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Inside: U T 1 UailV 1 I "TDr'.£<Lef 1^^ I I ^ ,ia ^ -y. I I |dlt°r,al.oaflef 1 lUlUidSK<JI 1 I cSr.::;:::Cn December 2, 1987__University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 87 No. 67 Annual snowfight spawns vandalizing mob By Victoria Ayotte Staff Reporter Whal started out Monday night as an innocent snowball fight escalated into a mob that caused about $10,000 in damage and 15 injuries, said Lt. Ken Cauble of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Depart ment. Cars, windows and fences were damaged as a result of the snowball fight. During snowball fights in the last two years no arrests have been made, but this year police have arrested five students and more arrests are ex pected, Cauble said. One arrest was made for criminal mischief, one for possession of illegal fireworks and two for interfering with and hindering a police officer. A stu dent was arrested Tuesday for assault, Cauble said. UNL police videotaped 30 minutes of the snowball fight, and the Lincoln Police Department has several rolls of 35mm i to help identify people invol the fight, he said. “Wc ic just not going to let it slide this year,” Cauble said. The housemother’s car at Della Upsilon fraternity had its windshield smashed, both headlights smashed and the right passenger window bro ken Monday night. Cauble said dam age was estimated to be $2,(XX). A car window was also broken in the parking lot at 1716 N. 16th St., causing $50 in damage, he said. A Lincoln police cruiser also was damaged during the snowball fight, Cauble said. An estimated $380 in damage occurred when the wind shield , the rear right m irror and the left side mirror were broken and the red lights on top of the car were damaged. The car, parked at 16th and Vine streets, also had dents, scratches and scrapes, Cauble said. Greek houses were also a big target Monday night. Forty-six windows and a sliding glass door at the S igma Alpha Mu house were broken, resulting in $2,100 in damages, he said. The Alpha Chi Omega house had nine windows broken and the fence was damaged. Damage was estimated at $775, Cauble said. Also, Delta Tau Della had $30 in damage when two windows were broken, he said. The Della Upsilon house was hit the hardest with $3,000 in damage. Several windows were broken, the fence was torn apart and doors were Doug Carroll/Daily Nebraskan Residence-hall students and fraternity members take part in Monday night’s snowball fight on the corner of 16th and Vine streets. damaged, Cauble said. The University Health Center treated at least 15 people for injuries resulting from the snowball fight, according to Kunle Ojikutu, adminis trator of the health center. The health center treated two lip cuts, a broken tooth, a concussion, an injury to the head, a cut to the skull, an eye injury and several other injuries, Ojikutu said. Jack Lovell, a sophomore member of Delta Upsilon fraternity, had his left eye injured at the fight Monday night. Lovell cannot see out of the eye right now, but will not know whether the damage is permanent until next week, said Mike Shamburg,amember of the fraternity. Investigator Ed Mentzer of the UNL police was also injured. Mentzer was hit with a rock on the right wrist, Cauble said. Cauble said three stu dents were hit by bricks during the fight. Police took 144 students’ names at residence halls Sunday night as they returned from the snowball fight. Police will interview about 50 of these people, and they could be cited for disturbing the peace, vandalism or criminal mischief, he said. The police will be giving the stu dents’ names to James Griesen, vice chancellor of student affairs. Students involved in the I ight could be placed on probation or possibly suspended from school, Caublc said. UNL police, Lincoln police and Griesen mcl Tuesday morning to ' decide on action to take to prevent the , snowball fight from recurring. Griesen said he would be sending out letters to students outlining the problems that occurred Monday night. The letter will also ask students to cooperate in stopping future snow ball fights. Andy Pollock, president of the Association of Students of the Univer sity of Nebraska, said he plans to develop legislation condemning snowball fights. The legislation will be presented at the AS UN meeting tonight. ASUNalsowill try to work with the Residence Hall Association and the Greek system to eliminate future problems, he said. Pollock said the fight became a riot, and student governments need to See MOB on Page 5 Merchants: new center no threat By Lee Rood Senior Reporter Downtown merchants said they arc only mildly concerned that a new | student center on 16th and W streets will decrease student business at their stores. Area investors will privately own the center, which will have a food court, dry-cleaning service, sundries, copy center and casual clothing store. Kim Phelps, assistant to the vice chancellor of business and finance, said privately-owned businesses on university campuses arc “not a revolu tionary idea.” Phelps said he is not sure what effect the new businesses will have on campus, but he said he hopes the uni versity will be able to build a working relationship with center owners. Duane Saltier, restaurant manager for Burger King in the Nebraska Un ion, said the food court at the new center should not affect Burger King’s business. “Students come to the union to find various information and that traffic How will not decrease,” he said. Bill Carson, manager of Taco Ranch in the Atrium food court, said he probably won’t feel the heal of the new businesses because most of his customers are downtown employees and government workers. Carson said he is more intimidated by a food court that might be built in the basement of the Miller and Paine building. Judith Honardoust, manager of Potato Plus in the Atrium food court, said the new student center shouldn’t be a problem. Honardoust said the center wouldn’t be close enough to their business to take away customers. Darcec Frickc, manager of The Limited clothing store in the Atrium, said her store has several student cus tomers and she expects them to keep coming back. “Anybody who shops at The Lim ited will continue,” she said, “We have a loyal following of college stu dents. 1 don’t think it will hurt us.” Fricke said there could be some competition, depending on the store chosen for the center. IX)ug Farrar, manager at the Post and Nickel, said the combined busi ness from college students and down town employees will keep their sales stable. Farrar said it should be interesting to see how the businesses in the new center will do because most busi nesses not near O and R streets tend to go out of business. Duane Krcpel and Dale Nordyke, co-o w ners of The M i 11 near 14 th and O streets, said their business has always been stable because of their location and clientele. While Krcpel and Nordyke said the new student center shouldn’t damage their business, they said they were ■ concerned for other merchants suffer ing downtown. Nordyke said businesses around 14th and O streets tend to generate their own traffic, but other businesses have closed because of lack of cus tomers. Bryan Borer, a freshman business major, waits at the Univer sity Health Center after receiving eight stitches in his left cheek. Borer was hit by a brick during Monday night s snowball fight. Nebraska favored as nuclear dump site By Kip Fry Staff Reporter Gov. Kay Orr said Tuesday that Nebraska has a “significant proba bility” of being selected by the five-state compact as the site for a low-level nuclear waste dump. See Related Story on Page 3 But, Orr said, if Nebraska is chosen as a site, the dump must be approved by the host commu nity. “The conditions I am announc ing will ensure that a facility will not locate in a community over thatcommunity’sobjcctions.”She added, “Public health and safety will receive the highest level of protection, and that appropriate economic returns will accrue to those who provide a solution to the regional low-level radioactive waste disposal problem.” These conditions “must be sat isfied before a facility could be located in Nebraska,” Orr said. If Nebraska is selected as the host state, but conditions are not met, Orr said she will make every effort to prevent the site in Ne braska. Orr added she hopes the compact committee will use the conditions regardless of which state is selected. The public needs to be educated that it is possible to build a safe waste facility, Orr said. Nebraska ranks high in factors that Orr said will probably be used in selecting the host state. The main considerations are the vol ume of waste generated and the number of suitable locations for a dump. Orr also requested that the state have complete control over design of the dump and the location of the compact offices, and have veto power over whether the waste could be moved in or out of the region. If property values go down because of the waste site, Orr said, the owners may be compensated for their losses. The slate and the host commu nity also will be compensated annually. The state will receive about $1 million per year, while the chosen community should get about $5(X),(XX), said Nonnan Thorson, chairman of Orr’s Low Level Radioactive Waste Task See ORR on 5