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SPORTS *Si FRIDAY Outrunning OU It’s not a tumor October 31,1997 NU I-back Ahman Green has rushed for more Or is it? Will Scully recover from abnormal tis han 100 yards his last five games and he goes for sue growth? Did Mulder really die? Frenetic “X- WlTCHY six Saturday against the Sooners. PAGE 9 Files” fans find out Sunday on Fox. PAGE 12 Cloudy and breezy, high 64. tonight, low 41. VOL. 97 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 49 Storm takes tricks, treats out of holiday By Josh Funk and Ted Taylor Daily Nebraskan Reporters Everyone from the Nebraska National Guard to the United Way will be out on the streets of Lincoln this weekend. But they won’t be donning costumes or looking for candy. Both Lincoln and Omaha, still struggling to recover from the effects of the weekend’s massive snow storm, have called in everyone and every available agency in the area to help with the cleanup. , f - City agencies have been working around the clock since Sunday to restore power to residents and clean up fallen tree limbs that have Lincoln looking as though a tornado ripped the community. Gov. Ben Nelson has even pleaded with President Clinton for help. Nelson, who is on a trade mission in Asia, today will send a letter to Clinton requesting emergency federal funding assistance. “You can have a most positive impact on these efforts by authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to work with us on the use of desperately needed fed eral assets,” the letter states. Please see STORM on 6 Hoagland tests political waters for comeback By Brian Carlson Assignment Reporter Peter Hoagland said Thursday he is close to deciding whether to run for the 2nd District congressional seat in 1998. Hoagland, a Democrat who served the Omaha district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989-95, said he hoped to announce in the next seven to 10 days if he would seek to regain his old seat. Defeated by Jon Christensen in 1994, Hoagland now works as an attorney in Washington, D.C. Christensen has announced he will seek the Republican nomination for governor of Nebraska, opening the door for Hoagland and others to jump into the congressional race. Hoagland said he enjoyed contributing to public policy-making during his tenure in Congress. He said he was motivated to return to the daily process of lawmaking in the nation’s capital. “Being a member of Congress is an extremely important job,” he said. “I didn’t realize until I became a congressman the Please see HOAGLAND on 6 Daniel Luedert/DN Working on the UNL ethanol team car Saturday are (from left) David Bari, Eric Barnes, Chet Dawes, Jim “one-armed” Meyer, Aaron Thompson, Mark Meyer and Frank Meyer. The group expects to have the adjustments to the car for the ethanol fuel it will use by May. Ethanol engine geared to win By Erin Gibson Senior Reporter They met their patient Saturday in a cold garage on the edge of campus. For months, they had researched its condi tion. But on that rainy morning, a dozen mechanical engineering students put down their books and hovered around their patient — a shining, new, four-door Chevrolet Malibu. Then they opened its hood and pored over the engine they will gut and rebuild for the new University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ethanol Vehicle. The vehicle, which now runs on gasoline, must race on 85 percent ethanol fuel next June from outside of Detroit to the Clean Cities Conference in Washington, D.C. UNL students will drive the car to compete in the General Motors and U.S Department of Energy-sponsored Ethanol Vehicle Challenge. Through the race, they will try to win awards forthe best gas mileage, the cleanest emissions and the best overall vehicle performance. Thirteen other schools, including the University of Chicago, the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., and Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., will also compete in the contest. But first, UNL students must redesign the car’s engine to bum ethanol fuel efficiently - more efficiently than any ethanol vehicle being used by the university or the state. General Motors, which donated the car, and other important companies will watch the con test to identify the best students as prospective employees. They also will judge schools for their innovative ideas in an ethanol engine. And if that wasn’t pressure enough for the UNL students competing, the contest has been touted by Gov. Ben Nelson’s office as impor tant publicity for the state’s corn-based fuel. Ken Halvorsen, a UNL senior in charge of the project, said the governor hasn’t stopped by to help out or inspect the vehicle yet. But he could at any moment, he said. “It’ll be a good challenge,” Halvorsen said. Right now, students on the UNL Ethanol Vehicle Team are measuring the vehicle’s gaso line-powered engine performance, Halvorsen said. They then will use test results to guide their proposals to convert the engine. A gasoline-powered engine could run on 85 percent ethanol without any changes, team member Arthur Hieronymus said. But, because of differences in the two fuels, the engine wouldn’t run as efficiently. “You’re not going to go as far on ethanol, unless you can get the same amount of power out of it,” Hieronymus said. The team hopes to create an ethanol-friend ly engine with 160 horsepower - the same power the car boasts while burning gasoline, he said. The trick is to lower the volume of the Please see ETHANOL on 8 ■ UNL students’ Halloweens past are highlighted by chaos, costumes and, of course, candy. By Josh Funk Assignment Reporter Eggs, water balloons and lots of cand) were die building blocks for UNL students Halloween memories. Larcenous activities and cavity-building candies are the highlights of Halloweens past but as students grow older their plans foi Halloween hi jinks become more devious. Dressed as their favorite super heroes children of all ages descended upon thei: neighborhoods in search of endless loot. '' “I used to get dressed up and go out in dw neighborhood,” said Ray Cooper, a junior pre physical therapy major. The mountains of candy were the entire reason for getting dressed up. “Getting lots of candy was the best,” said undeclared sophomore Heather Berls. For some students, trick or treating offered a chance to do something with their family. “My older brother would take us trick or r treating,” senior family finance major Tim Martin said. “That was the one thing he did with us.” ; But for others Halloween was a time for , deviant behavior. “I always went out egging with my friends,” said junior business management , major Jolene Cheney. “We never got caught.” Sometimes being almost caught is better than not being caught at all. s “I was with a group of girls throwing water balloons at cars when these guys started chas ing us,” said Kate Valish, a senior restaurant management major. “I got caught in some bushes and couldn’t get away,” Valish said, “but now I can look back and laugh.” But for some students their best Halloweens happened in college. As a student assistant in Abel Residence Hall, graduate student Ajit Ninan helped con struct a haunted house in the basement. “It was fun to build. Then we got to scare all those people as they went through,” Ninan said. Despite all the fond memories, many col lege students don’t make any special plans for Halloween. “I might go out to a party this year, but I don’t have anything special planned,” Cheney said. ' Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http://www.unl.edu/DailyNeb
