tells the stories
of people who have experienced pain
in their lives, recounted the background
stories of those in his poems.
Poets not only give the facts but
also a “feeling for the facts,” he said.
“Poetry can be the key to healing
and a tool of instruction,” he said. “It
otters an invitation for change.”
Maiz attended the universities of
Missouri, Ohio and Kansas and has
been the recipient of several honorary
doctorate degrees.
In 1993, Maiz received the
Wesleyan Peace and Justice Award
for his commitment to teaching and
practicing the principles of nonvio
lence.
People make the choice of whether
to use violence and should use it only
as a last resort, he said. There arc many
alternatives to using violence.
“If you have to use it,” he said,
“lament it and mourn it.”
People should move toward friend
ship and understanding, he said.
After his recitation, Maiz said stu
dents should continue to write, seek
input from others and pay attention to
members of older generations.
“Draw upon the collective wisdom
of our elders rather than the collective
stupidity of youth,” he said.
Drunken driving bill passed
In a 35-0 vole Friday, the Nebraska
Legislature passed a bill that made it a
criminal olTcnsc for suspected drunken
drivers to refuse to take a blood, breath
or urine test.
Minden Sen. Doug Kristcnscn at
tached an emergency clause on LB939
that would put it into effect as soon as
Gov. Ben Nelson signed it. Nelson is
expected to sign it, but he has been out
of town.
Sen. LaVon Crosby of Lincoln
made LB939 her priority bill earlier
this session.
The law would keep drunken driv
ers from slipping through legal loop
holes, according to sources.
In a Transportation Committee
hearing last month, Diane Riibc, the
public policy liaison for Nebraska
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers called
LB939, “a sound and needed attempt
to clean up the state’s drunken driving
laws.”
Nelson is expected to sign the bill
into law this week.
— Ted Taylor
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