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SPORTS Title quest The Nebraska women’s gymnastics team com petes in the Big 12 Conference championship meet this Saturday at Norman, Okla. PAGE 7 A & E What to do For those of us who aren’t going on a real spring break vacation, there are plenty of entertainment options available in Lincoln. PAGE 9 FRIDAY , March 21, 1997 OunA Here! Cloudy and windy, high 65. Cleary tonight, low 25. VOL. 96 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 126 __ A bicik before break - ;• Daniel Luedert/DN KRISTEN TENNANT, a junior secondary education major, and other UNL students enjoy the warn weather and catch some rays while studying Thursday — one day before the start of spring break. Company may buy Pinnacle From Staff Reports A company’s letter of intent to buy a Ne braska radio network has shrouded in contract law the lucrative rights to broadcast Husker sporting events. Triathlon Broadcasting Co., a San Diego based company, announced Thursday that it wants to buy Pinnacle Sports Productions. Pin nacle obtained the exclusive rights to Husker broadcasts March 7, 1996. Questions have arisen over a provision in the broadcast contract that states Pinnacle “shall not sell or assign any rights granted to it under this contract in whole or in part unless it has received prior written approval” from the Uni versity of Nebraska. A statement from the Athletic Department said it had not yet reviewed the proposal, but would do so before considering TriathlOtt’SiJf fer. The rights, worth millions to the winner, were hotly contested in 1996. Pinnacle outbid KFAB, which formerly owned the rights to the Husker broadcasts. Man claims divine sign led him to deaf ministry By Amy Keller Staff Reporter Teaching a language not heard to hundreds of people may seem like a difficult task. But for Eugene Kimmel, it’s some thing he does every two weeks. Kimmel travels the nation teaching free two-week sign language lessons to any churches interested in starting a ministry to the deaf. The past two weeks, he was at the Fellowship Bap tist Church in Lincoln. Twenty-eight people finished their sign language class at the church, learning 990 signs and more than 40 song choruses. Classes ran from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. every Monday through Saturday. Aside from purchasing a three-ring notebook, which listed all signs they would learn, the classes were free. The small, comfortable atmosphere of the lessons gave Kimmel the oppor tunity to show students exactly how to sign and correct any mistakes. Deb Prester, one of the students, said the class was “amazing.” “When I started this class two weeks ago, I didn’t know anything,” she said. The students interpreted songs, Please see SIGN on 3 Students’ work integral to keep UNL functioning By Jessica Fargen Staff Reporter Without more than 5,000 stu dent employees, the “wheels wouldn’t turn” at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a student em ployment coordinator said. That’s why UNL will celebrate National Student Employee Week on April 7-11, said Marcia Phelps, Student Employment and Intern ship Center coordinator. Students employed by the uni versity could bring their pay stubs to the SEIC office at 345 Nebraska Union and receive prizes. Also dur ing the week, supervisors can nomi nate student employees who they think are outstanding, she said. Campus Recreation employees and housing employees are two de partments where students’ work is Please see WORK on 6 General speaks about equity Women’s rights in the workplace and military still need improvement, Tiiu Kera says. By Pamela Storm Staff Reporter As March is celebrated as Women’s History Month, one highly decorated official stopped to ask why people still view women’s accomplishments as something out of the ordinary. Brig. Gen. Tiiu Kera, director of intelligence at U.S. Strategic Com mand at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, spoke to faculty and ROTC members on Thursday afternoon. The luncheon at Selleck Hall caf eteria was designed to be a reminder of what women have been through and still are subjected to in the military. Kera asked why women’s history must be dedicated by a month and why — after several years — women’s ac complishments have to be seen as re markable. Relating her own personal experi ences, Kera told of an incident when a male colleague asked her why women were taking men’s chairs. She re sponded by saying women were quali fied for those positions. Though the military has made pos sible certain advancements for women, it is not enough when past problems keep popping back up, Kera said. She Please see KERA on 3 Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http:/1 www.unl.edu IDailyNeb
