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BY GEORGE GREEN
Tom Osborne denies accu
sations presented in a recent
George Magazine article that he
mishandled player problems
while coaching the Nebraska
football team.
Found in the October edi
tion of George, the article says
Osborne, who is running for the
3rd District House of
Representatives seat, frequently
failed to discipline players
when they were arrested for
crimes such as domestic vio
lence, assault and theft.
The article cites problems
with three players: Lawrence
Phillips, Christian Peter and
Tyrone Williams.
h says all three players went
to the National Football League
after playing for the
Cornhuskers and were then
convicted of crimes they com
mitted while playing under
Osborne.
Osborne said these claims
are simply false.
Of the three players cited in
the article, he said, Williams was
the only one who left the
Cornhuskers with criminal pro
cedures still pending.
Mirmermore, us Dome saia,
all of the players received pun
ishments from the law and the
football team.
The players were suspended
from the team for their actions,
he said.
But Osborne said he was not
too concerned about the article
because Nebraskans know he
did nothing wrong while coach
ing.
“I don’t pay attention to
what people from a distance
say. Nebraskans have a better
perspective on what I am
about,” he said.
In addition to publishing
false information, Osborne
said, Larry Platt, the article’s
author, misled him by saying he
wanted to write a positive story
about Osborne’s conversion
from coach to candidate when
the reporter requested the
interview.
Osborne said he didn’t want
to give the interview because he
wanted to focus on Congress,
not football.
Bruce Rieker, Osborne's
campaign manager, said he was
not only disappointed by the
way Platt misled Osborne but
by the way Nebraska was por
trayed.
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'It was like a sonic boom'
Lincoln fire
fighters try to
rescue the vic
tim of a crash
involving a
dump truck and
two cars. The
victim in the
second car hit
was pronounced
dead after fire
fighters tried for
more than an
hour to free the
victim.The truck
lost control
while traveling
south on North
27th Street and
hita north
bound red
Honda before
hitting a white
Buickata
Burger King
drive-thru win
dow.
Scott McClurg/DN
Dump truck hits Burger King, killing 1
BY JOSH FUNK
One person was killed and
another critically injured
Thursday afternoon when a
dump truck careened over one
car in oncoming traffic and
slammed into a Burger King
drive-thru.
Shortly before 2 p.m., wit
nesses said “a sonic boom”
shook the 27th and Superior
streets area when the truck hit
the restaurant and crushed a
white four-door Buick, killing
one woman.
At the request of the family,
police did not identify the
Buick’s driver, who was pro
nounced dead at the scene.
Lincoln native Melissa
Holton, the 18-year-old driver of
a red two-door Honda the dump
truck drove over on its way to
the restaurant, was still in sur
gery at 10:30 p.m. Thursday and
remained in critical condition at
BryanLGH Medical Center West.
Firefighters worked with the
jaws of life for about a half hour
to free Holton; but after an hour,
they could not free the Buick's
driver.
7 heard all this honking... then I looked over
my shoulder and saw the red car already
spinning. It was all coming towards me, and I
saw the truck hit the white car (behind me)."
Kathy Williams
in car in front of driver who was killed
No one inside Burger King,
4230 N. 27th St., was seriously
injured, nor was the dump
truck driver, Lincoln Police Ofc.
Katherine Finnell said.
Witness Abel Alvarez said
the Brandt Excavating dump
truck driver was blaring her
horn and looked out of control
as the truck came down 27th
Street in front of Wal-Mart.
“I knew she was going to hit
something,” said Alvarez, who
turned in behind the truck a
block north of Superior Street.
“It was like a sonic boom (when
the truck hit the restaurant).”
Another woman, who was
stopped at the Superior Street
light, said the dump truck was
clearly out of control when it
came through the intersection.
“That's the scariest sound I
ever heard," said Jael Bjerkaas
about the truck hitting the
restaurant. Bjerkaas was two
lanes away from the Honda
when it was hit.
Just seconds before the
dump truck crashed halfway
through the restaurant wall,
Kathy Williams was paying for
her 5-year-old son Thomas’ and
her own orders in the drive
thru.
“I heard all this honking ...
then I looked over my shoulder
and saw the red car already
Sharon Kolbet/DN
Responding to an accident at 27th and Superior, firefighters try to rescue the victims
from two cars that were hit by an out-of-control dump truck Thursday just before 2
p.m.
spinning,” Williams said. “It was
all coming towards me, and I
saw the truck hit the white car
(behind me).”
She said she could hear the
driver of the Buick order her
food before the truck hit the
restaurant.
Williams accelerated out of
the way of the coming crush of
metal and brick.
The dump truck came to rest
half-in and half-out of the
Burger King kitchen with the
roof bowing above the truck.
The building had to be struc
turally reinforced before the
truck could be removed, Lincoln
Police Assistant Chief John
Becker said.
Traffic on 27th Street was
blocked for several hours,
including rush hour, while
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NU incubator'gives companies space, support |
■ University of Nebraska's
Technology Park is a state-of-the-art
resource for entrepreneurs.
BY SHARON KOLBET
With large white tiles stretching
from floor to ceiling, the room
resembles a Hollywood set for a
futuristic movie.
But the specially designed elec
tronic testing chamber at the
University of Nebraska’s Technology
Park isn’t science fiction, it's a sign of
the future of Nebraska business.
Steve Frayser, a marketing spe
cialist with the university's
Technology Ihmsfer Office, said that
the tile-lined room is an anechoic
chamber - a specially insulated
space where companies can test the
electronics systems on products.
Whether it’s a cell phone or a
tractor, it can be tested in the room
that is one of the largest of its kind in
the country
This electronics testing facility is
just one of the many features avail
able to entrepreneurs at the
University of Nebraska’s Technology
Park, 4701 Innovation Drive.
Sharon Ko4bet/DN
Steve Frayser, left, marketing associate with the UNL Office of Technology Transfer and Charles
Henderson, president of the university's Technology Park LLC., stand inside the electronic
testing chamber, one of the facilities available for use at the Technology Development Center,
4701 Innovation Drive.
Established in connection with
the University of Nebraska
Foundation, the Technology
Development Center is designed to
aid entrepreneurs. Referred to as the
“incubator,” the center provides
office space and support for tech
oriented start-up companies.
Frayser said there was a pent-up
need for such a facility in Lincoln.
“We had a waiting list before we
even opened,” Frayser said, “The first
company moved in before the dry
wall was finished.”
Companies that choose to use
the incubator receive support and
resources that they might not nor
mally be able to afford, Henderson
said.
In giving a tour through the state
of-the-art facility, Henderson points
to the office production space, the
teleconference room, and die multi
media auditorium. These are just
some of the resources available to
the entrepreneurs renting space
within the incubator.
The facility has proven so suc
cessful that the Technology
Development Center is busy build
ing another multi-tenant facility.
Growing companies that have
expanded beyond the space of the
incubator can make the move into
the new building, which will be
opening early next year.
Henderson and Frayser both said
the explosive growth of the
Technology Development Center is
partly because the University of
Nebraska was one of the last univer
sities to build such a facility.
But with this delayed beginning,
UNL's Technology Development
Center was able to learn from the
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Spade sponsors
may lose money
BY MARGARET BEHM
Sponsors of the David Spade event may need
some fuzzy math to break even financially.
ASUN, UPC and the Athletic Department are
sponsoring David Spade as part of “Tailgate 2: Party
on the Paint,” a homecoming event. Spade will per
form Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center. <
A total of 11,000 seats were available for the event
when tickets went on sale for students on Oct. 9. On
Saturday, they became available to the public. So far,
about 2,600 tickets have been sold.
Karen Wills said unless the seats start selling, the
event will lose money.
“In order for us to break even, we need to sell
7,000 seats,” said Wills, University Program Council
adviser. "So we’re about 5,000 short”
The ticket price may be the reason that tickets
aren’t selling like hot cakes, Wills said.
“I think the thing that is holding back ticket sales
is they’re a bit pricey," she said.
Students can purchase tickets for $12.50 at the
information desk in the Nebraska Union. If students
buy their tickets at the desk, they can avoid a cus
tomer convenience charge. Students can use the
Express Charge on their student IDs to purchase the
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