SPORTS ARE
The promoter Native to the Zoo
Even his assistant coach agrees: NU Coach Dan The increasingly famous blues band Indigenous
Kendig is a restless promoter, especially when it follows up last night’s Nebraska Union show
comes to his gymnastics team.. PAGE 9 with a concert at its favorite local bar. PAGE 12 -
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Everybody dance now
Rick Townuey/DN^
THE SABOR MEXICANO DANCE TROUPE perfonns in the Nebraska Union Ballroom as a part of a children’s carnival to kick
off the 29th Annual Chicano Awareness Days. The troupe consisted of about 36 kids ranging from 4 years of age to about
15yoars old.
No-call lists
fail in debate
Bill may still be considered
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By Jessica Fargen
Senior staff writer
The Legislature did not
answer a senator’s call
Wednesday to create a
statewide no-call list for peo
ple who don’t want telemar
keters phoning them.
Under the bill, which
failed 16-13 in the first round
of debate, phone customers
could pay $5 to be put on a no
call list.
The estimated 30,000 tele
marketing firms across the
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• Public Service Commission if
they called people on the list.
Telemarketing firms would be
charged $10 to obtain the list.
Although LB427, spon
sored by Lincoln Sen. Chris
Beutler, was voted down
Thursday, it could be up for
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session.
Beutler said the bill was
mutually beneficial to tele
marketers and customers.
“I find it impossible to
believe telemarketers are
going to sell anything to any
body who doesn’t want to be
called,’’ Beutler said. “Why
would a telemarketer want to
make calls to people who don’t
want to receive calls?”
Unwanted phone solicita
tions also disrupt the valuable
family time when parents are
home from work and spending
^SMskJS^t night,
Beutler said,, .
“That small amount of
time everyday becomes very,
very precious. It’s a time and a
place that ought to be under
your control,” Beutler said.
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Police arrest
four after
crime spree
■ Four young adults are suspected
of burglaries, a drive-by shooting
and credit card fraud.
By Jake Bleed
Staff writer
Four young adiilts were in custody Wednesday
after a mini-crime spree that included shooting one
Lincoln family’s dog in the head during a burglary,
police said.
Starting Tuesday morning, the four suspects, aged
17 to 20, committed two burglaries, a drive-by shoot
ing and several incidents of credit card fraud. Police
are still investigating related incidents.
Three of the four suspects, one 18-year-old man
and two women aged 20 and 17, were arrested
Tuesday afternoon at Gateway Mall, 66th and O
streets. The fourth suspect, another 18-year-old man,
was arrested Wednesday morning after police ques
tioning.
Police said the four suspects, all Lincoln resi
dents, spent Monday night together in a cabin near
Union - 28 miles east of Lincoln - before starting the
crimes.
After arriving in Lincoln on Tuesday morning, the
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LEARNINGS
Change
heart
College experience can
shift religious beliefs
Sandy Summeks/DN
LARRY PEDERSEN reads his Baha’i religious book during a church ser
vice at his home Sunday morning. Behind Pedersen, Dawn Dumas,
right, rocks her son, Diei, while Jeffrey Alder prays.
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a four
part series examining the relationship
between religion and higher education. ^
By Dane Stickney
Staff writer
Dorothy Pedersen used to take commu
nion in a Methodist church.
Now she holds ceremonies for Baha’i, an
Eastern religion, in her home. Pedersen, a
senior water science major, is testament to
the fact that the college years can be a time
of religious choice. Students sometimes use
that time to pick and choose from religions
that are not always the norm in the United
States.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Sociology Professor Hugh Whitt has spent
years looking into the relationship between
higher education and religion.
Whitt said college offers students a new
found freedom. -
Whitt said more than half the people in
the United States change their religion at
some point in their life.
College is ultimately an independent
environment where students are free to
experience many areas of life, and religion is
one of the largest areas to explore, Whitt
said.
“A lot of it is being away from parents,”
he said. “They always have a great deal of
religious influence.
“It is common for students to lead two
lives: a home life influenced by parents and
a school life influenced by friends.”
Realizing lifelong beliefs
After being a Methodist for 24 years,
Pedersen decided to look for a different reli
gious focus, even though she knew it would
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