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$42,000 bid brings
Burger King to union
By Bob Nelson
Staff Reporter
After months of renovation, includ
ing installing new cash registers and
purple neon lights, the Nebraska Union
became the Home of the Whopper on
Aug. 4.
“So far business has been a little
slow,” said Burger King manager Duane
Sattler. “I’m sure business will pick up
once school starts and students begin
to realize that we’re here.”
Renovation of the space once occu
pied by the Union Square restaurant
cost Burger King more than $100,000.
Changes included replacing kitchen
equipment and cash registers, and
extensive remodeling of the dining
area
battier said tne restaurant s prices
would be the same as other Lincoln
Burger Kings. Beverage prices are
slightly lower to compete with vending
machines in the union, he said.
“It’s just like any other Burger King
except we’ve added nachos, potato
skins and cookies," Sattler said.
Sattler said that Burger King has
already hired 25 employees. Most of the
full-time employees are not college
students, but about half of the part
time workers are UNL students.
“The hiring policy is the same as at
all Burger Kings,” Sattler said. “We
don’t give special preference to UNL
students."
However, Sattler said, the restaurant
did not send applications to people
who had worked at Union Square.
Burger King won the union space
over Hardees, Runza and Taco Del Sol
with a bid of $42,000 a year. Results
from an informal polling of students
also helped.
The poll, conducted by Union Board
members, found that people were most
familiar with Burger King, and its broad
King has new home;
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From Staff Reports
Open since 1978, the down
town McDonald’s, 1401 0 St., is
looking for a new location to
“better serve the campus and
the community,” said Terri
Capatosto, McDonald’s media
relations manager.
“We don't believe in being
stagnant,” she said. "We’re always
looking for a better way to serve
our customers.”
She said that McDonald s is
not moving because of the new
Burger King in the Nebraska
Union.
“In general, competitors look
to where McDonald’s is going to
be," she said.
According to the Lincoln area
supervisor, no word has been
received about the proposed move.
Duane Sattler, restaurant
manager at Burger King, said
that McDonald’s move will affect
Burger King somewhat.
"For students going off cam
pus, they’ll have the choice of
going to Wendy’s or us," Sattler
said. “The people on the street
don’t even know we’re here yet."
Capatosto said no plans, dates
or sites have been chosen yet.
menu appealed to a wide range of
students.
Burger King’s grand opening will be
Oct. 11.
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Lincoln Mayor Bill Harris wants to pool city and UNL resources for the downtown
redevelopment project.
Downtown redevelopment to continue
By James Lillis
Senior Reporter
Lincoln Mayor Bill Harris said he
thinks the city and the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln need to accom
modate and cooperate in order to
make the downtown redevelopment
project and other goals successful.
He said that if downtown Lincoln
is kept attractive and fills the needs
of students, they will shop downtown
instead of going other places.
Harris said that if the students
find an appealing social life in Lin
coln, they will stay here after
graduation.
“Then we will grow and prosper,”
Harris said.
Harris said he expects the actual
redevelopment of downtown will be
started by late January 1988.
The mayor also said he intended
to adhere to former Mayor Roland
Leudtke’s plan to remove businesses
located within Block 35. That block,
surrounded by 10th, 11th, P and 0
streets, eventually will be used as a
parking lot for the rest of downtown
Lincoln. Many of these businesses
cater to university students.
Those businesses could stay on
Block 35 until the fall of 1988, Harris
said. After that, the city may legally
condemn the other businesses.
Until then, those businesses have
the following options:
• To settle on a price with the
city.
• Request that their property
be condemned immediately or wait
until the fall of 1988 to have their
property condemned.
Another common interest of the
city and university is the FarmAid
III concert at UNL’s Memorial Sta
dium Sept. 19.
Harris said the concert should
bring in at least $6 million to Lin
coln’s economy. He said that UNL,
economists expect it will bring in as
much as $8 million altogether.
Harris said he did not know how
much the nation’s or the state’s
farmers would benefit from the money
raised by the concert.
New requirements: Student aid conditional
By Randy Lyons
Staff Reporter
Changes in requirements for feder
ally funded student aid programs may
leave many students with considerably
less financial aid than they received
last year — or no aid at all.
The cuts proposed for the 1987-88
school year by the Reagan administra
tion, which included cutting many pro
grams altogether, didn’t survive Con
gress intact. Instead, a compromise
was reached which targeted two msyjor
areas: restrictions on which students
could be considered self-supporting or
independent, and restricted access to
the Guaranteed Student Loan program.
The continuing changes in financial
aid programs are an attempt to redirect
the growing student debt from the
burden of the taxpayers back toward
students themselves. The overall effect
may force many students to take out
less-desirable student loans to replace
the money once received through the
programs.
"The impact of the new changes are
affecting 2,000 to 3,000 here at UNL,”
said Bill McFarland, UNL financial aid
director.
These students probably will receive
no aid or a reduced amount compared
to the previous school year, he said.
There have been 1,000 fewer applica
tions for combination aid packages and
1,000 fewer students in the combina
tion aid package priority-one group,
McFarland said. Students who qualify
for grants, loans and special programs
such as college work study are classi
fied as high priority for the combined
aid of these programs.
One of the nuyor changes is restrict
ing who can be considered independ
ent and self-supporting. According to
new rules, students are automatically
self-supporting if:
• they are *t least 24 by Jan. 1
of the award year;
• they are a veteran of the U.S.
Armed Forces;
• they are orphans or wards of
the court;
• they have legal dependents of
their own other than spouses.
Students may be considered self
supporting if:
• they are single undergradu
ates and were not claimed as tax
exemptions by their parents for two
calendar years preceding the award
year and can demonstrate income
totaling at least $4,000 each of the two
years;
• they are married and can demon
strate that they will not be claimed as
income tax exemptions by parents for
the first year of the award year;
• they are graduate or professional
students and can prove that they will
not be claimed as income tax exemp
tions by their parents for the first year
of the award year.
Because of changes “we see stu
dents who were self-supporting the last
few years, and would’ve been this year,
being placed back into the group
called ‘dependents,’ ” McFarland said.
When that happens, the students’
needs will be based back on family
income and assets to calculate the
amount of aid they will receive, he said.
The second mtyor change will res
trict access to the Guaranteed Student
Loan program. The new standards have
moved the GSL from a simple needs
test or read off table which took into
account income, family size and number
of family members in college, to a
format called uniform methodology.
Uniform methodology includes all of
the previous factors but also includes a
portion of the family asset in figuring
student need.
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UNSTA remains optimistic despite failures
By Christine Anderson
Staff Reporter
Students and officials at the Univer
sity of Nebraska School of Technical
Agriculture at Curtis haven’t given up
hope yet.
Although recent attempts to pre
serve their school have failed, they
remain optimistic.
"The school has taken on the same
attitude as the farmer — it’s not over
until it's really over," said Del Van Der
Werff, department chairman of inter
departmental instruction at Curtis.
Jerry Huntwork, associate director
of the school, agreed.
"We cannot totally give up," he said.
"We have to have faith in the Legisla
ture to find a solution."
The search for financing for Curtis
began after the college was dropped by
the NU Board of Regents last spring in
an effort to scale down the university’s
budget. The board cut financing to the
college because NU President Ronald
Roskens said it did not fit the mission
of UNL as a research and liberal arts
institution.
Curtis officials opposed Gov. Kay
Orr’s recent decision to veto an appro
priations bill that would have alloted
state money to the school. Orr vetoed
the bill despite approval by the Legis
lature to continue financing the school.
Later, Orr visited the campus.
“She visited the school ajier she
vetoed the bill," Huntwork said.
Since then, Orr formed a special
committee to search for public and pri
vate donations to finance the school.
However, a solution to save the school
is not a certainty, Orr said.
Don Blank, a regent and member of
the committee said they are trying to
examine ways to keep the school as an
agricultural-vocational technical school.
Yet committee members have reftised
to reveal the alternatives being consi
dered for the college.
One recent option would allow the
Mid-Plains Technical Community Col
lege to take over operation of the
school. But Mid-Plains board members
argued that since Curtis is a state
supported school, it would not be feas
ible for an 18-county area to support it.
The proposal was denied.
Nebraska penitentiary officials also
have expressed interest in the campus.
The college would be converted into a
minimum-security penal complex, and
instructors would be allowed to stay at
the college and teach. After two visits
to the campus, penitentiary officials
have not taken any action.
Orr also has proposed that FarmAid
funds be used to support the school.
However, the money would only provide
temporary help for the college.
"We have to prepare for it to be our
final year," Huntwork said.
The school now allows the remaining
students to finish their education, but
the school will not admit freshmen this
fall. Huntwork said 50 students enrolled i
at Curtis this fall. s
“There’s interest in the school, but *
their registrations were sent back," he '
said.
The threat of losing the school has
also hurt summer enrollment.
Karen Lipska, a sophomore from
Pine Bluffs, Wyo., said that her largest
class consists of 15 students. Total
enrollment at the school has also dras
tically dropped. About 50 students are
enrolled this summer, down from the
average of 130.
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Phyllis Kaczor, a sophomore at UNSTa, says students get
hands-on experience at the Curtis school.