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lincoln, nebraska vol. 97 no. 54
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Seven nominations to the ASUN Student Court received
the approval of the ASUN Senate Wednesday evening.
Don Armbrust, a law student, was chosen by the joint
Student Bar Assoc. -ASUN nominations committee as the Chief
Justice candidate.
According to the ASUN constitution, the chief justice must
be a law college student.
Law students Alan Schmeits, Doug Voegler and Fred
Schcemaker were nominated to the court by the committee,
as were undergraduates John O'Shea and Bill Stadler.
AUN President Ann Henry nominated Dennis Martin to fill
the seventh position; he was approved by the Senate. The
associate judges are not required to be members of the College
of Law.
Only six students met the requirements of the interviewing
committee, out of the "10 or 11" students who wished to be
interviewed, according to Jim Barbee, a junior class member of
Student Bar Assoc., who served on the interviewing
committee. Martin also met the requirements, according to
Sen. Mary Voboril.
The committee was to interview only juniors, seniors or
graduate students, Barbee said.
"There is a question whether ASUN exceeded the power
given it by the constitution" in approving its own student
court, Barbee said.
"But," he added, "I don't know what else they would have
done."
Because the senate had the Student Bar Assoc. take part in
the nomination interview, a group "not concerned with
campus politics", Barbee said the question of constitutional
propriety was lessened.
By Vince Boucher
Students winding up the work of the fall semester may bo
anticipating their return home for Christmas as a pleasant
vacation after finals.
Yet because of the energy crisis and a massive airline strike,
UNL's nearly two thousand out-of-state students may
encounter difficulty trying to go home over the holidays,
according to officials for various transportation companies.
Ken Woods, sales manager for Frontier Airlines, said air
routes out of Lincoln and Omaha will be cut by 12 per cent on
Dec. 8, as part of the systems-wide action by Frontier.
He said routes ate being cut because the airline wants to
insure having enough fuel for the traditionally heavy holiday
traffic. Frontier only has been assured of two-thirds of the fuel
it received last year, he said.
"Right after the first of the year, we will be cutting up to
30 per cent of the system, or one third of our service," Woods
said.
Students living in the East will face the greatest problem
with getting home. Woods said reservations should be made
immediately.
Woods stressed that airlines will make every attempt to
accommodate passengers during the holidays. Because the
entire TWA system is on strike, other airlines are in a bind, he
said.
Rumors say the TWA strike could last until May, Woods
said. For routes serviced by several airlines, seats have been
reduced drastically. As an example, he said the number of
seats to St. Louis may have been 1,500 but now number about
200 daily.
Comment could not be received from United Air Linos.
Students calling United to make reservations will hear a
prerecorded blurb explaining the high activity and will be
asked to wait.
Amtrak trains also are being overrun with inquiries,
according to Vernon Pelowski, lead ticket clerk. He said calls
have increased from 50 to over 500 per day.
Pelowski said reservations are not being accepted tor the
period between Dec. 8 and Jan. 4, because the trains are full.
"It will be awfully crowded," he admitted. Pelowski said
students will be seated anywhere space is available, including
lounge cars. "We're not turning anyone down," he said.
"It's like wartime," he said. "If students come to the train
one night we'll try to get them on, arid if we can't, they'll have
to come back to the station the next night."
Pelowski said students traveling under 500 miles or on local
runs should not have too much trouble going home because
that space never is reserved.
Students should not encounter problems traveling by bus,
according to local Greyhound and Continental Trailways
representatives. Greyhound ticket clerk Herman Diet said bus
service has not been reduced and will be able to accomodate
all passengers.
According to UNL Admissions Officer Robeit W. Reid,
1,959 students at UNL are from outside of Nebraska. An
additional 12,486 come from homes in outstate Nebraska, he
said. Foreign students number 4G0, Reid said. According to
Peter Levitov, foieign student counselor, less than 5 per cent
of these will try to return to their home countries over the
holidays.
Construction lags
as winter nears
Construction around the City and East Campuses generally
is behind, according to Tom Nycum, Physical Plant Asst.
Diieclor.
Deon Krehnke, estimator for the Geo. Cook Construction
Co., said the weather has ben a big factor for the workers on
the addition to Love Libtary.
"Right now, we're working on the columns, the slabs and
the walls. The snowstorm and the weather in general has held
us up a little," he said.
According to Krehnke, Cook Construction Co. has been
granted an extension for the date of completion on the
addition to Love Library.
"We are at the mercy of the weather in the winter. Our
completion date has been moved back to September 1974," he
s.iid.
Nycum said construction on the addition was behind, but'
added that the Law College construction looked good.
The footings, basement walls and part of the first floor are
completed, according to Nycum.
"The Kingery Construction Co. is the general construction
company working on it now. They have started the first floor
and they aie riht on schedule," he said.
The East Campus Union preliminary drawings are almost
completed and will be resubmitted in about two weeks,
Nycum said.
The new Home Economics building on East Campus now is
enclosed, and workmen are wor king on the interior.
"We hope? to have it completed by the first summer
session," Nycum said. "They are slightly behind."
Construction on the ' fieldhouse is about 00 days behind
schedule, he said,
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