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University of Nebraska-Lincoln '
Vol. 84 No. 152
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Went her: Showers this morning, then partly
cloudy and warmer with a high of 67 (19C). Fog
tonight with a low of 47 (8C). Mostly sunny and
warm on thursday with a high of 75 (24C).
Bob BrubacherDally Nebraskan
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gonna bet on
She bay?...Pagei2
You can canoe,
can you?...Page 11
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Joel SartoreDaily Nebraskan
A muddy good time...
The price you pay for playing in the mud is evident (above) for Denise Sullivan, a freshman
criminal justice major. Sullivan and some of her friends from Selleck Quadrangle participated
in a mud volleyball game behind the residence hall after a heavy rainfall Tuesday.
After repeated falls in the mud and a high-pressure water clean-up (below), Sullivan's only
comment was, "It hurt like hell, yes."
For more on mud funatics, see page 9.
ousing plans hall changes
Unicameral Senators
predict tight contest
on vet school vote
By Jim Rasmussen
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska Legislature will vote
Tuesday on a bill to create a regional
veterinary school at UNL, and two state
senators said Monday the bill will
likely pass.
"I think it's going to be close," said
Sen. Don Wesely of Lincoln. "But I've
never seen a vet school bill that didn't
pass."
Wesely said he will probably vote
against the bill. He said he finds it hard
to justify a new program when UNL is
facing reductions in other programs
as well as tuition increases.
"In different times, in a different
ecomonic situation, I might support
it," Wesely said of the bill. "But I think
we should help what we've got now
before we start something new."
The bill would authorize the NU
Board of Regents to join either Kansas
State or Mississippi State University in
a cooperative veterinary program. Stu
dents would attend one of those schools
for the first part of their education,
By Iise Olsen
Staff Reporter
In August, an estimated 4,700 stu
dents will move into UNL's residence
halls after the halls' staffs have
made changes in programs and facilities.
Residence hall maintenance crews
will begin to install computer rooms in
each complex this summer. The com
puters will be supplied by the office of
Computer Support Services.
Doun Zatechka, director of the Office
of University Housing, said he is opti
mistic that the computer rooms will be
completed this fall. But he's less sure
about two other planned residence hall
changes: installation of cable televi
sion and the option for unlimited
entrees in hall food services.
"I think the chances for having
cable operating next fall are slim to
none," Zatechka said. Ho said the
unlimited food option in hall food ser
vices has about a 60-50 chance.
Other residence hall changes that
will be complete by fall include the
addition of four new "special floors,"
where people with common interests
can live. Another special study floor, a
floor for sophomores, juniors and seniors,
a floor for mentoring and wellness that
will emphasize exercise and diet and a
floor for non-traditional students will
be added to the six existing ones.
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then come back to UNL for clinical
training.
Sen. Jerome Warner of Waverly said
he never supported the idea of a vet
school for Nebraska. Warner said an
expected demand for veterinarians
hasn't materialized. He cited a 1975
study that predicted Nebraska would
have 865 veterinarians by 1985. How
ever, of 1,018 veterinarians who have
Nebraska licenses, only 550 to 560 have
Nebraska addresses.
Warner also mentioned UNL's fund
ing problems.
"I'm so aware of the funding needs
that aren't being met, it's difficult for
me to justify advancing the bill," he
said. Warner said, however, the bill will
probably pass.
The vet school carries an expected
pricetag of $15 million to $20 million.
Only about $150,000 of that would be
appropnated in the 1985-86 budget.
Warner said the initial money is needed
to keep alive Nebraska's chances for
federal assistance in the project. Sup
porters of LB203 have said the federal
government could supply about half
the funds to establish the school.
Residence hall histories
uncover state 's leaders
By Ann Lowe
Staff Reporter
Unless you visit UNL before fresh
man year, you know little about
your assigned residence hall
besides what the housing brochure
tells you.
But once you move in and start visit
ing your friends, you learn a little more
about the residence halls. Some are
more modern, others are closer to cam
pus. Some are noisy, others are better
for studying.
Each of the university's residence
halls has its own character and its own
history. The following is a history of
some UNL residence halls:
Neihardt Residence Center
First called the Women's Residence
Halls, the Neihardt Residence Center
was dedicated in 1973 to Nebraska
poet laureate John G. Neihardt.
But its history goes back another 41
years.
The 6ldest Neihardt hall, Carrie
Belle Raymond Hall, opened in 1932
with 170 women students.
The hall was named for Carrie Isa
belle Raymond, who directed the Uni
versity, Chorus from 1884 to 1927. In
1902, Raymond directed the first UNL
performance of Handel's "Messiah,"
which became a 50-year tradition at the
university.
The three-story colonial hall named
for Raymond cost $269,000 to build in
the early 1930s. It had a sun room,
piano rooms and its own library. There
also was a multi-purpose room for dan
ces chaperoned, of course.
But Raymond's dining room was its
main attraction. According to a 1938
residence hall bulletin, Raymond cui
sine's claim to fame was second only to
the Morrill Hall mastodons.
And room and board was just $164 a
semester in 1938.
As in other residence halls, Ray
mond's women had to live under a
strict set of rules in the early years.
Men were allowed in the recreation
room only from 4 to 7 p.m. Curfew on
weeknights was 10 p.m. and for many
years, the women even had a dress
code.
"Wearing jeans and shorts down
town, in Raymond Hall, in the dining
ropm, on campus or to football games
just is not done in Nebraska," said a
1956-57 edition of "Dorm Daze," a resi
dence hall manual.
Raymond Hall now is co-educatibnal.
In 1978, the UNL housing office and
modern languages department created
a co-ed modern language floor on Ray
mond Two. Students are encouraged to
speak in foreign tongues, with help
from a live-in advisor.
Love and Heppner halls of the Nei
hardt center were opened in 1939.
Together, they housed 370 students.
Love Hall was named for Julia Larra
bee Love, wife of Lincoln businessman
Don L. Love and daughter of Iowa Gov.
William Larrabee.
When Julia Love died in 1937, her
husband gave UNL $155,000 to build a
new residence hall.
Heppner Hall was named for Amanda
Henrietta Heppner, an 1894 UNL grad
uate who later became a professor and
acting dean of women.
Heppner was dedicated to women's
reform movements on campus. She
started a Women's Self-Government
Board of 14 women students and a "co
ed counselors" group to make first-year
college women feel more at home. After
the stock market crash of 1 929, Heppner
started low-cost women's cooperatives,
so fewer would have to leave schooL
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