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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 82 No. 5
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Unions ask $2849000
to make improvements
By Ward W. Triplett III
The Nebraska Union Board began its fall
sessions Wednesday night by welcoming
a positive financial report from last year,
and . recommending a $284,405 bond
request for building improvements.
"If you wanted a model of how things
should have turned out, this was it," said
finance committee chairman Tim OTCeefe.
The report, which covered the fiscal year
dating from July 1, 1981 to June 30, 1982,
showed the Nebraska Unions with a total
net earning of $335.65. The Union was
budgeted to be $495 over the break-even
line, so the final figure came within $200
of a $2.75 million budget.
"I am pleased with the results of the
financial report," Union director Daryl
Swanson said. The report revealed that
while traditional areas of loss, such as
food service, still came out in the red,
other areas did well enough to compensate.
"There are several things that deserve
our attention, so it is not perfect, but it
is a good sign for us," Swanson said.
The board also was faced Wednesday
with recommending the Union's request
for university bond money.
Last semester, the board requested a
total amount of $331,045 in bond money,
which is earmarked for specific areas
of ...the., Union,, The request, then wentv
to" Vice J Chancellor ' of Student Affairs
Richard Armstrong, who reduced the
request to $288,475.
Wednesday night, the board recom
mended to Swanson that the Union accept
the vice chancellor's revised request, with
the exception that $6,500 for upholstered
stack chairs be dropped.
The request then would include $6,000
in office furniture and equipment, $10,000
for improvement of Union bowling lanes
and equipment, $4,750 between Union
catering services and a slow-cook oven,
$2,500 in carpeting, $4,000 for reup
holstery of lounge and meeting room
furniture, $13,000 for refurbishing the
meeting rooms themselves, plus $200,000
for major renovations in the building.
The board also recommended re
questing $2,500 be reinstated into the
bond for piano repair and tuning for a
final request of $284,405.
Armstrong had removed the piano
funds from the original request.
Swanson said Armstrong had asked
for the final Union request by Aug. 15,
but the deadline had been pushed back to
today, he said.
In other board action, the board con
sidered a request by University Infor
mation director Bob Bruce that room
122, currently used as a meeting room,
become office space for a Visitor's Infor
mational Bureau.
Bruce said that the bureau, which is
intended to reach visitors on the UNL
campus and conduct tours of the City
Campus, would use the space as an of
fice on a temporary basis.
Board president Laura Meyers said that
she was concerned that giving space to the
bureau would be unfair to the student
groups that had to be turned down in their
requests for space in the Union last spring.
The board had decided in its July
meeting to leave the matter to Swanson s
discretion, and voted to let that motion
stand Wednesday night. Swanson said
he was favorable to allowing the bureau
to use the room.
In committee reports, food service
chairman Steve Hardy said that pamphlets
concerning the Union food services and
services in general will be mailed to 7,800
season ticket holders for Nebraska football.-
Swanson added that the pamphlets
were discontinued two years ago, but
with the opening of the Union Square,
he believed that the Union now had the
capacity to handle more people.
The letter, which includes a $ 1 coupon
for a $4 purchase, was mailed only to
ticket holders outside of the Lincoln Zip
Code.
Also, Sue Hansen, who was chairperson
for the Union Boards operations commit
tee, did not return to school this fall.
ASUN is currently interviewing for the
position.
Pat Meister, a member of the operations
committee, included in his reports that
the plaza sign project is still awaiting
review in the physical plant office.
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Koser Building
Staff Photo by Dave Bantz
Koser Building purchased
University-related offices which for
merly had to be rented off campus may
now be placed in the Koser Building,
located at 327 N. 12th St.
The. University of Nebraska Founda
tion purchased the building for $175,
000. The Foundation turned the building
over to the university with the agree
ment that the university would repay
the Foundation within seven years.
The only resident in the Koser
Building now is the Polar Ice Coring
Office. PICO director Karl Kuivinen
said he was very pleased with the new
location.
"We have about double the work
shop space here as in our former loca
tion," Kuivinen, "and we even have win
dows, which we didn't have before."
The university's renovations of the
office includes a refrigerated test lab
which will allow the researchers to
work with ice in the lab.
"It is something we have needed
for several years, and it's finally hap
pening." Kuivinen said.
PICO's two main objectives, accor
ding to Kuivinen, are to collect ice core
from the polar regions and Greenland,
and to give support to National Science
Foundation scientists in Greenland.
Renovations also are under way in
the Koser Building for the Imo State
University Project, which is tempor
arily located in the Former Law base
ment. The Imo project is aiding a new
university in Imo, Nigeria.
Both PICO and the IMO Project
were located at 1320 Q St., which is
now occupied by W.C. Frank's rest
aurant. The Koser Building was used as a
temporary theater during the remodel
ing of the Howell Theater.
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Staff Photo by Dm Bantx
Wednesday's warm tempeaturei prompted this pair to break out the watermelon. Junior Carolyn RudosiH, left and
Stndi Sruewe, a sophomore, fill up near Broyhul Fountain.
Park is proposed
for Radial tract
By Pat Higgins
The Northeast Radial Re-Use Task Force is proposing
that the land once designated as the future path of the
Northeast Radial Highway be turned into a park.
"As of Tuesday night the Radial Re-Use Task Force
is in favor of building a linear park. That's what we are
going to recommend to the City Council. It's another
question if they are going to agree with us," Leon Sat
terficld said. Sattcrficld, an English professor at Neb
raska Wesleyan University, is the chairman of the task
force.
The linear park would serve several functions, Sat
terficld said. The most important goal would be to sep
arate residential and industrial areas.
"It would be better for everyone involved to have
homes separated from factories plus it would be aes
thetically pleasing," he said.
The purpose of the task force is to recommend to
the Lincoln City Council and Mayor Helen Boosalis
an alternative use for the tract of land extending from
48th and Fremont streets. in a southwest direction to
a point cast of the State Fairgrounds. The projected -Northeast
Radial was defeated in 1981.
SatterficJJ projected that the task force will submit
its recommendation, which includes a proposal to
build Northeast Lincoln's first bike path, to the City
Council within the next two months.
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