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Thursday March 1,2001 Volume 100 Issue 118 dailyneb.com Since 1901 Cookie Biecher and NU seniors send the Husket out with a victory In SportsThursday/12 aii ma—m Derek Uppmcott/DN M M pcSNKmiai QMNmc MQf fmSm mmmmmXS ui€ ftMJII eveCuOfl reSUitS 10 iNS pdfiy IMfllMfS X MdillSuMf UK OH Wednesday night IVfeM MM second placet Wednesday^ voting to Nathan Ftwrst of the Score! Party,but he won enough votes to force the election into a ran*off between the two parties. No Bull gets second chance No Bull backers were quiet Wednesday night as the word spread throughout Main Street Cafe, 1324 O. St, that the party's presidential slate would face Sane! in a run-off election Tuesday. The reaction was bittersweet after the party found out presidential candidate Andy Mixan and first vice presidential candidate Bill Westering lost but not by enough to give Score! a complete vkrto Score! received 886 votes, while No Bull came in second in the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska election with 843 votes. ASUN election rules say a candidate must gain at least 50 percent of the total vote to win an elec tion. If they don't get a simply majority, they must get at least 10 percent more of the total votes cast than their opponent With the weight of the campaign lifted tem porarily, Mixan propped his head in his hand, smiled and said he was exhausted, but encour aged. "It was grueling, but I feel like I have a second wind now,” Mixan said. Mixan said his day started at 6 a.m. Wednesday morning when he set up voting booths on both campuses. After he stood out in the cold all day handing out fliers to rally last-minute votes, Mixan had no time to relax before he heard the results. Mixan had just walked in the door of the bar when Ik received the anticipated call from ASUN election commissioner John Conley. *1 can't believe we got the results already,” Mixan said. ^ But die run-off didn’t discourage him. i “We've just got to keep going,” he said. "I’m tired, but I’ve got to get back up tomorrow and go at it hard, if not harder.” Mixan said the numbers didn’t bother him either, but it meant he still needed to get his party platform heard. “Eight hundred and forty-three people voted Please see NO BULL on3 NateWagner/uN Presidential candWate Nathan Fuerstfrom the Score! party announces the results of the presidential and second vice presidential elections. Score? and No-Bul compete in a nin-off election Tuesday. Score! wins, looks for another BY MARGARET BEHM For the Score! party, standing outside in the cold seemed to pay off. Party members endured freezing temperatures in hopes of convincing students to vote in the ASUN election. Nathan Fuerst, Score! presidential candidate, said he spent Election Day campaigning and encouraging people to vote from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. It was a long day,” he said. Vince Cogley, Score! candidate for arts and sci ences senator, said Fuerst's dedication impressed him. - “It was amazing to see him out there in the freezing cold, still caring about making sure every one voted in this election,” Cogley said. Fuerst said he was disappointed none of the other parties stuck around outside after the sun went down. “When it got really cold and dark we were the only party out there," Fuerst said. Packing up the campaign when it gets dark is unfair to non-traditional students who take night classes, Fuerst said. Cogley said while he tried to bear the cold, he didn't have the endurance of Fuerst 1 have to admit that I had to go in to warm up a few times,” he said. "(Nathan) stayed out there die whole time. His drive is amazing. He's like the Energizer Bunny.” Dick Fuerst, Nathan's dad, said Fuerst has always been enthusiastic. "Nathan has always had all kinds of energy,” he said. "He always seems to know what he’s doing, what he wants to achieve and how he’s going to get there.” About 40 people, including the Score! party and its supporters, gathered in The N- Zone to find out die election news. People in Score! T-shirts, black with bright yel PteaseseeSCOKonB George W. Bush speaks at Omaha^s Ovk I wreKuppmam/ui Bush touts plan in Omaha President GeoigeW. Bush, fresh from a prime-time performance before Congress, pitched his budget plan to Nebraskans on The president trumpeted his proposal to a crowd of eager listeners ready to buy in onthedeaL At one point, the enthusiastic audience drowned out the president with cries of "refund, refund.” Bush appeared comfortable addressing the Nebraskans who handed him all 93 of the state’s counties in the election. “It’s good to get to the heartland where people proudly stand on values of faith and family,” he said. Sen. Ben Nelson, the lone Democrat on the scene, wasn’t ostracized by the frenzied Republicans. Bush, though* added idng to the day's partisan cake when he heaped pressure onto Nelson to accepting budget plan. ‘n* good thing about these two sena tors (Chuck Hageland Nelson) is this: I know fm going to be able to count on them in a pinch... they'll listen to the people of Nebraska,” he said. Bush gunned for Nelson because he might hold the key vote in getting his con tentious budget plan passed through an evenly divided Senate Plus, Nebraska's a Republican strong hold chock full of eager citizens waiting to help Bush put the squeeze on Nelson. Itaming bade the political demands, Nelson said hewould woii to “make sure we get the best budget we can.” But he said Bush didn't try to strong arm him during their flight on Air Force One. “I got no arm twisting or pressure,” he said. In fact, Nelson said Bush probably worft ever be in a “pinch” because he listens to other lawmakers and citizens and builds consensus. With bolstering support in mind, Bush hit up Omaha, Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Pittsburgh on Wednesday, pushing his new economic blueprint for the country. Please see PRESIDENT on 6 Voter turnout down slightly BY CHARUE KAUFFMAN Voter turnout in Wednesday's election was down slightly from last year. Was it because of weather, or just student apathy? Maybe both. In any case, a runoff between Andy Mixan’s No Bull party and Nathan Fuerst’s Score! party was announced at 9:15 p.m., and is scheduled for lliesday. The polling places will remain the same, but the hours at the main polling {daces will be short ened for the runoff Polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Out of20,504 eligible voters, of 2,877 partici pated in the election, a turnout of 14.03 percent Last year, 14.42 percent of eligible students voted. Both numbers are up from 1999, though, which saw a 12.03 percent voter turnout The ballots were machine-counted in a little more than an hour, a practice that has been employed for about 10 years. Fuerst and his first-vice presidential candi date, Jessica Lopez, won 886 votes. Mixan and his first-vice presidential candidate, Bill Westering, won 843 votes. Independent candidates John Matzen and Holly Flanagan finished third with 440 votes. NUForce Party presidential candidate Angela Clements and first-vice presidential candi date Erick Kinyungu finished fourth with 327 votes and The One Party presidential candidate Jaron Luttich and running mate Melanie Mitzel came in last with 305 votes. Brent Stanfield and Brandon Schulte were elected to the Committee for Fees Allocation. 1 Also on the ballot were student services and organizations vying for student fees. Voters were asked whether they wanted their student fees to support die respective groups. The Daily Nebraskan, Campus Speakers, the University Health Center, Nebraska Unions, Campus Recreation and the East Health Center all received voter approval for funding from student fees. Some potential voters were too dissatisfied to vote. Please see RESULTS on 3 S i NateWagnefTDN AmiTraore,a sophomore in the Gofcgeof Agriculture ml Natural Resources, turns inherbalot sheet for the ASUN elections hnlfl lAfoiAinrff-ni ■■do Voters came to thepoRstomahe sure their voices were heard. it s a runon Total Votes 2,877 14 percent of eligible voters With such a dose election, ASUN rules dictate a run-off election be held Tuesday between the top vote-getters, the Score! Party and the No Bull Party. oc Party Score! % 31.45 Votes 886 No Bull Independent NUForce One 29.92 15.61 11.57 10.79 843 440 327 305