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Construction on the new Nebraska East Union on UNL's
east campus is about two-thirds complete, said Daryl
Swanson, assistant director of the Nebraska Union,
Swanson will be manager of the Nebraska East Union
when it opens in January.
The east campus community has waited more than 29
years for the new building, Swanson said. A new union was
considered in the mid-lSSOs, Swanson said, but added that
increasing enrollment on the city campus diverted
attention and money to the Nebraska Union. An addition
to the Nebraska Union was finished in 1S59.
These circumstances were repeated in the ISCOs,
Swanson said. A second addition to the Nebraska Union
was completed in 1S9.
The east campus union is now housed is the basement of
the east campus Activities BIdg. These quarters were
intended to be temporary when they were assigned 25
years ago, Swanson said.
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The new umon is centrally located on the east campus
between the Plant Industry BIdg. and Miller Hall.
The structure and functions of the new union were
decided upon after comprehensive planning, he said. He
explained that a student committee worked for two years
to determine which needs a new east campus union should
serve. Their findings were submitted to the Nebraska
Union Planning Committee in December, 1972.
In accordance with the study, the new union will provide
space for several lounge areas, a bookstore, a cafeteria and
kitchen, meeting rooms, student and administrative
offices, a study lounge and a recreation area.
Also, classroom space will be provided in the union for
the Department of Food and Nutrition. The department
will use the union kitchen and the classrooms in teaching
food preparation courses, Swanson said.
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The College of Home Economics has agreed to purchase
the classroom space in the union, so student fees wCl not be
supporting academic programs, Swanson said.
The 43 million union wCl be paid for from student fees
during the next 29 years.
Students living in Burr and Fedde residence halls on the
east campus will be served their meals in the union
cafeteria, Swanson said. A cafeteria in the Nebraska
Center for Continuing Education now provides east
campus residence hall students with meals.
With S5.CC0 square feet of floor space, Nebraska East
Union is about half the size of Nebraska Union. The space
was designed to serve an east campus enrollment of 4,CC9
by 1SS9, Swanson said.
However, he added, east campus enrollment for the fall
semester of 1975 was aleady slightly higher than 4,CC0.
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This figure includes students enrolled in the College of
Dentistry, in the Law College and in undergraduate
courses taught on the east campus, Swanson explained.
Swanson said the new building will serve the needs of
faculty and staff members and students on the east campus
as well as students living near the east campus.
The opening of the new union will create 33 jobs,
Swanson said. Professional staff will include Swanson, a
program and recreation manager, a food service manager
and an assistant food service manager. Most of the new
jobs will be in the food service, Swanson said.
Audrey Newton, chairwoman of the Department of
Textiles, Clothing and Design in the College of Home
Economics, is assisting the university in planning the.
interior design of the building, Swanson said.
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Daryl Swanson, who will be manager of the new
Nebraska East Union, stands in front of what will be
the union's information desk. Photo by Store Bonner
The architect's rendering of the Nebraska East Union, scheduled for completion in January. The building's shape is a modified parallelogram.
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