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Hr Daily Nobrasksn The Huskersroi over the Cyclones in the fourth quarter and ral back Mo No. 1 spot in Gameday/10,11 The soccer team finally gets a challenge, but still manages to prevail In SportsMonday/14 Photography student sees beauty through the lens of his camera In Arts/7 Steve Shaw gives visitors a horse-drawn wagon tour through Wyuka Cemetery,3900 0 St Wagon rides were one of the many activities that took place Sunday during Family Day, an event designed by the Wyuka Historical Society to rein troduce the public to the quiet beauty of Wyuka's ceme tery and park. , f- i BY SHARON KOLBET* If you are looking for a quiet spot for a weekend picnic you might want to consider going to the cemetery. For the directors of Wyuka Cemetery and Funeral Home, 3900 O St,, this is exactly the mes sage they hope to convey. On Sunday the public was invited to Wyuka Park for Family Day - an event organized by the Wyuka Historical Society. During the day-long event visitors strolled around the new meditation pond, fed the swans, and even set up a picnic. Sites like this were common during Wyuka’s early years. Established in 1869, Wyuka cemetery was actually one of Lincoln’s first parks, said Wyuka CEO Mike Hutchinson. The cemetery was a popular place for family and friends to gather not just to remember the dead -but also to celebrate the living. This has become an almost forgotten part of Lincoln history, but the Wyuka Historical Society hopes to reintroduce the tradition. The Family Day was designed to give the public a chance to walk and enjoy the scenic grounds. Children were able to paint pumpkins near the old carriage house. Visitors could enjoy live organ music in the Rudge Memorial chapel or listen to Shakespearean readings on the lawn. Another popular attraction was provided by Steve Shaw and his two draft horses, Lacy and Lucy. Moving slowly along the historic red brick streets, Shaw, who is from the Carriage Cab Company, gave visitors a ride along with a lesson. During the popular 15 minute tour Shaw talked to his passengers about some of the more famous grave markers within the cemetery. Earlier in the year the cemetery had a similar event, and people waited in line for more than an hour to take the wagon ride, Shaw said. The gravestone of Hughina Morrison, who died in 1869, is die cemetery’s oldest marker. The wood en propeller connected with Corel Sherwood's grave is one of the most unusual. There is also an elaborate etching of a steam locomotive on the granite marker honoring Walter Dameron, a Burlington railroad fireman who died in a train acci dent in 1911, Shaw said. * Hutchinson said the public’s response to this type of event has been very positive. The Wyuka PleaseseeWYUKAon3 A pair of black-necked swans swim in the recently restored pond at Lincoln's Wyuka cemetery. The swans are one of the additions made to the cemetery this year as part of an ongo ing restoration project. Religious coalition to support Initiative 416 ✓ BY GEORGE GREEN With the Nov. 7 election approaching rapidly, another coali tion has formed to support the pas sage of a ban on same-sex mar riages. The new group, the Nebraska Coalition for the Protection of Marriage, will use a media campaign to promote Initiative 416, said Dan Parsons, spokesman and president of the coalition. The initiative would amend the state constitution to prohibit domestic partnerships or other same-sex unions. The new coalition includes the Mormon Church, the Nebraska Catholic Conference and Family First, a conservative activist organi zation, Parsons said. Former Gov. Kay Orr, who is on the board of directors of Family First, will be the co-chairwoman of the coalition, Parsons said. He said discussions between the groups prompted the formation of the coalition. “We wanted to form a broad based coalition to support the initia tive," he said. The new coalition will work independently of the Defense of Marriage Amendment Committee, the group that gathered over 160,000 signatures on a petition to put the initiative on the ballot, Parsons said. The Mormon church, though, was involved in the petition drive, he said. Guyla Mills, chairwoman of the DOMA committee, said more sup port will help the initiative pass. "We are always glad to see other people get involved," she said. 1* “We wanted to form a broad-based coalition to support the initiative." Dan Parsons Nebraska Coalition for Protection of Marriage president Parsons said the DOMA commit tee got the initiative on the ballot, and his group's job is to get it passed. The amendment committee used a grassroots campaign, while the new coalition will launch an extensive radio, television anddirect mail campaign, Parsons said. Groups opposed to the amend ment said the DOMA advocate organizations are spending too much money on the initiative. The groups could spend $1.1 million on the DOMA campaign, said Angela Clements, a student coordinator for the group Huskers Against the Defense of Marriage Amendment. But the new coalition will not affect anti-DOMA groups' efforts to prevent its passage, she said. "We are going to keep on doing the work we were doing,” Clements said. UNLmay block Napster BY VERONICA PAEHN Freshman pre-med major Adam Baker has more than 600 songs on his computer. Most are old songs or bootlegs that are difficult to find in stores, he said. Baker didn’t pay for this music. Neither did his friend Jenod Meyer, a sophomore general studies major, who has close to 1,000 songs saved on his computer. Both of these University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu dents got their music from a Web site called Napster. Napster allows users to share music by download ing songs in MP3 format directly from the computers of other users. The Web site has been the source of controversy since its inception more than a year ago. Some music industry officials claim the Internet service violates ■ copyright laws. ‘That’S a In fact, Napster is appealing a , u f U.S. District Court ruling made in t?imCn Of August that ordered the Web site be bull shut down. Until a decision is made, rrnVi' the service is still up and running. Crap. Napster has caused concern at Students universities across the U.S. as well. nrp Races such as Yale in New Haven Conn., the University of Southern going tO ’ California in Los Angeles and y^g Indiana University in Bloomington have blocked Napster from their Web Computer servers. 5 fyy Officials at the University of . Nebraska-Lincoln have not yet taken QCaaemiC that step. purposes But Kent Hendrickson, associate 7 r\r\ vice chancellor for information serv- 1 ^ ices, said it could come to that percent The use of music-downloading +up services is discouraged in the NU f n system, Hendrickson said. time. "It isn’t just the legality of it,” Hendrickson said. “But it’s also flood- Adam Baker ing up °ur bandwidth.- freshman Services like Napster can use up a nre-med great deal of bandwidth on comput- p ers. If too much is in use at one time, _major the servers slow down and can stop working. That hasn’t happened at UNL, Hendrickson said, but the possibility is there. It may become more criti cal as the service grows more popular, he said. Bandwidth refers to the rate at which data trans fers over a computer system. When UNL officials learn of students using Napster, they ask the students to stop, Hendrickson said. If they don’t, students could be taken off the net work. Dave Spanel, systems coordinator of networking and operations, said university computers are to be used for academic purposes only. According to the Student Code of Conduct, com puters at the university exist for “education, research, service and administration.” Using computers for anything other than that is an act of misconduct, it states. Oftentimes, university officials don’t know about a student using Napster or a similar Web site until someone from the music industry calls and tells them Once that happens, Spanel said, the university is expected to take action, even though UNL officials don’t necessarily want to police students using these services. In some cases, the student is turned over to Please see NAPSTER on 3 Environmental dilemmas: Oil drilling, river habitats spark debate Editor's Note: This is part of an occasional series of stories examining the views of Senate candidates Ben Nelson and Don Stenburg. Today’s issue: the environment BY GEORGE GREEN Environmental issues become more contentious each day as continued economic expansion collides with nature’s limited resources. The winners of the November elections will have a hand in deciding how to recon cile the needs of the earth with the needs of society. Both Nebraska senatorial candidates tout their environ mental records and have differ ent insights into how to solve environmental problems. Two dilemmas discussed by the candidates have gained spe cial prominence in the past three months. They are; ■ Suggestions made by Republican presidential candi date George W. Bush to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where caribou have calves, polar bears dig dens and snow geese rest for migra tions. ■ Questions over how to bal ance the needs of shipping com panies on the Missouri River and the habitat requirements of three wildlife species that use the river. On Bush’s proposal to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, Don Stenburg, the Republican candidate for Senate, can be counted as a sup porter, said John Soukup, a spokesman for Stenberg. Scientific advances in drilling allow companies to get oil without harming the envi ronment, Soukup said. Environmentalists have said drilling will affect the wildlife species regardless of technolog ical changes. Former Gov. Ben Nelson, the Democratic candidate for Senate, wants to look at other energy sources within the U.S. before drilling in the reserve, said Marcia Cady, a spokes woman for Nelson. But Nelson has not ruled out drilling in the reserve, she said. Nelson wants to expand the use of ethanol, which is made from com, in gasoline as a possi ble solution to high energy demands, she said. Stenberg also supports increased ethanol use along with drilling in reserve, Soukup said. Wildlife management also is at the center of a debate over the Missouri River also. Environmentalists say the survival of birds, such as the pip ing plover, the least tem and the A pallid sturgeon fish, which live along the upper parts of the Missouri River, depend on alter ing water levels in the river. Fish and wildlife biologists blame the problems on poor river management policies. But barging companies say increasing water levels every three years in the spring and lowering them by about a third in summer could lead to spring floods and harm barge traffic. Congress passed a $23.6 bil lion energy bill on Oct. 2 that includes the project, but Senate support is unclear. Stenberg does not support changing water levels for the wildlife species, Soukup said. “Barges are a low cost trans portation alternative for agricul tural commodities and fertiliz ers. Making the Missouri River un-navigable for barges would drive farm costs up,” Stenberg said in a Sept. 21 debate. Nelson wants to bring both sides of the debate together to find a solution, Cady said. Nelson believes a compro mise can be reached, if "bicker ing” from both sides stops, she said. Along with the two major issues, the candidates also pro mote their environmental records and their plans to improve Nebraska’s environ ment. Please see ENVIRONMENT on 3