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_SPORTS_ *RE FRIDAY Defending the crown We’ll have fun, fun, fun November 7,1997 The Nebraska soccer team looks to retain its Have we got the stuff of weekend glee. From conference crown when the Huskers begin the midget wrestling to Sunday services, we’re your Big 12 Tournament today. PAGE 9 guide for gettin’on with gettin’down. PAGE 12 1 i i pi -C I V' Sg 3 NO. 54 “Martin was a servant of God and a servant of the people.” Coretta Scott King King calls for social action __ By Brad Davis Assignment Reporter Coretta Scott King called the students of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Lincoln community and the entire United States to nonviolent social action in her speech Thursday night. King, wife of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., spoke at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Chancellor James Moeser welcomed the audience and talked _1_a_a J!_*_ _ Z* J. • _j*.. . l r i* -r .1 rr • T • auuui uistuddiuu ui ucbi^iidimg maxim j^uuici ivillg jr. S birthday as an official university holiday. “Let me be perfectly clear,” Moeser said. “This university should honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a special holiday - and I believe that it will.” Moeser’s comments, spoken after UNL’s Academic Senate refused Tuesday to designate King’s birthday as a university holiday, drew a standing ovation. j „ King, who said she worked to establish her husband’s birthday as a national holiday in the early 1980s, supported Moeser’s comments. “I applaud what the chancellor has said about the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday,” King said. “You would expect me to do that.” King said she envisioned the holiday in honor of her husband’s I birthday, not as a “day off,” but as a day when people would learn * about her husband’s legacy and help other people. “It’s calling on people to get involved in doing a community ser vice project. Martin was a servant of God and a servant of the peo ple,” King said. Martin Luther King Jr., she said, also was a revolutionary, com mitted to using nonviolence to achieve social change. Although her husband was instrumental in the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, King said she always knew she would be Lane Hickenbottom/DN TOP: CHILDREN representing different ethnic groups present Coretta Scott King with roses after her speech at the Lied Center for Performing Arts Thursday night. Kingspoke about her life with her late husband, Martin Luther King Jr., and called upon young people to remember the past in continuing King’s legacy of nonvi olent social change. ABOVE: MEMBERS OF THE AUDIEMCE showed their support by giv ing a standing ovation when Chancellor James Meeser said, “Let me be perfectly clear, this university should honor Martin Luther King Jr. with a special hoHday - and I believe that it will.” King said h«£ upbringing as a “farm girl” in Alabama; her fami ly’s strong belief in the importance of education, love and God; and a message on a memorial at Antioch College shaped her life. “Be ashamed to die until you’ve won some victory for humani ty,” was the message engraved on a memorial to the founder of the Alabama college where King attended on scholarship. Please see KING on 3 Vote splits faculty, students By Sarah Baker and Brad Davis Assignment Reporters In voting against the observance of the birth day of Martin Luther King Jr. and fall break, UNLs Academic Senate has pitted some faculty members and students against each other. The debate centers on whether future acade mic calendars of theJJniversity of Nebraska sys tem cancel classes to honor King’s birthday. Tuesday, the Academic Senate voted 32-27 against making King’s birthday an official uni versity holiday. The senate also voted down a proposal to include a two-day fall break in the academic cal endar. The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska unanimously passed a bill voicing the student senhtels support of tak ing a day off to honor King. “ASUN is in full support of the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday. We believe Please see VOTE on 8 Damage to trees in millions By Ted Taylor Senior Reporter You knew it had to be bad, but the Nebraska Forest Service announced Thursday just how bad it is. Tree damage in the 18 counties hardest hit by last month’s snowstorm has been esti mated by the Forest Service at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to be between $37 million and $54 million - and it will probably only get worse. “I fear that it will grow,” said Tom Wurdle, deputy state forester. “These num bers are very much an estimate. It’s the best we can do right now.” In the 18 counties, it will cost between $7 million and $12 million to remove dam aged trees and dispose of limbs, $23 million to $31 millio%te'prime1§uryiving trees, and $6 million to $10 million to replace trees over several years, the report stated. All of those numbers could increase, Wurdle said, when the Forest Service starts spending more time working on smaller trees and starts looking at more communi ties. Nearly 95 percent of the trees in 18 east Please see TREES on 8 - Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http:/Zwww.unl.edu/DailyNeb
