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thursday, September 3, 1981
lincoln, nebraska vol. 107 no. 10
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ASUN Senate juggles ticket shortage solutions
By Melinda Norris
Standing room or bleacher seats on the
field were suggestions made at the ASUN
meeting Wednesday as consolation to the
547 students turned away Friday when the
football ticket office ran out of season
passes.
ASUN President Rick Mockler said he
feels confident that the administration will
solve the problem created by the ticket
shortage.
"Somewhere, somehow the administra
tion is going to get seats," Mockler said,
"but I don't know how they are going to
doit."
Mockler added that the university has
been threatened with possible lawsuits,
suggesting discriminatory practices in the
distribution of the tickets.
Although not familiar with the nature
of the threatened suits, Mockler said
possible grounds could be discrimination of
unmarried students.
A married student can receive an extra
football pass for a spouse who is not a uni
versity student if a marriage license is pre
sented at the ticket window.
"Affirmative Action states 'no one will
have benefits conferred upon them based
on marital status,' " Mockler said.
ASUN addressed the problem of the
football ticket shortage after Frances
Aube, a freshman in political science
addressed the meeting.
Aube said she has been discriminated
against as a freshman. Upperclassmen are
able to purchase their tickets in the spring
semester, Aube explained, while the fresh
men cannot.
"As a student of the university," Aube
said, "I pay and I support the football
team, and I should be allowed to see the
game whether or not they underestimated
my need for a ticket in July."
Aube said she is presenting her griev
ances to ASUN, not as a means of creating
a riot, but to see if a solution can be found
so the same thing won't happen next year.
Sen. Fran Grabowski said he will pre
sent a proposal at Wednesday's ASUN
meeting to form an ad hoc committee to
research solutions.
Applications for membership on the
committee will be accepted at the ASUN
office this week, Grabowski said. Fifteen
positions will be available for the com
mittee. Grabowski said the committee would
look at other schools and how they distri
bute their tickets.
Aube said the ticket office should check
off a person by social security number
when a ticket is purchased.
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Photo by Kent Morgan Olsen
Rich Loos, a freshman art major from Scottsbluff , concentrates on drawing the bicycle in front of him.
Senator: Tax cut
helps Nebraskans
By Tricia Waters
U.S. Sen. Edward Zorinsky said he's convinced Presi
dent Reagan's tax cut package will help businesses and
farmers fight inflation .
The Democrat spoke to about 80 men at the Down
town Lincoln Sertoma Club's luncheon Wednesday.
Zorinsky said if the government did't do something
soon to fight inflation, no farmers or businesses would be
left to borrow money.
"This tax cut package will help us address the situation
as far as inflation," he said. "There are so many uncon
trollable costs, energy is one of them. People don't have
the operating capital left to succeed in business."
He said the problem doesn't lie in taking several years
to balance the budget, but in not doing it at all.
"The catastrophe would have been to allow us to con
tinue in the direction we were going," Zorinsky said.
Nebraska farmers, crumbling under the load of infla
ting business costs and crops they can't sell, constantly
ask him what can be done, Zorinsky said.
Zorinsky, who worked to remove grain embargoes to
the Soviet Union, said it's wrong for the government to re
strict grain sales to certain countries when it doesn't tell
corporations who they call sell products to.
He said the Department of Agriculture and government
officials don't understand how their actions affect far-
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mers.
Recreation center committee develops statement
By Hollie Wieland
Provided the NU Board of Regents
grant approval and money can be found,
UNL could have a new student recreation
center in as little as four years.
Last spring UNL's Central Planning
Committee, comprised of faculty, staff
and students, approved the new recreation
center proposal as a "concept," but said
more details were necessary. In June anoth
er committee met to set up a task force
to write a program statement detailing the
proposed recreation center.
"We are supposed to develop a program
statement and preliminary planning which
involves a descriptive statement of the
kinds of space needed and the cost element
of such a space," said recreation center
committee member Jim Brockman, a
senior agriculture major.
At the June meeting, two subcommit
tees were set up, Brockman said. One will
be responsible for the program statement,
he said.
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Dan Steller, recreation center director,
said a third group of people will be organ
ized to speak with UNL Chancellor Martin
Massengale.
According to Steller, the program state
ment will include such things as why
such a facility is wanted, how present
facilities are meeting students' needs,
what is desired by students, and how it
might be financed.
Harry Allen, director of institutional
research and planning, is doing much
to help put the program statement togeth
er, Steller said.
Information gathered
Allen has much of the information the
committee has gathered for the program
statement and will suggest what other in
formation is needed and what information
can be left out, Steller said.
After a detailed program statement
is put together it will be submitted to the
Central Planning Committee for approval,
Steller said. If approval is received the
proposal will go to the regents for permis
sion to go ahead with plans.
If the regents' approve it, bids will
be let for architectual planning.
Steller said id all goes smoothly it will
take approximately one year to get the
program statement completed and passed
by the Central Planning Committee and the
regents, another year for plans to be drawn
and probably two years construction
time!
According to Steller, one of the biggest
problems that could hold up the project
is money.
The estimated project cost is $8 million
to $12 million but can be expected to
increase by 10 percent to 12 percent
a year along with rising construction
costs, said Steller.
The project cannot use state funds and
will rely on student fees for some of the
funding, Steller said. The committee will
also go to various foundations for funding
and if necessary to individuals.
Steller said the subcommitte suggested
hiring an architect to make the program
statement, but that would require more
funds, which they are not even sure they
have.
Willing to pay
Last year a student referendum showed
75.7 percent of UNL students voting want
ed a recreation center, Steller said, and
61.7 percent would be willing to pay in
creased student fees to fund the center.
Also on the referendum were various
facilities students would want in the
center. Court space for volleyball, badmint
on and tennis received most votes with a
jogging track following second, racquet
ball handball courts third, followed by a
weight room, swimmingdiving pool, sauna,
ice arena, training room and gymnastics
area.
Steller said recquetballhandball space,
basketball courts, weightexercise rooms
and saunas were all considered fairly
definite facilities to be expected.
"What we would like to create is a place
where students could go work out, take
a swim, hit the sauna and whirlpool said,
then head for their class," Steller said.
"Money factor is the big thing, we're
going to have to look at things very
carefully to be sure of their value to us."
He said the advantage to such a center
would be that it would be available to
students all day, not just during certain
hours when classes are not being held,
like at Mabel Lee Hall and the Coliseum.
No competition meets or classes would
be held in the new center and hours
would most likely be 7:30 a.m. to mid
night, Steller said.
He said similar facilities at the Univer
sity of Colorado and Texas Tech had an
average of five to six thousand students
going through the center daily.
Who is this man?
Why is he here?
Who does he belong to?
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