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by Robin Pilus
Apartment dwellers attending UNL
may suffer from hunger now and then,
but as a whole they aie content with their
off campus life style.
More and moie UNL students are
turning to off-campus living. Seniors,
Leigh Roeder, Vickie Nissen and Mary
Runge shaie a three-bedroom apartment
on the upper level of a house.
Before they moved into their present
apartment, they were temporarily living
in a trailer.
"We looked for a furnished apartment
at a reasonable price, but they were all
dumps," Roeder said.
According to Roeder, the landlord did
not let them move into the trailer they
had signed a contract for, but put them in
one "not near as nice and costing much
moie money."
"We kept bugging her, and she kept
putting us off. It was a bad situation, but
now the lady does not rent to college
students," Roeder said.
Getting then present apartment was
described by Roeder as being "near
heaven."
One of the apaitment's majoi plusses
is a brick fireplace in the living room.
"We were really excited about the
fireplace," Nissen said. "We could just
imagine curling up by the fire on cold
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winter nights. When we first tried it, the
smoke wouldn't go up the draft and it all
came out into the apartment."
'The whole place smelled like smoke
for weeks," she added.
One might think that three college
women would cook foods fit for a
gourmet.
"We all like different foods," Nissen
said. "Mary and I ate nothing but cereal
three meals a day when we first moved
in."
Roeder estimates that the three of
them have eaten together about 10 times
during the school year.
The one problem of apartment living,
Roeder said, is "trying to remember to
buy toilet paper before we run out."
Gary Puncochar and Gary Braun, two
UNL juniors live close to campus in an
unfurnished apartment.
"The worst part about this place,"
Puncochar said, "is that it doesn't have a
shower. Baths take too long."
Braun added that the storm windows
have to be nailed down or they "flop
around in the wind."
Puncochar, a former dormitory
resident, said that he hated everything
about residence halls.
"I finally decided to move out when
the fire alarm got pulled every night for a
week at 3 a.m.," he said.
Puncochar said that they were plagued
by bugs in his apartment. "I don't know
what they are. They're too big to be
called cockroaches."
Up to now, two mice have been caught
on the Braun Puncochar residence.
"They were really kind of cute,"
Puncochar said. "They looked just like
the ones that are on cartoons."
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In order to rid the apartment of the
rodents, two methods were employed.
First, Braun and Puncochar chased
them around the kitchen with a broom.
'They'd stand on the bricks we placed in
front of their holes and just look at us,"
Braun said.
"Finally though," Puncochar claimed,
''they succumbed to the old,
cheese-in-the-trap trick."
One major advantage of living in an
apartment, according to Puncochar, is
that one can have pets. Puncochar's dog
just had a litter of nine.
Although he slept on the couch the
first few days after they were born, "the
puppies are really no trouble," said
Puncochar.
"D.J. (the puppies mother) seems to
take care of everything. I just had to get
used to their whinning."
More privacy and freedom are major
reasons given by Puncochar and Braun for
living off campus.
Eating is the biggest hassle of
apartment life, according to Braun. "We
eat at McDonald's once a day and
consume lots of popcorn and eggs."
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