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Barb BrandaDally Nebraskan
September 12, 1985
By Kathleen Green
Senior Editor
The Nebraska Union food services
lost about $80,395 during the 1984-85
school year because of a lack of custo
mers and competition from private
businesses said Union Director Daryl
Swanson.
The largest loss, about $70,000 was
in the Harvest Room cafeteria, which
has not been renovated in 17 years, he
said.
"It's no longer a state-of-the-art food
service," Swanson siad.
Swanson said last spring's bookstore
Four Regents support
training table donation
Bv Ann Harrell
Senior Reporter
Four NU Regents say the university
should continue to accept private dona
. tions with attached stipulations, pro-
viding those stipulations do not violate
university policy.
Regents Don Fricke, Nancy Hoch,
.. James Moylan and Robert Koefoot said
in telephone interviews that university
officials should abide by the wishes of
! donors whenever possible. Funds such
as those for building the men-only
' Hewit Center training table in Memor
ial Stadium are too important to the
university, they said.
"I think if we expect people to give
those gifts, we should accept them
under the terms they stipulate," Fricke
said.
The regents stressed that any stipu
lations attached to donations, such as
UNL alumnus William Hewit's wish
that women be excluded from the
Hewit Center, would have to be consi
dered individually. Special requests
accompanying funds should not violate
university policies, the regents agreed.
But the regents refused to say where
the line should be drawn between
acceptable and unacceptable stipula
tions, because each case would have
extenuating circumstances.
"I think the university should con
sider itself fortunate that there are
individuals to support the university
and that they want to give money to
surjDort certain individual desires."
Koefoot said. "I think within reason, if
we can abide by their stipulations, we
should do so."
Although the men-only clause in the
Hewit donation may appear to violate
university policies, the regents said it
was acceptable because participation
in athletics is voluntary. The university
probably would accept a similar gift for
women's athletics, Hoch and Moylan
said.
Dick Wood, legal counsel for the
university, said two state laws could
apply in the Hewit Center discrimina
tion controversy. However, neither law
directly addresses equal access to ath
letic facilities for both sexes.
One law focuses on denying "com
parable oportunity" ta participate in
intercollegiate and intramural athlet
ics. The other law deals with denying
students access to the "privileges of
he university," on the basis of sex.
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renovation closed half of the Harvest
Room for 3 months and increased
losses.
"Food services will be a major pro
ject to work on this year," he. said.
"They are not being patronized enough.
I see it as our most significant current
problem facing us."
Swanson said the Nebraska and East
Unions lost money for the last five years
including $26,550 during the 1982-83
school year and $8,650 during the 1983
84 school year.
Union officials compenstated the
losses last year by cutting costs and
using student fees.
The regents said they do not think
the men are receiving preferential
treatment.
Before the training table was built,
Fricke said, male athletes were at a
disadvantage because their previous
training table was too small and cramp
ed to be effective. Frequently food lines
were so long that athletes would opt to
eat elsewhere and skip the special diet
prepared for them.
In comparision, he said, the women's
facilities were better suited to their
needs. Now, in light of the new men's
training table and the soon-to-be-completed
women's area in Harper-Schramm-Smith,
Fricke said he thinks
the sexes are receiving equal treat
ment. Hoch said it is important to remember
that income from the men's football
program at UNL supports several athlet
ic programs, including some women's
sports.
When she heard about the Hewit
Center, Hoch said she wanted women
athletes to be treated fairly. But she
said she thinks the new women's facil
ity, which should be completed this
month, assures comparable study and
eating areas.
"I think this (center) looks to be a
good, efficient arrangement for them.
"It seems logical, because ( the new
women's area) is closer to women's
sports. I think they're going to have a
much-improved facility."
Hoch said she is reserving final
judgment on the new women's area
until she sees the finished product.
"The coaches and women athletes
seem pleased with it, and they are good
judges of what they need," she said.
Moylan said he thinks it is important
to provide the athletes with whatever
special needs they may have.
"I think there's a tremendous differ
ence between the physical abilities of
men and women," Moylan said. And I
think there must be differences in
their dietary needs. They all get the
type of diet they need to participate."
NCAA Legislative Assistant Jamie
McCloskey said NCAA rules allow mem
ber schools to design their athletes'
eating and study areas according to
their needs. "If a member institution
feels it's best done by providing separ
ate facilities for men and women,
there's no NCAA rules prohibiting that,"
McCloskey said.
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Student fees usually are used for
non-income-producing activities, such
as building operations, Union adminis
trative salaries and utility bills.
Some jobs also were not filled and
energy-saving efforts were made last
spring to cut costs, Swanson said.
Profit from the union's catering and
bakery also helped decrease the losses.
Union officials plan a student survey
next semester to establish guidelines
for changes to ease money problems.
Swanson said officials currently are
considering options of remodeling or
leasing a room to a commercial fast
food restuarant, such as McDonald's.
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Cornhusker Place treats alcoholics with education, care
By Joseph Dejka
Staff Reporter 1
The ambulance backed across
the gravel lot to the concrete land
ing and parked. Leaving the engine
running, two attendants unfolded a
wheeled stretcher and pushed it by
the spider-webbed crack in the
glass doorway to the elevator.
On the second floor of the red
brick Cornhusker Place Detoxifica
tion Center a nurse and counselors
watched the man on the stretcher.
His face contorted and turned a
purple-red. He choked and vomited,
spraying the brown carpet.
"It's a terrible disease," the nurse
said as the patient was wheeled
away. "This disease is so powerful."
The disease alcoholism
sparked growing concern in the
1950s. It was then that the United
States became more aware of the
disease and the methods of dealing
with publicly intoxicated people.
Today, UNL police are making
plans with Cornhusker Place, 721 K
St., to deal with drunken youths
whose parents cannot be contacted
or refuse to assist, said UNL police
officer Al Broadstone.
' Cornhusker Place is a non-profit
health care center that provides
short- and long-term detoxification
services and protective custody to
people with alcohol-related prob
lems. Dewey Rowlan, program director
for Cornhusker Place, said the ser
vices are for people "nobody likes to
deal with."
"These people eat out of dumps
ters, drink rubbing alcohol, and
you're likely to find them passed out
on a bench out there," he said.
Intoxicated people don't have to
use the detox services, but they
have to sign a non-binding contract
if they want the services. That con
tract says the person must agree to
listen to an educational tape each
day they stay at the detox center.
They are encouraged to stay three
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Diversions,
However, union food services would
have to compete with that private
operator, Swanson said, so union offi
cials must be cautious.
The easiest place to rent out would
be Union Square, which opened in Jan
uary 1982, he said.
Swanson said there might be too
many food services in the Nebraska
Union. East Union has only one food
service, compared to four in the Nebra
ska Unions
The food services in the Nebraska
Union lost more money than the one in
the East Union, he said.
Union officials have been looking at
other college unions to find a solution.
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days. In return, they receive a cereal
breakfast, two hot meals, use of a
shower and bed and personal
counseling.
A doctor is on call at the center
24 hours a day, and a staff nurse
administers medication.
Long-term care patients who dis
play a greater commitment to rec
overy are provided with transporta
tion to the Hastings Alcohol Treat
ment Center.
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Swanson said he has visited ot her uni
versities, including Colorado Statp Uni
versity and the University of Amona.
Colorado State recently remodeled iis
union food service to include several
food shops offering various entrees.
If union officials decide to remodel,
they will request money through a bond
reserve surplus. The union and Univer
sity Health Center were built with
revenue bond funding, he said.
Surpluses are available each year for
building improvement and modifica
tion, Swanson said.
Student fees, which help to repay
these bonds, will not be increased to
pay for remodeling, Swanson said.
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Kurt EberhardtDaiiy Nebraskan
The decriminalization of public
intoxication put added strain on
police who needed a way to deal
with intoxicated people who had
broken no law. Protective custody
allows a police officer to commit
drunken people to a 24-hour deten
tion center if they pose a threat to
themselves or others. Police officers
previously had to take those people
to a jail.
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