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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.
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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.
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Hearing held to debate research
FROM STAFF REPORTS
The public will have a chance
Tuesday to add their two cents to a
statewide debate on stem cell
research conducted at UNMC.
A public hearing is scheduled
for 10 a.m. in the Nebraska Room
of the Nebraska Center for
Continuing Education on East
Campus.
Embryonic stem cell research
has stirred controversy because it
requires the destruction of an
embryo.
But the cells can be beneficial
because of their ability to develop
into several types of human cells,
which could help in finding cures
for diseases.
The University of Nebraska
Medical Center does not conduct
embryonic stem cell research.
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.
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