■ Chimney Rock, the
Capitol or Comhusker foot
ball are all viable choices for
the coin, Nebraskans say
By Dane Stickney
Staffwriter
Over tiie past year, five versions of
quarters have turned up without the tra
ditional eagle on the flip-side of George
Washington’s profile.
Those nontraditional quarters
instead feature designs commemorat
ing the first five states that entered the
union, f
Each year, starting with this year,
the U.S. Treasury Department is issuing
five coins until all 50 states are hon
ored.
Nebraska, the 37th state to be admit
ted to the union, will get its turn in 2004
or later, said Chris Peterson, spokesman
for Gov. Mike Johanns.
“The process for selecting the
design has not yet been determined,” he
said. “We probably won’t do anything
until the Treasury Department contacts
us, and they probably won’t do that until
2002, if not later.”
Nebraska’s quarter design is wide
open, Peterson said.
“I expect it to be creative,” he said.
“There are a lot of events and symbols
that are reflective ofNebraska history
and pride.”
Despite the wait, some Nebraskans
are already thinking of potential
designs that will represent the state.
Andrew Hammond, a University of
Nebraska-Lincoln freshman civil engi
neering major, said he hoped the state
would not pick something clicbed.
“They definitely should not use
com,” he said. “Whenever out-of-state
people think ofNebraska, iheytiunk of
com. When the jMoneenPi^ttled this
area, there was no cOfatiSS^^heS^
Hammond said a scene from
Nebraska’s early days would be a good
fit
“They should do some kind of
prairie scene,” he said. “Maybe an old
saloon would be cool. You know, kind
of a Wild-West-type theme.”
Brent McCracken, a sophomore
film studies and English major, said
Chimney Rock, near Scottsbluff,
should be incorporated in the quarter’s
design.
“They should use some defining
landmark like Chimney Rock,”
McCracken said. “They could also
think about using something related to
the Platte River because Nebraska is
basically the Platte River.”
Gary Moulton, a history professor
at UNL, also jumped on the Chimney
Rock bandwagon.
“I think many Nebraskans will be
wanting something that unites the
state, and I think the best example of
that is Chimney Rock,” he said. “If I
had to choose something, it would def
initely be Chimney Rock.”
Moulton also suggested using
author Mari Sandoz’s character Old
Jules..,
“I think Old Jules would represent
the state well,” he said. “He was an iras
cible frontier type, and that’s what many
early Nebraskans were.”
Ann Watson, a sophomore manage
ment major, said die Capitol would be
an ideal choice. ~
“It’s just something that’s a neat
landmark,” she said. “It’s a building that
defines the state.”
Noah Burton, a sophomore com
munications major, said the Capitol
would not be a good idea because it’s
just a building.
v “When you think of this state, you
don’t think of a building. You think of
football and com,” he said. “The design
should have a football with a champi
er than com in this state is frwtb^^^
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Police say boy stabbed
his older brother
An 11 -year-old boy angry with his
older brother for burning one of the
11-year-old’s candles stabbed his
brother in the back just after midnight
Thursday morning, Lincoln Police
Ofc. Katherine Finnell said.
The older brother, 14, and a friend
of his began burning the candle just
before midnight in their family’s
home at 1401 W. Commodore Blvd.,
Finnell said.
The 11-year-old became angry,
went into the kitchen and returned
with a knife. He then sank the knife
about an inch just below his brother’s
neck.
The 14-year-old was taken to
BryanLGH West where he remained
in stable condition Thursday, Finnell
said.
University police name lot
for students’ cars over break
University police are asking stu
dents planning on leaving their cars in
campus parking lots over winter break
to park the vehicles in a lot at 14th and
Avery streets.
Sgt. Mylo Bushing said, starting
after finals week and running until
school begins in January, any car with
valid university parking permits
should park in the No. 20 lot.
Police will be better able to patrol
cars left on campus over break if they
are left in the same lot.
. •. Leaving cars in one lot will also
help snow-removal crews clear other
lots in the event of a snow fall over
break.
Compiled by senior staff writer
Jake Bleed
AOL blocks move by AT&T
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The bat
tle over instant messaging is heating up,
with AT&T Corp. turning up the pres
sure on industry leader America Online
Inc. to open its instant messaging net
work to other companies’ customers.
Just hours after AT&T announced
Wednesday it would let its 1.8 million
subscribers instant message - or
exchange real-time text over the
Internet - with AOCs 50 million users,
AOL blocked die move, just as it did to
several similar attempts by the
Microsoft Network earlier this year.
“What’s happening here is sort of
like AT&T saying to its customers, “If
you’re an MCI customer, you can’t talk
to each other,”’ said AT&T spokesman
RitchBlasi.
Blasi said the company managed to
work around AOLs block late Thursday
afternoon.
But he conceded that because AOL
has ultimate say over who reaches cus
tomers using its free Instant Messenger
software, die attempt was largely sym
bolic and would probably be aban
doned if AOL continues to resist
“I don’t know that we’ll realty want
to get into a tit-for-tat match for AOL,”
Blasi said.
Microsoft eventually abandoned its
attempt to connect its instant-message
users to AOLs but is now allowing sub
scribers to instant message with
AT&T’s. The Redmond, Wash.-based
software giant continues to call for an
industry-wide standard that would link
every instant messenger, regardless of
its company link.
