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thursday, april 13, 1978 lincoln, nebraska vol. 101 no. 98
Union Board delays additions, leasing plan
The Union Board Wednesday night
voted to delay proposed building additions
and the leasing of rental space in the union,
except for Harvest Room entry renovation,
until next fall.
The building changes include a possible
delicatessen, travel agency, plant shop, bar
ber shop move and candy and ice cream
shop in the Union. The Harvest Room en
try renovation plan already has been passed
by the board .
The board vote resulted from a motion
presented by Union Director Al Bennett to
withdraw a request for reallocation of
funds in the bond equipment replacement
fund, which would have financed the pro
jects. The request for reallocation of
$1 20,000 in the fund would have been pre
sented to the regents had the proposed
building changes been accepted.
The Harvest Room entry renovation will
be discussed at the next Union Board meet
ing. The board proposed a plan to run a mar
ket test in the Harvest Room andor Crib
to determine the marketability of items
that would be served in a delicatessen .
The Wednesday meeting was the third
open hearing in which students expressed
opinions on the building changes. Two stu
dents spoke out against the changes.
The third hearing followed a heated
April 5 hearing where several students
spok out against the changes. A vote of
the 20 people in attendance at the April 5
hearing showed that most in attendance
were opposed to the changes.
But Bennett said that his proposal to
withdraw the reallocation request was not
a result of the hearings.
"We do not have available a full set of
drawings and target estimates. If we were
to wait another 30 days we would risk not
having them completed in the fall," Ben
nett added.
"Yet, none of the projects have been
invalidated," Bennett added.
Bennett suggested that the Board in
clude the proposed plans in a summer
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Photo by Ted Kirk
Spring is when lawns are mowed for the first time. Fertilizer and seed are
carefully applied and weeds are pulled out in the hopeful expectation of a
thick, lush summer lawn. But for Bill Shepard, grounds director for the UNL
athletic department, a thick lush lawn actually is a carpet of plastic grass in
Memorial Stadium , which needs watering every now and then.
agenda for consideration by a long-range
planning task force and that any student
surveys be presented in September 1978.
Tice Miller, Union Board faculty mem
ber, said that the board could reject the
plans, but to keep backing away from them
was a show of timidity.
"It's a political issue," Miller said. "A
small number of people can disrupt any
thing," Miller said, referring to the April 5
open hearing.
In other business the board passed a sug
gestion to have Bennet make recommenda
tions to the vice chancellor of student af
fairs and the vice chancellor for business
and finance that they explore the possibli
ty of the University Bookstore paying rent
on space used, or turn over its operations
to Nebraska Union management.
When the Broyhill Fountain in front
of the Nebraska Union released its wa
ters this spring, memories of a tragic
automobile accident were remembered
by many.
The Broyhill Fountain is a gift to
UNL from the Broyhill family in
memory of their daughter Lynn Diann
Broyhill.
In September 1966, 21 -year-old
Broyhill, from Dakota City, and another
UNL senior, Jean Higgins, 21, from
Schuyler, were driving to Omaha where
they were to be countesses at the
Ak-Sar-Ben coronation.
Photo by Mark Billingsley
Enroute, they were involved in an
automobile accident that killed Broy
hill instantly and severely injured
Higgins. Higgins was a resident at the
Madonna Care Center in Lincoln until
her death last December.
Susan Norby, a Pi Beta Phi sorority
member, recalls that both girls were
leaders in their senior class. Broyhill
was involved with many Nebraska
Union activities, including the Union
Program Council Talks and Topics
committee. She was vice president of
the Pi Beta Phi sorority at the time
of her death.
Higgins also was a sorority officer.
Legislature advances bill
to aid rural med students
By Rex Henderson
A bill to encourage medical school grad
uates from Nebraska to practice in areas
of the state lacking doctors was advanced
to the second stage of debate in the
Nebraska Legislature Wednesday.
LB884 would loan money to as many as
forty Nebraska medical students, ten stu
dents each year. Students getting the loans
who practice in communities designated
as shortage areas by the Nebraska Com
mission on Rural Health would be exemp
ted from repaying the loan.
Each year of practice in those areas ex
empts the borrowers from repaying as
much as $7,000 in loans.
The bill contains a provision that a
borrower who fails to complete the agree
ment would repay the loan, plus the
highest legal interest rate and a $5,000
penalty.
The bill's introducer, Sen. Richard
Maresh of Milligan , said it is an attempt to
solve the misallocation of medical person
nel in rural and urban Nebraska.
Other states have used the approach
successfully, he said.
The bill sets priorities for those eligible
for the loans. Applicants who reside in
shortage areas and wish to return to that
area get first priority.
Those who reside in a shortage area and
want to move to some other shortage area
get second priority and Nebraska residents
not reared in a shortage area get third
priority.
Sen. John Murphy of South Sioux City
objected to language allowing any Nebras
ka resident to be eligible. Maresh agreed
that the bill should be amended to make
only Nebraska high school graduates
eligible.
Maresh also agreed to offer an amend
ment to strike a section that would not
allow loan obligations to be satisfied by
bankruptcy after Sen. Shirley Marsh of
Lincoln said that section may be uncon
stitutional. The Legislature also advanced LB 15 2,
calling for a national constitutional conven
tion on abortion.
A bill sponsored by Sen. Herbert Duis
of Gothenburg that would amend the state
constitution to deny bail to persons ac
cused of sexual assault advanced. If passed,
the issue will go before the Nebraska voters
in November.
inside
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thursday
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take different track and live life
on railroad page 6
YAF zaps NUPIRG: Columnist tells
about student gripes on another
campus page 12
Dollar sign too heavy for UNL
weight lifters: UNL weightlift
ing coach blames lack of funds
for loss of national champion
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