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—sports— _au MONDAY Flying high Guitar gods March l, 1999 It was a standout day for Laurie McLaughlin and Mark Simpkins and Ken Whitmore’s new guitar - the Nebraska women's gymnastics as the team shop sports Lincoln’s premiere collection of vin- CLOUDING AROUND won the Masters Classic. PAGE 9 tage guitars. PAGE 12 Cloudy and mild, high 57. Cloudy tonight, low 38. VOL. 98 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. Ill Primary proposed for April 2000 By Jessica Fargen Senior staff writer To combat Nebraska's waning influence on the nahonal presidential nomination, Omaha Sen. Jon Bruning favors moving the state’s pri mary date to April, thus forming a regional primary system. LB695, heard by the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Friday, would move the primary date from the second Tuesday in May to the first Monday in April. The move would put Nebraska's primary on the same day as Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The bill would also create a cau cus system in Nebraska. The primary system is basically ineffectual in Nebraska because the state’s primary is one of the last pri maries in the nation, Bruning said. “Right now Nebraska has zero influence in the way our presidents are chosen,” Bruning said. “In this state, the way we choose, it is essen tially a beauty contest.” By the month of May in election years, national parties have all but formally decided their party nomina tion. Moving up the primary date so it coincides with other Midwestern states would send out a stronger mes sage than individual states alone, Bruning said. Nebraska and South Dakota must enact legislation to form the regional primary. The first new primary would be April 4, 2000. LB695 coincides with a national effort to create a rotating regional pri mary plan, said Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh, who testified in support of the bill. Regions would take turns having the first primary of the election cycle. Mountain and western regions have begun to form regional pri maries as a part of a national trend started by the south’s “Super Tuesday” primary in 1988. “The only one that’s left out of that is the Midwest,” Thornburgh said. “I think the Midwest needs to band together with one voice.” Thornburgh said media coverage, a candidate's likelihood of winning, campaign timing and the number of delegates at stake are the things that drive candidates to campaign in a state. The latter reason is the only ,one states can really control, and banding Please see PRIMARIES on 2 « It s high time the Midwest took a stand and give ourselves a voice in the presidential process/’ Ron Thornburgh Kansas secretary of state Two more witnesses to testify ■ Prosecutors are ready to rest their case this week after Hopkins testifies in the Galligo trial. By Josh Funk Senior staff writer As the state prepares to wrap up its case against accused murderer Tony Galligo early this week. Timothy Hopkins will continue his chilling testi mony under cross examination this morning. Prosecutors are expected to call two more witnesses, Karen Brown and Lincoln Police Detective Greg Sorenson, to the stand after Hopkins completes his testimony. Sorenson was the chief investigator on the case, and Brown was a reading teacher at the Lincoln Regional Center who worked w ith Hopkins and Galligo. In her deposition Brown. 44, said she also smoked marijuana with the . boys, and had an ongoing sexual rela tionship with Hopkins from mid-sum mer 1996 to Hopkins' arrest in September 1997. Then Galligo's attorney, Kirk Naylor, will present his case in which Galligo may take the stand in his own defense. On Friday, Naylor started to tear apart Hopkins’ story of the murder on cross examination. “The only two people who know the truth or any part of the truth of what happened in that tunnel is you (Hopkins) and Mr. Galligo,” Naylor said. Hopkins, who confessed to the murder of Michael Schmader in September 1997, has changed his story several times since that confession. The Please see GALLIGO on 2 I % , - —■ "H- " - " ._. . Daniel Luedert/DN VOICE PARTY presidential candidate Andy Schuerman said he would make an extra effort to reach a wide variety of students as president of ASUN. Schuerman, a junior finance major, has been involved in stu dent government since his freshman year. Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at dailyneb.com of the POPIE Schuerman, Voice ready, willing to put students first Editor s note: This is the first in a two-part series profiling ASUNpresidential candi date^ for Wednesday’s election: Tomorrow's profile will feature Paul Schreier, Focus pres idential candidate. By Kim Sweet Staff writer Andy Schuerman would like to sit in a particular chair on the UNL campus some day. Contained behind a pane of glass in the ASUN office on the first floor of the Nebraska Umon, the Voice party presidential candidate in the upcoming student elections wouldn’t mind occupying the seat behind the student president’s desk. But if he is successful in Wednesday’s election, he might not be sitting down much. With Schuerman’s and the Voice party’s commitment to representing more students on the UNL campus, getting out and talking to a massive number of constituents will come along with the presidential post. Please see ASUN on 2
