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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1996)
1 1 " . October 21, " ■ 1 . - - 1 .. . «. i-unuwpgp*' • * ■ s i._ ■ > Lane 1 LYLE SFFFLER shows a group of about 30 UNL foriegn exchange students the seeds of his milo crop Saturday afternootf. Sittler, who operates Blue Stem Valley Farm, gave the group a tour to help show other aspects of Nebraska life outside of campus. :, By Heidi White Staff Reporter Maija Smits had never walked through fields of milo or watched cattle grazing in a pasture until Saturday. Smits, a business graduate student, has lived in the city all her life, and it was a city far away from the farms that surround Lin coln. Smits, a native of Amsterdam, Nether lands, was one of 30 University ofNebraska Lincoln international students who visited a farm Saturday. “I’m not familiar with farm life at all,” Smits said. . .. The students got a taste of Nebraska farm life during harvest season after taking a trip to Blue Stem Valley Farm near Martell, which is about 20 miles southwest of Lin coln. - . “A lot of times they come here and don’t know what to expect,” said Nickette Nakama, an International Affairs reception ist Smits said she thought the farm would be different “like what you see in American movies.” > - Lihyunn Lee, a business management major from Klang, Malaysia, said she went on the trip because she wanted to see an American farm and experience fanning in Nebraska by looking at the crops and the scenery. She said the Martell farm was very dif ferent from the fields she had in hercountry. Lutfullah Turkmen, a biology education major from Antalya, Turkey, said he went on the trip because he wanted to see the simi larities and differences in farm styles and technology between his country and America. ^ - - Turkmen said the 1,513-acre Blue Stem Valley farm was his idea of a classic Ameri can farm, and farms in his country were much Please see FARM on 6 Athletes teach running skills to boys with prosthetic limbs Bt Chad Lorenz Senior Reporter Even after 10 years of playing soccer, two Lincoln youths learned a valuable lesson from two professional athletes Friday—how to run. Running poses a different challenge to Jeff Bayer and Matt Nolde. Bayer, 15, uses a pros thetic leg, and Nolde, 15, uses prosthetic feet. Two professional athletes, each with a pros thetic leg, worked with Bayer and Nolde for two hours Friday at the Wesleyan Knight Field House. World-class track athletes Kurt Collier and Tom Martin showed die boys how to adjust their prosthetic limbs to run faster and more effi ciently. v Collier, a bronze medalist in this year’s Paralympic Games, told them to learn balance on their prosthetic limb. “The better your balance is, the better you’ll be able to hit these nmnmg positions,” Collier said. Although Bayer can juggle a soccer ball skillfully between his left leg and his prosthetic right, when be runs, his upper-body sways back and forth. By improving his balance, Bayer should be able to run with his back straight and his arms parallel, Collier said. “We don’t want the arms doing the twist,” Martin said, and instructed Bayer to straighten his stride and “run like Fonest Gump.” % That upper-body twist is wasted motion, Martin said, and an efficient runner wants to run a straight line. Collier showed the boys how to get more power from their stride by lifting" their legs higher. That motion makes thefegs pull die body forward rather than push the ground back, he said. __ Please see SOCCER on 6 Educators rally behind Nelson bid By Erin Gibson Staff Reporter OMAHA — Educators rallied Saturday to support a former UNL logic instructor in his bid for the U.S. Senate. Nebraska teachers cheered Gov. Ben Nelson’s 10-year record on education — a record that includes tripling Nebraska public education funding — during a rally at 2912 S. 84th St., near the governor’s Omaha campaign headquarters. Nelson promised rally participants he would continue support for Nebraska’s public educa tion from Washington, if elected. The governor himself benefitted from Nebraska’s public education. Nelson, a Univer sity of Nebraska-Lincoln alumnus, returned to UNL in 1963 to teach Philosophy 410C, a logic course, until 1967. Nelson said his opponent wanted to elimi nate federal funding of public education for kin dergarten through 12th grade, which would cost Nebraska $150 million annually. ‘It’s irresponsible. It’s unnecessary. And it will not happen if 1 have a. voice in dte-Lh^ed States Senate,” Nelson said*; • -‘-/V Republican challenger Chuck Hagel’s edu cation cuts would damage school-lunch pro grams, cut funds for school improvements and cut special education programs, including closed captioning for the hearing>impaired, Nelson ^ said. Beth Feldman, a teacher at Omaha Central High School, said educators rallied in support for Nelson because they trust him. “We know where Gov. Nelson stands,” she said. “He has a proven track record.” State education funding increased dining Nelson’s time as governor, even thoughlie bal anced the state budget, she sakL “There’s a world of difference” between Nelson and Hagel, Feldman said. Hagel sup ports the elimination of die U.S. Department of Education, which would hurt education in Ne braska, she saicL “We cannot afford in this country to lose the public education that we have,” she said. “It’s Please see NELSON cm 7 Jay Calderok/DN FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Jeff Bayer, left, plays with a soccer ball while being trained by professional athletes Kurt Collier mid Tbm Martin. The athletes taught Bayer how to use his prosthetic leg in competition.
