Music in motion
Sharon Kolbet/DN
MEMBERS OF the punk band “The Grey AM” perform Sunday as part of
a benefit for the newly organized League of Creative Artists-Lincoln
(LOCALincoln). The organization was formed in order to advance the
cause of the city’s diverse art and music scene.
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— CAMPUS BRIEFS —
Career Services oners
job-search help
Students looking to start the semes
ter off by finding a post-graduation job
right off the bat have a chance to gel
more prepared Saturday.
Career Services is offering work
shops in resume and cover-letter writ
ing, interviewing, job-search resources
and interviewing and referral services
from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the
Nebraska Union.
The workshops will give students a
chance to be prepared for campus inter
views, which begin Jan. 18, said Chris
Timm, assistant director of Career
Services.
All students are welcome for the
free event, Timm said, but if they cannol
make it, drop-in counseling is available
Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. in Nebraska Union room 230.
Nominations requested
for Sue Tidball Award
It’s time to start thinking of the right
person to nominate for the 18th annual
Sue Tidball Award.
The award committee will start tak
ing nominations Jan. 24.
The award recognizes students, fac
ulty and staff members who have helped
:o build a “creative, just and humane
immunity on the UNL campus,”
recording to a press release.
The award honors Sue Tidball, a
member or the campus mmistry staff of
United Ministries in Higher Education
at UNL from 1966 until her death from
lupus erythematosus in 1976.
For more information about how to
nominate someone, contact
Cornerstone-UMHE at (402) 476
0355. ‘
Exemplary Service award
deadline approaching
The deadline for nominations for
the Chancellor’s Award for Exemplary
Service to students is Friday.
The award recognizes University of
Nebraska-Lincoln employees who have
provided extraordinary service to stu
dents.
Students, faculty and staff mem
bers, as well as administration can nom
inate employees.
Nominations for the Builders
Award for Outstanding Undergraduate
Academic Advising are being accepted
until Jan. 31.
The award recognizes faculty and
staff members who advise students in
academics.
Bolh awards will be presented at the
Honors Convocation on April 14.
Forms can be picked up at Student
Involvement, 200 Nebraska Union and
300 Nebraska East Union; the ASUN
office, 136 Nebraska Union; and in the
office of the Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs, 106 Canfield
Administration Building.
Man executed for double murder
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Douglas :
Christopher Thomas was executed by
injection Monday night for killing his
girlfriend’s parents Mien he was 17.
Thomas, 26, made no final state
ment.
Thomas fatally shot James Baxter
Wiseman and Kathy Wiseman as they
slept in their Middlesex home on Nov.
10,1990. The Wisemans had been try
ing to end the relationship between
rhomas and their daughter, who was
ilso convicted in the killing.
In a telephone interview last week,
rhomas said it was unfair that he faced
;xecution while his girlfriend, convicted
is a juvenile for the same crime, was
released years ago.
“What I did when I was 17 was
wrong, and yes, I should be punished.
But to pay the ultimate price while my
x>-defendant, who is just as guilty as I
un, has been released to go on with a
lormal life... is a little extreme.”
Jessica Wiseman was 14 when she
jrged Thomas to kill her parents. She
was convicted of murder as a juvenile
Decause she was too young to be tried as
m adult and was released in 1997.
Thomas’ appeal was based on an
international agreement that prohibits
executing juveniles. It was signed by the
United States, but the Senate has
refused to ratify it.
Milosevic’s enemies unite
■ All of Serbia’s major
opposition parties sign an
agreement to join forces.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -
For the first time in more than two
years, all major opposition parties in
Serbia agreed Monday to join forces
in their struggle to topple Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic.
The agreement demands, among
other things, that Milosevic’s govern
ment end “state terrorism.” If honored
it could mark a turning point for
Serbia’s traditionally fractured pro
democracy parties in their decade
long effort to undermine Milosevic’s
strong grip on power.
“We have agreed on a document
about the strategy of the struggle
against the regime of Slobodan
Milosevic, as well as the fight for
early democratic elections,” said Vuk
Draskovic, the main opposition
leader.
A The opposition deal followed a
six-hour meeting Of representatives of
17 political parties, organized by
Draskovic and his Serbian Renewal
Movement. In a setback, however, one
of those present, Momcilo Perisic, a
former general andfex-head of the
Yugoslav army, refused to sign the
joint document.
The document demands that
Milosevic’s government schedule
early, nationwide elections by the end
of April. The opposition parties
pledged to cooperate before, during
and after the elections and to hold a
first joint rally in March.
The document also called for an
end to “state terrorism” by
Milosevic’s government and the abol
ishment of the repressive laws regard
ing who controls the media and the
universities.
In a letter to leaders of the United
States, the European Union, Russia
and China, the opposition demanded
an urgent end to a ban on intemation
al air traffic and oil trade. The letter
also called for remaining internation
al sanctions against Serbia to be lifted
once Milosevic agrees to schedule
elections.
If the opposition parties manage
to stick to the agreement, it could con
siderably increase pressure on
Milosevic, whose popularity has
plummeted since the NATO bombing
last year and the resulting loss of
Kosovo province, now administered
by international military and civilian
authorities.
Perisic said he refused to sign the
document because he believed that
the opposition should try to topple
Milosevic in the Yugoslav parliament
first. But all other opposition leaders
said they will deepen their coopera
tion in the future.
“Cooperation by the opposition is
an imperative because it reflects the
struggle for survival,” said Vladan
Batic, representative of the Alliance
for Change coalition. “We wanted to
show the regime and the world that the
opposition can unite.”
Since the end of the bombing, the
opposition parties have tried to ham
mer out a joint strategy, but the
efforts, as well as a wave of street
protests against Milosevic, have
failed because Draskovic refused to
join in.
Recent opinion polls in Serbia
have indicated that a united opposi
tion would win the elections.
On the eve of the opposition meet
ing, the state-run media unleashed a
torrent of fresh accusations against
Draskovic, blasting him as a traitor.
Rifts within Serbia’s opposition
parties have ruined their past chances
of success. In 1997, personal rivalries
dissolved an alliance of all major
opposition groups, enabling
Milosevic to consolidate his control
after more than three months of street
protests shook his grip on power.
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