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Tuesday, October 2, 1934
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 84 No. 23
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By Ana Lowe
Dally Nebraskan Senior Reporter
Editor's note: This is the
second article la a five-part
series examining how student
money paid to the university
ia spent.
It is an expensive piece of
plastic that hangs from your
rear-view mirror.
Forty dollars seems like a lot
to pay for a plastic permit and
a place to park your car. But
running the UNL parking areas
costs more than half a million
dollars a year, Business Man
ager Ray Coffey said. Revenue
from permits covers only about
62 percent of the bill, he said.
Where
Does Your
Money Go?
Of the $518,000 parking bud
get for 1984-85, $218,000 "will
go to pay personnel, Coffey
said. The university has about
10 full-time and several part
time employees to run the park
ing office issue permits and
enforce parking regulations, he
said.
Til price of parking per
mits went up $5 this year,
partly to cover an 8 percent
pay raise for employees, Coffey
said.
Another $50,000 of the par k
ing budget is used to lease 10
tracts of land from the Mis
souri Pacific and Burlington
Northern railroads, Coffey said.
The rest of the annual park
ing budget about a quarter
million dollars this year goes"
for operation and maintenance
costs, Coffey said. This money
is used to clear the lots of litter
and snow, repaint lines and fix
holes in the pavement, Coffey
said. Operation costs also in
clude the price of print ing and
distributing permits, envelopes
and parking regulation manu
al he said.
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wages, mainte
' Coins from the parking
meters will add up to about 15
percent of the budget, Coffey
said. 23 percent is expected to
come from parking fines and
62 percent will come from per
mit sales, he said.
Automobile permits are $40
for a full year, $25 a semester
and $20 for summer. Motorcy
cle permits are $1.0 a year.
Temporary permits also are
available for $1 a day, $3 a
week and $3 a month, said
Sherryl Chamberlain, parking
officer supervisor for the UML
Police Department.
This fell, the UNL police
have issued about 11,100 per
mits to students, staff and faculty
members, Chamberlain said.
That is 11 percent more than
the total 10,000 stalls for stu
dent, faculty, reserve and meter
parking, she said.
Despite the difference, Cof
fey said, the lots are "not
oversold."
The police issue no more res
idents' permits than the num
ber of spaces available for stu
dents who live in residence
halls, fraternities and sorori
ties, Coffey said. However, the
"number of permits issued to
commuter students, faculty
and staff members is about 10
percent over the number of
available parking spaces, he
There is never everybody
here all at once," he said.
Some commuter students use
the lots only a few hours a
week, Chamberlain said. Facul
ty and staff members have days
off and stay home sick, she
said. Coffey said he expects 12
to 1 5 percent of the commuter
students, staff and faculty mem
bers to be gone at any one
time.
Parking officials regularly
check the lots to see hew many
spaces are used, Coffey said.
The'figures are used to deter
mine the number of permits
that may be sold, he said.
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The university may someday
build more parking areas, Cof
fey said. But now, priority goes
to hard surfacing about 1,000
unpaved parking stalls a
$500,000 to $600,000 project,
he said.
Some students would rather
have the extra parking.
Shauna Johnson, 19, a sopho
more actuarial science major,
said she usually has trouble
finding a parking spot in the
Area 1 lots near the Chi Omega
sorority house where she lives.
Johnson acknowledged that she
probably could park legally five
or six blocks off campus, but
said she usually does not have
the time to walk that distant
:e.
"So I park on 16th Street in
two-hour zones and loading
zones and get $3 tickets," she
said.
Ronald Poppe, 18, also said
he has a hard time finding a
"decent place" when he drives
from East Campus to City Cam
pus for classes. But the fresh
man p revet erinary major said
he has not had to park illegally
'yet. He just drives around Areas
23 and 27 until he finds a spot.
In most cases, people
get tickets because they do not
want to inconvenience them
selves, Chamberlain said. The
most frequent violators are
students who do not buy per
mits and drivers with permits,
who park in the wrong areas,
she said.
Many students do not know
that there is plenty of parking
in legal lots a few blocks away
from campus, Chamberlain said.
For example, an Area 2 lot
near th UNL police station
sits nearly empty while stu
dents fight for parking places
in the Abel-Sandoz lot, she said.
Students who are unsure
where they can park should
check their parking regulation
manuals or call the UNL police
department, Chamberlain said.
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By Scott Ahlstreiic)
Daily Nebraskan Staff Vi'rltsr
The senior check a way to
help students keep track of their
graduation requirements is a
process every student probably
will use at least once before
graduating.
Many of the students who have
already had or are in the process
of getting their senior checks done
have one complaint why do
senior checks take so long?
Linda Pence, "senior checker"
for the College of Arts and Scien
ces and the School of Journalism,
said several factors contribute to
the time delay in senior checks.
"First of all there are only five
people to do all of the senior
checks. Since the university has
continued to grow, the amount of
senior checks have naturally in
creased," she said. "Another prob
lem is that students are referring
to their senior checks instead of
their advisers."
Pence said a senior check should
be used to see if a required class
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A statewide hotline designed
to assist farmers with emotional
stress, legal questions and other
farm-related concerns, now is
available.
Mel Luetchens of Interchurch
Ministries of Nebraska, said the
hotline, which opened Monday,
was designed to help farmers
answer questions related to prob
lems caused by current economic
conditions. ,
The council mads up of 34
representatives from Nebraska
church denominations, farm or
ganisations and lending institu-
tions is a project cf the Inter
church Ministries of Nebraska, a
planning and programming
Or.cy for 10 reI2iou denomi
nations in the state.
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s senior checks
has been missed by the student.
There should not be a reason
why advisers don't give advice to
students. Advisers should have
all the copies of the students'
grade reports and any waivers or
substitutions," she said.
Shirley Thomsen, assistant dir
ector of regulations and records,
said senior checks are a year
round process.
"It's a situation that we never
get completely caught up with.
We catch up a little during the
summer, but it's a year-round
job," Thomsen said.
Senior check processing also is
delayed for the posting of grades
and the processing of final checks.
Thomsen said final checks, to
ensure that seniors will graduate,
delay general senior check pro
cessing for three weeks each sem
ester. Senior' check applications are
accepted all year, but Thomsen
said, the summer before a stu
dent's senior year is the best time
to get a check.
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The program i3 funded through
church grants and other loans.
Luetchens said a $30,000 grant
from the Nebraska Department
of Agriculture is expected later
thi3 week.
A field staff of volunteers has
been assigned to geographical
areas across the state and will be
assisting farmers within those
areas.
"It is hoped the farmer will
have to travel no more than 100
miles to receive counseling,"
Luetchens said.
Luetchens said phone numbers
for the fisld staff are not available
yet but the statewide hotline num
ber is open at .(402) 43-5573
between 9 am. and 5 p.m., Mon
day through Friday.