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By Chris VVclsch
The City Council tabled the Northeast
Radial Reuse Area Redevelopment plan 3t
its meeting Monday. The plan will be con
sidered again in three weeks.
Councilman Bill Danley said he would
like to have an exact assessment of the
costs of the project and a n accounting of
the sources of money to fund the project
before voting.
The Council voted 5-1 for the delay.
Mike Steinman voted against the plan,
ljouis Shackelford was not present.
Danley estimated the project would
cost Lincoln voters $2,577 million in
increased taxes. He said viable alternatives
that wouldn't be so expensive exist.
Margrethe Ahlschwede said Danley
wasn't including the revenue from taxes
garnered from new industry near the
radial reuse area.
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"It is important to consider that this
is a t3X broadening project," she said.
Danley said the revenue from the
broadened t3X base would be about
$47,500 per year at the beginning of the
project.
The reuse plan includes a linear park
and bike trail to provide a butter one
between industrial and residential ones.
Since fewer than four council members
voted last week to adopt the plan, the issue
was delayed until Monday.
The city originally bought the land
under consideration as a right-of-way
for the controversial Northeast Radial.
The Northeast Radial would have linked
downtown with Northeast Lincoln,
however Lincoln voters defeated the
radial issue in April 1981 .
City Council Chairman Joseph Hampton
said he was in favor of the delay. He asked
the reuse area task force to make estimates
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of the costs and funding for the plan. He
also asked the task force to address the
questions raised by citizens who attended
both public hearings.
Mayor Helen Boosalis S3id that she and
the planning group would answer the ques
tions as soon as possible.
Lric Youngberg moved the planning
group meet to discuss the answers to the
questions in two weeks. The motion passed
unanimously.
Melvin Richards, 2912 N. 38th St.
said he has been in the center of the North
east Radial controversy since its beginning
20 years ago.
Richards said he didn't have any feasible
solutions for the conflict. However, he
urged council members to bring the contro
versy to an end.
"Make a resolution to come to a
definite end, so we can plan our lives and
perform," he said.
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By Vicki Ruhga
Rules and polling places for the March 9
ASUN election were announced Thursday
by the ASUN Electoral Commission.
"There were no major changes passed,"
ASUN President Dan Wedekind said.
Jennifer Fager, director of the electoral
commission, said although changes were
made in the wording of some regulations,
for the most part, the rules did not change.
To campaign, Fager said, a student
must meet the following qualifications set
by the NU Board of Regents by-law 6611.
- The student must have a minimum
cumulative grade point average of 2.0.
- The student must be continuously
enrolled in at least six class hours.
- The student must have completed 24
semester hours of credit on campus
during two years prior to the academic
term when office is sought.
- NU Medical Center students must
have 24 semester hours of credit at
any accredited post-secondary institu
tion within the last two years prior to
the academic term in which office
is sought.
- In order to win the election, a stu
dent must be elected by a majority of
students voting in the election or be
elected by a 10 percent margin over
the next candidate receiving the most
votes of the total votes cast.
Fager said in addition to the regents'
requirements, ASUN has some regulations
and filing forms that will be available
Friday in the ASUN office, Nebraska
Union 115.
ASUN has forms for students who are
undeclared in their major but would like
to vote or run as a representative of a
specific college, Fager said. Absentee
ballots and ballots for disabled people
also are available in the ASUN office,
she said.
Filing deadline for candidates is Feb.
9 at 4 p.m. If a run-off election is needed,
when an executive candidate does not
win by a 10 percent margin, a second
election will be March 16, Fager said.
"There will be two more polling places
than last year," she said. "Last year only
23 people voted at the Culture Center, so
we have eliminated it."
Fager said that as requested, a polling
place will be available at the Law Col
lege. The other new polling place will be
at Westbrook Music Building.
Fager said the Residence Hall Associa
tion executive election will be held in con
junction with the ASUN election this
year.
"Hopefully, this will increase voter
turnout," she said. "We will also have
polling places in all residence hall food
services. We hope the more accessible
polling places will increase voter turn
out." Fager said anyone who has a question
or wants to run for office should con
tact the Election Commission or the ASUN
office. Students can run independently or
with a party.
In other ASUN matters, the senate
Wednesday rejected a resolution to sup
port the nuclear freeze movement by a
margin of more than 3 to 1, Greg Krie
ser, ASUN first vice president, said.
"It appeared to me that ASUN does
not believe that students are not concerned
with the problem," Wedekind said. "Per
haps the student senate may not be the
most appropriate form for passng a resolu
tion like that."
Wedekind said it has been suggested
that the nuclear freeze issue be placed on
the student ballot in the spring. ASUN will
act on this suggestion before the election,
he said.
Staff photo by Joel Sartore
Professor W u Cui-fen
Chinese professor
teaches classics
to UNL students
Although the languages themselves have
few similarities, Professor Wu Cui-fen of
Nanjing, China, said teaching in China
and the United States is very similar.
Wu, who is at UNL as part of an ex
change program for instructors, is teach
ing Chinese Literature in Translation, a
senior and graduate course in the modern
language and English departments. She
arrived in Lincoln Jan. 3.
Twelve students are enrolled in the
class that will focus primarily upon classic
Chinese literature, said Xu Long, Wu's
translator and a teaching assistant in the
English department.
Wu, 50, who graduated from Nanjing
University, has taught courses such as
Selective Works of Chinese Literature,
Chinese Literary History, Literary History
of the Tang Dynasty and Literary History
of the Period of Division.
She said that her fellow professors have
been helpful and she hasn't encountered
any problems up to now.
One aspect of American society has
startled Wu. She said she was shocked by
society's openess toward pornography
here. She also said she believes American
living standards are higher than those in
her own country.
Wu said the American people she has
met have been very friendly. She will
remain in the United States for six months
before returning to China.
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By Carol Harrah
Staff photo by Craig Andresen
Freshman Aaron Slezak said he spends about $3 a week playing pinball at the Recreation
Room.
"Arcade junkies" now have a chance to
win back some of the silver they pop into
arcade game machines each week, or
maybe even take their favorite pinball
machine home with them. All they have
to do is keep playing.
Currently in the Nebraska Union Re
creation Room, located in the basement
of the union, are three ongoing tourna
ments for people who love to play pinball,
a Recreation Room employee, Steve Wall
man, said.
One of the three tournaments is a
weekly competition while the other two
are semester-long tournaments, Wallman,
a UNL junior, said.
The weekly tournament, Flipper Fana
ticism, involves a different pinball machine
each week. High scorer on the machine
of the week receives a $5 cash prize, he
said. There isn't much of a problem with
any one person dominating the weekly
tournament, Wallman said.
"It's rare to find a person who domi
nates throughout the semester," he said.
"Most people have one or two machines
that they are good at. We rotate machines
for each week's competition, so everyone
has a chance to win the $5."
Another competition in the Recrea
tion Room is the High Semester Draw.
High scores and scorers on each machine
are kept throughout the semester, he
said. At the semester's end, the names of
the high scorers are each put into a hat
and the person whose name is drawn
receives a $50 cash prize.
The third competition, also a semester
long tournament, is the Pinball Giveaway.
One machine is selected for this event.
High scores on one selected pinball
machine are recorded. At the end of the
semester, the person with the highest
score receives that specific machine as a
prize. The pinball machine selected usually
is an older model, Wallman said.
These competitions have been popular
in the past, Wallman said. Several students
regularly come in and attempt to make the
hich scores on their favorite machines.
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