The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, February 26, 1976, Image 1
r I A S I : A fir Photo by Td Kirfc The American egret, an occasional spring visitor to Nebraska, may someday cease his visits altogether because of Nebraska's shrinking wildlife habitats. daily rfl: thursday, february 26, 1976 vol. 99 no. 87 lincoln, nebraska y inside Visitation: Five out of 13 Midwest schools agree, allow 24-hour visitation p.2 Cuckoo's rest: Thumbs up to the film starring Jack Nicholson p.8 ConPro: Students have moved to assert their rights as consumers ........ p. 4 Analysis by Dick Piersol Take a sojourn into rural Nebraska and you may notice a change in its landscape. Huge piles of brush on barren land stand waiting to be burned. Where there were once endless rows of hedges and shelter belts, now there is dirt, ' ready to be prepared for planting. There is no denying that new agricultural technology and methods, growing urbanization, in short progress, is not only vital but inevitable in Nebraska. Its advantages axe academic; its consequences often overlooked. One consequence is a striking reduction in available habitat for wildlife of all types. Songbirds, game animals, predators, all are subject to the demands of human . population. The state Game and Parks Commission, a seven member board appointed by the governor, has recognized a need for preserving wildlife "habitat and promoting its maintenance. Following a conference on wildlife habitat conducted in February 1975 and attended by wildlife managers, fanners and interested environmentalists, the commission has fostered legislation currently before the Nebraska Legislature designed to save what wildlife habi tat it can. i Fee increases not small The proposed legislation increases fees paid by hunters, fishermen and trappers for the rights to pursue their quarry. The increases are not small. The most drastic fee increase is to require all hunters and trappers, 16-years-old or more, resident or not, to purchase a habitat stamp for $7.50, in addition to a hunting or trapping license. That stamp would replace the $1 upland game bird stamp to permit hunting of birds such as quail and pheasant. The money raised from habitat stamp sales and all game fees increases would be placed in the State Game Fund, which receives no sjate tax money, to buy, lease, develop and otherwise enhance wildlife habitat areas. Continued on p. 5 Concerned students will petition for traffic signal By Virginia Broady Students worried about what they call the danger in crossing the intersection of 10th and S streets to get to the 501 Bldg. will start a petition drive next week asking the Lincoln City Council to budget funds for installa tion of a traffic light there this fall. fcaib Berry, a junior business administration major from Omaha and a member of the Campus Police Ad visory Board (CPAB), said that the petition is a result of an accident Oct. 14, 1975 in which a UNL student was hit while crossing 10th st. Berry said she had checked the possibility of getting a traffic light at the crossing and found it had a "low priority." Jan McKinney, the student who was hit at the crossing, said the accident would not have happened had there been a traffic light there. The accident occurred while she was going to her 8:30 ajn. class, she said. Several cars had stopped for pedestri ans "except the car in the last lane," which apparently had not seen her, she said. McKinney, a. freshman civil engineering major, from Lincoln, added that she thought a traffic light was badly needed at the crossing. ' "Cars will slow down and won't come to a complete stop," she said. "If mere is room to get across between two students they will cross, even if the student is still walking. It' gets a little hairy sometimes." Her injuries, which were considered "not too serious," included a broken pelvis, a deep cut on her head and one on her heel, scrapes and bruises. McKinney said she was hospitalized for 20 days and had to withdraw from school for the semester. Campus Police support signal Berry said Campus Police are supportive of getting a traffic light at 10th and S streets. Berry said student organizations will be contacted and urged to write the City Council. The ASUN Senate passed a resolution on Feb. 1 1 re questing that the issue be included on the NU Board of Regents' March agenda. The resolution requests that the " board ask the City Council to consider financing the light even if it is low priority. Dick Mickleson, a Lincoln city engineer, said the traffic signal priority lists are based upon the amount of traffic at the intersection, the number of traffic accidents, the location and the traffic signals near the intersection and the kind of traffic being regulated, such as UNL or grade school pedestrians. He added that, a traffic light at 10th and S streets is not on their current priority list. However, any request for a traffic light is considered by the City Engineering Officer, he said. John Duve, parking and traffic coordinator said that Campus Police would like to have a traffic light at the intersection, but added there probably is a greater need for traffic lights around grade schools. He said mott of the accidents which occur on campus could be prevented by greater safety awareness. Hubble: Too late for flu inoculation Once again the flu bug has bit the UNL campus, and it's too late to be vaccinated against it, according to Dr. Kenneth Huhhle, director of th llnivrsiy Heslth Center (UHC). x Hubble said Tuesday that flu vaccinations were re commended in mid-November "in order for the body to have six to eight weeks to build up an immun'ty to the flu virus." But flu shots now will not prevent stu dents from contracting the virus, he said. The flu virus circulating in Lincoln is of a common variety, Hubble said. Symptoms include fever, head ache and body ache, chills and some abdominal dis orders, such as vomiting. Complications of the virus, can result in secondary infections, he said, causing respiratory and severe abdominal problems. Hubble said most students reporting to UHC have secondary respiratory problems, such as congestion and sore throat, and a few have bronchial problems. The acute symptoms (aching, chills, 'etc.) usually last 72 hours, followed by two to three days of weak ness, he said. . ..... Hubble recommended bedrest, liquids to combat dehydration, and aspirin to control fever for relief from most flu symptoms. However, in some cases doc tors at UHC are pre bribing decongestants and antsclds for specific complications, fee said. - Three people were hospitalized two to three days at UHC for flu, Hubble said. Deb Holland, a Smith Residence Hall health tide, said residence hall and Greek house health aides have II. V. . - P&ota fry fwy GtanM&om Althwd th University Health Center stU h seeing Ca-rlJa students, the number of esses b declining, sccer&ag in Burses. ; been informed of flu symptoms in their health aide classes. Holland, a sophomore h Teachers College from Deahlcr, said health aides have decongestants, antacid tablets and sore throat locengss for fiu sufferers. Health center nurses wld they were unable to esti mate the number of students who have been coming In with flu symptoms, but that the number seems to be "letting up now." "Actually, we've been too busy with them (patients) to count them, iaid Dr. Ralph Ewert, om of the walk-in doctors who has been helping flu patients. 1 TV i