The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, March 01, 2001, Page 3, Image 3
No Bull comes in second WO iuu. from paoe 1 for us, that means they see us as the future for ASUN,” he said. Westering said No Bull wouldn’t change their campaign strategy. “We have no major changes, we’ve run a good campaign,” Westering said. “We’ll just roll with the punches.” But the hard work wouldn’t start until tomor row, Mixan said. Tonight was for rallying the troops. “We’re just going to take our minds off it tonight, celebrate and start again tomorrow morn ing, * Mixan said. Mike Echtemacht, a No Bull campaign manag er, said with five candidates running, a run-off was expected and also prepared for. Echtemacht said No Bull had carefully budget ed its money and people so those working on the campaign wouldn’t get burnt out “We’ve put in tons of work, but we haven’t pushed the party to do much in preparation for this, so we aren't drained,” Echtemacht said. As Mixan read off die ASUN senate results, he encouraged those who did not win to vindicate their loss by working hard for the party in the next “It’s been a tough night for a lot of people, and a good night for others,” he said. Campaign manager Julie Boyer said now the party would just be focusing on their weaknesses. "We’re going to be working on getting the same people who voted today to vote again on the same things,” Boyer said. Mixan said he thought students voted because they like his ideas of changing the dead-week poli cy and encouraging a new web-based e-mail sys tem. Jon Simons, a junior business major, said stu dents would vote again because No Bull’s platform encompassed a lot of things students cared about “There was no B.S., they say what we want to hear,” Simons said. Supporter Jennie Nitschke, a senior marketing major, said students voted for No Bull because they were tired of dead week policies, something No Bull plans to change. “During dead week, there are no tests but pre sentations and papers due,” Nitschke said. Pat West a junior chemical engineering major, agreed. “During dead week, we all have tests and proj ects,” West said. “We're too busy to study." West along with other campaigners, repeated the idea of their leader and said he and other sup porters would also be working hard to increase the 12.5 percent voter turnout “Well do whatever it takes,” West said. Mixan agreed. "In next week’s election, one vote could decide die winner,” he said. Score! scores big with win SCOlf from page 1 low exclamation points, hugged each other and cheered as the election news poured in. Fuerst announced the election results, reveal ing that he and running mate Jessica Lopez had more votes than any other party with a total of886. But with the No Bull party coining in at a dose second, both parties face a run-off election Tuesday. Nick Fitch, Score! second vice-presidential candidate who also won, said he was ecstatic that Fuerst and Lopez were in the lead. "When I saw that Nathan and Jessica had the most votes, that was the happiest news that I’ve heard in a long time,” he said. Lopez, first-vice presidential candidate, said she didn’t need a crystal ball to predict a runoff. "With five parties you have to anticipate a runoff,” she said. “That was our big thing, was get ting into the runoff.” But Lopez said she doesn’t know what the future holds for the Score! party. *1 think that it’s really anybody’s game right now,” she said. *It was so dose.” Lopez said both Score! and No Bull have a busy week in front of them. “Tm sure both parties will be campaigning very hard to get people out to vote,’ she said. Fitch said even though he won as second vice president, he plans to help Fuerst and Lopez win die run-off election. “We’ve got another week of hard work but I'm very, very excited,” he said. Fuerst said an important element to the cam paign will be getting everyone to go out and vote again next week. The campaign trail thus far has been smooth one, Fuerst said. - “ft was a great election,” he said. “It’s been nothing but a positive experience.” Fuerst said he was up against quality candi dates. “I really want to make sure that all the parties know that I appreciate their ideas and their value as great candidates,” he said. Lopez said she didn’t loose sight of what really mattered in this election. “I had a lot of friends in the other parties,” she said. “I didn't want to loose friends over this.” Fuerst said he plans to include some of the ideas of the presidential candidates who didn’t make it into die run off into his campaign. “We want to make sure that there’s no idea left behind from die parties that aren't in the campaign anymore.” U.S. Navy's No.2 official travels to Japan to apologize UWAIIMA, Japan - The Navy's No. 2 officer completed a round of apologies on behalf of President Bush on Thursday, expressing "profound sorrow” to the families and classmates of four students presumed dead after a U.S. submarine sank their training ship. The four 17-year-old boys are among nine people lost at sea after the USS Greeneville lammed their ship while surfac ing on Feb. 9 off the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The ship, which sank within minutes, is operat ed by a high school for aspiring sailors in this small fishing vil "I was sent by President Bush to be his personal repre sentative and to convey his apologies and prbfound sor row,” Adm. William Fallon said after a closed-door meeting with the families and dozens of students. The visit by Fallon comes at an emotional moment Thursday was graduation day for about 50 of the school’s 200 students. Wearing dark blue jackets and huddling under umbrellas, they arrived at school in twos and threes, greet ed outside by teachers while about 20 cameramen and reporters looked on. Some of die girls carried flowers. Fallon's sweep through Japan and the ubiquitous apolo gies recently by American offi cials have been well received, and appear to be calming anger over the accident and Washington's initial failure to release the information that civilians were at the sub's con trols when it occurred. After their meeting, school principal Ietaka Horita said he thanked Fallon for his “sincere efforts." Horita added he believes the United States is a nation that "cherishes justice, values, human rights and human lives.” "I think it's important that somebody dose to the president apologized to the families in person," saidTomomi Mizuno, a 16-year-old freshman. “There’s been a lot of misunderstanding on both sides, and I think it’s good there was finally some communication.” Over the past two days in Tokyo, Fallon apologized on behalf of Bush to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and other political leaders and met with some fam ilies of the lost nine. He called on the local governor Thursday morning before coming to this village about 430 miles south west of Tokyo. The families got the apology they wanted most on Wednesday, when Cmdr. Scott Waddle visited Japan’s consulate in Honolulu and hand-delivered his written apologies to them. Waddle, who according to reports here was bom on a mili tary base in Japan, cried as he handed over the letters. “I think they’ve apologized enough,* said Tokitatsu Miyashita, directing traffic at a construction site near the scbooL Families of those presumed dead - the four students, two teachers and three crew mem bers - have repeatedly demand ed the boat, the Ehime Mam, be salvaged and the bodies recov ered. Fallon said the possibility of raising the boat was being eval uated. Washington’s concern reflects the crucial importance it attaches to its security alliance with Tokyo. About 50,000 U.S. troops are stationed here, including the largest contingent of Marines outside the United States. The United States maintains several major Air Force bases in Japan, and the home port of the Navy’s Seventh Fleet is just south of " Tokyo. Though strongjy supported by both Washington and Tokyo, the troops’ presence is often a source of friction, particularly on the small southern island of Okinawa, where roughly half the troops are based. Read the Daily Nebraskan Well keep you up-to-date on the ASUN run-off elections f Students mixed on RESULTS from page! “Unless (ASUN) control Parking Services or tuition bills, which they don't, I don’t care," senior mechanical engineering major David Dijaksaid. “I’ve been here six years, and I’ve voted five years in a row. They've never done anything.” Philip Romohr, a sophomore economics major, was equally dis enchanted with student government “Voting for ASUN is nearly pointless. Don’t get me wrong, I feel very strongly that voting for actual political offices is extremely important,” Romohr said. “My per ceptions of ASUN have been that parties choose topics for their plat form only because students feel Tve had extensive conversations with older, respectable strongly about the topic, and not students on camniiS because they feel something can " , * camPus* feasibly be accomplished,” and theyve given me Romohr said he thought par- q lot of insight On past ties pick campaign issues based A \ w af solely on voter appeal, not because aeCISlOnS, 1 they have researched the topic. He feel that the saMhe would not vote in the dec- ccmdidate , did vote some voters, though, were for is going to make a convinced a worthwhile party was difference as nnnnced on the ballot Austin VanDusen, a opposea freshman biology major, said even tO past ASUN though he has no experience vot ing in ASUN elections, he learned about past student government actions through older students. _ “I’ve had extensive conversa tions with older, respectable stu Austin Van Dusen UNL student dents on campus, and they’ve given me a lot of insight on past ASUN decisions,” Van Dusen said. “I feel that the candidate I did vote for is going to make a difference, as opposed to past ASUN presidents.” Current ASUN President Joel Schafer stressed the influence stu dent government actually has on the university. “I think that student government really is important, especially the president, and especially with the representation on the (Board of) Regents,” Schafer said. “I think some real tough issues are coming up.” Committee for Fees Allocation As part of the ASUN ballot, students were asked whether they wanted their student fees to support certain services and organizations. Students approved the use of their fees for all services and organizations. Mebnfefak/DN Emily Buescher Tim Dorn Scott Dobbe Arts I Sciences Sarah Kippenbrock Allison McGee Amanda Hergert Vince Colgey Dan Mauler Jimmy Hynes (elect four) Michelle Schrage Mike Shearer Chad Ruwe Josh Hite 185 120 48 (elect six) 342 349 316 300 286 297 Des Howard Nathan Olson Rm & Performing Aits JonB. Gathje (elect six) Haifeng Ji Michelle Oja 254 237 197 206 (elect two) 173 129 24 56 51 Laurie Hilgenkamp 54 Lisa Behms (elect two) Meagan Riordan TJ Teeter 100 97 125 (elect two) Brad Robertson 157 Kyle Arganbright 134 36.41% 23.62% 96.00% 9.98% 10.19% 9.22% 8.76% 8.35% 8.67% 16.21% 15.13% 12.57% 13.15% 50.00% 36.99% 51.11% 40.00% 36.42% 98.14% 45.83% 30.12% 38.81% 37.02% 31.60% Agriculture-Agronomy Adam Wacker 238 98.34% Agriculture-Animal Science (elect two) Travis Wolf 198 49.37% Megan Becher 194 48.37% Agriculture-Bio Chemistry Zach Kippenbrock 67 27.34% Agriculture-Hat Resources (elect two) Sean Sutherland 228 89.06% Social Sciences (elect three) Jame&Meuret 456 31.60% Eric E. Martin 456 31.60% Jen Heim 491 34.02% Humanities (elect three) Julie Hodgson * 475 48.46% Caroline Stephenson 412 42.04% Sciences (electthree) L tiffany Peterson 484 48.06% Matthew Beerman 447 44.36% Business-Soph (elect two) Veronica Iniow 335 49.77% Michael Sukraw 311 46.21% Business-Junior (elect two) Chip Emanuel 221 28.55% Ben Neumann 235 30.36% Business-Senior (elect two) Emily Stuckey 354 50.35% Andrew Dick 333 47.36% Textiles, Clothing A Design Rachelle Moody 29 52.72% Nutritional Science Michelle Naslund 34 55.73% Scott Eastman/DN FREE Nokia 252 Phone! ‘FREE Evening & Weekend Calling For Life! CDEfHAI * FOUR State Local Calling Area WWflhtAlI fclfl flfc * RATE nans stalling as low as $29.99^KnHS|Lr DDIl^BV ■ *TIjJ Hot Colon lb rillUhi Specials at these locations ONLY 13* and O Street 27- and Pine Lake Rd 70* and Van Dom Russ’s Market 33* and Hwy 2 Super Saver 56* and Hwy 2 27* and Comhusker Hwy Super Saver 48* and O Street Big K-Mart Beatrice. 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