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October 30,
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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.
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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
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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
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Climate for
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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
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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
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Nebraska House Candidates
Source: Federal Election Commission Aaron Steckelbkrg'DN
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