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SMUTS A A E TUBS IAST Player of the week Raucous rockabilly November 25,1997 Anna DeFoige, who was named Big 12 player of Whether seen as misogynists or lovers of women, the week earlier on Monday scored 14 points as The Cramps indisputably are a spirited crew. WALKNl’ Oil THE NU defeated Creighton 80-59. PAGE 7 They play Omaha’s Ranch Bowl Friday. PAGE 9 Partly sunny, high 60. Fajr it, low 34. VOL. 97 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 66 On the flip side _ Lincoln receives disaster funding From Staff Reports Lincoln Mayor Mike Johanns and the rest of the city can add one more thing to be thankful for this Thanksgiving: FEMA disas ter funding. Gov. Ben Nelson announced Monday that the Capital City will receive $1.2 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help with cleanup costs created by last month’s snowstorm. That figure is 75 percent of the city’s current total damage estimate of $1.6 million, said FEMA deputy coordinator Curt Musgrave. The remaining 25 percent will be divided by the state and the community. Johanns said the check should arrive in Nelson’s office later this week. “It is very good news,” he said. “The storm cleanup is a very expensive process.” The funding assistance was a - great example, Johanns said, of what a tax-based federal assis tance program can do for com « It is very good news. The storm cleanup is a very expensive process.” Mike Johanns Lincoln mayor 1? munities. “We have helped out Florida and South Dakota in the past,” he said. “And now we have the mis fortune of experiencing our own disaster. Our investment is now helping us out.” Johanns said this initial claim was just the beginning for the city’s requests for disaster assis tance funding. More claims would be made, he said, as more damage assessments can be made. Lincoln’s funding assistance, along with the more than $3 mil lion Omaha will receive, brings the statewide total to more than $6 million. Vegetarians create twists on turkey fare By Kim Sweet StaffReporter When Sarah Wilhelm first became a vegetarian, her family insisted that she join the annual tra dition of giving thanks ova- the tra ditional turkey fare. “Now they just tease me,” said Wilhelm, a University of Nebraska Lincoln sophomore floral design major. As people gather this week with friends and family to share in turkey dinners, many will be avoid ing the fine-feathered friend and loading up on mashed potatoes, stuffing and other non-meat casseroles. For many vegetarians, the turkey-centered holiday often is accompanied by strange looks when vegetarians by-pass the meat, said Carol Reed-Klein, vice presi dent of UNL’s V.E.G.G.I.N., or Vegetarians Eating Good Grub in Nebraska. Reed-Klein remembers when she became a vegetarian. Her fami ly thought it was a junior-high stage, but they were supportive, thinking she would outgrow it. Eight years later, she said, she gets teased but her family always provides food at Thanksgiving to make sure she gets her fill. When vegetarians go home for Thanksgiving, many will bring the8N|^M^|ei^^aije with their famagp^Manyof these recipes are tzajipKmal foods, with substitutes to make the dishes vegetarian. Last year, Reed-Klein made a tofu turkey to serve at the annual VE.G.G.LN. Thanksgiving dinner. Reed-Klein stresses that many substitutes and alternatives are available. Instead of using dairy products like cream cheese and sour cream for mashed potatoes and other foods, soy versions are available that don’t take from the dish’s flavor. For those who enjoy ice cream on their pumpkin pie, Toffuti makes a rich version of non dairy ice cream. “It is better than regular ice cream,” Reed-Klein said. These products are available at Open Harvest, 1618 South St. “There are analogs for people who are into turkey,” Reed-Klein said. She said bringing these tradi Please see HOLIDAY on 6 Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http:/lwww.unl.edu/DailyNeb Inmate awaits appeal ■ Williams’ chances for a stay dwindle, says assis tant state attorney general. By Ted Taylor Senior Reporter After the Nebraska Supreme Court denied a request Monday to stay his execution, death row inmate Robert E. Williams now must wait to see if two more pending appeals can keep him alive. Williams had asked the state Supreme Court to postpone his sched uled Dec. 2 execution so the U.S. Supreme Court would have time to hear a juror-misconduct issue. -During Williams’ trial in 1978, a been entered into evidence. Williams later claimed that tainted the trial and asked die state high court to review the case. iwo nours oerore ms scneauiea execution in 1995, the Nebraska Supreme Court granted a stay to allow an evidentiary hearing on die juror’s actions. In September, the state Supreme Court ruled against Williams, ids new execution date was set one month later. Williams was sentenced in 1978 after confessing to the 1977 shooting deaths of two 25-year-old Lincoln women, Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks. In a three-day span, Williams also raped and murdered an Iowa woman as well as raping five others, including Brooks. The execution still could be post poned if the U.S. Supreme Court decides to discuss the case. Friday, Williams lost another court battle aimed at keeping him out of the electric chair. u.a. District court judge Kicnara Kopf ruled that the multiple volts of electricity typically needed to put an inmate to death in the electric chair con sistently has been found constitutional when it is performed without malice. “Williams’ claims are legally frivo lous,” Kopf’s ruling stated. “While Williams raises profound public policy questions, a federal district judge has no authority to answer them.” In the state’s last two executions, four jolts of electricity were needed to put to death John Joubert in 1996 and Harold Otey in 1994. Monday, Williams filed an appeal of Kopf’s decision in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Williams’ attorney, David Domina of Omaha, did not return calls to the Daily Nebraskan Monday. Please see EXECUTION on 3
