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Redevelopment may be downtown’s lifesaver
By Brandon Loomis
Staff Reporter
The president of a city consulting
firm warned Lincoln City Council
members Monday that if a successful
downtown redevelopment project is
not pursued, downtown Lincoln re
tailers and department stores may be
in trouble.
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Nick Trkla, president of Trkla,
Pettigrew, Allen and Payne Planning
and Design, said if there is not an
increase in the amount of shopping
space in downtown Lincoln, a major
shopping center developer will likely
plan a mall in the suburbs, “much to
the disservice to your downtown.”
Trkla said the increase in
Lincoln’s population in recent years
makes the area attractive to shopping
center developers, who usually build
malls on the outskirts of cities where
there is more room.
Another suburban mall, combined
with Gateway Shopping Center
would detract from downtown busi
nesses, he said.
“I doubt if Miller & Paine could
remain open as a free-standing busi
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ness if another center moved into the
suburbs,” he said.
It is also important to make sure
the downtown development does not
detract from the city’s appearance, he
said.
“You don’t want to drown the city
in a sea of shopping and parking,” he
said.
Trkla suggested a mix of retailers,
offices and hotels, along with one or
more major department stores.
The course of action that the city is
currently taking, to solicit a new
developer who is sensitive to the
city’s need for a plan that will not
destroy downtown, is the right one, he
said.
Taubman Co. Inc. of Kansas City,
Mo., planned to develop the project
before pulling out in January. Taub
man representatives said the project
was not financially feasible.
Mayor Bill Harris said a new de
veloper must be found by Sept. 30 to
secure a federal grant for the project.
Trkla said the project could oc
cupy anywhere from 500,000 to
700,000 square feet. Most of the
similar projects in other cities have
been comprised of about 50 percent
department stores and 50 percent
small retailers, he said.
Harris said he knows that with
everyone’s cooperation, the Sept. 30
deadline can be met.
“Everyone in Lincoln shares a
common goal to revitalize downtown
Lincoln,” he said.
Exchange’s success doubted
By Eve Nations
Staff Reporter
Managers of University Bookstore
and Nebraska Bookstore said they
doubt a new textbook-exchange pro
gram will survive.
The Association of the Students of
the University of Nebraska passed a
bill implementing the book exchange
at its meeting last Wednesday.
Lorin Price, textbook manager of
Nebraska Bookstore, said he has seen
similar programs at other schools fail.
“They did not work well because
they were poorly organized,” he said.
Price would not say at which
schools the book exchanges were
unsuccessful.
Price said the exchange will not
affect the Nebraska Bookstore be
cause the exchange probably won’t
be widely used.
“It depends on the organization if
it is successful here,” he said. “I think
only a few students will be inter
ested.”
The exchange will operate out of
the ASUN office, said Tyler Correll,
AS UN senator and sponsor of the bill.
Students who want to sell books can
write their names and the names of the
books on file cards, he said.
When a student wants to buy a
book, he said, the buyer gets in touch
with the seller. The buyer and seller
negotiate the price, Correll said. The
books arc not kept in the AS UN of
fice.
Dick Lewis, operations manager
for the University Bookstore, said he
has never seen a book-exchange pro
gram like this so is unsure whether it
will succeed.
“People that I’ve talked to said it
won’t work that well because when
new editions come out, it eliminates
the need for the used book exchange,”
Lewis said.
Both managers said they do not
think the program will affect book
store profits. Price said Nebraska
Bookstore will lose a few books, but
the exchange will not affect them
otherwise.
Lewis said profits for University
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Emergency care
Paramedics load an unidentified University of Nehraska-Lirtcoln student Monday after he
had a seizure in the southwest comer of the College of Business Administration. UNL po
lice Lt. Ken Cauble said the cause of the seizure, which occurred at about 2:10 p.m., was
unknown. The student cut the left corner of his mouth during the seizure, Cauble said.
Paramedics took the student to the University Health Center, where he was treated and
released.
Physicist’s electronic designs will send him overseas
By Julie Dauel
Staff Reporter
Machines, desks and file cabinets build a
maze in Walter Hancock’s electrical workshop
in Hamilton Hall, but the soft-spoken physicist
doesn’t gel lost amid his many projects.
Since 1978, when he answered an advertise
ment in a newspaper, Hancock has been help
ing University of Ncbraska-Lincoln chemistry
professors by inventing and repairing elec
tronic devices.
His expertise in electronics includes mainte
nance on all types of instruments, such as lasers
and computers.
“His abilities exceed what he says they are,”
said Bruce Koci, senior engineer at the UNL Ice
Coring Office.
“They really are understated,” Koci said.
Hancock’s abilities have led him to design
projects for Kearney State College, Southeast
Community College-Lincoln, and the Polar Ice
Coring Office at UNL.
Hancock’s electronic designs will send him
to Greenland this summer. This is not the first
time his work has taken him overseas.
Last fall, a drill status panel he designed
gave him the opportunity to travel to Antarctica
for seven weeks.
The drill status panel, a monitoring station
for the hot-water drill, tells scientists on the
surface the temperature of the water being used,
the depth of the hole drilled and at what angle
the drill is drilling.
Jay Sanders ol the Polar lee Coring Office
said Hancock was handy with all of the equip
ment in Antarctica, but especially the elec
tronic equipment.
Koci agreed.
“Walt was exactly the type of person we
want in the field because when we work in close
proximity we want people who can fix about
anything and arc also easygoing,” Koci said.
Hancock’s first drilling status panel was a
prototype for the project that will lake him to
Greenland.
This project will monitor and collect data
from inside the drill and relay messages to a
computer on the surface.
“It’s a little bit better because it has more
capabilities,” Hancock said.
Hancock began his designing career while
he was still a UNL graduate student.
“I built a vacuum system for my research in
ultra-violet radiation, which included a helium
light source,” Hancock said.
“The research I was doing at that time
assimilated the sun hitting the atmosphere,”
Hancock said.
This research applies not only to earth’s
atmosphere but also to the atmosphere of other
planets.
Hancock said his research is basic science.
“I was gathering data to put into a computer,
and it is just more information on the atmos
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Hancock stands next to the drill status panel he designed for the Polar Ice
Coring Office at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
phere,” Hancock said.
In 1976 Hancock received his doctorate in
physics from UNL and is now the electronics
supervisor in the chemistry department
After graduating and doing doctoral re
search, Hancock worked as a consultant for the
psychology department, the U.S. Department
of Agriculture and the forestry department on
East Campus.
While working for the US DA and the for
estry department, Hancock designed tempera
ture measuring devices for measuring the
temperature of soil and leaves.
‘'He is extremely capable, innovative and
knowledgeable and not hung up about his de
sign being the only way to do something,” said
John Doran, soil scientist at US DA.
