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Weather: Mostly cloudy and cool today with a 70 percent chance of showers. Winda easterly 5-15 mph with a high of 61. Cloudy tonight with a low of 42. Con tinued mostly cloudy and cool forthe weekend. High on Saturday near 64. October 18, 1985 .1 -. L Idea rooted in UNL classroom blossoms into 6 gyros franchises By Karen Shoemaker Senior Reporter An unusual aroma wafts down the sidewalk on North 14th Street. If you follow your nose, you'll find savory gyros meat rotating on a ver tical spit, waiting to be carved and served on pita bread and covered with creamy zaziki sauce the original Athenian recipe. The owner of the gyros (pro unced "year-os") sandwich shops is Mansour Kholousi, a former UNL student who came from Iran eight years ago. He started out in the res taurant business only xh years ago, when he bought George's Greek Gyros Restaurant at 112 N. 14th St. When offered the opportunity to buy the restaurant, Kholousi was working toward a master's degree in business at UNL. He says he wasn't interested in buying a restaurant. "No, I don't want to study for 20 years and then work in a restau rant,'" he said. "I want to be presi dent of a big company." Band Day to attract crowds, disrupt parking By Deb Hooker Staff Reporter Even though a football game won't be played at Memorial Stadium Satur day, the toots and bangs of band music still will fill the air. Bands from 30 Nebraska high schools will come to UNL for Band Day, said Rose Johnson, administrative assistant in the School of Music. The influx of musicians will affect traffic and parking at the UNL campus. A spokesman from the UNL Police Department said Avery street will be Daily lllini sportswriter makes 'triumphant' return Sports, paga 7 . Kholousi But a franchise class he was tak ing at the university helped him see that the restaurant business could be profitable, he said. So he took a chance on George's. He studied the restaurant for two months before he bought the busi ness. He decided to keep the name. It was then that customers started calling him George. "So many people call me George, I make it my middle name," Kho lousi said. The small restaurant on 14th Street was only the beginning for "George." After watching customers turn away because the lines outside the restaurant were too long, he decided to expand. With the help of a friend, he found an opening for another res taurant in the Atrium and opened a second George's Gyros Sandwich restaurant. At that point things started to roll, Kholousi said. Within a few months after opening the second gyros restaurant, he opened a third closed to all traffic except for bus parking. The Vine Street loop in front of Memorial Stadium also will be closed. Public parking will be available west of Memorial Stadium. Buses will arrive around 8:30 a.m., Johnson said. This is the third year the Nebraska State Band Masters Association has sponsored band day, she said. The first year it was held at UND, but last year, the bands came to UNL, Johnson said. This year class A, C and D schools will play in Lincoln, while class AA and B t y OaiSy ri University of Nebraska-Lincoln .A Andrea HoyDaily Nebraskan at Gateway Shopping Center. To fit the needs of the new loca tion, he named the newest restau rant International Burger, although he kept basically the same product as his first two restaurants. Since then, Kholousi has opened three other restaurants. The interesting thing about his business adventures, Kholousi said, is that he financed it all with the help of friends and contractors. Friends have helped him out of tight spots and contractors have allowed him to build up his charge account past the usual limit. "I ran into my business teacher the other day and I told him I was going to write a book (called) 'How to Open a Restaurant Without Any Money,' " he said with a laugh. Kholousi said he wants to invest in real estate and possibly more restaurants. "I take a lot of risks, but entre preneurial people, they do that," he said. "If I lose it all, I'll just start again." schools will perform in Omaha. Class D bands will march first and Class A bands will march last. The Nebraska Comhusker Marching band will give mi exhibition at 4:20 p.m., she said. Johnson said she expects to see large crowds at the competition. "We had a real good crowd last year," she said. Seating is on the west side of the stadium. Spectators should enter through the center gate, she said. Tickets will be $2 for high school students and $3 for the general public. Red Hot Chili Peppers spice up Drumstick Arts and Entertainment, page 8 J t".. ASUN asks deans to print grade By Jen Deselms Staff Reporter The ASUN Senate passed two bills Wednesday night to encourage college deans and the Faculty Senate to make information on the grading appeals process and grading scale easily ac cessible to students. One bill encourages the Grading Policy Committee of the Faculty Senate to develop a stringent policy to inform students in writing of the requirements and grading policy used in each course. The bill also states that failure to put this information in a syllabus should be grounds for grade appeal. ASUN Senator Kent Webb said the purpose of the bill is to give the Faculty Senate a guideline. The second bill encourages college deans to print procedures and rules to follow in college bulletins. The bill says "under the supervision of the college dean the professors of that college should include on their individual syl labus a note concerning the procedural provisions of the appeals process for that college." In committee reports, ASUN Senator Todd Duffack said the Campus Life and Campus Safety committees still are looking into the feasibility of a street light in front of the 501 Building on 10th Street. UNL to combine catalogs to aid undergrad search By Jane Campbell Staff Reporter UNL is putting together a consoli dated undergraduate college catalog that is expected to be available in January. The new catalog will replace the eight separate catalogs now available from each college, said Viann Schroeder, director of Publications Services and Control. Individual college catalogs are use ful for each college, Schroeder said, but not as convenient for the students who don't know what they want to study. "Students will have the opportunity to check out all the colleges in one document," she said. Information from the eight colleges in one book will be easier for academic advisers to use, as well as high school counselors, Schroeder said. The new catalog, which will be 300 to 400 pages long, will have general information about the university, besides to the same information found in the individual catalogs, she said. For example, academic policies such as taking classes pass-no pass will be explained in the front of the new catalog, she said. Individual catalogs have not always explained academic policies, Schroeder said. New students at UNL receive one free catalog when they enroll. More individual catalogs cost 50 cents at the bookstores. Schroeder said the new catalog will cost more than an individ ual catalog, but less than if a person Vol. 85 No. 39 policy Earle Brown, UNL director of Envir onmental Health and Safety and secre tary of the Campus Safety Committee, said concern about 10th Street traffic began in November 1984. A UNL stu dent was injured at the intersection in April 1985. Brown said the changes made by the city painting the crosswalk and lowering the speed limit from 35 mph to 30 mph haven't been effective. Brown said he has not noticed a change in the speed or flow of traffic. In other business,JeffFishback, ASUN second vice-president, said ASUN needs to discuss reducing the number of mailings sent during the year that announce ASUN and committee meet ings. Fishback said the mailings cost $77 every time there is an opening. Earlier this fall, ASUN adopted a new expanded recruitment policy that included mailing information of up coming ASUN appointments to all rec ognized student groups. ASUN President Gerard Keating is meeting with Nebraska Union Director Daryl Swanson to look at possible loca tions for the new proposed commuter center in the Nebraska Union. Keating said student fees would be raised to cover the costs of the center. The cen ter will provide information about jobs, housing and entertainment in Lincoln. Keating said the budget for the center is estimated at $15,000 a year. bought the eight individual catalogs. Schroeder said she hopes people will keep the new catalog longer. Other universities have reported better ret ention of larger, consolidated catalogs, she said. Many universities are combining their catalogs, she said. Schroeder received a survey involving 40 institu tions and only seven of those surveyed still had individual college catalogs. Publications Services and Control is working with the deans from each col lege to update curriculum, Schroeder said. UNL Chancellor Martin Massen gale, the vice chancellors and the col lege deans have been supportive of the new catalog, she said. Last day to drop classes is today From Staff Reports Today is the last day students can drop full-semester courses or change a class to passno pass. A $5 processing fee will be charged for class drops and there will be no tuition refunds, said Robert Reid, associate director of registration and records. Class drops will not be shown on grade reports or perman ent records. Drops and passno pass requests should be taken to Students Ac counts, Administration Building 204, by 4 p.m., he said.
