Nelson says education is priority
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I Nelson spent an hour talking to
about 50 UNL students in the cafete
ria of Selleck Residence Hall Monday
night.
He answered questions about his
plans for financial aid, his balanced
budget and party divisions.
Nelson said he had high regard for
education and would protect financial
aid. Hagel, though, has said he will
cut the U.S. Department of Education,
starting with a 31 percent budget cut.
But Hagel has not specified where
the cuts would come from, Nelson
said, aside from 1.4 percent from ad
ministration and 1.6 percent from
Goals 2000.
“1 don’t think my opponent is a bad
guy, I just disagree with him about the
value of education,” Nelson said.
Nelson supported Congress’ recent
decision to add $2 million to the De
partment of Education’s budget, he
said.
Nelson said he wouldn’t fall into
pressure from the Democratic party
while in the Senate.
“They know they have to earn my
vote,” Nelson said.
Nelson said he could vote on the
Republican side as easily as voting on
the Democrat side because the party
< doesn’t matter; the issue does.
“I don’t tell anyone, ‘I’m in your
pocket. You can count on me,”’ Nelson
said.
“I don’t owe anyone in Washing
ton; I don’t owe them a thing.”
Hagel, Nelson still trading
shots after Sunday debate
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
A day after the mast rough-and
tumble debate of the campaign sea
son, both senate candidates were at
it again Monday — one claiming
the other was afraid of him, the
other saying his opponent was be
ing disingenuous..
Democratic Gov. Ben Nelson
and Republican businessman
Chuck Hagel were both campaign
ing in Lincoln Monday.
Hagel spent part of the day at a
senior center, the rest fund-raising.
Nelson spoke to students in Selleck
Hall Monday night.
Both candidates are vying for re
tiring Democratic Sen. James
Exon’s seat.
The debate Sunday night was
filled with interruptions and plain
arguments. The disagreements Sun
day night — which were so exten
sive the candidates couldn’t even
agree on a handshake at the end of
the debate — sparked more dis
agreements TUesday.
In any debate, Hagel said, there
are going to be natural differences.
He said, however, that his differ
ences with the governor run deep.
Hagel called a press conference
in Omaha Monday morning to criti
cize Nelson’s balanced budget plan,
saying it didn’t add up,- He said in
Lincoln that he and the governor
parted ways on several budgetary
issues, such as national defense and
tax breaks.
A common theme of Hagel’s has
been that he wants more debates and
more talk on issues.
Hagel said he has agreed to ev
ery debate planned and said the
governor has declined more de
bates.
“Obviously, the governor is run
ning away from me,” Hagel said.
“Obviously, the governor doesn’t
want to be at the same stage as me.”
Nelson said that was being dis
ingenuous. He said he had agreed
to a meeting to be televised on
KETV in Omaha earlier this
month, but Hagel declined.
The governor criticized Hagel’s
performance at the debate and other
debates, saying no more meetings
were necessary because Hagel
wouldn’t answer direct questions.
“Debate what?” Nelson said.
“He didn’t answer either of the
moderator’s questions (Sunday
night). There isn’t any reason to
debate.”
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Family dedicates replica
of East Campus porch
By Tasha E. Kelter
Staff Reporter
The descendants of the first
family to provide housing for agri
cultural students on UNL’s East
Campus gathered to dedicate a rep
lica of the house’s old porch Mon
day afternoon.
S.W. Perin lived and worked on
the University of Nebraska
Lincoln’s East Campus with his
wife Laura from 1889 to 1923. He
was the superintendent of the East
(formerly called Farm) Campus.
“He took care of everything,”
said nursery assistant Emily
Levine, who was one of the people
primarily responsible for the re
building of the porch at 37th and
Holdrege streets.
Perin’s granddaughter, Edna
Reeder Emerson, spoke at the dedi
cation and shared her memories of
the Perin family.
Emerson was the only one of the
granddaughters able to attend. Her
sisters, Courtney Reeder Jones of
Santa Fe, N.M., and Marian Reeder
Prentice of Columbus, could not
make the trip.
Great-grandchildren and great
great-grandchildren also came to
the dedication.
Emerson said seeing the porch
reminded her of visits to her grand
parents.
“It makes me think of the way I
felt when I was a child,” she said.
“It really is lovely.”
Levine, who researched the
plans for the porch with Wilbur
Dasenbrock and Kevin Herr of the
UNL Botanical Garden and Arbo
retum, said she looked at old files
and photographs in Love Library
to get a good idea of what the origi
nal porch looked like.
“I went everywhere I could,”
Levine said.
The porch is a two-sided struc
ture, somewhat like a bandstand.
“It’s just for people to sit,”
Levine said. “It’s free standing but
it doesn’t look out of place.”
Emerson said the porch was
where the Perin family and friends
gathered to talk, eat and socialize.
She said the dedication of the
porch “gives the whole community
a chance to know why it’s there.”
Lincoln gynecologist maxes
request for protection order
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter
A Lincoln gynecologist who per
forms abortions in Lincoln and Omaha
asked a district court judge Monday
to grant a protection order against a
group of anti-abortion rights protest
ors.
Winston Crabb and his wife,
Millicent Crabb, filed for the order
earlier this month after members of
Rescue the Heartland allegedly ha
rassed him throughout the summer.
During the hearing in front of Dis
trict Judge Paul Merritt, the attorney
for the Crabbs, Virginia Johnson,
asked the couple to describe their en
counters with the protestors.
Millicent Crabb spoke softly from
the witness stand when she described
how members of Rescue the Heartland
approached her at work and home.
In June, a handfid of the protest
ors came to Heart’s Content, the
needlepoint shop where Millicent
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That morning, two of them came
in the store and asked for Millicent
Crabb. When she identified herself,
one of the protesters, Larry Donlan of
Omaha, pulled out a camera, and took
a photograph of her face, she said.
Another protestor, Sharon McKee
of Omaha, started speaking to her
about her husband.
Millicent Crabb said she fled into
the back store, abandoning a customer
she was helping.
|' Later that afternoon, another pro
testor came in the store and harassed
her, Millicent Crabb said.
“She asked if my husband would
please stop going to Omaha and kill
ing those beautiful babies.”
The store manager asked the
woman, Melissa Abbink of Omaha, to
leave. When more protestors arrived
outside, Millicent Crabb became ner
vous, she said.
| “I said, ‘Lock the door. I’m really
iafraid of these people.’”
Similar encounters at her work and
■home continued throughout the sum
mer, she said.
“It’s very distressing to me. I feel
frightened myself. I feel frightened of
what they might do.
“I think the events of the summer
are ruining my life.”
The encounters have left her with
health problems as well, she said, in
cluding weight loss and sores in her
mouth.
“I have trouble sleeping. I have a
lot of systematic reactions — bowels
upset, headaches,” Millicent Crabb
said. • : • *•
Protestors who testified described
the incidents in almost the same way,
but said they never threatened or ha
rassed Winston or Millicent Crabb.
All three said they only were try
ing to speak with the couple about
Winston Crabb’s practice and to con
vince him it was wrong.
While Winston Crabb was on the
stand, he recalled times when Donlan,
McKee and Abbink have followed him
into restaurants and to bank ATMs and
tried to talk to him while driving.
Winston Crabb said he was wor
ried the protestors would resort to se
rious measures to stop him from per
forming abortions.
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doing to persuade me is not working.”
One statement specifically led
Winston Crabb to believe the protest
ors may physically hurt him.
“They say, ‘There’s still time for
you to repent.’ The implication — I
wonder how long until my time runs
out,” Winston Crabb said. He referred
to past shootings of abortion doctors
in the south.
Gene Summerlin, attorney for Res
cue the Heartland, asked Winston
Crabb if the protestors might have
possibly been referring to judgement
day.
Winston Crabb said he would not
speculate on what they meant, but
agreed with Summerlin that he had
no factual evidence^ that they would
become violent. ,
Summerlin asked him the differ
ence between the non-violent protests
of Martin Luther King, Jr. and those
of Rescue the Heartland members.
Winston Crabb said the Rescue the
Heartland members were different
from civil rights protestors and other
abortion protesters because they spe
cifically harassed him.
“They’re not protesting abortion,
they’re protesting me.”
If Judge Merritt grants the protec
tion order for the Crabbs, the three
protestors and future members of Res
cue the Heartland will have to stay a
certain distance away from the Crabbs
and their places of business.
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