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i SPORTS A&E Rookies Give us the ‘finger’ Freshman Erwin Swiney and junior Eric Johnson Although Save Ferris has bailed from tonight’s * started their first Husker game Saturday night in lineup at Omaha’s Ranch Bowl, Goldfinger and NU’s 56-26 victory against KSU. PAGE 7 Kara’s Flowers will please the people. PAGE 9 Cloudy ar VOL. 97 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 31 Panel to fight beef industry’s bad image By Erin Gibson Senior Reporter A new steering committee of beef industry representatives will combat the Nebraska beef industry’s tarnished image after recent, massive recalls of possibly E. coli-tainted beef, Gov. Ben Nelson said Monday. Industry representatives forming the committee will find solutions to E. coli contamination instead of looking to find a scapegoat for the state’s beef recalls, 3 Nelson said. “Beef is not the problem. Food is not the problem,” Nelson said. “E. coli is the problem, and that is what will be the enemy.” Nelson named Chuck Schroeder, chief executive officer of the National Cattlemen’s Association, to lead the new committee, which will unite the beef industry in a multipronged attack against E. ( contamination. e committee’s tasks will include: Better educating the public regard ing handling and cooking of beef, and of the low risk of obtaining E. coli-taihted beef. ' ■ Examining beef processing and delivery practices. ■ Reevaluating the inspection process by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. ■ Helping industry to make full use of E. coli-fighting technology now avail able, including steam processing and radiation of processed beef. Please see BEEF on 3 Daniel Luedert/DN GOV. BEN NELSON and Chuck Schroeder, CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Association, relay the details of a private meeting in the State Capitol Monday concerning the heef recall for E. coll. Dunagan tutoring off campus By Matthew Waite Senior Reporter A high school student returning to his studies on a Monday morning is hardly newsworthy. But Matthew Dunagan is hardly a regular stu dent; his return to academia is not merely a func tion of Monday morning. And the preliminary details of the crime he is charged with, while shocking to a city with one of the lowest violent-crime rates in the country, are not uncommon to investigators. Dunagan, a 1 /-year-old honor student at Lincoln Pius X, learned Friday that school offi- % cials decided he would be tutored until his first degree murder case is resolved. The officials said in a Friday press release that Dunagan would receive help off campus. In a private school that prides itself on its stu dents and discipline, Dunagan carries a 4.0 grade "pofflt dverage. Prosecutors and defense attorneys • alike described him as a quiet boy and said he is a “bright young man” with “an impeccable record.” It was a week ago today that Lincoln police arrest ed Dunagan hours after they found his father dead from shotgun wounds in the family living room. It was the fifth homicide in Lincoln this year. But according to details from police and pros ecutors, the Dunagan case fits with more than 80 percent of all homicides in Lancaster County in the ‘90s. The detail they all share: The victim and the alleged perpetrator are domestically related. According to records from the Lancaster County Sheriff and the Lincoln Police Department, 71 percent of all homicides had a male victim, and 60 percent had a male perpetra tor. Also, 54 percent of the deaths occurred in the victims’ homes. Dunagan was removed from his family’s south Lincoln home in handcuffs and driven out of the affluent neighborhood in a police cruiser. His week in a judicial squall was just beginning. The week started with another argument between his parents in a long history of domestic spats. Dunagan told police the fights between Please see DUNAGAN on 6 V Groups can get grants ■ The UNL Student Foundation will award $3,000 to organizations that want to do something special for the university. By Jamie Suhr Staff Reporter Free money is available to UNL student groups, but most don’t realize it’s even there. The University of Nebraska Lincoln Student Foundation will award $3,000 in grants this semester to officially recognized student groups that want to do something special for the university, said Bradley Shafer, assistant director of annual giving for the University of Nebraska Foundation. Last year was the first year for the project. It was designed to give sup port to student groups that needed it, as long as the money would benefit UNL. However, not many groups have taken advantage of the fund. “Sixteen applications were turned in, and of those, eight were given interviews and three were funded,” Shafer said. “Most students aren’t aware of an entity that helps fund stu dent activities.” Last year, the Student Foundation helped the Women’s Center and the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska pay for a national speaker for Sexual Assault Awareness Week. It also gave a grant to the University of Nebraska Inter-Tribal Exchange for its annual powwow, and to the Women Leadership Please see GRANTS on 6 - * Academic Senate could make calendar changes By Sarah Baker Assignment Reporter A proposal to observe Martin Luther King’s birthday as a holiday on the academic calendar will be discussed at the Academic Senate meeting today. The meeting, at 2:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union, will also include discussions on whether or not to drop the holiday after Labor Day. Instead, a midsemester break in October would be instituted. If approved the proposal would short en the semester by one day. Leo Sartori, physics and astron omy professor, said he plans to gath er opinions on the proposal before taking any action. “We have already heard support for this, proposal,” Sartori said. “ASUN is going to help us gather student opinions, possibly through surveys, and we are going to gather staff and faculty opinions as well ” Sartori said no faculty or staff member has shown strong opposi tion to the semester being shortened by one day. Please see SENATE on 3 Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http:// www.unl.edu/DailyNeb
