monday, november 8, 1976
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Final gun cue
s stadium crew
By Larry Lutz
The final gun at Nebraska home football games does .
not mean the end of activity in Memorial Stadium. For
dozens of UNL students and staff members, things are just
beginning.
While thousands of Big Red fans are traveling home or
reliving the big moments of the game at local bars, the job
of cleaning the garbage left behind is beginning. These
fans, usually more than 76,000 of them, leave literally
mountains of garbage behind in the short span of an after
noon game.
While the fortunes of the team and the enthusiasm of
the fans often depends on the weather, the garbage does
not. - " "
There seem to be more illicit liquor bottles than after
the end of the Prohibition Era. There are more peanut
shells than a healthy pack of circus elephants would leave
behind. There remain countless soft drink and coffee
cups, food wrappers, programs and other items.
; Groups feelp clean stsdium . " ";
All this trash leaves a monumental clean-up problem
in the 'stadium. UNL has contracted student groups
throughout the years for clean-up.
This year, the Pershing Rifles, associated with the
campus ROTC unit, clean the stadium.
As soon as most of the fans have left, the group starts
at the top of the stadium with garbage bags. Each person
goes down an assigned area, picking up large items, mostly
liquor bottles.
They usually make only one pass through the stadium
after, the game, with each clean-up crew member collect
ing one bag of garbage, according to a group official.
Patti Speck, Pershing Rifle commander, said they only,
make a dent in the garbage before coming back on Sunday
to finish, j
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That's when the real clean-up begins, according to
Nancy Striker, another member. Starting about 7 ajn.
Sunday, they go back to the top of the stadium with rakes
and pull all the garbage down to the bottom levels.
The results are mountains of garbage, which are put
in trucks. The raking gets nearly all the residue in the
seats, but not all the bits of paper and glass.
On Monday morning, a commercial clean-up company
vacuums the aisles, according to Bill Shepard, Athletic
Dept. grounds director. The company takes most of the
day to finish the clean-up, he said. '
Once the aisles are cleared and the trash is hauled
away, the job is still only half over, Striker" said.
The concourses and walkways under the seats still must be
cleared. Large pushbrooms are used to sweep the debris.
This area has more traffic and more garbage, but UNL
janitors sweep it during me game. Otherwise, Shepard
said, "fans would be walking knee-deep in garbage by the
Students can air
parking complaints
Students will be given a chance to voice opinions at a
fireside discussion of campus parking problems.
The discussion, sponsored by the Student Alumni .
Board, will be at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Alumni House,
1520 R St. Miles Tommeraasen, UNL vice chancellor for
business and finance; Ray Coffey, UNL assistant business
manager; and John Dave, UNL campus police parking
coordinator, will speak. The discussion is open to all in
terested persons. , V V"
"Possibly we will come up with some solutions to the
problems or at least give students a better understanding
of why the problems exist," said Carol Kvasnicka, a
Student Alumni Board member. .
Bob Nelson, fireside committee chairman, said the
three speakers "have probably the greatest amount of
knowledge of how parking lots are purchased, allocated
and striped by the University.'
The board sponsors the discussions to "feel out student
needs and to give students the opportunity to talk to
people who have the answers," Nelson said. He said this
fireside discussion was designated to increase students
understanding of parking problems and to present to the
speakers the students perspective. ,
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ng due
hearing
lovers
The University of Nebraska ;it Omaha (UNO) student
court Saturday heard for a second time the trial of Steven
Shovers, UNO student body president and student regent
The court threw out the first Shovers case on a
technicality Oct. 21 , ruling that five members of the UNO
student senate had questionable status on the senate when
they voted to impeach Shovers Sept. 30. ,
The same day the case was dismissed the student senate
replaced the questionable senators, and again impeached
Shovers on the two counts he was impeached on the first
time. -v; ' " -'
The first count charges Shovers 'with wrongdoing in
office for opening an administrative file without per
mission last July.
The second article charges him with makirj two
student zppoinicrnts without senate approval to a
ccsaittee appointed - by UNO Chancellor Ronald
Rcikeiis.
Shavers said the court would nsie a d;ci:ion to the
second trial within five days.
end of the game."
Although the" job of cleaning up means a lot of work
and time, including all of Sunday morning, it is fun,
Striker said. " .
"We have a good time cleaning up together," she said.
"Besides, we sometimes find really weird stuff the fans
have left behind."
Although she couldn't remember anything specific,
Striker said all valuables and personal items are turned
into the lost and found office at the stadium.
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oncessldnmore than a mouthful
By Miry Jo Pitzl
Yells for cola and hot dogs are as common as cries of
"Go Big Red" from football fans eacb Saturday-at home
games. ' .
Concessions are a big business at Memorial Stadium,
netting close to, $60,000 at: Saturday's UNL-Oklahoma
State University game, according to Bill Fisher, Athletic -Dept.
business manager. Sold by over 80ft workers, regular
concessions at home football games include hot dogs, cold
drinks, coffee, peanuts, popcorn, programs and backrests.
"We always make a profit," Fisher said. Including pro
gram sales, program advertising, food and drink sales,
backrest rentals and returns on investments, Fisher said'
profits from last -year's home games totaled $257,000.
AH proceeds go tothe Athletic Dept.
Concession sales are handledby a variety of employes,
ranging from junior high students to a man who has been
selling for 22 years, Fisher said.
Programs are sold by varsity athletes who are not on a
7Pedbe-7s7ame
full-ride scholarship.' Salesmen work on a commission
basis, receiving 12 cents for each program Sold.
Backrest rentals "are doing well because we sell them
out," Fisher said. Workers pool their commission pay and
, all take an equal cut, -
The concession business may be the breeding grounds
for NU Board of Regents members if employe records are
any indication. Regent Robert Prokop was manager of
backrest rentals through 1966, according to Fisher.
Regent Ed Schwartzkopf held the same job as Fisher.
The bulk of concession safes-food and drinks-are sold
through the 75 retail stands inside the stadium and by 300
"butch"boys, who coyer the stadium on foot "hawking"
their products. . -
Fisher said the retail stands are staffed by 525
employes, most of them members from five local organi
zations. In return forN their services, the organizations are
paid an honorarium" by the Athletic Dept.
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QiQlumnsgame
By Janet Lliwras
Our clumni ere dwayi right '. . . always right!
misinformed, perhaps; inexact, bull-headed,
fickle, even downright confused . . .But never
wrong! . .
So reads the sign posted on Jack Miller's office wall.
Miller is executive vice president of the UNL Alumni
Association. - ; ; : ;
Miller, 33, came to Lincoln in 1972 from Washington,
D.C., where he worked on the American Alumni Council
of the National Alumni Association.
Born Li Topeka, Kan., Miller said he didn't like' the
East that much. He traveled eht months out of a year
forhisjob. - ..
. So when there was an opening in Nebraska, he applied
and got the job. "V-v -
Kliller sat behind his drawerless desk. A shelf behind
him was filled with financial reports, budgets, minutes of
meetings and "books I should read, but haven't gotten
to."
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Jack !.!Hcr, rice rreaient of the Alumni Association.
There are no drawers in his desk because "if I put
stuff in drawers, I forget it. I put it where I can see it.
That way it gets taken care of."
Maps of the United States, Nebraska and the UNL
campus hang on another wall. Hue, green and yellow
pins mark alumni clubs, inactive clubs and super-active
Clubs. '
Miller, a Washburn University business graduate, was
working on his masters degree in guidance and counsel
ing in higher education administration at Eastern Michigan
University when his funds started to run low, he said.
He got a job as assistant director of Alumni and Deve
lopment, he said, and became director of the program a
year later.
"I never really thought I would end up in alumni work
as a career," he says.
Like a corporation
"It's like ninning a corporation," he said, "a multi
faceted corporation."
The UNL Alumni Association publishes the Nebraska
Alumnus magazine and the Alumni Sports Reporter.
It sponsors the Scarlet & Cream singers, a UNL singing
group, and the Student Alumni Board.
The association also sells insurance and has a travel
program called the Tourin Huskers, which sets up flights'
to such places as Switzerland, Italy aid Greece,
These are just a few of the many programs handled by
the association, of which Miller is the chief executive.
It's not a 40-hour job , ha explained. , -
"You work nights and weekends. You have to like
people and have to work hard at understanding people,"
he said. ; . - v ,
"People is the name of the game. You have to be
interested in people."
Miller said he tries to get tp, know the people he
meets, finding out about their families, where they live
and what they do. . i
, Facts and figures
He said he likes to remember facts and figures and
tries to remember who's who, but he denied having a
computer mind.
Miller meets 12JD00 to 20500 people each year, he
said.
Each, day is a different day, he notes. There are differ
ent problems and different chalknges and that's what
makes his job interesting, he sail.
Milkr was aed to be alumni director at the Univer
sity of Minnesota, but turned it down.
"I like Nebradca," he said, "I like the people here.
"If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't be here."
"ri? M cfths f5w kas stayed," he said, chuck
tng. AJ rny friends hive l;ft." lis was rsferrir.3 to the
number of UNL faculty members and administrators '
who have left the university in the past year.
