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- I WEATHER: Tuesday, some t~\_»1. _ I I Inside: cloudiness in the morning, otherwise __ I |<^|1 |%f _ mostly sunny and little warmer High ^B 1 *j | If ^B News Digest.Page 2 near 40 Tuesday night, partly cloudy I _ H ... * H Editorial.Page 4 and not as cold Low around 20 to 25. I I ^ I ^ Sports.Paqe 5 - l\eDraSKaH December 1,1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 87 No. 66 '■ 1 ' .. in ■. i ■■■■ . ■■ .■ -- ' - -■ - - -- — New campus student center to lure business from union By Amy Edwards Senior Reporter and Mary Nell Westbrook Senior Editor University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials said Monday that a new, pri vately owned student center on cam pus will not affect business in the Nebraska unions. The new student center, scheduled to open by March 1, will compete for students’ business with the Nebraska Union in food and retail sales, said David Hunter, a Lincoln developer and part-owner of the building. Lincoln investors took possession of and began construction on the old OMC Warehouse on 16th and W streets Monday. An atrium-type food court will have six different restaurants serving Mexican and Chinese food, hamburg ers, specialty sandwiches, pizza, cin namon rolls and breakfast food, pop corn and ice cream. The food court will deliver food on campus until 2 a.m., and the building will also be open until that hour, Hunter said. The new student union also will have a dry-cleaning service, banking services, sundries, a copy center and casual clothing store, Hunter said. Hunter and four other investors will spend more than $ 1 million on the “new student union.” The building will have 20,000 square feet of retail and food stores. The food court will have seating for about 200 people. “We should really give the union a run for its money,” Hunter said. The new union will be closer to 85 percent of the student population than the Nebraska Union, he said. “We’ll complement the campus and more students will slay on the r~ '■ 111 campus,”he said. “We’ll compete and provide a service.” Hunter said he thinks the campus needs a service like this. “There are no services 1 ike these on campus. No choice. No selection. No entreprcneurism or free enterprise,” he said. Daryl Swanson, director of the Nebraska unions, said the unions will not be affected by the new student union. Swanson said UNL officials have “known for years” that the Nebraska Union is not centrally located on City Campus. But, he said, the union is the hub of campus life. “S tuden ts w i 11 con tin ue to come (to the Nebraska Union) because many of our services are free,” Swanson said. The Nebraska unions provide stu dents an information desk, class regis tration and drop/add, career planning and placement, and a campus box office for events at Kimball Recital Hall, Pershing Auditorium, Bob De vaney Sports Center and the future Lied Center for Performing Arts, Swanson said. Swanson said the union also pro vides a social environment where students can meet and study that probably will not be provided by the new center. A survey conducted five years ago by union officials showed that food services were not among the top five reasons students came to the unions, Swanson said. The new center will be another food court that happens to be located at 16th and W streets, Swanson said, “but a student union is not just a mini shopping mall.” The building is just west of Ne braska Hall, across 16th Street on W Street. The new union’s services will be on the second floor of the building. If"' ■ .-.—..II . I X^^Courtesy of David Hunter^^^^^ Warehouse space will be on the top floor, and an underground parking lot will be in the basement. The building will have a dock around the outside with heated lamps under an awning. Tables will be set up around the outside. About 80 parking spaces will be available—40 under the building and 40 outside. The Clark Enersen Part ners are the architects on the project. Commercial Investment Properties is the leasing agent, and Sampson Con struction Co. is the constructor. Hunter said all the businesses par ticipating in the project intend to hire students. The names of the building, restau rants and retailers will be announced Jan. 11, Hunter said. Students can participate in a con test to name the new student union, he said. Entries should be turned in by Dee. 20. Hunter said he is open to any ideas See BUSINESS on 3 Snowball fight strikes —again By Victoria Ayotte Staff Reporter IMegal Fireworks and snowballs flew across 16th Street Monday night, adding to the more than $1,000 in damage that occurred during Sunday night’s snowball fight on the University of Ne braska-Lincoln campus. The snowball fight Monday night between students from resi dence halls and Greek houses started about 10 p.m. The fight was held at the intersection of 16th and Vine streets. UNL and Lincoln police ar rived at the scene at 10 p.m. and set up road blocks from 14th to 19th streets on Vine street and at 16th and W streets. Police tried to break up the fight at 11 p.m. “Go back to the dorm before anybody gets hurt,” police shouted from a loudspeaker, but students were there for the duration. Students threw rocks, eggs, ice and anything else that was avail able during the fight. Fireworks also exploded during battle. Several people were injured Monday night, although no inju ries were reported Sunday night. See SNOWBALL on 3 Eric Gregory/Daily Nebraskan A sign in the lobby of Abel Hall announces the snowball fight Monday. __ ;. * Report says UNL, NCAA need tougher requirements By Kip Fry Staff Reporter Changes need lo be made in ihe regulations of both the NU Athletic Department and the National Colle giate Athletic Association dealing with academic requirements for foot ball players, according to a report released Monday by a University of Ncbraska-Lincoln Faculty Senate committee. Two UNL summer classes — Healthy Life Styles and an independ ent study course on sports psychology — were allegedly comprised of more than 90 percent athletes and came under investigation earlier this fall by the Faculty Senate’s Intercollegiate Athletic Committee. The committee made four recom mendations lo the athletic department and the NCAA. The committee sug gested that the NCAA should drop freshman eligibility and reduce the length of playing and practice sea sons. “This was an expression of aca demic concern,” said Jim Lewis, Faculty mate president, adding that it is rough for any freshman entering college. The report also recommended that all formal academic advising should be directed outside the athletic depart ment. Lewis said that students should make l ull use of their academic advis ers, and that advisers in the athletic department should not replace the academic ones. Lewis said that advis ers in ihc athlclic department arc use ful for knowing NCAA regulations concerning academics. Another recommendation the committee suggested was a policy prohibiting academic units from of fering classes restricted to a special group of students, and a requirement for on-campus students to get permis sion from college deans to take more than two correspondence at the same time. The last recommendation would provide for checks to be built into the system, Lewis said. Lewis said that he didn’t know what was going to happen with the recommendations, adding that it could be acted on during the next Faculty Senate meeting Dee. 8. It is possible that only some of the recom mendations will be approved by the full senate, he said. Some of the policies, such as the one concerning freshman eligibility have already received approval from Tom Osborne, so Lewis said he is hopeful that the recommendations will be accepted on a local level. The recommendations were “based on the committee members’ best judgment relative to academics and athletics,” said Mike Stcinman, committee chairman. Stcinman said that the situation is now out of the committee’s hands and that it’s up to the Faculty Senate and the administration to act upon the recommendations.
