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David Oasen/DN 6ETTIK MEDIEVAL The Aurei Sdentiae Campi Kingdom of Caiontir, a student organization dedicated to re-enacting the Middle Ages, hosted dose to 200 warriors for a battle practice in the Cook Pavilion Saturday afternoon. Those who participate in the re-enactments wear armor and use padded bamboo weapons to fight Each warrior is on the honor system to quit the game when'killed.* The group was practicing battle tactic for a February nationwide re-enactment. The participants in the scrimmage came from Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas. Clooney wins best actor globe THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — George Clooney won best actor in a comedy film for “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and Renee Zellweger of “Nurse Betty” won best comedy film actress at the Golden Globes Sunday night Clooney, who played an escaped chain-gang prisoner in the Depression-era South, denied Jim Carrey a third con secutive win in the category. “I think when you list the names of the actors in this cate gory that you’ve got to figure I’m going to win this,” Clooney deadpanned to the audience, listing his competitors - Carrey, John Cusack, Robert De Niro and Mel Gibson - he cracked: “What have they done?” Zellweger, who played a delusional soap opera fan in “Nurse Betty,” almost missed her award because she was outside die auditorium in the restroom, a fate that befell Christine Lahti in 1998 when she won for “Chicago Hope.” Presenter Hugh Grant vamped until Zellweger walked from the back of the room, first in tears, then screaming for joy. “A moment I’ll never forget,” she finally said. “A moment I almost didn’t have.” Benicio Del Toro won best supporting film actor for his role in the drug war drama “Traffic,” and Kate Hudson won support ing film actress for “Almost Famous.” “Ifcaffic” won the screenplay Globe for Stephen Gaghan, and “Gladiator" picked up the origi nal score honor for Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard. In a major small-screen cate gory, Martin Sheen won best actor in a TV drama for playing charismatic President Jeb Bartlett on NBC’s "The West Wing.” Sela Ward, who plays a divorced mother re-entering the dating world, was named the top actress in a TV drama series for ABC’s “Once and Again.” “Sex and the City” won best comedy series, and star Sarah Jessica Parker won for a second consecutive year as best actress in a comedy series. "Frasier” star Kelsey Grammer won best actor in a comedy series. Showtime’s “Dirty Pictures won the best miniseries or TV movie, and Judi Dench was the category’s best actress for “Last of the Blonde Bombshells.” She last won a Golden Globe in 1998 as a drama film actress for “(Her Majesty) Mrs. Brown.” Hie Golden Globes are noto rious for attendants’ freewheel ing behavior. And a touch of the old looseness was displayed by Brian Dennehy, who won for best actor in a miniseries or made-for-TV movie, for “Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.” A1 Pacino was named in advance as winner of the Cecil B. DeMille Award, which honors outstanding contributions to entertainment Nominees are chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s roughly 90 mem bers who cover Hollywood for overseas publications. The asso ciation hands out 13 movie and 11 television awards. 4 i V Bills could reduce alcohol concentration limit A charge of Driving While Intoxicated will be harder to avoid if two similar bills advance through the Nebraska Legislature Transportation and Telecommuncations Committee Monday. Two bills, LB 166 and 167, would reduce the alcohol con centration limit for the legal standard of drunken driving and boating from 0.10 to 0.08. Reducing the alcohol con centration limit has been an issue in the Legislature for sev eral years, but hasn’t had any success. LB 166 was introduced by Sen. Carol Hudkins of Malcolm, and LB 167 was introduced by Sen. Jim Jones of Eddyville. Bill would allow hemp cultivation with license Nebraska may have another cash crop if LB273 advances out of the Agriculture Committee Monday. The bill, introduced by Ed Schrock of Elm Creek, would provide for the licensed cultiva tion and commercial posses sion of industrial hemp. If passed, those with a license from the Department of Agriculture would be able to plant, grow, harvest, possess and buy industrial hemp. In the bill, industrial hemp is defined as a species of Cannabis sativa having no more than three-tenths of 1 percent of tetrahydrocannabinol (THQ. LB273 is identical to another bill, which advanced out of the Agriculture Committee last ses sion and was killed on the floor. Bill could stop displaying of Social Security numbers A student’s Social Security number will become a little more sacred if the Education Committee advances LB330 on Monday. The bill, introduced by Sen. Pam Redfield of Omaha, will prohibit schools to use or dis play a student’s social security number in any public listing of grades, class rosters, student identification cards, directories or similar listings. The bill would not prohibit schools from using social secu rity numbers for legal identifi cation or other authorized pur poses. Compiled by Gwen Hetgen £3^ /‘I ? ft TWT Standard Deviants TV is a fast-paced (and fun!) download of information on topics from Shakespeare to Spanish. Hosted by college-age students, Standard Deviants was rated by TV Guide as one of this year’s best If new shows. SDTV- schoolwork with an attitude! Saturdays at 4 p.m. and Sundays at 6:30 p.m. on NKTV21\ channel 17. www.standarddeviants.com W1TV1 is a service of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Ad made possible by Standard Deviants TV. Taking the GMAT? 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But recommendations from NU’s Bioethics Advisory Committee could allow UNMC to use the embryonic stem cells. The committee, which was formed last March by NU President Dennis Smith, made seven recommendations at its November meeting; ■ Research involving the deri vation and use of human adult stem cells may be conducted at NU. Embryonic cells from fetal tissue obtained after infertility treatments may also be used, if it can be scientifically justified by a review committee. ■ NU should not conduct research using human embryonic stem cells derived from embryos made using in vitro fertilization solely for research purposes. ■ NU should not use cells from cloned embryos. ■ Scientific review commit tees should be created to review research involving embryonic stem cells. ■ Prospective donors of embryos remaining after infertili ty treatments should receive appropriate information to decide whether to store, donate or discard the embryo. ■ NU may not offer induce ments, such as money, to prospective donors. ■ Institutional Review Boards at NU should review all research using human embryonic human stem cells. The committee is made up of religious and community leaders, NU faculty members and admin istrators. After the hearing, Smith and the NU Board of Regents will vote whether to adopt the recom mendations as the university's policy. Monitor may be hired to investigate sweatshop THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEAVERTON, Ore. — In a letter to one of its chief critics, Nike Inc. proposed that a moni tor be appointed to investigate a Korean-owned sweatshirt fac tory in Mexico where striking workers were allegedly beaten. The Beaverton-based shoe and sports apparel giant said it has been a major customer of the Kukdong factory but has not had any orders filled there since mid-December. The factory, located in Puebla about 70 miles south east of Mexico City, makes apparel for several universities. Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights group, alleged last week that on Jan. 11, about 200 state police officers beat and dragged away some of the 850 employees occupying the grounds to protest the firing of five work ers. The fired employees had led worker unrest over poor cafete ria food and low wages, about $30 for a 45-hour week, Global Exchange said. The Nike letter, signed by Dusty Kidd, vice president of corporate Responsibility, was sent Saturday to the Worker Rights Consortium, a New York based group of students and universities aligned with labor unions and other social activist groups demanding that Nike improve conditions for over seas workers. Vada Manager, director of global issues management for Nike, said Sunday that mem bers of the WRC have requested to visit the Kukdong factory Monday and said the company would not discourage that visit. But he said Nike officials believe fellow buyers, the Kukdong management, the WRC and the Fair Labor Association - another monitor ing group favored by Nike - should agree on an accredited monitor to conduct a full, inde pendent investigation of the alleged labor compliance viola tions. An objective report cou pled with an agreed upon mon itor, will be the only method to serve the interests of all the par ties - most importantly, the workers at the factory," the let ter said. In the letter, Nike said 500 of the approximately 800 workers are now back at work and that the factory has made arrange ments for the others to return to work or collect severance pay in accordance with Mexican labor law. Beaverton-based Nike has been the target of frequent crit icism over wages and working conditions in the factories of its subcontractors, mostly in Asia. P ■ ■ ■ uM EARN $700 TO $1,660 CALL 474-7297 ASSIST MEDICAL RESEARCH ■J I A* jt