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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1996)
WEDNESDAY «C33»M«<33»*««33»M«<33»M«i33»M«€33>M««33»M«<33»IM WEATHER: Today - Partly cloudy & warm. Southwest wind 15 to 25 mph. Tonight -A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms._ Anril 24. 1QQ6 Runner will make trip to Atlanta finals Obstacle course winners receive sportswear, trip By Todd Anderson Staff Reporter Brian Sorensen has tackled some tough ob stacles before, but never for a chance to go to Atlanta to see the 1996 Summer Olympics. Sorensen, a sophomore criminal justice ma jor, ran the best time in the men’s category in the Champion Guts to Glory Athletic Challenge Course this past weekend on the Memorial Mall, east of Memorial Stadium. Pyra Aarden, a senior arts and sciences ma jor, was the women’s category winner. She could not be reached Tuesday night. Sorensen said he heard about the obstacle course from his friend Scott Aurite, who put a clipping from the newspaper advertising the event on his residence hall room door. “I wasn’t even going to do it,” he said. “We were on the way to play racquetball and we just decided to do it.” Several hundred men competed in the chal lenge, which included starting blocks, Olympic rings, boxing gauntlet, balance beam, vaulting box, stairs, training sled, monkey bars, and hurdles. Sorensen completed the course with a time of 16.4 seconds, he said. Clad in his newly acquired Champion shorts, shirt, and hat, Sorensen said his parents refused to believe that he had won the challenge. “They thought I was kidding,” he said. “I had to show them all the clothes before they be lieved me.” For having the best completion time on the obstacle course, Sorensen won approximately S400 worth of Champion athletic gear and a expenses paid, round trip for two to Atlanta to compete in the finals, he said. He said he has not received the whole prize package, which included shoes, clothes, bags, and hats. “They said they will supply me with every thing I need,” he said. Sorensen will go to Atlanta in July with See WINNERS on 8 berringer Killed on impact, report says From Staff Reports Both Brook Berringer and Tobcy Lake were killed on impact, Lancaster County Attorney Gary Lacey said Tuesday. Berringer and Lake were killed when their 1946 Piper Cub airplane crashed near Raymond on Thursday. The plane, piloted by Berringer, burned on impact. The autopsy report said both men suffered severe head and chest injuries from the crash. Berringer, 22, broke his skull, legs and jaw while Lake, 32, died from various injuries to his chest and ribs. The autopsy also indicated the two men who grew up in Goodland, Kan., bled internally. Berringer, a former Comhuskcr quarterback, and Lake were buried Monday in Goodland. The plane Berringer was piloting crashed around 2:30 p.m. Thursday shortly after taking off from a grassy airstrip cast of Raymond. Federal agents are still investigating the cause of the crash. Tests also said there was no sign of drugs or alcohol in either of the bodies. Investigators from the Federal Aviation Ad ministration and the National Transportation Safety Board have said it may take up to four months before results of the probe were made public. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Tanna Kinnaman/DN Cindy Kamphaus, left, a senior elementary education major, holds an aloe plant while Anna Waido, sophomore elementary education major, cuts off the end. Kamphaus and Waido performed a volume displacement experiment on the aloe plant during the Hands on Science event at Henzlik Hall Tuesday. Hands-On Class puts fun into science By Tasha E. Kelter Staff Reporter Physics on the playground and the me chanics of toys are two ways the Hands-On Science program proves that science docsn ’ t have to be boring. - “Science is a verb as well as a noun,” said George Veomett, the program’s associate director. And the objective of Hands-On Science is to teach elementary education majors “the idea of science as verb,” he said. Veomett said fun was one of the main goals of the interactive courses. “(The instructors) try to present material the way they want teachers to present it,” he said. The courses — physics, chemistry, biol ogy and earth sciences — consist of a four hour laboratory and a one-hour lecture. The classes are rotated by semester with three offered one semester, a different set the next. Physics, chemistry and biology are in session now, and earth sciences will be of fered in the summer. The four-hour labs are another distinctive aspect of the Hands-On Science program. “We’ve more or less reversed the propor tion of time in labs vs. time in lectures,” Veomett said. “We want to change the face f science education by working with teach rs and future teachers.” The program is a collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and the Teachers College, Veomett said. Classroom activities are nontraditional, such as the physics of ballet and mechanics of working toys — “not what you would normal ly think of in terms of science classes,” Veomett said. Generally, students have been exposed to elementary classrooms and taken science in high school. Admission and success in the courses depend more upon experience in education than science, Veomett said. The classes are “team-taught” by profes sors, teaching assistants and Nebraska pub lic school teachers, Veomett said. “The idea is that students will be able to relate to at least one of them,” he said. Most of the students have taken Curricu lum and Instruction 197 as a prerequisite, said biology teacher and co-founder Dave Crowther. • Crowther, Jim Landon and Kathy Jacobitz originated the Hands-On Science program in 1993 with a biology class. Since then, Crowther said, the success rates have been See SCIENCE on 7 -±-:I Protest over Playboy hits second day By Julie Sobczyk Senior Reporter The flap over Playboy magazine in Lincoln grew in its second day Tuesday with the protest' increasing by two people and a local radio station talk show ■ “We got one of gathered at Broyhill the protester’s plaza and John t+ * Baylor’s morning talk Jtiers. It WUS sh<;w, on KLIN as- kind of cute. ” sailed the University J of Nebraska-Lincoln DAVID MECEY P'^boy photographer advertisements about _ the magazine should not have run in the Daily Nebraskan. But Playboy had already seen 32 women by Tuesday afternoon with a few more set to inter view, said Playboy contributing photographer David Mecey. The hype about the ads in the DN is ridicu lous, Mecey said. “It’s a business venture,” he said.-“I don’t know how people can say it’s more than that. The ads don’t say the paper is for or against Playboy. It’s merely business.” Mecey said Playboy placed ads in the Daily Nebraskan and not the Lincoln Journal Star because the magazine wanted only college stu dents for its special Big 12 edition. “We’re looking for college students, so it seemed obvious that the place to reach them would be the student newspaper.” The protesters and media attention didn’t bother him at all, Mecey said. “We’re not on campus,” he said. “We’re at the Ramada Hotel in Lincoln. “We got one of the protester’s fliers. It was kind of cute.” Nancy Berg, a UNL freshman who orga nized the protests, said she wasn’t disappointed about low turnouts both days. “It’s really not about numbers,” Berg said. “I think a lot more people have shown their sup port verbally, whether they could make it here or not. They are here in spirit.” Emilie Sinclair, a freshman art major, said the group was not protesting Playboy magazine, but rather that they had come to Lincoln to find See PLAYBOY on 6 Union Board votes to continue sale of tobacco products By Todd Anderson Staff Reporter Union Board members voted to continue to allow the sale of tobacco products in Nebraska unions Tuesday night at the bi-monthly board meeting. Nebraska Union director Daryl Swanson raised concern about providing space for to bacco products at the new information desk that would be created in the City Union after the expansion. The current information desks in both unions sell cigarettes and chewing tobacco. A large percentage of the revenue from tobacco sales on East Campus comes from chewing tobacco sales alone, Swanson said. The Nebraska Unions were allowed to de cide for themselves whether to sell tobacco products in 1993 when then-Chancellor Gra ham Spanier made UNL a tobacco-free cam pus. Frank Kuhn, adviser to the Union Board, said if the board decided to stop the sale of tobacco at the information desks, the Nebraska Union would lose an annual revenue of about See BOARD on 7
