The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, November 11, 1986, Image 1
Weather: Mostly sunny and not as cold Tuesday. High In the lower 30s. Southeast wind 10to15mph, Increasing cloudiness Tuesday night with a 20 percent chance of light snow toward morning. Low in the upper teens. X NU volleyball team sets up for Cyclones Sport, Page 7 New collectors' coins worth their weight in gold Arts & Entertainment, Page 9 nTr dly n Q (Q 7 r) TpT) November 11, 1986 l: "v.::,--,",: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 86 No. 56 Kerrey calls special session for Legislature By The Associated Press LINCOLN Gov. Bob Kerrey ordered Monday that the Legisla ture convene in special session on Wednesday to deai with a pair of farm credit issues. Kerrey signed and issued the call that set the agenda for the special session, which will begin at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The governor said he is hoping for enough senatorial support to enact immediate changes in state law. Kerrey will leave office in January. Kerrey said the session would be limited to a measure involving farm and ranch foreclosures, and one involving liens on agricultu ral commodities. The issue surrounding foreclosures involves LB999, passed by the 1986 Legislature. The lien measure centers on LB603, also passed in the last session and vetoed by Kerrey. "We ought to be able to get in and out of here and vote this thing up or down," Kerrey said. Kerrey's decision was based on apparent voter rejection of a proposal that would have allowed the Legislature to begin its regular, 90-day session in early December. "I think we have clear consensus for change, in both areas, but I don't know if we have the 33 votes for the emergency clause," Kerrey said in an interview. A measure passed with the emergency clause becomes law shortly after a governor signs it. "The emergency clause is important to both of them, but more so with LB603, the law involving clear title on commodities," Kerrey said. "It's really important to both of them because it would mean, with the borrowing season, tht borrowers could remove an impediment they would otherwise have with lenders." See SESSION on 3 Illiili By Colleen Kcnney j C'-.ff Rcrort-r ; rr.'l c:r dcctro-Eic'r.ctii net fr4 a vrj ts cz:Atti a Earfc. Electronically based weapons slated far Star Wars appli cation now are without a reliable "triggering" mechanism, Williams said. Scientists da not have the technology to Williams said that if he can control a spark, he can add a "missing link" to SDI technology. Scientists know that sparks can be erected between two teesehg tllris the ability to crcci c a : cn ccrr.rr.ar. J vrill nset the switching n?ed3 cf SB1 v:z:TS' ths spark : till 1 2 &lh to cc-Juct Mj!i volt."-3 currents turn ths "'21 y;-u j::;t rjr'y a vdto tctw:c:.i t. riros cf some thirs you'll gzt a gpirk," ha ssld. Tat If youwsr. to ts$ this a s'wtcac 'fcav to n;p .Vciio izm aafc3.ve.ijfcs t ::. f.rj then, tnzz-z s?iidirzz:J, you tiic-r : : 4 J t - - . . . -" - '- 1 ' " ' Richard WrightDaily Nebraskan More snow? The annual migration for ducks and geese should be at its highest this week, according to Nebraska State Game and Parks officials. Here, some of an estimated 50,000 snow geese land at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa Sunday. UNL recreation center possible Plans 'moved off back burner says university official By Michael Hooper Senior Reporter The idea of building a new UNL student recreation center is "being moved off the back burner right now," UNL officials say. Although a plan for the center's con struction is not on the university's bian nual capital construction list, it is on the six-year capital construction projection list which awaits approval by the NU Board of Regents, said John Benson, acting director of Institutional Research and Planning. The estimated $12.1 million project "is by no means a dead issue," said Pete Cas tellano, an ASUN arts and sciences senator. Benson said, however, that no new pro jects can be started until July 1987, when the moratorium on capital construction projects at UNL is lifted. Members of the NU Board of Regents, who announced the moratorium last year because of budget cuts, may decide to extend the morato rium on construction projects, Benson said. Construction of the Lied Center of Performing Arts is not affected by the moratorium because it is primarily funded by grants and donations, not state funds, Benson said. Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs James Griesen said there is a need for a new recreation center and that administrators are looking into ways to finance the project. A task force is dis cussing various possibilities for funding, he said. Last spring Last spring, ASUN passed a bill that recognized the need for a new recreation center and suggested a way to begin fund ing its construction. UNL would collect from the UNL Athletic Department 50 cents on adult admission tickets sold for every home athletic event. The money raised would be deposited in a student recreational operating fund that would be used to begin construction of the center, said Castellano, who sponsored the bill. The tickets would show that 50 cents of the price of admission is a contribution to the new student recreation center. The surcharge would raise $250,000 to $500,000 a year, Catellano said. The rest of the money could be raised through stu dent fees, state finances and donations, Benson said. Bottom ranking Stan Campbell, director of campus recreation, said UNL needs a recreation center. UNL ranks last among Big Eight schools in terms of the number of hours available for students to use recreation areas, he said. "If a students wants to work out or get in shape," Campbell said, "he doesn't have the space to do it in." One recreational area, the Coliseum, is used for classes all day and by the Nebraska Volleyball team until 6:30 p.m. The team also uses it some nights for home games. The intramural program will begin soon, Campbell said, and it ties up space in the Colseum Sundays through Thurs days. The program includes volleyball, basketball and indoor soccer during the winter months, he said. "Those programs are so large that they just don't leave space for anyone to work out on their own," Campbell said. When the football season is over, he said, students use the dirt track under the east stadium. He said students heavily use the racquetball courts, which aren't offi cial size. Pool closing UNL's recreational facilities took a recent loss when the Coliseum pool was closed because the university could not afford to update the pool's old equipment. On the 1981 ASUN ballot students were asked if they would support construction of a new recreation center. Seventy-six percent said they favored construction, and 62 percent said they were willing to increase student fees to finance or par tially finance the project, fhen Vice Chan cellor for Student Affals Richard Arm strong appointed a task force to come up with a program statement regarding con struction of a new recreation center. The statement favoring construction of a new recreation center was completed in 1982 and presented to UNL's Central Planning Committee. That committee approved of the statement. In 1984 the Central and Academic Planning Committees selected, in a joint resolution, the new recreation center as the number-one priority for capital con struction. The program originally said the 137,000 square-foot center would include five bas ketball courts, a suspended jogging track, a 5,000 square-foot weight room, locker rooms for men and women, a combative arts area and a multi-purpose room for table tennis and pool, six lanes by 25 yards, which is the same size as the one in the Coliseum and Cgmpus Recreation offices.