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■ The red-and-white
creations will have a red N
and HUSKERS against a
white background.
By Jessica Fargen
Senior editor
It’s football season again, so
throw on your favorite NU sweatshirt
or don your Husker baseball hat with
the red N on it and head toward
Memorial Stadium.
Oh, and don’t forget to pop those
Husker contact lenses in your eyes.
That’s right, the latest Husker fan
gear to hit the athletic merchandising
lineup are red-and-white Husker con
tact leftses. The price tag for the con
tact lenses, which includes the
required eye exam, can run up to
$200.
Starting in a few weeks, select
Lincoln and Omaha eye clinics will
be selling Emblem Eyes - contact
lenses displaying a red N and
HUSKERS against a white back
ground.
The lenses cost $99, without a
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prescription, or $139 with a prescrip
tion, plus $70 for the required exam,
said David Kovar, owner of the three
Pearle Vision centers in Lincoln, the
only Lincoln store selling the lenses.
Emblem Eyes are an offshoot of
Wild Eyes contacts, which include
contact lenses that resemble things
such as a cat’s eye.
Kovar thinks the NU Emblem
Eyes will be pretty popular, especial
ly among college students. Pearle
Vision will sell the contacts through
football season, he said.
“It is dramatic,” Kovar said. “It
really looks,” he paused, “weird.”
“Their eyes look different, and
you are drawn to their eyes when
somebody is wearing them.”
Kovar said in order to see the lens
es someone would have to be no far
ther than 10 feet from the person
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Its the ultimate fan appreciation
Paul Soye
marketing manager for Wesley Jessen
wearing the Emblem Eyes.
Wesley lessen, the company that
makes Emblem Eyes, asked several
top college sports teams to lend their
logos to the lenses, said Paul Soye,
marketing manager for Wesley
lessen, which is based in Illinois. The
University of Michigan and NU were
the only ones that responded.
“It’s the ultimate fan apprecia
tion,” Soye said.
Depending on how popular the
lenses are, the market could be broad
ened later on, Soye said.
Russ Svoboda, interim director of
licensing and sales for the NU
Athletic Department, said it was clear
why NU was a good market to test the
contacts.
“We’ve got a good solid market
ing base throughout the country, and
we are perennially one of the top 10
licensed collegiate teams out there,”
Svoboda said.
Like all companies that use the
NU logo, Wesley lessen paid a fee to
use the Husker namesake.
Arrests made after woman
threatened with pistol
The Lincoln Police Department
SWAT team was called into action
early Sunday morning after a 32
year-old woman was harassed and
threatened with a pistol at 911 Peach
St.
After her 15-year-old son was
harassed as he walked in front of the
house, the 32-year-old approached
and confronted the residents of the
home at 1:30 a.m., Lincoln Police
Public Information Officer Katherine
Finell said.
Finell said the residents of the
house were outside on their porch
and, after surrounding the 32-year
old, threw things at her and spit on
her. According to police reports, one
man then drew a weapon, pointed it at
the woman’s head and threatened her.
After leaving the scene, police
said, the woman flagged down a
police officer at the corner of Ninth
and Peach streets. Officers
approached the house, but its resi
dents refused contact. A warrant was
obtained and at 4 a.m., the SWAT
team served the warrant.
Police arrested Corey Schneider,
a 24-year-old Lincoln male.
Schneider, who is suspected of hav
ing pointed the pistol at the woman’s
head, was charged with making ter
roristic threats.
The weapon Schneider is accused
of using was not recovered.
Other residents of the house were
arrested for outstanding unnamed
misdemeanor warrants.
Guns stolen from home
Two pistols were stolen from a
Lincoln home Sunday evening.
The male resident of the home at
413 N.W. 17th St. returned around
8:30 p.m. and found a window screen
removed and a .357 magnum pistol
and .25 automatic missing from a
desk in his bedroom.
Also taken in the burglary was
about $20 in change. Total loss is esti
mated at $370.
Truck hits Health Center
A black Chevy Blazer hopped a
curb Sunday morning and careened
into the University of Nebraska
Lincoln Health Center.
University Police Sgt.,Mylo
Bushing said the driver reported the
brakes on his vehicle went out as he
turned into a parking stall in the lot
north of the health center.
Bushing said the truck was
severely damaged in the crash and
was towed from the scene.
Ray Campbell, UNL facilities
management structural supervisor,
said a window and window frame
were smashed on the health center. A
section of wall also was pushed in
where the truck hit, damaging an
interior ceiling.
Campbell said the damage would
require major repair work and esti
mated the cost of the damage at about
$2,000.
Compiled by senior staff writer
Jake Bleed
Talks are under way
to stop missile launch
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -
South Korea on Monday stepped up
diplomatic efforts to stop North
Korea from launching a new ballistic
missile by holding high-level talks
with China and Japan.
South Korean Foreign Minister
Hong Soon-young met his Japanese
counterpart, Masahiko Komura,
Monday in Tokyo.
In Beijing, the defense chiefs of
China and South Korea also opened
talks - the first ever meeting between
defense ministers of the two former
Korean War adversaries.
Also Monday, South Korea’s
Unification Minister Lim Dong-won
left Seoul for a weeklong visit to the
United States, which includes talks
with former Defense Secretary
William Perry, Washington’s point
man on North Korea.
The three-pronged South Korean
efforts have the same agenda: what it
and the other two allies could offer if
North Korea decided not to launch a
missile experts say could reach
Hawaii and Alaska.
North Korea has reportedly com
pleted preparations to test-fire a
long-range missile but has expressed
willingness to negotiate in response
to international appeals and warnings
to scrap the launch.
“We are always ready for negotia
tion if the hostile nations honestly ask
for it out of an intention to alleviate our
concern,” a spokesman of the North’s
Foreign Ministry said last week.
The unidentified spokesman said
his country developed missiles
because the United States wants to
invade the North and has deployed a
large number of weapons and troops
in South Korea.
Analysts believe the North wants
economic and political benefits in
return for holding off on a test, which
many fear would unsettle security in
the region.