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Wednesday, September 7, 1933
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 83 No. 7
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U.S. Sen. J. James Exon was host to a conference
focusing on problems and solutions to Nebraska's
economic issues Tuesday at the Nebraska Center for
Continuing Education.
The 1933 Nebraska Conference on Business and
the Economy in the 'EOs was coordinated by the
Columbia Institute for Political Research, a firm
based in Washington, D.C Excn served as chairman
and moderator.
Among the featured speakers were Gov. Bob Ker
rey; Eliot Jane way, author and political economist;
Charles "Mike" Harper, chief executive officer of
ConAgra; Donald Dvvorak, Nebraska's director of
economic development and Pat Choate, senior pol
icy analyst for economics at TRW, Inc.
xon said he was pleased with the seminar's
results.
I was most impressed with the workable solu
tions we came up with for these problems that were
discussed," he said. "I thought it went very, very
well."
The conference was designed to get people's input
into areas that are of concern to them, especially in
the field of agribusiness, Exon said.
"We tried to bring the services of the government
to one place at one time," he said.
The Nebraska Conference on Business was one of
more than 20 such seminars coordinated by the
Columbia Institute in the past two years, said John
Oppenheimer, vice president of the institute.
We contacted Sen. Exon back in January, and
since have performed the logistics in getting this
conference together," he said.
The general purpose was to get a lot of decision
makers in one room," Oppenheimer said. "It was a
blend of what Sen. Exon thought would be interest
ing for his constituents."
Those attending the conference included state
and local government officials, business executives
from both large and small companies, farmers and
labor union representatives, Oppenheimer said.
The conference was co-sponsored by 14 Nebraska
businesses.
Inside
Threa new Lincoln businesses offer com
puter services to UNL students and other area
residents Pc;3 8
Strat-O-Matic baseball hasn't made it to
the major leagues yet, but it has become a
popular activity at Lincoln's O'Rourke's
Lounge Pcrp 12
When it rains, it pours. There were six
concerts in the Lincoln area this weekend,
including Men at Work, The Greg Kihn Band
and Wayne Newton Page 14
Index
Arts and Entertainment 14
Classified 19
Crossword 20
Editorial 4
Sports , ..12
Culture .Center awaits inDut
Ey 7zrd V. Triplet III
The complicated question of where to relocate the
UNL Culture Center at 1012 N. ICth St, took yet
another turn during the summer.
;-7h3 litest developments oiild move the 'center,
which caters to the social and education;! needs of
black, Native American and Mexican-American
students, to 1620 Q SL
When school ended last spring, the NU Board of
Regents was expected to vote on a proposal to place
the center at the university-owned Terrace Hall at
425 University Terrace, which had served as an
annex for the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity until
last spring. .
'The Terrace Hall option ran into a lot of opposi
tion," Diehard Armstrong, vice chancellor for stu
dent affairs, said. Armstrong said fraternities and -sororities
around the vacated annex objected to
locating the center there, saying they wanted the
area to remain entirely residential.
Although a task force Armstrong appointed had
developed tentative plans for the building, and the
Nebraska Union Board had approved additional
funding to run the building in its 1C 33-01 budget,
the proposal was not presented to the regents for
their approval ;
Te quite honestly felt that it is wise - not to
advance the proposal this summer'Annstrcng said.
.Te encouraged the students to examine some :
other options instead. Until that time, most of our
energies had been directed toward the Terrace Hall
building
Begent Ed Schwartzkopf also decried the option
and suggested moving the center to the vacated
Whittier Junior High School building on 22nd and
Vine streets.
Finally, Armstrong suggested a possible move into
the Nebraska Union basement after a decision is
made on where to relocate the University
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"The Whittier plan totally out now. It's just too
far away," Ennio Quevedo, director of the Culture
Center, said. fHie mam purpose in moving was to
get the Culture Center closer to the hub of campus."
Still, the Terrace Hall plan was the leading option
for the students when the semester ended in May.
But in mid-summer, university officials were con
tacted by Bob Nowak, who owned a building at 1630
Q SL Nowak said he wanted to sell the building and
asked if the university might want to buy it
The idea went through several offices, and Arm
strong contacted Quevedo and .Daryi Swanson,
director of the Nebraska Unions, about possibly buy
ing the building as a site for the Culture Center.
"It's very tenative now, and that's ail it is," Arm
strong said. There are a lot of ands, ifs and buts that
need to be answered yet"
The Q Street building, which now houses the offi
ces of the Picture Man and Northwestern Mutual
life Insurance Co., among others, is a two-level
building. It contains 9,000 square feet of space
mere space than in the current Culture Center, but
less than that available at Terrace HalL
However, present plans would call for the base
ment of the building to be renovated for the Culture
Center, while the upstairs cfUces would remain
intact and given to MulU-Cteltural Affairs, and other
student services, most of which are located in or
around Seaton HalL
Quevedo said that no one has indicated yet if the
Culture Center plans would wait until leases in the
building had run out
But first, the university will have to buy the build
ing. That proposal may be ready by the October
regents meeting.
"My hope is that we can get a consensus from the
students " Armstrong said. "If the students indicate
that this is what they want, then we could ask the
: - regents to purchase the bsfldzig ia October." -v- -
Elizabeth Burden, president of the Afrikan Peo
ples Union, indicated that that may not be so easy.
Burden and other APU leaders have been through
the building, and like Armstrong and Quevado, they
said they believe it is a sound structure that could fit
the center's needs. But, she said, she is still inter
ested in the Terrace Hall option.
The students still need to be able to sit down and
study the options we have," Burden said.
: We went through the proper channels to get the
TKE annex, and we believe there is still the option of
getting the annex," she said.
The Culture Center opened in 1970 at the request
of black football players. A building at 1012 N. 16th
St, the current site of the center, was donated by the
university and initial funding came from the UNL
athletic department Multi-Cultural Affairs man
aged the center until 1977 when the Nebraska
Unions took over.
Complaints about the building started soon after,
and in 1931, a study by the UNL Physical Plant
determined the structure was not worth renova
ticn. The task force was created soon afterward; its
goal was to find a new building on campus for the
center and to move the service closer to the main
stream of campus.
The task force turned in its proposal to the
Nebraska Unions and Armstrong in 1C32. Because
the TKE residents were vacating the Terrace HalL
the task force favored that option as opposed to
construction of a new building.
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