SPORTS
Surviving Edwards
Louisiana Tech’s Troy Edwards had an NCAA
record 405 receiving yards Saturday against
Nebraska. NU still won 56-27. PAGE 8-9
A&E
Left of the norm
State fair worker and mutant animal trainer Lefty
reflects on the wild side of life. PAGE 12
MON >AY
August 31, 1998
A Fair Disappointment
Rainy, high 87. Partly cloudy tonight, low 63.
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By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
Extasy for only five tickets!
That’s right. At the 1998
Nebraska State Fair, riders can be
gyrated fast enough to lose their
lunch while being turned upside
down for five tickets on a ride called
Extasy.
The midway at the state fair is in
full swing again this year with
perennial favorites designed to twist
and turn riders every which way but
loose.
With names like Extasy, Wind
Shear, Kamikaze and the Ring of
Fire, it’s no wonder people stand in
line for the rides at the fair again and
again.
„ Visitors buy tickets to ride the
attractions for 60 cents each or 20
for $12. Coupons are available at
booths located every 15 feet
throughout the midway.
All rides cost at least two tickets,
with most of the bigger attractions
requiring four, five or six coupons.
Under Sunday’s midafternoon
sun, people sought refuge from the
heat in the scant shade afforded by
the rides while waiting for the braver
souls in their groups to stagger back
from their latest rides.
The adventurous riders in the
high school- and college-aged
crowds look for the rides that will
take them high in the sky before
plummeting back to earth.
“The Wind Shear and the Ring of
Fire are the best because they are
fast and scary,” Matt Hinkel of Utica
said.
Please see RIDES on 6
Midway rides thrill
adventure-seekers
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Scott McClurg /DN
TOP: THRILL-SEEKING FAIRGOERS take an inverted spin on the Wind Shear Friday evening at the Nebraska State
Fair. The Fair opened Friday and will run through next Monday. Left: Midway lights glow against Friday’s clear sky
for the fair’s opening as screams and laughs emanate from dozens of rides.
Fair opens with good taste
Many sights, sounds and smells stun the senses
It's the mixed smell of gasoline
and funnel cake.
It’s the dirge of a demolition
derby layered over the midway’s yells
and giggles.
It’s hyper kids and parents fum
bling with tickets and dollar bills, and
Carnies beckoning from games and
rides.
And swarms of leaf hoppers
buzzing after the sun goes down.
The Nebraska State Fair opened
this weekend with a mosaic of
sounds, smells and sights to amuse,
and sometimes amioy, revelers.
Variety, or perhaps contrast, was
the fair’s hallmark.
Grater Taters are becoming as
common as cotton candy among the
repertoire of fair food.
Classic cowboys and rodeo
heroes shared the grounds with
macho newcomers, the lumberjack
champions, who competed in the
Great American Lumberjack Show.
But in terms of entertainment, the
weekend’s climax for many came
with Friday’s main music event,
Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Using a mix of new material and
old, the group proved its music is as
intoxicating as any swig of Southern
Comfort - without the aftertaste to
clash with the flavor Sno-Kones.
■ Mangled metal and music
MARK FAIR’S OPENING. PAGE 12
■ Fairgoers fancy fun foods.
Page 3
■ Tiny bugs prove to be pests.
Page 3
RHA announces new residence hall
By Jessica Fargen
Staff writer
The Residence Hall Association
adviser told senators Sunday night that
a residence hall will be built in the park
ing lot directly north of the Cather and
Pound residence halls.
Denise Borton, RHA adviser,
announced the location of the hall,
which will be for students in the soon
to-be-established J.D. Edwards Honors
Program.
Doug Zatechka, director of UNL
Housing, said the residence hall will be
built with money from a recent $32 mil
lion donation from UNL alumni Carole
and C. Edward McVaney.
The Denver couple’s gift will estab
lish a hall for about 150 students with
an interest in business administration
and computer science. The hall is tenta
tively scheduled for completion in
spring 2001.
Zatechka said construction is
scheduled to start in March 1999, but he
did not know how big the hall would be.
The hall will be small enough to
spare some parking spots in the lot, said
Tad McDowell, manager of Parking
and Transit Services.
In other business, senators elected
Larry Willis, Husker Hall senator, as
speaker of the senate.
Willis was the only person who ran.
Three others were nominated, but
declined to run.
In a speech before he was elected,
Willis said he had some restructuring
goals for RHA.
“I am advocating restructuring,” he
said. “We need to go through and
reconstruct our bylaws. We need some
one who’s going to get in there and get it
Please see RHA on 6
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