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October 18, 1985
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
