SPORTS_
Big stick
NU s Ken Harvey, who leads the Cornhuskers in
10 offensive categories, looks to help Nebraska
as Texas A&M travels to Lincoln today. PAGE 7
A&E
Constructive criticism
A group of architecture students will make their
feelings on free speech known today without say
ing a word. PAGE 9
FRIDAY
April 10, 1998
Summer Sucking
Mostly sunny, high 67. Clear tonight, low 48.
VOL. 97 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 137
Huskers, Michigan
meet with Clinton
By Shannon Heffelfinger
Senior Reporter
WASHINGTON, D.C. - It took the influ
ence of the most powerful man in the United
States to bring together the two most success
ful teams of the 1997 college football season.
President Clinton accomplished Thursday
what the NCAA Bowl Alliance could not on
Jan. 2. as the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll
national champion Nebraska football team
met face-to-face with Michigan, the
Associated Press national champion.
Clinton honored both teams at a ceremony
held in the White House.
“We've had a lot of heavyweights in this
room, but nothing compares to this." Clinton
said. “The entire season, everyone has been
trying to get these two teams to meet, and it
looks like I'm the only one who could pull it
off.
“Seeing how it's sunny outside, maybe we
should go out and settle this whole thing right
now."
The two teams, of course, declined
Clinton's invitation.
Instead, the Wolverines' captains presented
the president with a Michigan hat and a UM
football jersey.
Aaron Taylor. Grant Wistrom and Jason
Peter, the Cornhusker captains, gave Clinton a
Nebraska jersey and a football autographed by
the entire team.
Clinton praised Wolverine Coach Lloyd
Carr on setting a precedent at Michigan and
commended former NU Coach Tom Osborne
on a “fine career.”
“The Orange Bowl was a fantastic finish to
your undefeated season." Clinton said to
Osborne. “With three national titles and 255
wins, Tom Osborne is truly one of the great
coaches fn college football history. And I want
to thank you for the way you did it. and the
example you set.”
Osborne, scripting a final highlight in his
66
The entire season,
everyone has been trying
to get these two teams to
meet, and it looks like Tm
the only one who could
pull it off.”
President Clinton
storied career, said a short goodbye.
“The senior leadership this year was the
best I've ever seen." Osborne said. "They
decided last January what needed to be done,
and they did it. It was a gratify ing ending to 36
great years, and I have a lot of people to thank
for that.”
University ol Nebraska-Lincoln
Chancellor Janies Moeser. along with the
assembled athletes, coaches and staff from
both teams, enthusiastically applauded
Osborne's speech, which NU kicker Kris
Brown called “emotional.”
“You definitely got the feeling that some
thing was ending,” Brown said. “But you look
back on everything, and this ending seems like
a really fitting one. It's great for Coach
Osborne to cap ev erything off at the White
House."
The teams stayed in the White House after
the ceremony to shake Clinton's hand and pose
for pictures w ith the president.
"It was a great opportunity,” UNL senior
Jay Gates said. “It's not every day that some
one flies you out to Washington and the presi
dent is there waiting for you.”
Please see WASHINGTON on 8
Matt Miller/DN
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON received a Husker football jersey and an autographed football during
a ceremony honoring both the Michigan and Nebraska national championship teams at the
White House Thursday. Michigan players accepted the split championship. SEE STORY PAGE 8.
Edge to change
to classic rock
From Staff Reports
Omaha alternative rock station
KDGE-FM 1101.9 The Edge), is set to
become your older brother's favorite !
station.
Anonymous sources at the station i
| said Thursday that the station, some- ;
! time today, will become a classic rock j
station.
The Edge is owned by Mitchell
Broadcasting Co., which also owns at j
least six radio stations in Nebraska
I including Omaha stations KQKQ-FM
i (98.5 Sweet 98), KKAR-AM (1290)
| and Keamev's KGFW-AM (1340).
When contacted at his home
Mitchell Broadcasting owner Marty
Mitchell declined to deny the change.
“Give me a call tomorrow and we
can talk about it then,” he told the Daily
Nebraskan late Thursday night.
Bookstore seeks buyer
By Brad Davis
Senior Reporter
Within two years, students might
actually enjoy standing in line waiting
to pav for their books at the University
Bookstore.
UNL administrators said thev
hope students will encounter a coffee
house atmosphere so it's fun to hang
out at the bookstore in the basement of
the Nebraska Union when renovations
are complete.
But unlike other remodeling
around campus, the university won't
be footing the bill for these changes.
Instead, talks are under way to pri
vatize the University of Nebraska
Lincoln-owned bookstore that has
been a staple of the campus for almost
40 years.
James Main, assistant vice chan
cellor for business and finance and
director of University Services, said
four firms are interested in buying the
store, which draws S9 million to S10
million each year in gross revenues.
A committee formed of students,
professors and administrators exam
ined initial proposals submitted by the
four interested companies and has nar
rowed the field to two. which are sub
mitting detailed proposals. Main said.
The committee is a response to NL: j
President Dennis Smith's 1995 call for I
the university to evaluate its operations
and increase efficiency.
To ensure negotiations remain
confidential. Main said he would not
give the names of the firms the com
mittee is considenng until a final deci
sion is made around the first week of
May.
But he would give students a clue
as to what they might expect in their
bookstore by the summer of 1999.
Along with an atmosphere similar
Please see BOOKSTORE on 6
Democrats square off
in gubernatorial forum
By Brian Carlson
Senior Reporter
OMAHA The Democratic can
didates for governor agreed on the
need for property-tax relief but
clashed on several other issues during
a televised forum Thursday night.
During a forum broadcast
statewide by KPTM-TV (Fox 42), Bill
Hoppner and Jim McFarland each said
the property tax is the first tax that
state government should seek to slash.
But the two parted ways on issues
including hog-confinement regula
tions, new prison construction and
abortion - and more fundamentally,
on their respective appeals to the peo
ple of Nebraska.
Forum rules prohibited the candi
dates from speaking directly about
their opponent, but McFarland cleariv
indicated that, come November.
Hoppner would not be elected in
Republican-dominated Nebraska.
"A pro-choice, liberal Democrat
cannot win in Nebraska.” McFarland
said.
But Hoppner. who favors abortion
rights and has expressed displeasure at
Nebraska business leaders' efforts to
enact further business-tax incentives,
said he has his finger on the state's
pulse after six months of campaign
ing.
Please see FORUM on 6
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