in connection
■ Officers found the 15
year-old who ran after an
1 incident occurred Tuesday.
By Mkhelk Starr
Staff writer
, A 15-year-old boy was arrested
' Wednesday in connection with a shoot
J ing Tuesday that sent two people to the
: hospital.
Police arrested die boy at 4:45 p.m.
on the street at 59th Street and Walker
' Avenue, Lincoln Police Capt. A1
Soukup said. But Soukup said he did
not know the charge die boy was arrest
edon.
Tuesday’s shooting, which
occurred in the suspect’s driveway,
might have been triggered by a dis
agreement over stolen compact discs,
Capt. Doug Sib said
Lincoln Police Ofc. Katherine
Finnell said at least one shot was fired
at about 4:45 p.m. Tuesday that injured
both Thunder Rybol, 20,945 DSt, and
Ross Anderson, 18,4210 Colfax Ave.
Rybol was struck in the face and
Anderson was struck in the throat and
upper torso, Sib said
Both were in fair condition at
BryanLGH Medical Center East on
Wednesday evening.
Rybol and Anderson were passen
gers 'in a car - driven by Sarah -
Goodrich, 19,1834 Brent Boulevard -
that pulled into the driveway of the
boy’s residence, Sib said.
After an argument, a shot was fired
into the parked car, possibly from the
front porch of the house, Srb said
Finnell said Goodrich then drove
the victims to the hospital.
Officers are investigating if any
weapons were in Goodrich’s car at the
time of die incident, Sib said
Finnell said the boy was a suspect
because the victims’ statements indi
cate he was connected to the shooting.
Also, Srb said the boy was with
Goodrich on Monday before she had
noticed compact discs were taken from
her car.
The boy’s father said he didn’t
know if his son was involved or respon
sible for the shooting, nor did he know
the people shot or who owned the gun
involved
“If he’s the one who fired the shot,
•then he’s the one who will have to pay
the price,” the boy’s father said
“If I would have known that there
was going to be bloodshed, I would
have bought the kid 100 new CDs,” the
boy’s father said. “I don’t understand
how a CD can be worth a human life.”
But based on what his son told him,
the boy’s father said he did not think his
son was responsible.
The boy’s father said when he came
home from work around 5 p.m., a
group of kids scattered from the drive
way.
The boy told his father someone
had taken a shot at him, so his father
suggested calling the police, the father
said.
But the boy said he didn’t want to
because he had to leave, the father said.
The father called police, but he did not
know that two people had been shot in
his driveway.
The father said he was troubled by
the shooting.
“I’m sorry it happened,” he said. “I
wish it hadn’t have happened, and I’m
praying for those kids in the hospital,
and I’m praying for my own kids.”
Speaker: Ads can be hurtful I
By Jackie Blair
Staff writer
The more weight a girl subtracts
from her own body, the more she adds
herself to society.
That was a message Jean
Kilboume, an internationally recog
nized author, shared^ with an pvpr
crowded audience in die Mary Riepma
Ross Theater on Wednesday night
Kilboume said the message is a
popular one in magazine advertise
ments.
Kilboume said models in today’s
magazines are bad role models for
young women. Ten years ago the aver
age model had 8 percent less body
weight than the average female, she
said. Today the average model has 23
percent less body weight
Advertisers have become very sly,
Kilbome said. In a typical woman’s
magazine, a very thin woman will be
shown on one page next to an adver
, tisement for diet pills.
Kilboume said because of these
ads, the diet industry is making $36 bil
lion a year.
: The bodies that appear in advertise
ments are often airbrushed to perfec
tion, Kilboume said.
Julia Roberts’ body was not skinny
enough for the cover of her movie,
“Pretty Woman,” so die designers put
66 Older people are drinking less every
year, so advertisers are trying to get
young women to drink more than ever.”
JeanKilboume
author
her head on a body double, Kilboume
said.
Brandy Bartels, a senior at Beatrice
High School, said a lot of her friends
cut out models’ bodies and hang them
on their refrigerators or mirrors, so they
will be reminded not to eat that day.
“There are a lot of anorexics at my
school, and I think Kilboume’s speech
would be good to show to a lot of those
girls,” Bartels said.
Kilboume said another negative
effect advertisers have on young
women is their attempt to glorify alco
hol.
“Older people are drinking less
every year, so advertisers are trying to
get young women to drink more than
ever,” Kilboume said. “Alcohol compa
nies have to get their money some
where.”
Advertising is targeting younger
people to drink by using cartoons such
as Budman and the Budweiser frogs.
Alcohol also has taken over all major
sporting events and concerts.
Kilbourne said cigarette advertise
ments have become one of the worst at <
roping in young children and women.
She said that one-third of all 3-year
olds recognize Joe Camel as Camel
cigarettes’ mascot, and they know him
as well as Mickey Mouse.
Advertising virtually is taking over
die world, Kilboume said.
“We see over 3,000 ads every day,
and we spend three years watching
commercials.”
Bill Vobejda, an advertising
instructor at UNL, said, “To say that
advertising is the only piece that leads
to these misconceptions is wrong.”
He said there are a lot of things left
out of the speech that explain wiry ciga
rettes, alcohol and diet pills affect
young women and children.
Kilbourneis the author of two
books, “DeiTmy Persuasion” and
“KillineMs Softly.” The New York
Times Magazine named her as one of
the three most popular speakers on col
lege campuses.
Research may help discern cows’sex
• COWS from page 1
Deutscher conducted tests last year
on 94 heifers. This spring, he wifi be
artificially inseminating about 300.
Sixty days after artificial insemina
tion, an ultrasound determines die sex
, of the fetus.
“We’re increasing the numbers
because we think this really has great
promise for success,” he said.
John Schenk, reproductive physiol
ogist at XY Inc., said the potential ben
efits to agriculture are widespread.
“It (sperm sexing) is going to allow
for the more efficient production of
meat or milk,” Schenk said.
The most important result of sperm
sexing is the ability to ensure that
heifers’ first births are to females, he
said. Female calves are lighter at birth,
so there is a lower chance for calving
problems resulting in the death of either
die calf or die mother, he said.
Deutscher said the dairy industry
would have a special interest in sperm
sexing. Dairy producers have no use for
male cattle, but there is a 50 percent
chance of getting them, he said. With
sperm-sexing techniques, it would be
possible for dairy producers to artifi
cially inseminate cows and obtain only
female calves.
The beef industry will benefit, too,
Deutscher said. Average producing
cows will be bred to have only male
calves, because males are worth more
when they are sold.
Schenk said cattle producers may
not have to wait long for the new tech
niques to become available.
‘T think XY’s goal is to introduce a
product by the end of 2000,” he said.
XY Inc. will market the technology, not
the semen, he said.
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