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ConAgra’s donation to NU
to help finance 3 programs
By Eric Pfanner
Staff Reporter
A $550,000 grant from ConA
gra to the NU Foundation will sig
nificantly help support several
programs at 'the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln College of Ag
riculture, an agriculture official
said.
Irvin Omtvedt, vice chancellor
of the Institute of Agriculture and
Natural Resources, said the dona
tion ‘ ‘ is very significant in terms of
reaching our objectives for strate
gic planning.
“Other grants arc coming in,”
he said, but Con Agra’s is “larger
and broader” than the rest.
The donation will help finance
three programs, he said. The Food
Processing Center in H.C. Fillcy
Hall will be remodeled and reno
vated with $250,000, he said.
Filley Hall is currently undergoing
an $11 million renovation program
that is adding a new wing to the
building, Omtvedt said.
The addition will be finished by
mid-June, he said, while the entire
renovation should be completed
by the end of this year.
When the renovation is com
pleted, Filley Hall will house the
Department of Food Science and
Technology, the Department of
Agricultural Economics, the Agri
cultural Marketing Center and the
Food Processing Center.
Also included in the ConAgra
donation is $300,000 for the inter
disciplinary agribusiness program.
Of the $300,000, $250,000 will
support hiring a ConAgra Distin
guished Chairperson for Agribusi
ness.
But some of the $250,000 for
agribusiness also will help support
internships in the field, Omtvcdt
said.
“There will be some impact
beyond just bringing in an individ
ual,” he said.
Omtvcdt said the graduate pro
gram in agribusiness will receive
the remaining $50,000.
Funding and “bringing in an
individual with national promi
nence” will “give visibility to the
unique program” in agribusiness.
The program in agribusiness at
UNL is unique, he said, because it
is the only one in the United States
that is a “truly joint interest” be
tween two colleges, business and
agriculture.
Rodeo club adviser defends
importance of competition
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pclitors trip steers with ropes and then
tic three of their legs.
In most rodeos, no animals are
injured, Pfeiffer said.
‘‘I don’t know how many thou
sands of rodeos I’ve been to, but I’ve
maybe seen one animal injured.”
Pfeiffer said cows occasionally
will break a horn during competi
tions, but injuries to animals are
much less severe and frequent in
rodeo than in other sports.
“I’m not too crazy about making
comparisons, but it’s a whole lot less
than you see in horse racing,” he
said.
Rodeo is both culturally and fi
nancially important as a sport, Pfeif
fer said.
“In the cosmic sense of things, I
don’t suppose rodeo’s any more
important than football. If it were
halted, the world wouldn’t come to an
end,” he said. “On the other hand,
it’s a livelihood for a lot of people.
“I think it would be tragic.”
Margaret N. Maxey
Distinguished Professor of Bioethics in the Biomedical Engineering
Program, College of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
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Reunion will add apartments
By Brandon Loomis
Senior Reporter
After a three-month struggle to get
zoning approval from the city coun
cil, the Reunion’s developer is ready
to start construction on 18 apartments
above the student center.
David Hunter said he hopes to start
constructing the 17 one-bedroom and
one two-bedroom units within $0
days.
James Griescn, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln vice chancellor
for student affairs, said the university
had opposed the zoning decision
because it would create an “en
clave’ ’ of housing on campus that the
university would have no control
over.
“We try to maintain a certain cli
mate on campus,” Griesen said, and
having the apartments in the middle
of campus could make it hard to pre
serve that climate.
“We’d have liked to keep all
housing on campus under university
control,” he said.
Hunter said the university is con
cerned that residents in the apart
ments will have parties the university
will be unable to regulate.
“They think that just because they
have an alcohol problem (on campus)
then everyone has a problem,”
Hunter said.
“My suggestion is they should
worry about their own house before
they start throwing stones at someone
elsc’s.”
Hunter said if residents constantly
have parties, they will be asked to
leave, just as with any apartment.
University officials should realize
that there probably will be fewer
parties at his apartments than in fra
ternities and sororities, Hunter said.
Hunter said the apartments will
not be geared toward attracting tradi
tional students. Rent for the one bed
room units will be at least $450 a
month, which is too high for most
students, he said. The two-bedroom
apartment will cost $550 a month, he
said.
The apartments should help to fill
the need for faculty and married stu
dent housing. Hunter said.
Construction should be done by
early fall, he said.
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