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SPOILT*— Lkl- THURSDAT NIT dominance Nebraska goes South March 13,1997 The NU basketball team won its sixth straight NIT Lullaby for the Working Class and Bine Moon - game with a 67-63 win over Washington on Wednes- Ghetto, two bands from Nebraska, are perform- WEATHBHHG The STORMS day. NU plays Nevada-Reno next. PAGE 9 ing at South by Southwest this week. PAGE 12 Wind and rain, high 43. Flurries tonight, low 17. VOL. 96COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 * NO. 120 j • • ...ill...11.111 I Candidates cite \ work, support as keys to victory By Kasey Berber Staff Reporter In a bar packed elbow-to-elbow with sup s' porters, the three executive officers of the AD ?■ VANCE party said they were beyond happy to : learn of their ASUN election victory. They were relieved. President-elect Curt Ruwe and 1st Vice President-elect Amy Rager wore smiles as they i hugged fellow senatorial candidates and support % ers at the N-Zone bar Wednesday night. w. “It’s been a very, very, very long election,” ™Ruwe said. “It’s good to finally know it’s over.” Rager readily agreed. “It’s awesome. We can j finally relax.” ADVANCE won Wednesday’s election with 67 percent of the unofficial student vote. Surrounded by at least 100 supporters in a packed N-Zone bar, Ruwe and Rager could t barely talk above the volume of the atmosphere. The crowd of ADVANCE supporters, many of whom wore the purple-lettered ADVANCE _Please see ADVANCE on 6 And the winner is. From unofficial returns Wednesday night r i i - $ m* : 9. - . • _. Aaron Steckelberg/DN Matt MillerDN ASUN PRESIDENT-ELECT Curt Ruwe is congratulated by his parents David and Sheri Ruwe at the ADVANCE victory party Wednesday night. “I think Ift a good opportunity for Curt and ASUN to serve the university,” Ruwe’b father said. ASUN election voter turnout rises slightly By Sarah Baker Staff Reporter Voter turnout in this ASUN election was up from last year, reversing a 4-percent decline from 1995 to 1996. This year’s voter turnout—,9.84 percent, with 2,175 students voting — was up slightly from last year’s 8.38 percent, when 1,867 stu dents cast ballots. The 19% election was about 4 percent lower than the 12.66-percent turnout in the 1995 election. The largest percentage of those votes went to ADVANCE. The party won the presidential/ 1st vice presidential race with 67 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results late Wednes day night. KEG received about 32 percent of the vote. ADVANCE also swept the 2nd vice Please see RESULTS on 7 I Chambers stalls bill’s vote; i debate may continue today By Jim Goodwin Staff Reporter Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha delayed a vote on LB422 Wednesday. The bill would add the death of a law enforcement officer to the list of aggravating circumstances to be considered in death penalty cases. Chambers proposed an amendment to the bill , that would make the murder of a public servant — instead of a law enforcement officer — an i aggravating circumstance in a capital trial. Chambers’ motion to kill LB422 failed 2-29 early Wednesday, with Chambers and Sen. Shelley Kiel of Omaha voting in favor. LB422 would add to the list of aggravating circumstances the death of “a law enforcement officer engaged in the performance of his or her official duties” when “the offender knew or rea sonably should have known that the victim was a law enforcement officer.” By request of Gov. Ben Nelson, Sen. Gerald Matzke of Sidney co-sponsored LB422 with Sen. Curt Bromm of Wahoo and Sen. Jon Broning of Omaha. With four more hours available for further floor debate on the bill, a final vote may not come until this afternoon. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Nelson: Tax cut should come before repairs By Brian Carlson Staff Reporter '■ ■ "■ ^---?-— State budget surplus funds should be used to fund a tax cut rather than proposed build ing maintenance and operating costs for the state's university system, Gov. Ben Nelson said Wednesday. Nelson said any idea to the contrary could be “put to bed.” “I want to make erne tiling very clear,” he said. “These programs will not come at the expense of a tax cut for all Nebraskans.” Nelson has proposed to use the state’s $200million budget surplus to fund a 5.5 per cent income tax cut and a $160 tax credit to homeowners. In his officeWednesday afternoon. Nelson reiterated that his policy is based on sound fiscal and economic policy rather than adver sity toward the NU system. He cited last week’s findings by the Ap Please see NELSON on 6 Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http: / / www.unl.edu /DailyNeb