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Vol. 88 No. 131
PHASE I
Cook Pavilion-- Completed
PHASE II
Coliseum addition
•four multi-purpose courts
•suspended running track
•weight training facility
•Campus Recreation offices
•equipment rooms
Coliseum renovation
•racquetbali & squash courts
•swimming pool renovation
Should be completed August, 1989
_ PHASE III
Complete Coliseum renovation
(addition of upper level)
•basketball courts
•Health, PE & Recreation Offices
•classrooms & laboratories
•multi-purpose recreation activities
•locker & shower facilities
* Projected start-Jftnuaru, 1990
Projected completion-January, 1991
*Pending approua! of HU Board of Regents €
Legislature.
Source: Stan Campbell, Director of
Campus Recreation.
John Bruci and Andy Manhart/Daily Nebraska/
Regents to vote on rec center proposal
By Lee Rood
Senior Editor
The NU Board of Regents will vole Sat
urday on a proposal for financing
nearly $5 million in renovations for the
last phase of the Campus Recreation/Athletic
Facility.
According to Campus Recreation Director
Stan Campbell, Phase III of the project in
cludes the renovation or construction of ath
letic training space, locker rooms, combative
arts and multi-purpose rooms, three class
rooms, faculty offices and lab rooms and the
Center for Healthy Lifestyles in the NU Coli
seum.
The proposal asks for the repents to approve
the issuance of Bond Anticipation Notes and/or
revenue bonds “in an amount not to exceed
$4,925,000“ to finance Phase III.
Kim Phelps, director of the university
budget, said the university would use the bonds
and/or notes -- depending on their interest rates
- to pay for Phase III. The university would
then repay the money out of a fund established
from charges to public football ticket holders,
she said.
The fund, established in 1987, charges non
discounted Nebraska football ticket holders a
$3.50 per ticket charge to help finance the Rec
i Center and pay for upkeep and repairs in rec
reational facilities
Phelps said $2.50 from each charge would
go specifically toward paying back the Phase
III bond/note money.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln students,
faculty and staff do not have to pay any of the
project's construction costs, Phelps said.
However, maintenance and operating costs
of the building will be paid for through faculty/
staff user fees and an increase in next year’s
student fees, he said.
The final cost of Phase III, estimated in
1987 at $5.2 million, will depend on construc
tion and inflation rates when bidding for the
last phase begins, he said.
Bidding will start around January 1990 and
the renovations should be complete by January
1991, he said.
Phase I, completed in fall 1987, and Phase
II, expected to be finished in August, involved
the construction of the Cook Pavilion, 13
raquetball courts, one squash court, a sus
pended jogging track and other renovations -
including the Coliseum’s swimming pool.
Funding for all phases was provided by $5
million in donations from the NU Foundation,
$3.5 million borrowed from a Student Fees &
Facilities Revenue Bond Surplus account and
about $700,000 in the football ticket assess
ment revenues.
Phelps and Campbell said they don’t expect
any problems getting the regents’ approval
Saturday because the board has been well in
formed about the third phase from its incep
tion.
‘ ‘This is just the logical final step to get the
facility done,” Phelps said.
Campbell said “it would be a terrible trag
edy” if financing was not approved by the
regents or the Nebraska Legislature - which
has final approval of the plan because the
university is asking to have notes or bonds
issued.
Existing locker rooms are in horrible condi
tion, he said, and the building has substantial
need for multi-purpose and combative arts v
areas.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs James
Griesen said the project would not be complete
without the last phase.
“With the completion of Phases I and II,
we’ll be just one basketball court better than
before we tore down the men’s P.E. building,”
Griesen said.
The men’s P.E. building had three courts, he
said. Four courts have been renovated since
Phase II of the project was completed, Griesen
said, but Phase III will make a total of eight
courts available to students for intramural
sports and women’s athletic events.
Saturday’s regents meeting is at 8 a.m. in
Varner Hall.
Orr introduces bill to move
border, give up 1,500 acres
By Brandon Loomis
Senior Reporter
Gov. Kay Orr will introduce a bill
to the Nebraska Legislature within
the next two weeks that would cede
about 1,500 acres of Nebraska land to
South Dakota, according to sources
in the governor’s office.
Doug Parrott, Orr’s communica
tions director, said the governor will
review legislation drafted by the
Department of Water Resources to
move the border between the two
stales to the middle of the Missouri
River between Dakota County in
Nebraska and Union County in South
Dakota.
The Missouri, which was desig
nated as the border at the beginning of
this century, has since shifted, leav
ing about 1,500 Nebraska acres on its
northern banks.
Parrott said Orr will follow the
advice of the Nebraska Boundary
Commission with her decision.
The Nebraska Boundary Commis
sion met with its South Dakota
counterpart in February and agreed
that the border should be moved.
Tom Lamberson, assistant direc
tor at the Department of Water Re
sources, said his office finished draft
ing the bill late last week. He said the
bill is basically a replica of the
boundary commission’s agreement.
“The compact that was agreed to
just had to be put in statutory form,’’
Lamberson said.
Soyth Dakota Gov. George Mick
elson signed a resolution March 6 that
would change the border. Now Ne
braska must pass its own resolution
and send it to the U.S. Congress for
ratification.
Nebraska State Sen. Gerald Con
way of Wayne, who has pushed three
years for the change, said that al
though Nebraska stands to lose 1,500
acres, the border change should bene
fit the state’s economy.
“To some extent it would be
hoove us to give up that property,”
Conway said.
Midwest Energies Co., of Sioux
City, Iowa, plans to develop a com
munity and golf resort called Dakota
Dunes on 1,400 South Dakota acres.
But about 400 of those acres are actu
ally on the Nebraska territory north of
the Missouri.
Because there are no bridges link
ing mainland Nebraska to the north
ern territory, Conway said, Nebraska
provides no services, such as fire
protection or schooling, to the area.
“They probably would just not
develop that land if it were in Ne
See BORDER on 3
Position created to recruit,
retain minority grad students
By Lisa Twiestmeyer
Staff Reporter
□he Office of Research and
Graduate Studies has created
a new position to help recruit
and retain minority graduate students
at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln.
John Yost, vice chancellor for
research and dean of Graduate Stud
ies, said Tuesday he has set up a
position1 for a minority graduate as
sistant for the next academic year to
explore the most effective ways to
recruit and retain minorities in
Graduate Studies.
The person filling the position will
work with administrators in research
and will conduct studies and surveys
on ways to recruit minority students,
Yost said. The person also will be
active in helping UNL retain the
minority graduate students here now,
he said.
“I’m excited about what can be
accomplished,” Yost said. “The
individual who fills the position will
help us further to translate our com
mitment into action.”
Yost said the student also, will be
involved in studying UNL’s minority
graduate student population com
pared to that of UNL’s peer institu
tions to find out how UNL can be
competitive with other schools.
“I’m convinced that to be an ex
ceptional university we are going to
have to be more culturally diversi
fied,” Yost said.
Yost said the graduate student will
receive a $7,500 stipend for the aca
demic year, with the possibility of an
additional stipend for the summer.
See YOST on 3
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Flower power
Rod Drown an employee of the UNL Department of Grounds, cleans up leaves around
daffodils on the south side of Richards Hall Tuesday afternoon.