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The campus looked like this ten years ago and will expand even more than it h IUy, if comprehensive plans set by "the university and city are followed.
Expansion 'compatible' with comprehensive plan
By Mary Jo Pitzl
UNL campus expansion plans are generally compatible
with proposals presented by the Lincoln City-Lancaster
County Comprehensive Regional Plan, according to UNL
assistant business and finance manager ' Ray Coffey.
Coffey said the university supports any action initiated
by the comprehensive plan that would help UNL realize
the goals of its long-range plans. The latest draft of the
city comprehensive plan shows no areas of goal conflicts
with UNL plans, Coffey said.
The city's final draft will be piesented at a public
hearing at 7 tonight in the County City Building.
"We've been involved in the input into this (the city
comprehensive plan) and the review of it to this point,
Coffey said. "By and large it's quite compatible. It needs
to be," he said. UNL is a "big piece of the city of
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The comprehensive campus plan was drawn up separate
from the city comprehensive plan and adopted by the NU
Board of Regents in 1967, Coffey said. City planners were
given a copy of that plan when formulatisg the city com-f
perhensive plans.
Boundaries set
The comprehensive campus plan set city campus
boundaries at Holdrege St. and the Burlington Northern
railroad tracks on the north, Q St. on the south, 20th
St. on the east and 10th St. on the west, Coffey said.
East campus is bounded by Huntington St. on the north,
Holdrege St. on the south, 48th St. on the east and 33rd
St. on the west, according to the city campus compre
hensive plan. ! r
The city comprehensive plan proposes construction of
a northeast radial highway that would bound city campus
on the east, according to city planning director Doug
Brogden. Brogden said the city's plan had located the
radial at 21st St. and the city had bought property for
right-of-way at that site. -
However, since UNL population projections do not
show a need for expansion as fjr east as 21rst St, Brogden
said the city plan would like to keep the radial as close to
19th St. as possible.
"Our office has recommended it, the planning
Commission has approved it," he said, adding the
recommendation is now awaiting approval from the
Lincoln City Council and the Lancaster County Board.
The northeast radial would reroute some of the "
heavy traffic off ;16th and 17th-: streets, Brogden
explained, because the city dislikes arterial routes running
through heavy land-use areas, such as the campus.' If the
proposed radial were constructed, 16th and 1 7th street
could be developed according to campus comprehensive
plans, Brogden said.
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Walpurgisnacht is a "festive and unique evening,
but it is also more than four months of difficult prepara-"
tion and work, Union Program Council (UPC) Walpurgis
nacht Chairwoman Sherry Cole said.
Cole, a senior integrated studies major from Grand
Island, and her committee have been planning Walpurgis
nacht, the Union's Winter Festival scheduled for Friday,
since September.
Walpurgisnacht features more than 60 events from
6:30 pjn. to4 ajiL, Cole said. She described Walpurgis-
nacht as an "all-council effort where all 14 UPC com
mittees provide, events.
The festival will have 300 volunteers and three campus
policemen for security. Volunteers are divided into two
groups, event managers and trouble-shooters. Cole said.
Event managers will organize and stay with assigned
event, while trouble-shooters win help event managers if
necessary, Cole said.
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Coffey said UNL prefers closing the two one-way
streets or at least down grading them to residential street
status:
"We support action which will help us toward our
long-range goal for 16th and 17th streets. If this requires
a northeast radial, we would encourage that," Coffey said,
adding that such a radial "would tend to set a definite
eastern boundary for the city campus.
4 Concern voiced , .
He also, voiced a concern for the safety-of campus
pedestrians since tfc uty now hai w l5 inue per hour
speed limit on the one-way streets running uirough
the heart of the campus residence area-
UNL has been trying for at least five years to reduce
the speed limit to' 25 mph and install
traffic lights at busy pedestrian crosswalks as safety
features, Coffey said.
Construction of a Holdrege St. extension is another
expansion matter included in both comprehensive plans.
The extension would run along the south side of the
Burlington-Northern railroad tracks, north of the Harper-Schramm-Smith
residence unit and continue to 9th or
10th streets, Coffey said. This road would reroute traffic
around the campus, eliminating some of the 16th and
17th street traffic. ,
The .Holdrege extension has been "pretty much in the
null for a long time, according to Coffey. "It's now
included in the new city plan. 1 don't see much of a
problem tJfe."
Volunteers, who work for two hours, will receive free
tickets for the rest of the night .
Walpurgisnacht admission is free but individual events
might cost up to five tickets. Tickets cost 25 cents, but
some tournaments require a cash entry fee. she said.
Through Jan. 25, any group can buy 100 tickets
for 20 cents a ticket and wul receive one free Walpurgis
nacht T-shirt, Cole said. From Jan. 26 through 28, there
will be an advance ticket booth where groups of 1 1 tickets
can be bought for the price of 10 tickets, she added.
Cole said she thought the most difficult part of organ-
izing the festival was meeting each event's operational '
needs. Supplying equipment for each event and lruking
sure it is at the right place at the right time is essential, she
said.'
Wabiirgisnacht is financed bv about S1J900 in student
fees. Ccle sail about S2.500 frcn tkixl tale is needed to
break even. She said she expects from 7j000 to 8 00
people to attend. f ' , .
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