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SPORTS A lighter Leiter NU’s Derek Leiter brings his eccentric personal ity to the ranked men's gymnastics team in Lincoln. PAGE 9 a a&e From the Roots I Hip-Hop group The Roots has released its newest I album to rave reviews; member Rahzel speaks I about the band’s success. PAGE 12 THURS: >AY March 11, 1999 Voice of the Cloods Mostly cloudy, high 38. Cloudy tonight, low 20. Gov. Johanns plans to veto $19 million state-aid bill By Shane Anthony Staff writer On a 46-3 vote, senators advanced a S 19.3 million state aid bill Wednesday morning, but the battle over LB 149 is not ov er. Gov. Mike Johanns said that if the bill arrives on his desk in its current form, he will veto it. “It's not about the money.” Johanns said. “If the Legislature would u The administration seems to be talking about an Armageddon Sen. George Coordsen send me a clean bill, I would be prepared to sign it.” Much of Johanns' criticism involved an amendment by Speaker Doug Kristensen of Minden that senators failed to pass before advanc ing LB 149. That amendment would have allowed the Legislature to appropnate less or more money than the amount certified by the State Department of Education via a special state aid formula. Debate covered a wide variety of topics - stability m state aid, a suffering agricultural economy and property tax relief. Supporters of Kristensen s amendment said they want ed more flexibility if the Legislature has to make budget cuts. Opponents said they wanted predictability in state aid and worried about effects on property tax levies. Harrison Sen. Bob Wickersham introduced an amend ment to Kristensen s amendment that would have allowed schools to raise the property tax levy to make up the differ ence if the Legislature gave them less than the certified state aid amount. Schools would need that option to keep operat Please see AID on 6 ■\ Daniel Luedert/DN Rachelle Winkle, Voice first vice-presidential candidate, consoles Vernon Miller, Voice second vice-presidential candidate, along with Andy Schuerman, Voice presidential candidate at BW-3 late Wednesday evening. Schuerman and Winkle won the runoff race by a 20-vote difference, Trisha Meuret of Focus won the second vice-presidential nomination 52.2 percent of the vote to Miller’s 45.5 percent. Voice victorious in runoff By Kim Sweet Staff writer Students sporting green Voice party shirts found out that a day of sporting sand wich boards and driving virtual “Voice mobiles” paid off Wednesday night. After a long day of spreading them selves across East and City campuses urg ing students to vote, Voice supporters found out their efforts were worth it when Voice presidential candidate Andy Schuerman announced a split-ticket victo ry The crowd stood silent when Schuerman announced that Focus party candidate Trisha Meuret defeated Voice party candidate Vernon Miller 1,289 votes to 1,124 votes in the second vice-presiden tial race. But silence exploded into cheers when Schuerman announced his and first vice presidential running mate Rachelle Winkle's narrow victory. Schuerman and Winkle defeated Focus party candidates Paul Schreier and Jon England by 20 votes - 1,237 votes to 1,217. The victory came a week after an elec tion that didn’t result in a majority for either party. The ASUN Electoral Commission said because of an NU Board of Regents policy, Please see VOICE on 8 Few complete honors requirements Honorable discharge Though about 400 freshman enroll in the honors program each year, substantially fewer graduate having fulfilled the program’s requirements. Listed are May graduates Source: UNL Honors Program Jon Frank/DN Editor's note: This is the last in a three-part series that takes an in depth look at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Honors Program. By Leva Augstums Senior staff writer Every year about 400 incoming UNL freshman enroll in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Honors Program under the impression that they would be engaging themselves in a rigorous learning environment. But very few, if any, are told that about 25 seniors graduate each year from the program. Honors Program Director Patrice Berger said the number could be attrib uted to the university’s academic stan dards. Some UNL students and profes sors say it is because honors students are too lazy. Most agree that it could be a com bination of student apathy and difficul ty in fulfilling graduation and honors program requirements. “Most honors students just don’t want to apply themselves,” said Candace Cain, a junior middle-school education major. “People are just in it for the book scholarship, and don’t apply themselves to do a thesis.” Cain, who is a non-honors student living in Neihardt Residence Center, an honors-focused housing unit, applied to the honors program as a freshman. She was not accepted into the program. Cain said one reason she applied was because she was interested in the idea of completing an undergraduate research thesis. “I thought it would be a great thing to do, especially for my major,” Cain said. Berger said he was aware some stu dents leave the program before their senior year, therefore not fulfilling all honors requirements. 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