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Editorial draws fire from Kearney
■The city's residents,as well as others, have
bombarded dailyneb.com with feedback over the
invitation to Clinton to visit Lincoln and Omaha.
BY VERONICA DAEHN
A Daily Nebraskan editorial has sparked a
firestorm of controversy in Kearney, where resi
dents who otherwise are sprucing their town for
President Clinton, also are defending themselves
from rhetorical bricks they say the newspaper
threw.
In the editorial, the Daily Nebraskan Editorial
Board expressed its disappointment that President
Clinton and his staff chose to visit Kearney over
other cities in the state. The newspaper, in the edi
torial, extended a formal invitation for Clinton to
visit Lincoln or Omaha.
As of late Monday afternoon, there were 146
posts to the Daily Nebraskan's Web site arguing
against the newspaper's Wednesday editorial.
Since the editorial was written, Clinton's staff
announced that the president also will visit
Omaha.
Clinton will speak at the University of Nebraska
at Kearney's Health and Sports Center before he
flies to the state’s largest city.
“While it’s good Clinton is coming to
Nebraska,” the editorial said, “it’s too bad he chose
Kearney, a town that perhaps embodies why he
stayed away from this state for so long.”
Kearney residents have taken offense to the
editorial, calling the Daily Nebraskan staff mem
bers jealous, ignorant and immature.
The unsigned editorial represents the opinion
of the newspaper, as formed by the Daily
Nebraskan Editorial Board. Members of the board
are: Editor Sarah Baker, Managing Editor Bradley
Davis, Opinion Page Editor Samuel McKewon,
Associate News Editor Kimberly Sweet, Sports
Editor Matthew Hansen, Arts Editor Dane Stickney
and reporter Josh Funk.
Courtney Harms, editor of The Antelope, the
UNK student newspaper, said she was appalled at
the Daily Nebraskan’s editorial.
In her post on the Web site, Harms said she had
always looked up to the Daily Nebraskan, but the
admiration ended when she read the editorial.
“I adore this city,” Harms, who is from Omaha,
said in an interview. “When I read (the editorial), I
was hurt.”
The people who live in Kearney are friendly and
welcoming, Harms said. The cashiers at Wal-Mart
know her by name, as does the manager at Perkins,
she said.
“I just felt the DN was slamming one of their
own,” Harms said. “The people in Kearney aren’t
hicks. They’re pretty intelligent and nice to be
around.”
Harms said the editorial had sparked discus
sion in several of her classes.
The consensus is that the Daily Nebraskan and
Lincoln are jealous Clinton is visiting Kearney, she
said.
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Democratic
presidential
candidate Vice
President Al
Gore, center,
talks with his
running mate,
Sen. Joe
Ueberman,as
they leave the
Old Executive
Office Building
on Monday in
Washington,
DlC
Marie WRson/Newsmatas
Gore's hopes of White House diminish
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A1 Gore’s prospects for winning the
presidency dimmed Monday when a
circuit court judge refused to overturn
George W. Bush’s certified victory in
Florida, and the U.S. Supreme Court
set aside a ruling that had allowed
manual recounts.
Running out of options, the vice
president’s team pleaded with
Democrats to stick with him a few
more days.
“They won. We lost We’re appeal
ing” to the Florida Supreme Court said
Gore attorney David Boies after Circuit
Judge N. Sanders Sauls rejected the
Democrat’s unprecedented contest of
the election. “We’ve moved one step
closer to having this resolved.”
It was, Gore’s advisers said, a major
step in the wrong direction.
Neither decision settled the legal
knots tying up the election of a 43rd
American president, but the develop
ments were a blow for Gore. He is
urgendy searching for a court victory
to sustain his presidential quest
Andrew Card, Bush's prospective
chief of staff, said the day’s court rul
ings had buoyed the Republican camp
and given new impetus to efforts to
form a new Bush government
“We’ll be able to move pretty
quickly,” when there is either a conclu
sive court ruling or a Gore concession,
Card said in an interview.
On day 27 of the longest, closest
presidential race in a century, running
mate Joseph Lieberman and cam
paign manager William Daley called
Democrats on Capitol Hill to explain
the whirlwind legal developments and
urged them to remain steadfast. One
senior Democrat who participated in
the talks said there was no sense ol
quitting from the Gore team.
However, the vice president’s
advisers said privately that their boss
was running out of time and options.
They said he would not concede
the race before the Florida Supreme
Court rules on Sauls’ decision and e
Democratic lawsuit is settled in
Seminole County over irregular han
dling of GOP absentee ballots.
If he loses both cases, Gore is
almost certain to give up, said advisers
— most of who insisted he had a
decent chance of prevailing before the
state high court with its seven
Democratic appointees.
One Gore confidant, who said the
cause is all but lost, argued that even
if the vice president wanted to leave
the race before his legal options are
exhausted, internal pressures from
the party’s base would not allow it.
The advisers spoke on condition of
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UPC pulls
Jay Mohr
from plans
BYJILLZEMAN
Students looking to see comedian Jay Mohr
next semester will have to go to the movie theater,
not the Lied Center for Performing Arts as
planned.
Mohr was scheduled to come to campus in
October but canceled six days before the event
The comedian, whose appearance was coordi
nated by the University Program Council, had
planned on rescheduling the event, said Karen
Wills, UPC adviser.
But students who bought a ticket won’t have to
pay for Mohr’s no-show, she said.
Ticket refunds are available at the Lied Center
box office until Dec. 8, she said.
Students must present their tickets to receive
the refund, she said.
Members of UPC decided not to bring Mohr
back in the spring because they didn't feel confi
dent Mohr would follow through on his commit
ment, Wills said
Wills said members of UPC have learned a ie£
son from Mohr’s no-show.
UPC plans to do more to ensure that when per
formers are booked to come to UNL, they actually
come.
This can be done by calling other schools
about a performer’s reliability, she said.
The reliability also depends on how coopera
tive performers’ agents are, Wills said.
For example, when poet Maya Angelou came
to campus, UPC saw its event as a success.
Despite the temporary setback, UPC will con
tinue to bring acts to campus, said Carly Wendt,
novelty committee chairwoman.
The novelty committee hasn’t scheduled a big
name performer to appear, Wendt said.
But the group has planned a number of events
for the spring semester to make up for Mohr’s
absence.
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Flu vaccine arrival helps students cope in season of sickness
BY JOSH FUNK
Although it may not help on finals next
week, students looking for an extra line of
defense in the coming months should get
to the health center for flu shots, officials
said.
Some shipments of the long-awaited
inoculations, which were delayed in manu
facturing, arrived in Lincoln last week.
The shots arrived about six weeks
behind their usual mid-October arrival, but
there is still time to beat flu season, which
usually hits hardest in January and
February, University Health Center
Marketing Coordinator Jennifer Snyder
said.
No cases of the flu have been reported
in the state this year, officials said, but
Nebraska's health care providers have only
received about 50 percent of their usual
allotment of the vaccine.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
dents may be more preoccupied with proj
ects and preparing for finds, but Snyder
said influenza shots would be a good winter
safeguard.
“(Students) are thinking of something
else right now,” Snyder said of the coming
tests.
Today from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., flu shots
will be available for $8 at die University
Health Center. Snyder said the process
should only take 10 to 15 minutes. The
shots may be covered by insurance, so stu
dents should bring proper documentation.
The health center administered the
shots to about 100 people Monday.
For students who are in good health
and have never had the flu, getting the inoc
ulation may not be a priority, Snyder
acknowledged, but anyone with a respira
tory problem should.
Asthmatics, diabetics and those older
than 50 are especially susceptible to flu. The
disease is an upper-respiratory infection.
The flu shots take about two weeks to
take effect, so getting immunized now
should still be helpful, Snyder said.
“Students may have a reaction to the
shots, which is better now in dead week
rather than in finals,” Snyder said.
Flu shots also are available from the
Lancaster County Health Department and
some doctors' offices. For more informa
tion on the Health Department’s program,
call (402) 441-8000.
Snyder said if the health center receives
more of the vaccine, it may hold an addi
tional clinic early next week.
Influenza is associated with more than
20,000 deaths and 100,000 hospitalizations
annually, according to the federal Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Associated Press contributed to
this report.
Steven Bender/DN
Linda Fogerty gives Kristin Moilanen, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate student, a flu shot Monday at the University Health Center.The health center
began giving flu shots just before Thanksgiving, a service it normally would have begun in mid-October. Vaccine availability caused the delay.
