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September 23, 1987University of Nebraska-LincolnVol. 87 No. 20
UNL’s FarmAid profits to fix stadium
By Victoria Ayotte
Staff Reporter
UNL Chancellor Martin Massen
gale said Tuesday the university
would “certainly consider” playing
host to another concert like FarmAid
III.
“We have to evaluate each situ
ation on its own merit,” Massengale
said.
“My impression was that it (Farm
Aid) went extremely well,” he said.
“People worked hard and it paid off.”
FarmAid concessions grossed
$180,000. with UNL making a profit
of more than $70,000 after expenses.
The athletic department will get con
cessions profits, Massengale said.
Gary Fouraker, business manager
for the UNL athletic department, said
profits from concessions will be used
for stadium repairs and athletic schol
arships.
Fouraker said Memorial Stad
ium’s balconies need to be water
proofed, and some expansion joints
need to be replaced. Work on the total
$1 million repair job will begin next
spring, he said.
Massengale said parking profits
would go to improve parking lots. But
Lt. John Burke of the UNL Police
Department said money probably
was lost on parking. While UNL offi
cials have a good idea of how much
money the university made from
FarmAid III, officials from FarmAid
Inc. are still unsure of their profits.
Money taken in from FarmAid III,
about $3 million so far, is more than
was collected at FarmAid II, but less
than FarmAid I, said Carolyn Mugar,
director of FarmAid Inc.
Mugar estimated FarmAid I prof
its at $9 million and FarmAid II prof
its at $2 million.
Mugar said people are confused
about the farm crisis now because of
unclear reports in the media. This
could be a reason FarmAid II and III
haven’t made as much money as the
first concert.
“The farm crisis was on the front
page of every paper (during FarmAid
I),” Mugar said. Farm Aid II had to
compete with events on the Fourth of
July weekend, Mugar said.
Mugar said there is no exact break
down of revenue for Farm Aid I and II,
but the gross was more than $11 mil
lion between September 1985 and
December 1986. There is no exact
count ot money made during Farm
Aid III yet, she said. The gross taken
in by FarmAid doesn’t represent the
I
prohts made, she said. 5 he estimated
40 to 50 percent of the gross was taken
jp by expenses.
Fraternities give to FarmAid
From Staff Reports
‘‘Greeks for Agriculture,” a
philanthropy started by members
of FarmHouse fraternity, raised
$620 for Farm Aid III this weekend
by asking Greek houses to skip
meals last Friday for the cause.
Chris Anderson, FarmHouse
philanthropy chairman, said eight
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
houses contributed by skipping all
or one of their meals.
Anderson said that although he
hasn’t heard from all houses on
campus, FarmHouse members
were disappointed with the number
of houses that participated in the
event.
But Anderson wasn’t dissatis
fied with the amount of money that
was raised, he said.
“Anytime you can raise that
much money for a good cause, it
makes it all worthwhile,” he said.
Delta Delta Delta, Gamma Phi
Beta, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Theta
Chi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Chi
Omega, Alpha Chi Omega and
FarmHouse made donations.
Carter speaks on presidential duties
By Amy Edwards
Senior Reporter
The United States should use its
full power to work toward world
peace, former president Jimmy Carter
said Tuesday in Omaha.
Carter spoke about the duties of the
president as a peacemaker and a civil
rights leader using the political influ
ence of the presidency to enhance his
goals.
The United States is the most
powerful nation in the world — mor
ally, ethically, politically and eco
nomically and needs to decide what to
do with this power, Carter said.
“1 think our nation could exact its
full strength to bring about peace,”
Carter said.
Carter spoke to more than 2,0(X)
Creighton University alumni Tuesday
morning at the Civic Auditorium in
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dents and faculty members Tuesday
afternoon at Creighton University.
Carter outlined the constitutional
duties of the president and stressed the
importance of a good president.
“The eyes of the nation arc focused
on the White House most acutely
when the U.S. is embarrassed,” Carter
said.
When this happens, people ask
themselves who their president is and
what is he doing to help them, he said.
Carter talked about examples of
presidential embarrassments like the
Bay of Pigs, the Vietnam *Var, Water
gate, and most recently, the Iran
Contra hearings.
The United States is tnc greatest
nation on earth for its citizens, Carter
said. They have the right to expect
their president to be competent, pas
sionate and to tell the truth.
“I doubt we will ever know the
truth (about the Iran-Contra affair),”
Carter said.
The president should lake the re
sponsibility for his actions, Carter
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Jimmy Carter speaks at Creighton University.
said. President Reagan has an image
that he doesn’t need to take the blame
so he finds someone else to blame, he
said. dent,” Carter said. “He also has the
“Reagan’s demeanor is that of an image of a grandfather who doesn’t
actor who is performing as a presi- quite know what’s going on.”
After giving his speech, Carter
answered questions from both groups
about the roles of the president.
Police lose money rrom parking sales
By Dorothy Pritchard
Senior Reporter
The University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln Police Department may have lost
as much as $4,000 selling parking
spaces at FarmAid III last weekend,
officials estimated.
The police department rented
space in the commuter lot north of the
stadium for $5 to cars and motor
cycles, $10 for recreational vehicles
and $20 for buses.
However, Lt. John Burke said only
four buses and about 1200 cars rented
space. They grossed aboul $6,(XX), but
it will not be enough to cover their
costs.
Burke said the rent charged for the
parking places did not cover the time
and labor spent attending the lots.
Burke said labor would cost aboul
$8,(XX) to $10,(XX) plus added costs
from signs, ropes and barricades.
Labor for Farm Aid cost more than on
football Saturdays, Burke said, be
cause the lots were blocked off and
manned before the day of the concert.
“We learned a lot from it,” he said.
“There were just too many un
knowns.”
FarmAid won’t reimburse the po
lice department for its loss, Burke
said.
Thomas Quarnslrom, regional
manager for National Garages in
Lincoln, said parking lots near cam
pus were filled, but he was disap
pointed in the parking receipts for the
city as a whole.
“We’d rather have a nice average
football game," Quarnslrom said.
The National Garages lot west of
Memorial Stadium sold 1,400 out of
1,5(X) places, Quarnslrom said, and a
lot at Ninth and N streets filled all 122
places. All 286 places at their lot in ihe
Hay market sold but the Centrum ga
rage was not even half full and the
Comhusker Hotel’s garage was not
affected at all by the concert, he said.
“We didn’t lose money but the
profit margin wasn’t as great as a
football game,” Quarntstrom said.
Quarnstrom said they charged
regular football parking prices of $5
the day of the concert and regular $ 1 -
a-day fees on Thursday and Friday.
None of the proceeds go to FarmAid.
Quarnstrom said more labor was
involved than at a football game, since
preparations began on Thursday be
fore the concert and the lots were
manned 24 hours a day.
“There was a lot of wort in
volved," he said. “We’rea little disap
pointed, on the whole."
A spokeswoman for the Nebraska
Stadium Shop located west of the
stadium, said its lot did not sell out
either. About half of the lot was sold,
she said, but some of the places were
used by f<x)d vendors. Twenty-five
percent of each $10 parking fee went
to FarmAid, she said.
