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January 23, 1987
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol.86 No.87
New franchise has
union employees
worried about jobs
By Amy Edwards
Staff Reporter
Plans to replace Union Square with a
fast-food franchise have placed the
future of many longtime employees in
jeopardy.
Many don't like to think, much less
talk, about what the coming months
will bring.
Dorothy Williams, a five-year employ
ee, says she doesn't know whether she
will be given another job at the univer
sity or left to fend for herself. Williams
has been told the university will try to
provide her with another job.
But, she said, "with all the cutbacks
and employee cutbacks the univeristy
has been making, it will be difficult to
find another job here at the university."
Lois White, a three-year, temporary
employee at Union Square, said she
will certainly lose her job. She receives
no benefits now as a temporary
employee, but she's worried about find
ing another job.
"If you don't know the right people,
even if you do have the skills, it's hard
to find the right job," White said.
Union Square employees have been
told that they may apply for a job with
the new franchise but will be given no
preference. They have been encour
aged to look for work elsewhere and
many have begun to do so, Williams
said.
"When the time comes, we'll just
have to wait and see what happens,"
Williams said.
Daryl Swanson, union director, said
union officials are working to get the
Union Square employees priority for
other university jobs.
"Specific layoff policy permits the
university to give current permanent
employees preference for any jobs
Oldfatker: everyone
By Jen Deselms
Senior Reporter
Brenda Babcock, a secretary in the
Actuarial Science Office, Burnett 311,
had been in her new office only a week
when she noticed the phenomenon.
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On Wednesday Babcock looked out
the window and saw that the sky had
turned black. The wind howled, intro
ducing her to the force that makes
students seek shelter in Burnett on
cold winter evenings. The Oldfather
wind tunnels.
The wind tunnels that exist on both
sides of Oldfather Hall are caused by
the vast difference in height between
the closely built buildings in the area
Bessey, Oldfather and Burnett, said
Kim Todd, campus landscape architect.
Wind blowing from the northwest
speeds across the open field in front of
Memorial Stadium meeting no resis
tance, she said. Then, when the high
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Union Square employee Dan Dolan may lose his job later this
announces the fast-food franchise to replace Union Square.
available even before openings are
posted to the public," he said. Swanson
said that the timing of the layoffs will
not be too bad because it will come in
the summer, when the Union Square is
normally closed. This will give the
employees time to find work before the
fall semester. Several jobs may be open
in the campus food services in the fall
semester, Swanson said.
Jeff Fishback, president of the Union
Board, said the univeristy will try to
place Union Square employees with the
new franchise, but, he said,
Books and balance imperiled by wind tunnel
speed wind hits Bessey it's forced to
scoop up and over Bessey, causing the
air layers to be compressed and the
speed to increase even more, Todd
said.
The effect is compression, like
"squeezing a tube of toothpaste," Todd
said.
What happens next has been known
to send students scrambling after pap
ers and falling flat on their faces.
Because the space between the
buildings is tight, the large volume of
air becomes trapped in a small space
and can't leap over Oldfather. Instead,
the compressed air tries to escape so it
can spread out again and shoots down
the sidewalks on both sides of Old
father, Todd said.
Although people agree on what causes
the wind tunnels, they probably won't
agree on how to solve them, she said.
Ideally, Todd said, the space between
the buildings could be covered or pos
sibly a vertical wind block as tall as
Oldfather could be constructed.
Duane Burham, chief design engi
neer at the Physical Plant, said lands
caping and planting trees to break up
the wind would be a possible solution.
4It's not a ho-hum type
is it?'
Burham said the Oldfather wind
tunnels are not the only ones on cam-
pus; another area of high windD exists
near Nebraska Hall. Strong winds also
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"because it is a privately owned fran
chise, we have no control over decision
making processes of hiring and firing
employees."
Union Square employees may not
want to work with the new franchise,
Fishback said, because they are not
likely to receive any of the benefits the
university offers permanent employees,
like vacations and sick leave.
No decision or dates concerning the
franchise have been made. Swanson
said the university is doing its best to
keep Union Square employees informed
knows it9
blow down 13th Street between National
Bank of Commerce and the Stuart
Building, Todd said.
Wind is always considered during
construction of a building to ensure
the structure's strength under the worst
possible conditions, Burham said.
Although the wind has been des
cribed as whistling, noisy and even
howling, faculty with offices in Old
father don't seem to find it distracting.
Jane Heinicke, a clerical assistant in
Oldfather 437, agreed that the wind
isn't distracting, but it poses a real
problem when she wants to open the
window for some fresh air.
"It blows all my papers around," she
said.
Heinicke said she usually just finds
something heavy to put on her papers.
E.L. Homze, history professor, Old
father 615, said Oldfather must have
been a preliminary study for the con
struction of a wind tunnel for aeronau
tics engineering.
Homze said the tunnels are chal
lenging and add an element of sus
pense to the building.
"It's not a ho-hum type of office
building, is it?" Homze asked. .
of office building,
Homze
"I think it's sporting," he said. Even
more so in a stiff wind, Homze added,
Some days it's a real challenge to get
to and from the building, Homze said.
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Dave BentzDaily Nebraskan
spring when the Union Board
and has assured them of jobs through
the spring semester. The five perman
ent employees of Union Square (the
rest are temporary), will be put on the
priority list for university work, he said.
In the meantime, Union Square
employees, like Dan Dolan, just keep
selling fries, bagels, hamburgers and
tacos and wonder how long it will last.
"I would be very upset if I had to
leave this place, I've been here six
years and love this, I enjoy the stu
dents," Dolan said.
windy
Tom LauderDaily Nebraskan
And when it's icy, people sometimes
fall in the attempt.
Richard Tyler, professor of modern
languages and literatures, Oldfather
1209, shared Homze's affinity for the
wind.
"Lots of times it just howls out
there," Tyler said. "I like it."
Tyler said the wind provides him
with a steady sound, kind of like back
ground noise, to work to. But some
people don't like it at all, he said.
Tyler said a physics student once
told him he could feel the building
move, but Tyler never has.
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Senate's
gay poll,
Ibooae, etc.
By Merry Hayes
Staff Reporter
Wednesday, in a night of controversy
and extended debate, ASUN senators
passed bills that would add a gayles
, bian survey to ASUN's electoral ballot,
advocate serving alcohol at ASUN
installation and change the senate's
name.
That's right, ASUN no longer exists
it's "UNL Student Government"
now. One reason given in the bill was
that many students rearranged its let
ters to form a variety of undesirable
acronyms.
In the middle of all this, ASUN
Speaker Jerry Roemer resigned and
Doug Weems was named his replace
ment. Roemer will remain a member of
the senate. (See related story.)
Thursday, senate President Chris
Scudder said she planned to veto the
bill proposing that alcohol be served at
the officer installation.
She is undecided on the other con
troversial bill, designed to measure
student support for the proposed UPC
GayLesbian Programming Committee.
The bill proposes that the following
questions appear on the next senate
electoral ballot:
1. Are you a homosexual?
2. Do you favor the funding of a
gay lesbian council with student
fees?
3. Would you attend the events of
such a council?
Weems, the bill's sponsor, said its
purpose is to respond to the controv
ersy generated by the proposed crea
tion of the UPC GayLesbian Council.
Council.
Roemer said if this survey is put on
the ballot, it will be either manipu
lated or ignored. He said the question
asking if students would attend the
events of such a council is irrelevant,
and that very few people would say yes
to this question because the program is
designed for a minority.
"That doesn't mean that the com
mittee doesn't need it," he said. "That
just means that you have to recognize
that this is a minority program."
Roemer said that by putting this
survey on the ballot, the senate is "kil
ling the GayLesbian Committee before
it even gets off the ground."
Weems said the ballot surveys will
not be "100 percent accurate." But, he
said, "as long as there is information to
be gained, any survey 'doesn't do any
harm unless they're worried about the
information."
Scudder said she may veto the bill
and submit her own revised bill.
She said she does not think the
question, "Are you a homosexual?" is
relevant.
"The only really important question
is 'Do you favor using student fees for
the committee?' " she said. "Whether
you're gay or not, you still pay student
fees."
Scudder said she plans to veto a
senate bill in favor of allowing alcohol
at the installation of senate executives
and senators.
Weems, the bill's sponsor, said the
ASUN installation is of equal impor
tance and magnitude to Gov. Kay Orr's
inaugural ball, at which alcohol was
served.
He said the bill would "make a
statement for students."
Sen. Jeff Warren said this bill would
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