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-J WEATHER: Monday, partly sunny and milder. High in the lower 50s. Wind south 5 to 1 5 mph. Monday night, partly cloudy and not as cool. Low around 30. Tues day, partly sunny and mild. High in the mid-50s. Thanksgiving out look: Dry and mild. High in the lowerto mid-50s. X OU pulls same trick, beats Nebraska 20-17 Sports, Page 8 Concerts coming for the holiday season Arts and Entertainment, Page 10 h L -. v A vS uii (PA November 24, 1986 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 86 No. 65 3 TOIL inner Board OKs purchase By Michael Hooper Senior Reporter The NU Board of Regents approved Friday the purchase of six blocks of the former Rock Island Railroad property to be used for UNL parking. Regents voted 7-1 to approve the purchase of the land, owned by Califor nia developer David Murdock, for $975,000. The additional land will help make up for several parking areas being lost by the construction of the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 1 1th and Q streets, said Jack Goebel, UNL vice chancellor for business and finance. The property is located on the east side of Cather-Pound halls, from R Street north to Antelope Creek. Regent Robert Simmons of Scottsb luff voted against the purchase because of the university's budget problems and because UNL already has enough parking, he said. Goebel said, however, that the. land is in a good location for parking. The purchase will give the university some flexibility in meeting UNL's current parking needs, he said. The land is being purchased with bonds, backed by parking revenue. Regents also approved a resolution citing the need to replace City and East campus boilers that are more than 60 years old. The resolution calls for the university to replace two steam-heating boilers on East Campus and a third on City Campus at a cost of $2.1 million. The boilers need to be replaced as soon as possible, the resolution said. The regents will take final action on this in December. In other action, regents: Approved an amended program statement for the $4.6 million head quarters and public-events building at the Mead Agricultural Research an Development Center. The building will include rooms for laboratories, compu ters and living accomodations for a few graduate students. The project will be financed by a combination of public and private funds. Approved a needs statement for five construction projects at rural agri cultural centers, totaling $2.9, million in capital construction requests. The state would provide about $2.7 million. NU Board of Regents to allow alcohol at ball By Michael Hooper Senior Reporter The NU Board of Regents passed Fri day a resolution allowing alcohol to be served in the Bob Devaney Sports Cen ter for Kay Orr's inauguration ball on Jan. 9. Regent Robert Koefoot voted against the resolution because he thought that UNL students would see the decision as "a shoe in the door" to change UNL's alcohol policy. "It will tell the students that we might relax our regulations on alco hol," Koefoot said after the meeting. He said he will never approve of alcohol being served on campus. "This is a one-time occurence," he said. UNL Student Regent Chris Scudder said students will interpret the deci sion broadly and use it as leverage to get the alcohol policy changed. Many students want alcohol on campus, she said. She said students will ask, "What factor decides whether an event is important enough to merit the serving of alcohol?" The alcohol policy is a "hot issue" right now, Scudder said. Students are not wrong when they think the policy is not black and white because it has been continually interpreted. She said she could understand why administration thinks the sports cen ter would be a good place for Orr's inauguration. Hut changing the policy for what ever event is "what raises students' eye brows," Scudder said. "It's a hot enough issue right now that students will say this is wrong," she said. ASl'N Arts and Sciences Sen. Richard Burke, who started the ad hoc commit tee currently studying the alcohol pol icy, said the regents' decision demon strates "the inconsistencies we've been trying to point out all along." If students get together on campus for an event even for a legitimate reason no alcohol can be served, Burke said. But UNL administration can serve alcohol whenever they want, he said. "In order for the policy to be con sistent, they should not allow alcohol in the Bob Devaney Sports Center, or allow it in the residence halls and Greek houses," Burke said. Burke said he does not speak for the committee studying the alcohol policy. Scudder said alcohol has been served in various buildings on campus, includ ing the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, the Wick Alumni Center and the Nebraska Union. The current policy on the use of alcohol was adopted in 1980. It permits the service of alcoholic beverages at private events at specified locations on university campuses. The policy has been amended since its original adop tion, according to the written resolu tion passed at the regents meeting Friday. The Inaugural Ball Committee will rent the sports center on Jan. 9, 1987. The ball will be by invitation only. The contract between the Inaugural Ball Committee and UNL has not been finalized, said Orval Borgialli, the administrative coordinator for the sports center. He said the cost of rent ing the center is $2."0,000, plusexpenses for additional equipment, or 10 percent, of gross profit. "They will pay rent like anyone else," he said. ) v 'V-'f - ; ) W r .... '-vy y , I (- ytfv aL V I &m : iJ . iimi i " " """" " -,, I t-f; ... I I .!: i v v1 : t I ... . .4; f I W - A - v f L. i 1 ,s I -v i n , ., .ii in- ii - - - ' - - - .i.n...,.,.,. . - .1 f Andrea HoyDaily Nebraskan The agony of defeat Husker football Sooners as he sits player Broderick Thomas (left), grieves the 20-17 loss to the Oklahoma its on the bench after the qame, and Is consoled by an unidenfied friend. (GJLSA member li mm to poi ice Reported stabbing attempt in union never happened, he says By Jen Deselms Senior Reporter Two UNL students, Tim Mulford and Vicki Jedlicka, have been cited for fil ing false reports to the UNL police in connection with an alleged attempted stabbing in the Nebraska Union on Nov. 7. In a Nov. 1 1 interview with the Daily Nebraskan, Mulford said he was at the GayLesbian Student Association office on the third floor of the union and was on his way back from a restroom when a man he described as dark skinned with brown eyes and brown, shoulder-length hair allegedly attacked him. Mulford said the man tried to stab him. Mulford said he put his hand over his stomach and was cut on his hand. He said he yelled, "Leave me alone," at the man, ran back to the office and told his "partner," Rodney A. Bell II and Jedlicka that he was attacked. Mulford then reported the alleged attack to UNL police. When Mulford was interviewed, small scrape marks were visible on his right hand. In an interview last week Mulford admitted that the stabbing attempt did not occur. Mulford said he scraped his hand across a bulletin board outside the center and then told Bell and Jedlicka he had been attacked. Mulford said he staged the attack because of a threatening incident the day before. Mulford said he opened his front door at about 2 p.m. on Nov. (i and a young man asked for Bell. Mulford said the man was about 5-10 and had short blond hair. Mulford said he told the man that Bell was in class. The man then pulled out a "Rambo knife," Mulford said. Mulford said the man told him to tell Bell that "he had something for him." Mulford said he tried to shut the door, but the man punched him and left. Mulford said that incident prompted him to make up the other attack to gain attention for the Nov. 6 incident which he reported to the Lincoln Police Department. See REPORTS on 3