University
looks to Malone
expansion
by Bart Becker
The information which follows was taken from a
report by the UNL Department of Geography, 'The
Face of Malone: An Area of Transition in Lincoln,
Nebraska." The editor was Dean S. Rugg. The authors
were David A. Montgomery, Frank A. Pratt, Rodney
W. Schulling, Boniface N. Madubom and Darshan S.
Kang.
The boundaries of what is called "Malone" are
indefinite. For the purposes of the geographic study,
an area of approximately 55 blocks, from Q to Y
Streets and from 19th to 26th Streets, was included.
This is the last of a two part series.
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After Lincoln was selected in the summer of 1867
as the site for the state capital, the decision to locate
the State University here followed as a matter of
course.
The University of Nebraska was created by a
legislative act in 1869. Four square blocks on the
north edge of Lincoln, bounded by 10th and 12th on
the west and east and R and T streets on the south
and north, were set aside for the land-grant
institutions.
"For the period 1869-1916, student enrollment
increased at a nearly constant rate. From 1917
through 1952 student enrollment increased ' and
decreased at variable rates. The period 1953-1970
exhibited steady increases in enrollment.
The pattern of land acquisition parallels the
enrollment increase.
An apparent characteristic of University land
acquisition policy is the purchase of scattered pieces
rather than continuous lots. Individual owners have
been approached in an attempt to persuade them to
sell.
. The University, the report concludes, has no
direction in which to expand except east-into
Malone. However, the report notes the University
could move south into an area that has been a
business district in the past.
"While the central business district is expanding to
the south into a 'zone of active assimilation,' it is also
receding from the north," according to the report.
This leaves behind a "zone of discard," bonded by Q
and R streets.
The report notes that the campus suffers from
several internal space problem!. Two of the more
apparent ones are circulation of traffic and the
integration cf space requirements for classrooms,
services, residence and recreation. Less evident,
according to the study, is the lack of married student
housing.
Although the University has developed plans to
eliminate through traffic by providing alternate
routes, no apparent scheme has been developed to
confine parking lots to the periphery of campus, the
report said.
It suggests that no vehicles except those used for
service should have ready access into the inner
academic core of the campus. This would insure free
flow of students from one class to another without
having to wait for traffic.
The report also points out that UNL has the
lowest number of dwelling units for married students
in the Big Eight.
According to the Comprehensive Campus Plan, a
future campus of 25,000 students should anticipate
space for housing up to 50 per cent of the entire
student body, excluding fraternities and sororities.
With student enrollment at 20,810, single housing is
available for about 5,300 students.
The City Campus has facilities for 2,740 men and
2,560 women, while East Campus has facilities for
118 men and 171 women. The remaining single
students seek accomodation through other
arrangements within the city.
The report says this need for University
expansion affects the Malone area primarily the area
bounded by 19th, 23rd, Q and W Streets. In 19641
this area had 332 residential houses. As of December
31, 1970, the remaining area to be acquired consisted
of 34 properties.
The average price of all the land acquired by the
University is stated to be $1.02 per square foot. This
ranges from 50 cents per square foot for railroad land
to $1.74 per square foot for residential lots. This
price compares favorably with those paid elsewhere in
Lincoln, the report states.
Although University records show that 53 per cent
of the people who moved out were whites and 42 per
cent non-white, a 1968 survey (The Altemeyer
report) showed 77 per cent of those who moved out
were non-white. The geography department report
indicated the latter report seemed more accurate.
The Altemeyer report concluded that nearly
one-third of its non-white respondents experienced
discrimination when trying to find other housing.
Certain questions about the u of pressure by the
Univeristy in acquiring land have been raised. Out of
the J 09 properties purchased by the University, only
three parties (2.8 per cent) preferred court settlement
to the price the University offered to pay.
The situation, however, is not as simple as made
out by this analysis of court-cases, because it is not
the owner, but the tenant who is most affected,
according to the report. University officials have had
this brought to their attention and now apparently
have agreed to continue renting to the present tenants
until they secure new housing.
It becomes apparent that the Univeristy will
expand and, because of physical barriers, is forced to
expand into Malone. The Northeast Radial, an arterial
street to north Lincoln, also may impose on residents
of the area.
Thus the population of Malone continues to shift
and the face of the area continues to change.
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