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SPORTS ARE_ All-American girl The chase is on May 2,1997 NU shot putter Tressa Thompson has gone from Kevin Smith, the writer and director who earned the small town of Bloomfield to win an NCAA praise for “Clerks,” is back with his take on the BREEZIN’ On Out indoor title and set an NCAA record. PAGE 9 filmed love story in “Chasing Amy.” PAGE 12 Sporadic rain, high 55. Clearing tonight, low 40. VOL. 96 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 ~ NO. 151 Jay Calderon/DN Kindergarten students Asalea Booth, 5, and Jaclyn Vermeline, 6, share a laugh about their schoolwork. On the left is 7-year-old Noah Long. Malmo school faces uncertainty By Erin Schulte Senior Reporter MALMO — In one room in Lincoln, 49 senators have spent the last few weeks wrestling with details of a bill that could force hundreds of small schools across Nebraska to close or consolidate. In one room in the Nebraska town of Malmo Thursday, 17 students — kindergarteners to third graders — had a drawing deciding which lucky stu dents got to take home their science project: eight baby chicks peeping under a heat lamp in the hall way. As the left hand may not know what the right hand is doing, so go the daily routines of the Legis lature and the 27 students in Malmo’s two-room, kin dergarten-through-sixth grade schoolhouse. But the actions of the Nebraska Legislature have the potential this session of making an immense im pact on these children. Del Lindgren, secretary of the school’s three-per son board, said parents of children at the school and members of the board wait nervously for whatever moves the Legislature might make. “It seems like the formula keeps changing,” Lindgren said. “There’s a lot of not knowing right now.” Lindgren said that under LB806, the Malmo school will probably not be forced to close its doors. The Wahoo elementary schools are crowded and a bond initiative failed, he said, so the district might not be able to handle the additional students. However, Malmo will probably have its budget put under control of the Wahoo School Board. Un der LB806, all of Nebraska’s 656 Class I (elemen tary-only) school districts would have to join one of the state’s 289 K-12 districts. Provisions of the bill stipulate that people from the subdistrict could vote in school board elections Please see MALMO on 3 British vote Blair while Labor takes 47 percent By Maureen Johnson Associated Press LONDON — The Labor Party surged to ward a landslide election victory Thursday night that would restore it to power for the first time in a generation and make 43-year old Tony Blair the youngest British prime min ister in 185 years. Moments after the polls closed, a BBC exit poll projected that Labor would take 47 per cent of the vote, compared to just 29 percent for the Conservatives. That would be the poorest Conservative showing since 1832, and a reversal of the 1983 election when Labor was the party that took just 28 percent of the vote. Independent Television News said its exit poll projected a huge Labor victory, with 159 more seats in the 659-seat House of Commons than any other party. That would mean a big ger Labor triumph than the one that swept Winston Churchill out of office in 1945. “It looks like we’re going to win in very good fashion indeed,” said Labor’s deputy leader, John Prescott, savoring the first exit poll reports. Defense Secretary Michael Portillo refused to concede defeat on the basis of the exit polls, although he acknowledged that his party was hurt by internal squabbling. “I think what the party needs to reflect upon is that it has done itself no good by showing its divisions,” he said. » In power since Margaret Thatcher ousted the last Labor government in 1979, the Con Please see LABOR on 7 Warner find supports NU By Shane Anthony Staff Reporter Money from an endowed fund created by former Nebraska Sen. Jerome Warner will sup port the three political science divisions in the University of Nebraska system. The fund, given through the University of Nebraska Foundation, is intended to help pay the fees and travel expenses of faculty who present papers or attend conferences. Warner, who died April 21, started the fund with money left over from his 1996 re-election campaign. “This is a very welcome addition. This is a much-needed addition,” said David Forsythe, professor and chairman of the Political Science Department at the University of Nebraska-Lin coln. Forsythe said political science faculty have the opportunity to attend about six conferences Please see WARNER on7 Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http: / / www.unl.edu I Daily Neb ■ . ■ • *4■'