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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Wednesday
Inside
Their numbers may be few, but black bus
inessmen are finding success in Lincoln
Page 2
UNL students hoping to use the univer
sity's low-cost phone service have been
put on hold Page 10
Nebraska continues its drills for Monday
night's Kickoff Classic game against
Penn State Page 17
Trying to decide which radio station to set
your dial on? Good news! The Daily Ne
braskan's guide to Lincoln's 13 stations
appears in this issue Page 32
Index
Arts and Entertainment 32
Calendar 60
Campus Life 45
Editorial 4
Sports 17
VNL gmd student
top Fulbright winner
By Mary Louise Knapp
A UNL graduate student is the top-ranked
Fnlbright scholar in the United States for 1983-84.
Patrick T. Hurlbut, 23, of Kimball, received an
$8,600 grant from International Telephone and
Telegraph to study in Sweden.
The ITT fellowships are given to the top 25
Fulbright applicants in the nation, who are selected
on the basis of grades, professional recom
mendations and career goals.
Hurlbut, who graduated in May 1983 with a
bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, will study
plant cell biology at the University of Uppsala. He
leaves for Sweden this month and will return to the
United States next June. He plans to attend medical
school at the University of Iowa.
Hurlbut studied plant cell biology for three
semesters at UNL's Department of Life Sciences. To
prepare for his year of study, he studied Swedish for
a year.
"I've been studying it over the summer," Hurlbut
said. "I know the basics, anyway."
While his degree in chemical engineering and
intended course of study in Sweden may seem
unrelated, Hurlbut said both will aid him in his
medical career.
"When I was a freshman, I had thought I wanted
to go to medical school," he said. "But I was also
interested in other aspects . . . the engineering
program correlates well with pre-med. It's a back
up system."
' Hurlbut was accepted to medical school at the
same time he received the ITT fellowship. He said he
is not sure what he would like to specialize in when
he enters medical school, but knows he would like to
continue doing research.
"Right now I'm looking at family practice," he said.
"I'd like to practice in the Midwest ... in towns about
the size of Lincoln or smaller.15 His older brother,
Greg, is a family physician in Lincoln.
Although much of his year in Sweden will be spent
on research, Hurlbut says he hopes to take one or
two classes at the University of Uppsala.
Hurlbut, who enjoys skiing, camping and other
outdoor activities, said he wants to go on a four- or
five-day cross-country ski tour while abroad. He
plans to travel to other areas of Europe.
"This is a good chance to experience Europe," he
said. "I want to leave a good impression of
Americans, that we're not the 'bad people' some
think we are."
The other Fulbright recipients from UNL are: Lori
Brown oCook, a pre-med, p sychology and German
major who will study literature in Germany, Bradley
Olsen of Grand Island, a history major who will
study church history in Germany; Karen Schreiber
of David City, a German major who will study
German literature in Germany, and Kathleene West
of Lincoln, a doctoral candidate in English who will
study literature in Iceland.
Vol. 83 No. 1
BdDlaimdl Lmedtke einjoys mayor sjoliD,
By Eric Peterson
Mayor Roland A. Luedtke of Lincoln, formerly
Nebraska's lieutenant governor, says he finds the
major jchange between the two offices to be the
faster pace of t he mayor's job.
'The mayor's office is a very interesting place of
action," Luedtke said. "State government is spread
out over the state . . . There is not the intensity there
that there Is here."
Luedtke noted that a mayor's resources are
concentrated in one city.
"All the people, all the problems, all the people
that can do anything about the problems are right
here," he said. "You're within 'nose-punching range'
at ail times."
Luedtke said he values the openness and
accessibility city government features.
That government which is closest to the people is
also the one that is in the directs line of fire of what
has to be done," Luedtke said.
This concentration of . resources and action
requires a close cooperation between Lincon's
mayor and the City Council, Luedtke said.
The Council is right there all the time. . . I don't
want to be consciously confrontational, not in any
way antagonistic," he said. Luedtke added some sort
of adversary relationship is probably inevitable
between mayor and City Council.
One dispute recently arose when the City Council
cut $1.37 million from a budget Luedtke prepared.
He said about half the sum substracted from the city
budget came from deferring equipment purchase
and freezing merit pay increases for city employees.
While there are not services actually cut, Luedtke
said, "it will cut the effectiveness of some services."
Downtown Development
Luedtke predicted equipment purchases and
merit pay raises will have to be made later at greater
cost and greater inconvenience to the city
government.
"I look upon most of it as being just a shift," he
said. Their judgments are going to come home to
roost next year in economic terms."
Luedtke said he is continuing the tradition Helen
Boosalis, Lincoln's previous mayor, followed by
encouraging centralized city development con
centrated in the downtown area. He said his own
economic development plan for the city supports
the Cornhusker Square, Gold's Galleria and
Haymarket renovation projects.
One new feature of Luedtke's economic
development plan is to directly encourage new or
renovated downtown housing through an advisory
committee on housing. Luedtke pointed out that
there is not a great deal of downtown housing right
now. However, Luedtke said the potential is great,
"all the way from minimal cost housing to high cost
condominium housing downtown."
A healthy downtown area is "very strongly and
emphatically supported" in the total city plan,
Luedtke said, "but not at the expense of every other
area in town." He said conservation of shopping
malls and preventing their deterioration which
has occurred in some cities is just as important as
preserving the strength of the downtown.
Luedtke wants to develop and research an
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Lincoln Mayor Roland Luedtke
"entrepreneurial program" in which the
universities, junior colleges and Lincoln Public
School system would cooperate. This "interlocking
of supplies" could build a program where young
people would be given practical knowledge and aid
in setting up their own businesses, Luedtke said.
Past Experience
Lincoln has always been Luedtke's home. After
graduating from law school at UNL in 1951, Luedtke
worked in the office of Frank Marsh, then Secretary
of State for Nebraska. Luedtke was elected to the
State Legislature in 1966 where he spent 12 years.
Those were activist years," Luedtke said. "We got
a lot of work done."
Major probate, penal and criminal law code, and
judicial reforms were accomplished while Luedtke
chaired the Legislature's Judiciary Committee.
Luedtke was elected as Gov. Charles Thone's
lieutenant governor in 1978. As speaker of the
Legislature, Luedke extended the duties and
influence of a position that had been considered an
honorary position. One of Luedtke's innovations as
speaker was the use of coordinators " vhips' the
press called them" to speed the legislative
process.
He said his leisure interests are not the usual ones.
"I don't golf, I don't hunt, I don't fish," he said.
Luedtke paints with acrylics, works with
photography and likes to travel. He is also active in
church work and teaches Bible classes.
"I have not allowed public life to change my
private life," Luedtke said.
He said his wife, Helen, likes the change from state
office, which required a lot of traveling, to the more
stationary city office.
"Summertime used to be just one (outstate)
parade after another," he said. "Now Lincoln is my
entire constituency."
Foreign students adjust to city
By Janet Chu
Foreign students provide opportunities for UNL
students to learn about international cultures, said
Peter Levitov, Director of International Educational
Services.
Levitor officially welcomed approximately 100
newly-arrived students to UNL Thursday. The
welcome meeting at the Nebraska Union was part of
a comprehensive orientation program coordinated
by the IES office. The IES office helps foreign
students adjust to the university and community
environment.
David Decoster, Dean of Students, advised
students to learn to make use of IES services since
they are usually the first line of contact for foreign
students.
Matt Wallace, ASUN president, spoke about
student involvement in extra curricular activities.
There is a human element that you can't get out of a
book," he said of involvement in such activities.
Soala Ariweriokuma, President of the
International Students Organization, said ISO can
help foreign students adjust to university life.
"ISO is a unifying agency for all international
students, thus there is a need for all international
students to participate in this organization," he said.
"It is an avenue to understand the university institution."
Orientation programs began August 17 and will
continue through August 27 with tours, social
activities, lectures and discussions to help students
learn about Lincoln, the American educational
system and information about banking and housing.
This year, new students were greeted when they
stepped off the airplane at the Lincoln Municipal
Airport. In fulfillment of a campaign promise the
ISO officers coordinated a program where UNL
students would personally welcome foreign The ISO
will continue to provide the service in the future,
Ariweriokuma said.