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daily nebraskan
Wednesday august 18, 1982
Whirl-a-Whip new
attraction at union
A new ice cream flavoring machine, a full year of fast
food service and improved financial service will be some
of the highlights at the Nebraska Union this fall.
Union Director Daryl Swanson said that the newest
offer in the food service area of the union will be the
Whirl-a-Whip, an ice cream dispenser with the capability
of homogenizing frozen ice cream with the customer's
choice of eight different flavors, such as Oreo cookies or
bananas. The machine has been in service in the Bakery
since June of this year.
While the Whirl-a-Whip will be exclusive to Bakery
customers, the Union Square, which opened in January,
will see its first full year of service. The Union Square
served everything from cheeseburgers to taco salads last
semester.
"We're very interested to see how the Union Square
does on a football Saturday. That should be a good test of
its capacity," Swanson said.
Other union food services include the Harvest Room
and the Colonial Room, which switched to a soup and
sandwich service last semester after the earlier format of
waitress service failed to produce profits.
"We were switching to the soup and salad service on
an experimental basis, just to see how that would be
accepted," Swanson said.
"But it's been a very good success. We decided to keep
it open for the summer and that worked out well. We
consider that to be a permanent change now," he said.
The union, located at 14th and R streets, and the East
Union, located on the East Campus, provide food service,
recreation and study areas for university students. The
union has two television lounges, and also houses for the
ASUN offices, the Women's Resource Center, The
Student Y, Campus Activities and Programs offices and
New Student Orientation. The recreation room, which
had over 900 students participate in its various tourna
ments and contests, contains a 10-lane bowling alley,
video games, pinball machines and pool tables for student
use.
The east union contains the Terraces Cafeteria and
Grill, as well as a six-lane bowling alley and cable access
televisions.
Financial services also will be continued at both unions
with the National Bank of Commerce branch located on
the south side of the union. There are two automatic
teller machines in the union and one at the east union,
with check cashing services available at the east union
desk.
"I expect our financial services this year for students to
be the best it has been," Swanson said.
The union will open at 7 a.m. and close at 1 1 p.m.
Monday through Thursday. Closing time will be extended
30 minutes on Friday and Saturday, and the building will
open at 1 p.m. Sundays. The east union will open at 7:30
a.m. weekdays.
Hotline helps students
Outstate students and their parents can call the new
toll-free UNL RED-Y LINE for information about
registration, admissions, financial aid, housing and other
student affairs.
The RED-Y LINE'S purpose is two-fold - to help ful
fill the university's obligation to assist students and to
show concern for students, said director of University
Relations Rudy Lewis.
The information line allows students and parents to
clear up questions at home by phone so students won't
have to stand in long lines back on campus to ask
questions. Lewis said.
The RED-Y LINE uses existing equipment, so the only
added expense is the 15 cents per minute cost for time on
the line, Lewis said.
The new service will be a savings for UNL because it
will be less expensive than mailing out the same infor
mation, he said.
So far, use of RED-Y LINE has come in waves, follow
ing mailings which contained a card advertising the
service, Lewis said. Most of the calls have concerned
financial aid, he said.
Bikes kept in racks
unattractive to thieves
Bicycles, a primary source of transportation for many
students, are frequently stolen from the UNL campus,
said Bob Fey, crime prevention investigator for the UNL
Police Department.
Fey recommended several measures to prevent bicycles
from being stolen. He said that bicycles should always be
chained to bike racks. He suggested padlocking both
wheels, as well as the frame, to the rack with three-eights
inch case-hardened chain.
The police department encourages bikers to use the
racks located close to most buildings on campus. Bicycles
chained to trees, signposts and railings near ramps are
subject to removal, Fey said.
A city ordinance requires all bicycles used in the city,
including those on campus, to be licensed, Fey said.
Bicycles can be registered at the UNL Police Depart
ment or at any Lincoln fire department. The cost is $1.
Licensed bikes are less likely to be stolen, he said. If a
licensed bicycle is stolen and recovered, it is easier to
return it to the owner.
Fey also said that anyone who sees someone cutting
cables at a bike rack or loading chained bicycles onto a
truck or van should call the UNL police immediately.
UNL has variety
of student groups
The following is a list of student organization and their
functions at UNL.
ASUN - Associated Students of the University of Ne
braska. The senate is comprised of elected students repre
senting each college within the university. It is headed by
the student body president Dan Wedekind, who is also
a student representative on the NU Board of Regents.
The ASUN office is located in Nebraska Union 115.
GLC - Government Liaison Committee. A committee
of ASUN, it is UNL's lobbying organization, comprised of
students. Each member is assigned to a state senator and
lobbys on behalf of the UNL student interests.
GLC's office is located in Nebraska Union 335.
SSA - State Student Association. The Nebraska SSA is
a lobbying group at the state capital which represents the
general interests of students and education. The NSSA
was formed in 1982 and is supported by UNL and other
state colleges.
RHA - Residence Hall Association. RHA is the govern
ment within the residence halls. RHA passes residence hall
rules and regulations and sponsors activities within the
halls. Each hall has student representatives on RHA.
CAP - Campus Activities and Programs. CAP is a
department of the Nebraska Union. It coordinates all
registration of events sponsored by student organizations
and keeps a calendar of events.
The CAP office is located in Nebraska Union 200.
UPC - University Program Council. The council spon
sors and initiates cultural, educational and entertainment
programs. UPC sponsors the Model United Nations, Wal
purgisnacht, and the annual Sadie Hawkins dance.
UPC offices are located in Nebraska Union 221, the
Culture Center, 1012 N. 16th St., and the Campus
Activities Suite on the third floor of the East Union.
UNL libraries resume late night hours
Love Library will remain open two
hours later than in previous years and
C.Y. Thompson Library will change its
weekday closing time from 11 p.m. to
midnight in the middle of the semester.
The hours were extended because
experiments run by ASUN during the
last weeks of previous semesters reveal
ed that many students use the library
at later hours.
Dan Wedekind, ASUN president, said
MID
most Big Eight and Big Ten schools have
extended library hours.
Love Library will be open from 7:30
a.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Thurs
day; from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays;
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays; and
from 1:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sundays.
The C.Y. Thompson library will be
open from 7 a.m. to 1 1 p.m. Monday
through Thursday; from 7 a.m. to 5
p.m. Fridays; from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturdays; and from 1:30 p.m. to 11
p.m. Sundays.
The UNL libraries circulated more
than 432,000 books and periodicals last
year. They have 1.6 million books and
1.4 microforms. Other resources avail
able for use include maps and atlases,
manuscripts, research documents and
university records.
Group tours and self-study packets,
available upon request at the libraries,
can help students learn more about
library use. Classroom presentations
may be given if requested by a teacher.
Although a shuttle bus service be
tween libraries and residence halls was
offered last year, there are no plans to
resume the service, said UNL Police
Chief Gail Gade.
"When the service was offered during
finals week last fall, the cost was $12.26
per person," he said.
Garbage driving libraries buggy
Students in the habit of eating and
drinking while studying are beginning to
drive the university's libraries buggy with
their garbage.
Nancy Dodd, chairperson of general
services for university libraries, said the
libraries are facing a real problem with
bugs attracted by half-eaten food and
soft drink containers. Dodd said people
leave garbage lying around in the librar
ies more frequently and the bug problem
is getting worse at all the university's
libraries.
She said the damage that insects do to
library materials has been well docu
mented. She said this year library employ
ees will be more "militant" about asking
people to throw away food and trash
which they've brought into the libraries.
Books may be checked out for four
week periods and some periodicals for
up to three days. A 10 cent fine por
item per day is charged on overdue books
and a SI. 50 fine is charged per item per
day for overdue periodicals. Reserved
materials are handled on an hourly basis.
There are seven branches of university
libraries on City Campus: architecture
in Architectural Hall, chemistry in Ham
ilton Hall, geology- in Morrill Hall, life
sciences in Manter Hall, math in Oldfather
Hall, music in Westbrook Music Building
and physics in Behlen Physics Laboratory.
Information on hours may be obtained at
Love Library, the main branch of the lib
raries on City Campus.
East Campus houses three libraries. C.Y.
Thompson and the dentistry library are
university branches, while the law library
is independent of the University Libraries.
Library receives donations
Read any good books lately? If you're
interested in the humanities, there probab
ly haven't been too many books around,
but that will soon change at the UNL
libraries.
Grants from the Woods Charitable Fund
and the Cooper Foundation have made a
total of SI 00,000 available for the
purchase of library books in the humanities
and social sciences.
According to Dean of Libraries Gerald
A. Rudolph, there has been a lack of funds
specifically for the purchase of books.
Rudolph said that over the last decade, the
money available for the purchase of new
materials has gone from an even split be
tween books and peridocials to a situation
where two-thirds of the money is spend on
peridocals and the remaining third on
books. The reason for the shift is both the
rising cost of periodicals as compared to
books a.id the increase in the quality of in
formation from periodicals, Rudolph said.
Because of the lack of funds for
purchasing books, Rudolph got together
with the Cooper Foundation to discuss
fund-raising. The foundation came up with
a plan to put up S50,000 if another grant
could be found to match it. The Woods
Charitable Fund did just that, and over the
next three years the SI 00,000 total will be
spent.
Rudolph emphasized that this money
will be spent for books only. Some
purchases have already been made for this
fall, he said.
