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r feY | I FRESHMAN S month, the team received the “Tbp Quality” award at a tournament sponsored by Mankato State University in Mankato, ■ ^ - • • n • . ' -w r orensics wins quality award By Kimberly Swartz StaffReporter UNL’s Forensics Team knows a lot about pressure, dedication, frustration and victory. It has found the secret of how to juggle midterms, travel for hours in cramped con ditions, compete with largo1 teams on a lim ited budget and still come out on top. “Top Quality,” that is. Last month, the team received the ‘Top Quality” award at a tournament sponsored by Mankato State University in Mankato, Minn. Each year, one school receives the award for outstanding performance at the tourna ment The award is based on the quality of the team’s performance, not the number of stu dents representing the school. John Perlich, assistant forensics director, credits die coaching staff and the students for the team’s success. “The staff is very well educated and >-• '' . -V V skilled at what they do,” he said. “And the students have such a drive to improve and succeed.” - In the team sweepstakes competition, the Huskers placed third out of 25 teams. The number of overall total points decides the sweepstakes winner. The Huskers were at a disadvantage because they only had four students competing against teams of 12 to 20 people. ‘To be in die top three with such a lim ited squad is really great,” Perlich said. Tt is exciting to imagine what we might be able to do this year.” At die Mankato tournament, Michael Wagner, a junior broadcasting major, won first place awards in After Dinner Speaking, Impromptu Speaking, Prose Reading and Persuasion. Wagner also received the first place speaker award, which is based on over all performance in the tournament. David Azianamini, a junior communica tions major, received first place in his Pro gram Oral Interpretation cm the “Right to Die.” He also received second place in Duet Interpretation with his partner Robb Shrewsbury. Shrewsbury, a junior communications major, received third place in Communica tion Analysis and second place in Duet In Sam Boerboom, a freshman pre-med and English major, placed fifth in Poetry Read ing. Wagner said winning individual awards helps his confidence, but he aims toward team recognition and success. “Everyone wants to do well and win in dividual events, but it doesn't feel the same when the team wins the quality award,” Wagner said. Boerboom agrees teamwork is very im portant and is helping him adjust to college forensics. “The team is very different than in high school. It is much more competitive, demand ing, educational and professional,” he said. Many forensics members agree that they Please on FORENSICS on 6 351 killed after two jets collide CHARKHI DADRI, India (AP) — A Saudi jumbo jet climbing from New Delhi’s airport collided with a Kazak plane coming in for land ing Tuesday evening, creating twin fireballs that turned the sky as red as dawn and scattered the bodies of up to 351 people over farmland be low. If the death toll is confirmed, the crash would be thethird-deadliest in aviation history. Wreckage dropping from the sky gouged big craters and left body parts, baggage and clothes strewn across six miles of wheat and mustard fields near the town of Charkhi Dadri, about 60 miles west of New Delhi. The first people to arrive at the scene said the dusk air was filled with an unbearable stench of burning flesh. “I saw 60 or 70 bodies, but only about 15 were identifiable,” said Manjit Singh, a 19-year old college student who sped to the site on his motorcycle after seeing the collision from his home. The faces of the rest of the victims were horribly disfigured and charred, he said. Rescue vehicles tried to navigate the area’s poor roads, arriving at the crash site after the first curious villagers. Within a few hours, thou sands of people gathered in the dark and sol " Please see CRASH on 2 . Robbery attempt ends in shooting By Chad Lorenz Senior Reporter A UNL freshman and his pastor were recov ering Tuesday after being shot Monday during an attempted robbery. The student, Jason Howe of Lincoln, was released from Lincoln General Hospital Tues day afternoon. The 41-year-old pastor, the Rev. Michael Hertzler, underwent surgery Monday morning and was in fair condition Tuesday evening. Lincoln police Sgt. Ann Heermann had not made any arrests and had no suspects as of Monday evening. Heermann gave the following account of the incident: The two were sitting in Hertzler’s red 1990 Nissan Sentra behind a dentist office at 1217 N. Cotner Blvd. at about 10:30 p.m. Two men approached the car, one on each side. The man on the driver’s side knocked on the window and told Hertzler, “give us your : 1" Please see SHOOTING on 6 Pop-bottle bomb spree continues after two more found By Chad Lorenz Senior Reporter Two move homemade pop-bottle bomb* were found to Lincoln Tuesday, following a spree of similar incidents last weekend. No one has been hurt by any of the 13 homemade bombs that have been found since Saturday. Tuesday's first pop-bottle bomb was reported at Huntington Elementary School, 4601 Adams, at about 9 am, Lincoln police Cpt Stephen Imes said. A student found the bottle fizzing and expanding outside the school and told school officials, Imre said. < Fire investigators on the scene de activated the bomb by shooting it with i a pellet gun, which released die in- I creasing pressure, Imre said. j The remnants of another bomb were found on the pavement at 47th < Street between Judson and Knox i streets, Imes said The bomb didn’t ap- ' pear to have detonated, he said o ±1 Fire investigator Brian Nehe said 1 the force of such bottle bombs de pended on the size of the container used \ and amount of chemical. The pop bottle bombs recently found could have i a blast equivalent to an M-80 fire- ] rocker, be said. “I would feel comfortable sajdug someone could lose fingers if they wane voiding one,” Nehe said. “I wouldn’t get too close to them.” The force of the blast is only one langer. Hie hot chemicals could bum someone standing too dose to the de rice, Nehe said Other debris on the ground, such as gravel or glass, could >e launched at Ugh speeds, he said Nehe said Lincoln has sera spurts >f pop-bottle bombings before. Years ago, local high school science eachers were demonstrating a similar access to students, he said. Students «----— I would fed comfortable saying someone could lose fingers if they were holding one.” Brian Nehe fire investigator then used that knowledge tp build bombs, pronApting the teachers to omit the experiment from their lesson plans. The bombings usually die out with time, Nehe said, and the vandals stop after they get bored with the novelty, get caught or hurt someone. Imes said anyone who finds a pop bottle bomb should keep away from it and call the police.
