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Union cuts faculty club food
because of projected losses
By Barb Richardson
In a unanimous vote the Nebraska
Union Board cancelled the Union's contro
versial catering contract with the Faculty
Club Wednesday night.
The cancellation will be effective May
12. The Union's food service now caters
lunch to the club.
Acting Director of the Unions Daryl
Swanson presented figures to the board
that estimated the food service will lose
$4,228 this year under the Faculty Dub
contract. The figures showed that as of
February 28, the Union food service has
lost $219 in the contract.
Swanson said he told the president of
the Faculty Club earlier in the day that if
the Union continued to cater to the club,
prices would have to increase 40 percent to
compensate for the loss.
The board also voted to limit the
Unions' hours on Easter Sunday, April IS.
On Easter, the city union will be open
between 4:00 p.m. and 10:30 pjn. and the
east union will be open 8:00 a Jii. and 1 :30
p.m.
In 1977 the city union was open during
regular Sunday hours and grossed $55.07,
according to figures provided by board
member Frank Kuhn. He told the group it
costs at least $10 an hour to operate the
Union.
Before a vote was taken, board member
Marc Davies said that closing the Unions
completely would be unfair to students
who do not go home for Easter.
Swanson said a move to close the Union
completely may be viewed as unfair by
non-Christian students.
President John Kreuscher told the board
that no decision has been made yet about
turning the Union Bookstore and campus
vending over to the Union.
Dr. Richard Armstrong, vice chancellor
for student affairs, is asking that the book
store pay rent-$2 a square foot-for space
the bookstore occupies, Kreuscher said.
"The bookstore disagrees that they
should pay rent at all," Swanson said, He
said the bookstore said it Is providing a
service to the students so, they should not
be charged rent.
Swanson said the bookstore has yet to
release financial information to Union
officials or to Armstrong.
Swanson said that he has heard accusat
ions that because the Union is losing
money Union officials are using the book
store as a way out of its problems.
College Days
sponsored
Alpha Zeta agricultural fraternity is
sponsoring Ag College Days Thursday and
Friday for about 2,500 high school stu
dents who will attend conventions and con
tests on East Campus Thursday through
Saturday.
Ag College Days give prospective UNL
students a chance to visit and ask ques
tions about the UNL College of Agricul
ture, said Leon Wissmari, assistant instruc
tor of agricultural education.
High school students are invited to the
East Campus Activities Building from 1 1
ajn. to i p.m. Thursday and Friday.
The students are visiting the campus for
the annual Nebraska Future Farmers of
America convention and the Institute of
Agriculture and Natural Resources
agriculture-vocational contests.
Performers' concert demands are
reasonable halt managers
By Kent Warneke
Major concert performers are sometimes
noted for making eccentric, trivial and
'demanding requests on concert hall manag
ers when they are booked for a concert.
But according to Pershing Auditorium
manager Irv Chesen and Paul Schneider,
administrative assistant at the Devaney
Sports Center, there are good reasons for
these demands and most of them are not
that unusual anyway.
"They're performers who may be travel
ing all over the country and if they make
some requests that we can provide, then
well try and fill those requests," Chesen
said.
According to Schneider, "most of the
people we work with are not overly
demanding with their requests, but we still
review all the requests and decide what we
canandcanHdo.
Cold cuts and cheese
Most of the small requests are for food,
beverages and dressing room requirements.
"A lot of them will just ask for cold
cuts and cheese, beer and whiskey, while
some may have expensive tastes and want
caviar and truffles " Chesen said. "For the
Outlawi and UFO concert we served them
a full steak dinner before their perfor
mance. Requests In the contract for the upcom
ing Jethro TuU concert at the Sports
Center Include six dressing rooms, one with
fuIHength mirrors and all with dressing
tables with mirrors and lights. If they are
not available a motor home must be pro
vided. They requested that the temperature
remain below 68 degrees Fahrenheit before
and during tht performance and they re
quested a portable drinking fountain back
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"Our own experience here Is that we
have had no real trouble from any of the
performers about our facilities. In fact
John Denver was very enthusiastic about
the acoustics of the complex and how the
show was handled," Schneider said.
Low profile
"We just try to keep a low profile and
keep things well disciplined and ask the
audience to adhere to the rules, because
that's what the performers like," Schneider
said. "In addition we'll keep track of the
performers causing troubles in other cities
and try to steer away from them."
According to Chesen, performers for the
most part act like professionals, because if
they get a reputation for being hard to
work with the concert halls may tend to
shy away from them.
"It's like having a guest in your home,"
Chesen said. "You're going to try to please
them as much as possible, but you're not in
a position to jump up and down to their
every whim."
More demanding
What may come as a surprise to some is
that the lesser known the performer is, the
more demanding he or she will be.
"These lesser known stars think they
have to demand all these things because
they want to act the big guys," Schneider
said. "In reality, the biggest stars are the
easiest ones to please."
"When Red Skelton was at the complex
he stood and talked to people for two
hours after his performance and
John Denver sang straight through for two
hours and fifteen minutes and wasnl
demanding at all," Schneider said. "All he
asked was that we try and keep people out
of the aisles when he was singing.
"It's these kinds of people that you're
going to remember and they're the ones
you're going to try your hardest to get to
come back again," Schneider said.
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