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1 Wednes October 30, Hoi ___..I_am SENIOR POLITICAL SCIENCE and Economics major Chad Pekron fills out his mock ballot, while Josephine Bohaty, a senior ; mechanical engineering major, puts her finished ballot in the box at the City Union Tuesday. The ASUN Government Liaison * Committee sponsored the vote, which drew over 250 people between the City and East Campus Unions. ifBpuHcans fine mocK election Students cast ballots for major races in ASUN-sponsored election By Kasey Berber Senior Reporter Republican candidates swept the student mock election Tuesday, with Dole taking the presidency, Hagel squeaking by in the Sen ate and Bereuter, Christensen and Barrett rockin’ the House. In the University of Nebraska-Lincoln mock election, sponsored by the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska Government Liaison Committee, students voted for president, Nebraska U.S. congres sional seats and three ballot initiatives. Republican challenger Bob Dole captured 53.4 percent ofthe student vote for president, with 153 out of 286 votes. President Bill Clinton received 40.2 percent with 115 votes, 286 students cast ballots in 78.6% Tuesday's mock election, which 213% was sponsered by the Association of Students of the University of Christensen 74% Nebraska Government Liaison Davis 26% Committee Source: ASUN Government Liaison Committee while Reform candidate Ross Perot won 3.1 percent with 9. Three other minor candidates made up the rest. In a race decided by 10 votes, Republi can businessman Chuck Hagel’s 140 votes beat Democratic Gov. Ben Nelson’s 130 votes for the U.S. Senate seat. The 1st District House race was decided by 20 votes, with Republican incumbent Doug Bereuter capturing 81 votes, compared Aaron Steckelberg/DN to Democratic challenger Patrick Combs’ 61 votes. The 2nd District was far from a close race, with Republican incumbent Jon Christensen winning 74 percent with 31 votes. Demo cratic challenger James Martin Davis won 26 percent with 11 votes. Republican incumbent Bill Barrett won Please see MOCK on 7 Climate for « women athletes to be evaulated By Erin Schulte Senior Reporter The UNL athletic department will be under scrutiny next week when a consultant hired by Chancellor James Moeser will evaluate the cli mate for women athletes on campus. Beverly Ledbetter, vice president and gen eral counsel for Brown University in Provi dence, R.I., will interview students, observe dif ferent campus buildings and write a report to be submitted to the university. Moeser said Ledbetter was extremely well qualified for the duties. “We started asking people around the coun try who are knowledgeable on these issues and her name rose to the top,” Moeser said. Ledbetter acts as an attorney for Brown as well as several nonprofit organizations, includ ing the Rhode Island Black Lawyer’s Associa tion. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Howard University and her juris doctorate from the University of Colorado. She was, at one time, legal counsel for the University of Oklahoma and was an associate judge in the Providence Housing Court. Moeser said Ledbetter had expert knowledge of hate speech and had dealt with a number of compli ance issues for the NCAA. Moeser said Ledbetter would conduct inter views with female students and faculty in an office outside of the athletic department. Ledbetter will have access to rosters of all the women’s athletic programs, and will contact stu dents from there. Students will also have the opportunity to get in touch with her, Moeser said. Ledbetter will also visit the Hewit Center in West Stadium and interview coaches and staff members. Starting sometime next week, Moeser said Ledbetter would be on campus for two separate two-day visits. Ledbetter will take a few weeks to compile her findings, he said, and will then report to Moeser. Results of Ledbetter’s findings will be made public, he said. “The real question I want her to address is: What is the climate for women student-athletes on this campus?” Moeser said. “Is it a healthy climate? Are there problems? And if so, how can we best address them?” The consultant was hired on the recommen dations of a chancellor-appointed task force that studied conduct standards and behavioral expec tations of students. Incumbents, challengers rely on PACs, records show By Matthew Waite Special Projects Reporter Individual donors are paying for most of Nebraska's Senate race, while pehticaLaction committees foot the bill for more of die House races, accord iag to campaign finance reports from the Federal Election Commission. And according to U.S. Rep. Doug Bereuter and other Washington watch ers, PAC money and influence in fu ture elections will play largo rotes in how Nebraska politicians pay for cam paigns. Electronic records from die Ameri can Univosity in Washington, D.C., which document contributions to cam paigns up to Sept. 30, show several pat terns in the financing of Nebraska’s campaigns. While incumbents and the sitting governor have the largest amount of PAC money, the records show, chal lengers are also relying on special in terest money. In the Senate race, three times more PAC money comes from Washington, D.C. —- where most PACs are located — than from Nebraska. Eighty-seven percent of the Senate PAC donations comes from outside Nebraska. But most contributions to Senate candidates come from individuals, not PACs. Individual contributions exceed PAC contributions by almost $1 mil lion in the U.S. Senate race between Democratic Gov. Ben Nelson and Re publican businessman Chuck Hagel. In addition: —Most of the individual campaign donations of more than $200 for the Senate races came from Omaha. Sixty four percent, or $340,556, of Hagel’s individual contributions came from Omaha; Seventy-one percent, or $266,544, of Nelson’s donations also came from Nebraska’s largest city. * Less than one-thud of individual donations of more than $200 to Sen ate campaigns came from outside Omaha and Lincoln. Hagel took 21 percent of his individual contributions, totaling $113,263, from outside the two largest cities; Nelson took 18 percent, or $66,245, of his individual contribu tions from outside Omaha and Lincoln. • Hagel outpaced Nelson in indi vidual contributions by more than $200,000; Nelson led Hagel in PAC donations by more than $300,000; Nelson’s share of the PAC contribu tions was 88 percent of the total PAC contributions to the two Senate candi dates. In Nebraska’s house races, PACs Please see FINANCE on 9 House (and Senate) Party With die exception of the Senate race between Democrat Ben Nelson and Republican Chuck Hagel, die Republican candidates in all of Nebraska's congressional races have die edge in soft money donations. All of die Republican candidates who lead their opponents in soft money donations are incumbents, as well. Nebraska Senate Candidates CwdMota tarty foftacs Total f of taOwHooh Total / . : Nebraska House Candidates Source: Federal Election Commission Aaron Steckelbkrg'DN ■ '•