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Tuesday, June 10, 1986 Daily Nebraskan Masses off youngsters swarm to UNL campus for activitie By Linda Bendixen Staff Reporter Mark Honnor, a former pitcher for UNL and baseball camp counselor, lives on the 13th floor of Abel Hall, and on Sunday night, a junior high school student approached him, complaining of a stomach ache. When asked if he felt sick, the stu dent said he wasn't sure, but maybe a call home would make him feel better. The boy was homesick. Homesickness is just one of the many, yet usually minor, problems that coordinators and counselors will face this week when more than 1900 junior high and high school students invade the UNL campus. Activities this week include Boys and Girls State, baseball, football, and swimming camps and the All-State Fine Arts Conference. Housing arrangements are coordi nated by Michele Cole, assistant direc tor of UNL housing. Cole said UNL, in cooperation with the city of Lincoln, works to arrange conferences for var ious groups throughout the summer. She said that UNL offers room and board and conference facilities at a lower rate than hotels and motels. The rates vary depending on the services offered, such as linen and food service. In addition to mass housing, the campus provides conference and sports facilities, and a casual environment for the visiting groups. Bob Stine, Amy Dickerson and Sue Kelly, UNL summer directors, coordi nate housing in the residence halls for the groups. Under their command are 25 conference assistants who live in Smith Hall, but stay in different halls with the various groups and their camp counselors. This week, Stine is expect ing 1933 visitors. With all of these students come a number of services and probably problems. Included in the services are cafeteria food service, game rooms, the Abel Hall swimming pool and, of course, the snack bars. Abel snack bar man ager Judy Weichman says that during the conferences the snack bar does big business. "If we can push them in and out, we can make over $400 in a day," she said. The snack bar is open for only two hours, from 8:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. The front desks at the residence halls are heavy traffic areas. Confer ence participants went through about $300 in change Sunday evening, the first day of Boys and Girls State and athletic camps. And to prevent possible problems with these dormitory newcomers, the conference directors hold safety meet ings with the groups. They present the expectations of the housing depart ment and explain possible repercus sions if the expectations are not met. Still, there are problems. Due to the size of some of the cam pees, such as some football campers, the elevator is limited to nine, and only nine people. When over-loaded, the elevator will stall, leaving a long walk up the stairs. 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"They scream a lot, but they're no real trou ble," Sauma says noting that in com parison with the college students, the high school students are more respect ful to the guards. "They probably think we're cops." Overall the students, while explor ing the UNL campus and enjoying their respective activities, are pretty orderly and veil mannered. They know that if they get out of line the repercussions could be extreme. They could be sent vci ucen CApuscu iu iuuk auu Key uiu ixiuiu loaner-key check outs. In anticipation home Husker charged with assault NOONAN from Page 1 Noonan is 20 years old, but Carkoski said that doesn't necessarily mean that the Lincoln Police Department has to issue Noonan a citation for being a minor in possession of alcohol. Lincoln laws state that minors may be in a drinking establishment after 9 p.m. as long as they are over 16 years old and are not consuming alcohol. 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