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mmMh . % CORRECTION: In the calendar (ON, Sept. 21), the wrong band was listed tor Wednes day at Duffy's. Castration and the Leafy Green Things are scheduled to play. WEATHER: INDEX Frldsw, partly sunny In the morning but becoming cloudy in the afternoon, high in the 60s with winds northwest 10 to 15 miles an hour gaining to 15 to 25 News Digest.2 miles per hour. Cloudy and breezy in the evening, Editorial. 4 becoming clear and cold, low fn the 30s. Partly sunny Sdq,.s 7 Saturday,highnear60.Dryovertheweekend,highs VV IT’"'''" .' in upper 70s to low 80s and lows mostly in 40s. Arts & Entertainment.9 m Classifieds.11 Vol. 89 No. 19 > William Lauer/Daity Nebraskan Sack time at the ol’ bumper cars. David Kelley, a carnival worker in Lincoln for the Haymarket festival, could use a larger and Saturday^ carniva*18 scheduled to be open from 9 a.m. to midnight today UNL gets research grant to study fly-killing wasps By Jerry Guenther Senior Reporter Armed with a $55,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, parasitic wasps soon may be fighting the cattlemen’s war on flies. Jack Campbell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln research and ex tension entomologist, said the USDA awarded the two-year competitive grant to UNL’s West Central Re search & Extension Center in North Platte. The grant will allow the UNL re search center to further its study of using wasps as a way to control flies. Stable and house flies affect live stock performance by reducing feed efficiency and growth, he said. Stable flies bite the animals and feed on their blood, he said. House flies also tend to gather near feed bunks, Campbell said. If the house flies arc too numerous, cattle may not even approach the bunk to eat, he said. Campbell said the center will do most of its parasitic wasp research on feedlots in the North Platte area. The parasitic wasps, which are very small, do not sting. They prey on the larvae of house and stable fl ies, he said. The adult female wasp lays eggs on the flies’ pupae, he said. The para sites then feed on the developing fly larvae, Campbell said, killing the fly pupae. Campbell said many different species of parasitic wasps exist. They vary in both the time of year they can survive and the fly species they are effective against. Mike Catangui, a UNL entomol ogy graduate student who did re search with parasitic wasps at the North Platte center last summer, said he hopes the grant will allow the center to increase the number of spe cies it studies. Catangui said the parasitic wasps See PARASITE on 6 COLAGE panel discusses need for mutual acceptance By Emily Rosenbaum Staff Reporter A bout 25 people gathered in the Nebraska Union Thursday night to discuss the need for heterosexuals and homosexuals to accept one another. Four panelists, including hetero sexual and homosexual members, shared their experiences in a forum called “My Friend is Gay and I Don’t Understand.” The Committee Offering Lesbian and Gay Events sponsored the pro gram, which included a panel discus sion and question-and-answer ses sion. Larry Doerr, a minister with United Ministries in Higher Educa tion at UNL, said it often is difficult for people to learn to deal with others who are not necessarily likeeveryone else. Doerr said many people consider homosexuality the whole of what and who a person is. Sexuality actually is a small part of someone, said Ginger Dzcrk, a UNL student and one of the panel ists. Michael Mocglin, a UNL student and panelist, said many people have a hard time accepting the idea that a person docs not choose to be homo sexual. “1 never had any doubt in my mind that 1 was gay,” said Mary Ellen, a panelist who asked to be idcn'if ird by her Iirsl name only ”1 accept some one else because they’re heterosex ual, so why should anyone not ac cept me because I’m gay.” -Mary Ellen Mary Ellen said she kept her “secret” hidden as she was growing up because homosexuality was “ta boo” at the lime. She married and had four children. After 25 years, she realized that her marriage was a mis take, she said. She is now divorced and in a relationship with another woman, she said. “In our eyes we arc married,” See COLAGE on 6 Parking Task Force demands student voice By Lisa Bolin Staff Reporter Members of the Parking Task Force decided at their first meeting Thursday that it is time for students to stand up to park ing problems at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The task force, formed by the Association of Students of the Uni versity of Nebraska, will address parking problems solely from the students’ perspective and will form solutions that will benefit the stu dents, said Coney Trupp, speaker of the ASUN senate. Trupp said ASUN decided to form the task force because the university Parking Advisory Committee handles all aspects of university park ing and cannot deal solely with stu dent parking issues. Additionally, the student parking problem appears to be worse this year than in past years, he said. “Any administrator who doesn’t think there is a parking problem % should try to find a spot between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. and sec how frustrat ing it is to wait 20 minutes for a spot,” ASUN Sen. Patrick Wyatt said. ASUN has received more com plaints about parking this year than usual, Wyatt said. “What the senators’ job should be is to identify what the problems are and to make sure steps are taken to deal with them,” he said. The task force defined what it felt were the major problems concerning students and agreed that the most serious problem is the utilization of parking spaces. Kyle Hauberg, an ASUN repre sentative to the Parking Advisory Committee, said the commuter lot by the Bob Devaney Sports Center rarely is used to its full potential. Parking permits were oversold by 20 to 30 percent this year, Hauberg said. Because this figure includes those stalls at the Devaney lot which aren’t used, he said, the problem of parking close to campus becomes much worse. The task force suggested that a possible solution to this problem is to make unused lots more accessible by a shuttle bus to campus. A second problem task force members said should be addressed is the cost of parking permits. Currently, students and faculty members pay $50 for an annual park ing permit, but the student lots arc much farther away that the faculty lots, Trupp said. Trupp suggested that differential rales should be implemented. Stu dents should be charged a lower rale for permits in lots located far from campus, he said. Task force members also said the parking situation on Saturdays during home football games should lie dis cussed. Commuter and faculty lots are sold to different organizations during home games, Wyatt said, making parking difficult for those with per See PARKING on 6 Parking Advisory Committee to have emergency session By Jerry Guenther Senior Reporter Because of recent concerns about parking at the Uni versity of Nebraska-Lin coln, a parking administrator an nounced Thursday that there will be an emergency session Monday of the Parking Advisory Commit tee. Lt. John Burke of the UNL po lice department said the session, which will include an open forum, will be at 2:30p.m. in the Nebraska Union. The room number will be posted Monday morning on the union kiosk, he said. Burke said the purpose of the meeting is to give students a chance to vent their frustrations t. . about the parking situation. “We’re (Parking Advisory Committee) going to do a lot of listening,” he said. “We want to address the concerns of the stu dents.” Burke said he has received nu merous calls and has read many letters from students in the Daily Nebraskan complaining about parking. “I don’t ever remember this much press and concern being expressed by students this late in the semester,” he said. Burke said a survey is being conducted this week to determine the number of parking stalls that are being used, so the committee can determine what needs to be done to improve parking.