SPORTS
Newcombe’s ready...
Are the rest of the Huskers? NU Coach Frank Solich
said No. 2 Nebraska should be “100 percent" for its
game agamst No. 8 Washington. PAGE 9
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Junior’s toy
Texas guitar slinger Junior Brown brings his
personal vision of the instrument to Guitars and
_ Cadillacs tonight. PAGE 12
FRIDAY
September 25, 1998
Summertime Hues
Partly sunny, breezy, high 85. Cloudy tonight, low 66.
VOL. 98 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 25
Packing up
Heather Glenboski/DN
CHAD THOMPSON, Kristin Bennett and Diane Robinson of Gear Up reload
their equipment Thursday morning. Because of a conflict with “ESPN
College Football GameDay,” Gear Up has rescheduled its events for today
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the greenspace north of the Nebraska Union.
UNL’s Internet 2
debut postponed
By Jessica Fargen
Staff writer
A fresh, more expeditious
Internet that can transfer the
equivalent of a 30-volume
Encyclopaedia Britannica faster
than a finger snap was supposed
to debut at UNL next Thursday.
But Internet 2 won’t be wired
into UNL until early next year,
said Kent Hendrickson, associate
vice chancellor for information
services.
But Internet 2 will not be a
sequel to the first Internet.
Instead of flashing advertise
ments, slow connections and Web
surfing, Internet 2 will give 130
universities, from Kansas State
University to Harvard University,
a faster, more reliable way to
share and compile massive
amounts of information for
research.
“Your first reaction will be,
‘How will we ever need more
than (Internet 2)?’” Hendrickson
asked. “That’s what they said
with Internet I.”
Internet 2 will be able to move
information at 2.4 billion bits of
information a second, compared
with the current speeds of about
56,000 bits per second.
Professors could spend a
month on the current Internet
doing what could be done on
Internet 2 in 30 minutes,
Hendrickson said.
“Data mining” - sharing mas
sive amounts of data - would be
the primary purpose of Internet
Please see NET on 3
American Indian group
nears remains solution
By Lindsay Young
Senior staff writer
What was called "history in
progress" was made Thursday at a
meeting of American Indian tribal rep
resentatives.
The Working Group on the
University of Nebraska Repatriation
made its final plans for repatriating
three groups of unaffiliated American
Indian remains.
Because such plans had never been
made before, the group took the entire
day to settle its concerns.
The ad hoc group was created at the
request of the University of Nebraska
Lincoln to assist it in catering to the
needs of the American Indian tribes
mvolved in the repatriation efforts.
Chancellor James Moeser signed
an agreement Sept. 1 stating the univer
sity would return all affiliated and.unaf
filiated remains, a total of about 1,700.
Working out the complicated details
have followed.
The decision to repatriate the unaf
filiated remains - about 670 - set a
national precedent because the group
of tribal representatives had made a
joint claim for the remains. That has
never happened before, said Vice
Chancellor for Research Priscilla
Grew.
The working group already has
filed a claim for the repatriation of
about 400 of the 670 unaffiliated
remains.
Now the group must file a separate
claim for the other 250; recently they
were found to be under federal jurisdic
tion, not the university's.
Grew announced Thursday morn
ing that the university realized those
remains were discovered on federal
land or were excav ated with federal
funding.
In 1995, those remains were
recorded in the university's inventory,
which was required by the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act of 1990.
Because the university overlooked
the fact that those remains were under
federal jurisdiction, Grew said, the uni
versity would help in getting federal
agencies to return them to the tribes.
The documentation needed for the
repatriation is nearly done, so this
recent snag shouldn’t delay the repatri
ation process too much, Grew said.
The meeting also cleared up issues
on another group of remains, which
might have jeopardized the repatriation
agreement.
After examination, the university
was unable to figure out where 40
remains came from or what tribe they
belonged to.
Those 40 remains, with the univer
sity's teaching collection, will be
claimed separately by the tribal repre
sentatives. Otherwise, Grew said, those
remains may delay repatriation of the
other 405 remains.
The tribal group also discussed how
they could access the unaffiliated
remains now held by the State Patrol
and a university-hired attorney.
The group asked that a traditional
spiritual leader be given access to the
remains. Grew will make this request to
the official mvestigators.
Th^two anthropologists examimng
the inventory need to be able to see the
remains, which are locked up, to com
plete their inventory, Grew said.
The working group said it may ask
that an American Indian observer be
present to ensure anthropologists do
not tamper with the remains.
The group of American Indian repre
sentatives were pleased with the
progress, said Pamina Yellow Bird, chair
woman for the committee. Yellow Bird is
a member of the Three Affiliated Tribes -
Man dan, Hidatsa and Ankara.
There was a reason talks about
repatriation lasted all day, Grew said.
“You are seeing history in progress
today.”
The group will be meeting again
today at 8:30 a.m. in the Nebraska East
Union Great Plains Room.
Low voter turnout prompts drive
By Todd Anderson
Senior staff writer
Attempting to attract a larger
percentage of student voters to the
polls on Election Day has been a
struggle for election officials, who
have watched numbers decline since
the start of the decade.
But this year, Lancaster County
commissioners have put together a
plan to woo students in places where
they're found: the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln campus.
According to official voter
turnout reports compiled by the
Lancaster County Election
Commission, only 55 of more than
1,800 students registered to vote in
Lancaster County made it to the pri
mary election polling site in May - a
mere 3 percent.
UNL’s City Campus comprises
its own voting precinct, and about
98 percent of the voters live in resi
dence halls or greek houses,
Lancaster County Election
Commissioner Patty Hansen said.
Brian Hensley, Lancaster
County deputy election commis
sioner, said many students leave
campus following final exams in
May and neglect to vote in the pri
mary.
But, he said, that does not
explain low general election turnout
rates, which have been declining
relative to statewide voter turnout.
In November 1996, 23 percent of
students registered on City Campus
voted, compared with nearly 60 per
cent statewide.
To make it easier for more stu
dents to register to vote, Hansen
said, her office is setting up registra
tion booths throughout Lancaster
County and Lincoln.
Hensley is looking for organiza
tions to rally students to vote and
volunteer at voter registration sites
at major locations across campus on
Oct. 5.
He said his office is working
Matt Haney/DN
with the Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska; College
Republicans; Young Democrats; and
Pi Sigma Alpha, the honorary
Political Science organization, to
motivate students to use their politi
cal voice.
Hensley also said the commis
sioner’s office plans to distribute
registration forms to greek hovises
and residence halls at the beginning
of October and is working out a deal
with Student Affairs to send a mass
electronic mailing to UNL students.
In Nebraska, the number of reg
istered voters has grown, in part
Please see VOTE on 3
Student votes dropping ^
General election State Campus
1990 68% 42%
1992 78% 50%
1994 65% 21%
1996 60% 23%
Primary election State Campus
1990 45% 5%
1992 44% 5%
1994 37% 2%
1996 31% 3%
Percentage of registered voters who cast
ballots
The percentage of registered voters
who actually cast ballots is dramatically
different between students registered to
vote on the UNL campus and registered
voters across the state. Though the
percentage of those who vote is
decreasing for both, the UNL student
voter rate has dropped fast over the
decade. Few registered UNL students
vote in the primary especially, because
it takes place after the academic year.
Source: Lancaster County Election Commision
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