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September 14, 1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Voi. 87 No. 13
Regents approve live sports telecasts
Contract calls for one football, six men’s basketball games to be broadcast
By Colleen Kenney
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska Board of
Regents approved a contract with Sports
Video Productions Saturday, allowing
live telecast right s to one football game
and up to six men’s basketball games
for the 1987-88 season.
The contract calls for the Omaha
company to pay the university $22,000
for the possible football telecast and
$1,000 for each basketball telecast.
“It’s an opportunity for us to use a
contract to enhance our income,” said
Jack Goebel, vice chancellor of busi
ness and finance, who presented the
contract item to the regents.
Sports Video Productions, operated
by former Omaha television station
KMTV producer Dan Livingston, gained
the rights this season to Nebraska
football coach Tom Osborne’s weekly
highlight show.
The contract with Sports Video Pro
ductions would be subordinate to other
television rights the university may
gfant through the Big Eight Conference
or the College Football Association.
NU has a verbal agreement with the
Nebraska Football Network not to tele
vise more than five football games each
season.
Nebraska, whose 42-33 win against
UCLA Saturday was televised by ESPN,
is scheduled for three more telecasts
this season. ABC will televise the NU
Arizona State game Sept. 26, CBS will
carry the NU-Oklahoma game Nov. 21,
and either CBS or ESPN will show the
NU-Colorado game Nov. 28.
In other action at their monthly
meeting, the regents approved the pur
chase of land near City Campus, the
design of a training facility at the Meat
Animal Research Center in Clay Cen
ter, the issuance of bonds for Morrill
Hall renovation and the establishment
of a Center for Agricultural Equipment
at UNL’s Institute of Agriculture and
Natural Resources.
The decision to seek about 1 ML
acres of property at 1309 N. 17th St.,
west of the Physical Plant, was made
because “it was at an advantageous
price,” Goebel said.
The property includes a building
that UNL has rented from Watson
orotners Realty Co. since 1979. UNLs
maintenance department has used the
building for equipment storage, admi
nistrative office and shop space.
The property will cost no more than
$250,000.
The regents viewed slides explaining
construction plans for the $3 million
Service/Training Facility and Food
Animal Clinic in Clay Center.
In a cooperative agreement, the
clinic will provide training to veteri
nary students from UNL and Kansas
State University.
Construction on the project is sche
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duled to begin next April.
The regents also approved design for
parts of the student recreation center
excluding the indoor practice field and
team meeting room. They approved
plans for the remainder of the project,
including Coliseum additions and
renovations.
The regents approved the sale, issu
ance and delivery of bonds for renovat
ing Morrill Hall.
Last spring the Nebraska Legisla
ture granted just more than $4 million
to UNL for renovating Morrill Hall and
adding a climate control system.
The bonds to finance the renovation
will be repaid from an annual appro
priation of $695,178 from cigarette tax
revenues.
The Center for Agricultural Equip
ment, under the agricultural engineer
ing department, will provide technical
expertise to agribusiness and agricul
tural equipment companies, Vice
Chancellor for Academic Affairs Robert
Furgason said in a written report to the
regents.
He said the Nebraska Tractor Test
ing Laboratory will become an “inte
gral part” of the new center.
Irv Omtvedt, UNL interim vice chan
cellor for agriculture and natural
resources, said in a press release that
Re hopes the university’s faculty and
technicians will participate in the cen
ter’s program.
"We believe this is a unique oppor
tunity for the University of Nebraska to
provide technical assistance leader
ship in an area that is extremely inipor
tant to Nebraska’s future,” Omtvedt "
said.
The regents also approved selling a
property damage claim against the
Manville Coporation to a national
brokerage for 91 percent of its value.
Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc.,
agreed to buy the claim against Man
ville for $195,650. In 1974 Manville
installed faulty steam pipes in the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
Report: NU
quality school
By Colleen Kenney
Staff Reporter
University of Nebraska President
Ronald Roskens told the NU Board
of Regents Saturday that a recent
10-year accreditation of the Univer
sity of Nebraska shows it is still a
quality institution.
Roskens called the accreditation
by the North Central Association of
Colleges and Schools "the highest
recognition possible for an academic
institution.”
The association, he said, usually
asks an institution to submit further
reports following an intensive on
site visit by a team of officials from
other universities.
But the University of Nebraska,
Roskens said, received accredita
tion without further reports.
The process of accreditation also
includes a detailed "self-study" by
each university, he said.
Roskens said the evaluation
team’s report emphasized the uni
versity’s strength including aspects
of the University of Nebraska Medi
cal Center; and at the University of
Nebraska Lincoln College of Busi
ness Administration, the College of
Engineering and Technology, and
the College of Arts and Sciences.
Roskens quoted from the report,
saying UNMC’s faculty has "a strong
esprit de corps and confidence in
Doug Carroll/Daily Nebraskan
NU President Ronald Roskens addresses the Board of
Regents at Saturday morning's meeting.
the administration, determined to
maintain and improve the quality of
its programs.” UNL faculty members’
dedication and quality also im
pressed the team members, Roskens
Roskens said.
CBA has a “high profile in the
Nebraska business community” and
“receives considerable private sup
port," Roskens quoted the report
as saying.
The Engineering College has
improved over the last three years
because of strong administrative
leadership, he said. The report also
praised the colleges of Law and Arts
and Sciences for creating a dual
degree program in law and psychol
ogy that “is widely acknowledged as
a successful pioneering venture.”
Despite the strong praise by '
accreditors, Roskens also told the
regents, as did UNL Faculty Senate
president Jim Lewis, that faculty
salaries falling below peer institu
tions could weaken NU.
Roskens said NU needs about $ 15
million to bring faculty salaries to
the midpoint of peer institutions.
Gov. Kay Orr’s goal of making UNL
a st ronger research institution must
also take into account faculty salar
ies, Roskens said.
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FarmAid parking
plans are plotted
From Staff Reports
Parking for FarmAid III will be
available next week, although there
will be some changes in parking and
traffic flow before and after the concert.
UNL Police will rent campus lots to
the public starting at 5 p.m. Sept. 18.
Cars and motorcycles will be charged
$5, while recreational vehicles must
pay $10 and buses $20. Similar prices
are expected in other parking lots
throughout Lincoln. Twenty-five han
dicapped parking stalls will be availa
ble in the Vine Street traffic loop east
of the stadium for $5.
Some parking will be restricted on
campus starting Thursday at 6 p.m.
Designated campus lots will be set
aside for technical crews, media and
performers. Starting Tuesday, one lane
of northbound traffic on 10th Street
and Avery Avenue from 10th to 14tli
streets will be closed.
The Area 10 parking lot northwest ol
Shulte Fieldhouse also will be closec
from 6 p.m. Thursday to Sept. 22 foi
FarmAid performance vehicles. Area.'
10 and 20 will be reserved for the medii
during the same period.
All UNL campus permit holders wh(
are displaced from their assigned lot!
by the concert will be permitted ti
park in the National Garages lot at 9tl
and U streets. Daily fees for that lot will
be paid by FarniAid.
UNL faculty and staff members work
ing on the day of the concert will be
urged to park in Area 16 immediately
north of the Nebraska Union.
Students attending classes will be
permitted to use Area 25 at 14th and W
streets. All others will be required to
buy a special concert parking permit.
Buses will also alleviate traffic snarls
downtown.
On Friday, the Haymarket Harvest
Festival Shuttle will offer a special
shuttle to Haymarket area. Fare is 50
cents. The Route is 11th and 0 streets
south to Lincoln Mall; Lincoln Mall
east to 14th Street; Uth Street north to
Q Street; Q Street west to 9th Street;
9th Street south to 0 Street; 0 Street
east to Uth Street. Two buses will
serve this route.
On Saturday, two buses will operate
• the Downtown Stadium Shuttle. Buses
will run on downtown loop (11th and 0
. to Lincoln Mall to Uth Street to 0
Street to 17th Street to Vine Street to
stadium to 16th Street to Q Street to
11th Street) from 9 a.m. to 12midnight.
» Information on regular bus services
i on Saturday are available at the
• County-Pity building, downtown banks
i and the Pitizen Information ( enter.