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September 27,1989 ____ University of Nebraska-Lincoln*. Vol. 89 No. 22
Parking complaints
continue as students
press for changes
By Emily Rosenbaum
Staff Reporter
Student complaints and sug
gestions voiced at Monday’s
open session of the Parking
Advisory Committee will be consid
ered and some changes will be imple
mented, said committee members
and University of Nebraska-Lincoln
officials.
, Lt. John Burke, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln parking adminis
trator, said the committee will give
top priority to concerns about parking
lot safety, which students brought up
at the session.
There is no lighting at the lot at
19th and R streets, but lights will be
installed there as soon as possible,
Burke said.
Limited funding and the high cost
of installing lights make it difficult to
complete the project quickly, he said.
Six months ago, estimates showed
it would cost $39,000 to put in lights
at the 19th and R lot, he said.
“Safety is an utmost concern,’’
said Mark McVicker, landscape
manager for the East Campus
grounds and a member of the com
mittee. “I don’t want anyone to feci
afraid walking to their car.”
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see plans made for a parking garage
on campus, but now the parking
budget is “bursting at the seams.”
“The money has got to come f rom
somewhere,” McVicker said.
Burke said students and faculty
members would have to pay $40 a
month to park in a 600-space parking
garage to help offset the $3 million
initial cost of the structure.
“Right now I just don’t see how
we can do it without raising people’s
rates and that isn’t fair,” Burke said.
Franz Blaha, Faculty Senate rep
resentative to the parking committee,
said he wants to see available space
used beforeadding any more parking.
“I don’t agree with the complaint
that there isn’t sufficient parking,”
he said.
Blaha said he loured the parking
area near the Bob Devaney Sports
CenierTuesday morningand saw 500
to 700 empty commuter stalls.
“1 can understand the frustration
of students who can’t find close
spaces, but it is not true that there arc
not any parking spaces,” he said.
Blaha said complaints from stu
dents about the long walk to and from
the outlying areas are not valid.
He said a walk from R Street to the
parking lot near the Devaney Sports
Center Tuesday took him 15 minutes.
‘‘We want students to get to cam
pus, but convenience is not one of our
top concerns,” McVicker said.
‘‘There are always people that
aren’t going to have that front spot,”
Burke said.
Kyle Haubcrg, student representa
tive to the committee, said the periph
eral parking lots are not feasible be
cause of the long distance from cam
pus.
The lots could be made accessible
through a shuttle system, which is
one of the suggestions the parking
committee will consider, Hauberg
said.
The university already uses the
asy ride” system to transport stu
dents on New Student Enrollment
and Red Letter Days, Burke said. The
vans also were used last w inter during
extremely cold days to transport stu
dents.
Burke said itcosts about 30cents a
person to maintain the vans, which
would make the shuttle system an
affordable possibility.
‘‘Eveiy year things change,”
Burke said. ‘‘What worked last year
might not work this year.”
Ray Coffey, business manager of
business and finance at UNL, said the
committee also will look into provid
ing additional and closer spaces for
commuter students.
Another possibility is making
special permits available to students,
such as a Tuesday/Thursday permit
and cheaper rates for outlying park
ing areas, Coffey said.
Blaha said the committee will
study faculty lots that students
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/»• » r» David Fahleson/Daily Nebraskan
In Defined Space
Kim Hervert, junior business major, studies Tuesday afternoon in the Sheldon sculpture
Kirden next to “Sandy - In Defined Space." The bronze sculpture was created by Richard
iller in 1967.
Ecology Now asks students to recycle
Editor’s Note: This is the first story
in a four-part series about recy
cling.
By Jana Pedersen
Senior Reporter '
As the beginning of what they
hope will become a cam
puswide recycling program,
members of the UNL student group
Ecology Now are preparing to audit
waste products generated in Ne
braska Union.
James Zank, Ecology Now s recy
cling committee
coordinator, said(i)l7f'W>jrf 17
the group eventu- ItHtv HLU!i
ally wants to imple-lIFTYf I V
ment a recycling
program for all wEfc^YOJi
the University 17
Ncbraska-Lincoln, liluly X
involving several nvr'iVPl 17
different types of IHHI'H'Ml
waste products.
As a first step, he said, the group
will audit just two products, paper
and aluminum, in the union Oct. 9
through 20.
“These programs don’t automati
cally work,’’Zank said. “They take a
while to gel motivated in the right
way and get cooperation from the
university system to make them work
properly. So right now, we’re basi
cally at step one.”
To conduct the audit, Zank said,
metal barrels, donated by the Game
and Parks Commission, will be used
as receptacles for collecting recy
clable paper products, and plastic
bins will be used to collect aluminum
cans.
Ecology Now will place recep
tacles throughout the union, Zank
said. They will have bright colors so
people will notice them, he said.
After recyclable products are
gathered in the bins, he said, they will
e weighed and compared to the total
See RECYCLE on 6
AIDS pamphlet to list services and hotlines
By Jana Pedersen
Senior Reporter
A list of resources for students
who want support services or
information on AIDS soon
will be available through the Univer
sity Health Center.
Margaret Nellis, head of the com
munity health department at the Uni
versity Health Center, said the list of
resources will be included in a pam
phlet that is being developed by the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s
Task Force on AIDS Education.
The pamphlet does not contain
preventive information, Nellis said,
but instead is a list of how students
can get help or information if they
want it.
“We wanted to point out services
on campus,” Nellis said, “not only
for people who might be infected
with the HIV virus, but also for fam
ily members of people with the virus
and others who might know someone
with the virus.”
Right now the pamphlet, called
“AIDS Resources for the UNL
Community,” is in rough draft form,
but it should be ready for distribution
in a few weeks, she said.
Included in the pamphlet will be a
list of services offered by the health
center, a list of community support
‘We wanted to
point out services
on campus.. .’
— Nellis
groups and professional counseling
available in Lincoln, a list of AIDS
information hotlines and a list of drug
and alcohol referral centers as well as
other information, Nellis said.
She said the task force also devel
oped the pamphlet to send a message
to the university community that
UNL needs to and does provide re
sources for those affected.
The task force also offers AIDS
education programs and distributes
American College Health Associa
tion pamphlets that include informa
tion on transmission and prevention
of AIDS, Nellis said.
Another project the task force is
working on, she said, is printing post
See AIDS on 7
City planning
Plains Indian
culture center
By Cindy Wostrel
Suff Reporter
The city of Lincoln an
nounced Tuesday that it
is planning a Plains In
dian culture center.
The center wjll be estab
lished to preserve Plains Indian
culUiie and to draw tourists
from Interstate 80, said Steve
Sands, chairman of a task force
working on the project
The center will benefit
people of all races and the citi
zens of Nebraska, but also will
serve people who visit from
other parts of the country,
Sands said.
Sands said a center such as
this is important for conserving
the culture of this area.
A task force has been formed
to evaluate possible best devel
opment routes, and will have
three subcommittees to direct
the planning of the center,
Sands said.
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