Gore welcomes strategy
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Acknowledging “a close, hard
fought race” with Bill Bradley, Vice
President A1 Gore said Sunday he
welcomes the chance “to-change the
way I campaign” and talk directly to
Americans.
“It was inevitable that if my
opponent crossed the threshold of
credibility and competence, which
he did, then it would narrow and
tighten and become a hard-fought,
close contest. It has now reached that
stage,” Gore said on CBS’s “Face the
Nation.”
With Bradley gaining in public
opinion polls, Gore shook up his
campaign last week, moving its
headquarters to Tennessee from the
nation’s capital and challenging
Bradley to a series of debates.
“I’m going to change the way I
campaign, and instead of having
these events that are planned out, just
have open meetings and talk to peo
ple directly about the choices we
face,” Gore said.
The vice president called the
prospect of a real contest against
Bradley for the Democrat’s 2000
presidential nomination, “a healthy
development.”
“It’s a close, hard-fought race
and, frankly, I welcome that,” he said.
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UNL’s Homecoming Week
offers frenzy of activities
By Michelle Starr
Staff writer
Guests such as diversity speaker
Juan Williams and MTV star Tom
Green will help make Homecoming
Week one to remember.
As students make banners, con
struct lawn signs and prepare Husker
Howl skits, there will be a variety of
other activities to participate in as the
week goes on.
“I hope to get as many students
involved as possible,” said Chris
Linder, homecoming chairman and a
UNL graduate student.
After Sunday’s Homecoming Fun
Run, events continue today with the
banner competition at 1 p.ih. in the
Nebraska Union. The banners will be
displayed throughout the week.
Tonight Williams, writer and
columnist for The Washington Post,
will be speaking on college campus
race relations. The speech is at the
Lied Center for Performing Arts at 7
p.m.
Homecoming royalty elections
will be held later this week in both
Nebraska and East unions and the
Campus Recreation Center between 8
a.m. and 8 p.m. Wednesday.
As the election polls close stu
dents can take advantage of the
Homecoming Pizza Pass.
Members from the Star City
Alumni Chapter and the alumni asso
ciation staff will be aboard Molley the
Trolley giving free pizza and Pepsi to
lawn display workers between 8 p.m.
and 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, students can put down
the plywood, nails, chicken wire and
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tissue paper and head over to
Memorial Stadium for a little enter
tainment.
The preliminary competition for
Husker Howl was held Sunday, while
the other groups will compete
Tuesday, when judges will choose the
top two skits from each category.
Categories include fraternity,
sorority, residence hall and student
organization skits, Linder said.
The final competition will take
place at the Tailgate on the Turf pep
rally in Memorial Stadium.
“The judges will be in the audi
ence, and no one will know who they
are,” Linder said.
Tailgate on the Turf, running
between 6 and 9 p.m., will feature
Tom Green, host of MTV’s “Tom
Green Show.”
There will be free food for the first
5.000 students, prizes, the homecom
ing court and fireworks at dusk,
Linder said.
Students are reminded to bring
student IDs and to enter through gates
14, 15 or 16. There will be seating
available in the west stadium.
“Thursday night we hope to have
3.000 students there, but we’ll see,”
Linder said.
Friday’s Come On Home
Celebration at the Wick Alumni
Center will start at 4:30 p.m.
Students, families and children
are welcome to enjoy free pizza and
pop, and a cash bar will be available. It
will also include music and games,
said Shelly Zaborowski, Student
Alumni Association sponsor.
Jannel Rap, the event’s featured
musician and songwriter, will per
form both pop and folk music. The
NU spirit squad, Lil’ Red, the Scarlet
and Cream Singers and the homecom
ing court will also be there.
The celebration also includes free
guided campus tours aboard Molley
the Trolley between 4:30 and 6:30
p.m.
A Homecoming Carnival will be
in the Nebraska Union plaza between
5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Later, there is an
all-university Homecoming Dance at
the grandstand on the State Fair
Grounds.
The dance will run from 9:30 p.m.
to 1 a.m. Tickets for the dance will be
sold for $3 in advance or $4 at the
door.
Students purchase the tickets at
both the Nebraska Union and the East
Union, the Campus Recreation Center
and Abel-Sandoz residence halls.
Free pizza and a cash bar will be avail
able.
Saturday the Huskers will play
Iowa State. During halftime, home
coming royalty will be crowned and
the winners of the homecoming activ
ities will be announced.
Skybox tours will also be avail
able.
The tours of about 20 people will
be given on a first-come, first-served
basis and will run every 20 minutes.
Anyone interested should enter
through gate 10, which is located at
the northwest comer.
If students feel a little dizzy from
confusion about all of the homecom
ing activities, Herbie Husker,»Lir Red
and the homecoming court will be
passing out information on this
week’s events today and Tuesday at
the Nebraska Union plaza between
11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
Freedom Party gains
ground in Austria election
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - For the
First time in postwar Austria, nationalist
Joerg Haider’s far-right Freedom Party
appeared Sunday to have won second
place in parliamentary elections, posi
tioning him for negotiations on partici
pating in the next government.
According to Sunday’s results,
Haider won 27.2 percent of the vote, a
stunning increase of more than five per
centage points from the last election.
That’s the Freedom Party’s best show
ing since its founding m 1945.
The people have “given us a chance
for which we have competed" said an
elated Haider, 51, meaning a chance to
be part of the next governing coalition.
But he hastened to say it wouldn’t be a
tragedy if the party wound up in the
opposition.
The big loser was Chancellor Viktor
Klima’s Social Democratic Party, which
gave up 4.7 percentage points for 33.4
percent of the vote. But Klima ruled out
resigning, saying as leader of the still
strongest party he would try to form the
next government.
Visibly downcast, Klima said that
the defeat at the polls was “a warning of
the voters, and we must take this very
seriously.” He said he was “personally
disappointed” but added that “in hard
times one does not leave the party in the
lurch and also not the country.”
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