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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1997)
SPORTS A&E ■ 1 ■ ' '' • ' Who’s receiving? Mountain music December 9,1997 Nebraska senior Anna DeForge is one of many Members of the band Kusi Taki help spread the women players who now can look toward careers culture of indigenous Andean peoples to fellow DASHING THROUGH Th|SnOW in the professional leagues. PAGE 9 Nebraskans through traditional song. RAGE 7 Snow likely, high 26. Cloudy tonight, low 20. i 1 2 VOL. 97 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 I ----■ __ --- 1 The glovy of winter % * 1 California, said that he isn’t used to driving in the snow, and he knows that the weather will get worse in January and February; but he ! said Monday’s weather “wasn’t bad at all.” US. will fund huge physics tool ■ UNL will participate in constructing a particle accelerator worth billions. By Erin Gibson Senior Reporter --- Congress and two U.S. agen i cies signed a $531-million promise Monday to help build and operate the largest piece of scientific equipment in the world by 2005. , And a team of University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty mem bers and students will take part. Under Monday’s agreement, the United States will invest in a new particle accelerator called the Large Hedron Collider now under construction near Geneva, Switzerland. The $6 billion accelerator will be seven times more powerful than the strongest accelerator now in use and will measure 16 miles in circumference. It will create collisions between streams of protons at higher energies than achieved before. The collider is the “next step in the energy frontier,” said Nebraska team leader Greg Snow, a UNL associate professor of high-energy physics. “This is a happy day for us.” • The Nebraska team will receive about $500,000 to create a device that measures the lumi nosity - the exact number - of proton collisions occurring inside the accelerator, where col lisions occur at nearly the speed of light, Snow said. The measurement of about 1 billion collisions per second will form the basis for evaluating all other data scientists hope to col lect from the collisions, including the existence of the Higgs boson particle. > • The particle is the last miss ing piece in the standardmodel of particle physics and is response ble for the fact that particles have mass, Snow said. In other words, the elusive particle could help scientists understand the basis of material existence, he said. Snow and another Nebraska team member, physics assistant professor Dan Claes, helped dis cover the next-to-last missing Please see PHYSICS on 6 Bus holiday light tours available By Amy Keller J Staff Reporter If trips to look at the holiday dri' : ving in circles for hours, getting nauseous and fighting with fami ly members, the Big Red Bus and StarTran have a cure. TheIJig Red Bus, together with Rock ‘N Roll Runza, is hav ing 90-minute holiday light tours | featuring holiday music and | videos inside the bus and cider, • coffee and cookies at Rock ‘N ■1 Roll Runza before and after the tours. i led Triplett, ccuwpper of the Big Red Bus, said the tours are a chance for Lincolnites to enjoy the holiday festivities in a unique way. “People love to look at the lights and prefer having someone else doing the driving,” Triplett said. The tours cost $7 per person and ticket buyers also get a free 44 People love to look at the lights...” TedTmplett i - rraecanet^aaai'jtig, GOrOWner ~N. , j available! Call 1-88.8-2 7 7j7- *oday for mpreyinfc. ,_ Nebraska football poster. They will be held on Dec. 14-17 and 21-23. The bus will leave from Rock ‘N Roll Runza, 14th and P streets, at 6:15 and 8:30 each night. The bus will make the rounds of Lincoln to look at residents’ lawn displays and travel to Mahoney Park, 70th and Fremont streets, to see the Lincoln Lights Display. This is the second year the Big Red Bus has had a lights tour and last year’s tour was sold out, Triplett said. To buy tickets for Please see BUS on 6 Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http: / / www.unl.edu /DailyNeb Title shot should up road trips ByIevaAugstums Staff Reporter With the Husker football team playing for a national title again tins season, the athletic tick et office is preparing for more sales. A total of 15,000 tickets have been allotted to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the 1998 Orange Bowl game at Pro Player Stadium in Miami on Jan. 2. John Anderson, athletic ticket office manag er, said 15,000 tickets were plentiful, and he was confident a majority of the tickets would sell.“The university is required to purchase 15,000 tickets for the Orange Bowl because of a contract we have,” Anderson said. “It is up to us to resell the tickets and get the money back we spent” . .. . ... .; UNL’s attdetjc fictet office spent $1.3 mH ^ lion OfiOfahgefitow! tickets this year.As of_ hears whenjaey call the office is a little mis leading,” Anderson said. “We are not sold out of tickets completely, there are still student tickets available at $80 a piece.” Anderson said 500 tickets are available to UNL students. Student tickets will be distrib uted through a lottery, he said. Students could get a ticket lottery number starting Monday from the athletic ticket office, 117 South Stadium. A total of 56 lotteries entries was sold Monday, with 444 tickets left. “At th<» rslti* tirlfpt are cmi-ntr chutenk have a pretty good chance obtaining an Orange Bowl ticket,” Anderson said. Each UNL student may buy only one ticket, and students have until Friday to enter the lot tery, Anderson said. Students must pay the for their tickets when they receive their lottery numbers. On Friday afternoon a range of numbers will be chosen, and Monday, students who have a number within the range will know whether they will be able to exchange their lottery num ber for an Orange Bowl ticket. During the season, Husker boosters had an option of reserving as many bowl tickets as they wished. UblL administrators and faculty mem bers were also allowed to buy tickets, Anderson said. Season ticket holders were not given the option to reserve tickets, but do have the oppor tunity to buy tickets if any ordered tickets are canceled. “It is an expensive ticket, $80, and it is a long way down to Miami,” Anderson said. “But we hope to see a lot of students this year cheer ing on the football team to what might be anoth er national championship.” - Andereoafc—yaiafcafcTlrnt jiahaf mleciagt year wer# low coriT^&Fetf With*^asfyears. He attributes the low ticket sales to die Huskers not playing for a national championship. He hopes this year’s attendance is better. Last year, UNL was given the same number of tickets, but fewer than 8,000 Nebraska fans attended the game.Nick Spath, a sophomore music education and UNL marching band Please see TICKETS on 6
