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November 17,1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol.87 No.59
East Campus drop/add now being tested'
By Tammy Marshall
Staff Reporter
When East Campus students go
through drop/add in December, they
won’t have to make a trip to City
Campus.
The drop/add service on East
Campus, being offered on a trial basis,
will be in room A223 of the new
animal science building next to Mar
vel Baker Hall.
Bob Reid, associate director of
registration and records, said the drop/
add room is a computer classroom that
doesn’t officially open until January.
It is equipped with IBM computers
that have been connected to the com
puter data bank on City Campus.
The service will be limited to drop/
add. There will be no fees and it won’t
include registering for classes, Reid
said.
“This is the bare bones of our reg
istration department,” Reid said.
Reid estimated expenses to be
about $1,200, which will be used to
cover hiring people to run the comput
ers for drop/add.
About 3,500 students attend
classes on East Campus in the colleges
of Agriculture, Home Economics,
Law and Dentistry, said Ted Hartung,
Agriculture College dean. He esti
mated about 800 to 900 students will
use the new service. Reid said East
Campus drop/add will be able to
handle about 100 students per hour.
Several offices and employees
outside the registration and records
office have cooperated on the project,
Reid said. Computer Services Net
work programmed the computers on
East Campus, and Biometrics and
Information System Center hooked up
the City Campus data base to the East
Campus computers. Reid said Har
tung helped by arranging for the room
and computers.
Hartung said the idea for a drop/
add center on East Campus was intro
duced to him by the College of
Agriculture’s student advisory board
about two years ago. The advisory
board took the idea to the Association
of Students of the University of Ne
braska. Since then, one of ASUN’s
main goals has been to get a drop/add
established on East Campus, said Tre
Brashear, speaker of the ASUN Sen
ate.
ASUN sent executive officers and
agriculture student representatives to
speak with James Griesen, vice chan
cellor of student affairs; Ted Pfeifer,
director of registration and records;
and Reid.
Hartung said the main obstacle was
the computer linkage.
The project was approved about
two months ago. The past 30 days
have been spent finalizing the project,
Hartung said. A trial run last Thursday
was successful, Reid said.
“There will be an evaluation of
things after December,” Reid said.
UNL officials have yet to deter
mine whether a permanent drop/add
will be installed on EastCampus, Reid
said.
Terri Hoelting, a senior food sci
ence and technology major living in
Fedde Hall, said the new drop/add
center will beconvenient. She said not
having one on East Campus creates a
problem because sometimes a student
has to make more than one trip to City
Campus.
“It would be a positive change,”
Hoelting said.
East Campus drop/add will run
Dec. 14,15 and 16 from 8:30 a.m. to
noon and 1 to 4 p.m., Reid said.
Students should use the south en
trance of the new animal science
building because the building is not
yet completed, Hartung said.
Fedde s water troubles continue;
old pipe system being replaced
By Anne Mohri
Staff Reporter
Fedde H sidents woke up
Monday to another day without water
while workers from Armstrong Me
chanical of Lincoln replaced a rup
tured water line.
Work on the pipes was to be fin
ished Monday afternoon, said Gary
Thalkcn, University of Ncbraska
Lincoln manager of utilities. As of
6:30 p.m. Monday, the water was still
off in Fedde.
Trouble with the water pipe began
Nov. 8 at about 3:30 a.m. when the
pipe ruptured, cutting off water to
Fedde Hall. The water pipe was
patched and the water was turned back
on 14 hours later, Thalkcn said.
Doug Zatcchka, UNL housing di
rector, said the water pipes probably
ruptured because of their age. He esti
mated the pipes were 20 to 30 years
old.
Glen Schumann, assistant director
of housing for maintenance, said the
rupture was fixed Nov. 8, but the pipe
broke in another location later the
v same day.
University Maintenance decided
to “replace the entire line from the
main water line up to Fedde Hall and
in Fedde Hall,” Schumann said.
Zalechka added, “They are com
pletely fixing a lot of the pipe so they
don’t have to do it again.”
Carolyn George, Fedde Hall presi
dent and a senior majoring in restau
rant management, said she noticed the
water was turned off again about noon
Monday when she tried to brush her
teeth.
George said Fedde residents used
the showers in Burr Hall while the
water was turned off. It was a hassle
because residents had to go outside
early in the morning when it was cold,
George said.
Repair work has been slowed be
cause the water pipe I ics under a steam
line that is encased in a huge block of
concrete, Zalechka said. The workers
had to use jackhammers to break the
concrete in order to reach the pipe.
He said once the pipe was reached,
it was found to be a size seldom used
now. The size needed was in Omaha,
Zalechka said, but the parts did not
arrive until last Friday. Replacement
See WATER on 3
FarmAid fund usage discussed
Ag problems not cured
By Lee Rood
Senior Reporter
While FarmAid workers raise
money lo help farmers deal with their
crisis, there are several misconcep
tions as to what that money can and
cannot do, said Ellen Kaye, a staff
member at the FarmAid funding head
quarters in Cambridge, Mass.
Kaye said the public must realize
that FarmAid donations are used lo
finance organizations, not farmers
directly.
FarmAid III has raised $654,000,
according to the most recent figures,
and staff workers expect to raise more
from advertising and unfulfilled
pledges, Kaye said.
FarmAid cannot solve the farmers’
financial crisis, she said. It can only
“allow them to keep struggling.”
FarmAid is there to provide coun
seling, emergency hotlines, legal
education, and temporary emergency
food and money, Kaye said.
“We encourage people to help
themselves,” she said.
FarmAid will not be around for
ever, but in the time that it is around,
Kaye said, workers will be able to
teach farmers to “grab this thing by the
horns themselves.”
Most of the money from the first
two FarmAid concerts was spent by
the time of the third concert, Kaye
said.
With the expected $1 million reve
nue from the last concert, FarmAid
will continue to help finance the 106
organizations it contributes to, Kaye
said.
Since FarmAid HI in Lincoln, let
ters have increased from an average of
30 a week to nearly 200 a week, she
said.
Farm Aid is in a period of introspec
tion now, Kaye said.
Willie Nelson and others who
started the FarmAid idea aren’t sure
they want another concert to take
place because farmers eventually will
have to deal with the farm crisis them
selves, Kaye said.
It would take billions or trillions of
dollars to help get the farmers out of
debt, and there is no way FarmAid
workers can raise that kind of money,
Kaye said.
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