Legislators oppose ROTC cut
By Jamie Pitts
Staff Reporter
Nebraska senators and congress
men have asked Secretary of the Air
Force Edward Aldridge to reconsider
cutting the University of Nebraska
Lincoln’s ROTC program.
Reps. Doug Bercuter, Hal Daub
and Virginia Smith and Sen. David
Karnes sent letters Tuesday to
Aldridge and Secretary of Defense
Frank Carlucci in hopes of saving
UNL’s ROTC program. Sen. J.J
Exon also had written a letter asking
for re-evaluation of the decision.
Christopher Galen, Daub’s press
secretary, said UNL’s Air Force
ROTC program is “definitely some
thing he (Daub) would like to see
continued.”
Daub was in ROTC during high
school and college and also served in
the Korean War, Galen said. Daub
wants to make sure cutting the pro
gram is the best choice, Galen said.
Carol Lawrence, Bcreutcr’s press
secretary, said the decision to cut
UNL’s program was based on its size,
not its quality. UNL cadets’ test
scores are evidence of the program’s
quality, Lawrence said.
Mark Bowen, Exon’s press secre
tary, said Exon wants Aldridge to
reconsider his decision.
Exon’s letter said, “I ask that you
(Aldridge) provide my office with a
full explanation of your rating crite
ria, how the criteria were determined,
and how each program rated on each
rating scale.”
Galen said he hopes for a response
to the letter within a week.
Malone border backed
By Lisa Donovan
and Tim Fngstrom
Staff Reporters
Lincoln City Council members
cited stability for the Malone neigh
borhood and the growth of the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln as rea
sons they recently supported a
planned boundary between the two
areas.
“I think there needs to be some
stability in the concept of what’s
going to happen in the area and to
provide the university with an ability
to grow,” Councilman Joseph Hamp
ton said.
Councilman Gales Minnick said
he had always hoped UNL would
grow and prosper, “but on the other
hand, we have to preserve a commu
nity that has been hard hit by indeci
sion.”
Councilwoman Colecn Seng
agreed.
“I think the people that live in the
neighborhood arc at a quandary,” she
said. “They don’t know what’s going
to happen to their neighborhood, and
they have been that way for years.”
Seng said the boundary setting
was positive for UNL because it
would give the university an idea of
how far and where it can grow.
On Tuesday, council members
gave their support to a plan that calls
for a firm boundary between Malone
and UNL.
Along with a 5.8-acre L-shaped
park south of the Malone Center, the
plan calls for a phased expansion of
the university to a buffer area from
20th and Vine streets to 22nd and S
streets.
The University of Nebraska
Board of Regents rejected the plan
last Saturday because the park would
cut off expansion cast of UNL.
“We think the L-shaped park is
close to what we would like to see,”
said Topher Hansen, member of the
Malone Redevelopment Task Force.
The task force comprises representa
tives from the city of Lincoln, the
Malone Neighborhood Association,
the Malone Center and UNL.
Hansen said the Malone Neigh
borhood Association Board of Direc
tors would prefer that the section of
the park heading south where it slops
at S Street continue farther south.
Besides wanting to move the park
farther south, the board would like to
sec the 15-year expansion plan rene
gotiated.
Christina Godfrey, executive di
rector of the Malone Center, said the
center’s board voted against the plan
because the plan didn’t include when
the people in the Malone neighbor
hood would relocate, w ho would own
the park and when the park would be
usable, she said.
Minnick said the action needed to
be taken.
“The city has to set boundaries,
even if it means having a residential
community within the campus,”
Minnick said.
Mark Davis/Daily Nebraskan
Ebel
New job is wilderness survival
By Jerry Guenther
Staff Reporter
After 13 years with the Univer
sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln Office of
Campus Recreation, Mark Ebel
wants to challenge youths to survive
the wilderness and stay out of
trouble.
Ebel, assistant director and coor
dinator of outdoor recreation, said
he has accepted a job as program
director with the Hurricane Island
Outward Bound School in Tallahas
see, Fla.
The Hurricane Island Outward
Bound School has four base sites in
Tallahassee, Ebel said. Three work
- with juvenile delinquents. The
fourth site, where Ebel is going,
works with youth at risk.
“Youth at risk is a preventive
program for 14-ycar-otds to 17
year-olds on the brink of dropping
out of school or committing a
crime," he said. “These students
have no record yet, just on the verge
of it.”
Ebel said students are referred to
Outward Bound by a teacher, guid
ance counselor or principal. Once
accepted, students go through five
phases in a 28-day course that
teaches them survival skills in the
wilderness.
“The courses involve physical
challenges,” Ebel said. “Students
leant by doing."
Ebel said students are taught a
few of the basic fundamentals. From
there, they must fend for them
selves.
Because of the outdoor setting,
Ebel said, students are put in a situ
ation where they need to learn. He
said students may be placed in a
canoe, and therefore have to learn
the skills of canoeing.
“Outward Bound provides a
physical challenge to their lives that
is lacking in their homes and their
schools, Ebel said. “It addresses
the mental aspects as well as the
physical ones.”
Ebel said he thinks adolescents
are sometimes hampered in their
ability to learn because they arc
confined in schools.
“At that age, kids need physical
challenges,” he said.
Ebel said he never expected to
stay at UNL as long as he has.
“It’s held my interest a lot longer
than I expected. In ’75,1 expected
I’d be here three or four years only.
Now its been 13 (years),” he said.
Ebel said it wasn’t difficult for
him to give up his current position
for Outward Bound.
“I had been looking for other
opportunities for the past four years.
I felt I had taken the program as far
as it could be taken with the level of
support the institution was willing to
make,” he said.
“Outward Bound provides a ca
reer ladder. In my present position,
there is no upward mobility. If I
were to move upward in this organi
zation, I would have to leave my
outdoor education background,”
Ebel said.
While he will miss many of his
co-workers, he said, it’s time for
him to move on.
“Your heart must be in what
you’re doing. My heart is in (Out
ward Bound),” he said.
Jeff Anderson/Daily Nebraskan
Annual Engineering Week begins Monday
By Tim Engstrom
Staff Reporter
Broken eggs and sprung mouse
traps will be scattered around
rooms and newspapers will be piled
high on floors of the Walter Scott
Engineering Center— not because
of a desperate need for cleaning, but
because it’s E-Week.
The 76th Annual E-Week at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
College of Engineering and Tech
nology is scheduled for Sunday
through Feb. 27 to coincide with
National Engineering Week.
E-Week is intended to promote
the college and allow engineering
i students to have fun within the
! field.
It is usually scheduled in April,
i but was moved to take ad vantage of
the publicity of National Engineer
ing Week, said E-Weck Committee
Chair Patricia Sokolik, a senior
industrial engineering major.
“National Engineering Week is
normally held during the week in
which George Washington’s birth
day is recognized since he is consid
ered one of the first American engi
neers,” Sokolik said.
Events scheduled for the week
include intracollege basketball and
volleyball tournaments, and a bil
liards and bowling party for stu
dents in the college.
An open house is scheduled from
1 to 6 p.m. Feb. 26and from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Scott Engi
neering Center on Vine Street be
tween 16th and 17th streets. Engi
neering equipment and student proj
ects will be displayed
Engineering-related competi
tions are scheduled for the Feb. 27
open house.
The egg-drop contest is set for
10:30a.m. In thisevent,contestants
will be given materials and 20
minutes to make a device to catch a
raw egg dropped from 6 feet with
out breaking it.
The “tower of power” contest
will be at 1 p.m. Contestants will be
given a 1-square-foot piece of card
board, an unlimited amount of
newspaper and a roll of tape with
which to make a tower. The tallest
tower at the end of 30 minutes wins.
Contestants in the mousetrap
race will cany a 2-kilogram brick
on a car powered by a mousetrap.
Judging will be based on distance
and running time. The race begins
at 2 p.m.
Companies such as Omaha Pub
lic Power, Ingcrsoll-Rand, Brun
swick and Square D will be repre
sented at a Career Farr Thursday
from i0a.m.to3p.m.on the second
floor of Nebraska Hall. It is open to
the public.
High school students from
across the state will attend the
Society of Women Engineers An
nual High School Conference dur
ing the Feb. 27 open house.
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