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RHA to study radial highway options
friday, October 3, 1980
By Betsy Miller
The UNL Residence Hall Association will work with
other campus organizations on a proposal concerning the
Northeast Radial Hhway in Lincoln, according to an act
passed by the association at its Thursday evening meeting
in Harper Hall. 6 ,
The action passed by RHA states that the association
will work with ASUN and other organizations to decide
which facet of the radial highway to endorse.
Present plans for the highway place it in a corridor in
volving 19th or 22nd streets.
Another option to not build the highway is being con
sidered by the city according to Lincoln City Councilman
Eric Youngberg who was present at the meeting.
Youngberg spoke against construction of the highway
at the meeting.
"I personally believe the days of building six-lane roads
through neighborhoods are over," Youngberg said.
- He said he is concerned about the number of families
that would have to be relocated if the highway was buUt
using either 22nd or 19th streets.
Youngberg, who did graduate studies at UNL, said that
he studied the northeast radial and did his master's thesis
on the project.
He said that traffic on Holdredge and Vine Streets
would not be lessened with the addition of the radial high
way. "The radial was largely pushed for development (to
stimulate business) reasons only ," he said .
Youngberg serves the area of Lincoln which would be
disrupted by the radial and said he thinks the UNL admin
istration, city officials and residents of the Malone com
munity (affected by radial highway construction) should
meet to discuss the plan.
Youngberg said that Omaha was a good example of a
city which had constructed too many freeways and now
has no true center.
"Downtown Omaha is the pits," he said.
Florence Bridge and Lorene Buehler, two members of
the "Neighborhoods Not Roads" coalition also spoke
against the highway.
Bridge, a resident of the Clinton area, which would be
affected by the highway, said 58 homes will have to be
destroyed if 22nd Street is used and 29 will be taken if
19th Street is chosen.
UNL Housing Director Doug Zatechka brought aerial
photographs to the meeting which showed areas which
could be used for the radial highway.
He said that as housing director, he thinks of the uni
versity as a community.
Zatechka said that he agreed with the UNL Regents'
stance on the project which favored construction of the
highway east of 19th Street.
Construction of the highway would help ease traffic
on 16th and 17th streets on the UNL campus, he said.
In other action, RHA tabled a motion by Harper
Representative Bill Flack, senior, which called for a
continuation of the Nestles Products boycott in the halls.
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Architectural
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By Rachel Ray
The work of architect
Louis Kahn was presented
Wednesday to architecture
students by John Lobell, ar
chitect, author and profes
sor at Pratt Institute in
Brooklyn, as part of the
College of Architecture's
Hyde Speakers Series.
According to Lobell, the
late Kahn was the world's
most important architect in
the past 15 years. He
said Kahn's greatest contri
bution to the field was
breaking away from conven
tional architectural re
straints in order to design
buildings that "celebrated
humanity."
"The purpose of archi
tecture is not just to fulfill
-the functional requirements,
" but to respond to the whole
human being," Lobell said,
quoting ' Kahn's philo
sophies. Lobell said that the first
thing Kahn did when a
client gave him an assign
ment was to change the pro
gram, to throw out most
conventional design ideas.
Kahn theorized that in
designing a building, the ar
chitects cannot ask, "What
do we want to do?" but
rather "What does the build
ing want to be?" The inner
will of a building makes it a
building, Lobell said.
Lobell was a student at
the University of Pennsyl
vania, where he first met
Kahn. He taped some of the
architect's lectures, but said
he didn't really listen to
them until a few years later.
"In fact, I listened to
Kahn for ten years and
didn't have the vaguest idea
of what he was talking
about," he said. His studies
of eastern religions renewed
his interest in Kahn, and Lo
bell claims it was that which
"taught me to see architec
ture as a whole: in the his
torical, cultural and social
aspect."
Lobell has recently pub
lished a book on Kahn's
philosophies, titled, Be
tween Silence and Light:
Spirit in the Architecture of
Louis I. Kahn, and also
teacjies a class on his theor
ies at Pratt.
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