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New Location under the Douglas Theater 13th & P St. • 435-3111 Two other locations at: 48th & R St. • 466-1201 8*Nfct»y 2-421-1511_/ Senators listen to testimony in debate over jury-duty bill DUTY from page 1 times, and after the first time, he had to repeat edly bring in signed letters from his professors saying he couldn’t miss class. “The excuses were not granted until the 11th hour,” Dane said. People suggested that his son change his county of residence from York to Lancaster, but even then, he would still be eligible for jury duty in Lancaster County, Dane said. “We are talking about young adults who are busy with their classwork,” Stuhr said. Dane added that students were paying for classes, and should not be forced to waste their investments. ‘It would be very unfortunate if a student would not be able to receive the education time they had paid for,” he said. But students can’t shirk civic responsibil ity, committee member Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha said. “There are no exemptions for a doctor or a lawyer,” Chambers said. “Do you think jury duty is a requirement or a choice? “If a student is on trial, how can he have a jury of his peers if no students are on the panel?” The bill does give students the choice to ask for an exemption, so they can serve on a jury if they wish. But, Chambers said, if they were guar anteed an exemption, no one would want to serve. Eric Marintzer, president of the Association of theStudents of the University of Nebraska, came to voice ASUN’s support of the bill. Marintzer told the committee that while stu dents recognize their civic duties and would like to fulfill them, a semester is a very short period of time to work for good grades. “This time period is rather intense, and it takes strict adherence and discipline,” Marintzer said. Arctic winds cause cattle deaths From The Associated Press With eight dead cows and more than seven weeks of winter left, dairy farmer Larry Fritz in northeast Nebraska has figured out a way to cut his losses — flee the cold. “The only thing you could do is be smart enough to get out of this country,” Fritz said Sat urday. . _ Farmers and ranchers in northeast and north central Nebraska have been hit hard this year by ground blizzards, arctic winds and heavy snow falls. The region’s struggles resembles those of the Dakotas, which are reporting devastating cattle losses. Livestock losses have reached 36,000 head in South Dakota as of last Tuesday and 13,000 in North Dakota, farm officials said. .In Nebraska, the numbers won’t be available until die middle of this week. . Officials expect the losses to be small in com : parison and confined to the state’s northern tier. Fritz said this was the worst winter he’d ex perienced in 25 years as a dairy farmer. He blames the harsh, northern winds for much of his problems. “With that dam wind, they (livestock) just suck that cold air in and it freezes their lungs,” Fritz said. Ranchers in western and central Nebraska paint an entirely different picture. With less snow, and fewer days of arctic air, the winter is shaping up to be a good year for livestock. “About 90 percent of Nebraska is what we would call a better-than-average year. It’s cold but dry,” said Jeff Pribbeno, an Impe rial rancher and past president of the Ne braska Cattlemen. He also said farmers in the central and west ern region had a surplus of feed compared to their counterparts in the north. .The blustery, cold weather was expected to continue into the week, with highs around zero in the northeast to the low 30s in the southern Panhandle on TXiesday; (