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RIDAY Sweet home Nebraska Art appreciation February 6; 1998 The Nebraska men's basketball team returns To celebrate the upcoming birthdays of presidents past, hard-work - home to face Kansas State Saturday. The ing Daily Nebraskan cartoonist Matt Haney takes a day off. He will Let’s MOVE To Flo 'IDA! Huskers are 10-1 at home this season. PAGE 7 return Monday, after a well-deserved, three-day weekend. PAGE 4 Partly sunny, high 36. Cloud ' night, low 20. ‘Conference9 creates commotion By Brad Davis and Lindsay Young Daily Nebraskan Senior Staff An angry mass left without answers after crowding the Canfield Administration Building Thursday when w'hat was supposed to be a press conference turned into a “circus." The sharp-tongued crow d of about 75 people met English Professor David Hibler outside Chancellor James Moeser's office, where they were look ing for answers. Hibler. who sent unsolicited e-mail, which included the term “nigga." to some faculty and students over the weekend, had scheduled the conference m Moeser's office at 2 p.m But after Hibler. his son Jordan and a man from South Africa began rapping and cursing in the office. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Sgt. Mylo Bushing told them to go to the Nebraska l nion Pew ter Room, w here the confer ence was originally scheduled Da\ id Hibler left the office, but ret used to leav e the hallw ay outside the door, where he and his entourage tried to continue rapping using a portable stereo. The crowd however, was not satis fied with David Hibier's raps, and began pressing him for a detailed explanation for the e-mail that some people have deemed racist "This is insane!" yelled Ly nda Todd assistant director of the UNL hducational Talent Search. "They want to know why he did what he did - you are humiliating people of color!" Although Hibler answered few questions, he handed out a prepared statement that discussed the "alleged ‘racism'" in the content of his literature course. The crowd continued to question David Hibler about the e-mail, and David Hibler directed his son to “give them the message.” UNL law student Nasim Zawadi was tired of comments from Jordan Hibler. though, and asked if he was a UNL student. Jordan Hibler said although he was not a UNL student, he was a "student of hard knocks.” “Well we're students at this universi ty,” Zawadi responded. “We’ve tolerated this kind of nonsense... this is a big hard knock.” David Hibler then offered an expla nation of "the biggest hard knock.” “You want in one word what the biggest hard knock is?” he said. “The people of this country are being drnen to a war in which the black people of this country are going to be asked to cany a disproportionate share of that war. and it is high time that some body asks 'What is going on?"' U.S. conflict w ith Iraq, in which Jordan Hibler said blacks would be sent to the front line, as he said they were in Vietnam. Da\ id Hibler and the crowd eventu ally moved to the front steps of the administration building, where Jordan Hibler began rapping about U.S. society. David Hibler. while walking back to his office, said he intends to expand his MUMliterature e-mail listserv to include 2.000-10,000 people within a week or two. He said many people at UNL live in a "protected environment" in which they don't know “what's going down." “They don't see what the president is doing.” David Hibler said. "This is the first time in the history of the United States that the mggas of the U.S. are going to stop a w'ar before it starts that's what it's about they're gonna" stop a f-- war before it starts." David Hibler said he would announce a call-to-action to universities Please see E-MAIL on 6 Photos By Matt Miller/DN ABOVE: JORDAN HIBLER, left, argues with UNL student Nasim Zawadi, far right, Thursday while Jordan’s father, UNL English Professor David Hibler, watches. Jordan Hibler began rapping at the public appearance, where arguments took the place of a scheduled news conference. RIGHT: ABOUT 75 UNL students, fac ulty and staff crammed into the hall way outside Chancellor James Moeser’s office in Canfield Administration waiting to hear Professor David Hibler’s comments Thursday. Student fees may rise Group wows audience with soul By Jessica Fargen Assignment Reporter The new Nebraska Union will have noticeable differences: An art gallery. A 300 percent larger Student Involvement office. And no cigarettes. Some University of Nebraska Lincoln students, however, are won dering about the cost. The answer: About S3.50 per semester for each student could be added onto next year's student fees. Nebraska Unions Director Daryl ! Swanson told the Committee for Fees Allocation on Thursday that he wanted to increase his budget by 9 percent. Student fees already will go up S20 next semester for union renova tion costs. The monev from the proposed increase would give UNL's Student Involvement more staff, advertising and office space, Swanson said. But some revenue actually may be lost to discontinued tobacco sales in the union and money transferred from the union to the general fund. “We need to increase funds to open, operate and present new pro jects that will be available to students in the new union," Swanson said. But this left CFA members won dering how students would benefit. The union would lose S31.140 if tobacco sales were discontinued, a policy which many student groups oppose. Yet students will have to pay. said Mark Shields, a member of CFA. Saad Alav i. Union Board presi Please see CFA on 2 Read the Dauy Xehn By Adam Klinker Staff Reporter In a fury of catchy beats, inces sant toe-tapping rhythms and roaring humor, the Los Angeles-based Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers erupted at O'Donnell Auditorium at Nebraska Wesleyan University Thursday. Bringing with them a loud, tri umphal celebration of diversity in music, the group performed a mini concert for NWU's monthly student forum. This month's forum was a cele bration of black history, culture and heritage. In 50 minutes, the group, a 15-member (eight men. seven women) professional ensemble, per formed selections from its repertoire. "This is lust a sampling of how diverse black music and the black musician are." Albert .1. McNeil, the group's conductor, said from the iskan on the World Wide Web at http: he stage. The singers performed num bers from genres including gospel, spiritual, jazz and opera. This was the Jubilee Singers' third trip to Lincoln in 15 years; the last was in 1994. The group had just returned from a tour of the Hawaiian islands, being the first black gospel group to do so. Later this year, the choir will be touring in Italy and Spain. “We're very excited to have them here again; they do a great job and they know their art so very well," said Susan Buss of Abendmusik of Lincoln, the company that brings the Jubilee Singers and other performing groups to Lincoln. The program started w ith a quick introduction and warm-up by McNeil and the Jubilee Singers. The solid res onance of the voices echoed across the brick walls and high ceiling of the auditorium as the group raised what McNeil called "The World Famous wiv.unl.ciiu DailwW'h Bumble B-Flat” exercise. The snappy arpeggio - a quick rhythm of the 15 voices in short bursts of sound - drew hearty applause from the estimated crowd of 550. Added antics and choreography kept the crowd engaged both between numbers and during the actual singing. The group then launched into a soulful performance of old African spirituals. American gospel, opera and a tribute to Harry Belafonte. “It was just a wonderful perfor mance," said Kathleen Sewright, director of the Nebraska Wesleyan Women's Choir. “They are such fabu lous musicians and they poured out the black experience in an incredibly diverse way." Sewright also commented on the w av the performance was arranged in Please see SINGERS on. 6