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Fewer students will have fewer parking
problems this summer, Lt. John Burke, direc
tor of UNL Parking Administration said.
Burke said there are only 8,500 parking
' stalls for UNL students, staff, faculty and vis
itors. According to UNL Police Department
records, 39.000 parking tickets have been issued
this year. Of these parking tickets, 70 percent
were paid within the 20 days parking violators
are allowed before the police place the cars on
the impoundment list The remaining 11,700
tickets were delinquent. Of these, 1,115 cars
were towed. The total spent on getting cars out
of impoundment has been at least $26,760.
People usually pay from $50 to $60 to get
their cars out of impoundment.
Besides that cost, night towing has become a
problem,' according to Daily Nebraskan arti
cles quoting the Student Watch Group and
ASUN members at a Parking Advisory Board
. : meeting. ' ; "".
Burke said that since July, about 150 cars
have been towed between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Of
those 150 cars, 80 were parked illegally in fire
lanes and reserved stalls. The other 70 were
towed because they were on the impoundment
list, he said.
Student Watch charged that night towing
was an unnecessary risk. ; ;
Burke said the night ..towing "is necessary'
because almost all of the cars towed ,at night
are owned by people that only show up then.
" "We are very thorough in towing the cars on
the impoundment list during the day," he said.
"It is only fair. to the day people that we tow
cars that are only here at night."
Some of the things he suested to ease the
problem are: paying a ticket before it becomes
a problem, or appealing the ticket if there was
just cause for parking illegally, or if the ticket
was unwarranted. ...
Also, Burke said; students who can't afford
to pay a ticket within 20 days can come in to
- work something out" with him.
"Usually a student can't afford their tickets,
and then when they get towed, they have to
figure something out," Burke said. "Only two
' lionest-to-God sincere people have come to
me for help," .
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 83 No. 144
Senators cut funds
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By John Melssner
Jack Ernest, 44, is a college student working
toward a bachelor's degree. He said he would like to
major in criminal justice, but his hours point him
toward a general sociology degree.
Neither Ernest's age nor his course pf study makes
his story unusual. What makes his situation unique
is what happens after he gets that diploma. While
most people go out in search of employment after
graduation, Ernest will wait 10 years.
Jack Ernest, student, is also a prisoner serving
time at the Nebraska Penal Complex. While some
inmates do little more than serve time, Ernest
relentlessly pursues an education and pressures
senators to appropriate money for upper-level
classes at the penitentiary.
His latest efforts seemed destined for success.
Sen. Vard Johnson allocated $9,000 in LB 11 28, the ,
main appropriations bill, for tuition and books for
the inmates. The Lincoln Star wrote on April 4 that
Ernest's dream was coming true. However, Gov. Bob
Kerrey indicated that state revenue had declined,"
and the appropriations committee decided to delete
the money.
The decision came as a surprise not only to Ern
est, but to other senators and the UNL Division of
Continuing Studies as well
Earl Green, statewide director ofprograms at the
center, said that until Thursday he planned to start
a program to offer inmates two classes next f M.
,; Green said. he called Ernest-edrlier in the week to
congratulate him on his hard wcrk and -apparent
triumph. Green said he was shocked when a letter
informed him of the Legislature's decision.
"We had even determined what classes we were
going to offer," Green said. The classes, political
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science and psyehukO' nd law, were selected
because of their pertinence to the prisoners and
relevance to a general Arts and Sciences degree,
Green said.
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By Kclli Kelloa
Now through April 26, Lincoln residents can
rediscover photographer Margaret MacKichan at
the East Union. MacKichan's photos have been
displayed in galleries .across the nation. Her latest .
collection entitled "Portraits of Sandhills," reflect
two years (1978-80) of work and travel through the
Nebraska Sandhills. ByNiiving with 10 different
families, she said she got a feeling for the people.
"They're a very warm, very independent people,"
MacKichan said. "They have a good sense of com
munity." The West Virginia native, currently a member of
Nebraska Wesleyan University's art faculty, said her
work methods were established in 1966 while photo
graphing in Kentucky.
That project lasted 10 years, she said.
"I was able to establish the way I'm most com
fortable working," MacKichan said. "I like to know as
best I can the people of the area I photograph."
It was the people of the Sandhills who made her
latest collection possible, she said. A Nebraska
rancher, who saw her collection of photos taken of
the Appalachian region, called her.
"He thought he'd like to see someone do that with
the Sandhills," MacKichan said.
After receiving apprpximately $3,000 in grants
from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska
Committee' for the "Humanities, the project was
underway. "
But the grant money didn't go very far, she said. So
she took a job as artist-in-residence at Scottsbluff to
support herself, she said. '
Leading a modest .lifestyle is . something Mac
Kichan is usea to doing. In two weeks, she said she
will resume a project she started in Scotland in
1981. She will live on a sheep farm, but she said she
doesn't mind.
"In a way, it's very different," MacKichan said. "But
they're also very simSar. The people arent as progres
sive as Nebraska Sandhillers, but they're very in
dependent and self-reliant. " Their sense of com
munity is very similar."
NBC's "Today Show" may drop in and do a story on
MacKichan, she said. But that prospect is not'
uppermost in her mind.
Her future plans include publishing a book with
text and photographs of Kentucky, if she can find a
publisher, she said. She also has tentative plans to
team up with Nebraska writer Bill Kloefkorn on a
book about the Sandhills.
"Portraits of Sandhills" was selected for display at
the East Union by the University Programs Council
East Visual Arts Committee, said Mike Maxwell,
adviser to the committee.
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