Lied water line
Parking limited;
work continues
From_Statf Reports______
As students dad in shorts and T-shirts trudge to their
first day of classes, construction workers sweat to keep
the Lied Center for Performing Arts cool.
K Street, from 13th to 12th streets in front of Temple
Hall is closed off because of an extended summer con
struction project to run a chilled water line to the Lied
Center for air conditioning. R Street from 16th to 14th
streets was closed off last week for construction.
Bud Dasenbrock, grounds director for the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, said the water-line project should
be completed by Sept. 1.
Dasenbrock said the metered stalls that are accessi
ble on R Street can be used. Other stalls are closed until
the project is completed.
“The big effort is to get it done for the football games
when the street will be more congested,” Dasenbrock
said.
James Money, construction engineer for UNL, said the
water line will run from 16th and R streets into a new
tunnel built from the Lied Center.
The cost of the project is about $165,000 and was
included in the original budget for the Lied Center,
Money said.
Closed-circuit TV
for Accounting 201
By Lynne Bomberger
Staff Reporter
Accounting 201 students will find
the class is still taught by video, but
modifications have been made to im
prove the class, said Thomas Hubbard,
director of the School of Accountancy.
One of the changes made to the con
troversial video class is that the class
will be shown on closed-circuit tele
vision.
Last year controversy arose over the
attendance and the lack of personal
contact with an instructor.
By changing from videotapes to closed
circuit, Hubbard said, the sound and
picture quality of the lecture will
improve. The lecture will be shown in
various rooms at several times so stu
dents can watch it at their leisure.
A professor or graduate student will
be at each showing to give students
personal attention, he said.
The school is also working on mak
ing the program available in the resi
dence halls to add convenience, Hub
bard said. He said no dates have been
set for the plan.
The lecture is no longer mandatory,
but a lab is required once a week, Hub
bard said.
I he lab was added so students could
hand in homework, ask questions of lab
instructors and see problems worked
out in a class setting, Hubbard said.
"We hope it will improve the situa
tinn, Hubbard said.
Dvee Buss, director of College of Bus
iness Administration advising, said this
is the third semester that Accounting
201 will be taught by video.
"We do it to serve all the students
who want to take accounting,” Buss
said.
Budget cuts and high enrollment are
the main reasons the School of Accoun
tancy was forced to turn to videotaped
instruction, she said.
Hubbard said that with 600 to 700
students taking the required account
ing class each semester, showing it by
video saves four faculty positions at
approximately $120,000 a year.
I ntil the budget situation improves,
Accounting 201 will be taught by video,
Buss said.
l he number of students the School
of Accountancy would have to turn
away each semester is the only justifi
cation for the video class, Hubbard
said.
At the beginning of the semester
about 500 students had signed up to
take the video class, but more sections
and labs will be added if necassary,
Hubbard said.
“We'll make room for everyone who
wants to take It," he said.
Students having any trouble this
semester with Accounting 201 should
eontact Hubbard, he said.
f'ome see me. We don’t want to
ttiake a bad situation worse,” Hubbard
said.
The Lied Center for Performing Arts had its first concert last Thursday — sort of. Members of Accent Brass
Quintet performed at the construction site in front of a small crowd of passers-by during the lunch hour to
draw attention to the building, which is due to be completed in 1989.