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Tuesday, sunny and warm with a high from 80
to 85 with winds from the south at 10 to 20 miles
per hour. Partly cloudy Tuesday night with a
low near 60 Wednesday, a high in the 80s.
Cooling off Thursday through Saturday with a
chance of showers on Friday Highs in the 70s
Thursday to the 60s by Saturday
INDEX
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Sports.6
Arts & Entertainment.9
Classifieds.10
■Member 19,1989_University of Nebraska-Lincoln w0i pq No 16
A jogger uses the track in Cook Pavilion.
Revival of publication considered
ASUN gauges yearbook support
\y Diane Brayton
Laff Reporter
A SUN currently is working on plans to
Za revive the Comhusker Yearbook, ac
cording to Jon Burning, Association of
tudents of the University of Nebraska second
ice president
The Cornhusker Yearbook, a book includ
ig all University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
cnts, last waspublished in 1971. Bruning said
le “turbulence” of the times was the main
sason the publication ended.
“Anything that was established tradition
went under,” Bruning said.
Student interest dropped, Bruning said, and
costs of the yearbook started to go up.
Bruning said the cost of a campus publica
tion remains the main problem in reviving the
book. People have been trying to reinstate the
Yearbook for the last four or five years, he said,
but did not carry through with their plans
because of financial limitations.
ASUN wants to keep the price at about $20
or $30 to make it cheap enough to attract
students, Bruning said.
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UNL policeman Kratochvil
receives Carnegie Award
for rescuing boy from fire
By Roger Price
Staff Reporter
Although he does not consider himself a
“glory seeker,” LJNL police officer
Bryan Kratochvil recently was selected
to be one of 16 people in the United States and
Canada to receive a Carnegie Award for hero
ism.
Kratochvil won the award for his actions in
October 1988 when he saved the life of then 5
year-old Christopher Smillie who was caught
in a fire at 3272 Starr St
Kratochvil carried Smillie out of a burning
apartment building after seeing the smoke
from the fire, running to the scene and entering
the building when he heard the cries of chil
dren.
Since the rescue, Kratochvil has received
letters and awards of recognition from the
Lincoln Fire Department, American Red
Cross, the Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, NU Board of Regents,
Gov. Kay Orr, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
the International Association of Campus Law
Enforcement Administrators and the Interna
tional Footprinters Association.
Kratochvil also is a candidate for Parade
magazine’s Law Enforcement Officer of the
Year.
Kratochvil has collected “a photo album
thicker than any encyclopedia” of clips and
awards, he said.
Although Kratochvil said he is very excited
about receiving all the awards, he said the past
year also has been very difficult for him be
cause he still is upset about Smillie’s 2-year
old brother, Nicholas, who died in the same
fire.
“I felt that little boy so close to me, I just
couldn’t find him,” Kratochvil said, ‘‘It’s
something that I live with day to day. There’s
not a day that I don’t think about it.”
Kratochvil said his family has made him a
videotape of the television reports that fol
lowed the rescue, but he has watched it only
once and cried throughout the tape.
‘‘It was very emotional, very hard for me to
deal with,” Kratochvil said.
‘‘The first day that I can go on without
thinking about the kid who died, my life will be
a lot easier,” Kratochvil said.
Kratochvil said he received a letter formally
notifying him of the award last Saturday. He
received a certificate, a medal and $2,500 from
the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.
With the money, Kratochvil said he will pay
off his car loan early, throw a party for every
one who helped him through this last year, and
buy steaks for the other officers on his shift.
Kratochvil said he was very grateful to the
rest of the UNL police department and espe
cially to retired chief Gail Gade who nomi- \
nated him for the award.
“If it wouldn’t have been for them, 1
wouldn’t have worked for it,’ ’ Kratochvil said.
tFA member: Harvest Room
renovations are a positive step
By Jerry Guenther
Senior Reporter
A Ithough a $50,000 funding request for
renovations to the Harvest Room has
“received mixed reactions, an ASUN
senator said she thinks attempts to make the
cafeteria profitable are a step in the right direc
tion.
Julie Jorgensen, senator from the College of
Arts & Sciences and member of the Committee
for Fees Allocation, said changes are needed so
the Harvest Room can attract more students.
The NU Board of Regents approved a
$150,000 funding request for capital improve
ments at both campus unions during its Sept. 8
meeting.
Of the $150,000 expenditure, $36,400 is
requested to renovate the entrance to the Har
vest Room and revamp the space the UNL
Dairy Store occupies to make it accessible for
a pizza parlor.
“I think the general direction they’re
headed is correct,” Jorgensen said. “The deci
sion (to add a pizza parlor) is most advanta
geous.”
Jorgensen, who also was a member of CFA
last year, said she voted against using student
fees to subsidize losses from the Harvest Room
and plans to vote against any such requests this
year.
“Burger King has shown that it is possible
for food services to make a profit (in the
Nebraska Union),” she said.
Kevin Lytle, last year’s CFA chairman, said
he doesn’t think the renovations will help at
tract more students to the Harvest Room.
Lytle said getting a pizza chain into the
Nebraska Union would help the overall profita
bility of food services in the union, but he
thinks money should be spent to develop a food
court.
“For the past 15 or 20 years they (union
officials) have been throwing ideas at CFA and
nothing has changed,” he said.
Lytle, who now works as an analyst with the
Federal Reserve Bank in Omaha, said the
question of how to make the Harvest Room
profitable is nothing new.
Lytles said the Harvest Room will have prob
lems attracting students as long as there are
fast-food restaurants located downtown.
“Any money they put into the Harvest
Room is just thrown away,” he said.
Daryl Swanson, director of the Nebraska
Unions, said action by an executive committee
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UNL veterinary applicants on the increase
y Lisa Bolin
iff Reporter
A Hhough the number of UNL
students interested in pre-vet
-“-erinary sciences has in
eased this year, a national study
iows that fewer students are apply
g to veterinary school.
Gene White, director of the Insti
lional Animal Care Program at the
niversity of Ncbraska-Lincoln, said
ren though UNL does not have a
ofessiona) veterinary school, the
trcentage of students who list vet
inary science as their primary inter
tt is up this year compared to past
tars.
The College of Agriculture re
nted 82 students listing pre-vcteri
nary science as their primary interest
in 1989, up from 60 in 1987 and 54 in
1988.
John Tasker, dean of the College
of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan
State University in Lansing, said he
began the study of the nation’s veteri
nary schools in 1980. Since then, he
said, the number of students applying
for veterinary school has declined
significantly.
In 1980, the number of students
nationwide who applied for accep
tance was 7,286, Tasker said. This
number has decreased to 3,922 in
1989, he said.
White said there has been a de
crease in applicants for all areas of
medicine. He said he feels this de
crease can be attributed to a change in
students’ attitudes.
Fewer students want to spend the
time in school needed to pursue a i
career in medicine, he said. <
Tasker also said he believed this to
be the reason for the decline in appli- I
cants.
“At the present time, people of the
college-age arc more interested in
business-oriented careers that are
high-paying and only take four years
of schooling,” he said.
The average veterinary*student
spends a total of seven to eight years
of schooling in order to become a
professional, White said.
“The professional school is very
intense and very competitive,” he
said. “Applicants are required to
have a minimum grade point average
of 3.0. It’s tough to make, and a few
students fall by the wayside.”
In his study. Tasker said, he also
jiscovered the number of male appli- ■
:ants has declined.
More than 50 percent of students
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