Celebration, music symbolizes
last splash for Broyhill Fountain
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' memory of their daughter, Lynn L.
Broyhill, a senior home economics
major who was killed in a car acci
dent.
But Broyhill Fountain’s memo
ries extended beyond one student to
several thousands.
Wesley and Darlene Schaferit
said it was a chance to reflect on
their 67 years in Lincoln.
“We’ve always enjoyed the
fountain and seeing its lights at
night,” Wesley Schaferit said.
Broyhill Fountain also evoked
special memories for Susan Strong,
whose father designed the fountain
in 1970.
“I think he’s sad to know that it’s
going to be tom down,” Strong said.
She glanced at her daughters,
whom her husband was videotap
ing.
“They like to come see it,” she
said. “They call it ‘grandpa’s foun
tain.’”
UNL students also had special
memories of Broyhill—some more
crazy than others.
Malcom Kass, a senior chemi
cal engineering major, said Broyhill
fountain brought back memories of
an incident involving his roommate,
“slight alcohol influence, the spirit
of Bruce Springsteen and boxer
shorts.”
“In spring of 1995, we ran from
Seileck in our boxers, jumped in
Broyhill and did a rendition of
Springsteen’s ‘Bom to Run’ in the
fountain.”
Elin Soberquist and her husband
Tim Hansen said they often visited
Broyhill while dating as UNL stu
dents.
They have been married for four
years, and reflected on their college
days and the time they shared sit
ting by the fountain.
They said they would visit
Broyhill Fountain as long as it
would run this semester.
“We’ll be back,” she said,
“probably as many times as we can
before it’s gone.”
Evan Killeen, a junior political
science/philosophy major, remem
bered romance in a different way.
“By taking away union plaza and
Broyhill Fountain, you’re really tak
ing away a great source for cheap
dates,” Killeen said.
He explained that when the
fountain is tom down in December,
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
will be without a replacement for a
year and a half.
Students who were new to the
university did not have time to make
lasting memories.
Amy Rol, a freshman business
. administration major, wished she
could have been part of the tradi
tion.
“We’re freshman and we got
maybe a month of enjoyment out of
Broyhill,” she said.
Cristy Crockett, a junior psy
chology major, called 30 of her fel
low Abel Residence HaU buddies
Wednesday and organized their own
goodbye—a midnight swim.
The group recalled fond and
funny memories of the fountain in
cluding the time “the religious
preacher guy got thrown in.”
Crockett said the university
would lose a valuable meeting
place.
“Now, we’re not going to have
that main center focus that attracts
us to the union.”
At the end of the official
“Broyhill Finale,” Swanson filled a
vase with Broyhill water, which
would later be placed in the future
fountain. It symbolized bringing the
old tradition of Broyhill into its fu
ture replacement.
Yet Tina Carta, a graduate stu
dent in exacise physiology, said
changing traditions was never easy.
“I guess there’s always some
thing to a tradition, and you can’t
replace one.”
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Christensen touts his
record on student loans
Former Vice Presi
dent Dan Quayle
endorses the
Republican incumbent
for the House.
By Erin Schulte
Senior Reporter
OMAHA — U.S. Rep. Jon
Christensen went through Midland
Lutheran College in Fremont on a stu
dent loan, and he says he wants to make
sure loan opportunities are available
for all Nebraskans.
During a campaign stop Wednes
day at Omaha’s Sky Harbor near
Eppley Airfield, Christensen greeted
about 35 University of Nebraska stu
dents and outlined a House plan to bal
ance the budget and make getting stu
dent loans easier.
“We were the first Congress that
attempted to balance the budget,”
Christensen said. “A balanced budget
means lower interest rates and a great
savings for students, which puts more
money in their pockets.”
Christensen, the Republican incum
bent, is running for the 2nd District
House of Representatives seat against
Democratic challenger James Martin
Davis, an Omaha attorney.
Christensen also said he had a hand
in passing legislation that increased
student loans by 50 percent.
The Higher Education Act of 1992
allows legislators either to appropriate
u
(Christensen) has
earned respect
from his fellow
Republicans and
Democrats. He is
a leader. ”
Dan Quayle
former vice president
or cut money for loans every year, and
he said he voted to increase loans.
He also pushed for increased Pell
grants and more work study programs,
he said.
Former Vice President Dan Quayle
was at Sky Harbor to endorse
Christensen in the House race.
“(Christensen) has earned respect
from his fellow Republicans and
Democrats,” Quayle said, noting
Christensen’s freshman appointment to
the powerful House Ways and Means
Committee. “He is a leader.”
Christensen deserves the same nod
from Nebraskans, Quayle said.
“He has made an invaluable con
tribution on their behalf.”
Dole criticizes Clinton
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people.”
Dole returned to the matter of trust,
saying said he was a man of his word
and accusing Clinton of undermining
public faith in government through an
unethical presidency.
Reminding viewers that he is a
World War H veteran, Dole accused
Clinton of cutting the Pentagon bud
get too much. Clinton objected “as
commander in chief,” saying his bud
get was just 1 percent lower than Re
publican plans for the Pentagon.
| Dole and Clinton took questions
1 from a group of 113 undecided voters
from the San Diego area who were se
lected by the Gallup polling organiza
tion.
Early on, one former smoker asked
Dole if he wanted to retract his state
ment that nicotine was “not necessar
ily addictive.”
Dole said he had been speaking in
a technical sense and went on to urge
children not to smoke. He then shifted
into a litany of statistics about rising
use of marijuana and cocaine among
teen-agers.
“It’s all happened in this adminis
tration,” Dole said.
“They have been AWOL for 44
months.” ___
Clinton said he was willing to fight
the powerful tobacco lobby and Dole
was not.
When one man asked about the ris
ing costs of Social Security and Medi
care, it was Clinton’s turn to go on the
attack. He recalled Dole’s comment
last year that he was proud in 1965 to
have voted against establishingMedi
care.
And Clinton said the ,1995 Repub
lican budgets pushed by Dole would
have raised Medicare premiums $270
a year on elderly Americans who could
not afford it.
Both candidates took credit for
pushing welfare reform that required
recipients to work. Clinton said his
commitment to the issue dated back to
the 1980s when he was Arkansas gov
ernor.
Dole said a welfare-reform plan
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would not have passed this year were
it not for Republicans controlling the
Congress.
“The government doesn’t create
jobs,” Dole said.
Dole also evoked Clinton’s unful
filled 1992 campaign promise to cut
middle class taxes.
Clinton said he wanted to cut capi
tal gains taxes on home sales. And he
said he had explained how he would
pay for “every penny” of his tax cuts,
but that Dole had not detailed how he
would pay for his $548 billion tax-cut
package.
Firing back, Dole said most of
Clinton’s tax cuts expired after a few
years - while his proposed tax increases
would be permanent.
Another area of disagreement was
affirmative action.
Clinton said he did not favor quo
tas but that “I favor the right kind of
affirmative action.”
Dole acknowledged he had sup
ported quotas for a long time, but said
experience had demonstrated they
don’t work and amount to reverse dis
crimination against white Americans.
Dole said Clinton was hiding his
true position on the issue because of
168 federal programs that include ra
cial preferences and quotas, Dole said,
Clinton had aided just one.
Trying to blunt Dole criticism on
the issue, Clinton said he agreed with
Dole supporter Colin Powell that in the
fight to help minority Americans, j
“we’re not there yet.”
A young woman asked the 73-year
old Dole if his age would make it hard
for him to understand the concerns of 1
younger Americans.
“I think it is also a strength, an ad
vantage,” Dole said of his age, saying
it gives him experience, intelligence
and wisdom.
Clinton said he wouldn’t make *
Dole’s age an issue, but said “it’s the
age of his ideas I object to.” He cited
supply-side economics chief among
them.* |
Dole shot back, saying, “When you
don’t have any ideas, I guess you say
the other person’s ideas are old.”
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