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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
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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.
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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
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