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a book when he was 13, and per
formed in high school and middle
school talent shows. He also began
attending IJA conventions and
learning more tricks.
Each of the seven performers in
national contests had to put to
gether a five- to seven-minute rou
tine to music.
“I spent six hours working on
my routine every day. Now I
haven’t practiced for six months,”
Hoelker said.
He also competed in the 1995
Flatland Juggling festival in the
Haymarket, where he won the show
by the people’s choice.
Hoelker said his favorite act is
the “head roll,” where he catches a
ball on the side of his head, rolls it
behind his back, then repeats it on
the other side.
He also does routines with fire,
but didn’t do them on Thursday
night because he didn’t have his
torches with him, and usually lim
its fire to outdoor performances.
After they performed, the jug
glers offered lessons in juggling to
anyone interested.
Trevor Hull, a sophomore archi
tecture major, was erne of Hoelker’s
earlier students he taught while
working on architecture assign
ments.
“Corey (Hoelker) kind of taught
me while we were up here, and
we’d take a break from our
projects.”
Hoelker’s impromptu perfor
mance will be followed by a per
formance by a traveling juggling
troupe, “The Passing Zone,” at 9
p.m. April 11 in the Nebraska
Union Crib.
Health Center
boos' budget
fir next year
Increase to meet
rising costs will not
affect student fees.
ByKaseyKebber
Staff Reporter
In a time when health costs sky
rocket on a yearly basis, the Univer
sity Health Center has done what few
other health care providers centers
may dream of.
In a single year it has increased its
budget by $119,946 without increas
ing student fees by a cent.
The health center’s 1997-1998
budget, which calls for a 0 percent
increase in student fees, for the second
consecutive year, will be voted on at
Saturday’s NU Board of Regents meet
ing.
The budget was already passed
earlier this year by the Association of
Students of the University ofNebraska
after the Committee for Fees Alloca
tions voted 8-0 to approve the budget.
With increases in inflation, tech
nology costs and the recent minimum
wage hike, the health center has
squeezed its budget since 1994 to
cover its costs without relying on more
student fees.
Peg Blake, health center director,
said the health center was careful in
evaluating its budget and specific
items contained within it.
In addition, Blake said the income
generated by the health center helped
with the expenses. Income comes from
payments from government agencies,
fees for health services and student
fees.
Yet the health center’s future bud
get for 1998-1999 might be a little less
predictable, Blake said.
When writing next year’s budget,
the health center will have to consider
replacement of a retiring doctor, a new
$100,000 medical information ser
vices system and possible changes in
the center’s hours of service, Blake
said. Those changes may bring a small
increase in the center’s student-fee
budget request.
But Blake said the increase will be
well worth the cost.
Of last year’s graduating class,
Blake said 77 percent had used the
health center at least once.
“And of the 200 or so students that
didn’t use it,” she said, “there wasn’t
a single negative reason why they did
not use it.”
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Same-sex marriage
bill held up by
‘filibuster/
ByEbin Schulte
Senior Reporter
A bill that would ban recognition
of same-sex marriages in Nebraska
was left hanging Thursday afternoon
by the Nebraska Legislature.
Senators debated the bUl through
the noon hour in an attempt to bring
it to a cloture vote, but ended up ad
journing in the afternoon without
moving the bill through second-round
debate.
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha
took up most of the debate time with
amendment proposals that would
make small, inconsequential gram
matical tweaks — such as verb form
changes — in an effort to extend de
bate.
Sen. Kate Witek of Omaha told
Chambers his actions frustrated sena
tors and constituents alike. She said
she talked to a constituent who com
mented that it was once again “going
to be the Ernie show all day.”
She called Chambers’ “filibuster”
an unfortunate abuse of legislative
rules that allow extended debate.
“This year is one of the worst since
I’ve been here in five years,” Witek
said of Chambers’ lengthy soliloquies.
“It's taking so much essential time.”
Chambers said he was not trying
to filibuster.
“This is why some people should
stick to the sewing circle,” Chambers
said of Witek’s actions, saying Witek
would appreciate the opportunity to
change topics more easily.
Senators are often too eager to vote
on topics they don’t fully understand,
Chambers said. LB280, introduced by
Sen. Jim Jensen of Omaha, is unnec
essary, Chambers said, and stems from
political underpinnings.
“If (Jensen) really thinks the high
est priority of the legislature is to de
liberately single out a group for dis
crimination,” Chambers said, “then I
will battle him until the cows come
home.”
The Legislature is adjourned until
8 am TUesday.
Animal rights group
wants CU mascot free
The Campus Press
(U. of Colorado)
(U-WIRE) BOULDER, Colo. —
Outside the dusty roadside town of
Hudson, about SO miles east of Boul
der, CU’s 1,300-pound buffalo mas
cot munches her alfalfa and mixed
grain breakfast.
A light breeze wafts through the
gruff dangling from her chin as she
alternates between the alfalfa, grain
and some seaweed-laden water in a
trough next to the food bins. After fin
ishing, she is free to roam the 320
acre Parker Ranch in southern Weld
County.
Spring is the off season for
Ralphie, who has run at CU football
games since 1987. Ralphie is the third
buffalo to be dubbed CU’s mascot by
John Parker, who also owns the ranch
where the buffalo roams.
Parker, a CU graduate and the
Ralphie Program Director, feeds
Ralphie twice a day and keeps her by
herself.
“We let her just be a buffalo,”
Parker said. “She leads a happy life.”
With a snort, Ralphie retreats from
the fence when she has had enough of
her daily meal. Although she seems
content, people harbor mixed feelings
on keeping wild animals, such as buf
falo, in captivity for the purpose of
entertaining people.
CU Animal Rights, which became
active again last year after a lull in
student interest, is trying to raise
awareness about animal exploitation.
The group wants to get Ralphie
released but is having problems fig
uring out how to accomplish this.
Lisa Boehm, CU Animal Rights
director, wanted to continue an initia
tive for an exotic animal ban in Boul
der, which former CU Animal Rights
Director Steve Gisondi started last
semester. She said she hoped this
would.prohibit Ralphie from being run
at football games.
Boehm said the ban would be simi
lar to one in Brighton where it is ille
gal to own carnivorous animals, non
human primates and poisonous rep
tiles. However, because buffaloes are
indigenous to Colorado and are her
bivores, the ban would not preclude
Ralphie from running at games.
Mike Gulliksen, a member of
Ralphie Runners, the student group
that runs the buffalo at football games,
said he doesn’t understand why any
body would want Ralphie released.
“How do they feel about the buf
falo up in Yellowstone?” Gulliksen
asked.
“At least she is safe from being
slaughtered.” In Montana, buffalo that
leave Yellowstone’s park boundaries
are open game.
Marc Bekoff, an EPO biology pro
fessor, said there are bigger questions
to ask in a case like Ralphie’s.
“You have to ask what would
Ralphie be doing instead of running
at games,” Bekoff said. “Once you
have an animal in captivity, it’s a dif
ferent ball game.”
A Sports Illustrated poll published
in the Aug. 31, 1992, issue named
Ralphie the NCAA’s top live mascot.
Despite Ralphie’s appeal both at home
and around the country, Parker ex
pressed concern that Ralphie might
not be allowed to run in the future.
“Can you imagine a CU football
game without Ralphie. We (mentally)
defeat the opposing team when we run
Ralphie along their sidelines.” Parker
said. “I would never want to go to a
game (without Ralphie there).”
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