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October 7, 1935
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 85 No. 30
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Catch as catch can
Rick Smith of Lawrence, Kan. "plays" in preparation for the free style event of the Nebraska
Frisbee Flying Disk Championships at Pioneers Park Sunday afternoon. The fifth annual
championship event was sponsored by KHAT radio and Coke.
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Stadent support of niinioin
stores keeps fees (flown
By Todd von Kampen
Senior Reporter
Whenever you stop for a donut at the
Nebraska Union bakery, pick up a pen
cil at the University Bookstore or put a
personal ad in the Daily Nebraskan,
you're contributing to a multi-million-dollar
economy and keeping stu
dent fees down at the same time.
Businesses that UNL either operates
or subsidizes in the Nebraska and East
Unions took in almost $5.2 million in
1084-85, according to sales figures from
union businessmen.
They said students are giving their
businesses enough support that they
remain solvent without asking for siza
ble increases in student-fee support
The businessmen said they get no
money from UNL's general fund budget
for their operations. When income drops
below expenses, student fees make up
the difference.
Any improvement to a UNL business,
such as the recent University Bookstore
expansion, is good financial news for
the other businesses, said UNL busi
ness and finance manager Ray Coffey.
"If the union does well, their need
and requirement for student fees is
minimized," said Coffey, who oversees
University Bookstore finances. "That's
one of the things we hope to.see, too."
The bookstore must give 3 percent of
its sales to UNL's general fund, Coffey
said, but it can keep the remaining
income to pay expenses and make
improvements. Any profits in other
UNL businesses, their managers said,
improve their businesses and build a
reserve for bad financial years.
Coffey said the University Bookstores
in both unions brought in about $2.7
million in 1984-85, 80 percent of which
came from sales to customers and 20
percent from sales to university de
partments. The bookstores earned enough money
last year to avoid using student fees
and give some money to students
through book scholarships and "buy
backs" of old books, Coffey said. Income
after expenses this year will go toward
paying bookstore construction costs.
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By Jonathan Taylor
Senior Editor
Mad Mike says he loves Nebraska.
But he said he must leave because he
has to earn a living.
In a telephone interview Sunday
from his home in Independence, Mo.,
"Mad Mike" Lyons, a cheering institu
tion at UNL for four and one-half years,
said he left Nebraska to go to Kansas
University "so I could pay my bills."
Lyons, who makes his living through
his "Mad Mike" character by cheering
at professional sports events, said the
decision to leave "came down to finan
ces." Private donations for his "Mad
Mike Against Drugs" program he
established here last year, weren'f
coming in, and he couldn't afford to
support himself and run the program.
Lyons' announcement last week that
he needed about $30,000 in private
donations to continue the anti-drug
abuse program resulted in the univer
sity athletic department's decision to
revoke his official pass to enter games,
said Chuck Pool, assistant sports in
formation director.
Pool said the pass was taken away
"because we didn't want the university
to be put in the position that it was
passively supporting somebody's pri
vate fund-raising.
"The athletic department didn't
want Lyons using his connection to the
school to help gain popularity then
create private financial support."
Lyons disputed implications made
by NU cheerleader coordinator Chris
Lofgreen that he had asked the univer
sity for money.
"I have never once asked the univer
sity for money," he said.
Lyons accepted the cheering job at
the University of Kansas at Lawrence
because Lwickey Brothers, a Kansas
City promotions firm, found sponsors to
finance the anti-drug abuse program.
Lyons said he hoped the presidential
citation he was awarded last week for
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the program would attract sponsors,
but after waiting "as long as possible,",
he had to make a decision.
He said his prior committment to
four more months of anti-drug ahuse
work helped him
make the decision.
"It felt like I
was getting a di
vorce when I wasn't
in red (last Satur
day)," Lyons said.
Last year, private
businesses such as
Vllloao Inn onH Tnr.
sey Laboratories Lyons
donated about $27,000 for the anti-drug
program, Lyons said. The money paid
for literature and his traveling expenses
to about 200 Nebraska schools.
It felt like I was get
ting a divorce when
I wasn't in red (fast
Saturday).'
"Mad Mike" Lyons
Lyons, a reborn Christian, said cheer
ing as Mad Mike is only a hobby, and
that the anti-drug program is his
priority.
"It is my ministry," he said.
Lyons said he would continue the
program in Nebraska for one more year
then establish the same thing in Kan
sas. A substitute of equal notoriety will
be found to continue the program in
Nebraska, he said.
If funding for the anti-drug program
becomes available in Nebraska, Lyons
said he would come back.
Although he enjoys working the KU
games, Lyons says he still loves Nebraska.
M
assengale appoints Lied advisory committee
By Joseph Dejka
Staff Reporter
UNL Chancellor Martin Massengale
has appointed a faculty advisory com
mittee to address facutly concerns and
discuss policies for the academic use
of the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
The committee will represent all
colleges on UNL campuses and will
report directly to Massengale, said
John Yost, acting vice chancellor for
research and dean of graduate studies.
He said the university has no formal
policy for the operation and manage
ment of the $20 million center.
UNL music professor Larry Lusk is
chairman of the 12-member committee.
Lusk said he hopes to "get the aca
demic community closer to the Lied
Center."
He said a lack of accurate informa
tion regarding the construction and
operation of the center has led many
students and faculty members to make
false assumptions about the center.
The center should serve the univer
sity as more than just a stage for travel
ing road shows, he said.
Ron Bowlin, Kimball Recital Hall
director, said he hopes the Lied Center
will provide the "magic connection
between production and arts."
Bowlin, who has worked with archi
tects for the last year designing the
center, said the 2,500-seat theater is
designed to meet the needs of a large
show and a small show that needs spe
cific technical capabilities.
. The major policy question is about
the use of the center, he said. The
center is "enormously flexible" and
the key will be to find the right pro
gramming blend.
Kerry Grant, director of the UNL
School of Music, said the Lied Center
will be a tremendous resource for the
fine arts community. But he said he is
concerned with how it will function and
who will be responsible for it.
Grant said he is concerned about
who gets access to the center, who pays
for its use and whether events can be
scheduled so the university arts sche
dule receives continued support.
He said Kimball is the only recital
hall in the music school, and he hopes
it will remain independent of the Lied
Center.
Patricia Overton, manager of the
Howell Theater, said she hopes UNL
students will have rehearsal and per
formance time at the Lied Center.
She said the theater arts depart
ment wants a place for the dance
classes to meet, other than Mabel Lee
Hall where the physical education
classes are "crowding us out."
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