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September Keeping track Ryan Soderun/DN TAMI BRAY, junior business administration major, enjoys the late summer weather with a walk around Ed Weir track Monday. Weather for the rest of this week is expected to turn wet with cooler temperatures following the passing of a cold front. Scattered thunderstorms and showers are expected,today along with highs in the 70s. Lows tonight should be in the 40s. * Perot picks economist as his running mate DALLAS (AP) — Snubbed by several es tablished political figures in his search for a run ning mafe, Ross Perot picked economist Pat Choate on Tuesday to share his Reform Party presidential ticket, calling him “a person of in tellect, courage, integrity and grit.” Choate is a protectionist and was a strong Perot ally in opposing the North American Free Trade Agreement. He was Perot’s coach for a televised NAFTA debate the Texas businessman had with Vice President A1 Gore. “He knows the system as few do,” Perot said, announcing his choice in a 30-minute infomercial on CBS. “He knows what’s wrong with it. We agree what’s wrong with it. His views are your views out there across America.” For his part, the campaign novice Choate said he joined Perot’s third-party ticket because government can’t be reformed “from the in side.” “It cannot be changed by either of the two major political parties,” the bearded candidate said. “...Too many people profit too much at public expense.” Choate co-wrote a book with Perot after Perot’s unsuccessful 1992 presidential run and recently has traveled the country promoting the Texas billionaire as the best alternative to the two major party candidates. He lives in the Dis trict of Columbia and is little known outside of Please see PEROT on 3 Golden Key wins award, scholarship at convention By Kelly McNally Staff Reporter' For the second year in a row, the UNL chap ter of the Golden Key National Honor Society earned the society’s Key Chapter Award for community involvement. The Nebraska chapter returned from an in ternational convention in Scottsdale^ Ariz., on Aug. 9, with the chapter award and a $10,000 scholarship for one of its members. Golden Key has 244 chapters in the United States, Puerto Rico and Australia. All chapters were eligible for the award, but only the top 20 point earners received the Key Chapter Award. Points are awarded to chapters based on their level of involvement in communities. This is the second consecutive year that the University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter, which has about 500 members, has received the Key Chapter Award. This is an unusual feat, but not a surprise to Kali Kirkham Boatright, national, director of public affairs. < “Nebraska is consistently one of the best chapters,” she said. The award recognizes the UNL chapter as being active and contributing to the community, said George Sturgeon, local chapter adviser and associate chemistry professor. Sturgeon highlighted activities that Golden Key participated in last year that led up to re ceiving the award. The chapter worked with Lincoln Public Schools and the Athletic Department to put on the annual “School is Cool Jam” in the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The society also held honors dinners for members who had maintained a 4.0 GPA. The students were invited to eat with deans and ad ministrators. Members also gave presentations at national and regional convocations. The Golden Key Scholar award was pre sented to UNL graduate Stephanie Brauner. She was one of five members internationally who received a $10,000 scholarship for graduate study. Brauner is now a freshman law student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. UNL professors bring knowledge of capitalism to Albania By Josh Funk Staff Reporter i is edging its way into ope with the help of eight i»uit£Sors who had to overturn decades of communist ideology. Albania is a small country north of Greece and southeast of Yugoslavia. It became the focus for the professors’ work after civil war prevented them from working in Yugoslavia, as they had planned. Sang Lee, a University of braska-Lincoln management profe led the team to teach Albanian go\ ment officials and tra dies with a f for Inter professors first-ever master’s program in business adminis last spring. hrnieh the nrnfessors nlanned to a We can bring back to the classroom what worked and what didn't in the real world. We are able to teach reality, not textbooks" Steve Sommer UNL business professor work in Yugoslavia, much of their re search also applied to nearby Albania, a former communist state with about 3.5 million people that also claims to be the world’s first atheist country. “Albania had just opened its bor ders, so with our knowledge of die re gion we just stepped in,” said Steve Sommer, management professor. The transition to a market economy is neither quick nor easy because the professors had to teach die Albanians a different way of thinking. They used seminars as well as con centrated classes to teach capitalism and started business programs in some Albanian universities. Albanian fac ulty is already studying capitalism-re lated courses at UNL. “We tried to introduce things that will endure and help them make the Please see ALBANIA on 3 Breakthrough A team of eight UNL professors established Albania's first ever MBA program to help the former communist country adjust to a free market economy. Aaron Steckelberg/DN